IN MEMORIAM

2010

Glen W. Bell, Jr. (b. 1923); American businessman.  Founder of Taco Bell.

Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco (b. 1941); American professional wrestler.  2-time N.W.A. World Heavyweight champion, and along with his brother Jerry, half of one of the most successful tag-teams in pro wrestling history.

Corsica Joe [Francois Miquet] (b. 1920); French-born American pro wrestler.  Multi-time N.W.A. tag-team champion.

Mary Daly (b. 1916); American feminist scholar.  Major feminist reformer within religion and founder of Ecofeminism.  Her most significant works are: Beyond God the Father, The Church and the Second Sex and Gyn/Ecology.

William "Bullet Bill" Dudley (b. 1921); American pro football player.  Played halfback for the Steelers, Lions, and Redskins.  member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Douglas Fieger (b. 1952); American musician.  Lead singer for The Knack.

Hermine "Miep" Santrouschitz Gies (b. 1909); Dutch resistance operative.  Helped to shelter the Frank family during WWII and preserved Anne Frank's diary.

Peter Graves [Peter Aurness] (b. 1926); American actor.  Starred in the T.V. series Mission Impossible and had roles in 7th Heaven and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; also had key roles in many films, including Stalag 17 and the Airplane! series.

Corey Haim (b. 1971); Canadian actor.  Best known for his roles as a child actor in such films as Lucas, Dream a Little Dream, Silver Bullet and The Lost Boys.

Ralph McInerny (b. 1929); American theologian and writer.  Best known within theology and philosophy for his works on Aquinas, and outside of it for his mystery novels, particularly the Father Dowling books.

Walter Frederick Morrison (b. 1920); American business entrepreneur.  Inventor of the Frisbee.

Merlin Olsen (b. 1940); American pro football player.  Considered one of the best defensive linemen in pro football history; was elected to 14 consecutive Pro Bowl appearances, was selected to the N.F.L.'s All-Time Team, and is a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.

John Angelo Poffo (b. 1925); American professional wrestler.  Wrestled in the N.W.A., W.W.A. and I.C.W.  Father of "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and "Macho Man" Randy Savage.

Jerome David Salinger (b. 1919); American writer.  Best known for his masterpiece Catcher in the Rye.

Harry H. Schwarz (b. 1924); German-born South African lawyer, politician and activist.  Prominent leader of the movement to end the Apartheid institution in South Africa.

Abraham Sutzkever (b. 1913); Polish-born Israeli poet.  Best known for his poetic works based on his experiences during the Holocaust.

Yamaguchi Tsutomu (b. 1916); Japanese businessman.  Only recognized survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Howard Zinn (b. 1922); American historian and activist.  Prominent historian and political scientist who dedicated his career to telling history from the point of view of the oppressed within society and working for civil rights and the abolition of war.  Among his many influential pieces, the most lasting impact has been from his A Peoples' History of the United States.

2009

Vasily Aksyonov (b. 1932); Russian author.  Many of his novels were censored by the Communist Party due to their anti-totalitarian bent, and he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship after moving to the United States.

Louis "Captain Lou" Albano (b. 1933); American pro wrestler and wrestling manager.  Remembered for his outlandish appearance and antics, including his appearance in the video for Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", his legacy is found in his role in creating the first WrestleMania and his managerial success.

Rashied Ali [Robert Patterson] (b. 1935); American musician.  Jazz drummer who played with such legends as Paul Bley, Pharaoh Sanders and John Coltrane.

Richard Aoki (b. 1938); American activist.  Early member and only Asian-American officer in the Black Panthers.

Maria Corazon Aquino (b. 1933); Filipino politician.  Former President of the Philippines, and the  first woman elected to such an office in east Asia.

David Arneson (b. 1947); American game designer.  Creator of the early role-playing game Blackmoor and major contributor to the development of Dungeons and Dragons.

Francisco Ayala Garcia-Duarte (b. 1906); Spanish novelist and sociologist.

Kenneth Bacon (b. 1944); American journalist.  Served in an assistant cabinet position under President Bill Clinton, and as President of Refugees International.

James Graham Ballard (b. 1930); Chinese-born British writer.  Mostly known for his dystopian works; his main works include Crash, Empire of the Sun and The Atrocity Exhibition.  Worked as co-director for the film version of several of his works.

Maria Benedetti Farugia (b. 1920); Uruguayan writer.  His main works include Thank You for the Fire, The Solitudes of Babel, and Little Stones at My Window.

H. J. Blackham (b. 1903); British intellectual.  Best known works include Humanism, The Humanist Tradition, Living as a Humanist, and his works that helped to introduce existentialism to the English-speaking world, Six Existentialist Thinkers and the anthology Reality, Man and Existence.  Founder of the International Ethical and Humanist Union, the only worldwide humanist organization.

Aage Niels Bohr (b. 1922); Danish physicist.  Nobel Prize laureate for his work on understanding the structure of the atoms.  Son of legendary physicist Niels Bohr, he was the head of the Niels Bohr Institute from 1962-1970.

Norman Borlaug (b. 1914); American biologist.  Plant geneticist whose work on improving crop yields and developing disease-resistant crop strians earned him a Nobel Peace Prize and has saved numerous lives.

Myles Brand (b. 1942); American educator.  Former President of Indiana University and later President of the N.C.A.A., where he worked to improve graduation rates for student athletes.

