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Roy A. Rappaport
Roy A. Rappaport, professor of anthropology and director of the Universityıs Program on Studies in Religion, born March 25, 1926, in New York City. He enlisted in the Army at age 17 and was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded in action. He received his undergraduate degree in hotel administration from Cornell University, and then open Avaloch, a country inn across from Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. Although he eventually traded innkeeping for academia, receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966, he never lost his gift for hospitality. He truly enjoyed entertaining, and took deep pleasure in great food and conversation.
Rappaport is survived by his wife, Ann; two daughters, Amelia and Gina; and a sister, Nancy Kaufman. Memorial contributions may be made to the Ann Arbor Hillel Foundation or the Roy A. Rappaport Memorial Fund to support broad topics in anthropological research at the University.
Najaf Gholizadeh Gangei
Najaf Gholizadeh Gangei, health science research associate at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Born in Tabriz, Iran, on Dec. 31, 1929, he received his medical degree from the University of Tehran and completed a four-year residency in ophthalmology there, followed by another in otorhinolaryngology at Tabriz. He was on the Tabriz faculty for 10 years before completing two years of residency in otolaryngology at Case Western Reserve University. He returned to Tabriz as chief of otorhinolaryngology in 1972-86.
He published translations of three successive editions of DeWeese and Saunders' Textbook of Otolaryngology into Persian, as well as two volumes of his own, Noses and Sinuses: I. Anatomy and Noses and Sinuses: II. Surgery.
Joseph E. Hawkins, professor emeritus of otolaryngology, noted that while in Tabriz, Gholizadeh Gangei "despite the marked displeasure of his medical colleagues, increased the number of residents in his department from one to four per year, thus providing well-trained specialists even for small towns in Iran."
"During the war with Iraq," Hawkins says, "Gholizadeh Gangei spent two days each week providing free treatment for the ears, noses, throats and eyes of wounded soldiers. Finally, however, shocked by the execution of one of his closest friends who was a member of the Baha'i faith, he left the Ayatollah's Iran with his wife, Parvin Shakui Gholizadeh, who had received an appointment at the U-M in neuropathology, and their daughter Neda, who later received a master's degree in information technology from the U-M.
"Dr. Gholizadeh," Hawkins says, "accepted an appointment at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, and through his skill and knowledge as a histopathologist of the inner ear for some 11 years, made major contributions to its research programs."
Lyle M. Nelson
Lyle M. Nelson, former U-M vice president for university relations, born Feb. 28, 19l8, in Yamhill, Ore., and graduated from the University of Oregon.
Memorial services are pending. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fellowship in the Knight Journalism Program at Stanford.
Richard B. Brandt
Richard Booker Brandt, professor emeritus of philosophy, born Oct. 17, 1910, in Wilmington, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University in 1930. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he received a second B.A., then at Tuebingen University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1936. He taught philosophy at Swarthmore College until 1964, then assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Philosophy at the U-M, where he later was named the Roy Wood Sellars Distinguished College Professor of Philosophy.
He was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, Calif., and a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served as president of the American Philosophical Association, western division, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1974 he was selected to give the John Locke lectures at Oxford University, which were the basis for A Theory of the Good and the Right.
He is survived by two children, Richard (Gigi) Brandt of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Karen Brandt of St. Paul, Minn.; two grandchildren, Jared (Rachel) Brandt of San Francisco, Calif., and Kristen (Jim) Campbell of Davis, Calif.; and by his friend and companion Karina Niemeyer of Ann Arbor.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of South Central Michigan, P.O. Box 1713, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, or a charity of choice. A memorial service is planned for later this fall.
Edwin A. Engel
Edwin A. Engel, professor emeritus of English, born in Ottowa, Ill., in 1907. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930 and began his teaching career in Cleveland high schools. While living in Cleveland, he met and married Dorothy Simon in 1931.
He received a master's degree in theater in 1936 from Case Western Reserve University and came to the U-M to earn his Ph.D. and a subsequent faculty position.
During his years on the faculty, he taught courses in English literature, Shakespeare, modern drama and Great Books.
While an undergraduate he wrote his first play, which won a college contest and was performed at the University of Chicago. Drama remained a lifelong interest. He became the foremost authority on the works of Eugene O'Neill in 1952 when he published the first full-length study of that dramatist, titled The Haunted Heroes of Eugene O'Neill (Harvard University Press). This study appeared after a period in which O'Neill's work had received little attention, and it contributed to a resurgence of interest in the writer considered by many to be America's leading playwright. There followed numerous articles in American and European scholarly journals. In 1956, he was awarded a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Copenhagen.
After his retirement, Engel and his wife spent several years traveling in Europe and Asia. In 1987, they settled in La Jolla, Calif. As a connoisseur of fine food, he enjoyed visiting outstanding restaurants throughout the world and was himself appreciated by family and friends for his skill as a gourmet cook.
Throughout his career, he succeeded in combining his devotion to his family with his scholarly pursuits to such a degree that his children and grandchildren shared with him a love of music, art, literature, travel and the study of other cultures.
Engel is survived by his wife, Dorothy Simon Engel; sister, Elsie Katz of New York City; daughter, Judith (Stanley) Jacobs of Ann Arbor, and son, David (Jaruwan) of Amherst, N.Y.; and grandchildren, Jennifer and Natalie Jacobs of Ann Arbor, and Anya and Mark Engel of Amherst, N.Y.
