Memorials

Mark J. Chaffin
(1952-2015)
Mark will be dearly remembered for knowing something about absolutely everything; conducting research that matters; his ability to take complex issues, reach the core of what really matters, and then effectively communicate the message to the public; his thought provoking “rants”; his core ethics and need to do what is right; and his quick wit, including his opinions on sandals in the work place. Mark was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Child Maltreatment. Mark was the recipient of the following APSAC Awards: Outstanding Service to APSAC (2000), Outstanding Research Career Achievement (2015) (later named the March Chaffin Outstanding Research Career Achievement), and Child Maltreatment Article of the Year (2006 and 2009).
Brilliant, witty, and down to earth, Mark was a beloved husband, father, colleague, mentor, and friend.
He was born in Oklahoma City to Bill and Jolene Chaffin. Mark grew up in Verden, Oklahoma with his sister, Susan Babcock. He was a Sooner–a sports fan and he obtained all of his college degrees from the University of Oklahoma.
Mark married Barbara Ann in 1982. Together they raised Roxanne Chaffin. Mark had enthusiasm for many aspects of life, including bikes (motorized and not), cooking, sports, coffee, home repair, manhattans, methodology, and implementation science. However, he glowed the brightest when asked about Roxanne.
After working many years as a direct service provider, Dr. Chaffin served as faculty for 18 years at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at the OU Health Sciences Center. As Director of Research, he conducted critical implementation studies in child maltreatment. In 2014, Dr. Chaffin retired and accepted a position as Professor of Public Health at Georgia State University. His move stemmed in part from a desire to have population level impact of his work.
Mark will be dearly remembered for:
- Knowing something about absolutely everything,
- Conducting research that matters,
- His ability to take complex issues, reach the core of what really matters, and then effectively communicate the message to the public,
- His thought provoking “rants”,
- His core ethics and need to do what is right, and
- His quick wit, including his opinions on sandals in the work place.
Mark, you made the world a better place. Thank you for the cherished memories. You are missed.

Ryan J. Morey
(1995-2017)
Ryan James Morey, 22, of Dallas passed away suddenly on Friday February 24, 2017 in New Orleans, LA, where he was a senior student at Tulane University. His goal was to attend law school and he worked as a forensic interviewer at the New Orleans Child's Advocacy Center (NOCAC), a group which provides investigation, intervention and treatment for child victims of sexual or physical abuse. The NOCAC staff shared that Ryan was a constant source of positivity and hope.
MOREY, Ryan James Ryan Morey, 22, of Dallas passed away suddenly on Friday February 24, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a senior student at Tulane University. Ryan was born in El Paso, Texas as the only child of Dr. Allen and Louise Beth Morey. He was a 2013 graduate of Highland Park High School. After working as a lifeguard at the Holmes Aquatic Center in Dallas, he attended Tulane where he majored in Latin American Studies with minors in Psychology and Spanish. His interests were broad and included animals, world travel, history, basketball, soccer, chess, music, coin collecting, and charity work. His goal was to attend law school and he worked as a forensic interviewer at the New Orleans Child’s Advocacy Center (NOCAC), a group which provides investigation, intervention and treatment for child victims of sexual or physical abuse. The NOCAC staff shared that Ryan was a constant source of positivity and hope. Ryan was passionate about philanthropic activities that could improve the lives of children at NOCAC. Ryan is survived by many friends and family whose lives will never be the same without him. His beloved rescue dog Willa will be adopted by his dear friends in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Tulane. Throughout Ryan’s life he was always fortunate to have great friends who meant the world to him. A Memorial service will be held at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, 7405 West Northwest Highway in Dallas on Sunday March 12, 2017 from noon until 1 pm. Visitation will be offered from 11 am until noon, and a reception at Sparkman/Hillcrest will follow from 1-3 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Ryan’s name to the NOCAC, 1101 Calhoun St New Orleans, LA 70118.

