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A.A. Sommer Jr.
Bethesda, Md. - A.A. Sommer Jr., a former Cleveland lawyer and past chairman of the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, died Monday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 77.
The former Beachwood resident was a past president of the Citizens League and the Welfare Federation. He practiced law for 23 years with what is now the Calfee Halter & Griswold law firm in Cleveland before he was appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1973.
After leaving the SEC in 1976, Sommer remained in the Washington, D.C., area and returned to practicing law.
From 1986 to 1999, he headed the AICPA Public Oversight Board. The AICPA presented him with its Gold Medal in 2000.
Sommer, who was born in Portsmouth in southern Ohio, served with the Army in Europe during World War II. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1948 and from Harvard Law School in 1950.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Storrow; daughters, Susan Sommer Futter of Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and Nancy Sommer Gariepy of Vienna, Va.; a son, Edward, of Wilmette, Ill.; seven grandchildren; and a sister.
Services will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, 6900 River Rd., Bethesda.
Donations may be made to the Cognitive Neuropharmacology Unit, 6410 Rockledge Dr., Suite 600, Bethesda, Md. 20817.
Pumphrey Funeral Home of Bethesda is in charge of arrangements.
01/19/02
Dr. James B. Stewart
Cincinnati - Dr. James B. Stewart, whose family estimates he handled 200, 000 office visits in his career as a pediatrician, died Monday at a retirement community here.
Dr. Stewart, 86, established a practice in South Euclid in 1946. For most of his career, his office was in the Maywood Medical Building. In the late 1970s, he moved his practice to Willoughby. He retired in 1984.
"He loved kids. He loved to help people, " said his son, Dr. William J. Stewart of Beachwood, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. "He was somebody with the ability to relate to people. He loved to get down on the floor with the kids."
Dr. Stewart's son said a tribute to his father's skill was that so many of the children he cared for later brought their own children to him.
Dr. Stewart did his undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska and graduated from the University of Chicago Medical School. After an internship in Detroit, he did his residency at Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland from 1942-43.
He met his future wife, Virginia Horton, while a resident. Virginia was studying social work.
The couple lived first on E. 74th St. in Cleveland, then on Edison Rd. in Cleveland Heights and Marian Dr. in Lyndhurst. Eventually, Dr. Stewart and his wife moved to Willoughby Hills. They moved to Cincinnati recently as Dr. Stewart's health failed. He was a heavy smoker, and died of emphysema.
Dr. Stewart was an Air Force veteran, serving as a doctor during World War II. For some time he was stationed on the island of Guam.
He loved family vacations, bird watching, and camping.
In addition to his wife and son, survivors include son Jack of New Hope, Pa.; daughter Bet of Cincinnati; and four grandchildren.
Services are today at 9 a.m. at the Memorial Mausoleum Chapel of Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati.
Donations may be made to the American Lung Association.
01/19/02
Gerald Cockerill, served on City Council
North Royalton - Gerald Charles Ivan Cockerill, whose wide-ranging experiences included designing weapons used by Americans during World War II, running a farm and serving on City Council, died on Monday at Patrician Nursing Home.
Cockerill, 92, was born and educated in the central states but found his way to Sandusky in 1934 to work for the Holland-Rieger Manufacturing Co. He was director of engineering for Apex Electrical Manufacturing Co. in Cleveland from 1943 to 1950. During some of that time, Apex made machine guns for the war effort.
In 1946, Cockerill brought his parents from Independence, Mo., to North Royalton after acquiring a farm on State Rd. at the southern end of the community. Cockerill's son, Gerald of Toronto recalls, "We farmed 200 acres. We had Hereford cattle, show cattle and show horses."
The farm was operated by Gerald and his grandparents from 1950 to 1966 after Apex transferred Cockerill to Canada. He returned to Cleveland in 1966 as vice president of Frantz Industries, a plastics division of Apex. He retired in 1981.
By then, the family was selling chunks of the farm. They still retain 5 acres and the home built in 1845.
Cockerill served on council from 1982 to 1987. The man who knocked him out of his Ward 6 seat was Edward McGrath. McGrath would strike up a friendship with the man he beat.
"We shared a common birthday. Mine is Sept. 7, and his was Sept. 9. We used to meet on Sept. 8, " said McGrath, who is now council president. "Mr. Cockerill was not a rubber stamp, from what I knew. He was his own person and served the community well."
Involvement with the city did not end with Cockerill's time on council. He was active with the city's historical society until his death. He was also a member of North Royalton United Methodist Church, the Winemakers Association and several kennel clubs.
Also surviving are his wife, Judy, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today in United Methodist Church, 13601 Ridge Rd.
Contributions can be made to:
The Alzheimer's Association, 12200 Fairhill Rd., Cleveland 44120.
The Animal Protective League, 1729 Willey Ave., Cleveland 44113.
Babitt Funeral Home in North Royalton is handling arrangements.
01/19/02
Jeanne F. McGivern
Westlake - Jeanne F. McGivern, a former registered nurse, founder of the Western Reserve Poodle Club and past secretary of the Cleveland Women's Golf Association, died Monday at St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake.
The 94-year-old Westlake resident belonged to the Western Reserve Kennel Club and Los Caballeros of Cleveland. She raised miniature and toy poodles, showed horses and played polo with a women's league.
