Reporter Volume 25, No.29 June 13, 1994

Wilhelmina M. Godfrey, artist, craftsman
Wilhelmina M. Godfrey, a noted artist and fine arts weaver who was an
instructor at the UB Creative Crafts Center from 1967-70 and organized
weaving programs at UB, died May 13 in Buffalo General Hospital after
a long illness. She was 79.
	Godfrey, who attended the Art Institute of Buffalo and the
Albright Art School in the 1940s, was a founder and director of the
Langston Hughes Center. She began weaving in 1958, creating abstract
works based on African art themes. In 1974, she received a craftsmenUs
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and earned a
scholarship to the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle,
Maine.
	In 1990 she received the Buffalo and Erie County Arts Council
Individual Artist Award, and that same year, a retrospective of her
paintings, prints and weaving was presented at Medaille College, which
established a gallery to display her works.
	A life member of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and a past
officer of the galleryUs Members Council, and of the Buffalo
Craftsmen, she was a board member of the New York State Craftsmen, a
member of the African-American Crafts Council, the National Conference
of Artists, and Arts Development Services of Buffalo. She was a member
of the advisory board of the Arts Committee for Erie Community College
City Campus and the art advisory committee for the Metro Rail system.
	Survivors include her husband of 58 years, William; a
daughter, Carol Wing of West Seneca; a brother, William McAlpin and a
goddaughter, Catherine Butler-Quarles of Dayton, Ohio.

Paul L. Garvin, professor emeritus of linguistics at UB, died of
pneumonia May 15 in Hoboken, N.J. A resident of Buffalo, he was 74.
	A native of Czechoslovakia, Garvin retired from UB in 1990
after a 21-year career at the university that included two terms as
chair of the Department of Linguistics. He was an internationally
known expert in the areas of language problems and policy and planning
issues, and language in education. His research interests also
included machine translation, problems of linguistic theory and
method, semiotics and socio- and ethno-linguistics.
	Garvin had traveled extensively throughout Latin America,
teaching under Fulbright grants in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. He
had served as a consultant to the French Language Council of the
Quebec government, was an honored guest of the Irish Language Board of
the Republic of Ireland, and was a guest of the Second International
Congress of the Catalan Language of the Catalan regional government of
Spain.
	Since his retirement, Garvin held appointments in
anthropological linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno,
Czechoslovakia, and at the University of Prague. He spent half of his
time in Europe and half in Buffalo, where he lived on Lafayette
Avenue. He occasionally taught at UB and remained involved in student
advisement, says longtime friend Wolfgang Wolck, UB professor of
linguistics. Garvin also was a great fan of jazz, Wolck adds.
	Garvin is survived by his wife, Madeleine Mathiot, UB
professor of linguistics; a daughter, Deborah J. Garvin of Hoboken; a
son, Craig A. Garvin of Detroit, and a grandson.
	Funeral services were held May 21 in Forest Lawn Chapel. A
memorial service will be held at UB, the date and time of which will
be announced.

L. Maxwell Lockie, arthritis pioneer
Memorial services were held June 4 in the Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd, Buffalo, for L. Maxwell Lockie, Sr., professor emeritus of
therapeutics at UB and an international authority on the treatment of
arthritis. Lockie died May 20, 1994 at age 90 in Escondido, Calif.,
where he moved four years ago.
	He served as professor and head of the Department of
Therapeutics at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from
1939 until his retirement in January, 1985.
	Lockie graduated from the UB School of Pharmacy in 1923 and
from UBUs medical school in 1929.
	One of the first specialists in rheumatology in the world, he
lectured widely on the subject. In 1989, he was named to the
prestigious rank of RmasterS by the American College of Rheumatology.
He was a past president of the American Rheumatism Association, the
forerunner of the American College of Rheumatology, and a fellow of
the American College of Physicians.
	Lockie served as a consultant in rheumatology at the Erie
County Medical Center, Buffalo General and Millard Fillmore hospitals
and The ChildrenUs Hospital of Buffalo, where he founded one of this
countryUs first clinics for children with arthritis.
	During his medical career, Lockie examined and treated more
than 26,000 patients with complaints of arthritis and developed
methods of diagnosis and treatment now used worldwide. He published
more than 125 articles and book chapters as well as co-authoring a
book, RProgress in Arthritis.S
	Survivors include two sons, L. Maxwell, Jr. of Newport Beach,
Calif., and Dr. George N. of Escondido; four grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.