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Dorothy L. (Autenrieth) Day, 59

Dorothy “Dottie” Lynn (Autenrieth) Day, 59, of Bloomington, Ind., died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002 in her home.

Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at Bloomington Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friend’s (Moores Pike just west of Smith Road).

She was born June 30, 1943, in Omaha to William and Frances Autenrieth. She married Mark T. Day of Park Ridge, Ill., in 1964 and moved with him and their 1-year-old daughter, Ruth, to Bloomington in 1972.

She led an extraordinarily rich and varied life combining a generosity of spirit, and abiding patience, good humor, and a deep concern for humanistic values with a high level of technical expertise and uncompromising standards in every task she undertook. She loved music, played the bass viol, sang, and always had the radio tuned to the WFIU.

She graduated from North High School in Omaha. From the University of Chicago she received a bachelor of arts in political science in 1965 and joint asters of arts degrees in library science and East Asian studies in 1968. At Indiana University, she became a Ph. D. candidate in Chinese language and literature (1984), received a specialist degree in Information Technology (1993) and was a Ph.D. student in the School of Library and Information Science (1993-2000).

She was a cataloger at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) Library (1968-69), a reference librarian at Princeton University (1969-71), plus Chinese materials processing assistant (1985-86) and East Asian Subject Specialist (1986087) in the Indiana University Libraries.

She was a faculty member and house-parent at The Meeting School, a private Quaker high school in New Hampshire (1971-72). She taught English to Chinese engineers in Saudi Arabia and Taiwan (1977-1980). At Indiana University she was an assistant instructor in East Asian Languages and Cultures (1980-1984) and an adjunct lecturer in the School of Library and Information Science (1994-2000).

From 1986-1992, she was a computer consultant with Indiana University Computing Services, specializing in foreign language and humanities computing. She was an early user of the NotaBene scholarly word processor.

Over the years she provided humanities computing assistance to numerous friends, colleagues, and clients and became an admired guru to numerous scholars around the world who are members of the NotaBene email list. For the technical and humane light that she shed on the many complex problems faced by humanists using computers, these members are designing and naming a computer type font in her honor, “NB Day-Light”.

Mrs. Day also was an early participant, a poster girl, and beloved member of the YMCA’s W.I.S.E. exercise program for cancer patients (2001-2002).

She was a member of the Bloomington Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends (Quakers) and also attended the First Presbyterian Church.

Foremost, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and sister. She is survived by her loving family: husband, Mark T. Day; daughter and son-in-law Ruth and Michael Helgerud of Houston, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Rachel and Arturo Velarde of Phoenix, Az; four grandchildren; father, William G,. Autenrieth of Mission, Texas; brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Donna Autenrieth of Blair; sister and brother-in-law, Helen and Bob Fall of Fairfax, Va; sisters, Karen Olmsted of Arlington, Va., Pat Autenrieth of Hyattsville, M.D. Linda Autenrieth of Kansas City, Mo., Janet Autenrieth of Tampa, Fla.; and mother-in-law, Bettyclaire T. Day of Bloomington, Ind.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Frances Autenrieth.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, P.O. Box 1010, Torrance, CA 90505, or by phoning (877)2-PANCAN, or from the organizations web site at www.pancan.org.

Church and Community Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~