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’31 BS HE—Margaret Gilchrist Dudley (Mrs. Russell E. ’29) of Albion, NY,May 27, 2009; elementary school teacher; active in religious and alumniaffairs.

’33 BA—Maurice Abramson of Plantation, FL, October 24, 2014; obste-trician/gynecologist; veteran; violinist; sculptor; golfer; traveler; active incommunity and professional affairs.

’35 BA—John H. Gronemeyer of Irvine, CA, September 10, 2014; retiredaerospace engineer; active in alumni affairs. Theta Delta Chi.

’36—Benjamin B. Moore of Kamuela, HI, January 26, 2013; veteran.

’37-39 SP Ag—Robert E. Harvey of Westborough, MA, August 30, 2014;retired president, E. L. Harvey & Sons; Rotarian; active in civic, communi-ty, professional, and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho. Wife, Jane(Williams) ’42.

’37 BA, JD ’39—Joseph M. Mandel of Manhasset, NY, September 29, 2014;attorney; active in alumni affairs.

’38 BS HE—Catherine Strife Laird of Morgantown, WV, September 25,2014; executive in service organizations; bridge player; gardener; golfer;active in community affairs.

’38 BS Ag—Arch C. Petty of Sun City Center, FL, September 25, 2014; fish-eries biologist; regional manager, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conserva-tion; veteran; environmental activist; gardener; sailor; active in communityand alumni affairs.

’38 BS Ag—Robert H. Robinson of Arlington Heights, IL, July 7, 2014.

’38—Ruth Levison Shapack of Charlotte, NC, October 26, 2014; estate ad-ministrator; volunteer guardian ad litem; knitter; active in community af-fairs. Sigma Delta Tau.

’38 BA—Austin J. Tidaback of Findlay, OH, October 10, 2014; retired ra-diologist, Blanchard Valley Hospital; chief radiologist, Muhlenberg Hospi-tal; veteran; fisherman; active in community and professional affairs.

’39 BA—Alfred F. Dugan of Durham, ME, January 6, 2012; senior VP,W. R. Grace Co.; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Delta Upsilon.

’39 BA—Helen Heald Rader of Austin, TX, formerly of Columbia, SC, June25, 2014; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

’40 BS HE—Pauline Young Bower of Castle Pines, CO, October 30, 2014;elementary school teacher; veteran; traveler; active in community and re-ligious affairs.

’40 BA—Audrey Davis Savell of San Diego, CA, October 5, 2014.

’40 BA, PhD ’43—Robert L. Sproull of Rochester, NY, October 9, 2014;president emeritus and professor emeritus of physics, U. of Rochester;helped establish U. of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics; profes-sor of physics and VP for academic affairs, Cornell U.; director, AdvancedResearch Projects Agency; chairman, Defense Science Board; worked onNavy radar at RCA; also taught at Princeton U. and U. of Pennsylvania;active in professional and alumni affairs.

’40 BME—Charles F. Turton Jr. of Phoenix, AZ, September 9, 2013. Delta Chi.

’41 BA—Wilburn O. Barbour of Scottsbluff, NE, October 7, 2014; farmer;

raised livestock; used innovative farming practices; veteran; clarinet play-er; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

’41 BA—Richard I. Brown of Fairfield, CT, August 7, 2014; founder of atextile company; financial advisor; veteran; tennis player. Pi Lambda Phi.

’41 BA—Truman E. Keet of Allendale, NJ, October 16, 2014; chemical en-gineer; designed oil refineries for C. F. Braun & Co.; also worked for M. W.Kellogg Co., Blaw Knox Co., and Chemplant Designs; veteran; painter;bridge player; woodworker; active in community and religious affairs. Lamb-da Chi Alpha.

’41 BCE—Frederick W. Schwartz Jr. of Naperville, IL, September 1, 2014;president/CEO; veteran; pilot; glider pilot; parasailor. Phi Sigma Kappa.

’42 BME—Charles F. Dye Jr. of Birmingham, MI, September 8, 2014; proj-ect planner, Ford Motor Co.; veteran; jazz clarinetist; birder; active in com-munity, professional, and religious affairs. Delta Chi.

’42 BS Hotel—Philip R. Livingston of Devon, PA, October 23, 2014; VP,Doremus & Co. Advertising Agency; VP, First Union Bank; veteran; musi-cian; oil painter; sculptor; active in community affairs. Kappa Sigma.

’42 BS Ag—Everett B. Wells of Norwich, NY, September 22, 2014; gener-al contractor; veteran; pilot and flying instructor; glider pilot. Theta Chi.

’43 BA—Marian Turnbull Bramble of Cato, NY, October 23, 2014; Frenchand Latin teacher and foreign language supervisor, Baker High School; co-owner, Cato Hardware; clerk, Town of Ira, NY; active in civic, community,and religious affairs.

’43 BS Nurs—Harriet Cutler Glasgow of Quincy, PA, formerly of Cham-bersburg, PA, September 8, 2014; co-owner, Glasgow Sewing Center andGlasgow’s Recreational Vehicles and Camping Center; active in communityand religious affairs.

’43 BA—Henry B. Hastie of Oneonta, NY, October 18, 2014; taught atHartwick College, U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Benedict College, and KansasCity College of Osteopathic Medicine; organic research chemist, NorwichPharmaceuticals; poet; active in professional affairs.

’43, BME ’47—Jarman G. Kennard of Fairview Park, OH, June 25, 2014;mechanical engineer for NASA and General Electric; veteran; tested rock-ets and missiles; developed communication satellites; worked on solar andwind energy; pilot; active in community and religious affairs. Acacia.

’43 PhD—Jerome Kurshan of Princeton, NJ, September 3, 2014; manag-er of administrative projects, manager of marketing, manager of the re-search services laboratory, and manager of employment and training atRCA Laboratories; early researcher of semiconductor devices; founding mem-ber, Jewish Center of Princeton; photographer; bicyclist; gardener; activein community and religious affairs.

’43 BA—Eleanor Morrow Mead (Mrs. Albert R., PhD ’42) of Johnson City,TN, August 12, 2014.

’43 BME—Robert E. Warren of Spruce Head, ME, October 20, 2014; air-craft engine designer and manager, General Electric; patent holder for jetengine designs; veteran; sailor; active in community affairs. Theta Xi.

’43 BS HE—Julia Cowles Waugh of Franklin Township, NJ, September 27,2014; retired social worker; volunteer computer instructor; active in com-munity affairs.

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’44 BS HE—Barbara Maxson Boyd (Mrs. Lee E. ’44) of South Dennis, MA,May 1, 2014. Delta Gamma.

’44—Lee E. Boyd of South Dennis, MA, August 23, 2014; worked in trans-portation and distribution management; veteran; gardener; chess player.Delta Chi.

’44 BME—Gaston R. Desnoyers of Fernandina Beach, FL, August 16, 2014;senior engineering associate and chief project manager, Exxon Mobile En-gineering and Research; veteran; active in community, religious, and alum-ni affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

’44 BA—Phyllis Lamb Hanson of Hamburg, NY, August 14, 2014; ele-mentary school teacher; bridge player; birder; active in community affairs.

