DEATHS LAST WEEK

William T. Morgan Jr., 85, former president of the NorthfieldTownship High School Board, died Aug. 5 in Glenview. Morgan, whoserved as the board's leader from 1956 to 1963, was responsible forhelping convince the community that a new high school was needed, andhe oversaw the construction of Glenbrook South in Glenview. TangTsou, 80, a political scientist at the University of Chicago and oneof the country's leading China experts, died Saturday. Born inChina, Tsou entered the University of Chicago as a student in 1941and earned a Ph.D. in political science in 1951. He went on to writesix books about Chinese politics. Jennifer Paterson, 71, star of theFood Network cooking show "Two Fat Ladies," died Tuesday after abattle with cancer. In her cable show, she and a female partnerwould tour the country by motorcycle and sidecar, collectingingredients and trading wry quips. Dr. Murray Franklin, 86, a notedChicago area surgeon whose medical inventions are still used today,died Wednesday. Franklin is credited with several medicalinventions, but the most noteworthy include a liver biopsy needlethat bears his name - the Franklin Needle - and a device to ease theperforming of electrocardiograms.; Whitney Darrow Jr., 89, a popularcartoonist for the New Yorker, died Tuesday. The New Yorkerpublished more than 1,500 of his cartoons during his 50-year career,which started in the 1930s. Jean Drapeau, 83, the autocratic mayorfor 29 years who brought the 1976 Olympics to Montreal, diedThursday. The longtime mayor had been hospitalized since July 5. Atthe family's request, the hospital did not disclose the cause ofdeath. Robert Thomas Jones, 89, who began his career as a handymanfor a flying circus and later developed a wing design as a NASAscientist that revolutionized air travel, died Wednesday. Before hedesigned swept-back wings in 1944, wings were perpendicular to thefuselage. Tommy Ridgley, 73, a veteran singer from the golden age ofNew Orleans rhythm and blues, died Wednesday of lung cancer.Ridgley signed with Decca Records in 1952 and produced "TraLaLa,"which was later covered by Pat Boone.