Karen Saywitz
(1956-2018)
Dr. Saywitz was world renowned for her research on child forensic interviewing and a much-loved professor, child advocate, and friend. Dr. Saywitz spent her entire career as a successful scientist and practitioner working tirelessly to ameliorate the trauma of child maltreatment and its legal aftermath for children and their families. Dr. Saywitz educated and trained many students who have gone on to have successful careers themselves and who carry forward Dr. Saywitz's mission to contribute to scientific knowledge and advocacy for children.
Dr. Karen Saywitz, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, received the Research Career Achievement Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the Child Abuse Professional of the Year Award from the California Consortium to Prevent Child Abuse, and the Distinguished Service Award from the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, which she helped found.
Dr. Saywitz also formerly served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Division 37 and of its Section on Child Maltreatment. She was world renowned for her research on child forensic interviewing and a much loved professor, child advocate, and friend. Dr. Saywitz spent her entire career as a successful scientist and practitioner working tirelessly to ameliorate the trauma of child maltreatment and its legal aftermath for children and their families. Her research spanned clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and law; was funded by such prestigious federal agencies as the National Institute of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services; was published in our field’s top journals; and was cited by courts across the nation including the U.S. Supreme Court.
She was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and winner of two distinguished senior contributions awards: the Division 37 Nicholas Hobbs Award for Child Advocacy and the Division 37 Lifetime Advocacy Award. These awards recognized her innovative research and important articles on child maltreatment, child forensic interviewing, foster care, and child mental health, as well as her service and policy activities, such as providing Congressional Briefings in DC and helping to establish California’s Child Advocacy Centers. Dr. Saywitz educated and trained many undergraduate, graduate, medical, and postdoctoral students who have gone on to have successful careers themselves and who carry forward Dr. Saywitz’s mission to contribute to scientific knowledge and advocacy for children.

Anne Graffam Walker
(1931-2019)
Anne Graffam Walker was born in Pasadena, CA in 1931. She passed away peacefully on December 5, 2019 after a long illness. As court reporter, she witnessed the problems lawyers had interviewing children. She went back to school to learn how to address those issues from an academic perspective. She received a Masters and PhD in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown while working full time. In order to help lawyers in interviewing children, she developed a course for lawyers to help them question children. She lectured throughout the United States and internationally. Her training was so successful that the American Bar Association asked her to write a book based on her lectures. The book "Handbook on Questioning Children" was published in 1999. It is now in its 3rd edition.
Anne Graffam Walker was born in Pasadena, CA in 1931. She passed away peacefully on December 5, 2019 after a long illness. She grew up in southern California and graduated from San Diego State College in 1952. Upon graduation, she and several friends went to Europe to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. After the coronation, she spent time traveling through Europe finally ending up in Oslo, Norway where she got a job with the American Embassy. While in Norway, she became fluent in Norwegian. While in Norway, she met Pete Walker, her husband to be, whose ship was visiting Oslo. The next port he visited was Stockholm. Anne was on the pier was when the ship arrived. At the end of the visit, they were engaged and married a year later.
She spent the next twenty-four years as a Navy wife raising three children. As a family, they lived on both coasts, Hawaii, and in Japan. When Pete got orders to the American Embassy in Tokyo, he spent a year at the Defense Language Institute. As the wife of a future assistant attache, she also attended the school. She became fluent in Japanese.
When the family settled in Virginia, she became a court reporter. As court reporter, she witnessed the problems lawyers had interviewing children. She went back to school to learn how to address those issues from an academic perspective. She received a Masters and PhD in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown while working full time. In order to help lawyers in interviewing children, she developed a course for lawyers to help them question children. She lectured throughout the United States and internationally. Her training was so successful that the American Bar Association asked her to write a book based on her lectures. The book “Handbook on Questioning Children” was published in 1999. It is now in its 3rd edition.
Anne is survived by her husband of 62 years, Peter Walker, three children (Brynn Walker, Hal Walker, and Erin Webster), seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and her sister, Alice LaNeve Hill.
Taken from Anne Walker’s obituary here.

