ALUMNI DEATHs

’39 BA, MS ’40—Bettina M. Frost of Haddonfield, NJ, December 21, 2016; active in Wyoming County Community Hospital; 4-H 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 semi-pro 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 American-Olean ’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; co-owner, 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; co-owner, 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.; assis­tant 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 19th-century 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; cross-country 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/Ciba-Geigy; veteran; sportsman; board member, YMCA; long- ’47 BS Ag—Stuart F. Sholes of Auburn, NY, May 27, 2017; owner-operator 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; 4-H 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 at the Food and Agricultural Organization director in the advertising industry; worked at Ogilvy & Mather; veteran; poker player; in Rome and the State Dept. Medical Office; substitute teacher; member, Daughters collector of early American antiques; furniture restorer; rare book collector; active in of the American Revolution; traveler; genealogist; active in community, professional, community and professional affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Kappa. ’49, BEE ’50—Richard T. Guilbert of Hilton Head, SC, January 1, 2017; worked in the ’48, BA ’50—Benjamin Berman of New York City, May 6, 2017; president, Chesterfield computer industry; founder of Fundmark; choir singer; tennis player. Jewelers; lover of the arts; avid reader of fiction and newspapers. Tau Delta Phi. ’49 BS Nurs—Cecily Silver Gutter of Willow Street, PA, April 30, 2017; registered ’48 BA—Audrey Werksman Bloch of New York City, August 18, 2016. Alpha Epsilon nurse; lover of classical music; birdwatcher; lifelong learner. Phi. ’49—Richard S. Hammond of Homer, NY, June 13, 2017; electrical engineer; worked ’48 MD—Milton Cooper of Easton, CT, April 29, 2017; chief of hematology and chief for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs. of internal medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital; associate clinical professor at Yale; clinical researcher at the Mayo Clinic; veteran; active in professional affairs. ’49 BS Ag—Carman B. Hill of Ithaca, NY, January 18, 2017; insurance agent for Mass Mutual Insurance Co.; veteran; Rotarian; former chairman, Ithaca City Board of ’48 BA—Hyla Brodkin Garlen (Mrs. David ’49) of Clearwater, FL, formerly of Summit, Education; helped start Planned Parenthood of Tompkins County; founder, Ithaca NJ, May 5, 2017; school psychologist; author; avid reader; volunteered for CASA and Memorial Society; gardener; tennis player; rower; active in civic, community, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; active in community and alumni affairs. professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. Wife, Sandra (Wager), MS Ag ’77.

’48 BS HE—Mary Lou Anderson Mason of Skaneateles, NY, formerly of Homer, NY, ’49, BS Hotel ’50—Robert K. Lewis of Loudon, TN, June 29, 2017; hotelier in Canada, April 29, 2017; secretary, VP, and president of the SUNY Cortland Development Europe, and the Middle East; built a factory in Saudi Arabia; veteran; had two private Foundation; managed her husband’s medical office; home service representative, audiences with the Emperor of Ethiopia; active in professional and alumni affairs. Pennsylvania Gas Co.; produced and appeared in cooking shows; author; high school Sigma Chi. teacher; co-founder, Landmark Society of Homer; first woman trustee of Homer, NY; Cub Scout leader; religious education instructor; bridge player; crossword puzzle ’49 BEE—Stephen B. Profilet of Winona, MN, June 14, 2017; retired US Navy officer; enthusiast; traveler; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni director of engineering, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission; choir singer; affairs. Delta Gamma. barbershop singer; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Tau Beta Pi.

’48 BS Nurs—Clare Simpson Passailaigue of Sunnyvale, CA, March 22, 2017; nurse. ’50 BEE—James H. Chu of Jamesville, NY, October 25, 2016; electrical engineer; worked as part of General Electric’s Heavy Military Electronics Dept.; contributed to ’48 BEE—Robert W. Persons Jr. of Port Washington, NY, July 18, 2017; retired the US space program and military defense systems; veteran; fisherman; square professional forensic engineer; veteran; longtime class correspondent for the Class dancer; crossword puzzle enthusiast; swimmer; bowler; traveler; active in community of 1948; commissioner, Port Washington Police Dept.; board member, Community and professional affairs. Tau Beta Pi. Chest; Cub Scout Master; built a model of the 1799 US Navy frigate Essex, which was donated to the US Naval Academy; also built model cars and airplanes; sailor; active ’50 BS HE—Berta Hall Chupp (Mrs. Frank M. ’50, JD ’53) of Binghamton, NY, June 5, in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. 2017; librarian; Girl Scout leader; member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; choral singer; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. ’48 BA—Viola Mowry Storer (Mrs. James E. ’48, BA ’47) of Winchester, MA, July 15, 2017; chemist, National Research Corp.; restored a historic farmhouse; active in ’50 MA, PhD ’54—Marvin G. Cline of Wolfesboro, NH, July 3, 2017; taught at Virginia community, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Kappa. Tech, ABT Assocs., Boston U., Howard U., U. of Maryland, U. of Pittsburgh, and Wells College; expert on the process of skill acquisition among medical students, perception ’48 BS HE—Barbara Tarrant Wiggans of Dallas, TX, June 28, 2017; former YWCA theory, and national education policy; studied the Head Start program; veteran; active program director, U. of Illinois; president, Bethlehem Center and Church Women in community and professional affairs. United; delegate, North Texas Conference, United Methodist Church; Sunday school teacher; participated in mission trips; active in community and religious affairs. ’50 BS Ag—Calvin C. Cooper of Southbury, CT, May 6, 2017; marketing manager in the plastics division of Union Carbide; worked on the early use of plastic sheeting in ’49 BCE, MCE ’57—Paul T. Carver of West Hartford, CT, April 30, 2017; civil engineer, agriculture, erosion control, and food packaging, and for freezing blood donations; the Maguire Group; veteran; model train collector and historian; photographer; bridge veteran; gardener; baker; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

