Loyce Joe Allen, 73, former advertising director for the Dallas Times Herald, died Aug. 1 of cancer. Allen was graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1950, and joined the Times Herald that same year. He spent over four decades in the ad departmen

By: Jamie Santo

Todd Michael Bauer, 24, reporter for The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, died July 23 after a brief battle with cancer. Bauer was a 1997 graduate of the University of Georgia, where he was a staff writer for the campus newspaper, The Red and Black. Bauer, who joined the Chronicle's staff shortly after graduation, was assigned to the newspaper's Aiken, S.C., bureau.

Joe Calabrese, 59, sportswriter and editor, died Aug. 15 following a long illness. Calabrese spent the past 12 years covering Rutgers University athletics for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. When Calabrese took over the Rutgers beat, he insisted the state's largest-circulation newspaper provide better coverage of women's sports, whom he felt were unfairly neglected. Calabrese began his career at The Courier-News in Plainfield in 1961, and worked at the Somerset Messenger-Gazette and The Times in Trenton, before he returned to The Courier-News (which had moved to Bridgewater) in 1978.

Robert Lee, 76, longtime newsman, died Aug. 13 of renal failure. Lee spent 36 years with The Associated Press in Nebraska before his retirement in 1986. Lee's family has strong ties to the newspaper industry: his father, Herbert F. Lee, worked for United Press International; his brother Bill is a retired managing editor of the Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record; and his brother Don is a retired sportswriter for the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald.

Bright Mwape, 33, a leading South African journalist, died Aug. 16 from injuries sustained in a car accident Aug. 13. Mwape was in charge of the Media Institute of Southern Africa's Media Information Unit, whose projects include the daily monitoring and international reporting of press-freedom violations. In 1996, while working at The Post in Lusaka, Zambia, Mwape and Post editor in chief Fred M'membe spent 23 days in detention after being sentenced for contempt of parliament for publishing articles that criticized statements made by Zambia's vice president.

James O'Leary, 68, retired Chicago Tribune photographer, died July 25 from cancer. O'Leary began his 48-year tenure at the Tribune as a copy boy in 1950. After serving 18 months in Korea, he returned to the Tribune in 1953 as a general-assignment photographer. Not afraid to risk his personal safety for a shot, O'Leary photographed subjects worldwide, from deadly floods in West Virginia to a Honduran earthquake to a 1969 riot on Chicago's West Side. During his career, O'Leary was honored for his work by the Chicago Press Photographers Association, the Illinois Associated Press, and United Press International.

Celestine Sibley, 85, longtime journalist and columnist, died Aug. 15. Sibley was a fixture at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where her column appeared for 55 years. Sibley's column, which last ran July 25, lent a country perspective to the goings-on of a growing urban center. Sibley joined The Atlanta Constitution in 1941, after five years as a reporter for the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal. She began at $35 a week at the Constitution, covering everything from murder trials to the state Legislature. Sibley published her first column in 1944. Aside from her newspaper work, Sibley authored 25 books, including mysteries featuring Kate Kincaid, a newspaper reporter.

Norman ""Fred"" Smith, 48, the managing editor of the Jasper (Ind.) Herald, and his 15-year-old daughter died July 22 in an automobile accident in Perry County, Ind. Smith became managing editor of the Herald in February 1997 after 15 years as city editor
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