Necrology, 2014

Sonkowsky, Robert P. passed away peacefully at his home in North Oaks, MN Sunday November 16th 2014. He was 83 years of age. An Emeritus Professor, he taught for 40 years at the University of Minnesota. A writer and a poet, he also acted in various theaters in the Twin cities. He was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, was a graduate of Lawrence College and received his PhD. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Professor Sonkowsky was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Loretta Sonkowsky. He is survived by his wife of 58 years Barbara; brother Donald (Sandy); Three children Paul (Amy Woo), Steven, Michael (Anne Bekker); five grandchildren Crystal Quarberg (Shawn), Daniel Sonkowsky, Lauren Martin (Phillip), Dominic and Gabriel Sonkowsky; great granddaughter Victoria Quarberg, Evelyn Hansen, nieces, nephews and friends. A memorial service will be held on Saturday November 22nd at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral located at 519 Oak Grove St., Minneapolis, MN at 11am, reception will follow.

Allen, age 44, passed this life on October 10, 2014 due to a car accident near Sedalia, MO.

Carin was born March 31, 1970 in Rolla, MO, the daughter of Dan and Charlotte (Howard) Finch. Carin grew up in Rolla, graduating from Rolla High School. She graduated from University of Missouri Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Education. She later received her Master's degree. Carin was the Latin teacher at Rolla High School for the past 12 years. There she also oversaw the school's Latin Club and was the co-chair of the National Honor Society. Carin was also very active in the MOJCL, the Missouri Junior Classical League.

On July 30, 1994 in Rolla, MO, Carin wed Philip Allen. To this union were born a son, Patrick Philip Allen, and a daughter, Corinna Nicole Allen, who both survive.

Philip and Carin left this life together. In addition to their children, Carin is survived by her dad, Dan Finch and wife Reta, of Grove, OK, Aunt Liz Moellering and husband Tom of Carrollton, TX, Aunt Kathy Johnson of Lake Ozark, MO, cousins, and friends.

Her mother Charlotte Finch, her brother Danny Finch, and her grandparents James and Alice Howard preceded her in death.

Carin was a member of First Assembly of God in Rolla, where she served on the worship team and was very active in many of the church ministries.

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After an extensive and rewarding career in academic scholarship, Professor McNally passed peacefully at the University of Minnesota Hospitals on 25 September. Sheila leaves a wide circle of dedicated friends, colleagues, students and acquaintances. They will miss her dearly. Pursuing a broad range of interests in the arts, she was an unrelenting traveler, worldwide, but concentrating on the Roman Mediterranean. Dr. McNally's academic preparations included Vassar College, Radcliffe College, and Harvard University where she received her Ph.D. in Art History. She served on the faculties at Mt. Holyoke College and The University of Ohio. To our benefit in Minnesota, Sheila arrived in 1965, where she served for more than 40 years in the Departments of Art History and Classical and Near Eastern Studies. It was here that Sheila developed her reputation for energetic research and creative teaching methodologies, and it was here that her interest in Roman antiquities, architecture, decoration and textiles matured, along with a broader range of related subject areas spanning over 3000 years of history. Sheila's emersion into archaeology blossomed with a long-term role as director of an urban excavation, in collaboration with Jerko Marasovic at the Urban Planning Institute of Dalmatia, in Split, Croatia. The excavations lasted over six years, at a World Heritage Site, the Retirement Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. These excavations generated publications and numerous articles in several categories. Another significant excavation, an ancient urban site at Akhmim, Egypt explored early structures, churches and their influence on pre-Islamic urban aggregations. Sheila's writings include: "The Architectural Ornament of Diocletian's Palace", "Shaping Communities: The Art and Archaeology of Monasticism", "The Excavation of Akhmim, Egypt", and many other research articles. Her most recent book explores the continuing influence of the Palace of Diocletian's in post-Roman urban cores. The topicality and regional diversity of Sheila's research reflects her energetic curiosity and characterizes our admiration for her intellectual contributions. Sheila is survived by Mrs. Alexandra McNally Smith of Connecticut and Family, and was the daughter of John R. McNally and Ruth T. McNally. Memorial service will be at St. Olaf Church in Minneapolis, Saturday at Ten, with burial in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. For those of us who were fortunate to have enjoyed a sustained friendship with her, we will always value the enduring qualities, intellectual strength and generous warmth which Sheila McNally offered.

Paul B. Harvey, Jr., 69, of Bellefonte, died in Italy, a country he loved, on July 13, 2014. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, the Department of History, and in the Jewish Studies Program at Penn State, and was a past Head of CAMS. He was born on April 16, 1945 in Orange, CA to the late Paul B. Harvey and June Masin Harvey. After graduation from Santiago High School in Garden Grove, he left California to continue his education in the East. He received his B.A. in Classical Languages from Oberlin College in 1967, and earned a Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, with additional graduate study at the University of Pisa. He joined the Penn State History faculty in 1972 and later that of CAMS, after its formation. He contributed journal articles, essays, conference presentations, and co-authored and edited works in the fields of ancient Republican Rome, Roman religion, and early Christianity. At the time of his death, he was working on editions and studies of the writings of St. Jerome. A valued colleague to his fellow faculty and to departmental staff, he was also a superb teacher of both undergraduate and graduate courses. He was extremely proud of the graduate students he advised and mentored who went on to successful academic careers. In 1997, he received the University Alumni Teaching Fellowship Award. Paul loved classical music; gardening, particularly tending to his lilies; and, especially, swimming every day. If it were possible for a human to develop gills, he would have been the first. Blessed with an acerbic wit greatly appreciated by friends and colleagues, he was also kind-hearted and generous, always willing to help a good cause or anyone who sought his counsel or aid. He also had a very large soft spot for animals, indulging his wife's penchant for adopting an astonishing number of cats and dogs over the years of their marriage. He leaves behind his wife of 31 years, Karen; his sister Gretchen of Salem, OR; his two brothers, Mark of New Plymouth, ID, and Jonathan of Auburn, CA; his nieces and nephews; and his faithful greyhound Titus. He is greatly missed by all of them. A Requiem Mass will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church, Bellefonte, with Fr. Christopher Pyles, rector, as Celebrant, at a date to be announced later. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org) or Nittany Greyhounds (www.nittanygreys.org).

