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Barnet Baskerville, '40, '44, professor emeritus of speech communication, died Dec. 31. He joined the UW in 1948 and retired in 1979. He also served as chair of the Faculty Senate. He was 84. Edward P. Bassett, who led the UW School of Communications for seven years and saved most of the program during a budget-cutting period, died March 1 in Portland, Ore. Born Feb. 27, 1929, the Boston native led journalism programs at five universities, including a five-year stint as dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern Univ. He headed the UW communications school from 1989-1996, when he became acting director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He also served for five years on the Columns Advisory Committee. He retired in 1997. He was 72. William Z. Birnbaum, professor emeritus of statistics and mathematics, died Dec. 15, 2000. He joined the UW faculty in 1939 and retired in 1979. He was 97. Ray Dorr, former Husky assistant football coach, died March 1 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Dorr, the Huskies' quarterback coach from 1975-1984, mentored Warren Moon, Tom Flick, Steve Pelluer, Chris Chandler and Hugh Millenall eventual pro football players. He was 59. Eva Heinitz, honored as this country's "grande dame of the cello," died April 1. A longtime faculty member in the UW School of Music, she was born Feb. 2, 1907 in Berlin. She was a brilliant, temperamental cellist who performed with Europe's top orchestras before fleeing Germany after Hitler took over. She came to the Seattle in 1948 and joined the UW music faculty, where she taught at the UW until her retirement in 1976. She was 94. Dan Fenno Henderson, who started the UW's Asian Law Program in 1962 and directed it for almost 30 years, died March 14. Born May 24, 1921 in Chelan, he joined the UW law faculty in 1962 and retired in 1991. He was 79. Eric M. Kashino, '82, '85, who overcame cerebral palsy and confinement to a wheelchair to earn two degrees from the UW and enjoy a long career with the IRS, was killed Feb. 27 when his wheelchair was struck by a bus in downtown Seattle. A longtime football season-ticket holder, he was a fixture in the wheelchair section at Husky Stadium. He was 43. Art Pringle, '44, director of Housing and Food Services from 1955 to 1975, died Feb. 25. Under his direction, the UW greatly expanded its student housing, adding Haggett, McMahon, Mercer, Terry and Lander residence halls, and brought all family housing units on line. He also oversaw all food service operations on campus. An avid traveler and bicyclist, he retired in 1975. He was 83. Andrew Smith, who served on the UW Board of Regents from 1989-1995 and was board president when the regents selected Richard L. McCormick as UW president, died Feb. 13. A former president of Pacific Northwest Bell, he served on the boards of numerous community agencies. He was 76. Martha Jane Trotter, assistant professor emeritus of rehabilitation medicine, died Jan. 26. She joined the UW in 1963 and taught until her retirement in 1995. She was 67. San-Pin Wang, professor emeritus of pathobiology, died Feb. 5. He joined the UW in 1961 as a clinical assistant professor in preventive medicine, and later switched to pathobiology. He was 80. Walter Woodward, '33, a Bainbridge Island newspaper editor who was the only newspaperman to editorialize against the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, died March 13 on Bainbridge Island. He was the inspiration for the character of the newspaper editor in the best-selling novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, '78, '82. He was 91.
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