’44 B Chem E—Richard B. Hillman of Northridge, CA, September 17, 2014;chemical engineer. Sigma Nu.

’44, BS HE ’43—Sigrid Henley Holliday (Mrs. George G. ’43) of Fairport,NY, September 30, 2014; worked for General Electric and Lady Fair Shop;active in community affairs. Delta Gamma.

’44, BA ’49—Arthur H. Kesten of Westport, CT, September 6, 2014; founder,Army Aviation magazine and the Army Aviation Assn. of America; executiveVP of the AAAA; veteran; pilot; started the AAAA Scholarship Foundationfor soldiers and their families; recipient of the Frank H. T. Rhodes ExemplaryAlumni Service Award; editor, Daily Sun; active in community, professional,and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau. Wife, Dorothy (Kay) ’44, BS HE ’43.

’44, BS Ag ’48, PhD ’51—Robert F. Miller of Deltona, FL, July 27, 2014;retired director; active in alumni affairs.

’44 BS HE—Inez Johnston Murdoch of Palm Desert, CA, September 1, 2014;teacher and supervisor, Head Start; laboratory analyst, Wyeth Laboratories;tennis player; skier; golfer; active in community and alumni affairs.

’44 MD—Solon Palmer Jr. of Carlsbad, CA, May 28, 2014; worked for theScripps Clinic and Research Foundation; first chairman, Int’l Center, UC SanDiego; assistant chief of medical services, Fort Knox; medical adviser, LaCosta Glen; veteran; scuba diver; hunter; fisherman.

’44, BA ’43—Cecil Ruskay Schatz (Mrs. Arthur H. ’40, JD ’42) of Palm BeachGardens, FL, formerly of Bloomfield, CT, October 9, 2014; social worker; spe-cialized in disabled children at Children’s Services; golfer; tennis player;swimmer; active in community and religious affairs. Sigma Delta Tau.

’44, MD ’46—Arthur Schwartz of Ithaca, NY, May 23, 2014; physician; spe-cialist in pulmonary function; active in religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

’44, B Chem E ’48—B. Clifford Shaw of Independence, MO, August 24,2014; chemical engineer; pastor; Scoutmaster; veteran; active in commu-nity and religious affairs.

’44, BS ORIE ’47—Arthur J. Widmer Jr. of St. Louis, MO, September 10,2014; president, Widmer Engineering Co.; project manager, Mack Electric Co.;veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

’45 BME—Richard M. Holsten Jr. of Hinsdale, IL, September 20, 2014;CEO, Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Co.; also worked for the Electro Mo-tive division of General Motors; assistant national director, National Ski Pa-trol; veteran; golfer; active in community and professional affairs.

’45 BEE—Joseph P. McKeehan Jr. of Massapequa, NY, July 31, 2011; ex-ecutive, New York Telephone; plant engineer; also worked for New JerseyBell Telephone; veteran.

’45 BS HE—Dorothy Benjamin Orrego of Santiago, Chile, September 26, 2014.

’45—Richard F. Schluederberg of Holmes Beach, FL, September 10, 2014;senior VP, Bank of America; senior portfolio manager, Maryland NationalBank; investment counselor; veteran; sailor. Beta Theta Pi.

’45, BS Ag ’48—Joan Hall Walter of Hunker, PA, August 31, 2014; farmer;instructor of Sogetsu, Japanese flower arranging; administrative assistant

to the president of Adelphi U.; also worked at Grumman Aircraft Corp.; re-cruited into the Curtiss-Wright Cadette program; master flower judge; ac-tive in community affairs.

’46 MS, PhD ’49—Kathleen Fetherston Ball of Edmonton, AB, Canada,August 15, 2014. Husband, George E. Ball ’47, PhD ’54.

’46—Richard T. Egan of Glastonbury, CT, September 28, 2014.

’46 BEE, PhD ’52—Robert W. Johnston of Gaithersburg, MD, formerly ofPotomac, MD, September 3, 2014.

’46 BS Nurs—Miriam McAllister Lundgren of Voorhees, NJ, September 17,2014; Methodist pastor; assistant VP for nursing, Methodist Hospital; co-ordinator of continuing education and assistant professor, U. of Penn -sylvania School of Nursing; director, practical nurse education program,Camden County Vocational School; surgical staff nurse, West Jersey Hos-pital; author; active in professional and religious affairs.

’46 BA—Helen A. Mattin of New York City, August 23, 2014; writer andeditorial researcher, Colliers Encyclopedia; helped with the Children’s Gardenprogram at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; women’s rights activist; active incivic, community, religious, and alumni affairs.

’46, BS HE ’46—Marjorie Krausmann Moyer of Central Square, NY, July14, 2014; retired teacher. Delta Delta Delta.

’46 MFA—Eugenia Petty Riff of Yucaipa, CA, formerly of Medina, OH, Oc-tober 12, 2014; painter; gardener; active in community affairs.

’46 MA—Nathalie Georgia Sato of Highlands, NC, September 2, 2014;planning analyst, Pennsylvania Office of State Planning and Development;chief urban planner, Chicago area transportation studies; gardener; hiker;weaver; outdoorswoman.

’46 DVM—Robert G. Schirmer of Williamston, MI, October 16, 2014; pro-fessor, Michigan State U. College of Veterinary Medicine; active in profes-sional affairs.

’46 PhD—J. William Thomas of East Lansing, MI, October 15, 2014; emer-itus professor of dairy science, Michigan State U.; biochemist/animal hus-bandman, USDA Dairy Research Center; field researcher; author; downhillskier; gardener; photographer; active in professional and religious affairs.

’47 BA—Beverly Chazan Adelman of Atherton, CA, September 10, 2014;active in alumni affairs.

’47 BA—Arlie Williamson Anderson of Rochester, NY, October 17, 2014;swimming teacher at East and Monroe high schools; Red Cross volunteer;Girl Scout leader; Frank H. T. Rhodes Award winner; former class corre-spondent; active in community and alumni affairs. Delta Delta Delta. Hus-band, Douglas W. Anderson ’50.

’47 BA—Gloria Lawrence Baxter of Buffalo, NY, October 2, 2014; retiredadministrator; former president of Buffalo Psychiatric Center and Womenof St. Paul’s Cathedral; active in community and alumni affairs. Husband,Henry H. Baxter ’44.

’47 MA—Beverly Link French of Bellevue, WA, September 8, 2014; taughtat Pierce College and the Tacoma Public School District; active in religiousaffairs.

’47 BCE, MRP ’49—Joseph C. Gardner Jr. of Delmar, NY, September 19,2014; civil engineer, Federal Highway Administration and the Dept. ofTransportation; veteran; environmentalist; hiker; active in civic and com-munity affairs.

