Thursday, April 10, 2008

Laurence A. TateGrants Manager

Laurence A. "Larry" Tate, 62, who managed grants for the national HIV/AIDS Prevention Program at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, died of lung cancer March 26 at the Capital Hospice's Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington. He was a resident of Washington.

Since 1993, Mr. Tate had supervised grant funds that the mayors' conference received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for projects on HIV/AIDS prevention in cities and on tribal reservations.

Mr. Tate also had been writing and speaking about AIDS treatment and prevention for under-served minorities since the early 1980s.

Early on, he was known for his film criticism and antiwar essays. He also wrote about the experience of being gay in America for journals, the alternative press and the anthologies "Personal Dispatches" (1989), "Hometowns" (1992), "A Member of the Family" (1992) and "Friends and Lovers" (1996).

Mr. Tate was born in Washington and graduated from Michigan State University's Honors College. While there, he co-founded the Paper, an independent community newspaper.

In 1989, he became manager of the national hotline for Project Inform, a San Francisco-based clearinghouse for AIDS treatment information.

Mr. Tate, whose mother was a Cherokee, was a member of the Cherokee Nation and Native Americans in Philanthropy. He was a former member of the board of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center.

He leaves no immediate survivors.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Harold Eugene Horan, 80, a State Department official and onetime ambassador to Malawi, died March 12 of complications of a stroke at the Washington Home hospice in the District. He was a Washington resident.

Mr. Horan was a lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission before joining the State Department's Foreign Service in 1960. His foreign tours took him to postings in Iran, Italy, Mali and Liberia before he was named ambassador to Malawi by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. He resigned in 1981 and briefly served as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs before retiring.

He then taught international relations at Georgetown University and served as deputy director of the university's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy until 1987. He also worked as a consultant on African affairs.

Mr. Horan was born in Houston and served in the Army during World War II. He was a graduate of Rice University and the University of Houston law school in the early 1950s.

During the 1970s, he attended the National War College and served as an adviser on African affairs to the National Security Council. In retirement, he volunteered to help Alzheimer's patients at IONA Senior Services in Washington.

His marriage to Bonnie M. Horan ended in divorce.

Survivors include his companion, Mary Brady of Washington; three children, Elizabeth Verderosa of Metuchen, N.J., Tessa Bell of Flemington, N.J., and James Horan of Rockville; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel