The New York Times - USA (2020-07-28)

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIESTUESDAY, JULY 28, 2020 Y A21

Brent, Albert Eisen, Ricky Frumkin, Steven Greeley, Richard Hochman, Harold

Karp, Naomi Levine, Helen McCaffrey, Joan Reid, Edward Richman, Fred

Rozen, Toby Silverstein, Joan Sturim, Marilyn

BRENT—Albert. Died July 19, 2020, 99 years, 11 months and 8 days. Beloved father of Bruce (Chistine Simpson), Richard (Elizabeth Wieckowski), Bradley (Denise Gindlesper- ger) and Robert. Cherished grandfather ofLeisaand Wyatt Brent, Camille Wieck- owski Brent, and Aidan and Nova Wittenstein Brent. De- voted husbandofMarcia Singer. Predeceased by dear son Brian, adored first wife Georgine (Babel), with whom he had five sons, and who he thought of every day, and se- cond wife, Elaine Smiley.

EISEN—Ricky I. Wenotewithsorrowthe passing of ourmember, Ricky I. Eisen and extend sin- cerest condolences to her be- reaved family. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and President Jeremy Fielding, Central Synagogue of New York City.

FRUMKIN—Steven. Loving and devoted father to Sarah Benson (Matthew) and Jacob Frumkin (Robyn), Zaydie to Alec, Cassidy, Tate, and Graham, and brother to Mitchell Frumkin and Karen Zweben (Alan). His unique brand of humor, enjoyment of the “schvitz,” appreciation of all things New York City, and enthusiasm for political debate all were rivaled by his passion for educational ad- vancement and mentoring at the Fashion Institute of Tech- nology where he served as the Dean of the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology. He appreciated

world travel, often serving as an educator at, advisor to, and collaborator with foreign institutions. To honor his le- gacy, a designated donation to the Dean Steven Frumkin Scholarship Fund at FIT can be made at fitnyc.edu/give or by mail to FIT Foundation, c/oDeanStevenFrumkin Scholarship Fund, 227 W. 27th Street, C907, NY, NY 10001. GREELEY—Richard Stiles. December 25, 1927, died May

Ph.D. Chemist, environ-
mentalscientist, Harvard
1949.WidowerofLoretta
Betke Greeley. Donations to
the Alzheimer's Association.
Memorial service to be an-
nounced.
Richard Stiles Greeley, Jr.
Benjamin Betke Greeley
HOCHMAN—Harold
Marvin,
age 84, of Sunapee, NH, died
of heart and kidney failure on
July 25, 2020 at Dartmouth
HitchcockMedicalCenter.
Born on January 15, 1936 in
New Haven, CT, he split time
between New York City and
Sunapee. He was the son of
Sam and Bessie Hochman of
Shelton, CT. He graduated
from Hopkins Grammar
School in 1953 and from Yale
University with a BA in 1957
and a PhD in Economics in

He married Merle (Kap-
pie) Kaplan on August 24,
1958 and had two daughters,
Betsy (deceased) and Sandy.
He is survived by his wife
Kappie, daughter Sandy, her
husband Ciaran Lesikar, and
two grandchildren. He loved
to travel Europe. Italy and
France were particular favo-
rites, since Hal was an enthu-
siastic food and wine connois-

seur. Hal was an economics professor and held positions at the University of Virginia, the Urban Institute, Baruch CollegeandtheGraduate Center at CUNY, and Lafay- ette College. Over the years, he enjoyed his time as visit- ing professor at UC Berkley, London School of Econom- ics, Hebrew University of Je- rusalem,WilliamsCollege, Wesleyan University and many times at the University of Torino where he made many lifelong friends. Over the course of his academic career Hal published several dozen articles and edited sev- en books. He served as Editor oftheEasternEconomic Journal and was on the Edi- torial Boards of the National Tax Journal and the Public Finance Quarterly for many years. Hal's research contributions to economics fall under four main headings: utili- ty interdependence and redistribution, redistribution through public choice, mod- els of urban crisis and economics of addictive behavior. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Survivor Mitzvah Project, 2658 Griffith Park Blvd., Suite 299, Los Angeles, CA 90039 (www.survivormitzvah.org).

