Francis Nigel Lee, British-born American theologian, died from a motor neurone disease he was 77,

Francis Nigel Lee  was a Christian theologian died from a motor neurone disease he was 77,. Lee was particularly known for the large number of academic degrees he earned from a variety of institutions. He obtained B.A, LL.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Cape Town, L.Th., B.D., M.Th. and Th.D degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, and Ph.D from Orange Free State University, and several other doctorates from unaccredited institutions, including D.Min., S.T.D. and D.Hum. degrees from Whitefield Theological Seminary.^[2]

^{(5 December 1934 – 23 December 2011[1])}

Lee was born in Westmorland in the UK, but emigrated as a child to South Africa, where he became a minister. Lee moved to the USA, where he served as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, as Professor of Philosophy at Shelton College, New Jersey and as Academic Dean of Graham Bible College in Bristol, Tennessee.^[2] Lee then moved to Australia, where he served as Professor at the Presbyterian Church of Queensland Theological Hall.
Stuart Piggin notes that Lee "exuberantly led the resurgence of Reformed theology among Queensland Presbyterians."^[3]
Lee was a firm advocate of the historicist method of interpretation in Christian eschatology.


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Evelyn Handler, American academic, President of the University of New Hampshire (1980–1983) and Brandeis University (1983–1991), died from a traffic collision she was 78.

Evelyn Erika Handlerserved from 1980 to 1983 as the University of New Hampshire's fourteenth, and first female, president died from a traffic collision she was 78.. Handler was the first woman in the country to be named president of a publicly supported land grant university. She was credited with bringing in $15 million in federal grants for a science and engineering research center.^[1] 

(née Sass; May 5, 1933 – December 23, 2011) 

 In 1983, Handler was inaugurated as President of Brandeis University, where she was also the first woman to hold that position. Notable achievements during her tenure include the initiation of The Volen National Center for Complex Systems, the strengthening of life sciences at Brandeis, admission to the Association of American Universities, and founding membership in the University Athletic Association. After leaving Brandeis in 1991, Handler was a research fellow and associate of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and a senior fellow at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. From 1994 to 1997, she served as California Academy of Sciences' executive director and CEO.

Earlier in her career, she was Dean of Sciences and Mathematics, and professor of biological sciences at Hunter College, where she had earned her undergraduate degree. Dr. Handler earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University, and a J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. Her scholarly work includes many publications on myelogenous leukemia.
Handler was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she was elected to the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1979, and served as a director of the Student Loan Corporation (Stamford, CT). She held honorary degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Rivier College and Hunter College. She was killed when she was struck by a car on December 23, 2011.^[1]


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Denise Darcel, French actress, aneurysm she was 87.

Denise Darcel was a French actress who also made films in Hollywood aneurysm she was 87..^[2]

^{(8 September 1924 – 23 December 2011)} 

Born as Denise Billecard^[3] in Paris, she was college educated.^[4] According to a friend, whom she met in Paris during World War II, she was a passenger in an L-5 Stinson light observation aircraft on VJ Day to see the celebration from the air. The pilot, James Helinger Sr., a US Army Air Corps glider pilot (the friend) was at the controls, while they flew under several bridges along the Seine and finally, under the Eiffel Tower, with the crowds below.^[5]
She was a cabaret singer in Paris after World War II before being spotted by Hollywood. Denise came to the United States in 1947^[6] and became an American citizen in 1952.^[3]
Her first film appearance of note was in Battleground (1949). She appeared on Broadway in the musical Pardon Our French in 1950. She made quite an impression in Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) opposite Lex Barker, then co-starred with Robert Taylor in Westward the Women (1952) and Glenn Ford in Young Man with Ideas (1952). In 1953, she was seen in the swimming musical Dangerous When Wet, which starred Esther Williams (1953). Her most important film was Vera Cruz (1954) where she played the female lead opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. Her last film (1961) was Seven Women from Hell.
After her film and television career began to wane, Darcel, aged 41, became an ecdysiast (stripper), appearing in West Coast theatres in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Los Angeles. She retired from stripping after a few years and returned to the cabaret circuit, making a few appearances on television. In 1991,^[7] she was cast as "Solange La Fitte" in the Los Angeles 20th anniversary revival of the musical Follies, produced by the Long Beach Civic Light Opera. She would later repeat the role of Solange in 1995 for revivals in Houston and Seattle.
Married three times and divorced twice, Darcel remained close to her two sons, Chris and Craig. Online music store iTunes recently made Darcel's album, Banned in Boston, available for purchase alongside actress Lizabeth Scott's album, Lizabeth.
In September 2009, she was honored with the Cinecon Career Achievement Award, presented in Hollywood at a banquet held at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. Prior to the ceremony, a new 35mm color print of her 1953 film, Flame of Calcutta, was screened at the Egyptian Theatre. After the screening, at the banquet, she cheerfully announced to the audience, "I'm back". She died in December 2011, aged 87, after emergency surgery to repair a ruptured aneurysm.^[8][9]