David L. Chadwick
(1926-2020)
David L. Chadwick died peacefully Sunday, January 19th, 2020 surrounded by his loving family and wife, Michele, at their home in La Mesa, California. David was a giant in the child maltreatment field and one of APSAC’s strongest champions and supporters. He was one of APSAC’s core founders and served as APSAC’s second president. He is the first former APSAC president to pass away.
During APSAC’s first few months of existence, David successfully pushed for the new multidisciplinary society to address all forms of child abuse and neglect rather than primarily focusing on sexual abuse which catalyzed its formation. He bolstered APSAC’s initial membership by including membership in APSAC as part of the registration fee for the annual San Diego child abuse conference that he had started in January of 1986.
David was a brilliant and remarkable physician whose career spanned more than 60 years.
He became interested in the study and prevention of child abuse early in his education, serving as medical student intern in 1949 under pediatric chief resident, Henry Kempe (who later became one of the world’s foremost pioneers in identifying and treating child abuse) while both trained at the University of California San Francisco.
After an infectious disease fellowship and service in the Air Force, David joined the pediatric medical staff of Los Angeles Children’s Hospital in 1958 where he met Helen Boardman, the hospital’s only social worker, who compelled him to address child abuse. He left Los Angeles Children’s in 1968 to become the first employed physician and first Medical Director of San Diego Children’s Hospital. In 1985, David founded the San Diego Children’s Hospital Center for Child Protection, leaving his position as Hospital Medical Director to become the Center’s Director. That center, now the Rady Children’s Chadwick Center for Children and Families continues to provide many services to maltreated children and their families. The Center continues to host an international child and family maltreatment conference that attracts 2,000 attendees from around the world each January.
David dedicated much of his professional career to addressing child abuse and neglect. In 1962, David, Helen Boardman, and others joined Henry Kempe in drafting the original model child abuse reporting law and was instrumental in its adoption in California. David authored or co-authored several books. He was the recipient of many honors for his professional work addressing child abuse and neglect, including the C. Anderson Aldrich Award for “outstanding service to maltreated children” from the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Scientific Achievement Award from the American Medical Association for his pioneering work in child abuse treatment and prevention, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and the Vincent J. Felitti Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy on Violence and Abuse.
Following his retirement from the Center and Hospital in 1997, David continued his work in child maltreatment including serving three years as a part time research professor at the University of Utah from 2002 to 2004. After returning full time to his home in La Mesa, California, David continued to work reading, reviewing, and writing books. Until shortly before his passing, David continued to champion an effort to establish a more equitable and accessible way for disseminating scientific and other new knowledge, the Cooperative Scientific Knowledge Exchange, CSKE. He was a life-long rebel and innovator who made the world a better place through his thinking, sharing, and action!
David Chadwick was an extraordinary man and a superb pediatrician, caring for, protecting, and serving children and families. He was a loving husband and father. He was a devoted member of APSAC. David will be greatly missed. Those who knew him well and worked closely with Dave are fortunate for the time shared with him. Dave gave much to his professional colleagues, the child maltreatment field, and most of all to the children and families to whom he dedicated his life.