2 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 ’50 MS HE—Viletta L. Haddal of Lincoln, NE, June 26, 2017; taught at U. of Nebraska ’51 MBA—Henry P. Mueller of Clifton Park, NY, June 15, 2017; accountant at General and South Dakota State U. Electric; veteran; Shriner; Mason; Rotarian; jazz aficionado; traveler; active in community affairs. ’50 BS Nurs—Eileen M. Jeck (Mrs. Howard S., MD ’45) of Indianapolis, IN, April 23, 2017; retired nurse; Camp Fire Girl leader; museum volunteer; author; traveler; active ’51, BEP ’50, PhD ’58—Victor K. Pare of Oberlin, OH, June 17, 2017; retired physicist in community affairs. in the solid state division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; researched nuclear fusion and experimental nuclear reactor design; author; active in professional affairs. Tau ’50 BA—R. Channing Johnson of Sun City, AZ, March 17, 2016; senior scientist in Beta Pi. Wife, Diantha (Francis) ’50. the areas of energy and the environment; Episcopal priest; prison chaplain at Attica; college chaplain, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; author; active in religious affairs. ’51 DVM—Arthur M. Underwood of King Ferry, NY, April 28, 2017; veterinarian. Alpha Chi Sigma. ’51—Newell L. Willcox Jr. of Homer, NY, May 26, 2017; owner, Willcox Tire; veteran; ’50 BA, PhD ’54—James N. Layne of Lake Placid, FL, June 10, 2017; senior research Cortland County legislator; president, Homer School Board; Rotarian; outdoorsman; biologist emeritus and former executive director, Archbold Biological Station; professor hunter; birdwatcher; gardener; fisherman; sailor; antiques enthusiast; traveler; active of zoology at Florida Atlantic U., U. of South Florida, Cornell U., U. of Florida, and in civic and community affairs. Southern Illinois U.; expert in mammalogy and Florida birds of prey; veteran; active in professional affairs. ’52, BME ’53—L. Jack Bradt of Bethlehem, PA, May 7, 2017; founder, president, and CEO of Si Handling Systems; entrepreneur in residence at Lehigh U.; executive in ’50 BME—Earle P. Merritt Jr. of West Barnstable, MA, June 9, 2017; mechanical residence, Cornell U.; veteran; director of human services, Northampton County; engineer; deputy base engineer, Otis Air Force Base; also worked for Ford, Bacon and president, Easton Area Council of Churches and of United Way of Northampton; helped Davis engineering firm, and Phillips Petroleum; veteran; Civil War scholar; avid birder; establish Hamilton Business Center and the Executive Service Corps of Lehigh Valley; meteorologist; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. bicyclist; sailor; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Chi Psi. Wife, Patricia (Thornton) ’52. ’50 BA—Armand M. Nicholi Jr. of Concord, MA, June 22, 2017; professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; author; ’52 BS HE—Florence Swenk Britting (Mrs. John C. ’49, JD ’53) of Geneva, NY, May wrote The Question of God, which was made into a four-part PBS series and a two- 12, 2017; president, Phelps Community Library Board; VP, Phelps Art Center; avid man off-Broadway show called “Freud’s Last Session”; editor; special consultant for reader; flower arranger; seamstress; painter; cook; baker; gardener; music lover; the New England Patriots; active in community and professional affairs. active in community, religious, and alumni affairs.

’50 DVM—Malcolm C. Peckham of Freeville, NY, June 22, 2017; veterinarian; ’52 BA—Arthur H. Diamond of Oviedo, FL, April 26, 2017; specialist on the New York professor of avian medicine, Cornell U.; veteran; author; photographer; birder; Stock Exchange; economic consultant, Fishkind & Assocs.; veteran; pianist who per­ gardener; tennis player; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha Zeta. formed at Carnegie Hall; active in professional affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

’50 MS—Harry J. Scheifele Jr. of Altadena, CA, June 25, 2017; worked for Rohm and ’52 BS ILR—John W. Harrington Jr. of White Plains, NY, May 14, 2017; VP of sales Haas Co. (now Dow); sailor; avid reader; skier; dancer; volunteer; traveler. Alpha Chi and certified life underwriter for the Travelers and Swiss Reinsurance companies; Sigma. veteran; president, White Plains Historical Society; founder, the Jack Harrington Greenway Walking Trail; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. ’50 DVM—Norman Simon of Burlington, MA, March 10, 2017; veterinarian; veteran; volunteer at Blythedale Children’s Hospital; board member and former president, ’52 BA—Elden B. Hartshorn of Oxford, MD, July 27, 2017; regional VP, Merrill Lynch Greenburgh Nature Center. Realty; salesman, Foote Mineral Co.; veteran; sailor; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. Wife, Barbara (Antrim) ’52. ’50 BME—Roger K. Whitney of Pocono Pines, PA, June 18, 2017; mechanical engineer; senior associate in product and application engineering at Corning Inc.; ’52—Kenneth E. Klossner of Batavia, NY, May 19, 2017; founder and broker, Klossner helped develop the liquid crystal display for televisions; veteran; charter member of Real Estate; dairy farmer; active in religious affairs. Cayuga’s Waiters; traveler; woodworker; skier; fisherman; Lions Club member; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Tau Beta Pi. ’52 BME—Michael J. Mazzarella of Ewing, NJ, October 23, 2016; mechanical engineer; worked for Delaval Transamerica Co.; veteran; sportsman; boater; fisherman; ’51 BS Ag—Charles R. Bales of Erie, PA, June 7, 2017; plastic and general surgeon; bowler; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. chief of plastic surgery, Hamot Medical Center; chief resident in general surgery, Highland Hospital; staff surgeon, Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti; also worked for ’52 BA—John C. Noonan of Mt. Pleasant, SC, July 22, 2017; trial attorney; veteran; the Burn Unit at SUNY Upstate; St. Vincent Hospital, Northwest Pennsylvania Cleft golfer; sailor; avid reader; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Psi Palate Inst., Shriners Hospitals for Children, and the Erie V.A. Medical Center; served Upsilon. on the medical ship Hope; scuba diver; boater; ice diver; horticulturist; active in community and professional affairs. Phi Kappa Tau. ’52 BA—Claire Schehr Ryan of Northport, NY, June 9, 2017; anesthesiologist at Long Island Jewish and Southside hospitals; swimmer; gardener; orchid aficionado; active ’51, BS ILR ’52—William K. Browne of Lawrence, KS, October 26, 2016; active in in alumni affairs. Delta Delta Delta. alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha. Wife, Jean (Smith) ’46, BS HE ’47. ’52 BS Ag—Larry F. Slawson of Farmingdale, NJ, July 29, 2017; project manager, US ’51 BA—John P. Chupp of Kirkwood, MO, July 22, 2017; senior chemist at Monsanto; Army Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth; veteran; councilman, Borough of patent holder; gardener; avid reader; card player; moviegoer; cook; classical music Farmingdale; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Cayuga Lodge. lover; traveler; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’52 BME—Robert S. Stahr of Leavenworth, WA, June 16, 2017; mechanical engineer; ’51 BA—Dorothy DeAngelis Dharni of Raleigh, NC, June 5, 2017; English teacher, worked for General Electric, American Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Rolls Royce airplane English Dept. supervisor, dean of women, and assistant principal at Columbia High engine division, and United Airlines; tennis player; choir singer; volunteer at Seattle School; also taught English at Montclair State U.; active in community and professional Children’s Hospital; docent, Boeing Field Museum of Flight; Rotarian; sailor; active in affairs. Kappa Delta Epsilon. community, professional, and religious affairs. Triangle.

