Corrections

A story on Page 3 of the May 1 edition, on the new Welcome Weekend initiative, contained a misspelling in the name of the chief of the Ithaca Police Department. He is Victor Loo.

An obituary in the May 1 edition of Franklin M. Loew, former dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, incorrectly listed his survivors. Loew, who died April 22 in Boston, left two sons; two stepsons; a daughter-in-law; a brother; his first wife, Mary (Moffat) Loew; and second wife Deborah Digges.

The obituary for David Allee in the same edition also contained errors and is reproduced in full:

David J. Allee, professor of resource economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and leader of the Cornell Local Government Program, died April 17 in Ithaca. He was 71.

Allee's research interests ranged from natural resource and watershed management protection, to economic and community development, to telecommunications infrastructure and e-government development. Until his death, he served as president of the Adirondack Research Consortium, a group focused on environmental and water-quality issues within the Adirondack Park.

Born Sept. 13, 1931, in Caribou, Maine, he graduated from Cornell with a bachelor's degree (1953), a master's degree (1954) and Ph.D. (1960). He was a Fulbright fellow at Oxford University in 1957-58.

Allee served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force from 1954 to 1956. Before joining the Cornell faculty, he was an assistant professor of agricultural economics at the University of California-Berkeley, 1960-63, and served as an economist at the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics during the same period. He became an assistant professor at Cornell in 1963 and was promoted to associated professor in 1966. Allee was named a professor in 1971.

Allee authored or co-authored more 300 journal articles and reports, and he served as an adviser to about 185 graduate students in resource economics, public policy and water-quality issues.

In addition to his professional work, Allee served in the community on the Hangar Theater board for 23 years and, since 1958, he served on the Finger Lakes Library System board. He also was a trustee for the Village of Cayuga Heights and was chairman of the Cayuga Heights Board of Zoning Appeals.

Allee is survived by his wife, Martha; daughters Leslie, Lisa and Elizabeth; and six grandchildren.

Family and friends will celebrate his life June 1 at the First Unitarian Church, 208 E. Buffalo St. in Ithaca, at 2 p.m.