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DR. FAITH P. DREHER, curator of the Widener Museum from September 1978 and recognized expert in the field of Northem Baroque painting, died Oct. 18, 1979 of leukemia after an illness of six months. She was 34. A former president of the Philadelphia League of Women Voters, she was graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1967 and earned two master's and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. As Widener's curator, she developed the Museum's Lunch Box Lecture Series, a program of lunchtime lectures and workshops in the arts, and was instrumental in the negotiations that led to the merger with the Alfred O. Deshong Museum. On several occasions, she was a con- sultant to art museums in this country and abroad, in- cluding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, and the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. DR. SOPHOCLES M. SOPHOCLES, who joined the College faculty in 1959 as professor of philosophy died in Brigantine, NJ, on August 31, 1979 at the age of 58. He served the College in numerous administrative and teaching capacities but was perhaps best known as the fomier dean of cultural affairs and directior of the Wedener Museum. A native of Cyprus who had earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Dr. Sophocles was on sabbatical leave from the College at the time of his death. - GABRIEL LUKAS, assistant professor of humanities, died on May 31, 1980 at the age of 68. He had retired from full-time teaching in 1977 after 12 years at Widener. A native of Deva, Hungary, he attended the University of Padua, Italy, from 1930 to 1932 and received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, NY, in 1961. A private music teacher for some 25 years, he frequently published articles on art and music. While at Widener, he introduced the College's first course in modern art and a study tour of American art museums. As a member of the Library Committee, he was largely responsible for in- creasing the College's art books, slides and phonograph records. The College has established the Gabriel Lukas Memorial Fund to maintain and expand the collection of music and art books which Prof. Lukas bequeathed to the College 2
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