Dennis Brutus (b. 1924); Zimbabwe-born South African poet and activist.  Among his poetry collections are his anti-Apartheid writings Sirens, Stubborn Hope and Remembering Soweto.

David [John Arthur] Carradine (b. 1936); American actor.  Best known for his classic television series, Kung Fu, and his role in the Kill Bill films.

Jack Cardiff (b. 1914); British cinematographer and director.  Worked on such legendary films as The African Queen, War and Peace, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Awakening and The Dogs of War.

Marilyn Chambers [Marilyn Ann Briggs] (b. 1952); American actress.  Best known for her pornographic work, especially the classic absurdist film Behind the Green Door.

F. Forrest Church [Frank Forrester Church IV] (b. 1948); American theologian.  Unitarian minister and theologian.  His works include God and Other Famous Liberals, A Chosen Faith, So Help Me God, Freedom from Fear and Love and Death.

Monte Clark (b. 1937); American pro football player.  Played with the 49ers, Cowboys and Browns; and worked as head coach and general manager of the 49ers and head coach of the Lions.

Gerald Allan Cohen (b. 1941); Canadian philosopher.  Major contemporary proponent of democratic socialism.  His major works include Rescuing Justice and Equality; If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?; Why Not Socialism? and Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality.

Lou Creekmur (b. 1927); American pro football player.  Former lineman for the Detroit Lions and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Steve Crick (b. 1952); Financial Aid Director and women's basketball coach at I.V.C.C.

Walter Cronkite (b. 1916); American journalist.  Legendary television news anchorman whose coverage of the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the Iran Hostage Crisis would set the bar for all future television journalism.

Ralf Dahrendorf (b. 1929); German sociologist and politician.  Served in both the German and (after immigration) British governments in various parliamentarian roles.  As a sociologist, did significant research on social class.  His major writings include Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society, The Modern Social Conflict and Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.

Dominic "Dom" DeLuise (b. 1933); American comedian and actor.  Best known for his roles in numerous Mel Brooks films (including A History of the World, Part 1 and Blazing Saddles) and as a sidekick to Burt Reynolds in the Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit movies, as well as the classic The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Alison Des Forges (b. 1942); American human rights activist.  Specialist on the Rwandan genocide and African Advisor for Human Rights Watch.

Steve Doll (b. 1960); American pro wrestler.  Highly successful in Pacific Northwest Wrestling with a brief stint in the W.W.E.  His biggest claim to fame is as one of the participants in the match whose interruption began the n.W.o. angle in W.C.W.

Shane Dronett (b. 1971); American pro football player.  Played mainly for the Broncos and the Falcons.

Muriel Duckworth (b. 1908); Canadian activist.  Known for her community-level activism on issues related to gender equality and pacifism.

Jim Durben (b. 1924).  In loving memory from one of his many great-nephews.

Marek Edelman (b. c. 1919-22); Polish doctor and activist.  Last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and key member of the Solidarity movement.

Howard Aaron Engle (b. 1919); American pediatrician.  Lead plaintiff in the largest class-action lawsuit in U.S. history against the tobacco industry.

Natalia Estemirova (b. 1965); Russian human rights activist.  Collected data on human rights abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya, an activity which is the likely cause of her kidnapping and murder.

Philip José Farmer (b. 1918); American writer.  Prolific award-winning science fiction writer, best known for his Riverworld and World of Tiers series.

Ehsan Fatahian (b. 1981); Iranian activist.  Kurdish rights activist and critic of the Iranian government executed for engaging in "propaganda activities".

Eki "Eddie" Fatu (b. 1973); Samoan professional wrestler.  Wrestler from the famed Anoa'i family (which includes The Wild Samoans, Jimmy Snuka and The Rock), known mostly for his role as Umaga in the W.W.E, where he was a 2-time Intercontinental Champion.

Farrah Fawcett (b. 1947); American actress.  TV, movie and stage actress best known for her role in Charlie's Angels.

Mark "the Bird" Fidrych (b. 1954); American pro baseball player.  Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers known for his bizarre showmanship-like antics, including talking to the ball and returning balls to the umpire he felt had hits in them.  American League Rookie of the Year in 1976.

John Henry Fischer (b. 1910); American educator.  In 1954, while Superintendent of schools in Baltimore, was the first to voluntarily de-segregate his school system.

Marilyn French (b. 1929); American writer.  Prominent feminist thinker whose fiction and non-fiction focused on overcoming global patriarchy.  Her main works include The Women's Room, Beyond Power, From Eve to Dawn and The War Against Women.

Millard Fuller (b. 1935); American philanthropist.  Co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International.

Michael William "Kelly" Groucutt (b. 1945); British musician.  Bassist for Electric Light Orchestra.

Everette Lynn Harris (b. 1955); American writer.  Prominent gay African-American writer whose novels about gay African-American life were some of the first best-sellers of their kind.  His books include Invisible Life, Just as I Am, Any Way the Wind Blows and What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.

John Hughes (b. 1950); American filmmaker.  Director of many classic films of the 80's, including The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, National Lampoon's Vacation and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Michael Jackson (b. 1958); American musician.  Billed as the "King of Pop" for his influence on mainstream pop music (including music videos and dance) and his string of commercially successful songs and albums.

Stanley L. Jaki (b. 1924); Hungarian theologian.  Work focused on the relationship between scientific knowledge and religious doctrine.  Major works include: Brain, Mind, and Computers; Science and Creation; The Bible and Science; and God and the Astronomers.

