Reporter Volume 25, No.14 January 14, 1994

Townsend memorial service held
A memorial service was held Dec. 22 at the Burchfield Art Center in
Buffalo for James B. (Ben) Townsend, emeritus professor of English and
a noted scholar of American art. 
	Townsend died of cancer Dec. 13 in his Buffalo home. He was
75. 
	Responsible for numerous exhibits at the Burchfield Center,
Townsend had several published works on art and literature to his
credit. These included John Davidson: Poet of Armageddon, Charles
Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place and This New Man: A
Discourse in Portraits. He was also editor and compiler of Nineteenth
Century American Painting and Painters.
	Townsend was founding assistant director of the Smithsonian
Institution's National Portrait Gallery; served on the Albright-Knox
Art Gallery advisory council, and was an art critic for The Buffalo
News in the early 1960s. 
	A native of Stillwater, Townsend moved to Western New York in
1957 when he took a job at UB, retiring from teaching in 1983. A
specialist in English literature of the Victorian period, he had also
taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
	Townsend held a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a
master's from Harvard University and a doctorate from Yale University,
all in English literature. During World War II, he served in the
Office of Strategic Services in Europe.
	Survivors include his wife, the former Jeanette Rice; two
daughters, Josephine Kaestner of Baltimore and Clarissa Townsend of
New York City; two sons, Jackson of New Orleans and Rhys of Worcester,
Mass.; a brother, Jackson of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; a sister Frances
Townsend, also of Myrtle Beach, five grandchildren; two
step-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild.

John Archea, architecture professor, dies
A memorial service will be held today in the James Dyett Exhibition
Hall, third floor Hayes Hall, South Campus, for John Archea, an
associate professor of architecture at the university, who died Dec.
16 of a heart attack while on sabbatical in Mexico. He was 51.
	A UB faculty member since 1987, Archea had been working on a
book while staying in Merida, a city on the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula.
	Much of Archea's work during the past 20 years was centered on
the ways in which human beings respond to space and the way space is
formed. He had studied the architectural aspects of falls on stairs,
criminal behavior in public places and the actions taken by building
occupants during fires and earthquakes.
	He had received a grant from the National Center for
Earthquake Engineering Research, headquartered at UB, to study the
behavior of survivors of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
	His most recent work involved comparing modes of behavior in
space in the non-Western worldQspecifically Islamic countriesQto those
in the Western world.
	He was actively involved with the Environmental Design
Research Association, serving as chair of the board of directors from
1978-80 and organizing the association's annual conference from
1970-86.
	Before joining the UB faculty, he was on the faculty of the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He also had worked for the National
Bureau of Standards, researching the architectural factors associated
with domestic-stairway accidents and the evacuation of elderly and
handicapped patients from hospital and nursing home fires.
	He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the
University of Cincinnati and a doctorate in man-environment relations
from The Pennsylvania State University.
	He is survived by his mother, Marion, of Cincinnati; a
daughter, Kim, of Minneapolis, and a son, Guy, of Buffalo.
	His remains were to be cremated and scattered over the town of
Ronda, Spain.