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Rhetaugh Dumas
Rhetaugh Dumas, who served as dean of the School of Nursing 1981-94 and was an esteemed international leader in nursing and health care, died July 14, 2007 in Logan, Utah. He was 75.
Kadlec was died July 5, 2007 in Dayton, Ohio. She was 92.
"Professor Ostrand was a highly respected teacher, public health nursing adviser and consultant," says Ken Warner, dean of the School of Public Health (SPH). "She had an ongoing concern for patients as people, and she passed that along to her students."
A native of Crystal Falls in the Upper Peninsula, Ostrand devoted more than four decades to her public health nursing career. She received her training at Augustana Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago in 1937, and developed an early interest in public health nursing while working with Chicago's visiting nurse association. During World War II, she served with the Army Nursing Corps in the U.S. and in England, earning the rank of captain before leaving the service in 1945.
Following World War II, she began her career as a public health nurse with the Washtenaw County Health Department while she completed her Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing from SPH. Ostrand returned to the school in 1955 and completed her master of public health degree in 1957. She was named associate professor of public health nursing in 1969, program director in 1973 and professor of public health in 1974. She retired from SPH in 1978.
In addition to her service with the University, Ostrand was a consultant to the Michigan and Ohio departments of health, the Detroit Visiting Nurse Association, and Health Education and Welfare Bureau of Health Manpower. In 1977 the Michigan Public Health Association presented her with its distinguished service award and in 1978 she received the American Nursing Association Pearl McIver Award "for significant contributions to the field of public health on a national level, and for expertise in professional and technical performance and leadership in public health."
In retirement, Ostrand was on the board of Silver Maples Retirement Center in Chelsea, a member of King of Kings Lutheran Church, a docent at the U-M Museum of Art and a member of the Women's Faculty Club. Pastor Michael Ryan of King of Kings says when he needed help from anyone, he often called on Ostrand to make the ask, "because no one could say 'no' to Lillian."
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Aug. 18, at King of Kings Lutheran Church, 2685 Packard Road, Ann Arbor.
Stanley Garn
Stanley Garn, professor emeritus of nutrition in the School of Public Health, professor emeritus of anthropology in LSA and emeritus fellow in the Center for Human Growth and Development, born Oct. 27, 1922 in New London, Conn., studied anthropology at Harvard University (A.B. '42, A.M. '47 and Ph.D. '48), with a cohort of students who would found most of the country's Ph.D. programs in physical anthropology. Garn's dissertation on human hair was the first of his many contributions to human biology.
Garn's practical skills let him move easily from research to shop or laboratory. During 1942-44 he was a research associate in chemical engineering at the Chemical Warfare Service of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he designed gas masks to fit the variety of faces of service men and women. During 1946-47 Garn worked as a technical editor at the Polaroid Corp. He undertook primary field research in the Aleutian Islands on a medical and anthropological expedition in 1948.
In 1952 he joined the departments of Physical Growth and Genetics at the Fels Research Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was appointed in the Anthropology Department at Antioch College. Fels was the center for what became the largest and longest continuous study of human growth in the world. There, Garn produced landmark studies of fat and fat patterning, skeletal maturation, anthropometrics, and the gain and loss of bone tissue with age. His work on tooth calcification and eruption in Fels subjects made him one of the founders of the field of dental anthropology. His book "Human Races" (1961), attempted to show the shallow knowledge of human diversity and to put the concept in a scientific context of geographic variation and evolution.
The Center for Human Growth and Development recruited Garn in the late 1960s, uniting him with colleagues with similar interests. During his tenure, from 1968 to his retirement in 1992, Garn investigated development of bones and teeth, anthropometrics, fatness, serum markers, fetal development, pregnancy, birth weight and the familial, economic and nutritional factors that affected them. His productivity also was legendary, amounting to more than 800 publications; these included both books and review articles, but primarily consisted of original research.
Garn was a hands-on teacher who instructed graduate students in every aspect of scientific research and publication. He was unfailingly enthusiastic about science and research, and generous with his time and attention, students say.
Survivors include his wife, Priscilla Crozier Garn, children Barbara and Bill Garn of California, and brother-in-law Professor C. Loring Brace of U-M. A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Glacier Hills Retirement Community, Kaye Hansen Room, 1200 Earhart Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.
Marilynn Rosenthal
When Marilynn Rosenthal's son died Aug. 9, 2007 of cancer. She was 77 years old.
She also created the Josh Rosenthal Lecture Series in memory of her son. This year's speech on Sept. 11 will feature Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, in a talk on global human rights.
For more than a decade, Rosenthal served as director of the Health Policy Studies program at U-M-Dearborn, and as associate director of the U-M Medical School Society and Medicine Program. She had coordinated the Forum on Health Policy since 1994 and was part of the medical school liberal arts program for premedical students.
"Her participation in the academic life of both the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses has made Professor Rosenthal an important link between the two campuses," the Regents said in the announcement of her appointment to professor emerita in 2003. "Professor Rosenthal has maintained a superb program of research that has made her an internationally recognized expert in health care systems. She is widely published in the areas of medical mishaps and health policy issues and has received many honors and awards for her work."
Rosenthal's primary research interests were in comparative health care systems, physician self-regulation, and medical malpractice. Her research has been published in numerous books, journals and articles. She also had been a visiting scholar, fellow or professor at institutions such as Columbia University, Dartmouth University, Oxford University and Harvard University.
Rosenthal was active in organizing conferences and had been a long-standing member and a chair of the Medical Affairs Advisory Committee to the executive vice president for medical and health affairs. She also served on a variety of other university committees.
She received numerous awards, including the Michigan Association of Governing Bodies Distinguished Faculty Award, the U-M-Dearborn Distinguished Faculty Research Award, and the Faculty Recognition Award for her research, service and teaching. Her book "The Incompetent Doctor" won a 1995 Baxter Distinguished Submission Award. In 2002, Rosenthal received the Faculty Member of the Year Award from U-M-Dearborn's Alumni Society.
Rosenthal earned a bachelor's degree at Wayne State University and her master's and doctoral degrees at U-M in Ann Arbor. She joined the U-M-Dearborn faculty as an assistant professor in 1976 and was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and professor in 1988. In 2002 she was appointed adjunct professor of internal medicine.
Survivors include her daughter, Helen; son-in-law Carmen Marino; and her grandchildren, Madeleine and Alexandra.
A memorial service took place Aug. 19 at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor.