Jim Johnson (b. 1941); American pro football coach.  Long-time defensive coordinator at both the college and pro levels, most notably for the Indianapolis Colts and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (b. 1932); American politician.  Long-standing member of the U.S. Senate, widely recognized as the outstanding political spokesman for liberal politics.  Was critically involved in many important projects to extend health care coverage to all people (including the COBRA Act, H.I.P.A.A., the Mental Health Parity Act and the State Children's Health Insurance Act) as well as major civil rights legislation (including the abolishment of nationality-specific immigration quotas, support for divestment from South Africa during apartheid, and the extension of the Civil Rights Act).

Kim Dae-Jung (b. 1925); Korean politician.  President of South Korea from 1998-2003.  Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his work toward ending the military dictatorship in South Korea.

Leszek Kołakowski (b. 1927); Polish philosopher.  Mainly known for his political philosophy, he was the author of many works, including Positivist Philosophy, Metaphysical Horror, Modernity on Endless Trial and Main Current of Marxist Thought.

Judith Krug (b. 1940); American activist.  Librarian who founded Banned Books Week in opposition to censorship.

Morton Lachman (b. 1918); American scriptwriter.  Emmy award-winning writer for All in the Family.

Danny LaRue [Daniel Patrick Carroll] (b. 1927); Irish drag performer.

Dante Lavelli (b. 1923); American pro football player.  Played for the Cleveland Browns during their dominance in the now defunct All-American Football Conference, when they won 4 A.A.F.C. championships and 3 N.F.L. championships in a ten-year period..  Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908); Belgian-born French anthropologist.  One of the key founders of the structuralist movement in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy.  Among his most influential works are: Structural Anthropology, Race and History, The Raw and the Cooked, Anthropology and Myth and Myth and Meaning.

David Lloyd (b. 1934); American screenwriter.  Writer for many hit television shows, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, Wings, Taxi and Frazier.  Served as a producer for The Tonight Show and The Dick Cavett Show.

Leslie Lye (b. 1924); Canadian actor.  Played many of the adult roles on one of my childhood favorites, Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That on Television.

Sir John R. Maddox (b. 1925); British chemist and physicist.  Editor of the science journal Nature for 22 years.

Karl Malden [Mladen Sekulovich] (b. 1912); American actor.  Best known for roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.

Charlie Mariano (b. 1923); American jazz musician.  Played with Stan Kenton and Charles Mingus.

Andrew Martin (b. 1975); American pro wrestler.  Wrestled in the W.W.E. as Test, and in T.N.A. as Andrew "The Punisher" Martin.

Francis "Frank" McCourt (b. 1930); American author.  His best selling-works, including Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, were heavily indebted to his family's Irish heritage.

Ed McMahon (b. 1923); American comedian.  Longtime co-host of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and host of Star Search and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes.

Dallas McKennon (b. 1919); American voice actor.  Best known as the voice of Gumby.

Steve "Air" McNair (b. 1973); American pro football player.  Played quarterback for the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans and the Baltimore Ravens.

Marilyn "Mert" Meister (b. 1940); great-aunt.

Mitsuhara Misawa (b. 1962); Japanese pro wrestler.  5 time All-Japan Pro Wrestling Triple Crown Heavyweight champion.  Served as a promoter for A.J.P.W., Pro Wrestling NOAH, and the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance.

Ricardo Montalbán y Merino (b. 1920); Mexican-born American actor.  Best known for his roles of Mr. Roarke on the TV show Fantasy Island, Khan Singh in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as as a pitchman for Chrysler.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri (b. 1922); Iranian cleric and activist.  Key critic of Ayatollah Ruollah Khomeini and activist for democracy and women's rights in Iran.

Brittany Murphy (B. 1977); American actress.  Best known for her roles in Sin City, 8 Mile and Little Black Book; and for voicing the King of the Hill character Luanne Platter.

Arne Næss (b. 1912); Norwegian philosopher.  Wrote on epistemology, philosophy of language and ethics.  Key developer of deep ecology.  Major writings include Communication and Argument, Scepticism, Empirical Semantics, Life's Philosophy, "Truth" as Conceived by Those Who are not Professional Philosophers, Gandhi's Political Ethics and Ecology, Community and Lifestyle.

Les Paul [Lester Polsfuss] (b. 1915); American musician.  Pioneer guitar player and recording technician responsible for many staples of modern music, including multi-track recording and overdubbing.

Clairborne Pell (b. 1918); American politician.  Senator from Rhode Island who created the Pell Grant.

Alexis "Sexy Lexi" Pillman (b. 1983); American pro wrestling valet.  Stepdaughter of the late wrestling legend Brian Pillman.

Natasha Richardson (b. 1963); American movie and theater actress.  Won awards for her performances in the productions of Anna Christie and Cabaret; and had a starring role as Mary Shelly in the cult classic Gothic.  Daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and producer Tony Richardson; wife of actor Liam Neeson.

"Playboy" Buddy Rose [Paul Perschmann] (b. 1952?); American professional wrestler.  Multi-time regional titleholder in the N.W.A.  Best remembered for his early feud with Roddy Piper.

William Safire (b. 1929); American journalist and writer.

