Lennie Rosenbluth, the All-America forward who led a North Carolina team to an unbeaten season and a thrilling victory over Wilt Chamberlain’s Kansas squad in the 1957 NCAA basketball tournament championship game, died on June 18. He was 89.

Rosenbluth, at 6 feet 5 inches, averaged 28 points per game in the 1956-57 season and beat out Chamberlain for the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year award. His Tar Heels went 32-0 and capped their season with a 54-53 triple-overtime victory over Kansas, with Rosenbluth scoring 20 points before fouling out late in regulation. Chamberlain was held to 23 points after averaging 30 during the regular season.

After graduating from North Carolina and playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, Rosenbluth taught American history and coached basketball at a high school in Wilson, NC.

He was inducted into the International Jewish sports Hall of Fame in Israel, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Commack, NY.

The Shofar joins the membership is extending deepest condolences to the family of Diana (Dede) Whitsit, a long-time shul member who died on May 12 at her home in Orient. May family, friends and colleagues be comforted by many happy occasions spent together with her.

Following her death, family and friends visited Dede’s favorite viewing spot over the water in Orient. To them, this remarkable photo, captured by Sally Heitel barely a moment before the sun disappeared below the horizon, seemed an acknowledgment of togetherness from Dede.

Richard C. Wald, who was the last managing editor of The New York Herald Tribune, ran NBC News in the 1970s, and helped turn ABC News into a powerhouse, died May 13 in New Rochelle, NY. He was 92.

In 1980, Mr. Wald also gave ABC’s celebrated late-night news program, Nightline, its name. At the time, it was called America Held Hostage, a nightly report about the hostage crisis in Iran. Ted Koppel, the program’s former host, recalled a meeting with Roone Arledge, ABC’s president; Mr. Wald, and David Burke, Mr. Arledge’s other top lieutenant, at which they tossed out new names for the program. “Dick said, ‘You know, in horse racing, they’ve got this thing called the morning line. Why don’t we call it Nightline?’” Mr. Koppel said in a phone interview. “And the three of us said that’s a really terrible idea, and Dick said, ‘I haven’t heard anything better.’” Nightline has aired since 1980.

Geraldine Weiss, who, after being told by a succession of stockbrokers that she was best qualified for the secretarial pool, devised an unconventional moneymaking strategy that she used in becoming the first woman to launch a successful investment newsletter, died on April 25 at her home in the La Jolla area of San Diego. She was 96.

For more than a decade, Ms. Weiss wrote, edited and published her stock market newsletter, Investment Quality Trends, as G. Weiss to conceal her identity as a woman. It wasn’t until 1977 that she disclosed her full identity in an appearance on the PBS show “Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser.”

Ms. Weiss grounded her twice-a-month advisories in company dividends instead of the intense analysis of corporate earnings, which has long been the dominant focus of Wall Street. She argued that dividends were the best gauge of performance, because they represented here-and-now cash not subject to subterfuge. She explained that earnings can be “hidden or disguised behind vague bookkeeping terms such as cash flow, depreciation or inventory reserves and distorted by taxes.” She became known as the grand dame of dividends.

Sid Mark, a longtime disc jockey in Philadelphia who made Frank Sinatra’s songs the center of his wide-reaching musical universe for more than six decades, died on April 18 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 88.

He hosted three shows on various Philadelphia radio stations: “Friday With Frank,” “Sunday With Sinatra,” and the syndicated “The Sounds of Sinatra,” which has run for 43 years and at its height was heard on 100 stations. He also hosted a fourth, “Saturday With Sinatra,” on stations in New York.

His admiration for Sinatra’s music swelled when he listened to his records on the radio at night in 1953 in the Army barracks at Camp Polk in Louisiana. “Somehow his voice got to me, and I realized he knew exactly what he was singing about,” he said. “If he was singing about lonely, he knew what lonely was. If he was singing about love, he knew what love was about.”

Mr. Mark hosted “Friday With Frank” for 54 years, “Saturday With Sinatra” for about 17, and “Sunday With Sinatra” for more than 40. “The Sounds of Sinatra” will remain on the air and present archival shows, said his son Brian Mark, the executive producer.

She was born Rachelle Zylberberg in Belgium, a Jewish child abandoned in infancy by her unwed mother and left alone at 12 when her father, a drunken Polish refugee, was arrested by the Nazis in France. She hid in as convent. After the war, she sold bras in the streets of Paris and vowed to become rich and famous someday. She died on May 1, at 92.

In 1957, calling herself Régine, she borrowed money and opened a basement nightclub on a Paris back street. And so began Chez Régine, widely regarded as the world’s first discothèque. In the 1970s, it became a $500 million empire of 23 clubs in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, including Régine’s in Manhattan, catering to the stretch-limousine crowd of arts and entertainment stars, society celebs, princes, playboys and Beautiful People. An effervescent empresaria with flaming red hair, Régine was known to everyone who was anyone as “Queen of the Night.”

By the end of the 1990s, Régine’s international empire had dwindled to a handful of clubs. In recent years, she lived in Paris, supported charities, gave occasional parties, and saw old friends. “I don’t want people to feel sorry for me,” she said. “I want them to laugh with me and to be happy.”

Irving Rosenthal wasn’t famous like the Beat figures he associated with — Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg and others — but he was an integral part of their scene. He died on April 22 at the commune he founded in San Francisco in 1967. He was 91.

As a graduate student at the University of Chicago and the editor of a journal there, he and his poetry editor were fond of the Beat writers on the West Coast and began publishing them. The writing did not impress university officials. Mr. Rosenthal and others on the staff resigned to form their own journal. Big Table. He battled censorship issues throughout his publishing life that focused on gay liberation, free love and other counter-culture issues of the time.

“Sheeper,” Mr. Rosenthal’s major literary output, was published in 1967. Donald Stanley, writing in The San Francisco Examiner, described it as having no plot except “the recurrence over and over and over again of the details of Sheeper’s homosexuality. But leaving the question of morality to better moralists than I,” he added, “one is stuck with the conviction that this approach, this startling frankness, this violation of old taboos will become commoner before it becomes rarer.”