’47, BA ’46—David M. Geiger of Fort Lee, NJ, August 25, 2014; professorof history, Herbert Lehman College; dean of education, Fairleigh DickinsonU.; chairman of social studies, Fairlawn High School; also taught at NewRochelle High School; director, Kee-Wah Camps; raconteur; active in pro-fessional affairs.

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’47 MS HE—Valerie Horn Gyrisco (Mrs. George G., PhD ’47) of Kunkletown,PA, August 23, 2014; retired dietitian, McGraw House; taught food chem-istry at Cornell’s Hotel school; veteran; hiker; skier; canoeist; gardener;active in community affairs.

’47-48 GR—Herbert R. Hillman Jr. of Cambridge, MA, September 1, 2014;antiquarian bookseller; owner, Pangloss Book Shop; member, AmericanFriends Service Committee; active in community and professional affairs.

’47 BA—Joan Flynn Rogers of Elmira, NY, October 4, 2014; teacher; ac-tive in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs.

’47, BA ’48, BME ’49—William L. Sly of Hackettstown, NJ, September14, 2014; mechanical engineer; veteran; sailor; active in community andreligious affairs. Sigma Nu.

’47 BA, MA ’48—Eugene Streicher of Rockville, MD, September 30, 2014;neurophysiologist at NIH; expert on the blood-brain barrier; taught Eng-lish as a Second Language; volunteered at NIH’s clinical center; active incommunity and professional affairs.

’48 BS Ag, PhD ’52—Allen H. Benton of Fredonia, NY, September 29, 2014;retired professor of biology, SUNY Fredonia; also taught at SUNY Albany;expert on the biology of fleas; veteran; author; poet; newspaper columnist;birdwatcher; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

’48 LLB—Vincent D. Cardone of Medina, NY, August 23, 2014; attorney;veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’48 JD—Donald S. Day of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, October 1, 2014; cor-porate attorney; veteran; executive committee representative, Conferenceon Material Claims Against Germany; active in community, professional,and religious affairs.

’48 BA—Mary Mears Kiely (Mrs. Paul J. ’50) of Naples, FL, October 26,2014; computer programmer; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

’48, BS ORIE ’49—C. Arthur Rosenberger Jr. of Concord, NH, October 7,2014; retired mechanical engineer; worked for the Link Belt division ofFMC Technologies; veteran; choral singer; active in community, religious,and alumni affairs. Wife, Jeanette (Gordon) ’50.

’48 MD—Donald K. Stockdale of Rochester, NY, September 2, 2014; pe-diatrician; physician for Eastman Kodak; deputy commissioner, NYS Dept.of Health; deputy director, Monroe County Health Dept.; established healthclinics in inner city Rochester; veteran.

’48 BS HE—Virginia Crouse Taylor of St. Paul, MN, and Princeton, NJ, Au-gust 22, 2014; science editor, Princeton U. Press; public school scienceteacher; produced New Jersey Public TV program “The Whole of You”; gar-dener; golfer; hiker; active in community and alumni affairs. Husband,Edward C. Taylor ’46, PhD ’49.

’48 BA—Herbert Wohl of La Jolla, CA, September 24, 2014; chief of hema-tology/oncology, UCSD and the V.A. Hospital; also practiced at Albert Ein-stein College of Medicine, the Karolinska Inst., and in private practice;artist; computer expert; active in community and professional affairs. PhiSigma Delta.

’49 BA, LLB ’53—John C. Britting of Oaks Corners, NY, September 8,2014; attorney; veteran; founding board trustee, Finger Lakes CommunityCollege; Rotarian; active in civic, community, professional, and religiousaffairs. Phi Kappa Tau. Wife, Florence (Swenk) ’52.

’49 BA—George Foster of Thetford Center, VT, October 1, 2014; chemist;worked for 3M, Mobil Oil, Mallinckrodt Chemical, and various US govern-ment agencies; veteran; hiker; fly fisherman; woodworker.

’49 BME—Robert M. Halperin of Atherton, CA, October 26, 2014; retiredpresident, Robert & Ruth Halperin Foundation; former president, Raychem;endowed two art scholarships and developed the Cantor Arts Center at

Stanford U.; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. BetaSigma Rho.

’49 BS HE—Virginia Hallett Hardesty of Ithaca, NY, October 5, 2014;worked with the family construction and land development business; alsoworked for GLF (Agway); antiquer; Girl Scout leader; singer; language-lover;active in community and religious affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

’49 BS ORIE—H. Follett Hodgkins Jr. of Naples, FL, September 7, 2014;president and CEO, Lipe Rollway Corp.; also worked for White Sewing Ma-chine Co.; pianist; Rotarian; active in community, professional, and reli-gious affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

’49 MBA—Henry Jameson of Akron, OH, August 19, 2014; retiredGoodyear employee; Presbyterian minister; veteran; active in communityand religious affairs.

’49 BS HE—Mary Britting Kaloostian of Miami, FL, January 2, 2013; nurse,Johns Hopkins; church organist and pianist; president, South Dade Wel-come Wagon; bridge player; bowler; active in religious affairs.

’49 BA—Diane Barkan Kurtz of West Palm Beach, FL, July 9, 2014. AlphaEpsilon Phi.

’49 MS HE—Mary Virginia Howse Miller (Mrs. Howard C., PhD ’51) of SanAntonio, TX, October 1, 2014; taught home economics at Pratt Inst.,Madeira’s School, and Syracuse U.; active in community and religious affairs.

’49 BME—David A. Noyes of Liberty, MO, July 29, 2014; engineer, DuPont’satomic energy business; operatic tenor; active in community and religiousaffairs. Sigma Nu.

’49 BA, JD ’51—Gabriel I. Rosenfeld of Mount Kisco, NY, August 6, 2014;attorney; funeral director; builder; business manager, NY Cosmos soccerteam; stockbroker; co-owner, car dealership and a recording studio; veter-an; Rotarian; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Sigma AlphaMu. Wife, Louise (Passerman) ’50.

’49 BS HE—Roxanne Rosse Williams of Bethesda, MD, September 23, 2014;information systems specialist, Secretary of Agriculture, USDA; supportedU-2 and SR-71 ground communications; project manager of computer sys-tems for NASA; also worked for UNIVAC and as an economic statistician,USDA; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’50—Norman A. Bergmann of New Bern, NC, September 2, 2014; civil en-gineer, NYS Dept. of Transportation; veteran; active in community affairs.Alpha Sigma Phi.

’50 BS Ag, MS Ag ’52—Arthur J. Huvar of Powhatan, VA, September 16,2014; entomologist; veteran; Big Band aficionado; woodworker; fisherman.

’50 BS Ag—John W. Jones of Wauseon, OH, October 10, 2014; poultryand egg farmer; licensed charter boat captain; operated Chanticlear Acad-emy; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha GammaRho.

’50, BS Ag ’55—David W. Ketchum of Owego, NY, October 3, 2014; sen-ior programmer, IBM; veteran.

