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ALUMNI DEATHS ’39 BA, MS ’40—Bettina M. Frost of Haddonfield, NJ, December 21, 2016; active in Wyoming County Community Hospital; 4H agent for Cornell Cooperative Extension; alumni affairs. also worked for Wyoming County Office for the Aging; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’40 MS—Charles G. Polzer of South Glens Falls, NY, May 29, 2017; director of opera tions of manufacturing, plant manager assistant superintendent, production supervisor, ’45 BEE—John V. Hastings III of Orinda, CA, formerly of Ardmore, PA, May 9, 2017; and research chemist at the Imperial Color Chemical and Paper Corp. (now part of president of Hastings & Co. gold leaf manufacturing firm; associated with the Inst. of Hercules Inc.); played and managed semipro baseball and basketball; Boy Scout Southeast Asian Archeology at the U. of Pennsylvania Museum. leader; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. ’45 PhD—John F. Lingenfelter of La Jolla, CA, June 6, 2017; biochemist; taught at ’40 BA—Gabrielle Sichel Rosenbaum of Haverford, PA, May 15, 2017; active in alumni the U. of Miami Medical School; chief toxicologist of the European Theater after WWII; affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. blind veteran; ballroom dancer; traveler; ran with sighted runners; tandem bicyclist; weightlifter; rower; gardener; active in community and professional affairs. ’40 BA—Jeanette Schweckler Simpson (Mrs. Charles C. ’36, BCE ’38) of Locust Valley, NY, July 15, 2017; innovative French language teacher; witnessed the student ’45 BA—Jeanne Treman Shempp of Oakwood, OH, April 25, 2017; volunteer with the revolt in Paris in 1968; avid reader; traveler; active in professional affairs. Red Cross, Millard Fillmore Hospital, Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo, and other groups; art enthusiast; traveler; active in community affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ’41 BA—Ruth Cramer Adelman of Gloversville, NY, May 12, 2017; worked for the NYS Dept. of Labor; avid golfer; bowler; bridge player; active in community and religious ’46—Walter T. Bew Jr. of Linwood, NJ, June 2, 2017; general practitioner; employee affairs. staff physician at Shore Memorial Hospital; veteran; sailor; golfer; boater; gardener; active in professional affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. ’42 BA—Barbara Johnson Earl (Mrs. Richard C. ’43) of Nokomis, FL, April 26, 2017; gourmet cook; traveler; sailor; skilled in needlepoint; avid reader; active in community ’46 BS HE—Dorothy Hotchkiss Haberl (Mrs. Frank J. Jr. ’47) of Golden, CO, May 12, and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta. 2017; investor; property manager; founder of the first women’s ski team at Cornell; president, Cornell Women’s Athletic Assn.; artist; tennis player; skier; hiker; camper; ’42 BA—Barbara Crohurst Howell (Mrs. George B. ’42) of Oak Brook, IL, May 9, 2017; active in community affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta. active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Delta Delta. ’46—Alvah G. Hinz of Olean, NY, May 10, 2017; plant manager at AmericanOlean ’42 BEE—Stanley R. Thorne of Las Vegas, NV, November 7, 2016. Phi Sigma Kappa. Tile Co.; veteran; golfer; alderman, City of Olean; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. ’43, B Chem E ’44—E. Firth Perryman of Webster, NY, May 14, 2017; foods chemist and researcher; retired manager of engineering research at R. T. French Co.; veteran; ’46, BCE ’45—Park L. Metzger Jr. of Orchard Park, NY, June 11, 2017; civil engineer; author of the blog “Reflections of a Nonagenarian”; tennis player; golfer; fly fisherman; president of Metzger Construction Corp. and Aquasan Corp.; boater; hunter; fisherman; birdwatcher; spelunker; camper; literacy volunteer; active in community, professional, sailor; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. religious, and alumni affairs. ’46 BS Hotel—Richard J. Selby of Princeton, TX, formerly of Fox Chapel, PA, June 3, ’44 BA—Doris Coffey Karpuk of South Glastonbury, CT, June 8, 2017; one of the first 2017; certified public accountant, US Steel; tax collector, Fox Chapel Borough; ball female customer service representatives at IBM; fan of UConn women’s basketball; room dancer; jazz aficionado; traveler; active in professional, religious, and alumni active in community and religious affairs. Alpha Omicron Pi. affairs. Zeta Psi. Wife, Betty (Hartman) ’47. ’44 DVM—Anne Gott King (Mrs. William P., DVM ’44) of Hopedale, MA, April 25, 2017; ’46, BA ’49—Robert L. Stutz of Baltimore, MD, November 11, 2016; consultant. Phi veterinarian; coowner, Goubeaud Animal Hospital; dairy farmer; volunteer for Meals Gamma Delta. on Wheels, YMCA, and the local library and schools. Delta Gamma. ’46 BA, PhD ’50—Frederick I. Tsuji of San Diego, CA, May 7, 2016; biochemist and ’44 BME—George