Betty Paraskevas, who created and wrote for several children's
television shows, including "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast," died at her Southampton home on April 7, a day before her 81st
birthday. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
Paraskevas was born in Linden, N.J., on April 8, 1929. She attended Douglass
College in New Jersey, where the future writer had a most unlikely major: chemistry.