Kenneth H Bastian,

CEDAR RAPIDS

Dr. Kenneth Harlan Bastian Jr., 49, of Kenyon, Minn.,formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Thursday, Nov. 5. 1998, of injuries suffered in a car accident In Faribault, Minn

Survivors include his wife, Lesley; his mother, Ann Bastian of Cedar Rapids; a brother, Ed of Woody Creek, Colo.; a sister, Marianne Bastian of Cedar Rapids; and Ralph Bastian.

He was preceded in death by his father, Ken Bastian Sr., in 1985.

Dr. Bastian was born Sept. 8, 1949, in Cedar Rapids. He married Lesley Louise Strong in the home of Tom and Debbie Hedges on Dec. 22, 1997.

He attended Cedar Rapids Washington High School, Drake University and was a graduate of Shattuck-St. Mary's School, Faribault, Minn., in 1968. While at Shattuck-St. Mary's School, he was captain of the 1967-68 basketball

team, which captured the Minnesota Independent School League Championship. He was honored by the school with the Bastian Basketball Award, later renamed the Bastian-Jenkins Award.

He received a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from Texas Tech University, which named him a Distinguished Alumnus.

He earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, where he was named by the faculty as a Lucius Littauer Fellow. Dr. Bastian received his Master of Education Degree from the University of North Carolina, where he was first in his class. He earned his B.A. from Tulane University on a basketball scholarship, and later

played basketball professionally in Europe. He was currently serving as, president of the board of trustees

at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault.

He was responsible for Major Gifts and Special Projects as Director of University Relations for St. Edwards University and had served as headmaster of All Saints Episcopal School in Lubbock, Texas, for 10 years. Under Dr. Bastian's

leadership, All Saints was named America's 319th "Point of Light for Community Service."

The school was also recognized as one of 56 schools in the United States for excellence in drug prevention

education, as well as one of 48 "Blue Ribbon Schools" by the Department of Education. He served as assistant headmaster at the American School in Switzerland.

He served former Vice-President George Bush as a speech writer and as a press secretary and served President

Ronald Reagan as chief of staff for the 1983 Summit of Industrialized Nations. He also directed East Coast Operations and Government Relations for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Dr. Bastian served as official spokesman for

the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow and later wrote the book, Moscow '86: The Goodwill Games, which was commissioned by Turner Broadcasting Corporation. He was a student of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the

South West in Austin, Texas, and was a member of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior Church in Faribault.

A scholarship memorial fund has been set up in his name at Shattuck-St. Mary's School, P.O.