Jerry Smith, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and coach (Denver Broncos) died he was , 80.

Jerome Anthony Smith  was an American football player and coach. After Smith's college football career, which he spent at Wisconsin, the National Football League's (NFL) San Francisco 49ers selected Smith in the 1952 NFL Draft died he was , 80.. He played at left guard for the team in 1952 and 1953. In 1956, he split time between the 49ers and Green Bay Packers. Smith played in 29 games during his NFL career.

(September 9, 1930 – August 6, 2011)




Beginning in 1960, he joined the Boston Patriots as a coach of the team's defensive linemen and linebackers. Two years later, he took a similar role with the Buffalo Bills; in his six years as a Bills coach, the team won two American Football League championships.^[2] In 1968, the Cleveland Browns hired Smith as an assistant personnel director.^[3] From 1969 to 1970, Smith coached in the New Orleans Saints organization. The following year, he became the Denver Broncos' offensive line coach.^[2] On November 17, 1971, Broncos head coach Lou Saban, who had also been Smith's boss in Boston and Buffalo, resigned and Smith was named his replacement for the season's last five games.^[2][4] The Broncos posted a 2–3 record under Smith.^[5] Following the 1971 season, he became the Houston Oilers' defensive line coach for 1972; after one season, he returned to the Browns and served multiple roles.^[3]

 

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Roberto Busa, Italian Jesuit priest, pioneer in Digital Humanities died he was , 97.

Roberto Busa was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis  died he was , 97. He was the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors.

(November 13, 1913 – August 9, 2011)

Biography

Born in Vicenza, the second of five children, he attended primary school in Bolzano and grammar school in Verona and in Belluno. In 1928 he entered the Episcopal Seminary of Belluno, completing high school there, and took the first two-year course of Theology with Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I. In 1933 he joined the Society of Jesus, where he got a diploma in Philosophy in 1937 and one in Theology in 1941 and where he was ordained priest in 1940. From 1940 till 1943 he was an auxiliary army chaplain in the National Army and later in the partisan forces. In 1946 he graduated in Philosophy at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome with a degree thesis entitled "The Thomistic Terminology of Interiority", which was published in 1949. He was full professor of Ontology, Theodicy and Scientific Methodology and, for some years, a librarian in the "Aloisianum" Faculty of Philosophy of Gallarate.

The Index Thomisticus

In 1946 he planned the Index Thomisticus, as a tool for performing text searches within the massive corpus of Aquinas's works. In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus^[2]. The project lasted about 30 years, and eventually produced in the 1970s the 56 printed volumes of the Index Thomisticus. In 1989 a CD-ROM version followed, and a DVD version is underway. In addition, in 2005 a web-based version made its debut, sponsored by the Fundación Tomás de Aquino and CAEL; the design and programming of this version were carried about by E. Alarcón and E. Bernot, in collaboration with Busa. In 2006 the Index Thomisticus Treebank project (directed by Marco Passarotti) started the syntactic annotation of the entire corpus.

The Busa Prize

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) awards the "Busa Prize", which honors leaders in the field of humanities computing. The first Busa Prize was awarded in 1998 to Busa himself. Later winners include:

• John Burrows (Australia) (presented in 2001, New York, New York, USA)
• Susan Hockey (UK) (presented in 2004, Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Wilhelm Ott (Germany) (2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA)
• Joseph Raben (USA) (2010, Kings College London, UK)^[3]

Recent projects

Before his death Father Busa had been teaching at the Papal Gregorian University in Rome, at the "Aloisianum" Faculty of Philosophy in Gallarate, and at the Catholic Sacred Heart University in Milan. He was also working at the LTB project (LTB stands for Bicultural Thomistic Lexicon), which aims at understanding the Latin concepts used by Thomas Aquinas in the terms of contemporary culture.

 

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Wendy Babcock, Canadian advocate for the rights of prostitutes, died from suspected suicide she was , 32.

Wendy Babcock was a Canadian activist for the rights of sex workers. Born in the city of Toronto, Babcock became a sex worker at the age of 15 died from suspected suicide she was , 32. From 2004 to 2007 she was a key member of Sex Professionals of Canada, an advocacy group whose main objective is to promote the rights of sex workers and the decriminalization of Canada's prostitution laws.

(May 29, 1979 – August 9, 2011)

Babcock was recently the chair of the Bad Date Coalition of Toronto, a group that produces a monthly Bad Date Book which publishes reports of violent acts committed against sex workers, including details of the attacker. She testified in Alan Young's Constitutional Court Challenge to decriminalize the prostitution laws.


