Humboldt loses second resident to H1N1

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Humboldt loses second resident to H1N1
Jessie Faulkner/The Times-Standard
Posted: 10/21/2009 04:21:14 PM PDT

Humboldt County officials announced today the second local death related to H1N1, commonly referred to as the swine flu. Humboldt State University art Professor M. Wayne Knight, 60, died early today at Mad River Community Hospital.

?Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time,? Humboldt County Health Officer Ann Lindsay said.

In late August, a 58-year-old woman, who had tested positive for H1N1, died in Fortuna's Redwood Memorial Hospital.

Knight joined the Humboldt State faculty in 2002 and taught graphic design, graphic design program development and graphics lab management. His exhibits spanned galleries from Rome to Los Angeles. His works also were featured on the Redwood Coast at HSU's First Street Gallery and Reese Bullen Gallery, the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka and the Grace Hudson Museum and Mendocino College in Ukiah, where his family resides.

In a message to the campus community, HSU President Rollin Richmond wrote, "We have lost a friend and dedicated professor who will be sorely missed. A number of individuals from our campus have been in close contact with Professor Knight's family, and we have conveyed heartfelt condolences on behalf of the University. I ask that you keep his family in your thoughts in the days to come."

Memorial arrangements are pending.

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Beloved Professor Passes Away from H1N1 Complications

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Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thoughts on the wall

Preston Drake-Hillyard

It was a gray day both inside and outside on the campus of Humboldt State University.

Graphic Design Professor M. Wayne Knight, 60, passed away the morning of Oct. 21 at Mad River Hospital. Knight died from pre-existing conditions complicated by the H1N1 virus, confirmed HSU's Communication's Officer Paul Mann. He was in the hospital for several days prior to his passing.

There is no word yet of official services. Knight is survived by his family in Ukiah.

In an e-mail sent out by President Rollin Richmond, he said this is a sad day for the university. "We have lost a friend and dedicated professor who will be sorely missed," he wrote. "I ask that you keep his family in your thoughts in the days to come."

For students dealing with Knight?s death, help is available through HSU Counseling and Psychological Services at 826-3236. Staff and faculty may receive counseling through the University?s Employee Assistance program at 443-7358.

Student Health Center Director Rebecca Stauffer called Knight?s death a terrible loss for the campus. She said this is an important new H1N1 warning for a small number of people who are severely affected by H1N1. As of Oct. 10, 216 people have died in California due to H1N1.

Stauffer advises anyone who remains sick for more than three or four days, or any time they become suddenly worse, to seek medical attention.

Teaching graphic design courses at HSU since 2002, Knight made a deep impact on a lot of students. Jeanne Selden, an HSU journalism graduate with an emphasis in graphic design, credits everything she knows about graphics to Knight. "Anytime I had a problem I would got to Wayne."

Selden said she uses the skills Knight taught her everyday in her job with the Northern California Small Business Department. ?Without Wayne?s instruction there would have been very little I could have used to get a job.?

Knight was a tough professor who expected more out of his students, but pushed them to succeed. ?This is a huge loss for HSU,? said Selden. ?It?s like without Wayne, now what??


The Lumberjack will continue to keep the campus and community updated on this tragic incident as more information becomes available. Check out the next issue of the paper on Wednesday, Oct. 28 for an in-depth profile on M. Wayne Knight.

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M. Wayne Knight
Founding resident of the Hell's Delight area of Redwood Valley, M. Wayne Knight, died 21 October of complications following on H1N1, swine flu.

Professor Knight, who taught graphic arts at Humboldt State University, was hospitalized on 8 October at Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata. Before death he had been in an isolation bed in the hospital's ICU, sedated, on a ventilator, and for his last 3 days in a therapeutic state of paralysis. His family were in attendance through the end.

M. Wayne Knight was born in Lynwood CA on May 20, 1949 but grew up in Redondo Beach and attended High School there. He graduated from Mira Costa High School in 1967, earned a Master of Arts from San Francisco State and a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA . For twenty years he taught at Mendocino College, then made the professionally-appropriate move to HSU. While he taught graphic art and design, his true calling was painting, and his habit was to rise at 4 a.m. to put in several hours at his easel.

Before he became an academic, he worked in the private sector, as Art Director at Softmed for six years until 2002. From 1988 until 1994, he worked as Director or Style and Design at Carousel Carpets in Ukiah. In 1994, he worked as technical advisor for the Cambodian Defenders Project.

Fiercely independent, loyal, outspoken if pushed, Wayne Knight expressed the spirit of his community, a group of people living in various relations to state and federal law. At the seasonal barbecues he delighted in hosting, he had one simple rule: everyone is invited, and all grudges are left at the bottom of the hill.

His neighbors respected the rule, and enjoyed the feast.

"We built each other's houses; we were family," he would recall.

In keeping with his practical, independent spirit, in the 1970s he built one of the first, and perhaps only code-compliant composting privies in Mendocino County, and recently completed a solar and wind project designed to ease his elegant, small house off the grid.

M. Wayne Knight is survived by his wife, Karen Christopherson, two brothers (Barry and sister-in-law Irene, of Claremore, OK ; Ray of Long Beach, CA), his son, Matisse and daughter-in-law Anja of Ukiah, and his cherished grand daughter, Mia, and beloved nieces and nephews.

There will be a private, family inurnment, and two memorial celebrations:: November 14 at 2pm at the Reese Bullen Gallery at Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA., and on November 21 there will be a pot-luck brunch and conversation at 11a.m., at The Saturday Afternoon Club in Ukiah, CA.

Donations may be made in his honor to the M. Wayne Knight Memorial Fund, which will support the visual arts at HSU. Gifts may be made online at www.humboldt.edu/giving or by mail to: Humboldt State University, Gift Processing Center, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata CA 95521

For more information about making a contribution, please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at 826-5101