CLASS NOTES

Eva Hess McNett ’53, MEMORIAM IN February 2010 Virginia Hall Meyer ’53, March 2010 Charles L. Werner ’53, March 2010 Manuela Crespo Bryant ’54, November 2009 Charles G. Graham ’54, March 2010 Esther Gerber Landreth ’54, February 2010 Alan M. Lazerson ’54, January 2010 Richard E. Maxwell ’54, February 2010 Erwin H. Sapiro ’54E, ’55E (MM), advisors: Businessman and Interfaith Chapel benefactor Gilbert McCurdy (left) and February 2010 real estate developer Max Farash served as trustees over the course of three decades. James D. Sharps ’54, February 2010 Tribue t Mary Watson ’54E, ’56E (MM), March 2010 Leaders and Benefactors: Alexander F. Kowalski ’55, February 2010 Gilbert McCurdy and Max Farash Theodore E. Guglin ’56W (Mas), T wo longtime members of the University F or more than half a century, McCurdy and March 2010 family—former trustees Gilbert McCurdy his family have been generous supporters of Dorothy Payne ’56E, ’74E (DMA), and Max Farash—died in February. the University. The River Campus Interfaith March 2010 McCurdy, the grandson of the founder of Chapel was a gift of the family in the 1960s, Donna Renton ’57E, the family’s downtown department store, and McCurdy and his wife, Katherine August 2009 served as a trustee from 1971 to 1993 Babcock McCurdy, made many gifts to the Edward J. Shaughnessy ’57W (Mas), and was elected a life trustee in 1997. He , the Eastman School, November 2009 died February 16 at the age of 87. A noted and to Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. Joyce Burlingame Shwabe ’58N, leader in the business and philanthropic F arash, the founder of Farash Corp., one February 2010 communities of Rochester, he served as of the largest real estate development com- Joan Korn Starkweather ’58, chairman and CEO of McCurdy’s from 1962 panies in western , died February January 2009 to 1992. He’s remembered as a passionate 28 at the age of 95. A trustee from 1982 to Robert E. Mattoon ’59, February 2010 booster of downtown Rochester, having 1985, Farash was also a generous supporter Paul M. William ’59M (Res), been instrumental in the development of of the University, with a particular inter- September 2009 Midtown Plaza, the first downtown enclosed est in the Simon School and the Eastman Reginald W.F. Conway ’60, shopping mall in the United States. Institute for Oral Health. January 2010 John M. Perry ’60 (PhD), James R. McNally ’66S, Jane Szakos ’82, March 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Robert K. Wolf ’60, Walter Johnson ’68M (Pdc), Matthew L. Miller ’86, February 2010 February 2010 January 2010 Houston H. MacIntosh ’61M (MD), Eleanor Kawka ’68 (MA), Beth Newdome ’86E, February 2010 February 2010 February 2010 Chih-Min Yen ’62 (MS), Harold M. Graham ’69S (MBA), Gail Cramer Walton ’87E (DMA), March 2010 October 2009 February 2010 Andrew P. Morrison ’63M (MD), Michael L. Daley ’73 (PhD), Ralph C. Menapace ’90, February 2010 February 2010 March 2010 Dennis C. Badura ’64, Ann Brewster Glenn Jones ’74, Charles E. Coffey ’95N, January 2010 February 2010 August 2009 Roger W. Crecely ’64, James A. Smith ’74S (MBA), Jean-Claude Pierre ’99S (MBA), January 2010 February 2010 February 2010 John H. Hess ’64, Janet Coutu ’76, Mary Ellen Dean ’01M (Res), March 2010 February 2010 November 2009 Donald A. Feinfeld ’65, Dora Nykamp Kubitz ’79, James O. Freedman ’02 (Hon), October 2008 February 2010 March 2010 Donald R. Kreiss ’65S (MS), Mohammad Nemati ’79M (Res), Eleanor Rosenfeld ’03W (EdD), February 2010 February 2010 March 2010

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