Obituaries

HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, credited with turning the SAT into an admission standard used by thousands of colleges and universities, died Dec. 3 in Shelburne, Vt. He founded the Educational Testing Service to administer the SAT out of a belief that access to the nation's colleges should be decided through merit, rather than through family connections. A former assistant dean at Harvard University, he started Princeton, N.J.-based ETS in 1947 and served as its president until 1970. He also was a director of the New York-based College Board, the organization that sponsors the SAT.

STAN RICE, 60, a poet and painter and the husband of novelist Anne Rice, died Monday in New Orleans of brain cancer. Mr. Rice, who encouraged his wife to begin her string of vampire-and-horror novels, released his seventh volume of poetry, Red to the Rind, this year. He published a coffee-table book of reproductions of his artwork in 1997, titled Paintings.

JOHN DELLENBACK, 84, a Republican member of Congress from Oregon for four terms, ending in 1974, and director of the Peace Corps from 1975 to 1977, died Saturday in Medford, Ore.

ARVELL SHAW, 79, a bassist who played with Louis Armstrong longer than any musician and was the last surviving member of the trumpeter's small combo, the Original All Stars, died Dec. 5 in New York City. He joined the Louis Armstrong Orchestra in 1945 at age 22. Armstrong kept him on when he disbanded the orchestra in 1947 to form the smaller All Stars.

JOHN L. McLUCAS, 82, former secretary of the Air Force and head of the Federal Aviation Administration during the 1970s, died Dec. 1 in Alexandria, Va. Appointed as undersecretary of the Air Force in 1969, he served during the Nixon and Ford administrations as Air Force secretary from 1973 to 1975 and then as FAA administrator until 1977.

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