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Tallahassee Democrat Obituaries 4BThursday, November 2, 1995 IjoawFumiDA DEATHS sculpture Carl Harper, judge in Pulitzer divorce Retired Circuit Judge Carl Harper, who presided over the salacious Pulitzer custody trial and many other high-profile cases, has died in Pensacola. He was 68. The burly, His closely reasoned presentations of his innovative ideas had such an impact on his students that an uncommon number of them became impassioned devotees of him and his work, forever dedicating their own scholarly works to him. For all the groundbreaking nature of his own ideas, Schneider was apparently taken unawares when a new generation of scholars, many of them his former students, extended his theories of kinship to sex roles. 4 At i I I fin'- David Schneider, anthropologist David Schneider, whose pioneering studies of kinship in Chicago have been credited with altering the course of cultural anthropology and inspiring a generation of feminist scholars, has died in Santa Cruz, Calif.

He was 76 and had been a professor at the University of Chicago and later at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Schneider, a native of New York, studied at Cornell and Harvard, and taught at Harvard, the London School of Economics and Berkeley before going to Chicago in 1960. Like virtually every prominent anthropologist before him, he put in his time studying so-called primitive peoples, in his case on the Pacific island of Yap in the late 1940s. But for all the torrent of Yap-based studies he turned out throughout his career, none matched the impact of the slender volume he produced in 1968 after turning his anthropologist's eye on the people he found living around him in Chicago. The book, "American Kinship: a Cultural Account" (Prentice-Hall), challenged the very underpinnings of anthropological theory.

Few aspects of human behavior had been studied as much as kinship. But before Schneider's work, kinship had been largely viewed as an all but universally uniform system widely assumed to have been grounded in nature, particularly the nature of blood relationships. As for the obvious, observable differences in kinship systems among different peoples, the very anthropologists who charted them in meticulous detail tended to dismiss them as minor variations of a common theme that were attributable to differences in climate, geography, economics and the like. To Schneider, however, kinship was not a natural system founded on blood, or "that thin red liquid," as he called it, but instead an entire culture of powerful symbols and meanings. In the United States, for example, as in other Western cultures, Schneider saw the concept of birth as such a powerful symbol of national unity that the very word "nation" is derived from the Latin for "born." Schneider, regarded as a father of symbolic, or interpretive, anthropology, did some of his most important work in the classroom and the lecture hall.

da Panhandle roots amid the glitz of Palm Beach County's high society and eventually returned to Pensacola after his retirement He had served as a prosecutor here from 1959 through 1972 before moving to South Florida. Rosalind Cash, actress on stage, screen and TV Rosalind Cash, a black actress whose career endured and flourished on stage, screen and television despite her staunch refusal to play stereotyped roles, has died of cancer. She was 56. Recently familiar in the recurring role of matriarch Mary Mae Ward on the soap opera "General Hospital," Cash was nominated for an Emmy for her work in the PBS production of "Go Tell It on the Mountain." She was popular in other highly rated television productions including the special "King Lear" and the mini-series "The Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones." She also guest-starred on such popular series as "Barney Miller," "Police Story," "Kojak," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "China Beach," "thirtysomething," "Cag-ney Lacey" and "Hill Street Blues." Her memorable film roles included Lisa opposite Charlton Hes-ton in "The Omega Man," Sarah Jackson in the hit comedy "Uptown Saturday Night" and John Emdall in the cult classic "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension." Cash earned the Black American Cinema Society's Phoenix Award for achievement in motion pictures in 1987 and was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1992. Born in Atlantic City, she moved to New York in her teens where she attended City College and became a founding member of the highly respected Negro Ensemble Company.

Her career began with legitimate theater. She made her debut on Broadway in "The Wayward Stork" in 1966 and appeared in such other productions as "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," "Boesman and Lena" and in London "The Class of Miss MacMi-chael" with Glenda Jackson. "I'm not good at playing stereotypes," she once told an interviewer. "I don't Ingratiate myself to the powers-that-be as some nice, Negro, colored, abiding person. You cannot depend on me to be that Negro that you have come to know and love, that you're used to." 1 Henry Percy, Duke of Northumberland The Duke of Northumberland, a film buff who invested part of the family fortune in movies, has died.