’51 BS Ag—Allen B. Honeywell of Westtown, NY, August 22, 2016; veteran. Alpha ’52 BA, MD ’56—Joan Nesmith Tillotson of Fargo, ND, May 29, 2017; lead physician Chi Rho. for Student Health Services at North Dakota State U.; pharmaceutical consultant;

3 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 tennis player; resettled Sudanese refugees; supporter of the arts; traveler; active in for World Tennis Magazine; author; tennis player and coach; genealogist; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. community and professional affairs.

’53 BS Ag—Martha Trever Connor (Mrs. Paul F. ’50, MS ’52) of Cresskill, NJ, April ’54—John F. Feist of Bristol, NH, March 23, 2014; retired lieutenant colonel, US Air 9, 2017. Force; construction supervisor, TIDE Construction; also worked for Sandy Beach Construction Co. and John Feist Construction Co.; recipient of the Bronze Star; lover ’53 MA—Jane Diehl Crawford of Ithaca, NY, July 23, 2017; taught at Ithaca High of classical music and the arts; sailor; pilot; traveler; active in professional affairs. School and Ithaca College; associate director of health careers at Cornell; author; Delta Phi. published an adult literacy book aimed at prison populations; active in community and professional affairs. ’54 BS Ag—Lewis J. Galbreath of Gadsden, AL, May 12, 2017; worked for GTE Sylvania; veteran; Rotarian; helped found Genesee Community College; active in ’53 BS ILR—Jack Golodner of Washington, DC, May 13, 2017; former director of the community and religious affairs. Phi Gamma Delta. Wife, Patricia (Ferris) ’56. AFL-CIO’s department for professional employees; managed a law firm that specialized in arbitration; board member, National Theatre; active in community, professional, ’54 MME—James F. Hamilton of Lafayette, IN, June 9, 2017; professor emeritus of and alumni affairs. mechanical engineering, Purdue U.; also taught at Cornell, West Virginia U., and the Naval Postgraduate School; researcher at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; veteran; ’53 BS HE—Sallie Smith Goodell of Davis, CA, April 13, 2017; avid reader; gardener; avid reader of science fiction and history; stained glass artist; active in community traveler; musicals enthusiast; active in community affairs. Pi Beta Phi. and professional affairs.

’53, B Chem E ’54—Robert H. Morrow of Medford, NJ, March 10, 2017; chemical ’54 BA, MBA ’58—Donald M. Hertan of Waretown, NJ, June 11, 2017; certified public engineer at DuPont; veteran; Scoutmaster; camper; tennis player; sailor; golfer; accountant; veteran. Tau Delta Phi. gardener; lover of classical music; trombonist; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ’54, BCE ’55—Michael Miruski of Oklahoma City, OK, April 29, 2017; civil engineer; VP, Smart Technologies; facilities manager for DuPont, General Electric, Honeywell, ’53 BS Ag—Joseph H. Pinchbeck of Beaufort, SC, June 22, 2017; florist, Pinchbeck Control Data, Magnetic Peripherals, and Seagate Technologies; adjunct professor, Brothers Florist and Nursery; taught adult education courses; veteran; history Oklahoma City U.; veteran; Bronze Life Master bridge player; audiophile; sports enthusiast; restored antique tractors. Alpha Chi Rho. enthusiast; active in community and professional affairs.

’53, BArch ’54—Robert A. Spillman of Bethlehem, PA, May 1, 2017; architect; ’54, BCE ’55, MBA ’59—Duane R. Nice of Kennett Square, PA, December 31, 2016; president of Spillman Farmer Architects; legal witness on architectural matters; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Chi Rho. veteran; VP of Lehigh Valley Industrial Park; trustee, Laros Foundation; climber; sailor; marathon runner; carried the Olympic Torch for part of its journey to Atlanta in 1996; ’54 BA—Sheila McMullen Ready (Mrs. Robert C. ’53) of Madison, WI, formerly of active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Chi. Wife, Palmetto Bay, FL, May 6, 2017; volunteer tax preparer; tennis player; golfer; swimmer; Cidney (Brandon) ’56. bridge player; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Delta Delta.

’53 BS Ag, JD ’61—William C. Taylor, Scottsdale, AZ, June 1, 2017; attorney; veteran; ’54 BA, LLB ’58—Vincent S. Rospond of Maplewood, NJ, July 6, 2017; attorney; senior pilot; scuba diver; sailor. Phi Gamma Delta. partner, Rospond Rospond & Conte; general counsel and director, American Savings Bank of New Jersey; veteran; councilman; president of the local United Way; patron ’53 BA, LLB ’56—Richard B. Thaler of Lansing, NY, May 27, 2017; attorney; senior of the arts; traveler; artist; cartoonist; active in community, professional, and alumni partner, Thaler & Thaler; Ithaca City prosecutor; Tompkins County district attorney; affairs. Kappa Sigma. established the Tompkins County Youth Court; real estate developer; opened the Triphammer Mall and the Sheraton Ithaca; adjunct professor, Cornell Hotel school and ’54 DVM—Herbert F. Schryver of Ithaca, NY, June 26, 2017; veterinarian. the Johnson School; veteran; traveler; skier; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Chi. ’54 BS Ag—Russell M. Skelton Jr. of Fort Lauderdale, FL, February 15, 2017.

’53 BS Ag—Roland W. Thomas of Lowman, NY, May 13, 2016. ’55, BS ILR ’58—Donald C. Cantone of Poughkeepsie, NY, June 27, 2017; quality control supervisor for hardware analytics and liability assessment, IBM; veteran; ’54, BME ’55—Donald L. Berg of Chapel Hill, NC, March 6, 2017; mechanical engineer; sports umpire and referee; active in community and professional affairs. Lambda Chi VP and general manager, Canada, and general manager of European facilities for Borg Alpha. Warner; nuclear mechanical consultant; volunteer in Guatemala, Peru, India, Panama, and Australia; birder; gardener; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’55 MS—Horton K. Durfee of Ithaca, NY, May 20, 2017; taught science at Berkshire Alpha Delta Phi. Community College, Emma Willard School, Taft School, and Darrow School; also worked at the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station; veteran; history enthusiast; ’54, BCE ’55—Rockne E. Burns of Cape Vincent, NY, May 7, 2017; civil engineer; VP, classical music lover; flute player; lyrical tenor; volunteer ambulance driver; railroad S. J. Groves and Sons Construction Co.; president and owner, Tuscarora Construction enthusiast; environmentalist; gardener; beekeeper; avid reader; active in community, Co., Willow Shores Corp., and R. E. Burns & Sons Co.; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. professional, and religious affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha. ’55 BS Ag—Helene Gellen Fried of Atherton, CA, June 21, 2017; bicyclist; swimmer; ’54, BME ’55—Clinton T. Cooper of Jacksonville, FL, July 6, 2017; engineer; owner, gardener; traveler; active in alumni affairs. Husband, John H. Fried ’51, PhD ’55. Cooper Industries and Safe-T-Way Manufacturing; Rotarian; active in religious and alumni affairs. Delta Chi. ’55 BA—Peter R. Haje of New York City, July 2, 2017; attorney; director, Time Warner Cable; executive VP and general counsel, Time Warner Inc.; partner in the international ’54 BS Ag—Richard H. Cooper of Moorestown, NJ, June 4, 2017; stockbroker; co- law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; private investor; independent founder, Moorestown Antique Show; veteran; active in community and religious affairs. legal and business advisor; veteran; author; active in community, professional, and Sigma Pi. alumni affairs.