Richard J. Gelles
(1947-2020)
Richard J. Gelles, whose pioneering research about family violence and child welfare helped shape government policy and social work practices nationwide, died June 26, of brain cancer at home. He was the author or coauthor of 26 books and more than 200 articles and chapters on family violence. In 1999 Gelles received the “Award for Career Achievement in Research” from the American Professional Science on the Abuse of Children.
Obituary reposted from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Richard J. Gelles, 73, of Philadelphia, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania whose pioneering research about family violence and child welfare helped shape government policy and social work practices nationwide, died Friday, June 26, of brain cancer at home. “He never shied away from changing how things have always been done in order that we may all do them better,” said Amy Gutman, president of the University of Pennsylvania. “In and of itself, such fearlessness is an excellent quality to have for any scholar, teacher, advocate, and leader. “But, in Rich, that quality empowered the greatest of purposes: that of safeguarding the most vulnerable members of society.”
Dr. Gelles’s 1974 book, The Violent Home, was the first systematic investigation of family violence. It has been a building block for the academic field of social policy. With the publication of The Book of David in 1996, Dr. Gelles helped raise awareness of the tragic, sometimes unintended consequences of trying to reunite children in foster care with their biological families, whatever the domestic history. The book, which advocated that children did best when they were positioned in the child welfare system to find permanent adoptive homes, helped lead to the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
The act included a provision known as the 15/22 rule. If a child had been in foster care for 15 of the previous 22 months, states were required to terminate the biological parents’ rights so that the child could be put up for adoption. As a result, more foster children found adoptive homes. He also changed the lives of individual children who had been abused by the foster care system by bringing the abuse to the attention of the news media and the legal system, his family said. Born in Newton, Mass., Dr. Gelles graduated from Newton South High School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Bates College, a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Hampshire. He came to Penn in 1998 from the University of Rhode Island, where he had taught and conducted research on domestic violence since 1973.
In 2001, he became interim dean of what was then Penn’s School of Social Work. He was named dean in 2003. When then-Penn President Judith Rodin said she was considering closing the school, he told her, “It can be made viable with some very simple steps,” the Daily Pennsylvanian reported in March 2014. Dr. Gelles changed the name to the School of Social Policy and Practice, expanded the offerings to include a master’s degree in nonprofit leadership and social policy, and raised $33.6 million for the school between 2005 and 2012. “The school is in a much better shape today than when he took it over,” Ram Cnaan, a professor at the graduate school, told the newspaper in 2014, when Dr. Gelles stepped down as dean. “Academically, student-wise, budget-wise, on all fronts, much better.”
Dr. Gelles was a sociologist at Penn from 1998 to 2019 and occupied the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence. He was faculty director of the school’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research. He trained and consulted with federal, state and municipal child protective agencies and served as an expert witness on child welfare issues in courts across the country. He advocated for his views on TV and public radio. He was a consultant to the U.S. Army on domestic violence issues. His study showed that the highest rate of domestic violence was not in those deployed for combat or special assignments abroad, but rather in those who stayed home and restocked supplies for foreign missions. A former college baseball player, he was a diehard fan of both the Boston Red Sox and the Phillies. In 1971, he married Judy Gelles, an artist, photographer, and filmmaker. They raised two sons in Rhode Island before moving to Philadelphia. She died March 14. Dr. Gelles is survived by sons David P. Gelles and Jason Gelles, and three grandchildren.
Services were June 28.
Memorial donations may be made to Camp Tevya via https://secure.qgiv.com/for/tevya or to Society Hill Synagogue via https://www.societyhillsynagogue.org/donation-form/.

