DR. GERALD HOUSEMAN

DR. GERALD HOUSEMAN, recently of Manchester, N.H., and formerly of Fort Wayne, died Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 after a year of declining health. He was born in Marshalltown, Iowa on April 12, 1935. He was a professor of political science at IPFW for thirty years but also taught at Nuffield College, Oxford and New College, Durham, in England as well as at the University of California, Irvine. He also spent several years abroad teaching at universities in Malaysia and Indonesia. He authored or edited ten books in political science. He was the Democratic candidate for congress in 1996 and served on the local bus board and city planning commission. He had a favorite white oak tree on the IPFW campus. He is survived by his wife, Juliana; as well as his three children, Christopher (Linda Lee) of Torrance, Calif., Elisabeth of San Francisco, Calif., and Victoria (Richard Horton) of River Falls, Wisc.; two grandsons, Rene and Roland Houseman; and his two brothers, Lee and Michael Houseman, and their spouses and families. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Penelope Lyon, to whom he was married for thirty-three years. Memorials to department of political science at IPFW for scholarship for students in need.