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IN MEMORY

Robert Berkeley Green

Robert Berkeley Green, 1909-2007. Self-portrait, 1960, watercolor, graphite. Gift of Robert and Miriam Green, to the Spencer Museum of Art.

Robert Berkeley Green, 97, died Feb. 5. He was an assistant professor of drawing and painting for 33 years. Survivors include two sons, a stepdaughter, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Good Samaritan Fund at Presbyterian Manor, sent in care of Warren McElwain Mortuary.

Mary Allen

Mary Allen, 96, died Feb. 5. She taught freshman English from 1968 to 1969. She founded the Dickens Readers Society and was a docent at the Spencer Museum of Art. Her husband, the late Ethan Allen, was a professor and chair of political science at KU.

Survivors include two daughters. The family suggests memorials to the Ethan P. Allen Pi Sigma Alpha scholarship fund at KU, United Methodist Church of Grand River, Iowa or a charity of the donor's choice, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

NOTABLE ALUMS

Alumnus George Brown blazed a new trail in American politics. Brown was the first African-American elected lieutenant governor in the United States (1974) and first African-American elected to statewide office in Colorado.