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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1995 C-3 03IT0MIIS ERUZ5T L. BOYER SAMUEL CBRYEtl National leader in education Helped Brookline children play ball i J. "YJii vol T- -4 VV: By Ann Belser Post-Gazette Staff Writer For more than 30 years, the Brookline businessman known as Big Sam Bryen was better known for his work with neighborhood children than for his dry cleaning business. Samuel C. Bryen, of Brookline, one of the co-founders of the Brookline Little League Association, died of pneumonia Wednesday at the VA Medical Center in Aspinwall after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease.

He was 84. Mr. Bryen, owner of the former Quaill's Dry Cleaning on Brookline Boulevard, was active in Little League, Senior League, Pony League and American Legion Baseball for more than 30 years. His involvement with youth sports, which began in 1953, after his son, Robert, was too old to play in the leagues, spanned generations of Brookline youths. In 1968, Mr.

Bryen and his wife, Elizabeth C. "Boots" Bryen, also started sponsoring a sandlot football team to keep the children in the neighborhood busy in the fall. Because of his work with youth sports, baseball and Softball fields on Oakridge Street in Brookline bear his name. In June 1982, the city Parks and Recreation Department dedicated the Sam Bryen Ballfields for his years as president of the Brookline Little League Association. In 1968, he and his wife were honored by the Brookline Little League with a testimonial dinner.

The following year they received the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police award for combatting juvenile delinquency. Mr. Bryen also was given a Dapper Dan Award in 1971. His interest in sandlot football dated to 1935, when he played center for the Brookline Merchants football team. During his high school days, when he was living in New Salem, Fayette County, he played basketball and football for Uniontown High School.

In New Salem, he also took up boxing and earned 75 cents a round as a sparring partner. He was a member of American Legion Post 540 and an Army veteran of World War II. In addition to his wife and son, who also lives in Brookline, Bryen is survived by two brothers, Alfred and Hugh, both of of Michigan; and a sister, Mary Bryen, also of Michigan. The funeral is private. The Frank F.

DeBor Funeral Home in Brook-' line is handling arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made in care of Stan Scales, president of the Brookline Little League Association, 2830 Castlegate Pittsburgh 15226. By William H. Honan The New York Times Dr. Ernest Boyer, who helped to shape American education as chancellor of the State University of New York, as U.S.

commissioner of education and as president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 67. Mr. Boyer had been treated for lymphoma for nearly three years, his assistant, Bob Hochstein, said. Mr.

Boyer also was the author of a number of reports for the Carnegie Foundation, a nonprofit policy study center in Princeton that has often set the nation's education agenda. In 1987, when he detected that one of the major ills of higher education was that research was elbowing aside teaching, he wrote "College: The Undergraduate Experience America" (Harper Row), in which he argued that "at every research university, teaching should be valued as highly as research." The book stimulated the present college movement that holds that much research is pointless and even harmful insofar as it distracts teachers from students. In 1990, Mr. Boyer developed this theme in another book, "Scholarship Reconsidered" (Carnegie Foundation), in which he maintained that teaching, service and the integration of knowledge across disciplines should be recognized as the equal of research. Another of his reports, "High School: A Report on Secondary Education" (Harper Row, 1983), had an impact even before it was published.

When officials at the U.S. Department of Education learned that Mr. Boyer, a former federal of education, was working on a report describing the inadequacies of secondary public education and proposing a series of changes, they decided to start their own study, which came to be called "A Nation at Risk." Published a few months ahead of Mr. Boyer's report, "A Nation at Risk" was frequently described as a national wake-up call, spelling out the failure of the public high schools -to provide students with basic knowledge and skills. Mr.

Boyer's report helped focus the ensuing discussion on specific plans like raising requirements for high school graduation, improving teacher certification and lengthening the school day. Mr. Boyer believed the nation's most urgent education problem was high schools. Pointing to the high dropout rate among minorities, he expressed fear that "the current move to add more course requirements will lead to more failure among inner-city students unless we also have smaller classes, better counseling and more creative teaching." He also felt that education improvements were bypassing too many impoverished children, with consequences for the future of the country. He advocated programs in nutrition, prenatal care for teen-age mothers, and more day care with summer classes and preschool education.

Mr. Boyer had been working on a book, "Scholarship Assessed," in which he was attempting to establish a means of measuring successful teaching and service so that they could be better rewarded. In a statement released yesterday, President Clinton said: "The nation has lost one of its most dedicated and influential education reformers. Ernest Boyer was a distinguished scholar and educator whose work will help students well into the next century." A compelling orator who never tired of his role as an evangelist of education, Mr. Boyer was a sought-after lecturer on such issues as the need for adult education away from a overbearing academic management and the decline of teaching civics and government in schools.

