In Memoriam

The AAUP mourns the loss of these colleagues and friends.

Harald Bohne, former Director of the University of Toronto Press from 1977-1989, died on February 29, 2012. Bohne had a long career at Toronto, beginning as the bookstore manager in 1958, and moving up to Director over the next 30 years. Bohne served terms as President of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Canadian Booksellers Association, among others, and was instrumental in the creation of the Canadian copyright licensing agency now known as Access Copyright. He was recognized for his achievements by being made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003. Those who knew Bohne will remember him as a kind and caring man, a great lover of jazz and a champion of Canadian publishing and scholarship.

Morris Philipson, former Director of the University of Chicago Press from 1967-2000, passed on November 3, 2011. Philipson was a remarkably influential publisher whose leadership brought the Press to the forefront of American publishing, and who mentored many current press directors and editors through their early careers at Chicago. Memorials to Philipson's work and memory can be read at the University site and the Washington Post.

Richard Kinney, former Director of Publications at Getty, died on October 21, 2011. Kinney also served previously as Associate Director at Wayne State University Press, and as Director at Iowa State University Press. An obituary may be found here: "he had over 13,000 books, all of which he read, some even twice."

Chris Egan, formerly Manager of Direct Marketing and Advertising at University of North Carolina Press, died on September 16, 2011. She was an active member of the press community: at BEA, at exhibits, and in AAUP workshops and committees.

Bonnie Rand, former CFO and Assistant Director for Ohio University Press, passed away on August 7, 2011. Much of Ohio's success can be attributed to Bonnie's hard work over 37 years, over which she started as a warehouse worker and worked her way up to CFO and Assistant Director.

Jeannette Hopkins, former Director of Wesleyan University Press from 1981-1989, died on August 4, 2011. An obituary was published in the Portsmouth Herald.

Jack Ervin, Director of University of Minnesota Press for 30 years, from 1957-1988, passed away in late July 2011 at age 84. Jack's long tenure at Minnesota was bookended by two of the press's most notable editorial successes: the Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Series (1959-1972), edited by Richard Foster, Allen Tate, Leonard Unger, and Robert Penn Warren in the 1960s and, two decades later, the launching of the transformative Theory and History of Literature Series (1981-1998).

Jane Flanders, former Manuscript Editor and Political Science Editor at Pittsburgh University Press for nearly 20 years, died on July 28, 2011. While Flanders left the press in 2001, she continued editing manuscripts through her retirement.

Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., Director of Princeton University Press for 32 years, from 1954-1986, died on June 28, 2011, just short of his 90th birthday. During his tenure as director, the Press nearly tripled its output, and won some 250 prizes, including 2 National Book Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, and 2 Bancroft Prizes. Bailey served as AAUP President in 1972 and, upon retirement, received the prestigious Curtis Benjamin Award of the Association of American Publishers and the Bowker Award for Creative Publishing. Current PUP Director Peter Dougherty penned a moving remembrance of Bailey.

Henry Tom, Johns Hopkins University Press's History and Political Science Editor for 36 years and editor of over 1,000 books, passed on January 10, 2011. Tom also consulted for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association for Documentary Editing, the Center for American Places, the Professional and Scholarly Publishers division of the Association of American Publishers, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Kenney Withers, former Director of Southern Illinois University Press, died on November 28, 2010, in St. Augustine Beach, Florida. Withers spent over 25 years with various manifestations of Holt, and was Director of SIU Press from 1980-1992, where he turned his personal interests in architecture, theater, communications, and composition studies into some of the strongest lists in those areas of any press. After retiring in 1992, Withers served for many years on the St. Johns County Library Board of Directors.

Mark Carroll, former Director of Harvard University Press and George Mason University Press, passed away on July 1, 2010.

Patricia Hoefling, Director of Sales and Marketing at Indiana University Press, passed away on July 7, 2010. Prior to coming to Indiana in 2005, Hoefling held the same position at Illinois and LSU. She had also been Sales Manager at Indiana from 2000-2003.

Bruce Roberts passed away on March 13, 2010. Roberts had been Sales and Marketing Manager at the University of Utah Press since 2007, and was known by many in the book business as one of the partners of Salt Lake City's counterculture bookstore, Cosmic Aeroplane, which closed in 1991. An obituary was published in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Allen Fitchen died on December 25, 2009. He had served as Director of the University of Wisconsin Press from 1982-1998 and Senior Editor at the University of Chicago Press from 1967-1982.

Will Powers, Design and Production Manager at the Minnesota Historical Society Press for 11 years, passed away on August 25, 2009. Powers was awarded the AAUP Constituency Award posthumously at the 2010 AAUP Annual Meeting for his outstanding record of service to the association and support and mentoring of colleagues.

Maud Wilcox, former Harvard University Press Editor-in-Chief, passed away on June 25, 2009. Wilcox began her career at Harvard as Executive Editor in 1958, rising to Editor-in-Chief from 1973 until her retirement in 1989. She was also an active member of AAUP, serving as Vice President in 1978-1979, on the Board of Directors, and as chair of several committees.

