George A. Silver HEW Official
George A. Silver, 91, deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1965 to 1968 and an emeritus professor of public health at Yale Medical School, died Jan. 7 at his home in Chevy Chase. He had cancer.
Dr. Silver's HEW work included policy development and legislative recommendations in the fields of manpower as well as health facilities and resources internationally. He stayed in Washington until 1971 as executive associate for health affairs at the Urban Coalition. He worked at Yale until 1984 and moved to Chevy Chase from New Haven, Conn., in 2001.
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He served in the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World War II, helping to liberate Dachau and other concentration camps. From 1951 to 1965, he was chief of the social medicine division at Montefiore Hospital in New York.
His memberships in medical organizations were extensive and included the World Health Organization's expert committee on medical care. He also served as secretary of the Federation of American Scientists' national council.
Gerald Roberts Rodeo Star
Gerald Roberts, 85, twice named the world's best all-around cowboy who later worked as a stuntman in Western films, died Dec. 31 in his home town of Abilene, Tex. No cause of death was reported.
Mr. Roberts won his first all-around world title in 1942 and a second championship six years later. He was an original inductee in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1965 and in 1990 was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. He was the first professional rodeo cowboy to endorse Wrangler jeans and later started a rodeo gear company. He also worked as a stunt double in Hollywood for actors Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon.
His family was steeped in rodeo. His father, Emmett "E.C." Roberts, a stock producer who started Roberts Rodeo Co., frequently held impromptu rodeos on the family's ranch near Strong City, Kan. His older brother, Ken, was a three-time world champion bull rider, and his sister, Marge, was a champion bronco rider.
Donald Oscar Pederson Semiconductor Designer
Donald Oscar Pederson, 79, who laid the groundwork for advances in the design of complex integrated circuits, died Dec. 25 at a health care center in Concord, Calif. He had Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Pederson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, won international acclaim for his contributions to the microelectronics industry. In the 1960s, he and his students designed a circuit simulation program, still in use, that became the basis for simulation tools used throughout the chip industry.
In addition to establishing integrated circuit design as an academic discipline, Dr. Pederson helped the university create the first academic semiconductor fabrication facility. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2001, the Donald O. Pederson Center for Electronic Systems Design was dedicated at Berkeley.
Danny Sugerman Doors Manager
Danny Sugerman, 50, who went from a teenage fan of the Doors to manager of the rock group in its later years, died of lung cancer Jan. 5 at his home in West Hollywood, Calif.
Mr. Sugerman co-wrote the acclaimed 1980 biography of lead singer Jim Morrison, "No One Here Gets Out Alive."
A confidant of Morrison and the other musicians, Sugerman promoted their music years after the band's fame peaked. He consulted on Oliver Stone's 1991 film "The Doors" and put out two compilations of song lyrics, Morrison poetry and articles about the band.
A native of the Los Angeles area, Mr. Sugerman was hooked on the Doors after seeing a concert at age 13. He was hired by Morrison a year later to put together a band scrapbook and fell into the rock-and-roll lifestyle.