’54 BA—Robert W. Dealy of Stanardsville, VA, May 7, 2017; taught history at the ’55 DVM—David E. Harling of Greensboro, NC, June 11, 2017; veterinarian; owner, Browning School, Brooklyn Polytechnic School, and Sacred Heart School; sportswriter Battleground Veterinary Hospital; clinician, Reidsville Veterinary Hospital; adjunct

4 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 assistant professor, NC State College of Veterinary Medicine; veteran; Rotarian; active activist; took part in the Women’s Caravan to Central America in 1989; played early in community, professional, and alumni affairs. music on period instruments; gardener; potter; active in civic and community affairs.

’55, BA ’56—Paul E. Klein of White Plains, NY, May 18, 2017; attorney; tax advisor. ’56 BS ILR—William J. Purdy of Charlton, NY, July 22, 2017; president, Welbourne & Purdy Realty; special education teacher; football coach; guidance counselor; school ’55 PhD—Alexandra Botwinik Lederer of Sausalito, CA, June 10, 2017; psycho­ psychologist; assistant lacrosse coach at Union College; basketball player; tennis therapist; teacher; associate clinical professor, UC San Francisco; lover of the arts; player; golfer; pickleball player; active in community and professional affairs. Theta voracious reader; traveler; active in community and professional affairs. Xi. Wife, Jean (Bufe) ’56.

’55 BA—Anne Morrissy Merick of Waynesville, NC, May 2, 2017; television field ’56 BA—David S. Stotz of Charlotte, NC, August 2, 2016; research chemist at DuPont; producer, ABC News; covered the civil rights movement, presidential primaries, expert in the reclamation and recycling of waste polyester; golfer; jazz aficionado; spaceflights, and the Vietnam War; persuaded the Pentagon to reverse the restriction active in professional affairs. Chi Phi. against women reporters from covering combat during the Vietnam War; first woman to be named sports editor of the Cornell Daily Sun; first woman admitted to the press ’56 BA—Esther Klein Willison of Scotia, NY, May 28, 2017; founder and teacher in box of the Yale Bowl; sports editor, Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; the Open School, a public alternative school; literary specialist, Howe School; author; active in professional and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta. facilitator, Schenectady Citizen’s Improvisational Teen Theatre; also worked at the Clover Patch Camp for children and adults with developmental and physical disabilities; ’55, BA ’56, MBA ’57—David B. Perskie of Tenafly, NJ, June 25, 2017; entrepreneur; also worked at the Open Door Bookstore; author; poet; civil rights advocate; sculptor; worked in the graphic arts industry; painter; patron of the arts; golfer; active in played mandolin, violin, and recorder; opera lover; tennis player; swimmer; kayaker; community and alumni affairs. Wife, Flora (Weinstein) ’57. bicyclist; traveler; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’55, BArch ’61—Karl H. Wendt of Cortland, NY, July 21, 2017; architect; worked on ’57 MD—William C. Black of Hackensack, NJ, April 25, 2017; internist and such buildings as Ithaca Gun, Kelly’s Reef, Agway, Guthcess Lumber, and the NYS nephrologist; served 45 years at Hackensack U. Medical Center in various positions, Grange Building; expert in ADA accessibility for New York State; veteran; Rotarian; including chief of renal hypertension, chair of medical education, chair of research, fisherman; traveler; active in community and professional affairs. and senior VP of medical administrative affairs; established Bergen County, NJ’s first renal dialysis unit; clinical associate professor of medicine, New Jersey College of ’56 BS Ag—Peter Albersheim of Athens, GA, July 1, 2017; professor emeritus of Medicine and Dentistry; officer, US Public Health Service; instructor in medicine, biochemistry, U. of Georgia; co-founder, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Tulane U. Medical School; president, Nephrology Society of New Jersey; opera lover; UGA; co-director, Center for Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates, and the avid reader of mystery novels; active in professional and religious affairs. Resource Center for Biomedical Complex Carbohydrates; former professor of biochemistry at U. of Colorado, Boulder; active in civic, community, and professional ’57 BS Ag—Eleanor Ramp Campbell of Rockbridge Baths, VA, September 8, 2016. affairs. ’57 BS Ag—Philip C. Griffen of McCormick, SC, formerly of Quaker Springs, NY, May ’56 BA—Robert E. Day Jr. of Silver Spring, MD, June 24, 2017; career diplomat, US 29, 2017; dairy farmer; founder, Saratoga Sod Farm; volunteer fireman; active in civic, State Dept.; helped create the Organization for Anacostia Rowing and Sculling, a youth community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho. rowing program; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi. Wife, Diana (Motycka) ’56. ’57 MS—Peter S. Helming of Garden City, ID, July 3, 2017; VP of technical services/ agriculture, and VP of operations at Ore-Ida Foods; also worked for Gray & Co.; traveler; ’56 BS Ag—Robert W. Dorrance Jr. of Herkimer, NY, April 26, 2017; professor emeritus avid reader; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. and chair of the mathematics and science division, Herkimer County Community College; also taught at Colgate U., Cazenovia High School, and Ockawamick Central ’57 MS HE—Barbara Wilcox Johnson of Phoenix, AZ, April 8, 2017; county home School; director, National Audubon Ecology Camp and Hog Island Audubon Camp; agent, U. of Arizona; teacher, Glendale Elementary School; active in religious affairs. received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; cross country skier; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho. ’57 BA—Robert B. Kinkead of Round Lake, NY, June 20, 2017; planner, Los Angeles County; veteran; historical and miniature gamer; figurine collector; oil painter. ’56 MBA—Roger J. Evans Jr. of Walnut Creek, CA, June 1, 2017; manufacturing manager for Memorex, Hexcel, McKinsey & Co., and TRW; consultant; veteran; choir ’57, BCE ’58, MBA ’59—Phillip H. Kneen of Orchard Lake, MI, May 30, 2017; worked singer; Boy Scout leader; classic car enthusiast; docent, Blackhawk Auto Museum; in construction management for Whiting Turner, the Austin Co., Walbridge Aldinger, woodworker; active in community and professional affairs. and Broad, Vogt and Conant; consultant; avid golfer; lover of classical music; singer; traveler; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon. ’56 BA—Edgar R. Galli of Winchester, MA, June 22, 2017; editor in the plastics industry; crossword puzzle writer for Harper’s Magazine; pianist; golfer; hockey fan; ’57—John A. Lanty, Johnson City, TX, formerly of San Antonio, TX, December 18, active in alumni affairs. 2013; managed motels for Motel 6; salesman, Wehring-Goss Equipment Sales; salesman, Case Equipment Sales; dairy farmer; horseman; hunter; marksman; active ’56 JD—Geoffrey A. Hampton of Utica, NY, May 22, 2017; attorney; Rotarian; artist; in professional affairs. choir singer; pianist; sportsman; golfer; tennis player; skier; traveler; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’57 DVM—Robert A. Moore of Mashpee, MA, February 5, 2017; veterinarian; founder, Walden Animal Clinic; prison ministry volunteer; skier; sailor; golfer; runner; active in ’56 BS Ag—Leon F. Hart of Poughkeepsie, NY, July 4, 2017; member of the interracial professional and religious affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. Chester Repertory Theatre; veteran; civil rights activist; music lover; crossword puzzle solver; cat lover; fan of old movies; active in civic and community affairs. ’57 EdD—Jerry A. Shannon Jr. of Oneonta, NY, May 30, 2017; professor emeritus and chair of science education, SUNY Oneonta; also taught at Wisconsin State U., ’56 DVM—John D. Howe of St. George, UT, formerly of Santa Maria, CA, May 13, Iowa State Teachers College, and at high schools in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana, 2017; veterinarian; veteran; horseman; outdoorsman. and New York; veteran; active in community and professional affairs.

