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Services tomorrow for St.
Gregory’s Howard Zeskind
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Howard Zeskind, one of the founding faculty of St. Gregory College Preparatory School.
Mr. Zeskind, assistant headmaster at St. Gregory, died of a heart attack Sunday.
He was 51 and had not been ill, so his death stunned his family, friends and past and present St. Gregory students.
”This is a very hard week for us,” said headmaster Donald Nickerson. ”It’s a shock.”
He said Mr. Zeskind played golf Saturday and hosted a dinner party at his home that evening.
”He was fine.”
Nickerson said the school has been inundated with phone calls from students and alumni.
”He was a wonderful academic adviser to the students,” he said.
He was patient, thoughtful, warm and ”a very good listener to kids,” Nickerson said.
One of Mr. Zeskind’s finest accomplishments, he said, was to lead a national recruiting effort to find outstanding teachers.
Mr. Zeskind was born Aug. 13, 1945, in Baltimore. An avid golfer, tennis player and sportsman, he attended Brown University, where he was All Ivy League in lacrosse. He earned his graduate degree at the University of Sussex in England.
He taught at private schools in the East before coming to Tucson in 1979. He and three others made up the master planning team for St. Gregory, which opened at 3231 N. Craycroft Road in 1980.
”It started in a ranch house with 47 students,” Nickerson said.
Mr. Zeskind is survived by his wife, Lorraine Glazar; sons Peter, 9, and Teddy, 6; his mother, Helen Zeskind of Baltimore; and brother, Robert Zeskind, also of Baltimore.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m today at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Road.
The funeral and burial will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at East Lawn.
The family asks that memorial donations be made in Mr. Zeskind’s name to the scholarship fund at St. Gregory.
Nickerson also noted that many people have expressed concern for Mr. Zeskind’s two young children and that the school is establishing a Howard Zeskind children’s fund.
(Dated Jun 18, 1997)
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Funeral tomorrow for Mary McLeod
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mary L. McLeod, who taught music at the St. Michael & All Angels Church’s Parish Day School for some 20 years.
Mrs. McLeod died in her Tucson home after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 70.
She also gave private piano lessons and was involved with the Tucson Music Teachers Association, said her daughter, Phyllis Ripley of Tucson.
Mrs. McLeod was born in Pittsfield, Maine. She attended Boston University from 1945 to 1947. At the university, she met her husband, George C. McLeod, a former editor at the Tucson Citizen, who died in 1975.
The couple married in Massachusetts in 1948 and moved to Bisbee four years later.
In 1953, the family moved to Tucson.
From the early 1960s to 1984, Mrs. McLeod taught music at Parish Day School.
”She influenced many people through her music and generosity,” her daughter said.
”She was dignified, gentle and a quiet person,” Ripley said. ”She was extremely courageous and had phenomenal faith.”
Ripley said her mother’s hobby, other than music, was ”picking the kids (grandchildren) up at school and going to get ice cream.”
Mrs. McLeod taught hundreds of youths to play piano, including her own children and grandchildren.
”Her focus was family, music and church,” Phyllis Ripley said.
Mrs. McLeod is survived by Ripley and son-in-law Tom Ripley of Tucson; a son, George B. McLeod of Tucson; a sister, Marion Hutchinson of DuBois, Pa.; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. at St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N. Wilmot Road.
Burial, in the churchyard, will follow the services.
The family asks that remembrances be made to the St. Michael & All Angels Organ and discretionary funds or the St. Michael’s School Scholarship Program.
(Dated Jun 20, 1997)
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Col. Richard Beaudry praised as poet, ‘brilliant man’
A memorial service will be held tomorrow for retired Army Col. Richard Charles Beaudry, 77, a Tucsonan since 1970 who served in three wars. He died Sunday.
The 11 a.m. service will be at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave.
Col. Beaudry was an Army pilot, poet, professor, psychologist and ordained minister.
”He was a brilliant man,” his daughter, Aurelia Jo De Bolt, said yesterday. ”He was very well-rounded. His poetry was a gift that was unbelievable.”
She said her father was always troubled by the killing that was necessary in war.
One of his poems described how he began shooting a BB gun when he was 5. By 19, he had shot a man in war.
