Obituaries

Rita J. Boucher, 64, former nursing-school professor and administrator

A Mass of Christian Burial was held in Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church, Woonsocket, R.I., on Nov. 4 for Rita J. Boucher, former nursing-school instructor and administrator at UB, who died Oct. 31 in her home in North Smithfield, R.I. She was 64.

Boucher, an associate professor of adult health nursing at UB from 1970-77, also served as acting chair of the Department of Graduate Nurse Education. She was actively involved in establishing the university's rehabilitation-nursing program.

The author of "Primary Care: Readings and Guidelines," published in 1976, she was a project director for a primary-care program funded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She was a consultant on nursing manuscripts for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

She received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Salve Regina College, Newport, R.I., and a master's degree in medical/surgical nursing and a doctorate in educational administration and supervision from Boston University.

In 1977, she left UB to become assistant dean of the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing, then went to Emmanuel College of Boston, where she established a baccalaureate nursing program. Following her retirement in 1985, she served as an education and administrative consultant.

Peter Heller, 78, retired professor of German and comparative literature and chair

Peter Heller, 78, a professor of German and comparative literature who had served as chair of the old Department of German and Slavic Languages and as acting chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, died Nov. 7 in his Williamsville home after a long illness. Heller, a scholar, writer and poet, retired in 1991.

Heller directed several National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars for college and secondary school teachers at UB and served as vice president of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. He was a founding member of the interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Modern German Studies. During his career, he received several NEH and Guggenheim grants.

He recently published an account of his childhood analysis with Anna Freud. His books on German literature and philosophy include Dialectics and Nihilism, Essays on Lessing, Nietzsche, Mann and Kafka and Studies on Nietzsche.

Throughout his life, he wrote and published poetry and fiction in German and English. A Festschrift in his honor, Crisis and Culture in Post-Enlightenment Germany, appeared in 1993.

Heller earned a licentiate of music and a bachelor of arts degree from McGill University and master's and doctoral degrees in German and comparative literature from Columbia University. He had taught at the University of Massachusetts for 14 years before coming to UB in 1968.

He is survived by a son, Stephen; four daughters, Anne of Cambridge, Mass.; Joan Humphreys of Ashville, N.C.; Vivian of Red Hook and Eve; a brother, Marc, of Cooperstown; and six grandchildren.

Luis Mosovich, 72, former associate professor of pediatrics

Funeral services were held Tuesday in Delaware Park Memorial Chapel for Luis Mosovich, 72, retired pediatric director of the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at UB. Mosovich died unexpectedly Nov. 7 in his home in Buffalo.

Mosovich, a native of Argentina who received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Cordova, Argentina, joined the staff of Children's Hospital in 1956. He specialized in the treatment of children with diabetes and cystic fibrosis before becoming director of the intensive-care unit. He retired in 1991.

Survivors include his wife, Gloria; a son, Jonathan; a daughter, Lida; and a brother, James, of Buenos Aires.