’50 BA—Malcolm Magruder of Hingham, MA, July 11, 2014; director ofsales and Southeastern representative, William Morrow and Co.; also workedfor such publishers as Brett-MacMillan, Frederick Praeger, Walker Publish-ing, and Stein 7 Day; worked for Panagra Airlines; also served as a diplo-matic courier; veteran; active in professional affairs. Sigma Phi.

’50 BS Hotel—Robert C. Moore of Cupertino, CA, August 30, 2014; activein alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

’50 BS Ag—Robert B. Rider of Germantown, NY, August 27, 2014; fruitfarmer; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

’50 BS Ag—Miriam Eliasberg Rosenzweig of Bloomington, IN, August 26,2014; associate editor, Indiana U. alumni magazine; also worked at a med-ical research laboratory; docent, Indiana U. Art Museum; art aficionado.

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’50 BME, MME ’52—Norman C. Small Jr. of Naples, FL, September 26,2014; engineering professor at North Carolina U., U. of Pittsburgh, BrownU., UVA; UConn, and U. of South Florida; also worked at the Westinghouseatomic power laboratory, U. of Pittsburgh; veteran; active in communityand professional affairs. Delta Upsilon.

’50 BEE—Alfred W. Stone Jr. of Allentown, PA, September 30, 2014; re-tired pastor; moderator, Newark Presbytery; public utilities design engineerin Michigan and for Central Hudson Gas and Electric; veteran; choral singer;active in community and religious affairs.

’51 BS Nurs—Rhoda Sifry Auslander of Bronx, NY, September 3, 2011;psychiatric nurse clinician; registered nurse, Visiting Nurse Service of NewYork; painter; sculptor; swimmer; traveler.

’51 LLB—Donald M. Blake of Oyster Bay, NY, January 9, 2014; attorney;president, Joseph Blake & Assocs.

’51 PhD—Lowell M. Bollinger of Brunswick, ME, formerly of DownersGrove, IL, September 25, 2014; director of Argonne Nat’l Laboratory’sPhysics division; headed the group that developed the ATLAS nuclei beamaccelerator; recipient of the Bonner Prize for his work in nuclear physics;youngest American physicist adviser at the First Int’l Conference on thePeaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in 1955; active in community and profes-sional affairs.

’51—C. Brandon Chenault of San Antonio, TX, September 16, 2014; ob-stetrician/gynecologist; veteran; helped establish a free clinic in San An-tonio; Rotarian; photographer; skier; active in community, professional,and religious affairs.

’51 JD—Donald D. Cole of Orlando, FL, formerly of Elmira, NY, September4, 2014; attorney; chief legal counsel, Chemung County Dept. of Social Serv-ices; created a pro bono divorce program; veteran; bridge player; member,Williamsburg Singers; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’51 BA—Shirley Beaton Fitzner of Clearwater, FL, July 15, 2014; realtor;Sunday school teacher; had a weekly radio spot for the Humane Society;active in community and religious affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Husband,Robert E. Fitzner ’51, BCE ’52.

’51-52 SP Ag—Richard S. Giles of Hornell, NY, October 24, 2014; home-builder and remodeler; mobile home park builder; manufactured and soldwelding equipment; also worked for Ontario Industries; founder of HARPO,a landlord rental association; choral singer; poet; active in community, pro-fessional, and religious affairs.

’51 BA—Audrey Neumann Kirkpatrick (Mrs. S. Dale Jr., ’48-49 LAW) of Vi-enna, VA, November 30, 2009; retired teacher; author; Delta Gamma.

’51 BA—Robert C. Mealey of Sandy, OR, October 9, 2014; commercial air-line pilot, United Airlines; veteran; track star and member of the CornellAthletics Hall of Fame; active in alumni affairs. Delta Upsilon.

’51 MD—Edith Lechner Murphy of Montoursville, PA, October 4, 2014;family practitioner; medical director, Lysock View Nursing Home; alsoworked for a well baby clinic; gardener.

’51 BS Ag—Norma Rienhardt of Redington Shores, FL, October 23, 2014;executive director Suncoast Center for Community Mental Health; active incivic and community affairs. Kappa Delta.

’51 BA—Carol Buckley Swiss of Shrewsbury, MA, September 4, 2014; di-rector, Boylston Public Library; opera enthusiast; active in civic, commu-nity, and alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

’52, BEE ’53—Charles E. Baun of Machias, NY, March 26, 2014; electricalengineer.

’52 BS Ag—Ruth Marsey Blum of Durham, NC, August 31, 2014.

’52 BS ILR—Henry M. Borys of Mukilteo, WA, September 25, 2014; VP ofpersonnel, GTE’s Everett, WA, office; taught management at Edmonds Com-munity College; veteran; golfer; active in community, professional, and re-ligious affairs.

’52, BEE ’53—Richard E. Crews of South Kent, CT, September 11, 2014; re-tired Episcopalian priest; curate, St. John’s Church (New Milford, CT); priest,St. Andrew’s (Marble Dale); school chaplain and teacher of physics, alge-bra, and theology at South Kent School; former electrical engineer; veter-an; active in religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Wife, Joan (Dinkel) ’54.

’52 BS HE—Carolyn Flint Dulay of San Francisco, CA, August 3, 2014; hos-pital dietitian; rodent procurer, San Francisco Zoo; market researcher; trav-el agent; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Chi Omega.

’52 BS Ag—Ronald C. Felthousen of Schenectady, NY, October 14, 2014;florist; grower; landscape architect; veteran; fisherman; photographer; poet;active in community and professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

’52 MFS—John A. Frane of Bellingham, WA, March 30, 2014; taught foodscience at Mt. Hood Community College; former food technologist, BirdsEye; veteran.

’52 BA, MS ’54—Sarah Bowker Gibbs of Newport, NH, September 25,2014; professor of biology at Edinburgh U. and McGill U.; Fellow, Royal So-ciety of Canada for her work on the evolution of algae; recipient, GilbertMorgan Smith Medal, Nat’l Academy of Sciences; birder; active in profes-sional affairs.

’52 PhD—Irvin M. Krieger of Beachwood, OH, October 4, 2014; profes-sor emeritus of chemistry and director of the Center for Adhesives, Sealants,and Coatings, Case Western Reserve U.; veteran; active in community andprofessional affairs.

’52 MBA—Johan F. W. Mohr of Oslo, Norway, July 1, 2014.

’52 BS Hotel—George N. North of Bellingham, WA, September 1, 2014.

’52, BEP ’53, PhD ’62—William H. Orr of Carmel, IN, October 19, 2014;physicist; worked for Bell Labs; patent holder; helped develop touch-tonetechnology; veteran; active in alumni affairs.

’52 BS Hotel—R. Kane Rufe of Scottsdale, AZ, September 28, 2014; ho-telier; executive VP, Pacific Asia Travel Association; senior VP, Far East/Pacific, InterContinental Hotels Corp.; managed hotels in the Far East andLatin America; veteran; active in professional and alumni affairs. ThetaDelta Chi.

