Joyce Carlson, 84, a Disney artist who helped create the idyllic universe of singing children at "It's a Small World," died Wednesday at home after a long bout with cancer. Carlson, born in Racine, Wis., was among the creators of a miniature prototype of "It's a Small World" for the 1964 World's Fair in New York and subsequently helped bring the attraction to each of its permanent locations: Florida, California, Toyko, Paris and Hong Kong. In a 56-year career with Disney, Carlson went from delivering paints and brushes to animators to inking films herself.
Howard Clery, 77, who pushed for a landmark federal law requiring colleges and universities to disclose campus crime statistics following the rape and murder of his daughter in her dorm room in 1986, has died. He died Tuesday at his home in Palm City, Fla., according to Security on Campus Inc. Clery cofounded the group a year after his daughter, Jeanne, was killed by another student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. The Jeanne Clery Act was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Petru Dugulescu, 62, the head of Romania's Baptist Church, whose past as a collaborator of the feared Securitate secret police was revealed recently, died of a heart attack Thursday. His death came a week after the report that he had been an informer in the early 1980s, reporting on another Baptist priest and foreigners. In 1989, he joined the protests against the deportation of Hungarian priest Laszlo Toekes. Those protests sparked the revolt that led to Nicolae Ceausescu's execution.
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