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Service tonight for activist Thomas Jordan
A memorial service will be held tonight for Thomas F. Jordan, who helped create social services for children and the elderly in Tucson.
Mr. Jordan, who was recognized with the Tucson Chamber of Commerce’s Founder’s Award in February, died Friday of natural causes. He was 86.
Mr. Jordan moved to Tucson with his family in 1954, leaving a position as assistant dean of education at Fordham University in New York City.
He served as director of the Mayor’s Council on Human Relations in Tucson and later headed the Tucson Community Council, helping to establish many of the city’s social services programs.
Mel Jordan remembers his father’s service to the community and commitment to his family.
”He was a very caring husband and father, and for a long time an educator,” Mel Jordan said today. ”He was a man of great integrity, who was very responsible.
”And he was witty. Most people in the community will probably remember his wit.”
Mr. Jordan was preceded in death by his wife, Clorinda, and two children, son Barry and daughter Christina.
He is survived by his sister, Mary Flanigan; sons Mel and Hilary Jordan; daughters Denise Arnold and Maria Brooks; and nine grandchildren.
A visitation will be held today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Evergreen Mortuary, 3015 N. Oracle Road. A recitation of the rosary will begin at 7 p.m.
Tomorrow a funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 5150 N. Valley View Road.
The family requests that donations in Mr. Jordan’s name be sent to Child and Family Resources, 1030 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, 85711, or the Pima Council on Aging, 5055 E. Broadway, Tucson 85711.
(Dated Mar 27, 2000)
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Lucile Juliani, 101, symphony nurturer
Lucile Juliani, the daughter of Arizona pioneers who helped her Italian immigrant husband raise the curtain on a new era in the cultural life of the Old Pueblo by starting the Tucson Symphony, died late Tuesday at her home in Tucson.
Plagued by poor health as a child, she lived to be 101.
Son Gerald Juliani said it was ironic a woman who was considered ”a sickly child” lived a full life that lasted longer than the 20th century. He attributed his mother’s longevity to her positive outlook.
”She had a very optimistic view of life,” he said. ”She enjoyed life. She lived for every day.”
According to family members, Mrs. Juliani died of natural causes after a brief period of failing health.
”She was playing bridge twice a week up to three months ago,” her son said.
In a life that spanned three centuries, Mrs. Juliani was a teen when Arizona became a state.
She rode horses, made her own soap and, as a Red Cross volunteer in World War I, tended to the wounded veteran who would become her husband and the father of her three children.
But it is with the Tucson Symphony that Mrs. Juliani’s name will forever be linked.
Through her involvement with the Tucson Symphony Women’s Association, Mrs. Juliani dedicated much of her life to nurturing the fledgling group of musicians brought together by her husband, Harry, and other members of the community in 1928.
Mrs. Juliani’s early behind-the-scene efforts at selling tickets, preparing programs and raising money are widely credited with securing for the symphony a permanent place in Tucson’s cultural landscape.
”Tucson wouldn’t be the same without someone like Lucile Juliani,” said Shirley J. Chann, a longtime symphony supporter who has served as president of the organization’s board of directors.
”She was absolutely amazing.”
Sandy Goodsite, a past president of the symphony and the women’s association, called Mrs. Juliani a ”remarkable role model” for Tucson music lovers. She said Mrs. Juliani worked tirelessly for a cause she believed in and, by doing so, came to embody the symphony.
”She is a wonderful example of how one or two people can really make a difference in a community,” Goodsite said.
Known as ”Granny” to her six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, Lucile Juliani was born in Waycross, Ga., Dec. 14, 1898. Her father, Oswald Budd, was part of ”a proud but broke” family from Charleston, S.C., whose fortunes were decimated by the Civil War, Gerald Juliani said.
The family lived in Santa Fe before Budd, a traveling auditor for a railroad, moved his wife, Ida, and four daughters to Prescott, the territorial capital of Arizona and New Mexico, in 1907. The Western movie actor Tom Mix was a neighbor.
It was there she was to meet her future husband.
Harry Orestes Juliani, a music-loving immigrant from Italy who volunteered to fight for his adopted country at the outbreak of World War I, was sent to Arizona after he was gassed by the Germans in France. He lost a lung and was not expected to live. The dry desert air was supposed to make his final days easier.
But, according to grandson Thomas Juliani of Tucson, young Lucile Budd had a different plan. Working as a Red Cross volunteer at Prescott’s Fort Whipple, she took the injured vet on a picnic. They grilled steaks and ”something happened,” Juliani said. ”His will to live grew.”
Harry and Lucile Juliani were married in 1921. They moved to Tucson in 1923, when Harry Juliani enrolled at the University of Arizona Law School.
The Tucson attorney was a founder of the Tucson Symphony, playing double bass.
The couple moved to Oceanside, Calif., after World War II.
Harry Juliani died in 1958, and three years later Mrs. Juliani returned to Tucson.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Juliani was predeceased by her daughters, Sibyl Juliani Ellinwood and Nancy Juliani Silverman; and her sisters, Evelyn Merritt, May Morrison and Leslie Russell.
A memorial for Lucile Juliani will be held at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., on Tuesday. The service will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Donations may be made in her memory to the Juliani Fund of the Tucson Symphony or to the St. Philip’s Music Program.
(Dated Mar 23, 2000)
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UA’s Larry C. Clark led cancer breakthrough
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday for a University of Arizona professor internationally known for his work in understanding the role of selenium in preventing cancer.
