NATTINGER OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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NATTINGER, James Dr. 1940 - 1995

The following story about the death of Dr. James Nattinger appeared in the 
Sunday Oregonian on October 22, 1995. Dr. Nattinger grew up in Clinton, the son 
of the late Ralph Nattinger and his wife, Frances. - James Ralph Nattinger, a 
Portland State University linguist whose work was renowned worldwide, has 
died. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, October 25, in Clinton, Mo. where 
he grew up. Mr. Nattinger died October 18 of AIDS at age 55. He was chairman of 
PSU's department of applied linguistics until illness forced him to retire earlier 
this year. He taught at Portland State for 24 years. In 1988, he helped establish 
the applied linguistics department and became its first chairman. Mr. Nattinger's 
linguistic speciality was the study of ways in which languages are organized. He 
was fluent in Spanish and French and conversant in German. The capstone of Mr. 
Nattinger's many professional honors was the 1992 Duke of Edinburgh English 
Languages Prize, presented by Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Nattinger 
and co-author Janette DeCarrice of PSU won the prize for "Lexical Phrases and 
Language Teaching", a book on linguistic theory. The work has been influential 
among language researchers, opening new areas of inquire into the ways in which 
adults learn foreign languages. He also played the flute and was an amateur 
lepidotarist, collecting and raising rare moths from around the world and 
providing specimens for zoos. Mr. Nattinger was born July 29, 1940, in Kansas 
city. He attended Dartmouth College and earned a bachelor's degree in English 
from the university of Missouri in 1962. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. 
from the University of Michigan. He taught in Barcelona and in Buenos Aires, 
where he was a Fulbright-Hayes lecturer. In 1981 he set up an English teaching 
program at Wuhan University in China, beginning a relationship between Portland 
State and Chinese learning institutions that continues today. In 1986 he won the 
Burlington Northern Teaching Excellence Award as PSU Teacher of the Year. He 
was a member of Phi Sigma Iota, the national foreign language honor society. He 
was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 1985 and past 
president of Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Foreign Languages. Mr. 
Nattinger is survived by his mother, Frances of Clinton; brothers, Christopher of 
Springfield and Peyton of San Francisco; his companion of 27 years, John F. 
Longres of Portland and Seattle; and special friend and colleague, Beatrice T. 
Oshika of Portland, who succeeded him as head of the applied linguistics 
department. Private cremation was Sunday in Portland. The family suggests that 
remembrances go to the PSU Foundation or the school's applied linguistics 
department, to the Cascade AIDS Project, or to Our House, a Portland AIDS 
hospice. Memorial services for Dr. James Ralph Nattinger will be held Wednesday, 
October 25, at 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church. The Rev. David Maggi will 
officiate. Consalus Funeral Home will be in charge of local arrangements. Dr. 
Nattinger died Wednesday, October 18, in Portland, Oregon.


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