He was 42. Henry Percy, the 11th Duke of Northumberland, died at his historic home on the northern fringe of London, said his agent, Rory Wilson. Wilson did not give a cause of death, but the duke, a portly chain-smoker, said earlier this year that he had long suffered from overwhelming fatigue and pains in his head and back. The duke reportedly invested $2.3 million in "Lost in Africa," filmed in Kenya and not yet released. He also granted the makers of "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," with Kevin Costner, the use of one of the family seats, Alnwick Castle and its grounds in Northumberland, northern England.

The Percys have owned the estate since 1309, and it was first used as a film location in 1956. The duke, who was not married, was frequently photographed in the company of actress Barbara Carrera and with Valerie Campbell, the mother of model Naomi Campbell. TeAta Fisher, Chickasaw folklorist Te Ata Fisher, an actress, storyteller and folklorist who developed a one-woman show featuring Indian culture, has died in Oklahoma City. She was 99. Fisher was Oklahoma's first "State Treasure," a designation created in 1987 to recognize a person with outstanding artistic or historical worth.

The daughter of a Chickasaw tribal treasurer and niece of a tribal governor, Fisher became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and entertained at the White House. Democrat hews services Honk if you like chain saws John Birch Jr. is at it again. This time, the wood sculptor is taking a diseased live oak on Old St. Augustine Road and turning it into an 8-foot dolphin.

Birch does his work during the afternoon rush hour, so if you like it, give him a beep. GUN CONTROL Concealed-weapons law comes in for criticism LOCAL OBITUARIES straight-talking judge was something of a folk hero in Palm Beach County where he was a prosecutor from 1973 to 1976. He then spent 21 years there on the bench before retiring, Harper although he continued to handle major cases as a senior judge. Harper's most famous case was the custody battle between millionaire Peter Pulitzer and his former wife, Roxanne. Harper granted custody of their twins to the father, whom he called "a man's man." He said he was uncertain Roxanne "was capable of human emotion and concern." Harper also presided over the "Soldier of Fortune" murder trials.

He sentenced Robert Spearman to 40 years in prison for hiring a hitman through an advertisement that a mercenary had placed in Soldier of Fortune magazine to kill his "wife, Anita, the assistant city manager of West Palm Beach. Spearman committed suicide in prison in 1988, three days after his attempt to escape by using a helicopter had failed. Harper moved the 1987 trial of the hit man, Sean Doutre, to Pensacola, where Harper was born on Sept. 15, 1927. A jury convicted Doutre of first-degree murder but recommended a life sentence.

Harper followed the recommendation. In another famous trial that Harper moved to his hometown, a Pensacola jury in 1988 convicted paper mill security guard Clyde Melvin of fatally shooting a judge, a lawyer and his former sister-in-law and wounding his ex-wife at the Gulf County Courthouse in Port St. Joe. Harper also followed that jury's recommendation with a life term. In a 1985 case, Harper had outlawed the use of "drug-courier profiles" by police to stop, question and search people, ruling the practice violated the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.

Harper was proud of his Flori Victoria B. Allen The service for Victoria B. Allen, 50, of Callahan will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Hilliard Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, with burial at Jones Cemetery. Local survivors include two sons, Duayne Allen and Billy Allen, both of Tallahassee.

(Callahan Funeral Home, 904-879-2336.) Lucion Banks Jr. Lucion Banks 67, of Tallahassee died Tuesday. The service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Griffin Cha-. pel Primitive Baptist Church, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery.

A lifelong resident of Tal lahassee, he Banks was a self-employed concrete finisher and a member of Griffin Chapel Primitive Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Frances H. Banks of Tallahassee; two sons, Chad H. Banks and Ce-dric S. Banks, both of Tallahassee; a daughter, Rebra B.

King of Tallahassee; two brothers, Earl Banks and Herman Banks, both of Tallahassee; two sisters, Sadie Austin and Idella Leon, both of Tallahassee; and five grandchildren. (Strong Jones Funeral Home, 224-2139.) Mary Alice Drinkwater Mary Alice Drinkwater, 53, of the Rocky Creek community died Wednesday. The service will be at 2 p.m. CST (3 p.m. EST) Friday at Salem Free Will Baptist Church in Steele City, with burial at the church cemetery.