KARP—Naomi J., age 93, passed away on July 24, 2020 in Fort Myers, Flori- da. She was predeceased in 2008 by her husband, Martin Karp.NaomiandMartin were the devoted parents of Betsy, Leslie, and Jonathan, the loving grandparents of Joshua, Jennie, Julia, Natha- niel, Jacqueline, Isaac, and Julie, and the delighted great- grandparents of Amelia, James, Zachary, and Arian- na. Naomi was the sister of Ruth Green, and was predeceased by her brother, Alan Kaplan, both of whom were very dear to her. Raised in Queens, New York, and a

proud graduate of Queens College, Naomi was a vibrant, funny, and intellectually curi- ous lady. She was an accom- plished author of young adult fiction, a newspaper reporter fortheWestportNews,a bookeditor at Chatham Press, Membership Director atthe Jewish Museum in New York, a passionate volunteer for children's advoca- cy groups and Jewish organizations, and an enthusiastic participant in the New York City cultural scene. However, her greatest devotion was to her family whom she loved with all her heart. Sadly, because she was isolated due to Covid-19, her family could not be at her side during her final days. A private family service will be held in Norwalk, CT. Memorial donations may be made in Naomi's name to CASA-NYC: [email protected]. LEVINE—Helen. CongregationRodephSho- lom mourns the passing of our longtime, devoted mem- ber Helen Levine, widow of Julian. We extend our heart- feltcondolencestoRuth, Lois, Leila, and all their dear ones. Robert N. Levine, DD, Senior Rabbi Peter Ehrenberg, President McCAFFREY—Joan Maria Cox, May 7, 1942 - July 26, 2020. Joan Maria Cox McCaffrey ofBronxville, NY, died at Lawrence Hospital on July 26, 2020, of pancreatic cancer. Joan was the devoted wife of James B. McCaffrey and the beloved mother of Mary Eli- zabeth (Mimi) of New York City,Kathleen McCaffrey Baynes of Albany, NY, Sara Jane McCaffrey of Philadel- phia, PA, Deirdre McCaffrey of Greenwich, CT, Clare Mc- Caffrey of Alexandria, VA, and Kiera McCaffrey Pou- made of Alexandria, Virginia. She is survived also by her

sons - in - law, Christopher Baynes,Matthew Bidwell, RobertMate,andJames Poumade. Joan was the devoted grandmother of Taylor McCaffrey, Emmett and AnnaBaynes,Jamesand Margaret (”Daisy”) Bidwell, andMaria,Dulce,Robert (”Beto”), and Cecelia (”Ceci”) Mate. Joan is also survived by her brother and sister-in- law,MichaelandPatricia Cox, of Savannah, Georgia, and her sister-in-law, Rose- marie McCaffrey Keane of Westhampton, NY. Joan was born in the Bronx in 1942. Her parents were Mary (Doherty) and Michael Cox, both born in Ireland. Joan attended Sacred Heart School in Highbridge, as did her future husband, James McCaffrey. She graduated from St. Jean Baptiste High School in New York City, and received her BachelorofSciencefrom D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY. She was a Registered Nurse. Joan Cox and James McCaffrey were married at Sacred Heart Church in 1965. In 1973, they moved to Bronx- ville, NY, where they have lived ever since. After Joan raised their six daughters, she received a degree in computer science at Iona College. Later, she was a successful headhunter. When she finally retired, she began volunteer- ing at Calvary Hospital, even- tually being honored as Vol- unteer of the Year in 2014. She continued to volunteer, even when she was being treated for cancer, stopping only in February of this year. Shewas anenthusiastic bridgeplayerwhowasa mainstay when it came to or-

ganizing the biweekly bridge games.St.JosephChurch was central to her life, which reflected her devotion to her Catholic faith. Friends are in- vited to visit at the Fred H. McGrath & SonFuneral Home this Tuesday, July 28, between the hours of 4pm and 8pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at 9:45am at St. Joseph Church in Bronxville, NY. People re- questing organizations to which to make donations in Joan's honor may consider Calvary Hospital, Bronx, NY, fund.calvaryhospital.org) and Pregnancy Care Center Inc emr4motherandchild.org. REID—Edward S. III. Davis Polk mourns the loss of our dear friend and former partner Ted Reid. Our deep- est sympathies are with the Reid family. A 1951 graduate of Yale University, Ted went on to serve in the U.S. Marine CorpsReservesonactive dutybeforereceivinghis LL.B.fromHarvardLaw School in 1956. He joined Da- vis Polk in 1957, became a partnerin 1964 andlater served on the firm's Manage- ment Committee. Ted will be greatly missed by the entire Davis Polk community. RICHMAN—Fred, of New York and Sarasota, FL, died on July 26, 2020 after a long illness, with his loving wife of 74 years, Rita (Shaine) at his side. Born in New York City to Ruby and Ada (Lux- emburg) Richman on July 18, 1922, Fred attended De Witt Clinton High School and New York University. After serving in World War II, Fred re-

