Obituary

Isabel E. Reed, 81, nursing professor

Isabel E. Reed, who taught for many years in the UB School of Nursing, died Feb. 23 in Gloucester, Mass., after a brief illness. She had moved to Rockport, Mass., after her retirement in 1980.

A 1938 graduate of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in Massachusetts, where she worked as a staff nurse, she served in the Army Nurse Corps, spending several years in India and Iran before being discharged in 1947 with the rank of captain. She earned a bachelor's degree in supervision, medical/surgical nursing and a master's degree in nursing services administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.

She held nursing positions at the University of Rochester before accepting a post in 1965 as a consultant for the UB School of Nursing at the National University of Asuncion in Paraguay. She aided in the establishment of a nursing school there under a project co-sponsored by UB and the U.S. Aid for International Development program. In 1968, she returned to UB as an associate professor in the School of Nursing, teaching medical/surgical nursing and nursing-service administration until her retirement.

Life of Alan E. Cober to be celebrated

A celebration of the life of Alan E. Cober, one of America's foremost illustrators who served as a visiting professor and Distinguished Visiting Artist at UB since 1986, will be held tomorrow at 5 p.m. in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. A reception will follow in the atrium balcony lounge.

Cober died Jan. 17 after suffering a heart attack while vacationing in Florida. He was 62.

His work was published in major magazines and commissioned by many Fortune 500 companies; among his clients were Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, NBC and CBS. He also was known for his book of drawings, "The Forgotten Society," depicting the lives of people at Willowbrook, the New York State institution.

The Department of Art has established an Alan E. Cober Memorial Fund, endowing an annual scholarship in drawing, to be awarded by the faculty to a student with exceptional ability.