He was also a busy consultant, in recent years having advised governments like the People's Republic of China on educational policy. Ernest LeRoy Boyer was born in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 13, 1928, one of the three sons of Clarence and Ethel Boyer. Mr. Boyer once said that the most influential figure in his early life his paternal grandfather, William Boyer, who was head of the Dayton Mission of the Brethren in Associated Press Ernest L.

Boyer, the U.S. commissioner of education in the Carter administration and longtime president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a 1978 photograph. ELSEWHERE Christ Church and who directed him toward "a people-centered life." Mr. Boyer attended Greenville College, a small liberal arts school in Illinois, and went on to study at Ohio State University. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in medical audiology at the University of Iowa Hospital. He then taught and served in administrative posts at Loyola University in Los Angeles, Upland College and the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1965, he moved east to join the vast SUNY system as its first executive dean. Five years later, he became chancellor of the institution and its 64 campuses, 350,000 students and 15,000 faculty members. Mr.

Boyer served on commis sions to advise Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. In 1977, he left SUNY after President Jimmy Carter appointed him to lead the U.S. Commission on thus becoming the agency's last commissioner before Congress elevated the position to cabinet rank.

Toward the end of the Carter administration, Mr. Boyer accepted an invitation to succeed Alan Pifer as president of the Carnegie Foundation. Even when confined to a hospital bed last month, Mr. Boyer continued to keep up on developments in education, reacting to an announcement by the University of Rochester that it was downsizing both its student body and faculty in order to improve quality and attract better students. "I think we're headed into a totally new era," he said.

Roxie Roker, 66, who played half of one of TVs earliest interracial couples when she appeared in "The Jeffersons," last Saturday in Los Angeles of undisclosed causes. Ms. Roker won an Obie Award and was a 1974 Tony nominee for her performance as Mattie Williams in the off-Broadway play "The River Niger." She played Helen Willis on the 1975-85 CBS comedy. Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, 78, an influential scholar who helped establish the study of the history of technology and explained its impact on society, of cancer Wednesday in Atlanta, where he was a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. David Rittenhouse Inglis, 90, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, who campaigned to dismantle the nuclear arms he helped to build in World War II, Sunday in Amherst, Mass. Arthur Frederic Kip, 85, an expert in solid-state physics and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley died Saturday at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. He suffered a heart attack, the university said. I Billy Bruton, 69, the speedy outfielder whose lOth-inning home run won the first game played by the Braves in Milwaukee, Tuesday in Marshallton, after suffering a heart attack while driving.

Richard Haydock, 82, who organized the legal referral service of the New York City Bar Association in 1947 and headed it until his: retirement in 1984, Nov. 23 in Boon-ton Township, N.J. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING LATEST DEATHS The following Is a list of recent deaths, provided freeasapublicservice.Thoseilstlngsfollowedwith letter In parenthesis (O) indicate that a classified obituary is running elsewhere In these pages. For thefollowing listing, we accept Information only from funeral directors and employees of crematoriums and memorial societieswhomaycall 263-1601 from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m.

daily. I DIOLETTA, Frances Bertell, 67, of Cheswick, died Dec. 7. Charles B. Jarvie Funeral Home, Cheswick.

(0) DOBIES, Francis 71, of Polish Hill, died Dec. 8. Walter J. Zalewski Funeral Home, Polish Hill. (0) ERLACH, Frank 73, of Reserve, died Dec.

7. Sperling Funeral Home, Millvale. (0) FRATANGELO, Mary Persi, 77, of Carrick, died Dec. 7. Boron Funeral Home, Carrick.

(0) GALAS, William, 80, of Pleasant Hills, died Dec. 8. Savolskis-Wasik-Glenn Funeral Home, Munhall. (0) GERM, Bernard 68, of North Versailles, died Dec. 6.

Patrick T. Lanigan Funeral Home, East Pittsburgh. GIANOUTSOS, George, 68, of Scott, died Dec. 7. John A.

Freyvogel Sons Funeral Home, Shady-side. (0) GLEDHILL, Thomas 56, of Swissvale, died Dec. 8. McCabe Brothers Funeral Home, Bloom-field, (q) HARPER, Jerry Lee, of Swissvale, died Dec. 7.

Thomas L. Nied Funeral Home, Swissvale. (0) HAZLETT, Stanley 66, of the North Side, died Dec. 7. Schellhaas Funeral Home, North Side.