R. Michaels of Hamilton, OH, April 22, 2017; coowner, Shelly molecular biologist; expert on the chemistry of light production in animals and plants; Blacktopping; veteran; Rotarian; Kiwanis Club member; golfer; active in community head of the Dept. of Enzymes and Metabolism, Osaka Bioscience Inst.; visiting pro and religious affairs. fessor, Dept. of Protein Crystallography, Inst. for Protein Research, Osaka U.; research biochemist and professor, UC San Diego; research professor, U. of Southern California; ’44—Harold D. Ogburn Jr. of Winnebago, MN, May 19, 2017; farmer; operated Stony director of the biochemistry program at the National Science Foundation; research Creek Dude Ranch; veteran; woodworker; history enthusiast; first chairman of the biochemist, Pittsburgh V.A. Hospital; research assistant, Princeton U.; assis tant Antique Machinery Show; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. professor, Duquesne U.; lover of classical music, literature, and art; studied the history of modern physics; active in professional affairs. ’44, BA ’48—Irving Rappaport of Chevy Chase, MD, April 29, 2017; professor emeri tus of microbiology and immunology, New York Medical College; assistant professor ’47 DVM—Malcolm B. Carsley of Stockton Springs, ME, July 12, 2017; veterinarian; of microbiology, U. of Chicago; research botanist, UCLA; also taught at Bennington volunteer blacksmith at Hancock Shaker Village; rebuilt a 19thcentury farmhouse, College; veteran; author; associate editor of Virology; flute player; sculptor; painter; barns, and landscape; music lover; traveler; skier; active in community and professional photographer; model airplane maker; gardener; bicyclist; skier; amateur astronomer; affairs. Sigma Nu. lover of theater and music; birdwatcher; collector; traveler; active in community and professional affairs. ’47—John S. Halsey of Richmond, VA, May 23, 2017; manager, Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co.; founded a printing and publishing firm; veteran; Sunday school ’45 BME—C. Allan Borchert of Essex, CT, May 5, 2017; president, American Powdered teacher; tennis player; sailor; avid photographer; bridge player; hunter; watercolor Metals; veteran; sailor; active in professional and religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. artist; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Zeta Psi. ’45, BS HE ’44—Barbara Birkland Conger of Warsaw, NY, July 23, 2017; dietitian, ’47, BA ’48—Junerose Kuchler Killian (Mrs. Jimmie W. ’42, PhD ’49) of Port Hueneme, 1 ALUMNI DEATHS CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 CA, formerly of Niantic, CT, January 30, 2017; recipient of the Emily Foster Wells Award player; skier; avid science fiction reader; traveler; active in professional and alumni for her successes as a blind person; camper; hiker; tandem bicyclist; crosscountry affairs. skier; traveler; active in community and alumni affairs. ’49 BA, MS ’51—Albert C. Condo of Newtown Square, PA, April 9, 2017; retired adjunct ’47 BS Hotel—Howard P. King Jr. of Blacksburg, VA, January 20, 2017; director professor; veteran. Theta Xi. emeritus of food services at Virginia Tech; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Pi. ’49 B Chem E—John Cordes Jr. of Queensbury, NY, July 20, 2017; chemical engineer with Imperial/Hercules/CibaGeigy; veteran; sportsman; board member, YMCA; long ’47 BS Ag—Stuart F. Sholes of Auburn, NY, May 27, 2017; owneroperator of Borst distance runner; golfer; gardener; traveler; active in community, professional, religious, Brothers Int’l Harvester dealership; also worked for GLF (now Agway); Kiwanis Club and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma. member; Mason; Boy Scout leader; 4H Club leader; golfer; gardener; genealogist; bridge player; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. ’49 BA—Joseph P. Cosentini of Brooktondale, NY, June 18, 2017; owner, Cosentini Shoe Stores; veteran; youth hockey coach and referee; helped establish the Tompkins ’47, BCE ’46—Malcolm L. Steinberg of Austin, TX, June 18, 2017; engineer for County Girls Hockey Assn.; Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey booster; leader in the economic the Texas Dept. of Transportation; expert on highway construction technique; development of the Commons in downtown Ithaca; active in community and alumni veteran; author; Rotarian; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. affairs. Tau Epsilon Phi. ’49 BCE/JD—Wilbur R. Dameron Jr. of Albuquerque, NM, May 31, 2016; worked for ’47—Anne Whiteside Wynd of Fairport, NY, April 14, 2017. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sandia Labs; veteran; active in professional and alumni affairs. Chi Epsilon. ’48 BA—Lillian Soelle Austin of Chapel Hill, NC, January 28, 2017; Foreign Service ’49—Gene Grayson of Doylestown, PA, May 24, 2017; executive VP and creative officer in Romania and Portugal; also worked