THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010


KLMNO OBITUARIES


home-district office. She moved to Washington to work for him at the Capitol. After raising her family in the 1970s, she went back to work in the 1980s as a member of the administrative staff of the National Council of Catholic Bishops. In the 1990s, Ms. Chastain


worked as an administrative as- sistant for Sens. Barbara Mikul- ski (D-Md.) and Harris Wofford (D-Pa.) before joining the staff at the Center for Policy Alterna- tives, from which she retired in 1998. She moved to Evansville in 2007.


COURTESY OF FAMILY


Capt. Michael Cassidy, his wife, Johanna, and his daughters, Catherine and Amber.


Michael P. Cassidy ARMY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT


Capt. Michael P. Cassidy, 41, an


Army physician assistant who grew up in Arlington County, died June 17 in Mosul, Iraq, of in- juries suffered in a noncombat incident, according to a state- ment from the Department of Defense. A Fort Stewart public affairs spokesman said that the death is under investigation. Capt. Cassidy was serving in the Army National Guard when he signed up for active duty after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his parents said. He worked as a medic in South Ko- rea before being stationed in Iraq, where he was serving his second tour at the time of his death. Capt. Cassidy intended to pursue a military career, his fam- ily said. Michael Paul Cassidy was born in Wheaton. He attended Arling- ton’s Yorktown High School, where he played cello in the or- chestra and tuba in the band. He graduated in 1986 as co-valedic- torian. He studied history at Oberlin College in Ohio, graduat- ing in 1991, and he later took graduate classes in pre-medical and chiropractic studies. Survivors include his wife of 12 years, Johanna Reed Cassidy, and two daughters, Catherine Cassidy and Amber Cassidy, all of Simpsonville, S.C.; his parents, Henry and Susan Cassidy of Ar- lington; and two sisters. —Emily Langer


Mark Carroll


ACADEMIC PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE


Mark Carroll, 86, who worked in academic publishing in New England before coming to Wash- ington as chief of the National Park Service’s professional publi- cations division from 1972 to 1986, died July 1 at Carriage Hill Bethesda, a nursing home. He had cardiovascular disease. After retiring in 1986, Mr. Car- roll served as the director of George Mason University Press until 1990 and later as a consul- tant for the Georgetown Univer- sity Press and the Woodrow Wil- son Center, among other institu- tions. Mark Sullivan Carroll was a Boston native who served in the Army’s armored infantry in Eu- rope during World War II. His military decorations included the Purple Heart. He graduated from Harvard in 1950 and worked briefly as a news editor at a Boston radio sta- tion before going to work at Yale University Press, where he was employed until 1968. He served from 1968 to 1972 as director of Harvard University Press. Mr. Carroll was a founder and


the first presiding officer of the Washington Book Publishers. He was a former member of the board of directors of numerous other professional organizations, including the Association of American University Presses and the Association of American Pub- lishers. He taught publishing courses


at George Washington University and other schools. He collected books on printing and publish- ing and enjoyed printing invita- tions, announcements and cards using an old-fashioned press with movable metal type. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Jane Hartenstein Carroll of Bethesda; three children, Ali- son Carroll Carnes of Black Can- yon City, Ariz., Jeremy M. Carroll of Germantown and John F. Car- roll of Washington; and two grandchildren.


—Emma Brown


Caroline J. Chastain ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT


Caroline J. Chastain, 68, who


worked as an administrative as- sistant in Washington from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s, died June 20 in a hospice care center in Evansville, Ind., of com- plications from cancer. Ms. Chastain worked for Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) in his


Caroline Jeanne Chastain was born in Weatherford, Okla., and received an associate’s degree from Capital City Junior College of Business in Little Rock, Ark. She was a member of St. Mary


Catholic Church in Alexandria. Her marriage to Charles O. Zuver Sr. ended in divorce. Their son Eric Zuver died in 1970. Survivors include two sons,


Charles O. Zuver Jr. of Los Ange- les and Christian C. Zuver of Madison, Wis.; her mother, Wil- ma Luvern Chastain of Louis- ville, Ky.; two sisters; and five grandchildren.


—Emma Brown


Janice A. Coughlin COLLECTIONS MANAGER


Janice A. Coughlin, 66, a re- tired collections manager for a publishing company, died July 4 at her home in Damascus. She had vascular disease. Mrs. Coughlin worked for 30 years with Aspen Publishers, a Frederick-based company that provides books and materials to professional organizations. She was manager of its collections department and retired about six years ago. Janice Ann McFarland was born in Martinsville, Va., and at- tended what is now the Univer- sity of Mary Washington in Fred- ericksburg.