Edward C. Schillebeeckx (b. 1914); Belgian theologian.  Reformist Catholic theologian instrumental in psuhing forward many of the changes laid down in the Second Ecumenical Council of Rome.  Among his many writings are God and Man, Revelation and Theology, The Human Story of God and The Church in a Human Face.

Gerald John "Jerry" Scholzen (b. 1926); American soldier and firefighter.  Served in WWII and the Korean War in the Army Air Corps.  Served as a firefighter for over 20 years, and was one of the first E.M.T.s in the history of his hometown.  Respected and loved grandfather.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. 1950); American cultural theorist.  One of the leading figures within queer theory and gender studies.  Her major works include Between Men, Epistemology of the Closet, Tendencies, and A Dialogue on Love.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver (b. 1921); American philanthropist.  Founded the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 1962, and co-founded the Special Olympics in 1968.  She was also active in Democrats for Life America and Feminists for Life America.  She is the daughter of Senator Joseph Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kenndy and Senators Robert F. and Edward M. Kennedy, and mother of reporter Maria Shriver.

Walter Sieber (b. 1933); Canadian professional wrestler.  Best known for his ring persona of Waldo Von Erich.  Held several tag-team titles in the N.W.A. and the W.W.W.F., frequently partnering with fellow Canadian Gene Kiniski and his fictional brother, Fritz Von Erich.

Socks (b. 1989); pet.  Cat owned by the Clinton family during Bill Clinton's tenure as President of the United States.

Matthew Stephens (b. 1990); I.V.C.C. student enrolled in my Ethics course at the time of his death.

Kamala Das Surayya (b. 1934); Indian writer.  Her main works in English include Alphabet of Lust, My Story and Summer in Calcutta.

Ronald Takaki (b. 1939); American historian.  Leading scholar of Asian-American history and key figure in the development of critical race theory.  His key works include Debating Diversity, A Different Mirror, From Different Shores and Hiroshima.

Koko Taylor [Cora Walton] (b. 1928); American singer.  Legendary blues singer known as "The Queen of the Blues".  I was once fortunate enough to see her perform at the College of Lake County.

Orin C. Taylor (b. 1931); American educator.  Beloved junior high school teacher and one of the kindest and friendliest people one could ever hope to meet.

"The Golden Greek" John Tolos (b. 1930); Canadian pro wrestler and manager.  Held numerous singles and tag-team titles in the N.W.A.

Mary Travers (b. 1936); American musician.  Folk singer with the legendary trio or Peter, Paul, and Mary.

John Updike (b. 1932); American writer.  Best known for his "Rabbit" series.

Brad Van Pelt (b. 1951); American pro football player.  Played linebacker for the Giants, Raiders and Browns.

Blanca Varela Gonzáles (b. 1926); Peruvian poet.  Her works include Material Exercises, Book of Clay, and Waltzes and Other False Confessions.

"Dr. Death" Steve Williams (b. 1960); American professional wrestler.  Former World Heavyweight Champion in I.W.G.P.

Elżbieta Zawacka (b. 1909); Polish teacher.  Under the code names Zelma and Zo, played an active role in the Polish resistance as both a courier and a soldier, including fighting in the Warsaw Uprising.  Second woman to be awarded the position of Brigadier General by Poland.

2008

Paula Gunn Allen [Paula Francis] (b. 1939); Native American poet, literary critic and activist.  Author of The Sacred Hoop, Off the Reservation and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows.

Penny Banner (b. 1934); American pro wrestler.  One of the pioneers of women's wrestling, held multiple titles in the National Wrestling Alliance, and was the first and only American Wrestling Alliance women's champion.

Hazel E. Barnes (b. 1915); American philosopher.  Played a large role in popularizing Existentialism in the United States.

"Slingin" Sammy Baugh (b. 1914); American pro football player.  Played quarterback, punter and defensive back for the Washington Redskins, ending his career as the N.F.L.'s all-time passing  and punting leader.  He is a charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

James Bevell (b. 1936); American activist.  Key leader within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the civil rights movement.

Matthew Tyson Bryant (b. 2008).  Infant son of Tampa Bay Buccaneers' kicker Matt Bryant.

George Carlin (b. 1937); American comedian.  Controversial figure known for his observations about mass culture, obscenity and politics.  Released numerous TV specials (most notably Carlin on Campus and Playin' with Your Head) and comedy recordings, including the legendary Class Clown.  Also wrote several books, including Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help, Brain Droppings, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? and Napalm and Silly Putty.

Aimé Césaire (b. 1913); Martinician poet and playwright.  His major literary works include his adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the plays The Tragedy of King Christophe and A Season in the Congo, and two poetic works: Notebook of a Return to My Native Land and Lost Body.  He is one of the leading figures of the Négritude movement in literature; and his work Discourse on Colonialism is one of the founding texts of the anti-colonialist movement and critical race theory.

Steve Charry (b. 1958); American educator.  Professor of History and long-time I.V.C.C. union leader.  In fond memory from his colleagues and friends.

Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917); British writer.  Sci-fi writer best known for his  landmark work 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Myron Cope [Myron Kopelman] (b. 1929); American sportscaster.  Radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1970-2005.  Responsible for the creation of the "Terrible Towel" in 1975.

Al Copeland (b. 1944); American businessman.  Founder of Popeye's Chicken.

Michael Crichton (b. 1942); American writer.  Sci-fi writer many of whose novels became highly successful films, including The Andromeda Strain, Congo and Jurassic Park.  Also served as the writer for the highly successful television program ER.

