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Hayden Kenna Carruth
Hayden Kenna Carruth, age 87, born Sept. 14, 1911, in Auburn, Miss., the sixth child of Samuel Enoch and Myrtis Kennis Carruth. He graduated from Asbury Academy and Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky.
In 1938, he died in Palo Alto, Calif., Sept. 24, 1998 after a valiant struggle with cancer. A native of New York City, where she was died Aug. 28, 1998 at his home in Ann Arbor. He was married Dorothy White of Roanoke, Va.
During World War II he served initially in the Army Signal Corps and later in the Medical Service Corps. He was discharged as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1946. Following his military service, he was employed for a period as a vocational counselor for the Veterans Administration before resuming an academic career.
Steiner received his baccalaureate degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1940, and his Ph.D. in genetics from Indiana University in 1950. Following completion of his doctoral work, he accepted a position on the faculty of the Department of Botany at the U-M. During his tenure at Michigan he served as department chair (1968-1971), as director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens (1971-77, 1989-91), as a member of the editorial board of the U-M Press, and on numerous academic committees.
He was an active and respected teacher who introduced one of the first audio-tutorial teaching laboratories in botany. As a researcher, he was recognized internationally for his work on the evolutionary genetics of Oenothera (Evening Primrose). He was invited and served as a guest professor at the University of Cologne, Germany (1960-61); the University of California, Davis (1967); and the University of Dusseldorf, Germany (1982, 1984).
Steiner was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and numerous other professional societies (Botanical Society of America, Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Economic Botany Society, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, American Horticultural Society, American Institute of Biological Science, Michigan Botanical Club, and Torrey Botanical Club).
He served as secretary of the Michigan Academy of Science, chair of the teaching section of the Botanical Society of America, member of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Botanical Club, member of the Editorial Board of the Plant Society Bulletin, founding member of the Friends of the Nichols Arboretum, and as a consultant and examiner to the AIBS Office of Biology Education and the GRE Advanced Biology Test, respectively.
Steiner had a continuing interest in the development and utilization of botanical gardens and arboreta for teaching, research and public outreach. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. His avid interest in horticulture and the Matthaei Botanical Gardens continued throughout his retirement.
Steiner is survived by his wife, Dorothy; three sons, Kurt (Alison) of Lawrenceville, N.J., Karl (Jane) of Mt. Pleasant, and Kim (Catherine) of Cape Town, South Africa; and seven grandchildren, Andrew, Jennifer and Emily of Lawrenceville, Jessica and Grant of Mt. Pleasant and Dylan and Henry of Cape Town. He was passed away unexpectedly at his home in Ann Arbor on Sept. 17, 1998. He was 53.
died young, but his music will be played for many, many years to come. I am grateful to have been his friend." Bolcom is the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor in Music Composition.
Albright received numerous commissions and awards, including the Queen Marie-José
Prize, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Fulbright and two Guggenheim fellowships, the Symphonic Composition Award of Niagara University, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two Koussevitzky Competition Awards, an award from the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University and, most recently, an America Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers Award. The University recognized him with a Distinguished Service Award, a Faculty recognition Award and a Faculty Fellowship Enhancement Award.
Albright was composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1979. He received the Composer of the Year Award from the American Guild of Organists in 1993 and the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies Competition in 1995.
His works have been performed at International Society for Contemporary Music Festivals and by major symphony orchestras, including those of Syracuse, Detroit and Lansing, as well as the Budapest Philharmonic, the Austrian Radio Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Bergen Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Kiev Philharmonic and the American Composers Orchestra.
Albright's organ works are available on the CRI, Albany, Gothic, Arkay, Titanic and Nonesuch labels. His piano performances of the music of James P. Johnson, Albright's own rag compositions, and the complete piano music of Scott Joplin have been recorded for Music Masters/Musical Heritage Society.
Albright is survived by his son, John, of Ypsilanti; his daughter, Elizabeth, of New York City; and two brothers, John and Richard.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1917 Washtenaw Ave.
Memorial contributions may be made to the School of Music.
Sharon K. Stephens
The discipline of anthropology and the profession of social work lost a unique presence and a beloved colleague with the death from cancer of Sharon Stephens on June 17, 1998. She was 46.
Born in Walla Walla, Wash., and educated in the Seattle area, Stephens was both an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1984. After teaching at the Johns Hopkins University, she became an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, where she taught in 1987-93. Taking a position at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway, in 1993, Stephens subsequently joined the faculty of the U-M in 1995 as an assistant professor of anthropology and of social work.
A foremost ethnographer of the northern Scandinavian Sami (Lapps), Stephens devoted her early work to exploring the articulation of systemic cultural transformations with historical transitions in Sami economic orders. This mode of analysis was exemplified in her Ideology and Everyday Life in Sami (Lapp) History (1986), which questioned the wisdom of making unmediated connections between preconceived realms of material practice and ideological structure. The Chernobyl reactor accident in April 1986 catastrophically transformed Sami life, however, and its aftereffects increasingly compelled Stephens to participate in public intellectual life. While pursuing a range of scholarly activities, she also wrote a series of articles on Chernobyl and the Sami for publications such as Natural History, Not Man Apart (Friends of the Earth), and Cultural Survival Quarterly.
Her engagement with environmental issues intensified when she joined the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in 1993. As director of the Centre's International Children and Environment Program, Stephens organized and facilitated a remarkable number of major international conferences on children in a global context. Many of these symposia focused on documenting the effect of radiation on the lives of children throughout the world, and her work on this subject will be published posthumously.
Stephens' scholarship broke completely new ground in what is still the nascent field of the anthropology of children. Recognizing that children constitute yet another realm of difference and marginality, Stephens devoted her considerable political and intellectual energies to thinking about children and the risks they both face and signify in the late 20th century. Indeed, her edited volume Children and the Politics of Culture (1996) has become the standard collection in this area, and her lengthy introductory essay, "Children and the Politics of Culture in 'Late Capitalism,'" is exemplary for its synthesizing vision and its ever-thoughtful questioning of the categories-of politics, of culture, of "the child" itself-that make up the received landscape of social scientific work on children.
Stephens was continuing her important work on children at the University and was actively involved in a long-term research project on the internationalization of child research. In keeping with her idea of making a difference, she created and taught a class on environmental justice and social welfare in the School of Social Work. She was known by her students as the most generous and caring of teachers. For all who knew Sharon Stephens, her singular qualities of mind, extraordinary integrity and deep compassion make her utterly irreplaceable.
She is survived by her daughter, Kaisa Talaga; her mother, Elizabeth Schulz; and her sister, Jimi Norton.
Remembrances may be made in her name to the Sharon Stephens Memorial Fund for Children, Account #179-1455372, Washington Mutual, Silverlake Financial Center, 11014 19th Ave. S.E., Ste G, Everett, WA 98202-5121.