Leslie E. Phillabaum, Director Emeritus of Louisiana State University, died in January 2009. Phillabaum worked as a Manuscript Editor at Penn State Press, Editor-in-Chief at University of North Carolina Press, and in 1970 moved to LSU Press as Executive Editor and then Director in 1975. He served a term as president of AAUP, and he co-authored, with Sheldon Meyer, the invaluable pamphlet What Is a University Press?.

Richard G. Underwood died on Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2008, age 89. In addition to holding positions at University of Oklahoma Press and University of Texas Press, he was Director at Syracuse University Press from 1960-1975. His obituary may be viewed here.

Ronald Mansbridge, initiator of Cambridge University Press’s American branch, died Friday, September 8th, 2006, at the age of 100. Mansbridge, originally of Sanderstead, England, supervised Cambridge’s American branch for 20 years until his retirement in 1970. Mansbridge was later Acting Director of the MIT Press and Managing Director of the London office of Yale University Press.

Pam Upton, Assistant Managing Editor and Electronic Manuscript Specialist at the University of North Carolina Press, died on June 21, 2006, after an extended battle with cancer. She was 50. Upton joined to the UNC Press in 1982 as an Administrative Assistant, becoming a Manuscript Editor in 1986, and Assistant Managing Editor in 1993. She took an early lead in the development of on-screen editing, not only at the UNC Press but in the AAUP as a whole, serving as an organizer and instructor for three electronic editing workshops, serving as a generous mentor to colleagues, and on the AAUP Electronic Committee as an editor of the association's Computer Newsletter.

Matthew Hodgson, Director Emeritus of the University of North Carolina Press, died on Friday, June 16, 2006. A 1949 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, he returned to the university in 1970, where he led the press for 22 years. Previously, Hodgson served as a Developmental Editor at the University Press of Kentucky. Under Hodgson's direction, UNC Press published a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the first regional encyclopedias, and built a $2 million endowment. An obituary was published in the News & Observer.

Malcolm L. Call, past Director of the University of Georgia Press, died in March 2006. Call also served as an editor at Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.

Marilyn Breiter, Marketing Manager of the Indiana University Press, died on Sunday, July 24, 2005, after a 10 year battle with cancer. Breiter first worked at the press in the 1970s and returned to the Indiana marketing department in the mid-90s. Contributions in her memory to Bloomington Hospital's Olcott Center for Cancer Education or the Bloomington Beth Shalom Congregation are welcome.

Thomas Clark, one of those who founded of the University of Kentucky Press in 1943 and later the University Press of Kentucky consortium, died at the age of 101 on June 28, 2005. Clark, a professor and chair of the University of Kentucky history department, authored more than 30 works of scholarship. The University Press of Kentucky is now housed in a building named for Thomas D. Clark.

Merritt Bailey, retired Director of the Iowa State University Press, died at his home on March 15, 2005. He served as Director for 23 years until his retirement in 1985. Previous to that appointment, Bailey was the press's Sales Manager. Bailey served on the AAUP Board of Directors, 1966-67.

Horace Coward, one-time Sales and Marketing Manager of Yale University Press and founder in 1972 of the University Press Marketing Group, died on March 1, 2005. Coward was the recipient of the American Association of University Presses Outstanding Service Award; and in 1996 was awarded the NEBA Saul Gilman Award for distinguished service as a sales representative in New England. Remembrances can be made in his honor to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Daniel Goodwin, former Director of Smithsonian Institute Press, died of cancer on February 6, 2005. Goodwin came to the Smithsonian as an Acquiring Editor in 1984 from the University of Texas, Austin, and served as Director there from 1994-1998. He became the New York State Historical Association Director of Publications in 2000. Goodwin is remembered fondly by many in scholarly publishing. An obituary was published in the Washington Post.

August Frugé, Director Emeritus of the University of California Press, died on July 6, 2004, at the age of 96. Frugé came to UC Press in 1944 and remained there for more than 30 years. He was a pioneer in taking university publishing beyond the academy—launching a paperback series and spearheading regional publishing ventures among many other programs. Frugé also served as president of AAUP for a number of years, and was an active member of the international scholarly publishing community. His book, A Skeptic Among Scholars (UC Press, 1993), is one of the best known personal accounts of the transformation of university publishing that occurred in the twentieth century.

David McLeod, Business Manager of Georgetown University Press, passed away on July 17, 2004.

Edvard Aslaksen passed away on January 11, 2004, at the age of 79. Aslaksen was a longtime Director of Universitetsforlaget, the Norwegian University Press. He was educated at Little Norway in Canada, and graduated from the law school of the University of Oslo. For many years he was the president of the International Association of Scholarly Publishers (IASP). The IASP aims to assist scholarly publishers in developing countries with the production and distribution of scientific literature. In 1990, AAUP awarded Aslaksen an honorary prize for his valuable work in promoting scholarly publishing internationally. The Aslaksen Award was established to honor such international contributions to the field.