Andrzej Maria Deskur, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1973–1984), died he was 87.

Andrzej Maria Deskur  was President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church  died he was 87.


(February 29, 1924 – September 3, 2011)

Biography

Deskur was born in Sancygniów near Kielce, Poland, to a family of French origin. He received a doctorate in law in 1945 from the Jagiellonian University (study underground). He was the secretary general of the very important post-war Polish student organization called "Bratniak". He entered the seminary in Kraków and was ordained a priest on 20 August 1950. He obtained a doctorate in theology from the University of Freiburg and, after two years of pastoral activity and study in France and Switzerland, in September 1952, he was called to Rome to work in the Secretariat of State. During this period he served as undersecretary of the Pontifical Commission for Cinematography, Radio and Television (1954–1964), secretary of the Preparatory Secretariat for the Press and Entertainment during Vatican II (1960–1962), peritus for the assembly of the Council (1962–1965) and was a member of the Conciliar Commissions for Bishops, for the Clergy, for the Laity, and for the Press and Entertainment.^[1]
In 1973 he was named president of the Pontifical Commission (now Council) for Social Communications.^[1] He was appointed titular bishop of Tene on 17 June 1974 and received episcopal ordination the following June 30. On 15 February 1980, John Paul II named him Archbishop and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission.
Deskur was raised to the Cardinalate on May 25, 1985, becoming Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio, that had belonged to Pope John Paul II himself until his elevation to the Papacy. After ten years as a Cardinal-Deacon he exercised his right and his titular church was elevated and he became Cardinal-Priest. Cardinal Deskur lost the right to participate in the conclave when he turned 80 years old in 2004.
Deskur contributed to numerous congresses and meetings for professionals of the press, radio, television and cinema, visiting about 70 countries on five continents. Among other endeavours, he was one of the promoters of the radio station "Radio Veritas" for countries in Asia and Oceania.
The challenge of promoting Christianity in the field of social communications did not impede Cardinal Deskur from dedicating himself also to pastoral activity. During all his years in Rome he performed his priestly and episcopal ministry in numerous parishes. For many years he devoted himself to the office of spiritual director at the pre-seminary St. Pius V.
He was President of the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception.
Curial membership:

• Causes of Saints, Divine Worship and Sacraments (congregations)
• Health Care Workers (council)
• Vatican City State (commission)

Deskur died on 3 September 2011, aged 87.^[2]


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Don Fambrough, American football player and head coach (University of Kansas), died from injuries from a fall he was 88.

Donald Preston "Don" Fambrough was an American football player and coach died from injuries from a fall he was 88.. He was the head coach at the University of Kansas.

(October 19, 1922 – September 3, 2011)

Early life

Fambrough was born on October 19, 1922 in Longview, Texas to Ivey and Willie Whittington Fambrough. He attended Longview High School.

College football/military career

Fambrough played college football at Texas in 1941 and 1942 before serving in the US Army Air Corps during World War II.^[1] After returning home from the war, he and his wife moved to Lawrence, Kansas. While in Lawrence, he chose to play football at the University of Kansas.

Coaching career

His first coaching job was at Kansas as assistant from 1948 to 1953. After that, he served as an assistant at East Texas State and Wichita State. Fambrough eventually found his way back to Kansas as assistant coach under Jack Mitchell from 1958. Following the 1970 season, he got his dream job as the head coach at Kansas before the 1971. He served as the coach of Kansas from 1971 to 1974 and again from 1979 to 1982 and compiled a 37–48–5 record as a head coach.

Later life

Fambrough remained involved in Kansas football leading up to his death, and would occasionally take part in team practices. The school dedicated a bench overlooking Memorial Stadium to him in 2007.^[2] Fambrough is known for his hatred of rival Missoui^[3] and gave an annual anti-Missouri speech to the football team before each Border War game.^[4]

Personal life

He married his wife, Del Few on October 4, 1941. His wife preceded him in death on November 17, 2001. The couple had two children, sons Robert and Preston.