She enjoyed doing crossword puzzles. Survivors include her husband of 46 years, Craig A. Coughlin of Damascus; a son, James Cough- lin of Sydney; her father, James A. McFarland of Martinsville; a brother; and a grandson. —Matt Schudel


Alma Jordan FDA EMPLOYEE


Alma Jordan, 87, a former con- ference planner for the Food and Drug Administration, died June 28 at her home in Rockville. She had congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmo- nary disease.


She spent 25 years at the FDA


before retiring in the late 1980s. Alma Fraser was born in De- troit. She moved with her family to the Washington area in 1965. She was a member of the la- dies’ sodality at the Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church in Rock- ville. Later, she also became a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Rockville. She had lived apart from her husband of 64 years, Donald Jor- dan, for several decades. He lives in Fort Myers, Fla., and Rockville. Other survivors include six children, Mary Ellen Jordan, Daniel Jordan and Brian Jordan, all of Rockville, Ann Jordan of Brookeville, David Jordan of Bethesda and Elizabeth Jordan of Nairobi; a sister; and five grandchildren.


—Emma Brown


Stephen D. Keeffe LAWYER


Stephen D. Keeffe, 74, a lawyer who had a private practice in the Washington area for more than 35 years, died of cancer June 26 at the Manor Care nursing home in Bethesda. He was a Kensing- ton resident. Mr. Keeffe started his practice in 1969. His cases ranged from medical malpractice suits and bankruptcy filings to represent- ing Vietnam War protesters. In 1977, Mr. Keeffe successfully argued a case before the Su- preme Court, United States v. La- rionoff, that secured reenlist- ment bonuses for seven Navy sailors who said the military had breached the terms of their ex- tended service contracts. Stephen Daniel Keeffe was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and he grew up in Ithaca, N.Y., where his father was a law professor at Cor- nell University. He graduated from George


Washington University and re- ceived a law degree from Vander- bilt University in Nashville in 1963. Mr. Keeffe clerked for a fed- eral judge in New York and spent several months in Jackson, Miss., working on civil rights cases. He returned to Washington and worked as a lawyer with the Jus- tice Department and with the old Interstate Commerce Commis- sion before opening his practice. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Mary Ann Porsche Keeffe of Kensington; four chil- dren, Arthur John Keeffe II and


JUANITA M. KREPS, 89 Economist was first female commerce secretary by Emma Brown


Juanita M. Kreps, 89, a promi- nent economist who grew up in a poor Kentucky coal-mining com- munity and rose to become, un- der President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s first female commerce secretary, died July 5 in Durham, N.C. She had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kreps, a Duke University professor who specialized in la- bor demographics of older people and women, said that she did not consider herself a women’s liber- ationist. But throughout her ca- reer in business, academia and government, all spheres tradi- tionally dominated by men, she repeatedly broke gender barriers and campaigned to improve women’s opportunities for mean- ingful employment outside the home.


A soft-spoken and genteel Southerner, she was nevertheless known for her strength and will- ingness to speak her mind. At a televised news conference with Carter after he named her com- merce secretary in 1976, she was asked to respond to the Presi- dent-elect’s claim that it had been difficult to find qualified women to fill Cabinet posts.


“I think it would be hard to de- fend the proposition that there are not a great many qualified women,” she said. “We have to do a better job of looking.” Carter smiled, then said, “I think she said she disagrees with me.” As secretary, Dr. Kreps led


trade missions to Japan, India, North Africa and elsewhere. In 1979, she guided negotiations for a landmark pact with China that helped open trade with that Com- munist country. For decades, Chi- na had been closed to American business.


