Three Women Scholars Announce Their Retirements

Lucinda Barnes the chief curator and director of programs for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive of the University of California, Berkeley, will retire on June 29. She joined the staff at the museum in 2001. Earlier, she was the executive director of the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.

Earlier in her career, Barnes held curator positions at the art museums at Oberlin College in Ohio and California State University, Long Beach.

Catherine Nye has retired from her post as an associate professor of social work at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her research is focused on cross-cultural clinical practice and she has conducted field work in Southeast Asia and Cyprus.

Dr. Nye is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, where she double majored in anthropology and psychology. She holds a master of social work degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago.

Deborah Tapler is retiring and was named professor emerita in the College of Nursing at Texas Women’s University in Dallas. She taught courses in pharmacology.

Dr. Tapler is a graduate of the University of Texas at Galveston. She earned a master’s degree in nursing at the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. at Texas Woman’s University.