Albert Vern Jessen, MD, of Garden City, died on Sept. 3, 1998 in North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset. Dr. Jessen was born Jan. 7, 1930 in Cushing, NE. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine on Sept. 23, 1944. He interned at the US Naval Hospital in St. Albans with an internship in obstetrics at NY Hospital in Manhattan. He was on active duty in the Marine Corps in Camp Le Jeune, in NC, where he was in training in the swamps and beaches of Japan. Detonating the Atom Bomb in August 1945 canceled the action. He was subsequently sent to serve at the Separation Center in Norman, OK. He was then made ship's doctor on the USS Willoughby AGP - San Francisco, CA to July 1946.

He held a psychiatric residency at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC, was the psychiatrist at US Marine Hospital, Baltimore, MD and later US Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island. He became senior psychiatrist at Pilgrim State Hospital, Brentwood, then staff psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration in NYC. He had a private practice on Park Ave at 86th St, NYC, until 1970. He also practiced in Wantagh from 1952 to 1981 and in Garden City from 1970 until Sept. 3, 1998.

Dr. Jessen also graduated from the William Allanson White Institute of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in 1962. He was a Diplomat in Psychiatry receiving his degree from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was an attending psychiatrist at Winthrop University Hospital, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook, psychiatric consultant to Hofstra University Student Counseling Dept. for over 15 years, and staff psychiatrist at Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, Mid-Island Hospital, Bethpage, and Syosset Hospital.

He was a founding member of the Nassau Academy of Medicine and an active member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of NYS, the NC Medical Society (where he was a member of the Credentials and Awards Committee), where he chaired two Medallion Balls and played Santa Claus for the children, the NC Psychiatric Society and the US Navy League.

His hobbies included mountain climbing, classical guitar, piano and he played trombone in several bands, snow and water skiing, ballooning, gliding, golfing, gardening and he earned his airplane pilot's license in 1970. He was known for doing the New York Times Crossword Puzzle everyday with a ball point pen.

Terence "Terry" Mahony collapsed and died in his Washington, DC, law office, Holland & Knight, on Feb. 5, 1999. He was a resident of McLean, VA. A communications lawyer, he was well known to familiar faces in government and in the media. In an environment that thrives on publicity, he sought no praise.

Terry was born smiling and would die, laughing on the telephone, on his 54th birthday. For him the was sun always shining inside. Raised on Adams St., he was the first student at St. Anne's School. After graduating from Chaminade, he was a proud alumnus of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. From 1967 to 1970 he served three years of active duty with the Navy in Viet Nam.

Following graduation from Georgetown University Law School in the early '70s, he was a government relations specialist at the National Association of Broadcasters. In the mid '70s, he was treasurer of the campaign fund for House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr.

At NBC from 1973 to 1998, he represented broadcasters before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. His responsibilities included digital television policy, broadcast spectrum techniques, satellite policy and cable regulations. He authored several articles on communications law.

Mr. Mahony had served on the advisory committee for federal issued for Notre Dame, his alma mater, and the corporate advisory board of "So Others Might Eat" in Washington, DC.

His remains were buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 16.

Immediate survivors include his wife of 24 years, Emily Mahony of McLean, VA; two children, James "Jamie" Mahony of Notre Dame and Suzanne of McLean. A sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Jerry Johnson of Washington, NC, and a brother, James Mahony of East Hampton, also survive.