734. Sarah D Deloe
WOLFE, Sarah D, 96, of Wheeling, W.Va., passed away on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 in the Good Shepherd Nursing Home.
She was born November 6, 1909 in Wheeling, W.Va., the daughter of Wilbur S. Carlin and Mathilda Marguerite Henneman and adopted daughter of David Deloe and Lillie Henneman Deloe.
Sarah was a graduate of Wheeling High School and West Liberty State College.
She was primary school teacher in the Ohio County Schools, Wheeling, for 28 years, teaching at Woodsdale and Greggsville Grade Schools. She also taught in East Liverpool, Ohio at the beginning of her career.
She served as president of the Warwood Civic League and was very active in the Warwood United Methodist Church of which she had been a member for 70 years. Sarah was also a former associate member of the Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church, Mt. Lebanon, Pa. and First United Methodist Church, Clearwater, Fla.
In addition to her parents, Sarah was preceded in death in 1988 by her husband, Leslie A. Wolfe; her adopted sister, Kathryn “Kad” Deloe Pracht; five nephews.
Sarah is survived by a daughter, Beth Ann Wolfe Mercer and her husband, Donald W. Mercer of Wheeling; three grandsons, John Leslie Mercer and his wife, Laurie Johnson of Huntington, W.Va., Thomas Loran Mercer and Ron William Mercer, both of Pittsburgh, Pa.; great- grandchildren, Cassandra “Cassie” Mercer, John Jeremiah “JJ” Mercer and Andrew Jacob “AJ” Mercer, all of Huntington; two nieces and a nephew; grandnieces and grandnephews; great-grand nieces and great-grand nephews; and great-greatgrand nephews
416. Clarence Delo
Living in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1920
420. David Marion Delo
David was born in Mt. Morris, Illinois. With encouragement and sacrifice from his mother, David attended college, graduating from the University of Miami, Ohio, in 1926, with a degree in Geology. From there he went on to his Master's, taken at the University of Kansas, and finally a PhD from Harvard in Paleontology. While working on his PhD in Massachusetts, he met Elsie Muriel Crooker (April 12, 1906 - * ) of Hyde Park. They were married on June 16, 1932. From a successful career in teaching, primarily at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, he went to Washington, D.C. worked in the Office of Scientific Research & Development (OSRD), then became the first Executive Director of the American Geological Institute. in 1952, he made an extreme change in direction, from the field of science to the presidency of Wagner College, Staten Island, New York. It was there that the full scope of his energies and abilities began to come into play. Since 1958 he has been the President of the University of Tampa where he has a deep-rooted reputation as a valued and honored citizen, community leader, and dynamic educator. His wife, Elsie (known as Sunny) has achieved her own niche and personal aura as a highly capable organizer and doer in the community, not only through application of her abilities and concern for the University but also for her innovative activities with the Cerebreal Palsy Association. She started the first school for retarded children in the Washington, D.C. area and has repeated this achievement in the Tampa, Bay area.
Man who's seen it all leaves his mark on park
By JULIANNE WU, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times published January 15, 2003SEMINOLE -- Freedom Square resident David Delo, president emeritus of the University of Tampa, was honored Dec. 3 by the university, which named a campus park in his honor.
Delo, who turned 97 on Dec. 20, was UT president from 1958 to 1971. He was chancellor for an additional two years.
Delo worked to bring the Reserve Officers Training Corps to the UT campus. "It finally happened the year he was retiring as president," said his wife, Estelle.
Before Delo came to Tampa from New York in 1958, he was a professor of geology and geography at several Midwestern colleges and universities and held administrative posts in Washington, D.C. From 1952 to 1958, he was president of Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.
His late wife, Elsie "Sunny" Delo, started the Chiselers Market in 1959 to foster fundraising for the restoration and beautification of UT. Mrs. Delo asked friends to help her chisel old mortar from tiles that were salvaged from fireplaces of the old Tampa Bay Hotel. This year's event will be in March.
Dr. Delo has written or co-authored several books, including The Last Rites Never Came, a chronology of his tenure at the University of Tampa.
Man credited with restoring the University of Tampa dies
David M. Delo is credited with saving the school he led for 13 years.
By CRAIG BASSE, Times Obituaries Editor Published November 2, 2004TAMPA - When David M. Delo arrived in 1958 to become president of the University of Tampa, he made an ominous discovery: Some people expected him to close the place.
The future looked gloomy for UT, the college with the minarets on its roof, with the building of the University of South Florida across town. Could UT compete?
When Dr. Delo stepped down as president 13 years later, UT was flourishing. He wrote about his success in a chronology of his tenure, The Last Rites Never Came.
"He saved it," his wife, Estelle, said Monday. "That school is a big success now. He put it on its feet."
Dr. Delo, 98, who was UT chancellor for two years after leaving the presidency, died Sunday (Oct. 31, 2004) at Seminole Nursing Pavilion. The cause was congestive heart failure.
"He probably was our most beloved past president," said Grant Donaldson, UT director of public affairs. "He was a wonderful man who stayed close to the university after he left."
Dr. Delo, for whom UT named a campus park in 2002, was credited with adding 10 buildings to the school and doubling the student body and faculty salaries, his family said. He increased the annual budget sixfold without a single annual deficit.
The school, which opened in 1931, has 4,700 students, Donaldson said Monday.
Before coming to Tampa from New York, where he was president of Wagner College in Staten Island, he was a professor of geology and geography at several Midwestern colleges and universities and held administrative posts in Washington.
The son of a Lutheran minister, David Marion Delo was born in Mount Morris, Ill. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University in Ohio. He received a master's degree from the University of Kansas and a doctorate from Harvard University. He was a founder and a past president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the first executive director of the American Geological Institute.
He was a charter executive director of the Executive Service Corps of Tampa Bay and held various roles at Tampa Preparatory School. For 32 years he served on the board of WEDU-Ch. 3 and was also a board member of the Children's Home, United Way, Red Cross, Tampa Symphony and Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida.
Elsie "Sunny" Delo, his wife of 54 years, died in 1987. Survivors include his wife of nine years, Estelle L.; a son, David M., Fort Collins, Colo.; and a daughter, Diana Marie Betts, Superior, Mont.
A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at Roskamp Auditorium at Freedom Square, 7800 Liberty Lane, Seminole, where he lived. E. James Reese Funeral Home & Crematory, Seminole, is in charge.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Pinellas Association for Retarded Children, 3190 Tyrone Blvd. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33710.
-- Information from Times files was used inn this obituary.
741. David Michael Delo
David is the last male in the Delo line descended from his great-grandfather's second wife, Sarah Jane Stewart. in 1956, he attended Colgate University, then transferred to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1958, where he took a degree in Earth Science in 1962. Between 1962 and 1966, he served with the US Army as a Special Agent with the Military Intelligence Corps. After a brief skirmish with graduate work, he became Associate Director of the Council on Education in the Geological Sciences, a project of the American Geological institute. Just prior to this, he married Martha Anne Phillips, (June 19, 1944 of Tampa, Fla. They were divorced in October, 1969.