The following is only a partial list of the hundreds of articles,
books and manuals that have been published by Mr. Van Beck:
A Call to Duty: The Funeral Directors Response to the Titanic Disaster
ICFA Magazine, December 1998
What Should We Do With the Dead? The Ethics of Reverence for the Dead
The Director, July 1977
Reference for the Dead – Funeral Service Ethics
ICFA Magazine, February 2000
Who Am I as a Funeral Directory
American Funeral Director, January 1999
Our Responsibility
American Funeral Directory, April 1999
The Power and Importance of Names
Mortuary Management, April 1999
R. Newman: Sexton and Undertaker Old North Church, Boston
The Man Who Signaled the Revolutionary War, April 18, 1775
The Director, January 1998
The Death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. – A Funeral Directors Perspective
American Funeral Director, September 1999
Price Shoppers: A Great Opportunity for your Business
ICFA Magazine, September 2002
The Coconut Grove Fire
Canadian Funeral News, August 1994
Funeral Professionals are Always Diplomats
Canadian Funeral News, November 1995
The Power of Thank You
Canadian Funeral News, June 1994
Why People Like Funeral Directors
Canadian Funeral News, September 1997
The History of the Funeral Home Ambulance Service
American Funeral Director, May 1992
The Funeral of the Unknown Soldier
American Funeral Director, March 1997
The Funeral of the Five Hapless Victims of Jack the Ripper
American Funeral Director, October 1996
Death in the Bible
American Funeral Director, May 2002
The Burial Place of Jesus of Nazareth: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Canadian Funeral News, July 2001
Archie Bunker and the Identification of Quality
The Funeral Directors Monthly, May 2002
People Do Like Funeral Directors
The Funeral Directors Monthly, July 2002
Christmas Calls
American Funeral Director, December 1997
The Boston Coconut Grove Fire – 1942
Southern Funeral Director, January 1994
Making the Client Feel Important
Funeral Service Journal, August 1993
The Funeral of W.L. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
Canadian Funeral Director, April 1996
Abraham’s Little Brother: The Funeral of Thomas Lincoln, Jr.
American Funeral Director, 1991
THE PRESIDENTIAL FUNERAL SERIES IN THE AMERICAN FUNERAL DIRECTOR MAGAZINE
The Funeral of George Washington
The Funeral of John Adams
The Funeral of Thomas Jefferson
The Funeral of James Madison
The Funeral of James Monroe
The Funeral of John Quincy Adams
The Funeral of Andrew Jackson
The Funeral of Martin Van Buren
The Funeral of John Tyler
The Funeral of James Knox Polk
The Funeral of Millard Fillmore
The Funeral of Franklin Pierce
The Funeral of James Buchanan
The Funeral of Andrew Johnson
The Funeral of Rutherford B. Hayes
The Funeral of Chester A. Arthur
The Funeral of Grover Cleveland
The Funeral of Benjamin Harrison
The Funeral of Theodore Roosevelt
The Funeral of William Howard Taft
The Funeral of Woodrow Wilson
The Funeral of Calvin Coolidge
The Funeral of Herbert C. Hoover
The Funeral of Harry S. Truman
The Funeral of Lyndon B. Johnson
THE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER’S FUNERAL SERIES IN THE CANADIAN FUNERAL MAGAZINE
The Funeral of Sir John A. Macdonald
The Funeral of Alexander Mackenzie
The Funeral of Sir John J.C. Abbott
The Funeral of Sir John S. D. Thompson
The Funeral of Sir Mackenzie Bowell
The Funeral of Sir Charles Tupper
The Funeral of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The Funeral of Sir Robert Laird Borden
The Funeral of Arthur Meighen
The Funeral of William Lyon Mackenzie King
The Funeral of Richard B. Bennett
The Funeral of Louis S. St. Laurent
The Funeral of John George Diefenbaker
The Funeral of Lester B. Pearson