[Asis-l] Further obit for Cloyd Dake Gull

[Richard Hill]

Also, we note that Gerald Sophar, Karl Heumann and Cloyd Dake Gull obtained 
a three year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish 
the  American Documentation Institute's first independent secretariat and 
hire an executive director.  The proposal was submitted during Dake's term 
as President and the grant became effective during Sophar's term.
Dick Hill
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 From Washington Post, May 7

Cloyd Dake Gull Information Sciences Expert

Cloyd Dake Gull, 87, who was head of his own information sciences research 
and development company, C.D. Gull & Associates, from 1969 until retiring 
in 1983, died May 1 at the Wilson Health Care Center of Asbury Methodist 
Village in Gaithersburg.

He had Parkinson's disease.

Mr. Gull, who had done work in computerized bibliographic systems, was a 
volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, 
where he edited the Internet work, "A Guide to Sources of Air and Space 
History: Primary Historical Materials in United States Repositories."

Over the years, he had done work for the Library of Congress, the National 
Academy of Sciences and the National Library of Medicine at the National 
Institutes of Health.

He was a past president of what is now the American Society for Information 
and Technology and, in the early 1960s, chaired this country's committee to 
meetings of the International Federation for Documentation.

Mr. Gull, an Ohio native and World War II Navy veteran, was a Phi Beta 
Kappa history graduate of Allegheny College. He received bachelor's and 
master's degrees in library science from the University of Michigan.

A 55-year Washington area resident, he had lived in Arlington, Rockville 
and Kensington. He lived in Gaithersburg at the time of his death.

Mr. Gull was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville.

His wife of 58 years, Dorothy Phelps Gull, died in 2001.

Survivors include two sons, Evan, of Aspen, Colo., and Thomas, of 
Rockville; two daughters, Marilyn Taggart of Gaysville, Vt., and Janet 
Baxter of Cheverly; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.


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