Sol Gothard
(1930-2020)
Sol Gothard, a lifelong child advocate and former APSAC board member, passed away on July 5. The Judge, as he was known, dedicated his professional life to pursuing justice for children, as a social worker, attorney, Juvenile Court Judge, and Court of Appeal Judge. Underprivileged as a child, he became a fierce advocate for the powerless, particularly abused children and animals. A prolific writer and speaker, the Judge lectured at conferences around the world.
Sol Gothard passed away, at home, on July 5, 2020. He was 89 years old. The Judge, as he was known to all, was born and grew up in the Bronx, New York. He was the son of immigrant parents, Samuel and Lillian, and the youngest of four brothers, Jack, Jerry and Abe. After graduating from the City College of New York, Sol served in the United States Army, from which he was Honorably Discharged. He earned a Masters degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he met the love of his life, fellow graduate student Jacqueline Pressner Gothard. Sol and Jackie married and settled down in her home town, New Orleans. While employed as a social worker, Sol earned his law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans. He was elected Juvenile Court Judge in Jefferson Parish in 1972, and was elected to the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in 1986 where he served until his retirement in 2005. Judge Sol, under-privileged as a child, became a fierce advocate for the powerless in our society, particularly abused children and animals. He dedicated his professional life to the pursuit of justice for children, as a social worker, attorney, Juvenile Court Judge, and Court of Appeal Judge. His intellectual interests included the influence of Old Testament law on American law and values. A prolific writer and speaker, the Judge lectured at conferences around the world on a variety of topics, most notably child welfare and the ethical treatment of animals. His articles were published in the Journal of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, The Practicing Law Institute, The American Medical Association, the Louisiana Bar Journal, and many other books and publications. As an adjunct professor, he taught graduate and undergraduate students at Tulane and Loyola Universities. Following retirement after 33 years on the bench, the Judge, a proud Army veteran, served as Commander of the greater New Orleans Chapter of the Jewish War Veterans, the oldest active national veterans service organization in America. His numerous honors include “Citizen of the Year” by the Louisiana State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, “Alumnus of the Year” by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, and the Alfred E. Clay award for significant contributions to children by the Children’s Bureau of Greater New Orleans. He delivered commencement addresses at the Tulane University Graduate School of Social Work and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University. The National Organization of Forensic Social Work established the “Sol Gothard Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2011, which is the “highest award bestowed upon an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the forensic social work profession, public welfare, and humankind.” In 2013, he was selected as a “People’s Health Champion” for revitalizing the local Jewish War Veterans post. Judge Sol was a board member of numerous organizations, including The American Humane Association Children’s Division, the Louisiana SPCA, the Louisiana Animal Welfare Commission, and the Jewish Welfare Federation of Greater New Orleans. The Judge loved telling jokes. He had an encyclopedic recall for the appropriate, or inappropriate, joke for every situation and occasion. He delivered thousands of punch lines in his impeccable Yiddish accent: “There once came walking down the road these two . . .”
More than work or humor, Judge Sol was devoted to Jackie, his beloved bride of 62 years. Their legacy of love are five children – Yaacov and partner LouAnn, Eddie and wife Blayne, Andy and wife Julie, Shayna and husband Eric, Sander and wife Julie. Judge Sol was “Honey” to his eleven grandchildren – Aimee, Taylor, Ben, Daniel, Tara, Sidnie, Gabriel, Mikayla, Maya, Lindsay, and Jeremy; and great grandchildren August and Magnolia. Sol and Jackie were soul mates, and they loved life – travel, laughing, their many dogs, hiking, Israel, gardening, family celebrations, music, holding hands, mountains, whitewater rafting, neighbors, seders, reading, nature, television miniseries, giving charity, live theater, dancing, dessert, wildlife, the Saints and the Pelicans. They abhorred racism, violence, intolerance, cruelty and injustice. Dad/Honey, We love you eternally. We miss you terribly. We will be forever enriched by your life, your love, your inspiration, your light.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– Dylan Thomas.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Jackie & Sol Gothard Memorial Fund at Congregation Beth Israel (www.bethisraelnola.com) or the charity of your choice. A private service and interment was held on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. To view and sign the guest book, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.com

Neal Snyder
(1941-2020)
As an attorney, Neil specialized in protecting children from abuse - an area he helped make a legal specialty - and became a role model for many others in the field He was a co-founder of CAPSAC, and continued to serve as a board member, supporter, and consultant to CAPSAC for the rest of his life. Neal was an intelligent, even- tempered, positive, athletic, and kind man who loved jazz, his wife, Yvonne Garcia, their annual visits to Thailand, his children and grandchildren.
Neal Snyder attended Reed College in Oregon before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley with a BA and MA in sociology, and obtained his JD from Hastings College. As an attorney, he specialized in protecting children from abuse-an area he helped make a legal specialty-and became a role model for many others in the field. Neal worked for the California State Department of Social Services in day care licensing litigation. He was a co-founder of CAPSAC, drafted its initial bylaws and assisted with its incorporation.
Because CAPSAC preceded APSAC in its incorporation and initially focused on child sexual abuse, Neal proposed renaming APSAC from its initially proposed name, the American Professional Society on the Victimization of Children (APSVOC), to the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and changing CAPSAC’s name from the “California Association of Professionals on the Sexual Abuse of Children” to the “California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.”
He continued to serve as a board member, supporter, and consultant to CAPSAC for the rest of his life. Neal was an intelligent, even tempered, positive, athletic, and kind man who loved jazz, his wife, Yvonne Garcia, their annual visits to Thailand, his children and grandchildren.