Death

Farmbrough died September 3, 2011 at his home in Lawrence, Kansas from injuries sustained in a fall.^[5] He was survived by two children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1971–1974)
1971	Kansas	4–7	2–5	T–5th
1972	Kansas	5–6	3–4	T–5th
1973	Kansas	7–4–1	4–2–1	T–2nd	L Liberty	15	18
1974	Kansas	4–7	1–6	T–7th
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1979–1982)
1979	Kansas	3–8	2–5	T–5th
1980	Kansas	4–5–2	3–3–1	4th
1981	Kansas	8–4	4–3	T–3rd	L Hall of Fame Classic
1982	Kansas	2–7–2	1–5–1	T–6th
Kansas:		37–48–5	20–33–3
Total:		37–48–5
#Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll.

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Fred Fay, American leader in the disability rights movement, died he was 66.

Frederick A. Fay was an early leader in the disability rights movement in the United States died he was 66..

(September 12, 1944 – August 20, 2011) 

 Through a combination of direct advocacy, grassroots organizing among the various disability rights communities, building cross-disability coalitions between disparate disability organizations, and using technology to connect otherwise isolated disability constituencies, Fay worked diligently to raise awareness and pass legislation advancing civil rights and independent living opportunities for people with disabilities across the United States. He won the 1997 Henry B. Betts Award for outstanding achievement in civil rights for Americans with disabilities. Fay was recognized for "flat-out advocacy" over several decades. He helped lead the nationwide efforts by disability advocates to secure passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^[1]
Jonathan Young, chairman of the National Council on Disability, said, “Fred was one of the great early pioneers in disability advocacy...the depth and breadth of his knowledge and commitment was surpassed only by the life he lived and the legacy he leaves behind."^[2]
Frederick Allan Fay, Ph.D., was born on September 12, 1944, and raised in Washington, DC. At age 16, he sustained a cervical spinal cord injury, and started using a manual wheelchair for mobility. At 17, he launched his disability advocacy career by co-founding "Opening Doors," a counseling and information center.^[3]
Fay attended the University of Illinois, one of the nation's first wheelchair-accessible universities. A few years later, he was a founder of the Boston Center for Independent Living^[4], the Massachusetts Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, and of the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities.^[5]
Fay worked for many years at the Tufts New England Medical Center, until syringomyelia made it impossible for him to sit upright. For the past quarter century, Fay has worked from his home in Concord, Massachusetts. In the early years, he used a headset to speak and listen on the phone, plus a personal computer mounted on a stand near his motorized bed. He had an electronic workstation suspended over the bed.
It was from there that Fay launched the Justice for All forum that compiles and distributes disability rights information to his wide network of friends and allies.
One of the continuing visionaries of the disability rights movement, Fay provided ongoing leadership to disability advocates. He was recognized in the movement for his irrepressible enthusiasm and optimism.
Fay made a short video with another disability rights notable, Roland W. Sykes, founder of DIMENET.




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Rafael Halperin, Israeli businessman and professional wrestler, died he was 87.

Rafael Halperin and Family

Rafael Halperin was a prominent Israeli businessman and the author of several religious books and an encyclopedia. In the 1950s, he worked in the United States as a professional wrestler in Vince McMahon Sr.'s Capitol Wrestling in the 1950s. He later became a Baal teshuva, embracing Orthodox Judaism.^[1]

(1924 – 20 August 2011) 

Early life

Born in Austria, Halperin moved to Palestine with his family in 1933. The Halperin family moved to Bnei Brak the following year, and Rafael studied in Haifa and Jerusalem as a teenager. He also excelled in several athletic pursuits, including weightlifting and karate.^[2] He entered competitions and became the national champion in karate, boxing, and bodybuilding.^[2][3] He is also said to have been a skilled diamond cutter.^[2]

