In Meivtoriam Diane Blair Edward M. Goldberg

iN MEiVtORIAM Diane Blair Caraway of Arkansas was appointed Ed was brought up in Brooklyn, to replace her late husband, then New York, and received his B.A. in Diane Blair died on Monday, won election to fill his unexpired 1953 from Brooklyn College, an in- June 26, 2000, at the age of 61. She term, and subsequently won election stitution he often remembered with left family, thousands of students, to two more terms.) In that year, as fondness. He received an M.A. from and friends all the way from Arkan- we've said, she also married Jim, the University of New Mexico in sas to the White House. Her loss is with Bill Clinton officiating at the 1956 and his Ph.D. from the Univer- felt keenly by a large, admiring ceremony, and Hilary Rodham Clin- sity of Pennsylvania in 1965. He number of political scientists to ton standing as "best person." The taught at the University of New whom she was always the best of Blairs then raised their blended fam- Mexico, San Diego State University, colleagues and the most delightful of ily of two sons and three daughters, the University of Southern Califor- friends. while Diane went on teaching, writ- nia, and CSU-Los Angeles, joining Her New York Times obituary ing, and working for women in the faculty there in 1961 and rising notes some of the significant bench- American politics. through the ranks from assistant to marks in her life: Diane was born in Most know of the intellectual ex- full professor. He was drafted to Washington. She graduated Phi Beta citement of Diane's last decade-her serve in the Army during the Ko- Kappa from Cornell University in status as a senior campaign advisor rean war. 1959 and received an M.A. in politi- in 1992, her work as the official cam- Ed had a distinguished career on cal science from the University of paign historian of the 1992 Clinton- campus, where, at one point, he Arkansas in 1967. In between, she Gore election campaign, her ap- knew virtually every staff member worked as an analyst for the Presi- pointment to the Board of and a good portion of the faculty as dent's Committee on Government Governors of the Corporation for a result of his serving in several ad- Contracts, a researcher for the Sen- Public Broadcasting, all while teach- ministrative and academic positions. ate Special Committee on Unem- ing and writing and giving to her He chaired the department of politi- ployment, and legislative secretary to beloved Arkansas. All of this, as as- cal science from 1972 to 1977. He Senator Stuart Symington (D-MO). tonishing as it sounds, seemed was assistant dean of the School of After moving to Arkansas, she merely routine for Diane. In all the Letters and Sciences from 1968 to served Governors Dale Bumpers years we knew her, she showed us 1970 and associate dean of that and David Pryor in various ways. how to fill each moment of life with school and its successor, the School Political scientists know the Diane productive action, quick intelligence, of Natural and Social Sciences from who taught and practiced politics in and even quicker laughter. She was 1981 through 1989. He was a mem- Arkansas for 30 years, almost all of a zestful and generous colleague ber of the Executive Committee of them at the University of Arkansas who taught all how to savor the es- the Academic Senate for over a de- in Fayetteville. She was a mainstay sence of life. cade and served as both vice chair of the Democratic Party. She loved We would encourage all of Di- and chair of that body. He was the politics and she loved Southern poli- ane's friends to make a donation to senate member on the president's tics most of all. the fund for APSA's Victoria cabinet and a member of virtually But those of us who knew and Schuck Award for the Best Book in every senate and administrative loved her knew that she had a very the field of gender politics or to the committee on campus over the special affection and concern for fund for the Marguerite Ross Barnet course of his career. He chaired many of these. women and politics, and for scholar- Award, in Diane Blair's memory. ship about them. More than 20 We miss her much, but celebrate He had received the campus Out- years ago, when gender politics her wonderful life. standing Professor Award, the cam- scholars were thin on the ground Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, pus' highest honor, in recognition of and lightly regarded, Diane brought University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill his teaching, research, and service, her inimitably stylish, incisive, ener- Virginia Sapiro, in 1985. His was one of only four getic mind to bear on advancing University of Wisconsin, Madison Outstanding Professor Awards re- women's fortunes at the polls and in ceived by the more than 30 faculty the scholarly literature. As Diane D. who served in the department of Kincaid, in the same year that saw Edward M. Goldberg political science since the 1960s. her marry Jim Blair, she published Ed taught American constitutional Silent Hattie Speaks: The Personal Edward M. Goldberg, who served law, judicial process, and compara- Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway in a variety of administrative and tive judicial studies over the course (Greenwood Publishing, 1979). Di- academic posts at California State of his career. His senior seminar on ane was enduringly fond of Senator University, Los Angeles, died on legal research was renowned for pre- Carraway, the first woman to be August 21, 2000, at the age of 69, paring students to succeed in law elected to the U.S. Senate. (Senator from lung cancer. school. Students who had to take PSOnline www.apsanet.org 865.

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