Mahmoud Darwish (b. 1941); Palestinian poet.  Major works include State of Siege, Victims of a Map, Ode to Beirut, Diary of a Palestinian Wound, The End of the Night, and the prose piece Memory for Forgetfulness.

Gilbert "Buddy" Dial (b. 1937); American pro football player.  Played End (Wide Receiver) for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys.

Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates] (b. 1928); American musician.  Legendary blues and rock-n-roll pioneer.

Ivon Dixon (b. 1931); American stage and film actor.  Had acclaimed roles in productions of The Cave Dwellers and A Raisin in the Son; however, his most famous role was as James Kinchloe on the T.V. show Hogan's Heroes.

Enrico Donati (b. 1909); Italian artist.  Painter of the Surrealist "school".

Lee Sherman Dreyfus (b. 1926); American educator and politician.  Governor of Wisconsin from 1979-1983.  Signed into law the nation's first prohibition on employment and housing discrimination against LGBT people.

Kevin Duckworth (b. 1964); American pro basketball player.  Played for the Spurs, Trail Blazers, Bullets, Bucks and Clippers.

Avery Dulles (b. 1918); American Jesuit theologian.  One of the few Jesuits to be named a Cardinal, and one of the few people to be named a Cardinal without having previously been a Bishop.  Author of Revelation and the Quest for Unity, Models of the Church, Models of Revelation, The Craft of Theology, The Splendor of Faith and The New World of Faith.

Julie Ege (b. 1943); Norwegian actress and model.  Appeared in the James Bond film On her Majesty's Secret Service and the cult classic The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires.

Will Elder (b. 1921); American artist.  Cartoonist for Playboy and Mad.

Ahmed Faraz [Syed Ahmad Shah] (b. 1931); Pakistani poet and activist.  Exiled from Pakistan due to his politically oriented poetry.

William Mark Felt Sr. (b. 1918); American FBI agent.  Former Associate Director of the FBI who under the code name "Deep Throat" leaked information about Watergate to the press.

Bobby Fischer (b. 1943); American chess grandmaster.

Kevin Foster (b. 1968); American pro baseball player.  Pitched several years for the Chicago Cubs.

Georgia Frontiere (b. 1927); American business executive.  Co-owner of the St. Louis Rams.

Robert Giroux (b. 1914); American publisher.  Chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; discovered numerous literary talents, including Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor and Bernard Malamud.

Judy Grable [Nellya Burres-Baughman] (b. 1925); American pro wrestler.  One of the pioneers of women's wrestling, was a 2-time American Women's Wrestling champion and long-time rival of the Fabulous Moolah in the N.W.A.

Ernest Gary Gygax (b. 1938); American writer and RPG inventor.  Co-founder of T.S.R., Inc. and developer of Dungeons and Dragons.

Mark Haigh-Hutchinson (b. 1964); British video game designer.  Designed many of the Star Wars video games.  His most famous video game was a classic from my childhood, Paperboy.

Gary Hart (b. 1942); American pro wrestling manager and promoter.  Worked primarily in the N.W.A. and W.C.C.W., where he was instrumental in the legendary Freebirds-Von Erich feud.

Isaac Hayes (b. 1942); American musician.  Pioneer of soul and funk music; became first African-American to win an Academy Award for a non-acting role.  Played voice of "Chef" on South Park.

Edmund Hillary (b. 1919); New Zealander explorer.  First person to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest.

Ernie Holmes (b. 1948); American pro football player.  Played defensive tackle for the Steelers' famed "Steel Curtain" defense of the '70s.

Freddie Hubbard (b. 1938); American jazz musician.  Bebop pioneer; played trumpet alongside such jazz legends as Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy.

Ai Iijima [Matsue Okubo] (b. 1972); Japanese actress and author.  Inspiration for the manga series Time Traveler Ai.

Robert Jastrow (b. 1925); American astronomer.  A leading champion of reconciling scientific with religious approaches to the world, especially in his influential book God and the Astonomers.

Charles H. Joffe (b. 1929); American film producer.  Frequently collaborated with filmmaker Woody Allen.

Roosevelt "Special Delivery" Jones [Conrad Efraim] (b. 1945); Antiguan professional wrestler.  Former N.W.A. Americas Tag Team champion; though is best known for his rapid defeat at the hands of King Kong Bundy at the first Wrestlemania.

Jay Katz (b. 1922); German-born American physician.  Prominent developer of the field of health care ethics.  His writings include Catastrophic Diseases: Who Decides What?, Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Law and The Silent World of Doctor and Patient.

Lawrence King (b. 1993); American high school student.  Gay youth murdered by one of his classmates during class.

Wladek "Killer" Kowalski (b. 1926); Canadian pro wrestler.  Former 5-time World Heavyweight Champion in the International Wrestling Association.  After retirement, opened his own training school; training such noteworthy wrestlers as Chyna and Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Wally Lamb (b. 1913); American physicist.  Won Nobel Prize for his work on the electromagnetic properties of the electron.

Joshua Lederberg (b. 1925); American biologist.  Won a Nobel Prize at 33 for his discovery of gene exchange in bacterial life.

Miles Lerman [Shmuel Milek Lerman] (b. 1920); Polish-born American businessman.  Co-founder and first Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Edward Lorenz (b. 1917); American mathematician and meteorologist.  Developer of Chaos Theory.