Family will receive friends from 2 p.m. CST (3 p.m. EST) Thursday until the service Friday at the home of Rex and Lorine Coulliette, 1878 Mount Cellon Church Road. She was a lifelong resident of Rocky Creek. She is survived by her husband, Fred Drinkwater of Rocky Creek; four daughters, Lorine Coulliette and Peggy Coulliette, both of Rocky Creek, Theresa McRoy of Cottondale and Janet Sullivan of Round Lake; a brother, Herman Barnes of Round i I A private study, says that criminals do apply for the permits, and do gctlhcm.

By Natalie Hopkinson COX NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON Florida's concealed-weapons law puts guns into the hands of criminals and should not be used as a model for other states, according to a study released Wednesday. The study by the non-profit Violence Policy Center challenges three basic assumptions made by the National Rifle Association and other supporters of the law: That criminals don't apply for concealed-weapons licenses. That criminals wouldn't be granted licenses if they did apply. That concealed-weapons license holders do not commit crimes. The study was paid for by grants from three independent philanthropies: the Joyce, the John D.

and Catherine MacArthur, and the Aaron Diamond foundations. Legislation modeled after Florida's law was recently passed in Texas, Virginia and Utah. Tanya Metaksa, director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, called the study "nothing more than a sloppy homework assignment designed to deceive both the press and public." The 47-page study found that, since Florida's concealed-weapons law was enacted in 1987, more than 206,400 Floridians have applied for a concealed-weapons license, and ''J PHIL SEARSDemocrat 200,241 licenses have been granted. John Russi, director of the Florida Division of Licensing, said there are 167,393 active concealed-weapons licenses on the street, because many gun owners don't renew their licenses. The center's study said criminals do apply for licenses.

Since enactment, 691 people with prior criminal records have applied for concealed-weapons licenses but were denied permits. The study also found that license holders do commit crimes. Between January 1990 and July 1995, the state suspended the licenses of 324 people who had been arrested for crimes committed after being issued their licenses. But Metaksa pointed out that only 52 of those were revoked because of gun-related crimes. According to the center's study, criminals are granted concealed-weapons licenses.

Of the 549 cases since 1987 in which licenses were revoked, 167 of those individuals had criminal histories that should have made them ineligible in the first place. The study said the present pro cedure for revoking a criminal's license can allow the person to retain an active license for more than two years while the complaint is filed, a hearing is held, and appeals are exhausted. Metaksa agreed that the pro cess of revoking a license is cumbersome, "but you don't eliminate your right to defend yourself against criminal attack, because the system might get it wrong." "You have to think about things a little bit differently up here," Coleman explained to the student "It's not like you can just stir something and have it stay in the bowl." Coleman's recommended recipe? Combine dry ingredients in a bag before the flight inject water and freeze-dried eggs in orbit, shake, bake and voila! "I guess we could make a cake in space. You know, it might not be a bad idea," she said, smiling. Coleman also fielded questions from students at the Sierra Middle School in Las Cruces, N.M.

Coleman and her crewmates conducted more crystal and fluid experiments in Columbia's laboratory, 12 days into their 16-day flight The mission is due to end with a Kennedy Space Center landing on Sunday. 9 i if- NASA Sycamore since 1951. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Flat Creek Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Eva Mae Peters of Sycamore; two daughters, Mary Smith of Chattahoochee and Nell McPherson of Thomasville, a sister, Thelma Peters of Atlanta; and four grandchildren. (Sasser-Morgan-McClellan Funeral Home in Quincy, 627-7535.) Junior Pinson Junior "Jake" Pinson, 80, of Tallahassee died Oct.

26. The service will be at noon Saturday at Bethel Cemetery. A native of Alabama, he was a longtime resident of Tallahassee. He had been a self-employed Pinson mechanic. He is survived by a brother, Amos Poole of Tallahassee; and a devoted friend and caretaker, Rozell Shuler of Tallahassee.

(Strong Jones Funeral Home, 224-2139.) Charles William Young Sr. Charles William Young 65, of Caryville died Oct 28. The service was held Wednesday at Live Oak Baptist Church in New Hope, with burial at the church cemetery. A longtime resident of Daleville, Ala, he had lived in Washington County for 19 years. He is survived by three sons, Charles Young Jr.

of Ebro, and Jeffrey Young and David Young, both of Vernon; three daughters, Barbara Griffin of Lake City, Tenn, Diane Young of Caryville and Angel Young of Arkansas; two stepsons, Mark Gar-ich of Vernon and Allen Garich of Resaca, Ga; a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Young of Colorado; and eight grandchildren. (Brown Funeral Home in Chipley, 904-638-4010.) Chelation Therapy 656-8846 Jackson. MD Lake; two sisters, Gladys Fortune of Alford and Evelyn Syfrett of Round Lake; and 11 grandchildren. (Bailey Funeral Home in Altha, 904-762-3965.) John Ellington Sr. John Ellington 80, of Tallahassee died Sunday.

