A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held April 21 in Los Angeles, Calif. and on May 9 in Buffalo for Bonnie Bullough, former dean of nursing at UB. Bullough, 69, died April 12 in Los Angeles after a long illness.

A prolific author and an authority on human sexuality, Bullough, who headed the Nursing School from 1980 to 1991, was a professor on the UB faculty until 1993. She and her husband, Vern L. Bullough, moved to Southern California in 1993, in hopes that the climate would improve her health.

The Bulloughs were known as the "dean team" while they were in Buffalo. He served as dean of natural and social sciences at Buffalo State College while she was a dean at UB. They were well known nationally as sex researchers and were co-authors of several volumes on the subject, including "Sexual Attitudes," "Prostitution: An Illustrated Social History," and "Contraception."

A prolific author in her own right, Bonnie Bullough published more than 120 articles and 20 books, including "Sin, Sickness and Sanity: A History of Sexual Attitudes," "The Law and the Expanding Nursing Role," "Women and Prostitution" and "Social-Psychological Barriers to Housing Desegregation." At the time of her death, she also had a patent pending on a urinary incontinence device.

Certified as a family nurse practitioner and a pediatric nurse practitioner, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1978. She was a major force in the organizational development of the New York State Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, Inc., and was actively involved at the national level in establishing an organization comprised solely of nurse practitioners. From 1990-91 she was president of the New York State Council of Nurse Practitioners and in 1992, she was named National Nurse Practitioner Researcher of the Year.

Before coming to UB, Bonnie Bullough was a professor of nursing and a coordinator of the graduate program at California State University at Long Beach. She had been an associate professor of nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles, a professor of sociology at San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, Calif. and a Fulbright lecturer at Cairo University, United Arab Republic.

She earned a doctorate and a master's degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master's degree in nursing from UCLA and a bachelor of nursing from Youngstown University, Youngstown, Ohio.

Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, James, Steven and Robert, and a daughter, Susan, all of California.

A memorial service will be held in 250 Baird Hall on Thursday, May 9 at 5 p.m.