David Woodward

On August 25, 2004, David A. Woodward died at his home in Madison, Wisconsin at the age of sixty-one. A professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he was known for his role as editor for the encyclopedic series of books, the History of Cartography Project that re-examines the place of mapmaking in world history.

Born August 29, 1942, in Royal Leamington Spa, England, Woodward graduated from the University of Wales Swansea and earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1970. He joined the Newberry Library in 1969 and directed its Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography from 1974-80. From there he returned to Wisconsin, where he began the cartography project in 1981 and was named professor of geography. He took emeritus status in 2002 and continued to co-edit the project.

David Woodward (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(11): 21.

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Malcolm Murray

Long-time AAG member and former Chairman of the Georgia State University Department of Geography, Malcolm “Mick” Murray died August 8, 2004. Murray was recognized as a fifty-year member of the AAG at the 2002 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.

Born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada on December 22, 1925, Murray received a BA in General Science from the University of Western Ontario (1948) and an MA and PhD in geography from Syracuse University (1950 and 1955).

From 1952 until 1968 he was a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. During that period he traveled as a Fulbright scholar to the University of Southhampton in England and on a Rockefeller Foundation assignment to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

In 1968 he was recruited by Georgia State University as Chairman of the newly founded Department of Geography. He developed a graduate program for that department, and spent ten years as Chairman before resigning in 1978 and remaining as full professor until his retirement in 1988. In 1975, while at Georgia State University, he served as a full professor of geography at the University of New England in Australia.

Murray travelled widely and his research and publications ranged from medical geography to recreation geography, computer graphics and the geography of energy.

Malcolm Murray (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(11): 20.

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Arthur E. Karinen

Arthur E. Karinen, professor emeritus in geography, passed away May 25, 2004, at the age of eighty-five.

Karinen earned his B.A. and M.A. from UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Karinen joined the California State University-Chico faculty in 1959 and retired in 1986. Prior to coming to Chico, Karinen had held positions at Ohio State, University of Maryland and the Helsinki School of Economics.

He was a member of the AAG and the American Congress on Surveying Mapping.

An expert in cartography and the economic geography of Europe, Karinen was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1958-59 and was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Finland in 1970. He contributed to many atlases and publications, and was co-author of California: Land of Contrast and California, both of which went through several editions and revisions.

Arthur E. Karinen (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(7): 28.

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Larry Hargrave

Larry Hargrave, 61, of Medford, Oregon died May 15, 2004, at home surrounded by family and friends after a battle with leukemia.

Hargrave completed his undergraduate work at Southern Oregon University and had just received his master’s in Geography from Miami University in Ohio. He returned to school after full careers first in the lumber industry and then as a financial consultant.

Larry Hargrave (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(7): 28.

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George Carter

Geographer George F. Carter died March 16, 2004.

Carter earned his A.B. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and then worked as curator of anthropology at the San Diego Museum of Man (1934-38). In 1942 he earned his Ph.D. in geography under Carol O. Sauer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Carter served as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services (1942-43, 1945), before entering academia definitively. He taught from 1943-67 in the Isaiah Bowman Department of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University (where he was chair 1944-58) and afterward as Distinguished Professor Geography at Texas A&M University until his retirement in 1978.

Carter was a noted scholar in the field of early transoceanic spreads of culture and “Early Man” in America.

George F. Carter (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(7): 28

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C. Nicholas Raphael

C. Nicholas Raphael died of a heart attack February 21, 2004. He was born September 3, 1937 in Detroit, MI, the son of R. George and Angela Raphael. Nick graduated from the Upper Canada College Preparatory School in Toronto, Canada, earned his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University, his master’s from Eastern Michigan University (EMU), and his Ph.D. in coastal geomorphology from Louisiana State University (LSU). He received full support from the National Academy of Sciences for his doctoral research in Greece. After his fourteen months of field research he returned to LSU to complete his dissertation.

He joined the faculty at EMU in 1967, where he remained as a full professor in the department of geography and geology until his death. During his career Nick served as a guest professor at Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, Coventry College of Education in England, the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, the College of Education in Shanghai and Earth University in Costa Rica. He also served as consultant to the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Nick was an active member of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the International Geographical Honor Society, and served as the national editor of the GTU Journal, and was also a member of the Association of American Geographers, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, the Michigan Academy of Science and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Memorial contributions in Nick’s memory may be made to the Hogar Rafael Orphanage in Guatemala. Checks may be written to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 3109 Scio Church Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. Please state that the check is in memory of Nicholas Raphael.

C. Nicholas Raphael (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(5): 19.

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Tom McKnight

Tom McKnight died peacefully of kidney problems on February 16, 2004.

