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For Immediate Release:	October 16, 1997
Contact: Cheryl Ernst, (808) 956-5941

Services Planned for UH Senior Vice President Carol Eastman Memorial services for senior University of Hawai'i administrator Carol M. Eastman have been scheduled at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26, in St. Ablan's Chapel at 'Iolani School, where Dr. Eastman served on the Board of Governors. Memorial gifts may be made in her name to 'Iolani School, 563 Kamoku St., Honolulu 96826. A memorial service will be scheduled later in Seattle, where she served as chair of the anthropology department, dean of the graduate school and vice provost for international programs at the University of Washington. Dr. Eastman died Wednesday after battling cancer for nearly a year. She had been a senior vice president in the University of Hawai'i system and excutive vice chancellor of its largest campus, UH Manoa, since August 1991. A linguist by training, she held an appointment as professor in the UHM Department of Anthropology and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in addtion to her admnistrative duties. Dr. Eastman studied language and culture wherever she happened to be, whether it was Swahili in Africa, the Haida language of southeast Alaska, "legislative speak" at the Washington state capitol or Hawaiian Creole English here. She served on the board of directors of the American Anthropological Association and African Studies Association and was a memeber of the Linguistic Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She served on the editorial board of several professional journals and published extensively in the area of linguistics and anthropology. During her 25 years at the University of Washington, Dr. Eastman chaired the Faculty Senate and headed the Friends of UH Libraries fundraising campaign. At the University of Hawai'i, she focused on the conprehensive undergraduate experience, as well as budget issues, campus mission, international studies and distance education. Dr. Eastman earned her bachelor's degree in English from the Unioversity of Massachusetts in 1963 and her PhD in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin in 1967.   Other information Official University of Hawai'i Biography Focus on Manoa (Report by the committee chaired by Senior Vice President Carol Eastman)

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