Lloyd Borstelmann dies at age 86
Was long-time faculty member in psychology
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Durham, NC -- Professor Lloyd Borstelmann, a longtime member of the Duke University Psychology Department, died in Roxboro, North Carolina, on Feb. 23. A resident of Durham since 1953, he was 86.
Borstelmann was a devoted teacher of undergraduates and trainer of graduate students in clinical psychology. Associated for two decades with the Duke Child Guidance Clinic, he counseled Durham schoolchildren and their families as well. He was also known as a prominent actor in local theater productions over four decades in Durham and Chapel Hill, and served on the board of trustees of the North Carolina Outward Bound School for many years.
Lloyd Joseph Borstelmann was born on April 30, 1921, in Greensburg, Pa. He moved with his family to Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1936. After college at Santa Barbara State College and UCLA, he attended the University of California's Boalt Law School for one year before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942. Following three years of military service in World War II, he returned to graduate school at the University of California-Berkeley in Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in 1950 and taught for one year at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before moving to Chapel Hill in 1951 as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. He came to Duke in 1953, where he remained until his retirement as a full professor in 1986.
His first wife, Jane Millis Borstelmann, died in 1983. He is survived by his second wife, Shirley Tillotson Borstelmann of Durham; four children, Nancy Chandler of Monmouth, Maine, John Borstelmann of Tetonia, Idaho, Michael Borstelmann of Durham, and Tim Borstelmann of Lincoln, Nebraska; and seven grandchildren. For the last several years of his life, during which he suffered from senile dementia, he lived in Roxboro under the loving care of Gladys Cash.
For family and friends, an informal memorial service followed by a wake will be held at the home of Michael Borstelmann at 3209 Winfield Dr. in Durham, on Saturday, April 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made in Lloyd Borstelmann's name to the North Carolina Outward Bound School, Attn: Development, 2582 Riceville Rd., Asheville, NC 28805.
