Ambrocia B. Bayaca,79, of Waipahu died March 15 in St. Francis-West Hospital. Born in the Philippines, she is survived by husband Flaviano S.; sons Leonard B. and Carlito B.; daughters Ida B. Bayaca, Alicia B. Martinez and Elvie B. Tungpalan; brothers Juanito, Julian and Ananias; sisters Lorenciana and Matilde Caranzo and Filipina Diampoc; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Wake services: 7 p.m. Monday at Honolulu Central Seventh Day Adventist Church, 2313 Nuuanu Ave. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. Services: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
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Berger, a social worker who worked for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, founded the American Association for Ethiopian Jews more than 25 years ago.
In the 1960s Berger witnessed bigotry towards Ethiopian Jews, or Falashas, who lived in what he termed the most extreme poverty in the world. He sought to make American Jews aware of the problems faced by what has been called Ethiopia's Jewish tribe.
He lectured about the Falashas to American audiences, and was helped in his cause by the Israeli rabbinate's 1975 decision to legally recognize the Falashas as Jews.
The association lobbied Congress and Jewish groups to help the Falashas, and Berger called publicly for Israeli action. Large-scale airlifts were eventually organized by Israel in 1984 and 1985, and again in 1991.
The end result of Berger's efforts was the establishment of a 50,000 member Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel by 1993, and the virtual removal of all Jews from Ethiopia.
In World War II, Bryer was a captain and battalion surgeon in the Seventh Armored Division in Europe, and he received a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
After the war, Bryer returned to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, where he and a team of researchers developed Aureomycin, tetracycline, polymyxin agents and other antibiotics.
Bryer was a member of the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1952 until he retired in 1988 and moved to Chatham, Mass. He also was once a police surgeon for the New York City Police Department.
Chandler joined the foundation staff in 1954 and soon afterward received worldwide recognition as a field commander in the “Green Revolution” that helped to feed populations in poor countries.
That agricultural initiative led to the development of the first high-yield grains and earned Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, a plant breeder and head of the celebrated Mexican wheat team, the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Chandler was posted to the Philippines to take charge of a similar project there.
From 1959 to 1972, he directed the new International Rice Research Institute in Manila, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The institute developed more than two dozen varieties of rice and devised methods for farmers to grow them. The objective was richer harvests to keep up with population growth, and its success had rice-exporting countries like Thailand concerned about a possible glut of the rice market.
Chandler moved on to Taiwan, where he led the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center until 1975. Later he was an international consultant and wrote two books to add to the numerous articles he published, “Rice in the Tropics: A Guide to National Development” (Westview, 1979) and “An Adventure in Applied Science: The Early History of the International Rice Research Institute,” published by the institute in 1982.
Chandler was decorated by the governments of the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Kenya and received the World Food Prize in 1988 and the Presidential End Hunger Award in 1986. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1955, Conant was hired by Photoplay magazine to shoot a cover photo of Hollywood actress Grace Kelly. She liked his modest style, and after she married Monaco's Prince Rainier III a year later, Conant spent the next 26 years as the palace's unofficial photographer.
In 1992, he published his photographs of the princess in a book called “Grace.”
Conant had been a photographer for Adm. Chester Nimitz during World War II. He later became a fashion photographer for Life, Look and Paris Match.
He led the paper during the turbulent era of the civil rights movement, the 1968 Democratic Convention and the Chicago Seven trial. He also brought national attention to the Daily News by giving columnist Mike Royko prominence.
Fisher left the Daily News in 1971 to become journalism dean at the University of Missouri's main campus in Columbia, a job he held until 1983.
He moved to Washington to run the university's graduate reporting program, retired in 1989 and moved back to the Chicago area with his wife, Anne.
Though Greenwald was best known by the general public for his studies of prostitutes, his reputation among psychologists stemmed largely from his development of direct decision therapy, an offshoot of rational emotive behavior therapy.
“What he founded was the opposite of psychoanalysis, which is what he started in,” said Albert Ellis, the Manhattan psychologist who developed rational emotive behavior therapy.
Greenwald wrote numerous books during his career, including “Great Cases in Psychoanalysis” (1969), “Emotional Maturity in Love and Marriage,” with Lucy Freeman (1961), “The Sex-Life Letters,” with his wife, Ruth Greenwald, (1972), “Active Psychotherapy” (1974), “Direct Decision Therapy” (1974) and “The Happy Person” (1984).
In 1958, Greenwald became famous upon the publication of his first book, “The Call Girl: A Social and Analytic Study” (Ballentine), which began as his doctoral dissertation and was later reissued as “The Elegant Prostitute.” The book sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into seven languages. In 1960, the book was also the basis for the film, “Girl of the Night,” starring Anne Francis and Lloyd Nolan.
Kopp was the author of 17 books, many of them written as guides to help readers discover importance in their own existence.
“If You Meet a Buddha on the Road, Kill Him” examined the struggle to find meaning in oneself while relying less on spiritual teachers.
His other books include “The Hanged Man” (1974), “The Hidden Meanings” (1975), “This Side of Tragedy” (1977) and “An End to Innocence” (1978).
Born in Los Angeles to parents who were in the film industry, she appeared in “All Quiet on the Western Front” at age 7. She later made her debut as a Goldwyn girl in “Up in Arms” with Danny Kaye.
Her lead debut was in 1943 in “Outlaws of Stampede Pass” with Johnny Mack Brown. Langer held a number of parts in movies and musicals with the stars of her time, including Bob Hope, Bela Lugosi and Hopalong Cassidy.
Perkins was a stunt double for Spencer Tracy, Yul Brenner and Gene Hackman. In 1960, he co-founded the Stuntmen's Association, which got stunt workers recognized as entertainers deserving the title of industry professionals.