Babcock co-initiated a partnership with Toronto Police Services to ensure sex workers can report assault without fear of persecution or prosecution, and being a member of the advisory group to the Special Victims Unit. Other projects that Babcock helped to create include Safer Stroll Outreach Project, Regent Park Community Health Centre's Sex Worker Drop In, the Health Bus Sex Workers Stop and Wen-Do safety training for sex workers.^[4]
Babcock took a leave of absence from sex work after her friend and co-worker Lien Pham was murdered on October 13, 2003.^[5] In 2002–2003 Babcock began sex worker advocacy while working for Maggie's, a peer run organization for sex workers.^[6] From 2003 to 2010, Babcock worked at Street Health as a Harm Reduction Worker.^[7]
In 2008 Babcock received the Inaugural Public Health Champion Award for her work with sex workers.^[8] The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to protecting and promoting the health of Toronto’s residents.^[4]
Babcock participated in three films: Sluts: The Documentary,^[9] the 2007 documentary Where I Stand,^[10] and the 2010 short film Every Ho I Know Says So.^[11] Babcock also appeared on television including the CBC's Connect with Mark Kelley twice,^[12][13] and Global TV's 16:9 The Bigger Picture.^[14] Babcock can also be seen in a video on a website for Eva's Phoenix homeless shelter, where she lived during her youth.^[15]
Wendy Babcock worked as a sex-worker consultant to Kat Dennings for her role as a sex worker in the 2009 film Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson. That year, she also began to pursue a J.D. degree at Osgoode Hall Law School.^[16]
Wendy joined Lover Magazine (North America's first women's sexuality magazine) in 2011 as a writer on sex work issues.^[17]
On August 9, 2011, Babcock was found dead at home; foul play was not suspected.^[1] At the time of her death, Babcock was at work on a memoir, to be released in 2013 to coincide with her graduation.

 

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Dudley E. Faver, American Air Force major general and academic died he was , 94.

Major General Dudley Ervin Faver  was a retired United States Air Force Major General who was director, Secretary of the Air Force Personnel Council, Washington, D.C.

(August 17, 1916 – August 5, 2011)

Early life

Faver was born in 1916 in Sweetwater, Texas.^[2] He graduated in 1933 from Newman High School, Sweetwater, Texas and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1937 at Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas. After graduation, he taught at Levelland High School in Levelland, Texas, in which he eventually became the principal.^[3] He became a qualified pilot while awaiting assignment to flight training and obtained his private flying license in 1940.^[1]
Faver entered the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet in March 1941. He attended primary flight training at the Ryan School of Aeronautics in Hemet, California, basic flight training at Moffett Field, California and advanced flight training at Mather Air Field, California. He graduated from flight training in the Class of 41-H and received his commission as a second lieutenant in October 1941. His first assignment was to Mather Air Field as a flight instructor where he continued until March 1943 and conducted training in all three phases of flight instruction.^[1]

Military career

As a member of the initial cadre, Faver was a part of the formation of the Instrument Flying Instructor School at Randolph Field, Texas, and moved with it in April 1943 to Bryan Field, Texas. He began duty at Bryan as a flight and academic instructor and was later appointed director of Ground School. He remained with the school as chief of Academics and Training Analysis when it was transferred to Barksdale Field, Louisiana, in December 1945. Faver served in that capacity until he was transferred to the Alaskan Air Command in April 1947.^[1]

Dudley E. Faver

During the reorganization that followed the formation of the Air Force, Faver was assigned as assistant deputy chief of staff for operations in the Alaskan Air Command and later as director of Operations and Training Division.^[1]
Faver entered the Command and Staff School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama in the summer of 1949. Following his graduation, he reported to Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and assumed command of the U.S. Air Force Instrument Instructor Pilot School.^[1]
After assisting in preparation of the training program for the new B-47 Strato-jet bomber during March 1951 at Air Training Command Headquarters, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, Faver was reassigned to Wichita Air Force Base, Kansas, as executive officer of the Training Wing, B-47 Combat Crew Training, which he remained until March 1953.^[1]
After being promoted to commander of the 3540th Flying Training Group, in April 1953, Faver transferred to Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida (later McCoy Air Force Base) and remained there until February 1954, when he was ordered to duty at Headquarters U.S. Air Force. In the Pentagon for 42 months, he began his tour as deputy chief of the Officer Manning Control Branch, Officer Assignment Division, in which he was named chief of the unit shortly after.^[1]
Faver completed studies with the Air War College in the summer of 1958 and was assigned to the 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Laon Air Base, France, as director of operations.^[1]
In February 1959, he was assigned to Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as director of ballistic missiles. He was reassigned in the same capacity to Lindsey Air Station, Wiesbaden, Germany in June 1960.^[1]
Following his European tour of duty in 1961, Faver returned to Texas during August to assume command of the 3320th Technical School at Amarillo Technical Training Center, Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas, an organization involved in a variety of technical training, with detachments located "virtually around the globe". He assumed command of the 3500th Pilot Training Wing, Reese Air Force Base, Texas in January 1964. He was promoted to brigadier general on April 21, 1966.^[1]
In July 1966, Faver was reassigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force as the deputy director of personnel training and education, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. On November 14, 1966, he was reassigned as deputy director, personnel planning, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.^[1]
His awards include the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters and the Army Commendation Medal. He retired on March 1, 1973.^[1]

