Floyd Bedbury, American Olympic speed skater, died from cancer he was , 73.

Floyd Bedbury was an American speed skater, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota died from cancer he was , 73..

(July 24, 1937 – March 25, 2011).

As a youth, he traveled to Hamar, Norway, to develop as an athlete.^[1] He participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, competing in the 1500 meters and 5000 meters in 1960 (placing 22nd and 30th respectively), and in the 1500 meters in 1964 (placing 42nd).^[1] He held U.S. records in both the 1,500, 5,000, and the 10,000 meters.^[2] After retiring from active competition, Bedbury continued to work with speed skating as a coach.^[2]

 

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Thomas Eisner, American biologist, died from Parkinson's disease he was , 81.

Thomas Eisner was known as the "father of chemical ecology died from Parkinson's disease he was , 81.." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He was a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague, Jerrold Meinwald, is one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He was author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and 7 books.

(June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) 

Personal life

Thomas Eisner was born on June 25, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. His father Hans Eisner, of Jewish origin, was the chemist and a coworker of Fritz Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Electrochemistry in Berlin, later held a chair for chemistry at Cornell. His mother was an artist Margarete Heil-Eisner. Escaping the Nazi regime, the family moved to Barcelona and, following the civil war there, to Uruguay. The Eisners came to the U.S. in 1947.^[2]
Thomas Eisner became a naturalized American citizen. He applied to Cornell University as an undergraduate but was rejected. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, and he later joined Cornell’s entomology faculty in 1957. He married Maria Eisner, who was a member of his lab. In 1964, he helped found the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, where he worked until his death on March 25, 2011 of Parkinson's disease.^[1]
In addition to his academic work, he was a passionate nature photographer^[3] and videographer. His film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also an avid pianist and occasional conductor.

Work

Thomas's Eisner's main body of work was in chemical ecology, primarily studying the chemical defenses of insects against predation. Some of his most famous work is that of the Bombardier beetle, which he discovered creates a chemical reaction within its body to shoot boiling noxious liquid from a nozzle in its abdomen.
A field biologist with working experience on four continents, he was also an active conservationist. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society, the National Scientific Council of the Nature Conservancy, and the World Resources Institute Council. He was a past president of the American Society of Natualists, and chairman of the Biology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He played a key role in initiating the Congressional Fellow Program in Washington DC, and in efforts to preserve wilderness areas in Florida and Texas.
He was also member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, he received numerous honors, including the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Harvard Centennial Medal, the National Medal of Science in 1994^[4] and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2005) and held honorary degrees from Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. He was a foreign fellow of The Royal Society, and a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and Academia Europaea.
In 2008 Eisner was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.^[5]

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Maria Isakova, Soviet speed skater died she was , 92.

Maria Grigoryevna Isakova, nicknamed Cinderella of Vyatka, was a World Champion speed skater. She was born in Vyatka (now Kirov), Russian SFSR, and competed for the Soviet Union died she was , 92.

(5 July 1918 – 25 March 2011)

Isakova started skating at a very young age, spending many hours every day on the ice because she liked skating very much. Seeing how fast she was, people in Vyatka told her to participate in the Soviet Allround Championships, but Isakova was reluctant at first. She finally gave in and when she participated in the 1936 Soviet Allround Championships, pretending to be aged 17 (she was not allowed to compete at her true age of 15), she finished fifth. However, it took until 1944 before she won an allround medal at the Soviet Championships. That 1944 allround medal was silver – gold ones would follow the next five years. She also won the prestigious Kirov prize five times, the first time as early as 1938, the last time in 1951.
Isakova participated in the World Allround Championships three times, winning gold every time. This made her the first female speed skater to become World Champion three times and, since her titles were consecutive, the first female speed skater to become World Champion in three consecutive years. For her achievements, Isakova was awarded the Order of Lenin.

Medals

An overview of medals won by Isakova at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

Championships	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
World Allround	1948 1949 1950	–	–
Soviet Allround	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1951	1944 1950	–

World records

Over the course of her career, Isakova skated one world record on the old Medeo natural icerink at Alma-Ata:

Event	Result	Date	Venue
1,500 m	2:29.5	12 February 1951	Alma Ata - Old Medeo

 Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Isakova skated her personal records.

Event	Result	Date	Venue	WR
500 m	47.7	8 January 1952	Alma-Ata - Old Medeo	46.4
1,000 m	1:37.2	16 February 1951	Alma-Ata - Old Medeo	1:38.8
1,500 m	2:29.5	12 February 1951	Alma-Ata - Old Medeo	2:36.7
3,000 m	5:21.7	23 January 1953	Alma-Ata - Old Medeo	5:21.3
5,000 m	9:32.0	1 February 1949	Moscow - TsDKA Stadion	9:28.3

 

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Almena Lomax American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, died after a short illness she was , 95,

Hallie Almena Lomax  was an African American journalist and civil rights activist died after a short illness she was , 95,.

(née Davis) (July 23, 1915 – March 25, 2011)

Born in Galveston, Texas, her family moved to Chicago and later California, where Lomax studied journalism at the Los Angeles City College.^[1] In 1941 she started the Los Angeles Tribune, a weekly newspaper targeted at the African American community.^[2] During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960, she left California, with her children, to join the struggle in the South.^[3] Later she returned to California, where she worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner.^[1] Here she covered such topics as the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.^[3] Lomax, a divorcee, had six children, four of whom survived her.^[2]

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M. Blane Michael American federal judge died he was , 68,.

