Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, who brought order to the merger of two major medical centers that became New York-Presbyterian Hospital Martin Luther King, Jr., O.J. Simpson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Mary Jo Kopechne and many others, died on April 14, in St. Clair Shores, MI, a suburb of Detroit. He was 97. Dr. Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days [...]

Ilon Specht, who wrote a successful television commercial for L’Oréal’s Preference hair color product and ran it for 11 years, died on April 30 at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. Dr. Pardes aspired to make New York-Presbyterian a model for medical care, with focus on patients, efficient management, and rigid financial controls.

Disney legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother Robert B. Sherman), died May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. He was 95. One of the most prolific composer-lyricists in the history of family entertainment, and a key member of Walt Disney’s inner circle of creative talents, Mr. Sherman garnered nine Academy Award nominations (winning two Oscars for his work on the [...]

Adele Faber, a former high school teacher who, with her Long Island neighbor Elaine Mazlish, wrote child-rearing blockbusters like How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry, which became bibles for generations of parents, died on April 24 in White Plains, NY. She was 96. The parenting guides have sold more than four million copies in North America alone, and have been published in 40 countries. [...]