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Dr. Diana E. Brief
July 21, 1999
To: Friends and Collaborators
It is with extreme sadness that I have to inform you that Dr. Diana Brief of our staff passed away over the weekend. Diana had been having some medical problems over a period of months and to clarify her lab results, her doctors recommended outpatient exploratory surgery which she had last Friday. Diana was discharged on Friday afternoon. She died in her sleep early Saturday morning at home. Diana had just celebrated her 36th birthday. A memorial service for Diana is being held this morning at 11 AM in Los Angeles. Diana is survived by her mother, two sisters, and her partner Scott.
Diana was a highly valued friend and coworker for many years. She cared greatly about other people; she had a great sense of humor; she loved to have others view her as "eccentric," and she loved to process data. Many of you will undoubtedly remember her helpfulness as she tried to make every dataset perfect; others will remember that in every city where we met that she was a source of encyclopedic information about every "odd-ball and weird" tourist attraction in town; others will remember the really funny conversations that could go on for hours with about every fifth word being an invented one. Diana E. Brief was always kidding that if you asked her a question you had to "debrief" her.
Dr. Brief was both an undergraduate and graduate student at UCLA. She was extremely proud of her achievements as a "Bruin" and about special work she did in Russia as a graduate student when she received a grant to spend a year collecting data for cross-cultural personality studies. Dr. Diana Brief cared greatly about other people and about her work. Diana will be greatly missed.
George J. Huba, Ph.D.
July 21, 1999
ghuba@TheMeasurementGroup.com
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