The University of Kansas

Nadine R. Oatman
Nadine R. Oatman, 82, Overland Park, died Oct. 19 at Olathe Medical Center. She was a hospital administrator for the KU Medical Center. She retired in 1983 after 22 years of service. Nadine was very proud of her genealogy research and her contributions to the Johnson County Historical Society.

Frank Ransom Strong
Frank Ransom Strong died Oct. 12 at Somerset Nursing Center in Prairie Village. He was born April 4, 1908, in Lawrence to former KU Chancellor Frank Strong and Mary Ransom Strong. Strong taught as a visiting professor at many leading law schools, including the University of Kansas. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in spring 1929.
Strong began his career at the University of Iowa. Later he moved to Ohio State University, where, except for a period as a civilian lawyer for the Department of the Navy, he served for more than 25 years. The final 13 of those years he was dean of the College of Law.

Following his resignation from the deanship in 1965, Frank accepted an appointment as the Boshamer distinguished professor of law at the University of North Carolina. He served in that position until his retirement in 1976.

Strong’s wife of 69 years, Gertrude Way Strong, died in November 1998. Strong established the Children’s Literature Collection in the KU School of Education as a memorial to Gertrude. He is survived by a son, John W. Strong, and daughter-in-law, Marty, of Tucson, Ariz.; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brennan, and son-in-law, Lawrence Brennan, of Overland Park; grandsons Frank Strong II and his wife, Genie, Benjamin Strong and his wife, Chrissie, and Mark Brennan and his wife, Pattie; and a granddaughter, Laura Brennan Rooney, and her husband, John.