Professional wrestling

Halperin decided that he wanted to open a chain of athletic facilities, so he began wrestling professionally to earn the necessary money. His career took him to the United States, where he was reported to have won 159 consecutive matches. He earned the displeasure of some promoters and fellow wrestlers because he treated his matches as legitimate athletic contests rather than a scripted performance. He refused to yield, however, as he felt that he was upholding the dignity of his country. He also wrestled as a face (fan favorite), refusing to break any rules, for the same reason.^[2]
Halperin continued to wrestle in the United States and Canada into the 1960s. During this time, he faced such opponents as Antonino Rocca while competing for Capitol Wrestling.^[2] He later returned to Israel, where he is credited with popularizing professional wrestling.^[4]

Business

After retiring from wrestling, Halperin held several jobs in his home country. He fulfilled his dream of opening a chain of athletic centers. He also became an author, writing several books including an encyclopedia and a weight-loss guide. During the Yom Kippur War, he served in the Israel Defense Forces.^[2] Halperin also founded a chain of optical centers in Israel.^[2][3] In 2008, he and his wife Bertie decided to divide the optical business among their five children.^[5]
Halperin had also been ordained a rabbi.^[5] Because of his orthodox Jewish beliefs, he was opposed to businesses operating on Shabbat. To combat this "desecration" of the holy day, Halperin led an initiative to create a credit card containing a chip that renders it inoperable on Saturday. It is also designed not to function in any store known to operate on Shabbat.^[3][6]


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Patricia Hardy, American actress, died from colon cancer she was 79.

Patricia Hardy was an American television and film actress whose career was most active during the 1950s died from colon cancer she was 79.. She was the wife of actor Richard Egan.

(December 23, 1931 – August 20, 2011) 


Hardy, who was originally from Brooklyn, New York, was of Irish descent.^[1] She won several beauty pageants during her early years, including Miss Brooklyn, Miss Coney Island and Miss New York Press Photographer.^[1] She also appeared on the cover of Look Magazine.^[1] She began her entertainment career in New York City, performing at the Copacabana [nightclub] with several well-known actors, including Danny Thomas and Jimmy Durante.^[1]
She met her future husband, actor Richard Egan, in 1956.^[1] The couple married in June 1958 and remained together until Egan's death in July 1987.^[1] The couple had four daughters - Patricia, Kathleen, Colleen, and Maureen Egan, a writer and music video director^[1], as well as a son, Richard Egan, Jr., who founded Vagrant Records,
Hardy moved from New York to Los Angeles to pursue a film and television career. She was cast in several 1950s television episodes including the series State Trooper, Perry Mason, The Loretta Young Show, Lassie and Schlitz Playhouse, in which she co-starred in an episode with James Dean.^[1] Her film credits included Girls in the Night in 1953 and Don't Knock the Rock in 1957. ^[1]


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Lou Zaeske, American founder of English-only movement, advocate for Czech ethnic causes, died he was 69.

Louis W. "Lou" Zaeske, Jr. was a mechanical engineer and a political activist in Bryan, Texas died he was 69.. In 1988, he founded the interest group, the American Ethnic Coalition, which lobbied for English as the official language of the United States.

(December 17, 1941 – August 30, 2011)

Early years

Zaeske was born at Randolph Air Force Base, then Randolph Field, in San Antonio, the son of Louis Zaeske, Sr. (1906–1991) and Agnes V. Zaeske (née Prihoda; 1910–1999).^[1] Louis and Agnes Zaeske are interred at New Bremen Cemetery near Coy City in Karnes County, Texas.^[2]
The senior Zaeske made his career in the United States Air Force, and the family lived in various parts of the United States. Zaeske graduated in 1964 from Texas A&M University in College Station Station with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He was a member of the TAMU Corps of Cadets and a squadron commanding officer. He subsequently studied at the graduate level at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. For more than thirty-five years, he operated Zaeske Engineering Company in Bryan.^[3]