Larry C. Clark, 51, died Monday of complications related to prostate cancer, one of several cancers he spent a lifetime trying to eliminate.
The service, which is open to the public, will be held in Duval Auditorium at University Medical Center.
Mr. Clark directed the Nutritional Prevention of Cancer Projects in Selenium at the Arizona Cancer Center. His work focused on the potential health benefits of the trace mineral and powerful antioxidant.
His Cancer Center colleague Dr. David Alberts said he could sum up Mr. Clark in four works: ”He was a genius.”
A study Mr. Clark and others published in December 1996 in the Journal of the American Medical Association was the first evidence nutritional supplementation with selenium may reduce the incidence of prostate, lung and colon cancers.
People taking selenium supplements over a 10-year period suffered 63 percent fewer prostate cancers, 58 percent fewer colon cancer and 46 percent fewer lung cancers.
Furthermore, people in the selenium group experienced 37 percent fewer total cancers and 50 percent fewer deaths from cancer overall than did the placebo group.
The results were so exciting scientists halted the study two years early in order to release the results. ”I think it offers a lot of hope, because it really is the first realization of the potential for preventing cancer with nutrition,” Mr. Clark told a Tucson Citizen reporter at the time.
A second article that recognized selenium’s potential for reducing prostate cancer risk was published in the British Journal of Urology in 1998.
Subsequent studies by others showed the mineral may protect against breast cancer.
Mr. Clark’s most recent research involved three complementary clinical trials of selenium and prostate cancer prevention and progression.
”He was the absolute leader in developing selenium as a cancer prevention agent, a world leader. His dedication to that cause is unparalleled,” said Alberts, associate dean for research for the UA College of Medicine. ”His whole academic career was focused on developing this particular nutrient. It appears that he was absolutely on target. His primary study revealed a phenomenal evidence of activity for not just one cancer but all cancers.”
Alberts said an episode near the end of Mr. Clark’s life demonstrated the extent of his commitment.
Mr. Clark literally rose up from his sick bed Feb. 21 to attend a site visit by the National Institutes for Health, which is considering a UA grant request for another study on selenium and colon cancer, Alberts said. The visits play a critical role in whether a study is funded.
”That was sort of his last hurrah,” Alberts said. ”He went home and he really never got out of bed again so it just shows what incredible dedication he had.”
”He will be dearly missed as a colleague.”
That Mr. Clark died of prostate cancer after his groundbreaking work was ”one of life’s ironies, to say the least,” Alberts said. He said Mr. Clark took selenium as part of his treatment. He couldn’t say for certain it helped, but Mr. Clark ”had a very prolonged remission considering how severe his cancer was at diagnosis (in the mid-1990s).”
Before joining the UA faculty in 1987, Mr. Clark was an assistant professor of epidemiology at Cornell University.
He received the Pioneer Science Award in October 1997 from the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation for his research on selenium and human cancer.
Last October he was featured on the cover of Cancer Research in recognition of the importance of his joint research in selenium and cancer prevention with colleagues B.D. Reddy, K. El-Bayoumy and E.S. Fiala.
The author of 29 journal articles, Mr. Clark was a member of the Quality of Natural Medicine Advisory Council and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Program in 1995.
Mr. Clark is survived by his wife, Louanne, and daughter, Julia. The family has requested memorial gifts be made to the Julia Cynthia Clark Educational Fund through Bank One, 2121 W. Grant Road, Tucson, Ariz. 85745; or the Larry Clark Memorial Fund at the Arizona Cancer Center, P.O. Box 245013, Tucson, Ariz. 85724-5013.
(Dated Mar 23, 2000)
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Metaphysical poet-educator Jeremy Ingalls dead at 88
• The author of epic poem ‘Tahl’ made Tucson her home for 40 years.
A funeral service is scheduled Wednesday for Jeremy Ingalls, an internationally renowned poet who lived in Tucson for 40 years.
Ms. Ingalls, who never fully recovered from a broken hip, died here Thursday, longtime companion Dearing Lewis said. She was 88.
Ms. Ingalls’ metaphysical poetry won the admiration of the intellectual community, said friend Howard Nadel, who worked with Ingalls when she taught at Rockford College in Illinois.
Nadel recalled a conversation between author Stephen Vincent Benét and playwright Thornton Wilder.
Benet said, ”Ingalls is one of the best metaphysical poets to come along in quite a while . . . metaphysical poets don’t grow on every bush,” Nadel recalled.
Ms. Ingalls was born on April 2, 1911, in Gloucester, Mass. Perhaps her best-known work is ”Tahl,” an epic poem.
Winning a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship for exceptional promise in her work enabled Ingalls to finish ”Tahl,” Lewis said.
”She was a very outreaching, enthusiastic person and a very disciplined person,” Lewis said. ”She was intensive in everything she did and enthusiastic both as a writer and a teacher.”
Ms. Ingalls was a guest lecturer at more than 50 colleges and universities in the United States and Asia, Lewis said.
As a professor, Lewis said, Ingalls taught her students to strive for excellence.
”She induced her students to believe they could do much better than they had any idea they could do, and they did it,” Lewis said.
Nadel, who knew Ingalls for 18 years, said, ”Jeremy had a powerful impact on everyone she met because she was warm, human and literate.”
Ms. Ingalls is survived by Lewis and her son, Yong-Ho Choi, a Korean history professor at the University of Hawaii.
The service will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 545 S. Fifth Ave.
(Dated Mar 20, 2000)
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