University Times

Editor's note: The following obituaries were submitted to the University Times this week by the School of Library and Information Science.

Jack Belzer Jack Belzer, professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Science, died June 22, 1995, at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 85.

Belzer was born Jan. 16, 1910, in Ukraine. He fled with his family into Romania in 1918 during the Russian Revolution and emigrated to the United States in 1924.

A graduate of Cooper Union College in New York City, Belzer taught at Catholic University, Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University before joining the Pitt faculty in 1964. Belzer also served as director of the computer center at the U.S. Naval Observatory and was an important contributor to the NATO Advanced Study Institutes in Information Science. He retired from the University in 1980.

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Jay Daily Jay Daily, professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), died in Pittsburgh on Dec. 1, 1995, after a short illness. He was 72.

Educated at New York University and Columbia University, Daily joined the SLIS faculty in 1965. In 1967, he was appointed a full professor, a rank he held until his retirement in 1986.

Prior to coming to Pitt, Daily held various posts in Korea and Burma. His areas of specialization included cataloging and classification, intellectual freedom and censorship, and technical services.