’56 BA—James E. Jensen of Schenectady, NY, December 4, 2016. ’57 BS Ag—Milton E. Skiff of Potsdam, NY, July 9, 2017; president and CEO, First National Bank of Lisbon; Presbyterian minister; farmer; outdoorsman; avid reader; ’56 BA—Nina Neubeiser Murano of Vashon, WA, April 30, 2017; teacher; political history enthusiast.

5 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 ’57 BS HE—Edna Carroll Skoog of Springfield, IL, June 25, 2017; real estate broker; 2017; president, Digital Prep and Perfect Image; executive VP, Wallace Steel; president, genealogist; bridge player; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Alpha Phi. Bergen Wire Rope; veteran; Mason; member of the Wretched Excess Society; sailor; master chef; hiker; winter mountain climber; bicyclist; ham radio operator; pilot; model ’57 BS Ag—James R. Taylor Jr. of Alexandria, VA, April 25, 2017; senior economist, airplane builder; deep-sea diver; classical guitarist; billiards champion; photographer; Inter-American Development Bank; professor of economics, New Mexico State U.; stock car racer; Porsche enthusiast; kayaker; woodworker; wine connoisseur; skier; veteran; court appointed special advocate; dance enthusiast; active in community hunter; fisherman; trap and skeet shooter; active in community, professional, and and professional affairs. religious affairs.

’57, BME ’58—Ewing S. Walker of Peekskill, NY, July 12, 2017; computer contractor ’59 BA—Leonard Gerstein of Scotts Valley, CA, May 9, 2017; orthopedic surgeon; at Pfizer, American Airlines, and other companies; horse racing enthusiast; owned veteran; volunteer at California Children’s Services Clinic; columnist; sculptor; wood four race horses; bridge player; tennis and paddle ball player; amateur historian. Alpha carver; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi. Tau Omega. ’59—Joseph B. Kent of Cambridge, NY, April 30, 2017; owner, Joseph B. Kent Inc. ’57 BA, MD ’61—Martin S. Wolfe of Washington, DC, June 15, 2017; specialist in garbage collection business; raised Charolais beef cattle; veteran. tropical diseases and travel medicine; founder, Traveler’s Medical Service; also trained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; accompanied Secretary of ’59 MS—Audrey Melkowits Kravarik of Naples, FL, April 18, 2017; retired teacher, State Henry Kissinger as his personal physician in the 1970s; medical officer, US Newark Public Schools; seamstress; knitter; baker; traveler; collected Civil War era State Dept., the World Bank, and the Peace Corps; taught tropical medicine and Colt guns; fan of opera, theatre, and ballet; active in community and religious affairs. parasitology at Georgetown U. and George Washington U.; author; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. ’59 DVM—John C. Meyer of Silver Spring, MD, June 22, 2017; veterinarian; veteran. Pi Kappa Phi. ’58, BME ’59—Adin B. Capron Jr. of Seneca, SC, April 29, 2017; mechanical engineer in the steel industry; veteran. Psi Upsilon. Wife, Ann (Campbell) ’60, BArch ’61. ’59 BS HE—Ellen Deger Michel (Mrs. Robert F. ’56) of Suffolk, VA, May 14, 2017; executive secretary, Norfolk Rotary Club; hostess; cook; active in community and ’58 JD—John W. Fulreader of Victor, NY, May 27, 2017; attorney. alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma.

’58 BA—Charles D. Gerson of New York City, May 21, 2017; gastroenterologist and ’59 MBA—Allan C. Robinson Jr. of Roanoke, VA, May 5, 2017; executive, Kroger Co.; research physician; clinical professor and chief of the gastroenterology clinic at Mount veteran; carpenter; genealogist; active in community and religious affairs. Sinai; Peace Corps doctor in Nigeria; author; traveler; avid reader; nature lover; active in community and professional affairs. Beta Sigma Rho. Wife, Mary-Joan ’59, BArch ’60—Wilbur L. Woods of New York City, May 21, 2017; former director of (Wirklich) ’61. City Planning for State Island and Brooklyn, and head of the NYC Waterfront Open Space division; taught planning at Pratt Inst. and Hunter College; active in civic, pro­ ’58 BS Ag—Peter M. Grehlinger of Glassboro, NJ, June 14, 2017; retired from Bayer; fessional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi. veteran; member of the Glassboro Environmental Commission; soccer coach; active in community affairs. ’60 MS HE—Louise Archbold Bjorklund of Madison, WI, May 6, 2017; journalist; assistant professor, U. of Wisconsin; teacher; edited Bob’s Wisconsin Dairy Friends; ’58 BA—Audrey Greenberg Landau of Lawrence, NY, June 1, 2017; active in alumni collected her husband’s lifework as farm editor of the Wisconsin State Journal; worked affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi. Husband, Morton E. Landau ’56, BA ’57. on a doctorate in economics; hosted local radio programs; skier; sailor; swimmer; canoeist; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’58—John R. McGregor of Fishers, IN, December 12, 2014. Delta Chi. ’60 BA—James F. Dowd of Dowagiac, MI, November 21, 2016; Presbyterian pastor; ’58, BEP ’59—William R. Powell of São Paulo, Brazil, October 1, 2016. Acacia. active in religious affairs. Chi Psi. Wife, Elizabeth (Abraham) ’60.