McGivern helped start two bowling leagues at the Pine Ridge Country Club in Willowick and was a past secretary of the Interclub Bowling League.
The Cleveland native, whose maiden name was Hopkins, lived in Lakewood, Gates Mills, University Heights and Strongsville before moving to Westlake four years ago.
She studied nursing at St. John's Hospital and at one time worked as a registered nurse at the National Carbon company. She volunteered with the American Red Cross bloodmobile and Cleveland Sight Center reading program.
Her husband, Bernard E., is deceased.
McGivern is survived by sons, Bernard Jr. of Staten Island, N.Y., James W. of San Mateo, Calif., and Patrick F. of Honolulu; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a sister.
Services were Thursday.
Donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 12200 Fairhill Rd., Cleveland 44120.
Arrangements are by the Busch-Burmeister Family Chapel, 32000 Detroit Rd., Avon.
01/19/02
Marjorie Hyslop, data storage pioneer
Olmsted Falls - A memorial service for Marjorie R. Hyslop, a pioneer in the development of computer-based information storage, will be at 2 p.m. today in Baldwin-Wallace College's Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front St., Berea.
Hyslop, 93, died Jan. 2 at her home in Olmsted Falls.
She became the first woman to receive a degree in metallurgy from Ohio State University, in 1930, and worked for the American Society for Metals for the next 40 years. She developed the widely recognized Metallurgical Literature Classification System that was adopted as standard in 1950. Five years later she collaborated with Western Reserve University to develop a way to use the classification system for computer searching.
Hyslop edited the AMS Review of Metal Literature and was the director of metals information when she retired from the Society for Metals in 1970. She then abstracted literature information for the Copper Development Association for the next 25 years. She indexed many metallurgical books and was given the H.W. Wilson Co. Indexing Award in 1985.
Also in retirement, Hyslop volunteered with the Red Cross. She was chairwoman of volunteers for the Geauga County Branch of the Cleveland Red Cross before she moved to Westlake. There she became president of the Cleveland West Chapter of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, a support group.
She was a fellow of ASM International. She received the Professional Award of the Special Libraries Association and the Wilson Award of the American Society of Indexers. She was given an honorary fellowship in the International Federation of Abstracting and Information Services and was past national secretary of the American Society for Information Science.
Hyslop was born Marjorie Rud in Cleveland. She was valedictorian of her West High School class and received Phi Beta Kappa honors at Ohio State.
Her husband, John, died in 1973.
Hyslop is survived by nieces, Dorothy Cowell of Bay Village, Claire Ernhart of Strongsville and Shirley Nowak of Medina.
Hyslop asked that her body be donated to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Memorial donations may be made to:
The Marjorie Hyslop Memorial Fund, Ohio State University, Room 113, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus 43210.
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, P.O. Box 79115, Baltimore, Md. 211279-1115.
01/19/02
Dr. Victor M. Victoroff, psychiatrist
Cleveland Heights - Dr. Victor M. Victoroff, Cleveland psychiatrist, suicide-prevention expert and state mental health department reformer, died yesterday at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights.
The 84-year-old Cleveland Heights resident, who was associated with several Greater Cleveland hospitals during his career, headed the psychiatry department at Huron Hospital from the early 1970s to the 1990s.
As president of the Ohio Psychiatric Association in the late 1960s, Victoroff was an outspoken advocate for separating the mental health and penal divisions of what was then the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction. He blamed the combined agency for the state's low national ranking in the care and treatment of the mentally ill.
Gov. John J. Gilligan, who shared his views, appointed Victoroff to head the Ohio Citizens Task Force on Mental Health and Mental Retar dation in 1971.
From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, Victo roff lectured to high school and college students, edu cators, minis ters, police of ficers and other groups on suicide prevention. His slide-show presentations were graphic, showing corpses with slit throats, slashed wrists and gunshot wounds in an effort to bring the reality of suicide to his audiences. He developed a course to help physicians recognize suicidal tendencies.
In the 1960s, Victoroff began collecting statistics on suicides and suicidal patients admitted to hospital emergency wards. His book, "The Suicidal Patient: Recognition, Intervention, Management, " was published in 1983.
In an interview with former Plain Dealer book editor Walter Berkov, he spoke about his childhood recollection of a woman falling to her death on a street near his home in the Bronx, N.Y., where he was playing stickball. Victoroff cited the woman's suicide as being partially responsible for his personal crusade to prevent what he called "vandalism against life."
Victoroff, who was born in Jersey City, N.J., earned a medical degree from New York University College of Medicine in 1944 and served his internship at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital.
He first came to Cleveland in 1945 as an Army doctor assigned at Crile Hospital. He was transferred to Camp Chaffee, Ark., and served at Fort Dix, N.J., before returning to Cleveland in 1947 to begin his career as a psychiatrist.
Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Elaine; sons, Mark Vlosky of Broomfield, Colo., Michael of Littleton, Colo., Jeffrey of Redondo Beach, Calif., Gregory of Pacific Palisades, Calif., Brian of Chagrin Falls and Joshua of Cleveland Heights; a daughter, Debra of New York City; 11 grandchildren; and a sister.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights.
01/23/02
