In memorium:

A charter member of SSIB, Elizabeth Lotter passed away May 2nd, 2004.
Although she had not been an active researcher for several years, 
Elizabeth retained her interest and enthusiasm in ingestive behavior 
and was a frequent attendee of the annual SSIB meeting as well as the 
Columbia Appetitive Seminar.  She was also a close personal friend to 
many of us.

Elizabeth was born in New York on April 13, 1934, the only child of 
German immigrants.  After high school, she attended St. Joseph's 
College for a short period of time before entering the Discalced 
Carmelite Order in Newport RI in 1952.  After her mother's death in 
1967 she remained in the Order but lived in New York in order to care 
for her father.  During that period she returned to school, attending 
Columbia University and ultimately working in my lab.  After 
graduating from Columbia, Elizabeth followed me to Seattle and 
received a PhD in physiological psychology in 1977.  She completed 
post-doctoral work in Groningen with Anton Steffens and then held 
research positions at the University of Rochester (while she was 
teaching at Nazareth College), the University of Maryland Baltimore 
County and Johns Hopkins University (with Paul McHugh and Tim Moran).  
In 1988 she returned to New York and was a psychotherapist with 
Catholic Social Services.

Although Elizabeth was an author on many papers covering a variety of 
topics over the years, my fondest memories of her relate to her work 
with the baboon colony Dan Porte and I maintained at the Primate 
Center in Seattle.

Elizabeth brought the same qualities of gentleness and patience to 
that work as she expressed to all of us, and I've always felt that it 
was her efforts that calmed the animals sufficiently to allow us to 
collect such excellent data.  She is greatly missed.

Steve Woods