’52 BS Ag—Donald E. Shephard of Cazenovia, NY, October 3, 2014; re-tired from Shephard Farms; also worked for Farm Credit Services; garden-er; woodworker; sailor; active in community and religious affairs. AlphaGamma Rho.

’52 DVM—James L. Shupe of Hyde Park, UT, October 8, 2014; veterinar-ian; professor, administrator, and researcher at Utah State U.; administra-tor; research veterinarian, USDA; president, American College of Toxicology;veteran; author; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

’52 BEE, PhD ’57—Donald A. Wiegand of Basking Ridge, NJ, September19, 2014; physicist, Picatinny Arsenal; professor, Carnegie Mellon U.; ac-tive in community affairs.

’52—Eldred A. Wimer of Ithaca, NY, September 19, 2014; owner and chiefgrill master, Bud’s Diner (now the Lincoln Street Diner); operated theBoulevard Diner; also worked at Obie’s Diner; veteran; active in communi-ty affairs.

’53—Joan Skinner Burton of East Harwich, MA, August 25, 2014; legalsecretary; executive director, Embroiderers’ Guild of America; taught needle-work; active in community and religious affairs.

’53 BA—Robert D. Corrie of Williamsburg, VA, October 20, 2014; workedin banking and risk management; veteran; active in civic, community, andreligious affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

’53, BLAR ’54—Conrad Hamerman of Philadelphia, PA, September 14,2014; principal, Conrad Hamerman Landscape Architecture; developed anddirected the landscape architecture program, U. of Delaware; also taughtat Cornell U., Longwood Gardens Graduate Program, City College of NewYork, and Harvard Graduate School of Design; design lead with Burle Marx,

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SHideo Sasaki, Clarke & Rapuano, and other firms; designed estate and res-idential gardens in the US, Switzerland, and Brazil; active in professionalaffairs.

’53 BS HE, MNS ’54—Janice Huey Robertson of South Hadley, MA, August23, 2014; tutored special needs students; president, Know Your Town; labassistant; outdoorswoman; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.Husband, Robert L. Robertson ’53.

’53 JD—Alfred M. Rossum of Paris, France, May 28, 2014; attorney; activein alumni affairs.

’53 LLB—Kenneth A. Rothschild of Utica, NY, October 20, 2014; attorney;active in civic and religious affairs.

’53 JD—Julius W. Sbedico of Elmira, NY, September 22, 2014; attorney.

’53 BA—Edward J. Shahin Jr. of McLean, VA, February 3, 2014; worked ingovernment and in technical consulting; Rotarian; supporter of reading forat-risk students; active in community affairs.

’53—Robert E. Weir Jr. of Nunda, NY, October 9, 2014; retired district mar-keting manager, Rochester Gas and Electric; veteran; volunteer chaplain;Rotarian; gardener; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

’54-54 SP Ag—Edward E. Boomhower Jr. of Dormansville, NY, September29, 2014; dairy farmer; truck driver; active in community affairs.

’54 BA—Ashton B. Collins Jr. of Placitas, NM, October 2, 2014; CEO, Red-dy Corp. Int’l; entrepreneur; veteran; pilot; flight instructor; sailor; activein community and professional affairs. Alpha Tau Omega.

’54, BCE ’55—Frank A. Dellecave of Madison, CT, August 9, 2014; seniorVP of construction equipment, Ingersoll Rand; helped with the constructionof Cornell’s Synchrotron; veteran; golfer; active in professional and alumniaffairs. Chi Phi.

’54 DVM—Stanley Fellenbaum of Narragansett, RI, September 22, 2014;veterinarian; practiced 30 years in North Haven, and later at Warwick Ani-mal Hospital and Plainfield Greyhound Race Track; veteran; birder; bicyclist;photographer; active in professional affairs.

’54-57 GR—J. Charles Lloyd of South Burlington, VT, August 21, 2014;physicist, IBM; active in religious affairs.

’54 BA—Gerry Neugebauer of Tucson, AZ, September 26, 2014; astro-physicist who helped discover thousands of planets, stars, and galaxies; for-mer chairman of physics, mathematics, and astronomy, Caltech; director,Palomar Observatory; expert in infrared radiation; scientific director, InfraredAstronomical Satellite; designed infrared equipment for the Mariner 2 mis-sion to Venus; helped locate the exact center of the Milky Way; recipient,Space Science Award and the Herschel Medal; veteran; active in profession-al affairs. Kappa Sigma. Wife, Marcia (MacDonald) ’54.

’54 BS Ag—John M. Preston of Holland, NY, August 11, 2014; retiredteacher.

’54 BS HE—Muriel Sutton Russekoff of New York City, October 6, 2014; re-tired teacher; active in community and alumni affairs.

’55 BA—George H. Bosworth III of Palo Alto, CA, April 19, 2014. Psi Upsilon.

’55 MD—Joseph P. Dineen of Woodbridge, CT, September 19, 2014; vas-cular-thoracic, trauma, and general surgeon; chief of surgery, Griffin Hos-pital; chief of trauma, St. Mary’s Hospital; also practiced at West Haven V.A.Hospital; veteran; golfer; active in professional affairs.

’55—George W. Heitzman of Castleton-on-Hudson, NY, August 20, 2010.Alpha Chi Rho.

’55, BCE ’56—Charles L. Koester Jr. of Garden City, NY, September 27,2014; structural engineer.

’55 BS Ag, PhD ’65—Jerome B. Sohn of Brookline, MA, August 24, 2013.Tau Epsilon Phi.

’55 BA—Carol Sand Victor of Westfield, NJ, June 25, 2012; dietitian; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi.

’56—Michael C. Adams of Jupiter, FL, October 5, 2014; worked in liquorsales; active in civic and community affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

’56 BA, JD ’58—James H. Biben of Highland Beach, FL, September 6,2014; real estate attorney; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs.

’56 BA—Roger R. Cooper of Horseheads, NY, October 3, 2014; attorney;justice of the peace, Horseheads, NY; active in community, professional,and religious affairs.

’56, BA ’58—Edgar H. German Jr. of Reisterstown, MD, August 1, 2014;president, GT-Tech; electrical engineer, Bendix Corp.; expert in digital sig-nal processing simulators, radar systems, and control software; veteran.

’56 MS—Neal Pike of Bethesda, MD, June 10, 2013; veteran.

’56, BEE ’57—James D. Strickler of Tucson, AZ, June 5, 2014; active inalumni affairs. Delta Phi. Wife, Helen (Schelkoff) ’58.

’56, BA ’62—Robert W. Tuttle of Dryden, NY, April 14, 2014; took at leastone class in 63 semesters from Fall 1952 until Fall 2012, for a total of 404credit hours. Wife, Anne (Oja) ’66.

’57 BS HE—Elaine Meisnere Bass of New Marlboro, MA, October 3, 2014;interior designer. Husband, Marvin A. Bass, MA ’55.

’57, BME ’58—Edward H. Burdick of Rye, NY, September 5, 2014; presi-dent, Wayfarer Ketch Corp.; also worked for Air Reduction Co.; veteran; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

’57, B Chem E ’59—Richard R. Knittel of South Portland, ME, August 29,2014; consulting engineer, RK Assocs.; worked in plastic film extrusion;jazz trombonist.

