[Sighfis-l] More re Gerry Sophar, former ASIS&T President, passes away

[Richard Hill]

Here are the funeral details for our Gerry Sophar.  Visitation will be at
the Pumphrey funeral home in Bethesda on Dec 5th from 3:00-5:00 and
7:00-9:00.  A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Dec 6 at the
Leisure World Interfaith Chapel.  Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery
with full military honors at a later date.  The addresses are:

Pumphrey funeral home
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
7557 Wisconsin Ave
Behthesda, Maryland
301-652-2200

Leisure World Interfaith Chapel
3680 South Leisure World Blvd.
Silver Spring, MD  20906
Office:  301-598-5312

Memorial contributions may be made to 

Habitat for Humanity, 1211 Habitat St., Americus, GA  31709-3498
or 
Southern Poverty Law Center, 400 Washington St., Montgomery, AL  36104


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Gerry Sophar, President of ASIS in 1961, winner of the Watson Davis Award in
1976, passed away on Saturday, December 1, 2007

Funeral plans are not decided. Interment will be at the Veterans cemetery in
Upper Marlboro, Maryland.  The choice of funeral home has not been
finalized.

As the brief note in the History of Information Science Pioneers says, Gerry
"understood how organizations functioned and realized early that
documentation was a social science. He helped settle editorial crises at
American Documentation and brought it back under the control of the ADI"
(American Documentation Institute, now ASIS&T). 

Gerry had long interests in rural information services and copyright issues,
writing, with Larry Heilprin, another former ASIS&T President, "The
determination of legal facts and economic guideposts with respect to the
dissemination of scientific and educational information as it is affected by
copyright.: a status report [December 1967, NTIS PB 178463.  Washington,
D.C. U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research.]

Dick Hill
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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900