CENSUS

Jet, April 16, 2001

DIED: John Lewis, 80, the renowned pianist-composer who created one of music's most famous performing ensembles, the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ), of prostate cancer in New York ... Dr. M. Maceo Nance Jr., 75, a former president of South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC, who served in that position for 19 years, at his home in South Carolina ...

Dr. Donald Franklin Joyce, 66, dean of the Library and Media Services at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, at Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville ... Maude Russell Rutherford, 104, a popular singer and dancer in the glory days of Black theater during the 1920s who introduced the dance, the Charleston, to Broadway, at her home in Atlantic City ... Ruby Mae Leverett White, 81, mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun-Times photographer John H. White, of cancer at a hospice in North Carolina.