Millard E. Gladfelter, 95, president of Temple University in Philadelphia from 1959 to 1967, died Sunday. As president, he helped create a state partnership called the Commonwealth System of Education that helped transform the private university into a state-related institution, allowing tuition reduction and expanded enrollment through additional state aid.
Frank J. Murray, 90, who served as a trial judge in state and federal courts for nearly 50 years, died Sunday in Boston. As chairman of the American Bar Association's advisory committee on the judge's function in 1972, he drafted the ABA's Standards for Criminal Justice relating to the function of the trial judge.
Bob Randall, 57, a prolific dramatist, novelist and television writer whose works included the Broadway play "6 Rms Riv Vu" and the TV series "Kate and Allie," died of AIDS Saturday in New Milford, Conn. His 1972 comedy "6 Rms Riv Vu" won a Drama Desk Award and, as a TV special. He won a 1994 Emmy and a Humanitas award for his CBS-TV movie "David's Mother."
Bruno Visentini, 80, who served in Italy's first postwar government and alternated careers in politics and business, died Monday in Rome.