turned home to join his father's wholesale textile business. A few years later, he transformed the business into Richloom Fabrics, based in Manhattan. He was a devoted family man, taking great pride in his daughter, Carol (Harry Penn) and son James (Elissa). He was Papa to his four grandchildren, Michael Saivetz (Amy), Aliza Glasser (Daniel), Jake Richman and Katie Richman. And he adored his five great- grandchildren, Noah, Lila, and Zoe Saivetz and Elliot and Abigail Glasser. In addition to his business success, Fred was an inveterate traveler. He and Rita traveled around the world, hiking in the Himalayas, and their beloved Zermatt, Switzerland - where there is to this day a bench dedicatedtothem both.After retiring from Richloorn, FredandRita moved to Sarasota. There, Fred pursued his interests in music and in photography. At the Sarasota Bay Club, where they resided, Fred founded a jazz group with several other residents.Theyperformed multiple times. Additionally, Fred used computer aided drawingto create master- pieces from his photographs. Fred was a dedicated philan- thropist. He and Rita contributed to multiple Jewish organizations, including UJA- NY and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. They alsocontributedto Brandeis and Case Western Reserve Universities. In the art world, Fred contributed works of primitive art to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and to the High

Museum in Atlanta. Because of the pandemic, funeral and shiva services are private. Gifts in his memory would be welcome by Planned Parent- hood, UJA-Federation, New York (ujafedny.org), and the American Jewish Joint Distri- bution Committee (jdc.oreway-to- give). ROZEN—Toby S., 79, of Scarsdale, NY passed away on July 25th. Her husband, Michael Rozen, passed away just three weeks prior, shortly after they had celebrated their 60th wedding an- niversary. Toby was born in Yonkers, NY to Joseph F. and AliceStein.Sheattended Yonkers schools and Bran- deis University before leaving to start a family. A be- lovedmother andgrand- mother, Toby is survived by her three children Nancy Fei- bus (Arthur), Laurie Weiss (Scott) and Neil Rozen, and byhergrandchildren:An- drew and Brian Feibus, Alli- son Perlman (Zach), Joshua Weiss andAiden Rozen. Through the Joseph F. Stein Family Foundation, Toby was a major supporter of many charities. The family asks that donations in her memory be made to either JDRF or the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. SILVERSTEIN—Joan Corneretto,

What can we say? You
were utterly magnificent and
beautifulinallthethings
whichreallycounted.We
love you so much and miss
you greatly. Husband Albert,
Janet, Matthew, Peter. For
Joan, contribute to Meals On
Wheels, New Rochelle, NY.
STURIM—Marilyn,
You were a rare and perfect
combination of warm, smart,
funny, optimistic, generous,
and compassionate. You
were such a great friend and
we are all better people for
having known you.
The Seaman Family

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In the early 1970s, Nadine Taub
was one of a cadre of young female
lawyers breaking new ground by
fighting gender discrimination.
Along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Nancy Stearns and others, she
made legal history in cases that
successfully argued that equal
rights for women were protected
under the Constitution. She liti-
gated cases for rape victims, for
women seeking access to abortion
and for employees battling work-
place discrimination and sexual
harassment.
“There weren’t many of us, and
the field of women’s rights law
was only just developing,” said
Ms. Stearns, who as a lawyer with
the Center for Constitutional
Rights was instrumental in the
struggle to legalize abortion. “We
all knew each other. We were
among the young feminist pro-
gressive lawyers of our day, and it
was a wonderful thing to have sis-
ters doing what we were doing
and believing what we believed.”
Ms. Taub, a professor emerita at
Rutgers Law School, died on June
16 at her home in Manhattan. She
was 77. She had for decades strug-
gled with Langerhans cell histio-
cytosis, a rare autoimmune dis-
ease, her husband, Olof Widlund,
said in confirming her death.
In 1974, Ms. Taub represented a
woman who had reported being
raped and who was then held
overnight in a Newark jail as a
material witness in her own as-
sault because the police believed
that she was a prostitute. As she
told the journalist Christine Van-
DeVelde for an article in Savvy
magazine in 1988, she was rattled
by the depth of her response to her
client’s experience.
“The notion that this woman
would be locked up and kept in a
cell overnight after she had been
raped was incredible,” Ms. Taub
was quoted as saying. “In working
on that case, how I felt physically
was a revelation to me. I didn’t

want my husband to touch me. There was an element of trust that was gone, and that feeling took a few days to dissipate.” Ms. Taub won the case for her client, with a court order that the Newark Police Department end abuses of what was known as the material witness statute. She also successfully represented the American Civil Liber- ties Union in a landmark lawsuit against three private hospitals in New Jersey that were denying women access to abortions. Ms. Taub argued that the hospitals were the only adequate health care providers in the area, and that by refusing to offer abortions, they were depriving the plaintiffs of their constitutional right to ter- minate a pregnancy. “The ’70s was the dawn of wom-

en’s constitutional rights in the U.S.,” said Nan Hunter, a feminist legal theorist and professor at Georgetown Law who worked for the A.C.L.U. in New York in the 1980s and alongside Ms. Taub on a

few cases. “Nadine was very much a part of that wave. Her leg- acy extends across precedent-set- ting cases, legal scholarship and legal education.” Ms. Taub was the founder and director of the Women’s Rights