’57 BS HE—Carolyn McKnight Oldham of Sun City Center, FL, August 6,2014; owner, car rental company; Rotarian; active in community and reli-gious affairs.

’57—Richard Treibick of Sagaponack, NY, July 13, 2014; worked in the pub-lishing, cellular, and cable TV industries; chairman, Alexcom Inc.; gentlemanfarmer; veteran; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’57, BEE ’60—James C. Vaughan of Santa Rosa, CA, August 14, 2014;electrical engineer; Boy Scout leader; robot club mentor. Kappa Delta Rho.

’58 BA—Marjorie Boris Ansell of Tucson, AZ, August 30, 2013; active incommunity affairs.

’58 BS Hotel—Neil D. Baker of Ventura, CA, September 14, 2014; aero-space economist, Martin Marietta; human resources manager; finance ad-ministrator, EG&G; helped build the Santa Barbara Zoo; active in communityand alumni affairs.

’58 BS Ag—J. Arthur Benning of Clyde, NY, September 24, 2014; partsmanager and mechanic at Ford tractor dealerships; also worked for DiSan-to Jet Gas Co.; farmer; member, Finger Lakes Antique Power Club; modeltrain aficionado; woodcrafter; active in community affairs. Wife, Lois (Tyler)’60.

’58 BS HE—Suzanne Fitch Dwyer of Melbourne, FL, October 16, 2014;worked in avionics at Rockwell Collins; elementary school teacher; PiBeta Phi.

’58 BS Hotel—Joseph R. Girmonde II of New York Mills, NY, November6, 2010; owner, Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club.

’58, BEE ’59, MBA ’59—J. Arthur Hirsch Jr. of St. Thomas, ON, Canada,August 14, 2014.

’58 JD—Ward W. Ingalsbe Jr. of Kingston, NY, September 19, 2014; at-torney; veteran; tennis player; skier; active in community, professional,and alumni affairs.

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’58 BA—William B. Osgood III of Riverside, CT, September 4, 2014; HVACcontractor; also worked for Johnson Controls and Werner Tietjen Assocs.; vet-eran; sailor; tennis player; active in civic and community affairs. Psi Upsilon.

’58 BA, PhD ’68—Ancil N. Payne Jr. of St. Paul, MN, August 11, 2014;tax attorney.

’58, BA ’59—Robert A. Roehder of Absarokee, MT, August 22, 2014;founder, industrial coatings company ROADCOAT GmbH; rancher. DeltaKappa Epsilon.

’58 BA—Adrienne Bertenthal Shuter of St. Louis, MO, September 17, 2014;realtor; co-owner, West End Word newspaper; wrote the column “Candle -light and Crumbs”; school board VP; active in civic, community, and alumniaffairs. Husband, Eli R. Shuter ’56.

’58, BME ’60—Fred J. Smith of Plantation, FL, August 6, 2014; engineer;developed direct memory access for microprocessors, Digital Products Corp.;invented the first automatic dialer.

’58, BME ’59—J. Gerhardt Torborg of Vinalhaven, ME, August 8, 2014;mechanical engineer for Esso, Humble, Bayway, and Exxon; consultant,Becht Engineering; active in community and alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

’58 MS HE—Pinkye R. Wade of Tuscaloosa, AL, September 11, 2014;taught home economics at Summerville and Druid high schools; active incivic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

’59 LLB—Edward M. Davidowitz of White Plains, NY, October 10, 2014;retired NYS Supreme Court Justice; former judicial hearing officer; formerspecial assistant attorney general, NYS Special Prosecutor’s Office; veteran;author; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’59 BS Hotel—Robert N. Herkes of Volcano, HI, August 21, 2014; staterepresentative, State of Hawaii; pushed legislation that reduced insurancerates and mitigated foreclosures; retired hotel executive; helped move theIronman Triathlon to Kona from Oahu; founder, Hawaii Hospital Hall ofFame; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’59, BS Ag ’60—Leonard Katz of Wilmington, DE, September 18, 2014;chief of neurology services and chief medical officer, V.A. Medical Center;worked with Omega Medical Group; active in professional affairs. Phi SigmaDelta. Wife, Cheryl (Dunlap) ’59, BA ’60.

’59 EdD—Josephas J. Lancaster of Gainesville, GA, August 27, 2014; headof Extension Education, College of Agriculture, U. of Georgia; veteran; for-mer president, National Assn. of Adult Educators; active in civic, commu-nity, professional, and religious affairs.

’59—James R. Lovell of Marquette, MI, September 20, 2014; ob/gyn; vet-eran; active in community and religious affairs. Theta Delta Chi.

’59, BME ’61—William S. Romano of Berlin, MD, June 22, 2014; con-sultant. Phi Kappa Sigma.

’60 MD—Richard E. Clark of Sewickley, PA, October 22, 2014; heart sur-geon and researcher; director, Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., NIH; taughtat Washington U.; established Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Cen-ter, Allegheny General Hospital; helped design the AB-180 artificial heart;veteran; race car driver; author; model airplane flier; fisherman; active inprofessional affairs.

’60 BS Ag—Maxwell A. Fisher of Madrid, NY, October 15, 2014; owner,Mapleview Dairy; veteran; woodworker; active in civic, community, profes-sional, and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.

’60 BS Ag—Kermit L. Lyndaker of Lowville, NY, September 16, 2014; VPand senior loan officer, Community Bank; co-owner, Reinman’s DepartmentStore; also worked for First Trust and Deposit, National Bank, and FarmCredit; veteran; golfer; furniture maker; active in community, professional,and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.

’60 MS—Robert D. Wismer of Moline, IL, October 6, 2014; VP of en-gineering, Deere & Co.; research engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers;

race car driver; active in community and professional affairs.

’60 MA—Gene A. Wright of Laguna Woods, CA, September 11, 2014; VPof marketing, The Irvine Co.; CEO and president, Gene Wright & Assocs.;veteran; golfer.

’61 BA—Daniel Grossbard of Grants Pass, OR, July 16, 2014; civilian em-ployee, US Navy; computer programmer; actor and director, Oregon Shake-speare Festival, The Old Time Radio Players, Rogue Music Theatre, andBarnstormers; bridge player; active in community affairs.

’62—Barbara Buck Bozeman of Lake Almanor, CA, June 27, 2014. Pi BetaPhi.

’62 BA, MA ’65—Susan C. Ribner of New York City, October 14, 2014;nonfiction author; taught writing at Hunter College; taught memoir work-shops; founder, Women’s Center Karate Club.

’62 LLB—Albert B. Wende of Williamsville, NY, September 21, 2014; re-tired president of Armor Box Co.; veteran; author; director, Cradle BeachCamp; active in community affairs.

’63 BS Hotel—Marion L. Auchter of Dublin, OH, September 12, 2014.