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Stephen died June 19, 2014 at home. He was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Classical Languages and Hebrew at The City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His principal interest was the oral reading of ancient Greek and Latin, with great attention given to the "restored pronunciation" of those languages as well as the metrics of their poetry. Silent reading had no place in the study of the Classics, he maintained; their literature was composed to be recited aloud. He recorded the entire Iliad and Odyssey, Euripides' Hekabe, Aristophanes' Birds, Plato's Portrait of Sokrates, as well as selections of ancient Greek poetry and oratory. His recordings, made between 1978 and 1998, are still available from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, as are those teaching the pronunciation and reading of Ancient Greek and Classical Latin. He gave recitals and workshops at universities and scholarly meetings throughout North America and Europe as well as in Australia and Argentina. In 1999 his recital of Greek literature was presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of the newly restored halls displaying ancient Greek art. He was the first president of SORGLL, the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature (see their web site). A group of students and teachers studied the Homeric hexameter with him on Saturday mornings in his Upper West Side apartment. Stephen Daitz's education at Yale, the Sorbonne, and Harvard initially lead him to the publication of critical editions, but his love of music underpinned his resuscitation of the sounds of Classical literature. He taught at CUNY from 1957 to 1991 and at the University of Paris in 1971-73 and 1979-80. His teaching at the Ecole Normale Superieure inspired the creation of Theatre Demodocos, which presents staged productions of Classical drama in the original language. A confirmed Francophile, he spoke French at home, teaching all his children to speak the language. A lifelong outdoorsman, reaching the summits of the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc were among his proudest achievements. He spent forty-five summers at Great East Lake in Acton, Maine, near New Hampshire's White Mountains, where he enjoyed hikes with family and friends. Stephen Daitz was born on August 16, 1926 in New York City. He is survived by his wife, Mimi S. Daitz of New York City, his son Maurice and daughter-in-law Sharon Jaycox Daitz of Scarsdale, NY, his son Benjamin of New York City and Gardiner, NY, and his sister, Sonia Lazar of Culver City, CA. He was predeceased by his daughter, Francesca. A memorial gathering will be held Sunday, afternoon, September 21, 2014, place to be announced.

Lewis William Leadbeater, 75, of Toano, died of respiratory failure on January 21, 2014. The only child of Samuel and Dorothea Leadbeater, he is survived by his life-partner of forty years, James A. Wickenden, cousins Jeanne Fraser, Doris Crowell, and Carole Slattery and members of their families and Mr. Wickenden's, as well as many closely-held friends and his much-loved Jack Russell Terrier, Bart. Services will be private. Born in Bloomfield, NJ Lew was educated in the public schools of East Orange, NJ where he studied Latin with C. Howard Smith, whom he described as "the person who most shaped my life." Impressed by Lew's ability, Mr. Smith also tutored him gratis in Classical Greek. While still in high school, Lew excelled at tennis, worked in the public library, and had the opportunity to accompany his Sunday School teacher's family, again gratis, to countless performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Lew continued these early avocations throughout his entire life, remaining physically active, reading widely and avidly, delighting in language and intellectual jousting, taking immense pleasure in operatic music of every era, and finding transcendent peace in the compositions of his favorite composers, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Lew pursued undergraduate study in Greek at the University of Pittsburgh and received his PhD in Classics from New York University. He joined the faculty of what was at that time called the Department of Ancient Languages at the College of William and Mary in 1965. For thirty six years he taught undergraduate classes in Greek language and literature, and he was also a founding member of the Comparative Literature program, in which field he both taught and published original papers on the extensive influence of classical Greek poets, playwrights, and philosophers on subsequent Western literature. Lew gleefully steered the humanities to sweet victory in one of the legendary William and Mary Raft Debates, and in 1986 he was honored with the Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching for "his diligence and care in preparation for his classes and his devotion to teaching." Upon his retirement from the College in 2001, he was lauded as a "master of the Socratic method, leading his students by interrogation to think through every issue of literature and philosophy down to its first principle." He authored a book of critical notes on Homer's Iliad and published frequently in scholarly journals devoted to both Classics and Comparative Literature. Following his retirement from the College, Lew accepted an invitation to write regularly on local political and social issues in an opinion column, "Notes from the Edge," published biweekly in the Virginia Gazette for more than ten years. In these short essays he delighted readers with his love of the written word and his often provocative neologisms and hyperbole. Lew relished stirring the pot as a Socratic gadfly and was never more delighted than when a column brought forth acrimonious debate from both sides of an issue. For his work, he received five Certificates of Merit for column writing from the Virginia Press Association, including first-place awards in 2005 and 2010. His collected columns may still be read online at his website, www.LewLeadbeater.com. In addition to his intellectual endeavors, Lew had a lifelong love of railroads that began with childhood trips to Scranton, PA on the Lackawanna RR to visit his grandparents and culminated in an extensive model train layout lovingly planned, carefully maintained and greatly enjoyed. Throughout his life he also took much pleasure in his annual vegetable patch, eagerly waiting for the first tomatoes to ripen and salad season to begin in earnest. Memories of Lew or expressions of sympathy may be emailed to the family at LewLeadbeater@gmail.com. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Heritage Humane Society, 430 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185 or to the James City-Bruton Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 911, Toano, VA 23168.

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