Re: In memoriam: Dorothy Day

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Below is an obituary of Dorothy Day, written by her husband, Mark
Tyler Day, which appeared in the Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana)
on November 16th.

A photo of Dorothy that accompanied the obituary can be viewed at:
http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xylist/dottie-day.jpg.

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Carl Distefano
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Dorothy "Dottie" Lynn (Autenrieth) Day, 59, of Bloomington, Indiana,
died peacefully Wednesday, November 13, 2002 in her home, under the
care of Hospice of Bloomington Hospital and with her husband and his
mother at her side. She had just celebrated an early Thanksgiving
dinner on Saturday prepared by her daughters and their families who
had then returned to their homes in Houston TX and Phoenix AZ.
During the entire two years of her quiet, tenacious struggle with
pancreatic cancer she had maintained an active family and community
life, creating a mutual network of support with the many different
groups including Bloomington's marvelous medical community -- of
which she was a part.

She was born June 30, 1943 in Omaha, Nebraska to William and Frances
Autenrieth. She met Mark T. Day of Park Ridge, Illinois in 1961
through the United Christian Fellowship at the University of Chicago
where they both were students They married in 1964 and remained in
Chicago until 1968. After spending several years in the Eastern
United States, they returned to their Midwestern roots in 1972 when
they moved with their one-year-old daughter Ruth to Bloomington.

She led an extraordinarily rich and varied life combining a
generosity of spirit, an abiding patience, good humor, and a deep
concern for humanistic values with a high level of technical
expertise and uncompromising standards in every task she undertook.
Although she loved to tinker with hi-tech toys, she always aimed to
empower those many people whom she helped work with technology. Her
own life exhibited a quiet simplicity and serene courage. Nothing
was ever wasted. She loved music, played the bass viol, sang, and
always had the radio tuned to WFIU.

She graduated from North High School in Omaha, Nebraska. From the
University of Chicago she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science in 1965 and a joint Masters of Arts in Library Science and
East Asian Studies in 1968. At Indiana University, she became a
Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Language and Literature (1984), received
a Specialist Degree in Information Technology (1993) and was a Ph.D.
student in the School of Library and Information Science (1993-
2000).

She was a cataloger at the University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Library (1968-69), a reference librarian at Princeton University
(1969-71), plus Chinese materials processing assistant (1985-86) and
East Asian Subject Specialist (1986-87) in the Indiana University
Libraries.

She was a faculty member and house-parent at The Meeting School, a
private Quaker high school in New Hampshire (1971-72). She taught
English to Chinese engineers in Saudi Arabia and Taiwan (1977-1980).
At Indiana University she was an Assistant Instructor in East Asian
Languages and Cultures (1980-1984) and an Adjunct Lecturer in the
School of Library and Information Science (1994-2000).

>From 1986-1992, she was a computer consultant with Indiana
University Computing Services, specializing in foreign language and
humanities computing. She was an early user of the NotaBene
scholarly word processor. Over the years she provided humanities
computing assistance to numerous family members, friends,
colleagues, and clients. She became an admired guru to numerous
scholars around the world who are members of the NotaBene email
list. For the technical and humane light that Dottie shed on the
many complex problems faced by humanists using computers, these
members are designing and naming a computer type font in her honor,
NB Day-Light.

Dottie also was an early participant, a poster girl, and beloved
member of the YMCAs W.I.S.E. exercise program for cancer patients
(2001-2002), where she was known as the "Iron Woman".

She was a member of the Bloomington Monthly Meeting, Society of
Friends (Quakers) and also attended the First Presbyterian Church.

Foremost, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and
sister. She was preceded in death by her beloved mother, Frances
Autenrieth. She is survived by her loving family: husband Mark T.
Day; daughter and son-in-law Ruth and Michael Helgerud of Houston
TX; daughter and son-in-law Rachel and Arturo Velarde of Phoenix AZ;
grandchildren Erica, Jessica, and Sarah Helgerud and Alessandra
Velarde; father, William G. Autenrieth of Mission TX; brother and
sister-in-law Bob and Donna Autenrieth of Blair NE; sister and
brother-in-law Helen and Bob Fall of Fairfax VA; sisters Karen
Olmsted of Arlington VA, Pat Autenrieth of Hyattsville MD, Linda
Autenrieth of Kansas City MO, Janet Autenrieth of Tampa FL; and
mother-in-law Bettyclaire T. Day of Bloomington IN.

Memorial services will be at 3:00 p.m. December 7 at Bloomington
Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (Moores Pike just west
of Smith Road).

Memorial contributions may be made by mail to the Pancreatic Cancer
Action Network,P.O. Box 1010, Torrance CA 90505, or by phoning
(877)2- PANCAN, or from the organizations web site at
www.pancan.org.

Church and Community Funeral Services is handling arrangements
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