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Adrian Joseph Pinsince, 70, Ex-President of Ayerst Pharma 1970-1973, Died Saturday
Newsday
New York, New York •
Wed, Dec 14, 1983 p41
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•Adrian Joseph Pinsince, 70, Ex-President of Drug Firm
Essex, Conn. (AP) - A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Adrian Joseph Pinsince, former president of a New York-based pharmaceutical company who died Saturday.
Pinsince, 70, was born in Manchester, N.H., and had lived in the Ivoryton section of Essex for 10 years. In 1947, he joined Ayerst Pharmaceutical Division of American Home Products and became instrumental in expanding the company's overseas market. pansion led to the creation of Ayerst International in 1967, of which he was appointed president in 1970. He retired in 1973.
A memorial service will be held at 11:30 AM tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church. Burial will be private.

Alexander Schmemann, 62, Noted Russian Theologian Crestwood, N.Y.
(AP) The Rev. Alexander Schmemann, 62, a leading Russian Orthodox theologian influential in U.S. church life in the cause of religious freedom in the Soviet Union and in the world-wide ecumenical movement, died yesterday. He had been suffering from cancer for more than a year, but had remained active much of the time in church affairs and at St. Valdimir's Seminary here, a leading Orthodox theological institution of which he was dean.

Schmemann was a friend and spiritual counselor to author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was expelled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Besides being an authority on Orthodox liturgy, history and theology, Schmemann was an adjunct professor at Columbia and New York universities and at Union and General theological seminaries in New York City. In the ecumenical movement, Schmemann was a member of World Council of Churches agencies, including its key sector on faith and order, dealing with basic church doctrines and practices in the quest for Christian unity. Funeral services were set for Friday at St. Vladimir's..

Harold S. Black, 85, Inventor, Scientist
Summit, N.J. (AP) - Harold S. Black, a Bell Laboratories scientist who developed a major concept in long-distance communications, died Sunday of congestive heart failure. Black, 85, retired from Bell Labs in He developed the theory of negative feedback, which largely eliminates distortion in amplified communications signals. The theory, developed in 1927, has been applied to advancing technology in biomechanics, bioengineering, digital computers, artificial limbs for the disabled, automatic controls for wheel chairs and high fidelity sound reproduction. During World War II, Black designed pulse code modulation systems, which are used widely by military, private and public communications companies. Black, who received 347 patents in his career, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1981. He wrote two books, 22 encyclopedia articles and numerous scientific papers. Services will be today at the Unitarian Church in Summit.

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