Roger Kerr, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, died from metastatic melanoma he was 66.

Roger Lawrence Kerr, CNZM , a public policy and business leader, was the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable,^[1][2] a free-market think-tank based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is not related to fellow New Zealander Roger J. Kerr, the founder of Asia Pacific Risk Management.

(17 January 1945 – 28 October 2011)

Career

Kerr attended Appleby Primary and Waimea College in Nelson. He held an MA (Honours, First Class) from the University of Canterbury and a BCA from Victoria University of Wellington. He served as a director of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand from 1986 to 1994,^[3] as a member of the Council of Victoria University of Wellington from 1995 to 1999, and as a member of the Group Board of Colonial Limited in Melbourne from 1996 to 2000.^[4]
Kerr spent much of his career in the economic policy debate in New Zealand, mainly through written commentary. Kerr was a vocal proponent of Rogernomics and of policies that can be broadly characterised as free market. Before joining the New Zealand Business Roundtable, he worked as an assistant secretary at the New Zealand Treasury and as a senior figure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs including as a diplomat in Brussels.^[5]

Personal life

Kerr was married to Margaret Northcroft for over 30 years with whom he had three sons, Bernard, Nicholas and Richard, two of whom live in the United States and one of whom lives in New Zealand. The marriage to Northcroft ended in divorce. He married Catherine Isaac in January 2010. Kerr died on 28 October 2011, after battling metastatic melanoma for a year.^[6][7][8][9]

Awards

• NZIER Qantas Economics Award, 2001 ^[1]
• Tasman Medal, 1994
• Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to business.^[10]

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Yoko Matsuoka McClain, Japanese-born American professor (University of Oregon), granddaughter of Natsume Sōseki, died from a stroke she was 87.

Yoko Matsuoka McClain was a Japanese-born American professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Oregon.^[1] She was the granddaughter of Japanese novelist, Natsume Sōseki, from her maternal lineage.^[1][2]

^{(January 1, 1924[1] – November 2, 2011)}

 

McClain was born Yoko Matsuoka in Tokyo. She graduated from Tsuda College in 1945 and found work as a translator during the Occupation of Japan by the Americans following World War II.^[1] She obtained a scholarship, the forebearer of the Fulbright Program, to study at the University of Oregon. As a student, Matsuoka worked as a receptionist for the University of Oregon's art museum, now called the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.^[1] She received a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Oregon in 1956 and a master's degree in comparative literature in 1967.^[1]
McClain taught Japanese literature at the University of Oregon from 1964 to 1994, when she became a professor emeritus.^[1] She authored more than a dozen books and scholarly works on Japanese studies. Her husband, George Robert McClain, collected Japanese prints and art, which she donated to Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art following his death.^[1]
The Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs honored McClain for her contributions to Japanese-U.S. cultural relations in 2003.^[1] The University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences also awarded her the Alumni Fellows Award in 2003.^[1] In August 2011, McClain received the Gertrude Bass Warner Award from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.^[1]
Yoko McClain died from a stroke on November 2, 2011, at the age of 87. She was survived by her son, Ken McClain; one grandchild; and her sister, Mariko Hando.^[1]


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Beryl Davis, British big band singer and actress, died she was 87.

Beryl Davis  was a British big band singer. Her sister is Lisa Davis Waltz, a teen actress in the 1950s and 1960s.

(March 16, 1924 – October 28, 2011)

Born in Plymouth, England, she began to sing for her father's band,^[1] and became popular singing for British and Allied troops during World War II. Glenn Miller discovered her in London, and she sang for the Army Air Force Orchestra.^[2][3] She moved to Los Angeles after the war with her father's big band, and with Frank Sinatra for one year on Your Hit Parade.^[4]
She was part of The Four Girls singing group, with Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming, and Connie Haines. They recorded sixteen singles, and albums which became best sellers.^[5] She appeared both in variety shows and films.^[6][7]

Contents 1 Death 2 Discography 3 References 4 External links

Death

On October 28, 2011, Davis died in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease, at age 87. ^{[8] [9]}

Discography

• "I'll Be Seeing You", December 1999, Hindsight, Catalog No: HIN 278
• "Alone Together", October 2000
• "I Hear a Dream", June 2001^[10]
• "Feel The Spirit", JASCD 479, May 16, 2008, Bar Code: 604988 04792 9^[11]

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R. Sheldon Duecker, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church, died he was 85.

Robert Sheldon Duecker was an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988.^[1]

(4 September 1926 – 28 October 2011)

Birth and Family

He was born in Westfield Township, Medina County, Ohio, a son of Howard LaVerne and Sarah Faye Simpson Duecker. He grew up in the villages of LeRoy and Chippewa Lake, Ohio. He was confirmed in the Christian Faith in the LeRoy Methodist Episcopal Church.