Bernie Mac [Bernard McCullough] (b. 1957); American comedian.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [Mahesh Prasav Varma] (b. c. 1917); Indian spiritualist.  Founder of the school of Transcendental Meditation.  Former spiritual advisor to The Beatles.

Henryk Mandelbaum (b. 1922); Polish Holocaust Survivor.  Participated in the Sonderkommando revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau that destroyed one of the crematoria.  Was one of only 110 Sonderkommando to survive the Holocaust.

Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz] (created 1955); comic book character.  One of Dell Comics' (D.C.'s) most beloved superheroes, and long-time member of the famed Justice League.

Del Martin (b. 1921); American gay rights activist.  Her marriage to Phyllis Lyon was the first lesbian marriage performed after California began recognizing same-sex marriages in 2008.

Sue Mateika; staff member at I.V.C.C.

George Allen "Buddy" Miles (b. 1947); American musician.  Played drums with Jimi Hendrix on the "Band of Gypsies" albums.

Jim "Mitch" Mitchell (b. 1947); English musician.  Drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Paul Newman (b. 1925); American actor.  Played in numerous classic films, including The Hustler, Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  Founded the company, Newman's Own, which donates its profits to charity.

Maila Nurmi [Maila Elizabeth Syrjaniemi] (b. 1922); Finnish actress.  Played the original Vampira, the inspiration for Morticia Addams and Elvira.

Bettie [Betty Mae] Page (b. 1923); American model.  Legendary pin-up model of the '50s who in the '80s became a cultural icon for the LGBT and BDSM communities.

Paul Patrick (b. 1950); British teacher and gay rights activist.  Founder of Schools Out, the first support and activist group for gay educators.  Was also instrumental in bringing multicultural education to Great Britain in the '70s and '80s.

Harold Pinter (b. 1930); Nobel Prize-winning British author.  Best known works are The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayed.

Sydney Pollack (b. 1934); American actor, director and producer.  Best known for his directing work for such films as Out of Africa, The Way We Were, Absence of Malice and Tootsie.

John Rauch (b. 1927); American pro football player and coach.  Former head coach for the Oakland Raiders (during their first Super Bowl appearance), Buffalo Bills (during O.J. Simpson's rookie year) and Toronto Argonauts of the C.F.L.

Alain Robbe-Grillet (b. 1922); French writer.  Key figure in the "realist" style of writing; his most well-known works are The Voyeur, In the Labyrinth and The Reprise.  Also wrote several screenplays.

Will Robinson (b. 1911); American college basketball coach.  First African-American basketball coach in NCAA Division I history.

Irena Sendler [Irena Sendlerowa] (b. 1910); Polish social worker.  Helped to rescue about 2500 children from the Warsaw ghetto by providing them with false papers.  Yad Vashem has recognized her as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Shea Stadium [William A. Shea Municipal Stadium] (built 1961).  Home of the New York Mets and one of New York's most recognized landmarks.  Scheduled for demolition.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918); Russian novelist.  Renowned for his literary exposure and critique of Stalinist communism.  His most well known works are One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisivich, For the Good of the Cause, Cancer Ward, and his expose of the Soviet gulag system, The Gulag Archipelago.

Levi Stubbs [Levi Stubbles] (b. 1936); American musicians.  Singer with the legendary Four Tops.

Louis "Studs" Terkel (b. 1912); American radio broadcaster and cultural historian.  Known for his in-depth examinations of the beliefs and experiences of everyday people, as chronicled in such classic works as Hard Times, Working, American Dreams, The Great Divide, Coming of Age and Hope Dies Last.

Charles Tilly (b. 1929); American sociologist.  Focused on the relationship between politics and broader social culture.  Some of his main works are As Sociology Meets History; Double Inequality; Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties; Trust and Rule and Democracy.

Michael Turner (b. 1971); American comic book writer and artist.  Best known as an artist for Witchblade and writer/artist for Fathom.

Gene Upshaw (b. 1945); American pro football player.  Hall of Fame offensive lineman for the Raiders.  Later served as Executive Director of the N.F.L. Player's Association.

The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (created 1963); Marvel Comics character.  One of Marvel Comics' oldest characters; charter member and mainstay of The Avengers.

Joseph Weizenbaum (b. 1923); German computer scientist.  Pioneer in developing computer programs to utilize and process language.  Author of Computer Power and Human Reason and the famous program ELIZA.

Jerry Wexler (b. 1917); American record executive.  As an executive for Atlantic Records, signed Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Led Zepplin, among others.  Coined the term "rhythm and blues".

John Archibald Wheeler (b. 1911); American physicist.  Instrumental in the development of relativity theory and the search for a grand unified theory.  Coined the term 'black hole'.  His main works include Geometrodynamics, Spacetime Physics, At Home in the Universe and Exploring Black Holes.

Dwight "Mad Dog" White (b. 1949); American pro football player.  Played defensive end for the Steelers' famed "Steel Curtain" defense of the '70s.

Abraham Woods (b. 1928); American minister.  Long time civil rights leader who helped to organize the 1963 march on Washington D.C.

Yankee Stadium (built 1923).  One of the premier sports venues in the world, served as home for the New York Yankees.  Scheduled for demolition.

In remembrance of Gayle Dubowski (20), Catalina Garcia (20), Julianna Gehant (32), Ryanne Mace (19), and Daniel Parmenter (20), students at nearby Northern Illinois University killed on Valentine's Day.