(0) HERRICK, Helen Kochman, 97, formerly of Mt. Lebanon, died Dec. 7. Laughlin's Funeral Home, Mt. Lebanon (0) HOHL, Genevieve Krysinski, 77, of Crafton Heights, died Dec.

7. Anthony G. Staab Funeral Home, West End. (0) HOSFIELD, Bernice Gardner, 83, of Whitehall, died Dec. 7.

John F. Slater's Funeral Home, Brentwood. (0) HOVIS, David 77, of Ingomar, died Dec. 8. H.P.

Brandt Funeral Home, Ross. (0) JEFFERSON, Randy, 39, of North Braddock, died Dec. 5. George W. Douglas Funeral Home, Brushton.

(0) KAHLAN, Louis 83, of Penn Hills, died Dec. 7. Thomas D. English Funeral Home, Oakmont. (0) KARLOCK, Elizabeth M.

Garsick, 91, of West Mifflin, died Dec. 7. Savolskis-Wasik-Glenn Funeral Home, Munhall. (0) KIRSTEIN, William 66, of Bethel Park, died Dec. 7.

Paul L. Henney Funeral Home, Bethel Park. (0) McCLENDON, Leroy, 86, of Homewood, died Dec. 7. Floyd Alex Hopewell Funeral Chapel, East Liberty.

(0) McCORMICK, Paul Joseph, 85, of Mt. Lebanon, died Dec. 8. Laughlin's Funeral Home, Mt. Lebanon.

(0) McNANAMY, Sarah Ann Joyce, 70, of Swissvale, died Dec. 8. Edward T. Perrons Mortuary, Swissvale. (0) MOHR, George 95, of Whitehall, died Dec.

8. John F. Slater's Funeral Home, Brentwood. (0) O'DONNELL, Hugh 63, of the North Side, died Dec. 7.

Robert D. Hughes Funeral Home, Troy Hill. (0) PAUL, Genevieve of South Park, died Dec. 7. Griffith Mortuary, South Park.

(0) PETERSON, Michael, 77, of Beechview, died Dec. 6. Boron's Funeral Home, Carrick. (0) PIERSON, Edward 63, of Bradford Woods, died Dec. 6.

Simons Funeral Home, Ross. (0) RENKES, James 45, of Wexford, died Dec. 8. H.P. Brandt Funeral Home, Ross.

(0) RETHAGE, Ednamae Ehmer, 69, of Allentown, died Dec. 6. James J. Barry Jr. Funeral Home, Allentown.

(0) SALAK, Joseph 72, of Bloomfield, died Dec. 6. Winter Funeral Home, Bloomfield. (0) SCH AUB, Margaret Eileen, 70, of Upper St. Clair, died Dec.

6. Beinhauers Mortuary, Peters. (0) SCHMIDT, Joseph 81, formerly of Stowe, died Dec. 6. McDermott Funeral Home, McKees Rocks.

(0) SHOOK, Hazel, 77, of Verona, died Dec. 7. Burket-Truby Funeral Home, Oaklmont. SMITH, Leo Paul 74, of Sewickley, died Dec. 7.

Richard D. Cole Funeral Home, Sewickley. (0) SPEICHER, Josephine "Dolly" Battaglia, 72, of Beechview, died Dec. 8. Brusco-Napier Funeral Home, Beechview.

(0) STACKIEWICZ, Harry, 64, of Monroeville, died Dec. 8. Gene H. Corl Funeral Center, Monroeville. (0) WHITE, Mary Louise Pooler, 60, of Mt.

Lebanon, died Dec. 8. Beinhauer's, Beechview. (0) BEAVER COUNTY CLARK, George 81, died Dec. 8.

T.D. Turner's Funeral Home, Wilkinsburg. (0) KUBIT, Joseph 89, of Ambridge, died Dec. 6. Paul E.

Bonn Funeral Home, Ambridge. (0) BUTLER COUNTY COKER, Will Lee, 85, of Slippery Rock, died Dec. 5. Samuel E. Coston Funeral Home, East Liberty.

WASHINGTON COUNTY SARRIS, Demetroula, 84, of Canonsburg died Dec. 8. Louis N. Sollon Funeral Home, Canonsbura. (0) OTHER CHURCH, Frieda J.

Collins, of Sarasota died Dec. 7. Toale Brothers Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel, Sarasota. (0) DiMAGGIO, Ida M. Sapienza, 72, of Methuen, died Dec.

7. Pollard Funeral Home, Methuen. (0) FERRERO, Beatrice Rosa, 84, of Orange Park, formerly of Pittsburgh, died Dec. 8. Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home, Orange Park.