’58 BA—Donna P. Smith, Worthing, England, January 1, 2017. ’60 BME—Albert O. Foster of Spring Park, MN, May 22, 2017; CEO of Cir-Tec and American Plastic Exchange; broker at Dean Witter; avid sailor; hunter; active in ’58, BA ’59—Lois Bates Walnut of Swampscott, MA, May 22, 2017; research scientist, community, professional, and religious affairs. Theta Delta Chi. Parke Davis Pharmaceuticals; skier; mountaineer; Girl Scout leader; singer; avid reader; music lover; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. ’60, BS Nurs ’61—Faith L. Etoll Gill of Duxbury, MA, February 18, 2017. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ’59 BS Ag—Dale F. Burrell of Holley, NY, May 22, 2017; retired from SUNY Brockport; commissioner, Boy Scout Troop 111; RVer; sailor; fast car enthusiast; traveler; active ’60 BA—Moritz J. Gluck of Merrick, NY, July 19, 2013; oral and maxillofacial surgeon. in community and alumni affairs. Beta Sigma Rho.

’59 MS—Clarence K. Davis of Clinton, NY, July 13, 2017; civilian Air Force employee; ’60 MS HE—Joan Broadcorens Marsh of Dennis, MA, May 27, 2017; professor of food expert in high altitude photographic engineering; veteran; sports fan; gardener; and nutrition, Framingham State U.; patron of the arts; Red Sox fan. arborist; dog lover; genealogist; bridge and cribbage player. ’60 BS Ag—Frederick A. Meyer of Fair Oaks, CA, July 14, 2017; fisheries biologist, ’59 BS Ag—Joseph B. Donahoe of Penn Yan, NY, July 20, 2017; county agent, Cornell California Dept. of Fish and Game; hunter; fisherman; birder; gardener. Cooperative Extension; driver for Coach & Equipment; Kiwanis Club member; New York Mets fan; active in professional and religious affairs. ’60 BS Ag—Judy K. Morgan of Tampa, FL, August 11, 2016.

’59 BA—Eric J. Eisenklam of Old Orchard Beach, ME, July 23, 2017; pediatrician; ’60, BEE ’61—Thomas J. Moutoux of Cupertino, CA, April 18, 2017; partner in Com­ practiced at Medical Assocs., Harvard Vanguard, and Lowell Community Health Center; munications Transistor Corp.; also worked at Fairchild Semiconductor and Transitron; expert in treating lead poisoning; veteran; painter; sculptor; classic car enthusiast; developed a shutoff system for recycled water; studied the effects of chemical runoff opera lover; animal lover; bred Basset hounds and Saint Bernards; played the French from farms in California’s Central Valley; member, Creative Initiative Foundation; horn and banjo; traveler; active in community and professional affairs. Beta Sigma Rho. activist with Beyond War; environmentalist; served with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory and the Peninsula Open Space Trust; author; active in civic, community, ’59, MBA ’72—Norman I. Freedman of Naples, FL, formerly of Ithaca, NY, July 2, and professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Wife, Marianne (Brindley) ’62.

6 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 ’60 BA—Richard D. Yellen of Amherst, NY, July 1, 2017; attorney; special counsel, ’62 MS—Charles S. Lin of Hong Kong, October 7, 2016; senior engineer/scientist. Damon Morey LLP; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. Wife, Loretta (Krieger) ’62. ’62 BA—L. Wardlaw Miles of Brookfield, CT, July 17, 2017; pilot for Trans World Airlines; ’60 BA—Ronald L. Young of Houston, TX, May 7, 2017; director of gynecology and veteran; poker player; sailor; active in alumni affairs. Chi Phi. infertility, Baylor College of Medicine; helped establish the Baylor Menopause Center; avid reader; storyteller; sports fan; football player; excelled at the hammer throw; ’62 BS HE—Mary Lou Collins Miller of Falls Church, VA, May 24, 2017; minister of active in professional affairs. religious education, St. Anthony Catholic Church; adult education coordinator, Fairfax County, VA; active in religious affairs. Husband, Clyde A. Miller ’61, BEE ’62, ’61 MS—Bernice M. Belshaw of Newcastle, WA, April 23, 2017; 4-H agent, King MEE ’63. County Cooperative Extension; foster parent; traveler; baker; cook; seamstress; quilter; dollhouse maker; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’62 BS ILR—Victoria Custer Slater (Mrs. Peter G. ’62) of Ossining, NY, January 1, 2015; social worker; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. ’61 BA—Chana Faerstein Bloch of Berkeley, CA, May 19, 2017; published poet; trans­ lator of contemporary Hebrew poets Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch; professor ’62 MS—Richard S. Stark of Prosser, WA, May 28, 2017; project entomologist, and director of the creative writing program at Mills College; taught English at Hebrew Washington State Dept. of Agriculture; biology and astronomy instructor, Heritage U. in Jerusalem; worked for social justice; active in professional affairs. College; adjunct faculty member, Yakima Valley Community College and Columbia Basin College; member of the Planetary Society; took part in geological expeditions ’61 PhD—Donald J. Burton of Iowa City, IA, May 31, 2017; professor emeritus of to Belize and Italy; avid science fiction reader; opera lover; percussionist, Mid- chemistry, U. of Iowa; expert on organic fluorine chemistry; author; recipient of a Columbia Symphony, Columbia Basin College Concert Band, and the Inland Northwest Special Creativity Award from the Nat’l Science Foundation and the American Chemical Orchestra; performed at the Washington East Opera, Richland Light Opera, and Valley Society Award; golfer; active in professional affairs. Theatre Company; amateur astronomer; swimmer; gardener; active in community and professional affairs. ’61 MEd—Gwendolyn O’Brien Marsh of Amarillo, TX, July 25, 2017; attorney; first female editor and cartoonist for the Texas Law Forum; co-owner and trustee, Frying Pan ’62 MD—John C. Warburton of Destin, FL, formerly of Gold Beach, OR, February Farm Ranch; worked for Senator John Tower and for Member of Parliament William Yates; 28, 2017; orthopedist; chief of orthopedics at two hospitals; practiced at North also worked for Bache and Co.; former owner, Sylvan Learning Center; political science Bend Medical Clinic and Orthopedic Assocs.; medical missionary for the Calexico professor, West Texas A&M U.; substitute teacher; honorary French consul for Amarillo; Medical Clinic; basso; pilot; traveler; active in community, professional, and religious patron of the arts; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. affairs.