Education

He earned an A.B. degree in Religion from the Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana in 1948. He earned a Bachelor of Divinity and an M.S. from the Christian Theological Seminary (C.T.S.), Indianapolis, Indiana in 1952. He did further graduate work at Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois in 1952–53. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1969 from C.T.S.^[2]

Ordained ministry

He was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church, North Indiana Annual Conference, (Deacon in 1952, Elder in 1953) by Bishop Richard Campbell Raines. Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Duecker had served the following pastorates in the North Indiana Conference: Kokomo: Grace (Associate Pastor); Dyer Muncie: Gethsemane; Hartford City: Grace; Warsaw: First; Fort Wayne: Simpson; and Muncie: High Street. He also served as the Director of the Conference Council on Ministries, and as the Superintendent of the Fort Wayne District.

Episcopal ministry

In 1988 while serving as senior pastor of the High Street U.M. Church in Muncie, Indiana, Duecker was elected a Bishop by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church, and assigned to the Northern Illinois (Chicago) Episcopal Area.^[3]
Bishop Duecker served (1980–84) on the General Council on Ministries of the U.M. Church, the General Advance Committee, and as a liaison from the Advance Committee to the Committee on African Church Growth and Development. He was also a member of the Commission to Study the Mission of The United Methodist Church (1984–88). He served on the General Board of Publication (1988–92). During 1992–96 he was a member of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, as well as of the University Senate of the U.M. Church. He served in several responsibilities related to ministry with Korean people, including (1988–96) the Committee on Korean-American Ministries and the Committee on Joint Mission Strategy for the U.M. Church and the Korean Methodist Church. He was the Chairperson of the North Central Jurisdiction Korean Mission Ministry, 1992–96.
Duecker retired in 1996 and lives in Indiana.


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Willy De Clercq, Belgian politician, died he was 84.

Willy Clarisse Elvire Hector, Viscount De Clercq  was a Belgian liberal politician.

(8 July 1927 – 28 October 2011)

De Clercq was born in Ghent. After his law and notariat studies at the University of Ghent and a scholarship at Syracuse University (Syracuse, United States), De Clerq became a lawyer at the Court of appeal in Ghent and a professor at Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Although he could have had a successful career in law, he got into politics. He was member of the Liberal youth and was elected municipal councillor and member of parliament.
De Clercq served in various coalition governments. He was secretary of state for the budget (1960–1961), deputy prime minister and minister of the budget from 1966 to 1968, deputy prime minister and minister of Finances in 1973–1974, minister of Finances in 1974–1977 and deputy prime minister in 1980.
De Clercq served as president of various international monetary instances and as president of the then liberal party PVV. He served for a term as a member of the European Commission (1985–1989). Moreover he became Minister of State in 1985. From 1989 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament.
In 2003, he created together with other prominent European personalities the Medbridge Strategy Center, whose goal is to promote dialogue and mutual understanding between Europe and the Middle-East.^[1]
In the 21 July 2006 honours, Willy De Clercq and his wife, Fernande Fazzi, were both separately ennobled in the rank of viscount.


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Campbell Christie, Scottish trade unionist, died he was 74.

Campbell Christie CBE ^[1] was the General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress from 1986 to 1998.^[2][3]

(23 August 1937 – 28 October 2011)

The son of a Galloway quarryman, he joined the civil service at the age of 17, rising through the ranks of the Civil Service Clerical Association. He became a leader of the "Sauchiehall Street Mafia", a left-wing association credited with helping radicalise the civil service unions in the 1960s.^[4]
Away from politics, Christie was chairman of Falkirk F.C. during the 2000s.^[5] During his tenure, Falkirk were promoted to the Scottish Premier League and developed the Falkirk Stadium.^[6] He stepped down in 2009, making the announcement after Falkirk played in the 2009 Scottish Cup Final.^[2]
Christie died at Strathcarron Hospice, Denny, Falkirk, aged 74, on 28 October 2011, after a short illness.


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Robert Pritzker, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease he was 85.

Robert Alan Pritzker  was a member of the wealthy Pritzker family.

(June 30, 1926 – October 27, 2011)

Biography

His parents were Fanny (née Doppelt) and A. N. Pritzker, and his brothers were Jay and Donald. Robert Pritzker received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and an honorary doctorate in 1984. He taught night courses at IIT and began serving on the Board of Trustees in 1962, and served as a University Regent until the time of his death. Pritzker started The Marmon Group, an international association of autonomous manufacturing and service companies. Marmon's assets constitute half of the Pritzker family fortune.^{[citation needed]} Robert's success can be partially attributed to his unique business structure, in which employees are trusted to make more key decisions, independent of the central office, than in other typical manufacturing settings. This independence allows for more creativity, and increases speed and productivity.^{[citation needed]}
In 2002, Robert Pritzker retired from his position of President of The Marmon Group and assumed the role of President of Colson Associates, Inc., a holding company of caster, plastics moldling, hardware and medical companies, including Acumed, OsteoMed, and Precision Edge Surgical Products Company, among others.^[1]
One of his 5 children is former child actress Liesel Pritzker.


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