 M. Blane Michael  was a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 6, 1993, to a seat vacated by James Marshall Sprouse died he was , 68,..

(February 17, 1943 – March 25, 2011)
 
Michael's confirmation by the United States Senate on September 30, 1993, made him the first federal judge to be appointed by a Democratic president since Ronald Reagan became President in 1981. Michael received his commission on October 1, 1993 and began judicial service on October 12, 1993.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Michael grew up in Grant County, West Virginia, and in 1965 he earned an A.B., magna cum laude, at West Virginia University,^[3] where he was student body president and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then attended New York University School of Law, where he earned a J.D. in 1968.^[3] He spent three years in private practice^[3] (at the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell) before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1971,^[3] handling criminal cases. Michael's contemporaries in the U.S. Attorney's Office included John M. Walker, Jr. and Richard Ben-Veniste. For family reasons Michael returned to his home state in 1972, becoming a special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of West Virginia. From 1973 to 1975 he was in private practice in Petersburg, West Virginia, and he served for one year as a law clerk to United States District Judge Robert E. Maxwell of the Northern District of West Virginia from 1975 to 1976.^[3]
After John D. Rockefeller IV was elected Governor of West Virginia, Michael served from 1977 to 1980 as Counsel to the Governor.^[3] In 1981 he returned to private practice^[2] (at the state's oldest and largest law firm, Jackson & Kelly, in Charleston, West Virginia), where he worked as a commercial litigator until his appointment to the Court of Appeals in 1993. While in private practice Michael also served at one point as campaign manager for the re-election of United States Senator Robert C. Byrd.^[2]
Michael had often been in disagreement with his judicial colleagues on the Fourth Circuit, which has been called the "boldest" conservative appellate court in the United States. He also fostered collegiality on the court. As Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III noted in a 2005 speech published in the Northwestern University Law Review, Michael and Wilkinson jog together in their spare time when they are in Richmond, Virginia to hear oral arguments, even though they have very different judicial perspectives. According to newspaper accounts, when officials in the administration of President George W. Bush consulted Senator Byrd in the summer of 2005 about the United States Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Byrd suggested Michael be nominated to fill the seat.

 

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William M. Greathouse, American Nazarene minister, died from heart failure he was , 91.

William Marvin Greathouse was a minister and emeritus general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. He was born in Van Buren, Arkansas died from  heart failure he was , 91..

(April 29, 1919 – March 24, 2011)


Greathouse served as a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene from 1938 until 1963 when he was elected president of Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee; he served until 1968. At that time he was elected president of Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He served there until 1976, when he was elected General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene. He retired from this position in 1989.
He is the namesake of the William M. Greathouse Chair of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary.^[3]
He attended Lambuth College, Trevecca Nazarene College, and Vanderbilt University for doctoral studies.

Partial list of books by William M. Greathouse

• The Fullness of the Spirit, 1958, Nazarene Publishing House
• From the Apostles to Wesley: Christian Perfection in Historical Perspective 1979 by Beacon Hill Press, reprinted 2002 by Schmul Publishing. (ISBN 0-88019-442-1)
• Wholeness in Christ: Toward a Biblical Theology of Holiness, 1998 by Beacon Hill Press. (ISBN 0-8341-1702-9)
• An Introduction to Wesleyan Theology with H. Ray Dunning, 1982 by Beacon Hill Press. (ISBN 0-8341-0762-7)
• Exploring Christian Holiness volume 2 The Historical Development with Paul M. Bassett, 1985 by Beacon Hill Press (ISBN 0-8341-0926-3) for the book and (ISBN 0-8341-0842-9) for the set.
• Contributor to the Beacon Bible Commentary for the Bible books of Zechariah and Malachi (volume 5), 1966 and the book of Romans (volume 8), 1968, published by Beacon Hill Books.
• New Beacon Bible Commentary: Romans 1-8 with George Lyons, 2008 by Beacon Hill Press. (ISBN 0-8341-2362-2)
• New Beacon Bible Commentary: Romans 9-16 with George Lyons, 2008 by Beacon Hill Press. (ISBN 0-8341-2363-0)

 

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Dudley Laws, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, died from kidney disease he was , 76.

 Dudley Laws was a Canadian civil rights activist and executive director of the Black Action Defence Committee died from kidney disease he was , 76..

(May 7, 1934 – March 24, 2011)

Laws was born in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica to parents Ezekiel and Agatha Laws, and was a brother to three other siblings.^[1]
A welder and mechanic by trade, he worked at Standard Engineering Works until he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1955 and became involved in defending the West Indian community. He formed the Brixton Neighbourhood Association and also joined the Standing Conference of the West Indies.^[2] In 1965, he relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he worked as a welder and taxi driver. He joined the Universal African Improvement Association, a Garveyite organization.
Laws became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s as a critic of the then Metropolitan Toronto Police Force, due to a number of young black men being shot by police constables, as well as leveling other allegations of racist practices against the police. He has also been prominent as an advocate for immigrants and refugees and worked as an immigration consultant in the 1990s.
In 1988, he founded the Black Action Defence Committee following the police shooting of Lester Donaldson.
In later years, Laws maintained a better relationship with Toronto Police and was friends with two former Deputy Chiefs (Keith D. Forde and Peter Sloly).^[3]
Laws died in Toronto of kidney disease on March 24, 2011 ^[4] and interred at Glenview Memorial Gardens.^[5]

 

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