’61 BA—Frederick T. Merrill Jr. of Monona, WI, June 9, 2017; political strategist on ’63 BS Ag—Joan Albin of Larchmont, NY, April 21, 2017; endocrinologist; active in the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, and Jimmy professional and alumni affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi. Carter; liaison to the House of Representatives in the Carter Administration; executive director, US Youth Council; sailor; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. ’63 MBA—Joshua S. L. Chow of Warren, NJ, June 1, 2017; president, Union County Delta Kappa Epsilon. Technical Inst.; superintendent, Somerville School District; traveler; lover of classical music; active in professional affairs. Wife, Cora (Huang), MBA ’63. ’61, BA ’62—Robert W. Ray of Shippensburg, PA, April 29, 2017; computer systems analyst for Letterkenny Army Depot; veteran; woodworker; gardener. Sigma Nu. ’63 BS Ag—Douglas R. Cronk of Caneadea, NY, April 4, 2017; teacher, Pioneer Central School; justice of the peace, Arcade, NY; county coroner; veteran; volunteer fireman; ’61 BS Nurs—Jacqueline Beck Tautz of Morris Plains, NJ, January 24, 2017; Mason; food pantry volunteer; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. homemaker; piano teacher; opera lover; gardener; avid reader; hiker; traveler; active in community affairs. ’63 BA—Ronald D. Dockser of Tampa, FL, October 26, 2016; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. ’62 PhD—L. Vaughn Blankenship of Chicago, IL, May 30, 2017; professor emeritus of public administration, U. of Illinois, Chicago; former associate chancellor for planning ’63 BA—Kenneth M. Jacobson of Orlando, FL, January 1, 2015; certified public and resources management, UIC; executive, Nat’l Science Foundation and the US accountant. Algonquin Lodge. Office of Management and Budget; also taught at UC Berkeley and SUNY Buffalo; music lover; active in professional affairs. ’63, BA ’64—Steven N. Mainster of Homestead, FL, July 10, 2017; executive director, Centro Campesino Farmworker Center; licensed homebuilder; member of the We Will ’62 BS Hotel—David J. Darker of Woodbridge, ON, Canada, April 12, 2015; taught Rebuild team after Hurricane Andrew; Peace Corps volunteer; English teacher for hospitality at Ryerson University and Humber College; avid seaplane pilot; hockey migrant workers; also taught special education classes; active in civic, community, player. Alpha Tau Omega. and professional affairs.

’62 PhD—Elizabeth A. Donald of Red Deer, AB, Canada, January 1, 2015. ’63 BS Ag, MS Ag ’64—John L. McDonald of Tucson, AZ, August 11, 2015; medical entomologist. ’62 MBA—Edward M. Dudley of Simsbury, CT, May 20, 2017; VP and general auditor of Asea Brown Boveri; golfer; member, Hartford Gun Club; computer builder; produced ’63 BS HE—Susan Fogg McLeod of Henderson Harbor, NY, July 6, 2017; worked at puppet shows for church school; active in community and religious affairs. Lansing Head Start and Rochester School for the Deaf; marina owner; baker; active in community affairs. Chi Omega. Husband, Francis D. McLeod Jr. ’63, BEE ’65. ’62 MS, PhD ’64—Neal E. Eckert of Austin, TX, July 10, 2017; real estate broker; owner of ETM Realty; owner, Ace Typewriter Office Mart and Classy Cards, and Previously ’63, BA ’64—Gerald E. McLoughlin of Abington, PA, January 1, 2016. Beta Theta Pi. Owned Office Products; also worked for AVS Food Services; ran for lieutenant governor of Illinois; Elks Club member; played video poker; golfer; traveler; active in community ’64 BS Ag—H. John Allhusen of Canandaigua, NY, June 25, 2017; associate director, and professional affairs. F. F. Thompson Health. Pi Kappa Phi.

’62, BME ’63—H. Randolph Lewis of Arlington, MA, May 20, 2017; president, Olson ’64 BS Ag—Willard C. Hamilton of Wilmington, NC, July 2, 2017; director of research Lewis Architects & Planners; designed biotech laboratories; banjo player; kite builder; at Johnson & Johnson; consultant; taught at the U. of North Carolina and Cape Fear volunteer for Chelsea Theater Works; active in community and professional affairs. Community College; also worked at Gillette and Xerox; traveler; boater; wine collector; Alpha Delta Phi. active in community and professional affairs. Delta Upsilon.

7 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 ’64 BS Ag—Jean Margolis Hentel of Poughkeepsie, NY, December 9, 2016; geneticist, 5, 2017; co-owner, Polymer Extruded Products; golfer; Bronze Life Master bridge player; Mt. Sinai Hospital; seaglass collector; active in professional affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Husband, Jack I. Hentel ’63. ’67 BS Hotel—Frederick R. Savage of Williamsburg, VA, June 4, 2017; president of ’64 PhD—Leo A. Hetzler of Rochester, NY, May 18, 2017; Catholic priest; professor the Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce and Underwriters Association; member of of English, St. John Fisher College; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs. the Professional Insurance Agents, Virginia Assn. of Realtors, and the Nat’l Assn. of Real Property Appraisers; veteran; Mason; Moose Lodge member; fisherman; boater; ’64 PhD—Frank C. Pearce Jr. of San Jose, CA, May 31, 2017; head of the biology collected trains, coins, and antique cars; active in civic, community, and professional dept. at West Valley College; president superintendent of West Valley and Mission affairs. Phi Kappa Psi. Colleges; president of Long Beach City College; VP, Rio Hondo College; dean of instruction, San Mateo College; veteran; traveler; gardener; bridge and pinochle player; ’68 BS Ag—Bruce L. Anderson of Ithaca, NY, June 26, 2017; professor emeritus, active in community and professional affairs. Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; taught executive development programs in Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, the UK, Hungary, Bosnia, Sudan, ’64 BS ILR—Craig W. Risser of Cazenovia, NY, June 1, 2017. Delta Upsilon. Slovakia, India, and Australia. Alpha Zeta.

’64 EdD—Ralph L. Spencer of Watertown, NY, July 14, 2017; provost, VP for academic ’68 PhD—Paul C. Estes of Wakefield, RI, July 22, 2017; veterinary pathologist at Pfizer; affairs, dean of professional studies, and professor of education at SUNY Oswego; veteran; animal lover; gardener; traveler; hiker; bicyclist; fisherman; racquetball, tennis, developed the SUNY North Country Fort Drum Consortium for higher education; and volleyball player; active in community and professional affairs. associate professor or education and dean of the graduate school, Temple U.; elementary school teacher, principal, and asst. superintendent of Corning City Schools; ’68 BS Ag—Kenneth T. Grieve of Sun Prairie, WI, May 17, 2017; manager of training, veteran; choir singer; musician; active in civic, community, professional, and religious Oscar Mayer & Co.; insurance agent; consultant; Boy Scout leader; traveler; active in affairs. alumni affairs.