Czech heritage

Himself of German and Czech descent, Zaeske was heavily involved in the promotion of Czech heritage groups. He frequently made public presentations on the migration of the Czech peoples from Eastern Europe. For many years, Zaeske was the president of the Brazos Valley Czech Heritage Society in Bryan.^[4] Zaeske was a member of the Czech Educational Foundation of Texas, which has established chairs for Czech studies at TAMU, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas at Denton.^[5]
He was also affiliated with the Burleson County's Czech Heritage Museum, and the Kolache Festival in Caldwell, as well as the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center^[6] in La Grange.^[3] Zaeske helped found the Texas Polka Music Museum in Schulenburg.^[7]

Political activities

In 1990, Zaeske ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the Texas State Senate because the Democratic incumbent in Senate District 5, Kent Caperton, refused to support Official English. Caperton, however, did not seek reelection in 1990,^[8] and the Democrat James W. "Jim" Turner, subsequently elected in 1996 as a U.S. representative, defeated Zaske for the seat.^[9]
The American Ethnic Coalition claimed that twenty-three members of the Texas State Legislature and four U.S. representatives from Texas, all of whom were elected with coalition backing and took office in 1989, were committed to Officlal English. Zaeske's organization called for abolition of the printing of literature in Spanish by the Texas Workforce Commission and allowing public school districts to reject bilingual education programs. Zaeske urged that Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock be required to report to the legislature on taxpayer costs of bilingual programs and that Attorney General Jim Mattox rule on the constitutionality of such measures. Zaeske's coalition proposed that foreign instructors in Texas public colleges. many of whom teach basic courses at universities, be required to pass an English proficiency test. Zaeske also spoke against a Texas law that permits lower tuition for students from Mexico who attend Texas public colleges: "We really can't understand why the citizens of this state should be required to underwrite foreigners going to school here when many of the children of citizens of this state are unable to go to college here because of not being able to pay the tuition."^[10]
In 1992, Zaeske supported Patrick J. Buchanan's unsuccessful insurgent challenge to the renomination of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush.^[11] In 1993, Zaeske ran as an Independent in a special election for the United States Senate seat vacated by incoming United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd M. Bentsen. He polled barely 2,000 votes, which was handily won in a runoff by the Republican state treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison.^[12]
In 2008, Zaeske and his wife, Jo Ann (née Macha), supported former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas for the Republican presidential nomination, ultimately won by U.S. Senator John S. McCain of Arizona. Jo Ann Zaeske told an interviewer that their support for Huckabee was based on the candidate's embrace of "family values." Lou Zaeske said that could not support McCain in part because of McCain's divorce. He even indicated that he would vote for Barack H. Obama in a contest against McCain because he thought that Obama could work across party lines, an argument also used at the time by the McCain supporters.^[13]

Death

Zaeske died at the age of sixty-nine at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan, Texas. In addition to his wife of forty-seven years, Zaeske was survived by two daughters and five grandchildren.^[3]


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John Bancroft, British architect, died he was 82.

John Bancroft was a British architect noted for his Brutalist designs for the Greater London Council died he was 82.
He joined the Architects’ Department of the GLC in 1957 and led the project to build Pimlico School from 1964 to 1970. The building was demolished in 2010 by Westminster City Council.
Bancroft explained the design of the school in a 2008 interview: "I wanted pupils to feel they were part of a community... So I divided the place up into a form of glass screen so you would get views down from the place that you would get views down from the level you were at down into the other parts of the school. And also I wanted to make sure that you could from time to time glimpse the outside so that you would know where you were in the great surrounding community that Pimlico is, and the buildings surrounding it"^[2]
His other school designs include the Elfrida Rathbone Girls' School in Camden and the Philippa Fawcett Teacher Training College in Streatham.
Bancroft was a staunch defender of the GLC's unpopular Brutalist landmarks. Though he did not design it,^[3] he argued that the County Hall Island Block, vacant for 20 years, should have been listed as an early example of open-plan office architecture^[4] and expressed himself "quite horrified"^[5] by the demolition of Pimlico School. Bancroft devoted much of his career to building conservation and was an active member of the Twentieth Century Society, the Victorian Society and an avid supporter of the charity Docomomo.



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