’63, BEE ’64—J. Thomas Fowler of Marblehead, MA, August 23, 2014;engineer; principal, magnetic sensors development group, Tiax LC; chiefengineer, Digicourse; principal, Arthur D. Little; project engineer, NASA;invented and worked on remote reading digital magnetic compasses; vet-eran; boat designer. Lambda Chi Alpha.

’63 BS Hotel—Peter B. Heinrich of Canandaigua, NY, October 9, 2014;retired hotelier and restaurateur; adjunct professor, RIT’s American Col-lege in Dubrovnik, Croatia; veteran; produced several jazz recordings;sailor; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’63 PhD—John K. Hoff of Houston, TX, September 4, 2014; expert inglobal research, biotechnology, agricultural development, medical appli-cations, computer generated microfilm, and technical applications for theenergy industry; senior executive, Louis Dreyfus Co.; founder, AG Int’l andAG Middle East; helped develop the herbicide Propanil; also worked forWeatherford Int’l; assisted Henry Kissinger with his Disengagement Agree-ments for the Middle East and Egypt; owner, The Houstonian; author;rancher; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Wife,Carol (Miller) ’62.

’63 PhD—George Pincus of Sugar Land, TX, August 17, 2014; dean ofscience and technology, U. of Houston, Downtown; dean of engineering,New Jersey Inst. of Technology; chairman of civil engineering, U. of Hous-ton Central; professor of engineering, U. of Kentucky; established the grad-uate program in civil engineering at the U. of Rio, Brazil; painter; activein community affairs.

’63 MS, PhD ’67—David R. Rust of Bloomington, IN, October 21, 2014;physicist, Indiana U.; built particle detectors and worked on the LargeHadron Collider at CERN; also worked at Argonne Nat’l Laboratory; studiedbiblical languages; built stereo equipment; gardener; genealogist; pianist;shape-note singer; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

’64 BS Ag—Warren W. Agor of Penfield, NY, October 29, 2014; compet-itive road racer; raced in Trans-Am, Can-Am, IMSA, and Vintage Auto Rac-er; crewed for Mark Donahue of Penske Racing; owner, Agor Enterprises;veteran; active in professional affairs.

’64, BS Ag ’67—Bruce R. Bender of Lockport, NY, June 25, 2014; activein alumni affairs.

’64 PhD—Eric W. Johnson of Blacksburg, VA, September 4, 2014; workedfor IBM; veteran; master gardener; wood carver; golfer; bridge player; ac-tive in community affairs.

’64 PhD—James L. Morrison of Denton, TX, September 9, 2014; devel-oped computerized systems for the State of Utah Job Service; professorof physics, U. of Utah; also worked for the State of Nevada unemploymentsystem; consultant.

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’64 MS, PhD ’66—Roger L. Ptak of Northport, ME, September 18,2014; physics and astronomy professor, Bowling Green State U.; wrotethe monthly column “StarDust”; lecturer, Belfast Senior College; ac-tive in community, professional, and religious affairs.

’64, BEP ’66, MS ORIE ’66—William E. Riddle of Santa Fe, NM, Sep-tember 26, 2014; founder and president, Software Design and Analy-sis; founder and director, Rocky Mountain Inst. of Software Engineering;chief technical officer and executive VP, Software Productivity Consor-tium; taught computer science at U. of Michigan and U. of Colorado;fellow, Inst. of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; photographer; bird-er; genealogist; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’65 PhD—C. Henry Bradley of Carol Stream, IL, August 18, 2014;worked for Wycliffe Bible Translators; international anthropology co-ordinator for Wycliffe; translated the New Testament into Mixtec;taught anthropology at Judson College; active in professional andreligious affairs.

’65 PhD—Allan Griffin of Toronto, ON, Canada, May 19, 2011; pro-fessor of physics, U. of Toronto.

’65—John A. Kennel of Dayton, OH, September 6, 2014; worked forIBM, GE, Siemens, CSC, and NCR; founding member, Project Manage-ment Inst., Paris chapter; numismatist; expert on the Chicago World’sFair of 1893; bridge player; active in community affairs.

’65 BS ILR—John E. Sutcliffe of Edmond, OK, October 16, 2014;worked for PPG, Lee Way Motor Freight, and Altec Lansing. Sigma PhiEpsilon.

’66—Susan Harper Compton of Danby, NY, October 17, 2014; workedat Cornell U.

’66 BA—Martin D. Ecker of Valley Stream, NY, January 21, 2013.

’66 BS HE—Sandra Chervinsky Levenson of Cherry Hill, NJ, Septem-ber 24, 2014; realtor; former kindergarten teacher; active in religiousand alumni affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. Husband, Donald S. Levenson ’64.

’66 PhD—George S. Myers Jr. of Hanford, CA, September 17, 2014;active in religious affairs.

’66 BS ILR—Paul R. Ryan of Montecito, CA, October 22, 2013; chair-man and CEO, Acacia Research Corp.

’66—John I. Sumner of Sarasota, FL, January 24, 2014.

’66 MD—John C. Urbaitis of Baltimore, MD, August 15, 2014; formerdirector of psychiatry, Sinai Hospital; founding director, MarylandCouncil of Community Mental Health Centers; active in communityand professional affairs.

’67 BA—Stanley B. Berman of Solvang, CA, January 30, 2010; ERphysician, Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital.

’67 BA—Charles R. Powers of Edwards, CO, September 13, 2014; realestate broker; ski instructor; tennis instructor; veteran; golfer; sailor;active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Upsilon.

’68 BS Ag—John H. Snider Jr. of Forest, VA, May 24, 2014.

’68—Richard B. Wood of Medicine Lodge, KS, August 2, 2014; re-search chemist for Olin Chemical.

’68 BA—Michael A. Young of New York City, October 15, 2014; crim-inal defense and appellate attorney; co-founder, Int’l Aphasia Move-ment. Alpha Sigma Phi.

’69 BEP—Richard A. Bartlett of Middletown, NJ, September 22, 2014;worked in the Bell System and at Call Sciences.

’69—William A. Hulslander of East Homer, NY, November 10, 2011;worked for Dairy One; outdoorsman.

’69 BS, MS ’71—Christopher A. Kocay of El Cajon, CA, October 5, 2014;engineering specialist in launch vehicle structural dynamics, General Dy-namics; financial advisor; structural engineer and research scientist, Get-ty Oil Co.; also worked for BDM Corp.; veteran; golfer; active inprofessional affairs. Kappa Sigma.

’69, BS Ag ’72—Donald W. Lowe of Ithaca, NY, October 16, 2014;membership representative, US Chamber of Commerce; veteran; author;watercolorist. Phi Gamma Delta.

’69—Michel A. Vonderweidt of Trumansburg, NY, September 12, 2014;electrician, Cayuga Medical Center; manager, ISA Babcock; master wood-worker; gardener; soccer fan; outdoorsman. Alpha Tau Omega.