She held her ground against other top administration officials and successfully fought efforts to dismantle Commerce, a sprawl-


HARVEY FUQUA, 80 Moonglows singer mentored Gaye, other Motown performers by Terence McArdle


Harvey Fuqua, lead singer of the seminal 1950s doo-wop group the Moonglows who mentored Marvin Gaye and became an ex- ecutive at Motown Records, died July 6 at a Detroit hospital. The Associated Press reported his age as 80 and that he had had a heart attack. The Moonglows, who were in-


ducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, were one of the most popular vocal groups in the first wave of rock-and-roll. Their hits, such as “Sincerely” (1954) and “See Saw” (1956), combined slick harmonies with what pop music critic Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times termed a “raw, teen-directed urgency.” Harvey Fuqua (pronounced


FEW-kwah) was born in Louis- ville. His uncle Charlie Fuqua played guitar in the Ink Spots, one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1940s. The younger Fuqua, a baritone, began his career singing on Louisville street corners, trying to impress girls with his rendi- tions of Ink Spots songs. In high school, Mr. Fuqua formed a vocal duo with his class- mate Bobby Lester and found work in a rhythm-and-blues re- vue with saxophonist Ed Wiley. After moving to Cleveland, he


and Lester formed a vocal group with singers Prentiss Barnes, Al- exander Graves and guitarist Bil- ly Johnson. The group, named the Crazy Sounds, initially specialized in vocalese — a style popularized by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross in which singers put words to jazz melodies and solos — before it shifted to a rhythm-and-blues style modeled on Sonny Til and the Orioles. Cleveland disc jockey Alan


Freed caught the act in 1952. Freed, who is often credited with coining the term rock-and-roll, pushed the group to change its name to the Moonglows, a play


Thomas Keeffe, both of Beth- esda, Stephanie Keeffe of New Orleans and Courtney Penders of Rockville; a brother, John Keeffe of Somers, N.Y.; and a sister, Mary Ellen Sawyer of Arlington County.


—T. Rees Shapiro


Raymond J. Long LAWYER


Raymond J. Long, 81, a Mc- Lean lawyer who specialized in


poor and the environment. She proposed the development of an audit of social responsibility to measure companies’ contribu- tions to the common good. That proposal was not adopted


before Dr. Kreps resigned in 1979, several months after her husband suffered what police called a self- inflicted gunshot wound to the head, which he survived. Blair Juanita Morris was born


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Juanita M. Kreps said her priority as secretary was to turn Commerce into a major voice in economic policy.


ing melting-pot of a department whose diverse activities include compiling trade statistics, fore- casting the weather, managing the oceans, taking the census and promoting American exports overseas. Dr. Kreps was determined to


elevate the Commerce Depart- ment beyond its reputation as a powerless amalgam of disparate agencies. She succeeded, at least in part, leading an ambitious re- organization during which she expanded the department’s role in urban economic development and the administration of foreign trade.


With her background as a di-


rector at Eastman Kodak, J.C. Penney and the New York Stock Exchange — where she was the first woman in that role — Dr. Kreps was well regarded by the business community, which cheered her efforts to keep na- tional security concerns from in- terfering with many interna- tional trade deals.


She, in turn, challenged busi- nesses to think beyond the bot- tom line and to consider the in- terests of women, minorities, the


Jan. 11, 1921, in Lynch, Ky., in the heart of Appalachia, where her father was a coal-mine operator. Her parents divorced when she was 4, and she grew up with her mother. At age 12, she went to a Presbyterian boarding school and then to Berea College in Ken- tucky, where she was a 1942 honors graduate in economics. After growing up during the Depression, it had been easy to decide what to study in school, Dr. Kreps told The Washington Post in 1977.


“If you read the newspapers and had a sense of where the world was, you couldn’t help be- ing concerned,” she said. “I thought economics would give me more insight into what was going on.”


She went on to receive a mas-


ter’s degree and doctorate in eco- nomics, both from Duke. She married Clifton H. Kreps


Jr., an economics professor, in 1944, and they moved together to teach at Denison University in Ohio and Hofstra College and Queens College, both in New York. She returned to Duke in the mid-1950s and worked her way up to full professor. She also served as dean of the women’s college and vice president before she was invited to brief Presi- dent-elect Carter on economic is- sues and to join his Cabinet. In 1962, before Betty Friedan launched the women’s liberation movement with the publication of “The Feminine Mystique,” Dr. Kreps recognized in a speech that most women want both “further


education” and “meaningful work.”


She wrote widely about the em- ployment of women and older workers, including in her 1971 book, “Sex in the Marketplace: American Women at Work,” and a 1975 study co-written with Rob- ert Clark, “Sex, Age, and Work: The Changing Composition of the Labor Force.” She attempted to explain why women got fewer ad- vanced degrees and more low- paying jobs than men, and she pushed for public preschools and flexible employment schedules. Her husband died in 2000.