Filmography

• To the Victor (1948) (uncredited) as Bar Singer
• Thunder in the Pines (1948) as Yvette Cheron
• Battleground (1949) as Denise
• Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) as Lola
• Westward the Women (1951) as Fifi Danon
• Young Man with Ideas (1952) as Dorianne Gray
• Dangerous When Wet (1953) as Gigi Mignon
• Flame of Calcutta (1953) as Suzanne Roget
• Vera Cruz (1954) as Countess Marie Duvarre
• The Martha Raye Show (1954) as herself
• Gamble on Love (DuMont game show, 1954; replaced by Ernie Kovacs)
• The Milton Berle Show (1 episode, 1956)
• Tightrope as Terri (1 episode, 1960)
• Seven Women from Hell (1961) as Claire Oudry
• Naked City as Madeleine Douvay (1 episode, 1962)
• Combat! as Annette (1 episode, 1963)

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Merrill Kenneth Albert, American author and trial lawyer, died from heart disease he was 88.

Merrill Kenneth Albert was an American author and trial lawyer best known for his colorful courtroom tactics died from heart disease he was 88. . One of Los Angeles’ foremost trial advocates, Albert introduced several practices – such as the use of dummies and other tools in reconstructing incidents – familiar in current legal practice but virtually non-existent when he began his career. He was a pioneer in the development and use of biomechanical devices and modeling in major personal injury cases to explain the mechanical properties of the musculoskeletal system in relation to the physics and dynamics of collisions with cars, trains, and human beings involved in accidents. He was the lead trial attorney in “bet the company” cases for the Union Pacific Railroad, the Santa Fe Railroad, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Swinerton Construction Co., and the Regents of the University of California. Some of his more dramatic trials are recounted in Tales of the Rails: Railroad Claims Stories, by Norman Udewitz.^[2]

 

^{(April 19, 1923 – December 23, 2011)}

Early Life and education

Albert was born on April 19, 1923 in New Haven, Connecticut. He and his brother were later abandoned by their mother at an Oakland, California orphanage^{[citation needed]}. Left under the name of Merrill Smith, he picked apples at the Salvation Army Home for Boys during the Great Depression. He was placed in several foster homes until ultimately being permanently settled with the Tucker family of Oakland. After graduating at the top of his class from Oakland Technical High School in 1940, he attended the University of California, Berkeley. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, when Albert joined the United States Merchant Marine discovering upon entrance that Albert rather than Smith was his birth name. After obtaining his captain’s papers?? from the Merchant Marines, he was honorably discharged and returned to his studies at UC Berkeley. There he was elected president of his fraternity and became captain of the varsity tennis team. After completing his undergraduate degree, Albert was admitted to UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was subsequently published as the reviewing editor of the California Law Review. He graduated in 1955, the sixth in his class.

Legal career

In the three decades following his graduation from law school, Merrill Albert practiced law in Los Angeles, specializing in defending large corporations against a wide range of high-exposure personal injury and other “bet the company” lawsuits. It was during this time that Albert began using incident reconstructions during trials in order to demonstrate whether or not the plaintiffs’ claims were physically possible. He was also a pioneer in the early use of biomechanical accident reconstruction dummies at trial. He tried over 300 cases, winning the vast majority of them, many against the foremost plaintiff’s trial attorneys of the era. His courtroom tactics were likened by many of his contemporaries to those of the fictional Perry Mason, which reportedly more than once took their inspiration from Albert’s actual trials^{[citation needed]}.

