Auman: Lighting center director

Don Auman, the director of programs for the California Lighting Technology Center, died March 9 due to autoimmune hemolytic anemia. He was 49.

Auman played a key role in shaping and building the lighting center, and was an especially integral force in its partnership-oriented research and development facility. He developed proposals, delivered presentations and assisted in training all new development engineers at the center. Auman came to the center from the California Energy Commission.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and children, Peter and Emily. In lieu of flowers, donations for Auman may be made to the Davis Community Church, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, Snowlands Network or to your favorite charity. Donating blood to a local blood bank would also be appropriate.

Memorial services for 3 profs

The campus will host three upcoming memorial services for the following faculty.

• Plant biologist Shang Fa Yang — The service will be held at 4 p.m. March 22 at the International House, 10 College Park Drive, Davis. Yang was a former chair of the vegetable crops department and an authority on the plant hormone ethylene. He died Feb. 12 at age 74 from complications of pneumonia.
• Chemistry professor David Volman — The service will be held at 3 p.m. March 23 in the University Club. Volman died Jan. 8 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C., following a brief illness. He was 90.
• Entomologist Richard Bohart — The service will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. March 31 at the University Club. Bohart, who died Feb. 1 at the age of 93, identified more than a million mosquitoes and wasps and founded the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

— Dateline staff