’70 BS Ag—Richard E. Hopson of Utica, NY, formerly of Madrid, NY, Oc-tober 9, 2014; assistant district director, Farmers Home Administration;farmer; also worked at Daniel Green Co. and Dolgeville Central School;birder; golfer; musician; active in community and religious affairs.

’70 JD—David S. C. Mulchinock of New Hope, PA, October 5, 2014; at-torney; supporter of the arts; gardener; traveler; active in communityand professional affairs.

’70 MA, PhD ’73—Ronald G. Rubin of Claremont, CA, October 22, 2014;professor of philosophy and the history of ideas, Pitzer College; experton Descartes; author; founder, Claremont College Aikido Club, Aiko Inst.,and Musubi Dojo; co-founder, Aikido Today Magazine; co-founder, AretePress; active in community and professional affairs.

’71 PhD—Christopher J. Todd of London, UK, June 5, 2009; emeritusprofessor of network science, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engi-neering, University College London; division manager, Optical ResearchDiv., British Telecom; also worked in the semiconductor industry; ex-ternal examiner at several universities; author; active in professionalaffairs.

’72, BArch ’74—Phillip D. Gates of Colorado Springs, CO, August 25,2014; architect. Chi Phi.

’72 BS Ag—Charles R. Stappenbeck of Rochester, NY, September 28,2014; worked in the optics industry; golfer; woodworker; active in com-munity affairs. Alpha Tau Omega.

’73 PhD—Charles H. Doty of Fairfield, CA, August 15, 2014; founderand co-owner of SynTech Research; worked in agricultural science; vet-eran; gardener; active in religious affairs.

’74 MS ILR—Lawrence S. Newberry of Fullerton, CA, April 4, 2013; re-tired assistant city attorney, Pasadena, CA; active in professional andcommunity affairs.

’74 PhD—Ronald R. Piggott of Armidale, NSW, Australia, August 26,2014; executive dean and emeritus professor, U. of New England (NSW);expert in agricultural economics.

’75 BME—James S. Adams of San Antonio, TX, August 25, 2014; me-chanical engineer; worked in the petroleum industry in Australia, the GulfCoast, and Saudi Arabia; skier; student of history.

’75 MBA—Stephanie H. Greene of Kildeer, IL, August 21, 2014; co-owner of a real estate investment firm and an educational publishingfirm; gardener; active in alumni affairs.

’75 BS ILR—Yvonne Brown Hazlewood of New York City, August 1,2014; staff analyst, NYC Human Resources Administration AssistanceProgram.

’75 BA—Elizabeth M. Norment of New York City, October 13, 2014;stage and screen actor; appeared in “House of Cards”; acted several sea-sons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

’75 PhD—Frank J. Traina of Wilder, KY, September 16, 2014; retired pro-fessor of sociology, Northern Kentucky U.; also taught at the U. of Flori-da; director/owner, Sunrock Farm.

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’75 BS Ag, MD ’79—Gary P. Wilton of Naples, FL, September 27, 2014;radiologist; worked at Naples Radiologists and Naples Community Hospi-tal; avid traveler.

’76 BS Ag—Robert S. Meade of Binghamton, NY, October 8, 2014; com-petitive swimmer; bicyclist; single scull rower.

’78 BArch—Glenn M. Barnhard of Fairfield, CT, October 24, 2014; archi-tect; Little League and basketball coach; active in community and pro-fessional affairs.

’78, BS Ag ’79—Jack L. Jensen of Lansing, NY, October 15, 2014; pres-ident, Equity Builders; founder, Community Building Works!; worked forBetter Housing for Tompkins County, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Serv-ices, and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.; master carpenter; novel-ist; columnist; rugby player; active in civic and community affairs.

’79 BA—Robert B. Kruger of Piedmont, CA, January 1, 2014; financialplanner, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; river rafter; backpacker; active incommunity affairs.

’81 MS Ag—Barbara M. Catherwood of Washington, DC, September 10,2014; Peace Corps volunteer.

’81, BS Ag ’00—Steve A. Crawford of Freeville, NY, August 31, 2014;drafting manager, Barden Homes; skier; golfer; active in community andreligious affairs. Wife, Susan (Tubbs) ’81.

’82 BS HE—Maureen Gallagher Boothroyd of Endwell, NY, September 7,2014; health teacher, Owego-Apalachin Middle School; WIC nutritionist,De Marillac Clinic at Lourdes Hospital; schoolteacher; active in communi-ty and professional affairs. Husband, Kirk E. Boothroyd ’82.

’83 BS HE—Eric G. Colman of Baltimore, MD, September 10, 2014; deputydirector and medical team leader, Division of Metabolic and EndocrineProducts, Food and Drug Administration.

’83—Peter L. Sklar of Santa Barbara, CA, December 9, 2012.

’85 BS Ag—Richard J. Yeager Jr. of Pompano Beach, FL, October 7, 2014;city forester and park and right of way planner, City of Boca Raton.

’87 MPS—James F. MacAulay of Halifax, NS, Canada, October 20, 2014;

professor and chairman, Dept. of Tourism and Hospitality Management,Mount St. Vincent U.; also taught at the College of Cape Breton, Ap-palachian State U., and the Institut de Management Hotelier Int’l; hoteland restaurant manager; pioneer of distance learning; owner, True NorthDiner; active in professional affairs.

’88 BS Ag—Margaret A. Carlon of Hudson, NY, October 8, 2014; artist;art teacher; student of Hudson River ecology; active in community affairs.

’89 DVM—James L. Laurita of Hope, ME, September 9, 2014; veterinar-ian; owner, Camden Hospital for Animals; co-founder, Hope Elephants; for-mer circus performer; active in community and professional affairs.

’90 MS, PhD ’95—Peter E. Powers of Dayton, OH, May 10, 2014.

’90 BS Ag—Craig A. Schenk of Lansing, NY, September 29, 2014; workedat Bensvue Farm. Alpha Zeta.

’94 BS HE—Tamar Davir of New York City, August 5, 2014; acupunctur-ist; herbalist; interdenominational minister.

’95 MA—Tina Y. Chen of Pleasanton, CA, April 14, 2013; active in alum-ni affairs. Husband, Renaud Visage, MCE ’94.

’02 BS Ag—Norman E. Munroe of San Francisco, CA, August 20, 2014;global manager, Bayer Pharmaceuticals; active in religious affairs. SigmaPhi Epsilon.

’02 BA—Kunal M. Patel of Nanuet, NY, October 23, 2014; co-founder,Arevo Labs; worked in nanotechnology at the NASA Ames Research Cen-ter; marathon runner; soccer player; tennis champion; music aficionado;traveler.

’04 BA—Rashmee R. Tadalkar of Washington, DC, May 17, 2010.

’06 BS Hotel—William Yang of Taipei, Taiwan, September 10, 2014; man-aging director, APFC Ltd.

’13—Stephen C. Berds of Rochester, NY, October 8, 2014.

’15—Ilan M. Rasooly of Silver Spring, MD, October 21, 2014; senior inthe School of Hotel Administration; co-president, Center for Jewish Liv-ing; active in religious affairs.