* Father George H. Dunne; Jesuit Led Pacifist Efforts

Father George H. Dunne, 92, Jesuit priest who led international pacifist efforts. In 1968, he was named founding director of the Committee on Society, Development and Peace sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches. Based in Geneva, the ecumenical group worked to ease Third World poverty and seek ways to achieve peace in trouble spots around the world. Dunne later directed Georgetown University’s study program at the University of Firbourge in Switzerland. The Swiss posts capped a long career that utilized his expertise in theology, international relations and Chinese. In 1962 Dunne published a book, “Generation of Giants,” about early Jesuit missionaries to China, where he had served briefly as a missionary in the early 1930s. Dunne returned to the United States to work with the Institute of Social Order at St. Louis University--only to be fired for opposing racial segregation policies. He wrote a play, “Trial by Fire,” based on a racial incident in Southern California and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama. Dunne taught at Loyola University in Los Angeles and later at Santa Clara University in the Bay Area. In 1985, he returned to what had by then become Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to write his memoirs, “The King’s Pawn,” published in 1990. On June 30 in Los Gatos, Calif.

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* Donald Douglas Page; Ex-Times TV, Radio Writer

Donald Douglas Page, 64, former Times television and radio writer and broadcasters’ group executive. A native of the San Fernando Valley, Page was the author of two books, wrote four teleplays and conducted his own radio show. From 1956 to 1973 he worked for The Times as assistant editor of TV Times, radio editor, columnist and entertainment feature writer. He later became executive director and program director for the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Assn. For the past several years, Page contributed feature articles to the Tolucan Times. On Friday in Burbank of cancer.