Former Academy President Stokey Dies

Mike Stokey, a pioneer Emmy winner who served as the fifth president of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1951 and 1952, died September 7 in Las Vegas, according to the coroner's office in Clark County, Nevada. He was 84.

Stokey died of natural causes, authorities said. He was known as host and producer of Pantomime Quiz, which won an Emmy in 1948, the first year the awards were presented. He was also nominated in 1948 as most outstanding personality and again in 1949 as most outstanding live personality. The "personality" categories were discontinued in the 1950s.