Shortly after his 75th birthday, he underwent hip replacement and during the rehabilitation process developed the kidney problems that lead to his death.

McKnight earned a bachelor of arts degree in geology at Southern Methodist in 1949, a master’s in geography at Colorado in 1951, and a Ph.D. in geography and meteorology at Wisconsin in 1955. He began a distinguished teaching and writing career at UCLA in 1956. He retired there in 1993, having gone from Assistant Professor to Full Professor, and was Professor Emeritus at the time of his death. He played many roles at UCLA in those thirty-seven years, and served as departmental Chair from 1978-83.

It was during his term as Chair that he initiated an outreach effort to community college teachers in Southern California. Periodic meetings of varied teachers led to a creative and stimulating interaction between faculty in different academic settings. The seeds of the national Geographic Alliance movement were planted in this McKnight-UCLA innovation. The National Geographic Society diffused this extraordinarily popular concept of teachers from K-12 through to graduate level all working together in the promotion of increased geographic interest, both in education and public awareness.

McKnight’s breadth of belief in geography is shown in his love of the concept of “landscape appreciation” which he defined as “an understanding of everything that one can see, hear, and smell—both actually and vicariously—in humankind’s zone of living on the earth.” During the last decade of his life, McKnight and his wife, geographer Joan Clemons, carried these interests to all corners of the world, and Tom wrote of the wonders of such geography in a number of evocative texts and numerous articles. Although Australia received the lion’s share of McKnight’s foreign fieldwork and writing, his global interests were catholic and touched all continents except Antarctica.

Anyone wishing to remember Tom McKnight in a more formal way is encouraged to send contributions to Friends of Geography (FOG) c/o Department of Geography, 1255 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524.

Tom McKnight (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(5): 19.

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Gustavo Antonini

Gustavo “Gus” Antonini of Gainesville, Florida, died February 7, 2004 at the age of sixty-six. Born in New York, Antonini came to Gainesville in 1969 and taught at the University of Florida for thirty years. He joined the AAG in 1964.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in geology and geography, a master’s degree in geography and coastal geomorphology, and his Ph.D. in geography from Columbia University.

At the University of Florida (UF), he worked at the Center for Latin American Studies and the geography department, and also worked with the Florida Sea Grant. His early work centered on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and his later work focused on waterway management.

Antonini created the Florida Sea Grant’s nationally recognized Boating and Waterway Management Program, which was named the top outreach effort among the nation’s thirty Sea Grant programs in 2003. In 2000, the program earned a leadership award from the Governor’s Council for Sustainable Florida.

After retirement from UF, Antonini opened a consulting firm, remaining active in Sea Grant’s waterways management program.

Gustavo Antonini (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(5): 19

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Bob Huke

Our friend and colleague, Bob Huke, passed away on January 17, 2004. Born March 3, 1925, Bob was a devoted and beloved geographer and friend of Dartmouth. He joined the AAG in 1949.

Huke earned his undergraduate from Dartmouth in 1948. After getting his Ph.D. in geography from Syracuse in 1953, he started teaching at Dartmouth immediately. In 1990 Bob retired and became an active emeritus professor. He was also a veteran and served honorably in the Marine Corps, where he received the Purple Heart after being wounded in Okinawa during WWII.

Bob enriched the lives of many through his teaching, research, and his involvement with the AAG. He served on numerous AAG committees at both the national level and as part of the New England St. Lawrence Valley division and he was a focal component of the Asia Specialty Group. Bob’s research interests focused primarily on Southeast Asia, and he was a specialist in agricultural and population geography. Bob was also extremely active in the Retired Geographers Specialty Group and served as their secretary-treasurer in 1999 and led hugely successful trips of the Retired Geographers Organization to Myanmar and Vietnam.

He had a long-term collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines. Bob wrote a series of key papers in the 1970s on the Green Revolution, and he had an international reputation for his work on the geography of food and hunger, the Green Revolution, and Southeast Asia. He published extensively and he was the chief investigator on projects funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, NASA, and the Fulbright Foundation.

To memorialize Bob’s ardent field scholarship and devoted undergraduate teaching, the department is establishing a research travel fund. We have numerous students doing senior honors theses every year, with many of them travelling overseas (as Bob would love). Donations may be made out to: Bob Huke Student Research Award, and mailed to: Kelly White, Department of Geography, 6017 Fairchild, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755.

Bob Huke (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(3): 11.

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Anastasia Van Burkalow

92, of Wantage, New Jersey, formerly of New York City, died January 14, 2004. Professor Van Burkalow had a long and distinguished record of service at the department of geography at Hunter College. She became an AAG member in 1948.

Anastasia Van Burkalow (Necrology). 2004. AAG Newsletter 39(3): 11.

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