Deaths Elsewhere

Archbishop John Roach,

81, who led the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for 20 years and helped it emerge from a sex-abuse scandal in the 1980s, died Friday of heart failure in St. Paul.

Archbishop Roach, the first Minnesota native to lead the archdiocese, was appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1975 and retired in 1995. His tenure was not without trouble. He had a drunken-driving arrest, and clergy sex-abuse cases in the 1980s resulted in lawsuits that exposed his lenient treatment of priests accused of molestation. Under his leadership, the archdiocese responded in 1988 by writing a policy to deal with priests accused of abusing children. In 1992, guidelines were expanded to include exploitation of adults and to cover any ministry employee in the archdiocese.

In the last year, he had expressed disappointment with some church officials who he believed hadn't learned to be more open and cooperative in sex-abuse cases, Vicar General Kevin McDonough said.

Archbishop Roach served as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1980-83, during which time the group spoke out strongly in favor of nuclear disarmament and economic justice. He also worked in interfaith relations, including the development and signing of the Lutheran-Catholic Covenant.

Dorothy Miller,

99, one of the first curators hired by the Museum of Modern Art, in 1934, and the woman responsible for pioneering exhibitions of new American artists that helped propel generations of painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella and Jasper Johns onto the international scene, died Friday at her apartment in New York's Greenwich Village.

Her career began when American modernists such as Stuart Davis were still young and lasted into the early heyday of Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg. She included Oldenburg and Rosenquist in the last of her "Americans" exhibitions, in 1963.

The "Americans" shows began in 1942 with a selection of what were then mostly unknown artists of eclectic styles from across the country.

Arnold N. Nawrocki,

78, who is widely credited with bringing individually wrapped slices of cheese into the homes of millions of families in the 1950s, died June 30 of complications from kidney disease at his home in Sun City, Ariz.

Mr. Nawrocki found a profitable way to wrap individual slices of cheese with cellophane while working at the Clearfield Cheese Co. in the 1950s.

Wrapping the cheese - which required a seal that would not allow oxygen in - stretched its shelf life from about a week to more than six months, allowing families and shops to store it and the military to ship it.