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Dr. Robert Lorey
Dr. Robert Lorey, whose career with the School of Dentistry spanned nearly 50 years, died after a short illness Feb. 18, 2004 at Heartland Healthcare Center, where she had resided since January 1999.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980, Mrs. Youtie is survived by a sister, Mary Canberg of West Nyack, N.Y. A memorial service is planned for 5:30 p.m. March 17 in the Special Collections Library, 711 Hatcher Graduate Library. Call (734) 764-9377 for more information.
Louise Canberg Youtie
Louise Canberg Youtie, 94, born Aug. 30, 1909, in Grand Rapids, the eldest daughter of Oscar and Mabel (Sweet) Canberg. Long associated with U-M, she finished her bachelor's degree here in 1932 and her master's degree the following year.
After her marriage to U-M Professor of Classics Herbert Youtie in 1934, she became a constant and tireless worker in Michigan's Papyrology Collection.
At first her husband's research assistant, she gradually undertook an increasing number of projects on her own, publishing texts of documentary papyri and offering corrections for already published texts.
Her last publication was in 1996, "The Michigan Medical Codex." It was an edition with translations from the original Greek, together with extensive commentaries, of a fragmentary medical book copied on papyrus in Egypt in the fourth century A.D.
died March 15, 2004.
She was married in 1955 in Zurich and embarked on an academic career, starting with a Fulbright Fellowship in Copenhagen, 1955-56. They had four children: Marc, born in Berkeley; Yan, born in Ann Arbor.
The couple came to Ann Arbor and the U-M Sociology Department in 1964; they have been here since, with much travel abroad. In Ann Arbor Mrs. Ness was known as a culinary artist and gracious hostess to faculty, students and scores of visitors.
Mrs. Ness is survived by her husband and children, four grandchildren (Eliot and Mallory Ness, and Sophia and Blake Layton), and an aunt, uncle and cousins in France. Intelligent, witty, creative and intellectual, she will be sorely missed. A memorial service was held March 18. In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to Arbor Hospice, 2366 Oak Valley Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48103.
Gerome Kamrowski
A teacher of art at U-M for 38 years, Gerome Kamrowski-professor emeritus of art and nationally renowned early artist of the surrealist movement-died at his home in Ann Arbor, March 27, 2004. He was 90.
An example of Gerome Kamrowski's works, from a 1999 display at the Residential College entitled "Gerome Kamrowski-A Visual Journey." Kamrowski, professor emeritus of art, was a surrealist painter who created three-dimensional works later in his life. (Photo by Bill Wood, U-M Photo Services (file photo))
"As a teacher, Professor Kamrowski admonished his students to experiment and push the boundaries of their art. He urged them to be unafraid of failure and consider it a natural part of the creative process," says Jon Rush, professor of art in the School of Art & Design. "Above all, he stressed the importance of finding one's own path and that it would take hard work and dedication to achieve that. He was a natural teacher who related well to students because he himself never stopped being one."
A Minnesota native, Kamrowski moved early in his career to New York, where he worked with a group of abstract artists, including Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell.
While his works have been shown in noted venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, Whitney, Hirshorn and Metropolitan museums, Kamrowski's art also can be seen in the Joe Louis Arena station of the Detroit People Mover.
Last summer the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) mounted a retrospective exhibit that encompassed works from the 1930s to 2003, ranging from landscape paintings in the abstract expressionist style to geometrically inspired, landscape-themed mosaics from 2002. In the 1940s, Kamrowski began using animal imagery in brightly colored sculptural pieces representing hybrid animal forms, often incorporating beads, baubles and metal parts.
"Whimsical and energetic, mysterious and sublime, the work of Ann Arbor artist Gerome Kamrowski has been characterized in many different ways," says Sean Ulmer, curator of modern and contemporary art at UMMA. "Constantly challenging himself as well as his viewer, Kamrowski (was) engaged in a lifelong search for new and exciting ways to represent the themes that interested him. This has made it challenging to categorize or classify his work in art historical terms, but it has helped ensure its freshness and vitality."
Ted Ramsay, professor of art, remembers that, as a young faculty member at the University, he drove Kamrowski to New York City in a well-worn station wagon with a large alarm clock taped to the dash. "We had everything we needed for the trip: food, beverage, clothes, but after getting underway, we realized that we had no maps.
"Toward dusk, we arrived in South Orange, N.J., and after much navigating pulled up in front of a stately old home with tall grass growing in the front yard. Our host had been expecting us and rushed out, hugged Gerry and then myself, and invited us in for something to drink before going to bed. Grabbing my overnight bag and Gerry's, I entered into a series of large rooms devoid of furnishings, but housing many maquette studies of future sculpture on pedestals and the floor.
"We were ushered into one very huge room with a large table covered with a blue oilcloth and equipped with four chairs. Looming in a darkened corner opposite the table stood a huge refrigerator filled with bottles. Thus began an evening of listening to Gerry and our host, Tony Smith, the famous American sculptor of 'Gracehopper' on the DIA lawn among other works, talk about New York and their experiences as artists working in the city.
"The next morning, as we were preparing to leave for NYC to gallery hop, I remembered that we had no maps, and so I inquired about directions into the city. Tony quickly responded, 'Just follow the fruit trucks!' After navigating several blocks, Gerry spied a long line of slow moving trucks flowing in an easterly direction. He smiled and waved to one of the drivers, and we merged in behind a large stake truck belching blue exhaust, and we were on our way ... the Kamrowski way."
Kamrowski became professor emeritus in 1984, the same year the Michigan Foundation for the Arts honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The School of Art & Design says there are no plans for a memorial service at this time.
