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25 SECTION1 TRIBUNE OBITUARIES Myles Brand, the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- tionpresident who is credited with helping streamline and reform the governing body of collegiate sports but is best remembered as the Indiana Universitypresi- dent who fired legendary basketball coach Bob Knight, has died. Mr. Brand, 67, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, of pancreatic cancer in his home in Indianapolis, the NCAA announced. He revealed his diagnosis during the NCAA convention in January outside Washington.

Mr. Brand continued to work during his cancer treatment, saying in a news conference at the Final Four in Detroit, work has actually made it a lot more Brand was a tireless advocate for the student- Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgiaand chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, said in a statement. he worked to ensure that the student was first in the student-athlete model. He will be greatly Mr. Brand started his tenure as the fourth executive director in 2003, after having spent 13 years as a university president.

He was president of the University of Oregon from 1989 to 1994and then at Indiana from 1994 through 2002. It was in Bloomington, where Mr. Brand drew national headlines when, in September 2000, he fired Knight, one of the most successful and controversial coaches in college basketball history. In 29 seasonsat Indiana, Knight led the Hoosiers to three national titles while running a program acclaimed for its high graduation rate and intolerance to NCAA rule-breaking. Yet fiery temper and domineering personality led to frequent run-ins with officials, players and administrators.

Mr. Brand took a stand in May 2000when he put Knight on notice after footage was released of Knight seemingly putting a brief chokehold on one his players, Neil Reed, at a 1997 practice. Instead of firing Knight, Mr. Brand imposed a edict on the coach, warning that any further incidents would lead to immediate termination. Brand also fined Knight $30,000 and suspended him for three games.

Knight accepted Mr. terms. Less than four months later, on Sept. 10, after Indiana student Kent Harvey accused Knight of grabbing his arm during a hallway confrontation, Mr. Brand fired the coach.

The incident occurred after Harvey reportedly greeted the coach with Knight, Knight said he stopped Harvey only to give him a lesson on manners. Mr. Brand called continuing behavior and and in viola- tion of the zero-tolerance agreement. this is the most difficult decision ever had to Mr. Brand said at the news conference announcing firing.

Knight is a legendary coach at a school with a legendary basketball The news made national headlines and infuriated many. Mr. Brand and his wife, Peg, a professor of philosophy and gender studies, were forced to temporarily leave the presidential house after 2,000 students protested and burned Mr. Brand in effigy. Mr.

Brand argued larger-than-life persona gave the false impression that IU was obsessed with athletics. Mr. Brand did not second-guess himself about initially allowing Knight to remain as coach. was the ethical and moral thing to Mr. Brand said at the time.

Knight has contributed almost 30 years to this university and has been successful in many ways. I believed then and continue to believe we had to give him one last After he was named executive director of the NCAA, Mr. Brand quickly moved to make user-friendly an organization criticized for its bureaucracy. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Joshua. Services are pending.

MYLES BRAND 1942-2009 Led Indiana University, NCAA Myles Brand was president of the University of Oregon before coming to Indiana in 1994. TOM PHOTO 2004 fired Bob Knight, then took the heat By Chris Dufresne TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS Helen C. Maybell Anglin was self-proclaimed whose South Side restaurants fed entertainers, politicians and regular folks drawn for decades by fried chicken and short ribs, fresh greens and sweet potato and a little conversation with their regal hostess. Mrs. Maybell Anglin, 80, died of multiple organ failure Tuesday, Sept.

8, in her daughter D-Ella home in Lansing, said another daughter, Gina Gibson- Devine. She had lived in Chatham neighborhood since 1963. An Alabama native, Mrs. Maybell Anglin got into the restaurant business in the late 1940s with her first husband, Hubert Maybell. The Cafe at 125 E.

51st St. opened with three stools, expanded to seven and eventually boasted 10 stools and a booth, Gibson-Devine said. Two years after her divorce in 1969, she opened the Soul Queen restaurant at Cermak Road and Michigan Avenue. Four years later she opened a second Soul Queen at 9031 S. Stony Island Ave.

in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, which remained in operation until earlier this year. She introduced herself as the and indeed above handling any chore that needed doing. Knowing consistency was key to a successful restaurant, she wrote down detailed recipes and procedures for her staff. you walk in this restaurant, the food should taste the same on the day shift as it does on the night she would say, according to her daughter. Born Helen Lewis in Edgewater, Mrs.

Maybell formal education ended in the 9th grade. But she was a lifelong learner, taking up foreign languages as an adult and starting piano lessons after she was 50. She put her thoughts on life together in a book called Mythical wrote a cookbook, Was and compiled information on famous people with her first name for Famous From her earliest days in business, Mrs. Maybell Anglin supported the civil rights movement and African-American community, investing early in black-owned banks and businesses, including Johnson Ebony and Jet magazines, her daughter said. Civil rights marchers could get a meal at her place, and she donated food to local soup kitchens.