Litigation Clinic at Rutgers. In the early 1970s, legal clinics like hers were both a new source of legal representation and an innovative educational tool, allowing stu- dents to work on real cases. One such case was brought by a Princeton student, Sally Frank. In the spring of 1978, when she was a sophomore, Ms. Frank applied for membership — “bickered,” in Princeton parlance — in the all- male eating clubs there. After being denied twice, she asked the Rutgers clinic to take on her case, and she and Ms. Taub became a legal team. The case centered on whether the clubs had a symbiotic relation- ship with the university and were therefore places of “public accom- modation,” in which case they would be covered by New Jersey’s

anti-discrimination law. Ms. Frank won, but it took over a dec- ade to do so. Ms. Frank recalled attending a Princeton class reunion in the 1980s and seeing eating club members selling T-shirts with a picture of her face on them (but given a mustache) along with the slogan “Better Dead Than Coed.” She bought one for herself and Ms. Taub. (It was not until the early ’90s that the last of Prince- ton’s men-only undergraduate clubs were ordered by the courts to admit women.) “Nadine was a role model and an incredible feminist,” Ms. Frank said of Ms. Taub in a phone inter- view. “She was a strategic thinker and a sharp litigator, and working with someone of that depth and commitment was a remarkable experience. She taught me how to be a lawyer.” In 2017, when Rutgers honored Ms. Taub by creating a scholar’s position in her name, her former colleague Jonathan Hyman, who had taught in Rutgers’s constitutional litigation clinic, wrote how “her thrilling victories energized us all.” “Remember the days when some Princeton University eating clubs excluded women?” he continued. “Gone, despite powerful opposition, thanks to Nadine’s work over many years. Is a hostile work environment illegal sex discrimination? Judge Herbert Stern of the U.S. District Court didn’t think so. Nor, initially, did other courts. But Nadine got Judge Stern’s decision reversed and made the hostile work environment a principal part of sex discrimination law.” Nadine Taub was born on Jan. 21, 1943, in Princeton, N.J. Her father, Abraham Haskell Taub, was a professor of mathematics who had taught at several universities and was working temporarily in Princeton at the time. Her mother, Cecilia (Vaslow) Taub, was a

homemaker. In addition to her husband, Mr. Widlund, who is also a mathemati- cian — mathematicians often marry the daughters of mathematicians, he said — Ms. Taub is survived by her sister, Mara Taub, and her brother, Haskell. Ms. Taub earned a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College in 1964, and during the summers worked as a Head Start teacher in Mississippi. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1968, she provided legal services for the poor in the Bronx and then for the A.C.L.U., working out of a store- front in Newark. She joined the faculty of Rutgers Law School in 1973 and retired in 2000. Ms. Taub was the co-author of several books and publications on women’s rights and gender discrimination, including “Sex Dis- crimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory” (1988). She said her feminist thinking crystallized early in her career while she was working on a chal- lenge to a statute restricting abortion. “In the process of putting on paper why control over reproduc- tion was crucial for women,” she said in the Savvy magazine article, “I really began to perceive all the ways women were confined and punished because of their re- productive functions.” Not all of Ms. Taub’s clients were women. In 1977, she was one of three lawyers who won a discrimination case for Leon Gold- farb, a widower who had sued to receive his deceased wife’s Social Security benefits. In the brief for the suit, Ms. Taub was joined by Kathleen Peratis and the future Supreme Court justice Ruth Ba- der Ginsburg, both from the Wom- en’s Rights Project at the A.C.L.U. (Justice Ginsburg was then a professor at Columbia Law School.) As Mr. Goldfarb told Anna Quindlen of The New York Times, “These ladies presented their cases beautifully.”

Nadine Taub, Who Blazed a Trail in Women’s Rights Law, Is Dead at 77

By PENELOPE GREEN

Nadine Taub in about 1980. She won legal victories for rape victims and women seeking abortions.