Retirement and writing

In 1990 Albert retired from the practice of law and devoted himself to the full-time enjoyment of opera, tennis, horse racing (he was a long-time member of the Santa Anita Park Turf Club), and various other pursuits. He also began writing, and his novel, The Big Casino, was published posthumously in 2003.^[3] The book has proved popular in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India^{[citation needed]}.
It was followed in 2011 by the collection The Year 2012 Ushers in the Age of Fire and Other Short Stories, a series of tales centering on a coming apocalypse and a Polynesian tribe’s attempts to prepare for it.^[4] At the time of his death Albert was at work on two other books. Adolf Hitler is Alive! – which postulates an enclave of Nazis who had escaped from Berlin to set up a secret society in the Antarctica to plot their revenge – and the Trinity of Life, a philosophical speculation on tripartite confluences in history, politics, and religion throughout human history – will be published posthumously^{[citation needed]}.



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Zithulele Sinqe, South African Olympic long distance runner, died from a car accident, he was 48.

Zithulele Sinqe was a South African long distance runner died from a car accident, he was 48..

Biography

He was born in Mthatha.^[2] In the 1980s, and despite restrictions under Apartheid, Sinqe emerged as one of the leading marathon and half-marathon athletes in the world.^[3] His two greatest races were the 1986 South African marathon championships, where he won in 2:08:04 in a titanic struggle with Willie Mtolo, who was second in 2:08:15.^[4] and his even closer contest over the half marathon with Matthews Temane in July 1987 in East London. Both men were credited with the same time of 60:11 but Temane was adjudged to have just defeated Sinqe.^[5]
In addition to the 1986 South African marathon championships, Sinqe also won the 1987 edition before Willie Mtolo won on two occasions.^[6] He competed at the 1992 Olympic marathon without finishing the race.^[2] 2:08:04 was also his lifetime best result. In the half marathon he achieved 1:00:11 hours in 1987,^[2][7] which was the world's best time that year, jointly with compatriot Matthews Temane.^[8]

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Marion Segal Freed, American film producer, editor and screenwriter, died he was 77.

Marion Segal Freed was an American film producer, editor and screenwriter  died he was 77.. Segal Freed worked as an editor on such movies as Russian Roulette, Fun With Dick and Jane, Carbon Copy, Badlands and Days of Heaven.^[1] She was married to actor George Segal for 25 years, until their divorce in 1984. Later she married director Herb Freed.<sup>[1]

(1934 – 22 December 2011)</sup> 


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Michael von Grünau, Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist, died he was 67.

Michael von Grünau, BSc, MA, PhD was a Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist at Concordia University died he was 67..^[1]

^{(October 3, 1944 – December 22, 2011)} 

Life and career

Michael von Grünau was born in West Germany, the son of Viktoria Hanke and Werner von Grünau. His father was a translator and a writer; his mother was a housewife and a writing assistant for her husband.
von Grünau grew up in West Germany, but emigrated to Canada in about 1965 to study Physics at University of Toronto. He graduated in 1968, but then commenced a MA in Psychology, graduating in 1971, and a PhD, graduating in 1975. His PhD was supervised by Paul Kolers.
Around this time, he conducted research into the Color Phi phenomenon, investigating the influence of color on apparent movement from stationary images and also the fluttering heart phenomenon in which a red patch on a blue background appears to jump around as an observer moves his or her eyes.
In the early 1980s von Grünau moved to the Department of Psychology at Queen's University at Kingston, where he founded a neurophysiology laboratory to study the visual system of cats. He continued his psychophysical studies of human visual perception. Key research he accomplished during this period included ????.
In about 1987, von Grünau spent about 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Research Council (Canada) in the Division of Physics, under the supervision of Bill Cowan. He worked mainly with Patrick Cavanagh.
In 1989, von Grünau moved to the Department of Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal. There he worked mainly in the psychophysics of human visual perception, on phenomena surrounding higher-order motion aftereffects, visual search and attention in the real world, visual flow fields, and eye movements.
In 1991, von Grünau married Marinez de Andrade. They adopted a son, Fernando in 1999, from Brazil, and a daughter, Gabriela, in 2002, from China.
von Grünau died on 22 December 2011, from cancer.


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