David Boss; National Football League Executive

David Boss, 67, who as vice president of publishing and creative services for the National Football League started "PRO!" magazine, which served as the league's preprint in all game day programs and exists now as "NFL Insider." Trained as a photographer, Boss graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Arts and came to Los Angeles, working for the Los Angeles Rams and the team's public relations director and then-general manager Pete Rozelle. Boss went to work for NFL Properties after Rozelle became the league's commissioner in 1960. While with NFL Properties he designed the official programs and posters for the first 25 Super Bowls. He redesigned the NFL logo to its present form as a red, white and blue shield with the letters NFL. Boss retired in 1990. His book of non-football photographs, "The Eclectic Eye," was published this year. He was married to Carol Jean Schoelkopf. Donations in his name can be made to the Cancer Therapy Research Fund at USC; S.P.A.R.E., a program for the care of animals at 1017 E. Bedmar St. in Carson, 90746; or the Sciences Foundation for Brain Tumor Research, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.

* Richard S. Ide; USC Professor, Vice Provost

Richard S. Ide, 55, former USC vice provost for undergraduate studies and authority on Elizabethan drama and literature. Ide served as vice provost from 1994 to 1997, leading an effort to raise the graduation rate and improve the quality of undergraduate studies at the university. Known as a devoted teacher, Ide oversaw the school's Center for Excellence in Teaching and served as associate dean of the university's high-tech Leavey Library. He joined the USC faculty as an assistant professor of English in 1981, a year after the University of North Carolina Press published his first book, "The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare." He was also the author of a book on Milton and numerous journal articles. Ide became an associate professor in 1984 and a full professor in 1995. He was at work on a third book, on English Renaissance tragedies, at the time of his death while on vacation in Arizona. A memorial service at USC is planned. On Dec. 25 in Chandler, Ariz., of complications after abdominal surgery.

* Mary C. Morrison; Helped Run Mocambo Nightclub