Post-military and personal life

Following his retirement from the Air Force in 1973, Faver was appointed by president Richard Nixon to be the Regional Administrator for the new Office of Energy in Denver, Colorado.^[4] During his time in Denver, he initiated a new Masters Degree Program for experienced professional managers at Denver University.^[4] He moved Lubbock, Texas in 1980 to lecture at Texas Tech College of Business on topics such as management.^[4] He also served as the Executive Director of the Texas Tech Association of Parents, which later established the Dudley E. Faver Scholarship in his honor.^[5] Faver has also served as Governor of District 5730 in Rotary International.^[4] He retired from Texas Tech in 2005.^[2]
A lecture series was established in his name by the Center for Global Understanding in 2006, which held it's first session on August 16, 2006, with Faver as it's first speaker, one day before his 90th birthday.^[2]
Faver has been married to Dorris Kirk-Maxey (born c. 1919),^[3] since 1965, where he met her while she was an instructor at Texas Tech University.^[3][4] They have two children,^[6] Harriet Fields of Tacoma, Washington,^[7] and Jim Maxey of California.^[4]
Faver died in Lubbock, Texas, on August 5, 2011.^[8]

 

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Marion D. Hanks, American Mormon leader died he was , 89.

Marion Duff Hanks  was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1953 until his death.

(October 13, 1921 – August 5, 2011)

Early life

Hanks was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[1] As a young man he served in the Northern States Mission of the LDS Church, which was headquartered in Chicago. He was in the United States Navy during World War II. He received a J.D. from the University of Utah.^[2] Prior to his call as a general authority, he worked as an instructor in the Church Educational System.^[3] Hanks married Maxine Christensen and became the father of five children.

General authority

Hanks served in the Presidency of the Seventy twice following the 1976 reconstitution of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Previously, he also served on the First Council of the Seventy from 1953 to 1968 and as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1968 to 1976. During a three year period in the early 1960s, Hanks was the president of the LDS Church mission in England; among the missionaries in his mission were Jeffrey R. Holland and Quentin L. Cook, who both later became apostles of the church.^[4]
In the mid-1970s Hanks served for a time as managing director of the church's Melchizedek Priesthood MIA. From 1982 to 1985, he was the president of the Salt Lake Temple. For a time Hanks served as a member of the Church Board of Education.^[5] In October 1992, Hanks was given general authority emeritus status.^[1]
Outside of his formal church responsibilities, Hanks preferred to be referred to as "Duff", his middle name.

Other activities

He was a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (for which he received its Distinguished Service Award) and the President’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Children and Youth.^[6] In 1988, Hanks was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Hanks served for a time as a member of the National Council of the BSA. He also served as a member of the boards of Weber State University and Southern Utah University.^[7]
Hanks wrote the words to "That Easter Morn", which is hymn #198 in the LDS Church's 1985 hymnal.

Death

Hanks died at the age of 89.^[8][9] At the time of his death, Hanks was the oldest living former member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and the second-oldest emeritus general authority after Eldred G. Smith.^[10]

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Erol Erduran, Cypriot educator and writer died he was , 78

Erol Erduran was an influential Turkish Cypriot educator and writer.

