search articles:     from the issue of November 18, 2004         Obituary: Stanley Vandersall Stanley Talbott Vandersall, emeritus professor of classics and religious studies, died Nov. 6 at Tabitha Health Care Services in Lincoln. He was 87. Vandersall graduated from Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Mass., and the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1939. He earned a master of arts degree from Ohio State University in 1940 and served in the U.S. Navy in Hawaii and Japan from 1943-46 as an intelligence officer specializing in Japanese interpretation. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserves until 1977, retiring as a lieutenant commander. He received his doctorate in classics from Ohio State in 1948 and began teaching in the classics department at the University of Nebraska that year. The University of Nebraska Press published his translation of Ovid's "Metamorphosis" in 1970. He received the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, serving as the organization's secretary and membership chairman. He retired as a professor and former classics department chairman in 1985 but continued to teach Latin to friends in his home. Survivors include three daughters, five grandchildren, one great-grandchild and one sister. His wife of 63 years, Amy W. Vandersall, died in February 2004. Services were Nov. 13 in Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home. GO TO: ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 18 NEWS HEADLINES FOR NOVEMBER 18 Initiative to boost teaching, learning Computer system helps keep Memorial Stadium safe Professor examines how chemistry has changed through movies A piece of University history Day to focus on computer security Museum hopes 'Lucky Foot' becomes football tradition Obituary: Samy Elias Obituary: Stanley Vandersall Verbatim: Forum to discuss core values, strategic planning is Dec. 2 731903S33942X