Walter Anderson, 88; Professor, Pianist Led NEA...

Walter Anderson, 88; Professor, Pianist Led NEA Music Programs

Walter F. Anderson, 88, a music professor, concert pianist and composer who was director of music programs at the National Endowment for the Arts for a decade, died of cancer Nov. 24 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md.

A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Anderson attended Oberlin College and then studied music at the Berkshire Music Center and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He received the equivalent of a doctoral degree in 1952 as a fellow of the American Guild of Organists.

Anderson’s appointment as head of the music department at Antioch College in 1946 was heralded as pioneering in the academic world because he was said to be the first African American named to chair a department outside the nation’s historically black colleges.

Anderson left Antioch College in 1968 to join the NEA. At the then-new agency, he was credited with creating grant guidelines that became a model for other programs and for establishing a challenge-grant concept used to leverage private-sector support for the arts.

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Barry Broadfoot, 77; Journalist, Author, Noted Oral Historian

Barry Broadfoot, 77, a journalist who was widely regarded as Canada’s most famous oral historian, died Friday in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The cause of death was not reported.

Broadfoot worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Western Canada for 24 years, including many years as a feature writer at the Vancouver Sun. He received the Order of Canada in 1997.

One of his books, “Ten Lost Years,” an oral history of the Depression, shot to the top of the Canadian bestseller lists when it was published in 1973 and eventually sold more than 200,000 copies.

Broadfoot’s other books include “My Own Years,” a history of the World War II-era internment of Japanese Canadians; “Six War Years, 1939-45,” about Canada’s participation in World War II; and “The Pioneer Years,” about homesteading in Western Canada.

Broadfoot was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Manitoba. He served as an infantryman in the Canadian Army during World War II.

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Tony Canadeo, 84; Star Halfback With Green Bay Packers

Tony Canadeo, 84, a star halfback with the Green Bay Packers in the 1940s and ‘50s and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died Saturday in Green Bay, Wis. The cause of death was not announced.

Canadeo was just the third 1,000-yard rusher in pro football history when he gained 1,052 yards for the Packers in 1949.

A native of Chicago, Canadeo played college football at Gonzaga in Washington state. He was a seventh-round draft choice of Green Bay in 1941 and became a starter in 1943. He spent 1945 in the military and returned the next season, playing with the Packers until 1952.

Canadeo was the second member of the Packers to have his uniform number (33) retired, after Don Hutson (14).

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Bhaddanta Vinaya, one of Myanmar’s most revered Buddhist monks and a spiritual advisor to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died Saturday in Yangon General Hospital. He was 93 and had been battling diabetes and heart problems.