VIA OLOF WIDLUND

Forcing an overhaul

of the all-male eating

clubs at Princeton.

Eddie Shack, a colorful, pugna-
cious wing who became a fan fa-
vorite at Maple Leaf Gardens
playing for Toronto’s four Stanley
Cup championship teams of the
1960s, and who remained in the
public eye as a pitchman on Cana-
dian television sporting a cowboy
hat and flowing mustache, died on
Saturday in Toronto. He was 83.
Shack’s death, at a hospital, was
announced by the Maple Leafs.
He had been treated for throat
cancer.
Shack played for 17 N.H.L. sea-
sons, with six teams, and ap-
peared in three All-Star Games.
He scored the winning goal for To-
ronto in Game 5 of the 1963 Stan-
ley Cup finals against Detroit,
though he took no credit, saying
the puck had caromed into the
Red Wings’ net off his backside.
“He was a powerful skater,”
Darryl Sittler, the captain of the
Maple Leafs in Shack’s last season
with them, told The Peterborough
Examiner of Ontario. “His body
was thick. His forearms. And he
could score goals.”
Shack whipped up the home
crowds, at times with help from
family.
“If I wasn’t playing, my dad
would stand up across from the
Leafs’ bench and start yelling, ‘We
want Shack!’ ” he told The Toronto
Sun. “Then I’d stand up on the end
of the bench on my side and start
the cheer too.”
Shack was 6 feet 1 inches tall
and 200 pounds or so, a good size
for a forward of his time.
His roughhousing inspired the

1966 novelty song “Clear the Track: Here Comes Shack,” written by the hockey broadcaster Brian McFarlane and sung by Douglas Rankine with The Se- crets. As the tune put it: “He knocks ’em down and he gives ’em a whack.” Shack was known as the Enter- tainer for his exuberance and also as the Nose, for his prominent one. In his memoir “Eddie Shack:

Hockey’s Most Entertaining Stories” (2019), written with Ken Reid, Shack told of head-butting the Montreal Canadiens’ Henri Richard (who died in March) in a game in Toronto, then hearing from his big brother, Maurice the Rocket, when the Leafs were in Montreal. “Maurice said, ‘Thank God you never hit him with your nose or you would have split my brother in two.’ ” After his playing days, Shack hawked, among other things, Schick razor blades (he once shaved off his mustache in a commercial) and The Pop Shoppe soft drinks, saying he had “a nose for value.” He was co-owner of a golf club and established the Eddie Shack Donuts chain.

Edward Steven Philip Shack was born in Sudbury, Ontario, on Feb. 11, 1937, to Bill and Lena Shack, Ukrainian immigrants. His father was a crane operator. Eddie was ill for several years as a boy and missed school but was pro- moted from one grade to the next nonetheless, leaving him unable to read and write. He quit school at 15 and was signed by the Guelph Biltmores, a New York Rangers junior team. Shack made his N.H.L. debut in

the 1958-59 season with the Rang- ers, who traded him to the Maple Leafs in November 1960. He played for their Stanley Cup championship teams in 1962, ’63, ’64 and ’67. He was later with the Boston Bruins, the Los Angeles Kings, the Buffalo Sabres, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Leafs again. He retired after the 1974-75 season with career totals of 239 goals, 226 assists and 1,431 penalty minutes in 1,047 regular-season games. He

was in the N.H.L.’s top 10 in penalty minutes four times. Though he was illiterate, Shack proved astute in drawing on his popularity for commercial oppor- tunities. “He once told me, ‘I can’t read or write but I can count,’ ” his former Maple Leafs teammate Dick Duff told The Globe and Mail of Toronto. In his later years Shack was an advocate for liter- ary programs in schools. He and his wife, Norma (Giv- ens) Shack, who survives him,

had two children. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available. For fans of the Canadiens, the Maple Leafs’ chief rival, Shack was a villain, as Quebec’s premier, François Legault, acknowledged wryly in paying tribute to him in a Twitter posting on his death. He saluted Shack “with the sen- timents of many fans and teams for which he didn’t play,” Mr. Legault said, adding, “We loved to hate him.”

Eddie Shack, 83, Feisty Wing Who Guided Maple Leafs to 4 Stanley Cups

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Eddie Shack, left in 1974, was known for his roughhousing on the ice, so much so that he inspired a novelty song called “Clear the Track: Here Comes Shack.” In his later years, Shack, right in 2012, often appeared on Canadian television as a pitchman.

DOUG GRIFFIN/TORONTO STAR, VIA GETTY IMAGES AARON VINCENT ELKAIM/THE CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

A fan favorite who

was often found in

the penalty box.

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