Names and faces
 Carol Mangione, professor of medicine, has recently received two prestigious honors: She was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and was also selected by the Society of General Internal Medicine to receive an award for exceptional achievement in mentoring by a faculty member at mid-career. She received her award at the society’s annual meeting in New Orleans.
 Eleanor Mitchell, head of the College Library, has been named Librarian of the Year by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles. This annual award recognizes excellence in librarianship, particularly as it advances UCLA’s teaching and research missions and meets the intellectual, informational and cultural needs of the university community. Mitchell has been head of the College Library since 1995.
 Carole Pateman, professor of political science, recently received an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the National University of Ireland. She was joined by fellow honorees Sir Bob Geldof, movie director Neil Jordan and Robert Gallo, the scientist who co-discovered HIV. Last spring, Pateman served as distinguished visiting professor at the School of European Studies, Cardiff University.
 Gail Wyatt, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, was named a Woman of Distinction for 2005 by the American Association of University Women. A sex therapist in private practice, Wyatt researches the consensual and abusive sexual relationships of African-American and white women, the effects of these experiences on women’s psychological well-being and women’s risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
In Memoriam
Edward “Chip” Anderson, 63, a former lecturer in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, died of cancer July 5.
An alumnus of UCLA with a Ph.D. in education, Anderson spent 28 years at UCLA in capacities as varied as veterans’ services, student retention and counseling psychology. He joined the faculty at Azusa Pacific University in 1999 as a professor in the education doctoral studies program and was considered a leading authority on retention and advising. He remained a passionate and committed advocate of a strengths-based approach to education and wrote “StrengthsQuest: Discover and Develop Your Strengths in Academics, Career and Beyond,” with co-author Don Clifton.
Anderson was born on Feb. 15, 1942, and moved with his family to Riverside, Calif., during his high school years. He graduated from Pasadena Nazarene College, now Point Loma University, and went on to earn his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from UCLA in 1970, where he remained until his move to Azusa Pacific University in 1999.
A memorial fund, called the Chip Anderson Strengths Legacy, has been established at Azusa Pacific University. Donations can be made to: Azusa Pacific University, Center for Strengths-Based Education, 901 E. Alosta Ave., Azusa, CA 91702-7000.
Allen J. Enelow, 83, a psychiatrist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, died July 9 at his home in Santa Barbara after a long illness.
He was an advocate of doctors using psychological techniques — such as careful listening and observation — to treat patients’ physical ailments, and in 1966 co-wrote “Psychiatry in the Practice of Medicine” with Murray Wexlar. He also co-wrote the 1972 textbook “Interviewing and Patient Care” and the 1977 book “Elements of Psychotherapy,” among others.
Enelow was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and earned a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and an M.D. from the University of Louisville. He helped found the department of psychiatry at Michigan State University and headed it from 1967 to 1972. Later, while he taught at the medical schools at UCLA, USC and UC San Francisco, Enelow conducted a private practice in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Santa Barbara.
Frank Chandler Harris, 90, UCLA publicist for 43 years, died June 24 after a long illness.
Born in Neligh, Neb., on Nov. 5, 1914, Harris moved with his family to Southern California in 1928 and attended Hollywood High School. In 1931, he enrolled at UCLA and was active on campus, serving as editor of the Daily Bruin, as chair of the California Club and as a member of the student council and board of control. He joined Delta Sigma Phi, later serving as chapter president, national president (1959-63) and editor of its national magazine (1969-80).
Harris graduated from UCLA in 1936 and, after two years as editor of a trade journal, rejoined UCLA for good in 1939, covering the southern UC campuses for a nationally broadcast radio program called “University Explorer.” For the next 22 years, he also wrote for the university’s “Science Editor” and “Factfinder” radio programs. The format of the latter called for listeners to send in any question under the sun, and it was Harris’ job to dig up the answer and to explain how he found it. “That’s when I learned how to come up with the answer to the most esoteric inquiry,” recalled Harris, a talent that was to stand him in good stead when he was promoted to campus public information manager in 1961.
He moved up another notch in 1975 as director of the public information office, in charge of all UCLA media relations, the Visitors Center and related activities. Harris held this position until his retirement in 1982. Described as “a consummate gentleman and communications professional who always avoided grandstanding and backslapping,” Harris was known for his characteristic unflappability and courtesy, which earned him the deep loyalty of his staff and the profound respect of his colleagues.
Harris also served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Western Los Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, Hathaway Children’s Services, the American Youth Symphony and the UCLA Faculty Center. He was editor of a 1985 book called “Royce Hall,” and also served as a docent for the UCLA Visitors Center.
Harris is survived by his wife, Barbara; his son, Randy B. Harris; and his daughter, Victoria Williams.
Jack Hirshleifer, 79, professor of economics, died July 26 of prostate cancer at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 26, 1925, Hirshleifer served on active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1943-45. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1945 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1950, both from Harvard University, Hirshleifer worked as an economist at The RAND Corporation from 1949 to 1955. He taught at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business from 1955 to 1960 before joining the faculty of UCLA’s Department of Economics in 1960.
