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Artist Ora Lerman, 60, Louisville natives dies.

Louisville native Ora Lerman, an award-winning artist in New York, died there April 19 of complications from surgery. She was 60.

In 1963, Lerman received a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Japan. She went on to earn other fellowships and awards in a career that spanned three decades. In 1988, she spent time in Giverny, France, as a Reader's Digest artist-in-residence.

Lerman's paintings included scenery, flora, and animals. She completed murals for the New Jersey Transit Station and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Many of her other works have been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, The Brooklyn Museum and the Poulain Museum in Vernon, France.

Some of her awards include the Andrew Mellon Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Regional Fellowship; Visual Arts Fellowship from the Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Grant; CAPS finalist for the New York State Council for the Arts; four time recipient of the State University of New York Research Grant; and two-time recipient of the Outstanding Young Women of America Aware.

She is survived by her husband, David Ostwald.

Deceased 1/6/2008

After he was diagnosed with terminal cancer I entered law school in January 1965. Achieving my JD degree from U of K in 1967, I joined the large Cincinnati general commercial law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP to practice labor and employment law under the mentorship of J. Mack Swigert who had helped Senator Robert A. Taft draft and pass the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. During my 37 year practice, from which I retired in 2005, I represented large and small employers throughout the United States in connection with counseling, union avoidance, labor union negotiations and strikes, arbitrations, NLRB hearings, proceedings before the EEOC, OSHA and other administrative agencies charged with enforcing employee protective statutes; and in trials and appeals in state and federal courts, including arguing two cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and before six of the13 circuits of the Court of Appeals.

Others recognized my work by including me in Ohio’s Super Lawyers, Woodward/White’s, The Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers’ USA, America’s Leading Business Lawyers.

In 2000, I was privileged to present a series of lectures throughout the United Kingdom to representatives of employers, unions and government regulators to assist them to understand the UK’s newly enacted comprehensive labor law patterned in significant parts after the Taft-Hartley Act. On two or three occasions I jointly represented clients with our classmate, and fine labor lawyer, Kenny Handmaker.

I look forward to reading on the Atherton web site additional write-ups about the interesting lives of my classmates and visiting with you at our 50th Reunion..

ALAN LIPS  2006

Deceased July 3, 2010

We lived in St. Paul, Minnesota for 20 years.  Moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1990 and moved to Tucson, Arizona 10 years later.  We have been blessed with 3 children ( 2 girls and 1 boy) and 7 grandchildren ( 5 girls and 2 boys).