The service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Marks Primitive Baptist Church, with burial at the church cemetery. A native of Reaves, he was a gen eral laborer Ellington and handyman. He attended St.

Mark Primitive Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Lillie Belle Jackson Ellington of Tallahassee; two sons, John Ellington Jr. of Tallahassee and Willie Ellington of Huntsville, three daughters, Mary Ellington Harris and Catherine both of Tallahassee, and Lena Ellington Anthony Crawford of Atlanta; two stepsons, Eddie Bryant and Kenny Bryant both of Tallahassee; a stepdaughter, Theresa Lawrence of Tallahassee; two brothers, J.C. Ellington of Macon, and Joe Richardson of Panama City; a sister, Jenny Ellington Hughes of Miami; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. (Strong Jones Funeral Home, 224-2139.) Ernest Fields Sr.

Ernest "Ton" Fields 73, of Quincy died Oct 28 in Tallahassee. The service will be at 11 am. Friday at Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church in Quincy, with burial at Sunnyvale Cemetery in Quincy. A lifelong resident of Gadsden County, he was a member of Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Sallie Fields of Quincy; two sons, Ernest Fields Jr.

and Irvin Fields, both of Quincy; two daughters, Sandra Banks and Sarah Birton, both of Quincy, a brother, James Fields of Quincy, two sisters, Annie M. Peterson of Quincy and Savarie Swain of Newark, NJ five grandchildren; and a greatgrandchild. (Betsey Funeral Home in Quincy, 627-9541.) I Nancy Glynn Nancy Glynn, 90, of Jackson County died Tuesday. Service arrangements are incomplete. A longtime resident of Jackson County, she was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church.

She is survived by a son, Arthur James of Des Moines, Iowa; a daughter, Doris of Marianna; and three sisters, Reola M. Bryan and Mary Gus-sie Jones, both of Marianna, and Sallie Dudley of Jacksonville. (Peoples Funeral Home in Marianna, 904-482-2233.) Andrew G. Kasper Andrew G. Kasper, 61, of Tallahassee died Tuesday.

The service will be at 11 am Saturday at Bevis Colonial Funeral Home (385-2193), with burial at Tallahassee Memory Gardens. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. A native of New York City, he had lived in Tallahassee since 1994. He was a firefighter for the New York City Fire Department for 22 years until his retirement He is survived by his wife, Nelda H.

Kasper of Tallahassee; a son. West-ley Kasper of Fort Walton Beach; a daughter, Lisa Kasper of New York City, his mother, Olga B. Kasper of Tallahassee; two brothers, Arthur Kasper of New York City and Ron Howard; and a grandchild. Ethel Sutton Muggridge Ethel Sutton Muggridge, 80, of Cairo, died Tuesday in Thomas-ville, Ga The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Cemetery in Cairo.

A lifelong resident of Cairo, she was a ward clerk at Grady General Hospital in Cairo until her retirement He was a member of Pine Level Baptist Church in Cairo. She is survived by two sons, Ralph Muggridge and Lamar M. Muggridge, both of Cairo; a daughter, Janice E. Grover of Kingsport, a sister, Elizabeth Hobby of Pelham, Ga; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. (Miller-Cooper Funeral Home in Cairo, 912-377-2122.) Roy E.

Peters Roy Peters, 69. of the Sycamore community died Tuesday in Quincy. The service will be at 11 am. Friday at Flat Creek Cemetery in the Flat Creek community. Family will receive friends today at their home.

A native of Quincy. he had lived in If you plan to bake in space, this science class was a must THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL A scientist flying on space shuttle Columbia used candy Wednesday to teach youngsters about the difficulty of mixing things in weightlessness. During a half-hour science lesson with students in two states, astronaut Catherine Coleman shook plastic bags containing up to 50 and 50 miniature marsh-mallows. Unlike on Earth, gravity did not pull the heavier to the bottom of the containers all the candies floated randomly inside the bags. One student at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Bozeman wanted to know what would happen if an astronaut wanted to make bread or cake in orbit How could astronauts mix the many ingredients?.