In Memoriam

which he hoped to use to promote
both greater cross-disciplinary orga-
nizational contact and further inte-
gration of social scientists in Asia
and Africa. Having become fluent in
four or five languages, he thrived in
the atmosphere of international sci-
entific administration and had a
unique capacity for bringing both
vision and practicality to a wide
range of issues and projects. His
work on the international arena was
so very far from being completed.

With such a high profile as an ad-
ministrator in recent years, it's easy
to loose sight of Franco's consider-
able production as a social scientist.
He was author or coauthor of 10
major works and more than 60 arti-
cles and high-profile papers. More
important than the volume of his
production, however, was the grow-
ing range of his interests and re-
search involvements. Long recog-
nized in an international capacity in
the area of local governance, he had,
over the past five years or so, ex-
panded his interests to cover both
the politics of divided countries and
issues of sustainable development in
a North-South context. At the time
of his death, he was working with
colleagues from India and Eastern
Europe on comparative projects
along very different dimensions, hav-
ing returned to research again with
full vigour after his prolonged period
of initial illness.

Francesco Kjellberg was what they
would have called in the American
West "a man to be reckoned with."
He was possessed of a complex per-
sonality: a powerful and assertive
intelligence combined with deep res-
ervoirs of charm and wit. He had an
enormous sensitivity for injustice in
any form, and was always willing to
take the side of the underdog. He
also had a very strong "existentialist"
streak, constantly willing to explore
the personal implications of his own
positions, and ever on the alert for
"bad faith." He was also both excep-
tionally loyal and exceptionally open
in whatever he undertook. In short,
he was a man of integrity, a "tradi-
tionalist" in the very best sense of
the word.

With Franco's death, IPSA and
political scientists around the world
have lost a true friend and champion
of the discipline. Our thoughts and

deepest sympathies go out to his im-
mediate family who have lost such a
vital part of their lives at a much too
early date. He was a man who made
a difference, and he will long be re-
membered and honoured by col-
leagues and friends everywhere.

William M. Lafferty
University of Oslo

William Webster Lammers
It is with great sadness that we

report the death of William Webster
Lammers on October 7, 1997. He
died at the USC/Norris Cancer Hos-
pital in Los Angeles at the age of 60.

Bill was born in Waseca, Minne-
sota, and he received his A.B. in his-
tory in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.
in political science in 1960 and 1966,
respectively, from the University of
Minnesota. He was initiated into Phi
Beta Kappa during his junior year in
college, and he later served as fac-
ulty president of Phi Beta Kappa for
two years. He joined the department
of political science at the University
of Southern California as an instruc-
tor in 1964 and was appointed an
assistant professor in 1966. He was
promoted to associate professor in
1970 and to full professor in 1984.
He served on the faculty senate and
chaired the division of social sci-
ences promotion and tenure commit-
tee. He made frequent television,
radio, and speaking appearances,
particularly during election years,
and he served as a consultant on
social security issues for several
members of Congress.

Bill was acting chair from 1971-
1973 and again during the spring
semester of 1986. As we all know, it
takes a leader, a conciliator, a com-
promiser, a strong person, to head a
diverse group of independent-
minded academics. These are quali-
ties he had in abundance, along with
an integrity and genuineness that
shone through his persona. More-
over, he was always reliable. You
could always count on Bill. He sat
on a number of department and uni-
versity committees, and he always
came well prepared with notes, and
did not "wing it" as many of our col-
leagues have done.

Bill's research focused on Ameri-

can politics and public policy. He
was the author of two books on the
American presidency and three
books on aging policy. His papers
consistently appeared in the top po-
litical science journals, including
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Politi-
cal Science Quarterly, Policy Studies
Review, Canadian Journal of Political
Science, Publius, and American Jour-
nal of Political Science. He presented
papers at the annual meetings of the
American Political Science Associa-
tion and the Western Political Sci-
ence Association on a regular basis.

Bill developed a massive data base
on the professional background and
actions of individual presidents to
facilitate his research on executive
behavior and policy formation. Com-
pleted shortly before his death,
Comparing Presidents: Leadership and
Domestic Policy (CQ Press, forth-
coming) analyzes the leadership abil-
ities and styles of presidents from
FDR through Clinton. His article in
Political Science Quarterly, "Presiden-
tial Press Conference Schedules:
Who Hides, and When," provides an
extremely perceptive and insightful
study of when presidents choose to
hold news conferences and how
those decisions affect public opinion.
He also collaborated with Joseph
Nyomarkay on a major study of ca-
reer patterns of cabinet officials in
Austria, Canada, France, Germany,
and Great Britain.

Bill also wrote extensively about
aging policy in the United States. He
analyzed a wide variety of govern-
ment policies toward older adults in
Public Policy and the Aging, pub-
lished by CQ Press. "The aging are
destined to become a larger and
more influential segment of Ameri-
can society," he wrote in his 1983
book. "The falling birthrate begin-
ning in the early 1960s, coupled with
increases in life expectancy, makes
this demographic shift inevitable.
The number of older persons with
the personal resources and political
skills needed to participate in the
political process is growing, and
elected officials are becoming in-
creasingly sensitive to their voting
strength. The mixture of policies that
will emerge in response to those po-
litical and demographic changes will
have important implications not only
for present and future aged popula-

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tions but also for the very nature of
American society." Obviously, he
supplemented his fine research skills
with an effective crystal ball.