He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and also served as vice president of the American Economic Association, as president of the Western Economic Association, and as a member of the editorial boards of the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the new Journal of Bioeconomics. In 2000, he was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Hirshleifer retired on July 1, 1991, but continued his research in the fields of investment and capital theory, political economy, bioeconomics, the economic theory of conflict, and water supply and resource economics. He completed a book and published in top journals until almost the very end.
Hirshleifer is survived by his wife, Phyllis, and his sons, John and David.
Mantle Hood, a professor of music who founded UCLA’s Institute for Ethnomusicology, died July 31 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87.
Hood traveled the world after graduating from UCLA in 1952 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music, and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1956 and created what is now the Department of Ethnomusicology in 1960.
Hood’s approach to the study of ethnomusicology involved encouraging students to learn at least two music traditions — their own and that of another culture — and to learn how to play a native instrument. He referred to this idea as bi-musicality. An expert on the music of Java and Bali, Hood played all the instruments in a gamelan, an Indonesian ensemble orchestra that consists of flutes, lutes, percussions, gongs, strings and bamboo xylophones.
Born in Springfield, Ill., Hood moved to Los Angeles with his mother in the 1930s after his father died. He was musical from an early age and learned to play piano and later the tenor saxophone, which he played in jazz clubs. After serving in the Army during World War II, Hood returned to Los Angeles in 1945 and enrolled at UCLA. As a faculty member, he wrote several books about his field, including “The Ethnomusicologist” and “Music in Indonesia.”
Hood moved from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1973 and began to write self-published novels, mostly pulp fiction set in the countries he had visited over the years. In 1980, he relocated to Ellicott City, Md., where he established an ethnomusicology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He continued teaching there until 1996.
Hood is survived by his wife, Hazel, four sons and three grandchildren.
Jeanne Williams Newsom , former assistant dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine who epitomized for many the best hallmarks of a UCLA administrator, died May 27 after battling cancer. She was 83.
“Jeanne Williams was, in a sense, the beginning of the UCLA School of Medicine,” said Sherman Mellinkoff, who served as dean of the school for 24 years. At one time Stafford Warren, the first dean, and his assistant, Williams, were the only employees of the School of Medicine. When the first students were admitted in 1951, Mellinkoff recalled, “Jeanne Williams was the administrative lynchpin for this entire operation. She had a thorough understanding of University of California customs, rules and offices — budgets, purchasing, personnel, record-keeping, all of the things underlying academic institutions.”
Born in 1921 and raised in Los Angeles, she was the daughter of an insurance salesman and a schoolteacher. She was married three times, the second time to Pittman Williams, who died in 1965. In 1986, she married Vernon Newsom. They lived in Malibu until 2003, when they moved to Thousand Oaks.
After Warren retired in 1962, she became Mellinkoff’s assistant when he became dean. “Jeanne was efficient without ever being officious. She was immensely popular and respected by faculty, staff and students,” Mellinkoff said. Mellinkoff recommended to Chancellor Franklin Murphy that she be made assistant dean of administration at the medical school. She retired from that position in 1987. “Jeanne will long be remembered for the indelible mark left on the UCLA School of Medicine — for her intelligence, integrity, honor and graciousness,” he said.
For years, administrators have received the annual Jeanne J. Williams Administrative Service Award for outstanding achievement and service. Also, deserving students receive a $10,000 fellowship, the Jeanne J. Williams UCLA Medical Center Scholarship in Basic Science.
Ruth Roemer, an adjunct professor of public health, died Aug. 1 in West Los Angeles after a brief illness. She was 89.
As a lawyer and an educator, Roemer had a profound effect on public health policies and was an effective advocate for health issues worldwide. She was instrumental in getting the World Health Organization (WHO) to launch the first international convention on tobacco control.
Born in Hartford, Conn., Roemer lost her father, a plant pathologist, at age 9 and was raised by her mother in Milford, where she told Dan Gordon, a writer for a UCLA Today story in 2002, that she felt like a radical growing up in a conservative town.
She majored in English at Cornell University, but changed her plans to teach after touring Europe with the American Student Union in 1936. “I came back knowing I had to do something relevant to the social conditions of the United States and this terrible threat of fascism in the world,” she told Gordon.
She enrolled in Cornell Law School where she competed for the position of editor of the Cornell Journal of Opinion with a fellow student, Milton Roemer, whom she married in 1939. At that time, Ruth Roemer was a labor lawyer, representing unions.
But when she returned to Cornell to work with a professor there, she worked on a landmark study that transformed laws on the admission of patients to mental hospitals and found her niche in public health.
After joining UCLA’s School of Public Health in 1962, she became an activist, taking up such controversial health issues as abortion law reform and the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. In 1993, she helped write a document that helped WHO launch the first international convention on tobacco control. She also used her legal skills to fight against discrimination of those with HIV/AIDS.
Roemer was an active faculty member for more than 40 years. When interviewed at 86, she had been teaching every quarter. At the time of her death, she was planning her classes for the fall. Her husband, Milton, also taught at the public health school and was a renowned expert on and advocate for universal health insurance and health maintenance organizations. He worked at UCLA for 38 years, until he died in 2001.
She is survived by a son, John; daughter, Beth, of Berkeley; a sister, Hilda Kahne, of Lexington, Mass.; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Contributions in her memory may be made to the Ruth Roemer Fund, c/o UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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