Neighborhood folks dined with the high and mighty at the Soul Queen. Visitors to her restaurants over the years included boxers Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, entertainers Count Basie and Mahalia Jackson and many politicians. All were welcomed by the Soul Queen. created that name, and that was her her daughter said. Mrs.

Maybell second husband, attorney Frank A. Anglin died in 1992. In addition to her daughters, survivors include abrother, Sam Sidney, and two sisters, Esther Mapp and Susie A. Carson. Services were held.

HELEN C. MAYBELL ANGLIN 1929-2009 Helen Maybell Anglin owned the Soul Queen restaurants on the South Side. fedstars, regulars By Trevor Jensen TRIBUNE REPORTER DANBURY, Traversof the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Maryhas died. The publicist, Heather Lylis, said Ms. Travers died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.

She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years. Ms. Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s. The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, onstage and off. Their version of I Had a became an anthem for racial equality.

Other hits included (The Magic on a Jet They were early champions of Bob Dylan and per- formed his In the the August 1963 march on Washington. And they were vehement in their opposition to the Vietnam War, managing to stay true to their liberal beliefs while creating music that resonated in the American mainstream. The group collected five Grammy Awards. At one point in 1963, three of their albums were in the top six Billboard best-selling LPs as they became the biggest stars of the folk revival movement. In a 1966 New York Times interview, Ms.

Travers said the three worked well together because they respected one another. has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive she said. With the advent of the Beatles and switch to electric guitar, the folk boom waned. Ms. Travers expressed disdain for folk- rock, telling the Chicago Daily News in 1966 that so badly written.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they take along any good But the trio continued their success, scoring with the tongue-in-cheek single Dig Rock and Roll agentle parody of the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 and the John Denver- on a Jet two years later. In 1969the group earned their final Grammy for Paul and which won for best album. They disbanded in 1971, launching solo careers, but enjoyed several reunions. MARY TRAVERS 1936-2009 Peter, Paul and Mary Noel Paul Stookey (from left), Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow perform in this undated photo. REDFERNS PHOTO Sang with popular folk act Peter, Paul and Mary ASSOCIATED PRESS Born into an old and distinguished Chicago family, Bowen Blairheld leadership positions during 60 years at William Blair the investment firm started by his father.

Aformer board president of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. Blair, 91, died of complications from cancer Friday, Sept. 11, in his Lake Forest home, said his wife of 58 years, Joan. Mr. father, William McCormick adescendant of the McCormick family of reaper fame, and his mother was also from a locally prominent family.

Despite the wealth and connections, Mr. Blair was delivered into the world by a veterinarian at the Baymeathestate in Bar Harbor, Maine, because no doctor was available. mother loved to tell that his wife said. Mr. Blair grew up on the lakefront estate, Port the Crab Tree Farm north of Lake Bluff, and in a home on Astor Street on Gold Coast.

He was sent east to Groton School in Massachusetts and then graduated from Yale University, both schools his father had attended. He had started graduate studies in business at Harvard University when World War II broke out. Joining the Navy, he was a lieutenant commander aboard destroyers in the Pacific. His father co-founded the company that bears his name in January 1935. Mr.

Blair joined in 1946, became apartner four years later and for many years oversaw the investment management department, which at the time primarily handled portfolios for wealthy individuals and families. Asteady presence who offered continuity to the conservative, privately held company, was a very solid participant, keeping the firm on said William Blair Co. Chairman Edgar Jannotta. Assuming a position earlier held by his father, Mr. Blair was named president of the Art Institute board in 1984.

During his tenure, Chicago Bears helmets were put on the two lions outside the museum during the run to the 1986 Super Bowl. Acompetitive tennis player and swimmer, Mr. Blair in his 80s held records for his age group at the Bath Clubin Palm Beach, where he also had a residence. Mr. Blair also is survived by a son, Bowen a daughter, Joan Blair Gedge; two brothers, Edward McCormick Blairand William McCormick Blair and three grandchildren.

Services were held. BOWEN BLAIR 1918-2009 Partner in William Blair Co. Worked 6 decades at firm, served on ArtInstituteboard By Trevor Jensen TRIBUNE REPORTER On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Poland, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany launched its assault.

In 1963 starring David Janssen, premiered on ABC Television. In 1988 opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympics took place in Seoul. In 2001 stock prices nose- dived in an emotional, flag- waving reopening of Wall Street; the Dow Jones indus- trial average ended the day down 684.81 at 8,920.70. In 2002 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted that North Korean spies had abducted about a dozen Japanese citizens decades earlier, and that at least four of the Japanese were still alive. Also in 2002 NBA star Patrick Ewing announced his retirement as a player.

In 2003 Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon issued the first known indictment against Osama bin Laden in the Sept. 11 attacks. Also in 2003 an audiotape purporting to carry the voice of Saddam Hussein, broadcast on Arab television, called on Iraqis to fight the American occupation. Also in 2003 New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso resigned amid a furor over his $139.5 million pay package. In 2005 two passengers were killed and more than 80 people injured when a Chicago commuter train derailed while changing tracks at high speed.

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