Bill was also a devoted teacher.
He regularly taught courses on the
presidency, comparative executive
behavior, federalism, state politics,
policy analysis, politics and aging,
and politics and health policy. He
taught both undergraduate and grad-
uate students, and he spent a great
deal of time outside the classroom
guiding his students. He probably
supervised more dissertations in the
American field than anyone else on
the faculty. Bill served for a number
of years on the selection committee
for state legislative internships. He
helped many students, not only at
USC, to serve as interns in Sacra-
mento, California.

In latter years, Bill also encour-
aged junior faculty. He was quick to
agree to serve on faculty review
committees, and he helped a number
of younger faculty to achieve promo-
tion and tenure.

While Bill's research often cen-
tered on important government pol-
icy and the politically powerful, he
was also concerned about the plight
of average Americans. He once said
in an interview with the media that
"All of us should remind ourselves
of the importance of ordinary acts of
kindliness, like offering to drive an
elderly neighbor to a physician or
just calling up your 80 year-old
grandmother to ask how she's doing.
To individually reach out and touch
someone among the elderly—by
telephone or otherwise—is really as
consequential in its own way as any
type of collective reform."

In short, Bill was an outstanding
scholar and teacher. His research on
the presidency, in particular, has
shed important light on that critical
office. He was an exemplary col-
league and the moral backbone of
our department. His presence, wis-
dom, and good humor will be sorely
missed.

Bill is survived by his wife, Mary,
and daughters Linda and Caroline
Lammers.

Sheldon Kamieniecki
University of Southern California

Marcella A. MacDonald
Marcella A. MacDonald, 57, assis-

tant professor of political science at
SUNY-Brockport, died at her Brock-
port home in November 1997. Mac-
Donald had taught at Brockport
since 1968, specializing in political
theory and women's studies. She was
active in faculty governance, includ-
ing service as chair of her depart-
ment's governance committee, as a
Faculty Senator, as a representative
to the faculty union, and as a mem-
ber of the Women's Studies Board.
She was born in Timmins, Ont., and
had degrees from the University of
Brunswick (B. A.), the University of
Melbourne (M.A.), and Yale Uni-
versity (Ph.D.). Dr. MacDonald was
a bright, witty, compassionate
teacher, colleague, and friend. She
scorned the traditional formalities of
faculty-student relations and culti-
vated long-standing friendships with
many of her students.

William G. Andrews
SUNY-Brockport

Robert Dale Miewald
Robert D. Miewald, professor of

political science at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, died October 18,
1997. Bob was born in Chinook,
Montana, May 16, 1938. As a boy,
he came to know ranching and farm-
ing on the Montana plains. After
selling the ranch, the family moved
to Enterprise, Oregon, where his
father was employed by the Forest
Service. Bob graduated from Enter-
prise High School in 1956 and from
the University of Oregon in 1960.
From 1961 to 1963, he served in the
U.S. Army. Following military ser-
vice, he completed his doctorate in
political science at the University of
Colorado.

Bob began his professional career
at California State University, Long
Beach, where he was an assistant
professor and coordinator of the
graduate program in public adminis-
tration. In 1971, he joined the fac-
ulty of the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln as an associate professor.
He was promoted to full professor in
1978. At Nebraska, Bob served as
chair of the department from 1974
to 1977 and 1988-1990. From 1978,

he served as the director of the
graduate specialization in policy
analysis and program evaluation.

Bob was a master teacher, an en-
gaging and thoughtful writer, an un-
selfish colleague, dear friend, and
mentor. A quite and reserved man
in most social settings, in the class-
room he was a performer. Whether
teaching a class of several hundred
or a seminar of less than ten,
whether first year or graduate stu-
dents, Bob made the often dry sub-
ject matter of public administration
come to life. Courses in personnel
administration, budgeting, and man-
agement are not the stuff that typi-
cally turns students on, but Bob was
able to do so. His classes were al-
ways full and the students always left
with a smile. His style and approach
are reflected in his book, Public Ad-
ministration: A Critical Perspective.
He opens with a quote from Ralph
Waldo Emerson, "There are some
subjects which have kind of a right
to dull treatment. Public administra-
tion has always been one of those
subjects." With criticism and humor,
he could turn the dull into the de-
lightful.

Bob also reached students because
he had something to say. He would
walk them through the world of ad-
ministration but the journey would
not stop with the mechanical and
superficial. He dealt with issues at
the core. To him, administration and
organization were important because
they were a way to get things done,
but he always cautioned his students
to be aware of the dehumanizing
potential that lay in the bowels of
many an organization. First and
foremost, he would remind them,
stay committed to your fellow per-
son. Bob would often drive home
the point, "being in charge is never
an excuse for being a bastard."
Many a student left his classroom
with a greater understanding of ad-
ministration. More importantly,
many left with a greater understand-
ing of the human condition.

In spite of his success as a
teacher, Bob would not allow him-
self to be nominated for a teaching
award. No one knows why; Bob
didn't share such things. We suspect
that for him, turning students on was
simply the job and didn't deserve
special recognition.

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