Published: February 17. 2012 4:00AM PST
Deaths of note from around the world:
Paul Richard McDermott, 76: A business consultant who turned a moribund Advertising Club of Greater Boston into a trade organization with clout. Died of complications of Parkinson’s disease on Feb. 9 in Chelsea’s Leonard Florence Center for Living in Boston.
Nathaniel Blumberg, 89: The legendary former dean of the University of Montana School of Journalism was also a Rhodes Scholar during his student days and was instrumental in helping UM foster an inordinate number of Rhodes Scholars (28) for a public university. Died Feb. 14 at a Kalispell, Mont., hospital six days after suffering a stroke.
John Nucci, 50: He was the target of an act of gun violence in 1989 that shocked Washington, D.C. and left him paralyzed from the waist down, but gained renown as a local chef and “the guy who refused to be a victim.” Died Jan. 5 at Washington Hospital Center.The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.
Bruce G. Herman, 54: A nationally recognized expert on worker training who fought to preserve New York City’s garment district and to revive manufacturing across the country. Died Feb. 7 in Manhattan. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Jennifer, said.
— From wire reports
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