Erduran was born on November 4, 1932 in Larnaca, Cyprus and died on August 5, 2011 in Bristol, England. He represented the Turkish Cypriot community on the Fulbright Commission and worked closely with other international agencies including the British Council and the Goethe Institute.
The early influence on Erduran’s teaching philosophy was his father Hasan Nihat, a well-respected teacher and leader whose fellow villagers, originally from Aytotoro, dedicated a street in his name in northern Cyprus 60 years after his death. An obituary of Hasan Nihat was written by Talat Yurdakul and published in Halkin Sesi Newspaper on 17 August 1948.
Erduran was trained at Morphou Teachers' College, and subsequently taught in several village schools in Cyprus including at Sinde and Kucuk Kaymakli. Erduran himself was one of the first Cypriot teachers to be granted a scholarship to study in the UK where he completed a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at University of Wales, Cardiff in 1962. Following his return to Cyprus, Erduran moved onto secondary school teaching at several schools including Nicosia Girls’ School where he taught for almost 20 years educating generations of Turkish Cypriot women. Apart from Primary and Secondary School Teaching, Erduran’s career included Director of In-Service Teacher Training and Instructor at Anadolu Open University Campus in Northern Cyprus. He was a visiting teacher at George Mason University, USA and was one of the founding members of the Eastern Mediterranean University, the very first university of the Turkish Cypriot community. Following the 1974 conflict in Cyprus, he helped establish a new secondary school in Lapithos and served as its first head-teacher. Throughout his career, Erduran made numerous visits to schools in the United Kingdom, USA and Turkey.
Erduran was an effective teacher who made a significant impact not only on the practice and policy of education but also on the intellectual discourse on education in Cyprus. He was a proponent of interdisciplinary and holistic teaching: “Teachers, above all, are responsible for raising the cultural capital of the societies that they live in. In order to nurture literate and constructive generations, teachers need awareness of not only their subject knowledge but also other subjects to broaden their vision. Academic knowledge is necessary but not sufficient as a strong cultural foundation of youngsters.” (Erduran, 1954). Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”, which he knew by heart, best captured Erduran’s passion for pedagogy and English literature: “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” influenced his teaching philosophy in differentiating purposes of education. He believed in everyone’s potential to learn, and took it upon himself as a teacher and an administrator to find creative ways of facilitating learning. He had a rare talent for transforming complex ideas into simple, striking and animated narrative.
Erduran was also a known figure in Turkish Cypriot literature and journalism. He contributed regularly to the Ideas and Arts Magazine “Cardak” where he published short stories. His prose was existential in nature, and was influenced by international literature and philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus and Knut Hamsun. He published numerous articles in the Turkish Cypriot newspaper "Nacak." His prose had an existential tone, questioning the absurdity of life and alienation of humanity, often drawing on metaphors from the natural world to symbolise aspects of the human condition. In an interview he reported: “I must have believed that everything in life, apart from the earth, is rotten, and everything is lacking of something. It must be so because the smell of soil has never been missing in my stories” (Erduran, 1954a, p. 13). The existential undertone of his writing was uniquely positioned in reference to education where he saw it as the responsibility of teachers and society at large to help the public understand and come to terms with humanity’s place in the world. Education in this sense was a vehicle to promote clarity of reason in understanding the existential condition of humanity. In his article entitled “To Make Live,” he took issue with ignorance particularly in reference to the role of reading in the Turkish Cypriot community describing it as a “deep wound of its cultural life” (Cardak, 1954b, p. 6). Nevertheless he was hopeful that the contributions made within the community would yield to the advancement of the indigenous literature to the point of serious competition with the mainland Turkish literature. His stories were full of lyrical use of the Turkish language through simple yet deep and powerful metaphors. His inspiration for writing came to fruition when he would “lock (his) observations in (his) mind and wait for (his) characters to riot against them. Then and only then (he) would feel the necessity to weave the plot onto paper.” (Erduran, 1954a, p. 13)
One of Erduran’s passions in life was swimming. During the British colonial rule, he competed in the swimming championships involving Greek and Turkish Cypriots as well as the British expatriates, having won numerous competitions. Ayten Erduran, his wife of 50 years died in London in 2003. He is survived by his daughter Sibel Erduran, Professor of Science Education at University of Bristol; son Nihat Erol Erduran, Mental Health Manager at the National Health Service, London. His obituary has appeared in the Times Higher Education Magazine (25 August 2011),^[1] The Times (17 August 2011) and Cyprus Mail (14 August 2011).

 

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Gerry Davidson, American masters athlete, died from a stroke she was , 90.

Gerry Davidson  was an American long distance runner from Fallbrook, California. She is the current world record holder in the W85 Mile run^[2] (and previously in the W80 division). She is also the American record holder in most W80 and W85 track events from the 400 metres through the 10,000 metres^[3] and several road running records going back to 1991 when she was 70 years old.

(March 12, 1921 – August 5, 2011)






Davidson first took up jogging for exercise when she moved to Fallbrook in the 1970s. It was the era of the running boom of the 1970s and the thing to do. Eventually she took on competitive running by entering the annual L'eggs Mini-Marathon in nearby San Diego. That was the only race she did for several years until it was discontinued. The competitive bug had bitten, she became a fixture in the local running scene, has run in marathons coast to coast^[5] and began running in the sport of masters athletics.
It was coincidental that she set her Mile world record on the same day that Alan Webb broke Jim Ryun's fabled high school mile record.^[6] She died in Seal Beach, California on August 5, 2011.^[1]

 

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