Walter Mondale
(1928 - 2021)
Former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota died on April 19, 2021, after a long career in public services. He will always be remembered by people working in child welfare as the author of the original Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974. He was particularly emphatic that child abuse not solely be seen as an issue of race and class, but one that impacted all spheres of society. “This is not a poverty problem; this is a national problem,” Mondale said, during the authorization hearings.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota died on April 19, 2021, after a long career in public services. He will always be remembered by people working in child welfare as the author of the original Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974. He was particularly emphatic that child abuse not solely be seen as an issue of race and class, but one that impacted all spheres of society. “This is not a poverty problem; this is a national problem,” Mondale said, during the authorization hearings.
The son of a Methodist minister and child of the depression, Mandate carried the values of ‘doing justice and loving mercy’ throughout his storied career. He led an amicus brief by 23 attorneys general that resulted in the 1963 Supreme Court ruling Gideon v. Wainwright establishing for the first time a criminal defendant’s right to legal counsel. He and President Jimmy Carter are credited with modernizing and empowering the office of the Vice President, setting a role model for Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Joe Biden. As a presidential candidate in 1984, Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman on a national ticket. After his loss to Ronald Regan in 1984, Mondale continued a life to teaching and public services, including three years as ambassador to Japan.
Based in part on Mondale’s obituary on the LA Times and the Star Tribune.

Charles T. "Terry" Hendrix
(1933-2022)
Charles T. "Terry" Hendrix, MA, was a member of APSAC for more than 20 years and was appointed to the APSAC Board of Directors in 1999. His academic training was in clinical psychology, and he served in the U.S. Army as a clinical psychology technician. He joined SAGE Publications in 1984 as an acquiring editor for both journals and books, and over the next 17 years was instrumental in the development of the SAGE lists in interpersonal violence and criminology. In his latter years at SAGE, Terry managed the acquisition, development, and maintenance of all U.S. based journals in interpersonal violence, including Child Maltreatment, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Violence Against Women.
September 27, 1933 – August 19, 2022. Charles T. (Terry) Hendrix passed away peacefully on Friday, August 19, 2022, at his summer home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was an active member of the artistic and cultural communities in both New Mexico and his primary home, Rancho Mirage, California. He was a long-term member of APSAC and a previous board member. He served as president of the Palm Springs, California Opera Guild and was a member of the Board of Directors. He served as president of the Opera Club of the Santa Fe Opera.
Terry was born in Amarillo, Texas on September 27th, 1933, to Charles and Ferris Hendrix. The family later moved to Mineral Wells, Texas. When Terry was in the ninth grade, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. Terry attended both Highland Park Junior and Senior High Schools, graduating in 1951. Terry graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1955 and pursued medical studies.
He eventually went into scholarly publishing, working as an editor in the social sciences at Wadsworth Publishers and Sage Publishers. He founded and edited major journals in criminology and social psychology. He was a long-term representative for APSAC with Sage Publishers.
He married Gracia A. Alkema in Carmel, California in 1990. She predeceased him in 2011.
His wide-ranging interests included opera, symphonic music, and fine art. He and Gracia collected original works by many contemporary artists.
Terry provided sound guidance and support to APSAC for many years around finance and the publication of Child Maltreatment, and he served on the APSAC Board of Directors. When APSAC was transitioning from their original offices in Chicago, Terry ran all publications orders out of his garage for several years. In 2005, he established the Charles T. Hendrix Plenary fund to provide an outstanding plenary session in conjunction with the Annual APSAC Colloquium.

