The University of Kansas

Mary Rosenbloom
Mary Rosenbloom, 43, died April 30 after suffering a brain aneurysm. She had been external relations librarian for University Libraries and had just been named interim librarian of the Gorton Music and Dance Library. She is survived by her husband, Joshua Rosenbloom, KU professor of economics; three sons, Nathan, Benjamin and Timothy; her father, four brothers and a sister. Rosenbloom suffered the aneurysm at the end of a Lawrence Civic Choir performance in which she was participating.

Bill Crowe, Spencer librarian, was one of Rosenbloom’s many friends. He described her as a woman who cared passionately about students.

“She loved working with the students,” he said. “She would help them in any way that she could.”

Crowe said Rosenbloom was a deeply devoted daughter, wife and mother to her three young sons — whom she frequently talked about.

“She loved those kids,” he said. “She was a great person, and she will be missed.”

Julia Rholes, interim dean of libraries, said Rosenbloom´s death was an enormous loss to the university and Lawrence communities. She said the department was devastated.

“Mary was a lovely, warm person,” Rholes said. “She was very full of energy and always very enthusiastic.”

She remembered Rosenbloom as a talented writer and singer.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Civic Choir or the KU Libraries, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

Carl Slough
Major Carl Slough, 82, of Topeka, former dean of the School of Law and faculty editor of the Kansas Law Review, died April 16. He married Adele Bernero on July 27, 1950. She died Dec. 31, 1995. Survivors include two sons, Jim, Lawrence, and Robert, Topeka; two sisters, Jane McCollum, Omaha, Neb., and Susan Pratt, Cincinnati; and four grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Major Carl Slough Memorial Fund, sent in care of the Piper Verschelden Funeral Home, 714 Maple, Saint Marys, 66536.