(0) FLEMING, Albert Merle, 85, of Indiana, died Dec. 6. Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana. (0) LEWIS, Marian Broadbent R'nger, 84, of New Wilmington, died Dec. 8.

Sharp-Smith Funeral Home, New Wilmington. MARTIN, Ernest C. Ackie, 91, of Dunbar, died Dec. 7. Burhans Crouse Funeral Home, Dunbar.

(0) SISCO, Helen J. Mura, 90, of Columbia, formerly of Monroeville, died Dec. 7. Jobe Funeral Home, Turtle Creek. (0) 1 YODER, Otho "O.B.," 87, of Holland, died' Dec.

6. (0) ALLEGHENY COUNTY BATCHER, Margaret, of Forest Hills, died Dec. 7. Wolfe Memorial Forest Hills. (O) BATEMAN, Diane Susan, 37, of Lawrenceville, died Dec.

7. Worrell Funeral Home, Sharpsburg. (O) BERARDO, Myrtle Ann Eagan, 87, of Penn Hills, died Dec. 7. Stephen P.

Dolence Jr. Funeral Home, Plum. BERLIPP, Grace 85, of Mt. Lebanon, died Dec. 7.

Griffith Mortuary, South Park. (O) BRYEN, Samuel 84, of Brookline, died Dec. 6. Frank F. DeBor Funeral Home, Brookline.

(0) CLAIR, Walter 72, of Morningside, died Dec. 7. McCabe Brothers Funeral Home, Bloomfield. (0) CRAWFORD, Sye, 89, of Penn Hills, died Dec. 6.

West Funeral Home, Uptown. (0) DeMATT, Veronica Helen, 86, of Penn Hills, died Dec. 7. William F. Gross Funeral Home, Penn Hills.

(0) Heather Musico. Friends are being received in the McCABE FUNERAL HOME, 5300 Penn Bloomfield, on Sat. Sun. between the hours of 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Monday 9 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial in St. Raphael Church 10 a.m. Klug of Pgh. and William F. Klug of CA; sister of the late Mary, Bertha, Ann, Nick, Joe, George, Mike and Paul.

Friends received WILLIAM F. GROSS FUNERAL HOME, 11735 Frankstown Rd. (at Rodi Penn Hills, on Sat. Sun. 2-4, 7-9 p.m.

Funeral Monday 10:30 a.m. Mass of Christian burial in St. Susanna Church, Penn Hills, 11 a.m. Contributions acknowledged to the Western Penna. School for Blind Children, Bayard St.

at Bellefield Pgh. PA 15213. FRIEDA J. COLLINS CHURCH Of Sarasota, FL, died Dec. 7, 1995.

She was born in Bremerhaven, Germany and came to Sarasota nine years ago from Timonium, MD. She was a homemaker. She attended Johns Hopkins University. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, MD and the Meadows Country Club in Sarasota. Survivors include her husband, John L.

Church of Sarasota; daughter, Sonia Collins Minton of Altamonte Springs, FL; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Memorial service will be January 6, 1996, 1 p.m. at TOALE BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME, COLONIAL CHAPEL, in Sarasota. Memorial donations may be made to a favorite charity. Saturday Sunday at CHARLES B.

JARVIE -FUNERAL HOME, 1607 Pittsburgh Christian Funeral Mass Mon--', day 10 a.m. in St. Francis of Assisi Church, Harmarville. FRANCIS A. DOBIES On Friday, Dec.

8, Francis beloved husband of Irene B. Rzodkiewicz; father of Frank, David, Judy, Mark, Irene Steranka, Ste- phen, Elaine Drake and Larry Dobies; also 21 grand- children; brother of Cather- ine Lucas and the late Jane Smulski and Joseph Dobies. Friends received at WALTER J. ZALEWSKI FUNERAL 5 HOME, 3201 Dobson Polish Hill on Sat. Sun.

2-4, 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass on Mon. in Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at 10 a.m. Church in Methuen. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Peter P.

DiMaggio; and daughters Donna M. and husband, Kevin Sullivan of Lawrence, and Dale DiMaggio of North Andover, a son Daniel P. and wife Elaine DiMaggio of Duluth, GA; one sister, Mrs. Ann Rapisarda of San Jose, CA; one brother Alfio "Fred" Sapienza of Pgh; five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Mon.

morning at 9 o'clock in Saint Monica's Church with interment to follow in Elmwood Cemetery in Methuen. Friends may call Sun. from 2-4 7-9 p.m. from the POLLARD FUNERAL HOME, 233 Lawrence Street, Methuen. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 14 Loon Hill Rd, Dracut Square Village, Dracut, MA 01826.