Cary Wilmot Alden
(1949-2022)
APSAC expresses immense gratitude to the Estate of Cary Wilmot Alden and Ms. Alden's niece, Mary S. Hartenstein, for the generous donation in support of the No Hit Zone initiative.
Cary Wilmot Alden, 73, of Jefferson, La., passed away peacefully December 12, 2022, at Ochsner Medical Center, surrounded by family, after a lengthy illness. A lifelong resident of the New Orleans area, Cary was well known for creating memorable experiences as a public relations and event consultant, stage and screen actress, TV show host and passionate promoter of the arts, hospitality and tourism. After attending LSU, where she majored and excelled in theater, Cary spent the early years of her career as both a stage performer and PR representative for the Beverly Dinner Playhouse. Following a 1983 fire that destroyed the venerable theater, she went on to handle PR in-house or as a consultant for numerous hotels such as the Windsor Court, the Roosevelt (operating at the time as the Fairmont New Orleans), the Omni Royal Orleans and many other local and national brand properties. She also represented cultural arts organizations such as Le Petit Theatre and Rivertown Theater, as well as local galleries, business associations, nonprofits, restaurants and boutiques. When Cary wasn’t working behind the scenes for her PR clients, she continued to step on stage and in front of the camera. A longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Actors’ Equity Association, she performed in community theaters in New Orleans and New York, in roles supporting icons of the stage, TV and cinema. Among her many screen credits are regionally shot features such as My Own Love Song, Sonny, Tightrope, American Violet and The Savage Bees as well as numerous national, regional and local TV commercials. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Cary co-hosted Real New Orleans, a locally produced weekly feature show on WGNO-TV celebrating and profiling the places, personalities, customs, cuisine and events that give the Crescent City its unique flavor. She also volunteered and raised funds for numerous community organizations and philanthropic initiatives throughout the New Orleans area, including Dress For Success, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra among others. Cary’s warm and engaging smile, personality, quick wit and sense of humor made connections in her work, social and family life effortless, and she brightened and captivated every room she entered. Apart from her professional and civic life, she loved planning family events and holiday celebrations, especially with her nieces, nephews and their children. She was an avid cat lover and advocate for pet adoption and animal rescue, headed north almost every autumn to “leaf peep” and loved celebrating Carnival with dear friends at Galatoire’s and the Royal Orleans. Cary was born in New Orleans on November 11, 1949, the youngest child of Julian “Jack” Mollere Wilmot and Miriam Schwab Wilmot. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Ann Wilmot Gauthier Rappaport and Mary Mollere Wilmot; and brother-in-law, Dan Stapp. She is survived by her brother, John D. Wilmot, and his wife, Lynda, of New Orleans; sister, Barbara Wilmot Stapp of Metairie; sister, Caryl Wilmot Barnes, and her husband, Eugene Barnes, of Mandeville; brother-in-law, Robert Rappaport of New Orleans; and six nieces and nephews.
Retrieved from NOLA.com Obituaries

Susan Schoenberg Samuel
(1939-2024)
Former APSAC Board Member, Susan Samuel passed away in January of 2024. APSAC expresses their condolences to her family for their loss.
Susan was born on October 31, 1939 in NY to Jules and Rose Schoenberg. She was raised in Cornwall, NY and moved to Versailles, KY in 1987. Susan was a KY social worker for 12 years investigating child abuse/neglect and went on to work for the State AG’s office. She was a teacher, a child abuse investigator, and a trainer/consultant. Susan was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia where she met and married her husband, Tom. Susan died comfortably at home with both daughters (Jessica and Erica) holding her hands and singing to her.
Retrieved from Legacy.com

Lt. Bill Walsh (Retired)
(1952-2025)
Throughout his life, Lt. Walsh dedicated himself to protecting children and families, leaving behind a legacy that set the gold standard for investigating crimes against children. Driven by his determination to make Dallas County safer for its youngest and most vulnerable residents, Lt. Walsh’s visionary leadership not only transformed the local approach to child protection but also created a safer world for children everywhere. He co-founded the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) and launched the annual Crimes Against Children Conference, now the largest event of its kind worldwide.