Sad news.
Tim
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> From: "Kolb, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: December 11, 2005 11:04:08 AM EST
> Subject: Louana M. Lackey
>
> Louana M. Lackey (1926-2005) passed away on Friday evening,
> 12/09/05 at Gilchrist Hospice in Baltimore. Her husband Michael
> Salovesh (Associate Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois
> University; Ph.D. U. Chicago, 1971, social anthropologist and
> linguist, Mesoamerica) passed away Wednesday evening, 12/07/05, at
> the same hospice.
>
> Louana (Ph.D,, American University, 1981) a ceramic
> ethnoarchaeologist, ethnographer, and historian of pottery, was an
> elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics (1 of 80
> from the US), author of The Pottery of Acatlán: A Changing Mexican
> Tradition (University of Oklahoma Press, 1982) and Rudy Autio
> (American Ceramic Society, 2002), and coeditor of A Pot for All
> Reasons: Ceramic Ecology Revisited (Charles C. Kolb and Louana M.
> Lackey, eds., Temple University, Laboratory of Anthropology,
> 1988). She was a frequent contributor to Ceramic Monthly and
> author of chapters in two volumes of Research in Economic
> Anthropology, and was co-organizer of the Ceramic Ecology symposia
> held annually during the meetings of the American Anthropological
> Association. Louana and Mike had recently completed research for a
> major work on Puebla talavera – the volume will be written by a
> colleague.
>
> We shall celebrate Louana’s life at Ceramic Ecology XX to be held
> at the AAA meetings in San Jose in 2006.
>
> In addition, she will be remembered by some of us as “Charlie’s
> Aunt” and played the role of matchmaker for Jean Drew, MD and me –
> we were married at Louana’s home in Baltimore -- Fred Matson was
> the best man.
>
> Charlie Kolb
>
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