Marion A. Kummer of North Hills and Rosalyn Urbanik of Allentown, PA; great-aunt of Michael F. Kummer, Beth A. Kummer and Stacy Urbanik. Friends received Sat.

Sun. 2-4, 7-9 p.m. at GRIFFITH MORTUARY, 5636 Brownsville Broughton-Curry-South Park Twp. Funeral Monday at 1 p.m. with services in the Baldwin United Presbyterian Church, Knoedler Rd.

at, 1:30 phn. Retiree from Westinghouse Pgh. PA, AARP Bower Hill Chapter 2742 Member Eastern Star. SAMUEL C. BRYEN Of Brookline, on Wednesday, December 6, 1995; beloved husband of Elizabeth father of Robert brother of Alfred, Hugh and Mary.

Visitation is private, at the request of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to the Brookline Little League Association-, co Stan Scales, President, 2830 Castlegate PA 15226. Mr. Bryen was a founder and past president of Brookline Little League, a member of American Legion Post 540 and a World War II army veteran. Arrangements are under the direction of the FRANK F.

DeBOR FUNERAL HOME, INC. 1065 561-0380. MARGARET BATCHER Of Forest Hills on Dec. wife of the late Gegory A. Batcher; dear mother of Richard J.

Batcher, Gloria J. Batcher and Ella Renee Kantor; sister of the late John J. Maclyak. Friends received WOLFE MEMORIAL FOREST HILLS CHAPEL, 3604 Greensburg Pike, 731-5001, Fri. only 6-9 p.m.

Services on Sat. at 1 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, Forest Hills. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. DIANE SUSAN BATEMAN Of Lawrenceville, on Thursday, December 7, 1995, beloved daughter of Frances and the late George Bateman sister of Ellen Bateman and George Gerard Bateman niece of Connie Stoltz.

Friends received SUNDAY 12 noon-9 p.m. at WORRELL FUNERAL HOME, 820 Main Sharpsburg, where services will be conducted Monday at 12 noon. GRACE w. BERLIPP On Dec. 7, 1995, Grace of Mt.

Lebanon; sister of Marion E. Boylan of Pleasant Hills and Dorothy Fagan of Whitehall; aunt of GEORGE CLARK On Fri. Dec. 8, 1995, age 81; husband of the late Lucille brother of Helene Linville; No vistation. Interment private.

Arrangements by T. D. TURNER'S SYE CRAWFORD On December 6, 1995; beloved Uncle of Lawrence Crawford and Eunice Smed-ley of Pittsburgh; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Visitations Sunday only from 2-9 p.m. at WEST FUNERAL HOME, 2215 Wylie Ave.

Funeral and burial in Weston, GA. VERONICA HELEN DeMATT Peacefully on Dec. 7, 1995, Helen; beloved wife of 66 years of Anthony Louis DeMatt; mother of Mary De-Matt Klug of OH; grandmother of Mary Elizabeth IDA M. (SAPIENZA) DiMAGGIO 72 years of age, and a 42 year Methuen, MA resident, died Dec. 7, 1995 at the Academy Manor Nursing Home in Andover.

Mrs. Di-Maggio was born in Lawrence, where she attended Oliver Grammar School, was a graduate of Lawrence High School class of and went on to attend and graduate from Mcintosh School of Business. Mrs. DiMaggio was an Artist by profession, and as an Artist she held Art Exhibits in both Newbury-port and Andover, and was a member of the Greater Haverhill Arts Association, and the Greater Salem Arts Association. She was an attendant pf Saint Monica's FRANK F.

ERLACH On Thurs. Dec. 7, 1995, member of VFW Post 118, survived by nieces neph- ews. Friends received Sun. 2-4 7-9 p.m.

at SPERLING FUNERAL HOME, 123 North Millvale. Funeral Mass St. Anthonys Church, of Holy I Spirit Parish Mon. 10 am. Cont on page C-4 WALTER o.

CLAIR On Dec. 7, 1995, Walter 0. Clair, beloved husband of Betty L. Butler Clair; father of Edward J. Clair, Arlene M.

Musico, Ronald J. Clair and Thomas W. Clair; brother of James Clair; grandfather of Jessica and Angela Clair, Lianne Clair, Christine, Melissa, and FRANCES BERTELL DIOLETTA On December 7, 1995, Frances Bertell, of Cheswick; wife of Ralph mother of Maria Dioletta-Gingery, Carol Lyn Carter, Barbara Dioletta-Clayton, Frances Earl and Ralph R. Dioletta; sister of Ellen Min-cin; also six grandchildren. Friends deceived 2-4, 7-9.