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Richard Newton Lolley
(25 May 1933 - 3 Apr 2000)
Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
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Obituary of Richard Newton Lolley
During this past year, the Department of Cell and Neurobiology, the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California lost an outstanding individual, Richard N. Lolley, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Scientific Affairs and Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, who died unexpectedly at his home April 3, 2000 at the age of 66. His career spanned the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California and his early research helped to found the field of neurochemistry.
The discovery by Lolley and his colleagues nearly 30 years ago that a single molecule called cyclic GMP was of crucial importance in vision formed a basis for understanding mechanisms that result in diminished vision and blindness.
Lolley died at his home in Pasadena, Calif., working at his computer on a third volume of memoirs that describe his family's Irish roots and immigration to rural Kansas in 1878. He addressed his memoir writing with the same rigor that he applied to his science, devoting every Monday to the project.
Before joining USC six years ago, Lolley had been on the faculty at UCLA for 30 years, where he was chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a Research Scientist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital in Los Angeles. At the VA, he developed a research career track for Ph.D. scientists.
Born in Blaine, Kansas, to Catherine Caffrey and Loren Lolley on May 25, 1933, Lolley graduated from Wamego High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas in 1955 and set out to be a drugstore pharmacist. He earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas in 1961 and launched a research career that would bring him honor and stature as a pivotal figure in understanding the complex cascade of physiological events that makes up the sense of sight.
Lolley served as trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) from 1991 to 1992. He was awarded ARVO's Proctor Research Medal in 1994, one of many accolades he received, including the Jules Stein Living Tribute Award by Retinitis Pigmentosa International in 1985, the Alcon Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research in 1991 and the R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Award in 1992.
Lolley was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1994, where his role was to foster the education of graduate students and the biomedical research in which they participated. At both UCLA and USC, Lolley took pride in knowing on a first name basis all graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. He took many under his wing and reveled in mentoring one-on-one.
His marriage with Cheryl M. Craft brought together their five adult children in an expanded family, and his effervescent demeanor embraced a wide variety of new interests. He took up gardening to express his passion for the spirituality of nature, surrounding their Pasadena and Laguna Beach homes with exotic flowering plants; cooking, where Craft described him as a "kitchen biochemist"; writing, including the memoirs and unpublished fiction, and volunteering in the library of the Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena. A public memorial celebration took place on Friday, April 7, following cremation and a private family service in Laguna Beach, CA.
Besides his widow, Lolley is survived by daughters Emily Lolley-Kohl of Prescott, Ariz., Melissa of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Cybele of Oakland, Calif.; Craft's sons Tyler Cormney of Venice Beach, Calif., and Ryan Cormney of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Catherine Burke and Ellen Rangel, both of Overland Park, Kan., and a brother, Gregg Lolley of Stafford, Mo.
Events
| Birth | 25 May 1933 | Blaine, Pottawatomie, Kansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 4 Jun 1959 | Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas - Hazel Ruth Bauerighter | | ||
| Death | 3 Apr 2000 | Pasadenia, Los Angeles, California | |
Families
| Spouse | Hazel Ruth Bauerighter |
| Child | Emily Ruth Lolley |
| Child | Melissa Anne Lolley |
| Child | Sybil Marie Lolley |
| Father | Loran Lloyd Newton Lolley (1903 - 1999) |
| Mother | Catherine Anes Caffery (1907 - ) |
| Sibling | Catherine Lorraine Lolley (1926 - 2005) |
| Sibling | Ellen Louise Lolley |
| Sibling | Gregory Lynn Lolley |
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