AUSTIN-BAEHR, MARY C., 93, of Syracuse, N.Y., formerly of Hawai.i, died Aug. 16, 2008. Case Western Reserve

University, Cleveland, Ohio, faculty member; Harvard University lecturer; University of Hawai.i at Manoa, College of

Education, director of Reading and Language Arts Center; and an author. Syracuse service held; scattering of ashes

pending off Makena, Maui. Survived by husband, Herbert Baehr; sisters, Virginia Nemecek and Shirley Knickerbocker.

Donations to University of Hawai.i Foundation or International Reading Association Foundation. Arrangements by

Newcomer Family Funeral Home, North Syracuse. [Honolulu Advertiser August 26, 2008]