Sunday, November 18, 2007
Avery DeLano AndrewsGWU History Professor
Avery DeLano Andrews, 80, who taught early modern history at George Washington University for 38 years, died of pancreatic cancer Nov. 3 at the Washington Home.
Dr. Andrews, a specialist in the Venetian empire, spanned classical, medieval and Renaissance topics in his teaching and research. His professional interests included ancient and modern languages, philosophy, literary criticism, anthropology and cognitive science.
In addition to his duties in the history department, Dr. Andrews for many years was assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, helping to establish new curricula such as the Museum Studies program. He also served as conference co-chair for the American Historical Association and president of the Friends of the Gelman Library. He retired in 2003.
He was born in New York City and spent his early years in Paris, where his father practiced law. He graduated from Harvard College. He served in the Army at the end of World War II, based in the United States in the Signal Corps.
He received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953 and practiced in Philadelphia for several years before returning to Penn to study history. He received a doctorate in 1961. Dr. Andrews moved to Washington and joined the George Washington University faculty in 1965.
He was a tireless traveler who crossed the country many times and visited all 48 contiguous states. He also traveled extensively in Europe and Turkey and lived for a time in Italy.
His marriage to Emily Wood ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Carolyn Neff Andrews; six children from his first marriage, Emily Nesvadba of Montreal, Lucy Cummin of Philadelphia, Marion Thorne of Geneseo, N.Y., Avery Andrews III of Canberra, Australia, Owen Andrews of Cambridge, Mass., and John Andrews of Philadelphia; two sons from his second marriage, Philip Andrews of Larkspur, Calif. and Charles Andrews of Cheverly; a sister; and 13 grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Elizabeth Charlton JonesSecretary
Elizabeth Charlton Jones, 83, a secretary for Bechtel and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, died of lymphoma Nov. 5 at her daughter's home in Fairfax County. She lived in Fort Hunt.
Mrs. Jones was born in Langley Park, County Durham, England, and drove trucks and ambulances at the Yorkshire air field for the Royal Air Force during World War II. She married an American soldier and moved to Lancaster, Pa., then Marquette, Mich. They settled in the Washington area in 1960, and lived for 43 years in Upper Marlboro.
She began working for Bechtel in 1978, when the company was a contractor building Metro's subway system. In addition to working as a secretary, she was a dispatcher in the field material testing lab when the subway was being built.
In 1987, her job was transferred to Metro, where she worked until retiring in 1991.
After retiring, she painted, made pottery and traveled across the United States and around the world. She also took classes at Prince George's Community College.
She was a member of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Upper Marlboro.
Her husband of 34 years, Melvin Jones, died in 1978.
Survivors include three children, David Jones of Severna Park, Deborah Jones Crawford of Alexandria and Jere Jones of Dunkirk; a sister; three brothers; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Gino R. TeriRestaurant General Manager
Gino R. Teri, 82, who was the general manager for several Washington area restaurants, died Oct. 17 at the Villa Rosa Nursing Home in Mitchellville, where he had lived for four years. He had pneumonia after suffering a stroke.
Mr. Teri was born in Washington and was a graduate of the old Western High School. He served as a Navy radioman aboard the USS Appalachian in World War II.
After the war, he worked with the Veterans Administration and graduated from American University. He was a certified public accountant.
He worked for about 30 years with a group of six restaurants owned by Aldo Prati and his family: Aldo's, the Eagle's Nest, the Turtle, Channel House and the Rotunda, all in Washington, and the Linden Inn in Bethesda.
Mr. Teri greeted diners as a restaurant host and manager and was the restaurants' accountant. He retired in the 1980s.
He was a volunteer handyman with the old Immaculate Conception High School in Washington.
For many years, Mr. Teri shared a house in Washington with his mother, twin brother, Leo, and several nieces and nephews. He later lived in Arlington County and had a weekend cottage on the South River in Maryland.
Survivors include a brother, Ulderigo G. Teri of Forestville.
-- Matt Schudel
Wesley A. GeraldFairfax County Dispatcher
Wesley Alan Gerald, 43, who had spent 20 years as a fire and police dispatcher for Fairfax County's 911 center before retiring last month, died Nov. 4 at Georgetown University Hospital. He had complications from a kidney transplant.
He was a Fairfax County native and a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School.
He was a carpenter before joining the 911 center. For much of his career, he was a photographer for Bailey's Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department.
He was a resident of the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. His memberships included Lincolnia United Methodist Church. As a young man, he was in the Fairfax 4-H club.
His marriage to Mary Ann Jordan Gerald ended in divorce.
Survivors include his mother, Jill Gerald of Fairfax County; a sister; and a grandmother, Mary Gerald of Alexandria.
-- Adam Bernstein
Claire L. PhillipsBudget Analyst
Claire L. Phillips, 85, a retired budget analyst for the Navy Department, died of a heart attack Oct. 22 at the Annapolitan Care Center, an assisted living community in Annapolis.
Born in Paterson, N.J., Ms. Phillips moved with her family to North Carolina in the 1930s. She attended Elon College, later moved to Northern Virginia and lived in Alexandria for more than 50 years. She moved to Annapolis last month.
She joined the Navy Department in 1952 and worked as a budget analyst for 38 years. She retired as a financial management officer for the Naval Civilian Personnel Center in 1990.
Ms. Phillips was active in social, charitable and professional organizations in Northern Virginia, including Beta Sigma Phi sorority and the Business and Professional Women's Club of Northern Virginia. She served as president of Beta Sigma Phi and president and district director of the Business and Professional Women's Club.
She enjoyed traveling, collecting and creating a variety of crafts and needlework, holiday baking and caring for her pets. A voracious reader, she had a particular fondness for mysteries.
She had no immediate survivors.
-- Joe Holley
David J. GreenburgLaw Association Executive
David Julius Greenburg, 82, founding executive director of the National Health Lawyers Association, which became one of the country's largest legal education societies, died Nov. 14 at George Washington University Hospital. He had respiratory failure.
Mr. Greenburg had a pivotal role in the association's founding in 1971 and spent 20 years as its executive director. At the time the organization started, health law was not a major specialty, although Medicare and Medicaid had recently been enacted.
He also had a key part in the creation of the American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, which merged with the National Health Lawyers Association in 1997 to form the American Health Lawyers Association.
Mr. Greenburg was born in Atlantic City and spent much of his childhood in what was the British mandate of Palestine. As a child, he contracted polio; he walked with a cane most of his life.
He was a graduate of Boston University and its law school. Early in his career, he was an adviser at the Labor Department solicitor general's office and did legal work for the American Hospital Association. At the hospital association in 1967, he helped start what became the American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys.
Survivors include a sister.
-- Adam Bernstein