2007

Brian Adams (b. 1964), American pro wrestler; John Arthur (b. 1946), American philosopher; Mike Awesome [Michael Lee Alfonso], American pro wrestler; Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French philosopher; Rod Beck (b. 1968), American pro baseball player; Vernon Bellecourt [WaBun-Inini] (b. 1931), Native American activist; "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit (b. 1967), Canadian pro wrestler; Daniel Benoit (b. 2000), son of Chris and Nancy Benoit; Nancy Benoit (b. 1964), American pro wrestling manager; Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918), Swiss filmmaker; Delores "Dolly" Beyer (b. 1925), beloved grandmother; Benazir Bhutto (b. 1953), Pakistani politician and activist; Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow (b. 1961), American pro wrestler; Jane Bolin (b. 1908), first African-American woman to serve as a judge; Ed Brown (b. 1928), American pro football player; Art Buchwald (b. 1925), American essayist; J. Robert Cade (b. 1927), American doctor who invented Gatorade; Bob Clark (b. 1941), American filmmaker (Porky's and A Christmas Story); "Bad News" Allen Coage (b. 1943); Canadian pro wrestler; Alice Coltrane (b. 1937), African-American musician; Art Davis (b. 1934), African-American jazz musician; John Drury (b. 1927), American journalist; Albert Ellis (b. 1913), American psychologist; Maha Ghosananda, Nobel Peace Prize-winning Cambodian monk; Raul Hilberg (b. 1926), American Holocaust historian and political science; Andrew Hill (b. 1931), American jazz pianist and composer; Oliver Hill (b. 1907), American lawyer whose cases were instrumental in bringing about Brown v. Board of Education; Edna H. Hong (b. 1913), American philosopher; Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (b. 1944), American essayist; Richard Jeni (b. 1962), American comedian and actor; Hilly Kristal (b. 1932), American business entrepreneur (CBGB); "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd (b. 1938), American pro football player and wrestler; Ira Levin (b. 1929), American writer; Lamar Lundy (b. 1936), American pro football player; John Macquarrie (b. 1919), American theologian and religious historian; Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American writer; "Sensational" Sherri Russell Martel (b. 1958), American pro wrestler; Max McGee (b. 1932), American pro football player; Bruce Metzger (b. 1914), American Biblical scholar who directed the production of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible; Diane Middlebrook (b. 1939), American writer; Stanley Miller (b. 1930), American chemist; The Fabulous Moolah [Lillian Ellison] (b. 1923); American pro wrestler; Sal Mosca (b. 1927), American jazz pianist; Harold "Sonny" Myers (b. 1924), American pro wrestler; Haley Paige [Matyam Irene Haley] (b. 1981), Mexican-born American adult actress; Grace Paley (b. 1922), American writer; Oscar Peterson (b. 1925), African-American jazz musician; Jim Ringo (b. 1931), American pro football player; Max Roach (b. 1925), African-American jazz musician; Dewey Robertson (b. 1939), Canadian pro wrestler; Eddie Robinson (b. 1919), American college football coach; Paul Roche (b. 1916), British poet; Richard M. Rorty (b. 1931), American philosopher; Stuart Rosenberg (b. 1927), American filmmaker (Cool Hand Luke and The Amityville Horror); António Samões Monteiro; Portuguese statesman who founded Amnesty International; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (b. 1917), American historian; "Golden Boy" Arnold Skaaland (b. 1925), pro wrestler; Anna Nicole Smith [Vickie Lynn Hogan] (b. 1967), American model and actress; Tom Snyder (b. 1936), American broadcaster; Robert C. Solomon (b. 1942), American philosopher; Darryl Stingley (b. 1951), American pro football player; Fred Mustard Stewart (b. 1932), American writer; Sean Taylor (b. 1983), American pro football player; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922), American writer and humanist; Kurt Waldheim (b. 1918), Austrian diplomat and former Secretary General of the United Nations; Bill Walsh (b. 1931), American football coach; Washoe (b. 1965), chimpanzee taught to communicate with humans by learning a rudimentary form of American Sign Language; Darrent Williams (b. 1982), American pro football player; Dick Wilson [Riccardo DiGuglielmo] (b. 1916); British-born American actor (Mr. Whipple); Robert Anton Wilson (b. 1932), American psychologist turned science fiction writer. 

In remembrance of Ross Alameddine (20), Prof. Christopher James Bishop (35), Brain Bluhm (25), Ryan Clark (22), Austin Cloyd (18), Prof. Jocelyn Couture-Nowak (49), Daniel Perez Cueva (21), Prof. Kevin Granata (45), Matthew Gwaltney (24), Caitlin Hammaren (19), Jeremy Herbstritt (27), Rachael Hill (18), Emily Hilscher (19), Jarrett Lane (22), Matthew LaPorte (20), Henry Lee (20), Prof. Liviu Librescu (76), Prof. G. V. Loganathan (53), Partahi Lumbantoruan (34), Lauren McCain (20), Daniel O'Neil (22), Juan Ortiz (26), Minal Panchal (26), Erin Peterson (18), Michael Pohle Jr. (23), Julia Pryde (23), Mary Read (19), Reema Samaha (18), Waleed Shaalan (32), Leslie Sherman (20), Maxine Turner (22), and Nicole White (20); Virginia Tech students and faculty killed April 16th in the largest school shooting in U.S. history.