”I have been to war for all of you on your behalf, so that you can have peace and security,” De Bolt said one of her father’s poem went. ”I just want you to know that war is my profession, and killing is not.”
Col. Beaudry was a young man at West Point’s preparatory school when he proposed – for the seventh time – to his future wife, Barbara. She accepted, and they were married for 57 years.
”He was very cocky and very handsome, and she was very beautiful and very reserved,” their daughter said. ”She ran away from him until she caught him.”
Col. Beaudry left West Point after he married and joined the Army Air Corps. He was a pilot with the American Volunteer Group – the Flying Tigers – in World War II, flying over China, India and Burma. He parachuted behind enemy lines in China, and received a Purple Heart when he was injured by mustard gas.
He received a second Purple Heart during the Korean War, and received two Bronze Stars and a Joint Service Commendation Medal during his military career.
He worked in intelligence and covert operations during the Vietnam War, reporting to President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
Col. Beaudry also worked for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the State Department.
He moved to Tucson in 1970 at the request of his brother, Mack, who wanted the family to be together. Mack Beaudry founded Beaudry Motors in Tucson.
In addition to his daughter and his wife, Col. Beaudry’s survivors include grandchildren Richard Charles De Bolt of Washington state and Baroness Catherine Victoria von Bectolsheim of Germany.
(Dated Jun 25, 1997)
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Area cartoonist was ‘Renaissance man’
Gabriel Donnadieu, who worked for the Green Valley News, published two books.
Gabriel Donnadieu, a cartoonist for the Green Valley News & Sun since 1987, died Thursday of lung cancer at Tucson Medical Center. He was 51.
Mr. Donnadieu, a self-taught artist who worked under the pen name Mendenhall, also had published a collection of cartoons on the physical laws of the cat world and an unemployment insurance guidebook for employers.
Such diverse topics do not seem unusual for a man whose widow described him as ”an all-around renaissance guy.”
”He was interested in everything,” Mary Donnadieu said.
His hobbies ranged from martial arts and history to learning Japanese, German and French, she said.
She noted his obituary in the Green Valley newspaper, which quoted his co-workers as saying he had an ”encyclopedic knowledge” on almost any subject.
Mr. Donnadieu was working as an adviser on unemployment insurance to companies when he started drawing while bedridden for more than six weeks because of surgery complications.
He later submitted some of his work to the Green Valley News & Sun.
In 1987, the Green Valley newspaper began running Mr. Donnadieu’s editorial cartoons occasionally and later his businessoriented panel called ”Business as Usual.”
”Cat Physics,” a book of 50 cartoons taking a humorous look at feline behavior, was published in 1993, after the Donnadieus observed their three cats positioning themselves on the corners of their bed equidistant from each other.
”We determined it was a law of physics,” Mary said.
Another example is the ”Law of Space Occupancy,” which states: ”All bags in a given room must contain a cat within the earliest possible nanosecond.”
”Controlling Unemployment Insurance Costs,” co-written with Robert A. Schuler, followed the cat book. It was published in 1995.
Mr. Donnadieu was born May 8, 1946 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson to a family whose history in the Southwest stretches back to 1895, when his grandfather and great-uncle moved to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, from France.
There they opened The Cavern, a dry-goods store, which would later become a restaurant.
The family also operated ranches in Sonora.
Mr. Donnadieu grew up in Nogales, Ariz., and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1968 with degrees in English and political science.
He went on to work in the state unemployment insurance office, then held a position in a private company advising employers on unemployment insurance.
Mr. Donnadieu is survived by his wife, Mary; his mother, Gertrude Donnadieu of Nogales; his sister, Grace Murphy of Tucson; his niece, Michelle Murphy, and his nephew, Michael Murphy, both of Tucson.
Memorial services will be held at Beth Shalom Temple, 1751 N. Rio Mayo in Green Valley at 11 a.m. July 6.
The family requests donations in his memory be made to the Animal League of Green Valley, P.O. Box 1153, Green Valley, Ariz. 85614; Friends Indeed, 301 W. Camino Casa Verde, Green Valley, Ariz. 85614; or White Elephant Sales of Green Valley, 601 N. La Cae±ada, Green Valley, Ariz. 85614.
(Dated Jun 28, 1997)
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