Deaths Elsewhere

ULL department head
LAFAYETTE – Services for retired UL Lafayette department head Dr. Doris Bentley will be Feb. 11. She died Feb. 7 at age 95.
She served as the first administrative secretary at McNeese State University before joining ULL, where she became department head of office administration, a post she held 15 years. She was a charter member of the Mayor’s Commission on the Needs of Women and served on the Municipal Civil Service Board.
Survivors include five children.
Arrangements are by Martin & Castille.

Catholic educator
GRAND COTEAU – Services for Catholic educator the Rev. Ernest Ferlita, S.J. will be Feb. 13. He died Feb. 4 at age 87.
He began his teaching career at Loyola University. During this time he served as Chairman of Loyola’s Department of Drama and Speech (1970-88) and Chairman of the University’s Board of Directors (1972-75). He continued as a professor in the Drama Department until 2002, at which time he became an emeritus professor until 2010. He was a prolific writer and his plays have received numerous awards and been translated into several languages and produced around the world. He was a Fulbright scholar at Universidade de Parana in Curitiba, Brazil and a visiting professor at Boston College.

Mental health specialist
NEW ORLEANS – Services for mental health specialist Dr. Diane Hammer will be Feb. 11. She died Feb. 8 at age 70.
She worked as Chief of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the VA in the 1980’s, and as a Consultant to Tulane Student Health, while also seeing patients in private practice for 26 years. Dr. Hammer was emerita at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, and a member of the Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Arts of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Survivors include her husband, Dr. Robert Hammer and two children.