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Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Christian Feuerstein ’94

Judith Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, is Department Head and also directs the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon. Professor Baskin is the President of the Association for Jewish Studies. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1976-88, and at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988-2000. Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh’s Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).

Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Dorothy Headley died at age 95 on July 28, 2009 after a short illness. She was born July 8, 1914 in Green Bay, Virginia. She attended Antioch College, Ohio, married Robert A. Muller, and lived in Detroit where she worked for the League of Women Voters, and as an interviewer for the Survey Research Center, Ann Arbor. After finishing an MSW at University of Michigan, she worked for McLean Hospital (psychiatric) in Belmont, MA.

Date: 8/18/2009 to 9/18/2009
OBERLIN — Few couples lived life so passionately as Shirley R. Johnson and her husband Douglas R. Johnson.

Their romance — and commitment to social ideals — lasted more than seven decades until Douglas Johnson died Friday at the age of 92.

Date: 8/17/2009
Dr. John McLain Rinehart, composer, concert pianist and professor, died
peacefully at age 72 surrounded by family and loved ones on Tuesday,
August 4th in Atlanta, GA. He will be remembered by family and those
close to him for his dry wit, huge smile and enormous appetite for
living life to its fullest, but most importantly to him he will be
forever remembered for his legacy as a truly gifted composer of modern
classical works ranging from the piano to symphony orchestra, and as a
gloriously talented and electric classical concert pianist.