PERMANENT ROLL

Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)    British writer best known for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

Yehuda Amichai [Ludwig Pfeuffer] (1924-2000)    German-born Israeli poet

Delores "Dolly" King Beyer (1925-2007)    beloved grandmother

Al Biegalski (d. 2003)    My wife's uncle

Everett S. Biegalski (1916-2004)    My wife's grandfather

Arthur Blakey (1919-1990)    American jazz musician

British Bulldog [David Smith] (1962-2002)    British professional wrestler; perhaps the greatest wrestler to never hold the world title

George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937-2008)    American comedian

John William "Johnny" Carson (1925-2005)    American comedian and television personality

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008)    Martinician poet and anti-colonial philosopher

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (1968-2004)    Chinese-American historian; major researcher on the "Rape of Nanking"

Steve Charry (1958-2008)    American historian; colleague at I.V.C.C

David Emmitt Cockrum (1943-2006)    American comic book artist

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)    British biologist, co-discoverer of the helical structure of D.N.A.

Steve Crick (1952-2009)    Coach and financial aid director at I.V.C.C.

Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen] (1921-2004)    American comedian

Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (1916-2003)    German-Jewish philosopher and theologian; pioneer Holocaust scholar

Mark Steven "The Bird" Fidrych (1954-2009)    American professional baseball player (Tigers 76-80)

Paul-Michel Foucault (1926-1984)    French philosopher

Erich Pinchas Fromm (1900-1980)    German psychologist

Katharine M. "Katy" Ganaway (1974-2004)    Classmate at Walden III Jr./Sr. High School (Class of 1992).  First woman to receive a degree in electrical engineering from Gateway Technical Institute, 2003

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)    American geologist and evolutionary theorist

Edouardo "Eddy" Gory Guerrero Llanes (1967-2005) American professional wrestler

Ernest Gary Gygax (1938-2008)    American RPG designer (Dungeons and Dragons)

Owen James Hart (1965-1999)    Canadian professional wrestler from the legendary Hart family; died from an in-ring injury

Jalacy J. "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins (1929-2000)    African-American musician; pioneer "shock rocker"

"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig (1958-2003)    American professional wrestler

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907-2003)    American actress; first mega-celebrity to publicly disavow religious belief

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)    Polish-born American theologian

Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett] (1910-1976)    American blues musician

John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (1950-2009)    American filmmaker

Elizabeth Ann Hulette (1960-2003)    American professional wrestling valet and manager

Elvin Jones (1927-2004)    Legendary jazz drummer

Jerome R. "Jerry" Kamin (1938-1992)    Teacher at Walden III Sr. High School

Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1921-1980)    German philosopher

Edward Morgan "Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009)    American politician

Sara Lajiness (1968-1986)    Classmate at Walden III Jr./Sr. High School (Class of 1986)

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (1925-2001)    American actor

William Howell Masters (1915-2001)    Pioneering researcher in human sexual behavior

Paul Everett Meehl (1920-2003)    Pioneer in work on psychological research methodology

Charles Mingus, Jr. (1922-1979)    Legendary jazz bassist and composer

Pablo Neruda [Neftali Ricardo Reyes Baosoalto] (1904-1973)    Chilean poet; author of Residence on Earth, my all-time favorite book of poetry

Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004)    American feminist philosopher; specialized in political philosophy

Walter Payton (1954-1999)    Professional football player (Bears 75-87); member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Octavio Paz Lozano (1914-1998)    Mexican poet

Dannie Richmond (1935-1988)    Jazz drummer; best known for his collaboration with Charles Mingus.

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (1924-2007)    American jazz musician

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905-1980)    French philosopher, novelist and playwright

Gerald John "Jerry" Scholzen, Sr. (1926-2009)    Respected grandfather

Gary Scoville    Teacher at Walden III Jr. High School

Hans Haddock Seigfried (1933-2006)    Yugoslav-born German philosopher; one of my instructors at Loyola University of Chicago

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)    American poet

Matthew D. Stephens (1990-2009)    I.V.C.C. student

Sun Ra [Herman Poole Blount] (1914-1993)    Pioneering jazz musician and composer

Leo Sweeney, S.J. (1917-2001)    American theologian and philosopher; one of my instructors at Loyola University of Chicago

Koko Taylor [Cora Walton] (1928-2009)    American blues singer

Orin C. Taylor (1931-2009)    Teacher at Walden III Jr. High School

Richard Taylor (1919-2003)    American philosopher

Derrick Vincent Thomas (1967-2000)    Professional football player (Chiefs 89-99); member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)    British author

Amos Nathan Tversky (1937-1996)    American cognitive psychologist

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)    American writer and humanist

Peter Cathcart Wason (1924-2003)    British cognitive psychologist

Michael Lewis Webster (1952-2002)    Professional football player (Steelers 74-88, Chiefs 89-90); member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005)    Hungarian activist, writer, and Nazi hunter

Dwight Lynn "Mad Dog" White (1949-2008)    American professional football player (Steelers 71-80)

Reginald Howard White (1961-2004)    American pastor and professional football player (Showboats 84-85, Eagles 85-92, Packers 93-98, Panthers 00); member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)    American psychologist and writer

Iris Marion Young (1949-2006)    American feminist philosopher; best known for her work in political philosophy

last updated 3/18/10