Their daughter, Sarah B. Kreps, died in 2001. Survivors include two children,


Laura Anne Kreps of Durham and Clifton H. Kreps III of Kirks- ville, Mo.; and four grandchil- dren.


When Dr. Kreps was named commerce secretary, she said her first priority was to turn the oft- maligned Commerce Depart- ment into a major voice in setting economic policy. “It would be degrading to me to be here as an economist and not have something to say about eco- nomic policy,” she said at the time. For the first year of the Carter presidency, she attended Thurs- day morning meetings of the president’s inner economic-pol- icy circle — what she called “the boys at the breakfast table.” Later, she was excluded after it was decided that there were too many people at the meetings, and too little was getting done. The rejection was stunning, painful and more than a little ironic, giv- en Dr. Kreps’s research on bar- riers to women in the workplace. If she had it all to do over again, “I would be more flamboy- ant,” she told The Post in 1979. “I am plagued by this constant ref- erence to the fact that I’m soft- spoken and gentle and don’t make waves.”


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2000 PHOTO BY CHUCK BURTON/ASSOCIATED PRESS The Moonglows’ Harvey Fuqua, a baritone, began singing on Louisville street corners as a youth.


on Freed’s radio name, Moondog. He recorded the band for his rec- ord label, Champagne, and a Chi- cago label, Chance, before getting the Moonglows a contract with the larger Chess records. They also performed on Freed’s touring rock-and-roll revues and in the movies “Rock, Rock, Rock” (1956) and “Mister Rock and Roll” (1957). Although Lester sang many of the lead vocals, Mr. Fuqua took the lead on “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1957) and on the group’s biggest hit, “The Ten Commandments of Love” (1957), which also featured a memorable spoken call-and-response of the song’s lyrics by the group’s guitar- ist, Billy Johnson. By the time of the latter record,


Lester had left the group and a personality dispute between him and Mr. Fuqua caused the other members to quit. Mr. Fuqua then hired a District group, the Marquees, to perform


representing technology compa- nies until retiring in the late 1980s, died June 18 at Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Alexandria. He had congestive heart failure. Mr. Long opened his private


practice in the early 1970s. Previ- ously, he worked for about a dec- ade for the Department of Agri- culture, where he was responsi- ble for crop forecasting as the director of electronic data proc- essing.


as Harvey and the Moonglows. The group included a then-un- known Gaye, who sang lead on “Mama Loochie” (1958). The group broke up in 1961, and Mr. Fuqua continued as a soloist — recording a hit duet with Etta James, “Spoonful” (1961). By the 1960s, Mr. Fuqua fo-


cused less attention on perform- ing and more on promoting new talent. He moved to Detroit, where he met Motown Records owner Berry Gordy while renting a room from Gordy’s sister, Es- ther. With Gordy’s backing, he and another Gordy sister, Gwen, started the Tri-Phi and Harvey record labels. Mr. Fuqua and Gwen Gordy were married. A complete list of survivors could not be deter- mined. The labels had initial success with the Spinners’ “That’s What Girls Are Made For” (1961) and another discovery, saxophonist Junior Walker. In 1963, Mr. Fu-


Raymond John Long was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was an Army infantry combat veteran of the Korean War. After the war, he worked in the truck division of Ford Motor in Louisville. He received a bach- elor’s degree in economics from the University of Louisville in 1959. He worked for the Commerce


Department while attending law school at Catholic University, from which he graduated in


qua disbanded the labels and joined Motown as the head of its artist development department, bringing the labels’ rosters and Gaye with him. When Motown moved its op-


erations to Los Angeles in the 1970s, Mr. Fuqua joined RCA and briefly reformed the Moonglows in 1972. He later produced such disco acts as the Weather Girls and Sylvester. Mr. Fuqua enjoyed reminiscing about the famous people whom he knew during his career. In an interview with the Charlotte Ob- server, he recalled that playing cards with other musicians was his favorite pastime while on the road with the Moonglows. But he added that he and others were al- ways cautious about playing with Ray Charles. They would never let the blind singer deal. “His cards were in Braille,” Mr.


Fuqua recalled, “and he’d know what everybody else had.” mcardlet@washpost.com


1962. He was a member of the


Knights of Columbus, the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars and Dis- abled American Veterans. His wife of 59 years, the former


Patricia Roman Long, died last year. Their daughter, Bridget L. Jacobs, died in 1999. Survivors include a son, Pat-


rick Long of McLean; a sister; and a granddaughter. —Emma Brown


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