’64 BS Ag—James A. Williams of Morrisville, NY, June 11, 2017; dairy farmer; ’68 PhD—James O. Link of Carrollton, GA, May 29, 2016; professor emeritus of theater, salesman, Upjohn Co. and Morrisville Motors; director of transportation, Morrisville- U. of West Georgia; directed many plays and musicals; veteran; hunter; fisherman; Eaton Central School District; volunteer fireman and fire commissioner; golfer; active active in professional and religious affairs. in civic and community affairs. ’68 MILR—John E. O’Connor of Little Silver, NJ, June 28, 2017; financial advisor, ’65, BEE ’66, MEE ’68—John F. Arnold of Yarmouth Port, MA, June 24, 2017; electrical Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.; former pension director, IBEW Local 3; active engineer; Boy Scout leader; coach; golfer; tennis player; runner; softball player; active in professional and religious affairs. in community and alumni affairs. Kappa Sigma. ’68, BS Ag ’69—Hubert C. Schaitberger Jr. of Maple Grove, MN, July 12, 2017; ’65 BS Ag—Allen D. Nice of Corfu, NY, June 7, 2017; worked at the Iroquois Wildlife financial consultant, Associated Financial Services. Refuge; veteran; gardener; nature lover. ’68 BA—Stephen E. Taylor of Dallas, TX, December 12, 2016; president, North Dallas ’65 BS Ag—Don R. Rogers of Suffield, CT, June 5, 2017; senior VP and senior business Chamber of Commerce; also worked for chambers of commerce in Tampa, FL, and consultant, First Pioneer Farm Credit; County Extension director, Cornell Cooperative Hartford, CT; veteran; recipient of the Bronze Star; golfer; active in professional affairs. Extension; founder of the Farm Start Program; created the NE Regional Dairy Challenge; Sigma Pi. baseball, softball, and basketball coach; member, Cooperstown Athletic Hall of Fame; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’69, BS Ag ’70—Charles P. Buisch of Lyons, NY, May 7, 2017; president, Whispering Pines Hideaway; active in community and professional affairs. ’65 BS Hotel—L. James Sobel of Cape Coral, FL, June 30, 2017; co-founder, Relyco Sales Inc.; sculptor in stone, wood, and mixed media; music lover; art enthusiast; ’69 BS Ag—Delos R. Dann Jr. of Canandaigua, NY, July 14, 2017; operated Dann active in community affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi. Auctioneers; dairy supply provider, IBA; owner, Dannroving Farm; past president, New York Steam Engine Assn.; toy tractor collector; active in community affairs. ’65 MEE—Joseph H. Wenzel of Prescott, AZ, June 7, 2017; corporate manager, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; electrical engineer, General Electric; veteran; firefighter, ’69 BS Ag—Jean Asselstine Lawson of Syracuse, NY, May 12, 2017; accountant; Mensa US Forest Service; author; pursued training in paralegal studies; Sierra Club member; member; volunteer for Hope for Bereaved; avid reader; dancer; music lover; traveler. active in community affairs. ’69 BS ILR—Steven A. Marx of Tampa, FL, May 23, 2017; radio programmer and ’66 BS ILR—Lawrence G. Boyce of Delaware, OH, May 20, 2017; worked for the advertising executive; worked at KDKA; VP and general manager of WAAF/WFTQ Delaware County Veterans Service; veteran; bowler; golfer; traveler; active in radio; chairman emeritus, the Center for Sales Strategy; director, BankWorcester community affairs. Alpha Phi Delta. Corp.; veteran; author; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

’66 BS HE—Nancy Dollar Frank of Pocatello, ID, July 15, 2017; professor of child ’69 PhD—Melvin P. Nadler of Ogden, UT, July 8, 2017; research chemist, Naval Air development and education, Idaho State U. College of Technology; also taught in Weapons Station China Lake; also taught chemistry at SUNY Binghamton; birder; Zambia and in the interior of Alaska; square dancer; quilter; knitter; gardener; yoga photographer; traveler. enthusiast; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’69 BS ORIE, MBA ’71—Richard E. Ponte of Cary, NC, December 28, 2016; director ’66 MPA—Robert I. McLaren of Regina, SK, Canada, May 1, 2017; professor in the of information management; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Delta Phi. school of administration, U. of Regina; Canadian CUSO worker; traveler; active in professional affairs. ’70 BEP—Joseph M. Battaglia of Langhorne, PA, May 9, 2017; VP of engineering at Cameron Great Lakes Inc.; veteran; music lover; choral singer; actor, Newtown ’67 BS Hotel—Dennis E. Koza of Moorestown, NJ, January 11, 2017; CEO of Cathedral Presbyterian Players; active in community and religious affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha. Village senior living community; veteran; captain of the Cornell lightweight crew team that won the Henley Royal Regatta; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Tau Omega. ’70, BA ’72, MAT ’73—John P. Blankenship of Berkeley, CA, December 5, 2016; architect; president, Berkeley Design Advocates; arts enthusiast; traveler; active in ’67, BS Chem E ’68—Richard W. Poinsett of Estero, FL, formerly of Easton, PA, May community and professional affairs.

8 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 ’70 MS HE—Sally A. Jacobsen, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, May 11, 2017; Associated forests; also worked on irrigation projects in Cache Valley, UT; active in community Press economics correspondent and first woman to serve as the news service’s and professional affairs. international editor; AP Latin American business correspondent in Mexico City; AP Brussels correspondent covering NATO and the end of the Cold War; deputy managing ’74 BEE—Vernon C. Grabel of Cotuit, MA, January 16, 2017; software developer and editor for projects, Associated Press; supervised the AP Stylebook; taught journalism entrepreneur; co-founder, Cape.com internet service provider; sailor; traveler; avid at California State U., Bakersfield; executive editor, AP Media Editors; active in reader; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta. professional and alumni affairs. Husband, Patrick R. Oster, JD ’70. ’74 BS Ag—Edward B. Harder of Saratoga Springs, NY, June 11, 2017; senior designer ’70 BA—Harlan R. Kant of Occidental, CA, May 1, 2017; attorney; realtor; guitarist; in structural engineering, Schoder Rivers Assocs.; project manager, John T. Percy photographer; amateur astronomer; political activist; environmentalist. Assocs. Consulting Engineers; fisherman; hiker; hunter; avid reader.

’70 PhD—Thomas P. Ringkob of Reno, NV, May 25, 2017; professor of animal science ’74 BS Ag—James B. Rubenstein of New York City, April 13, 2017; radiologist; chief and director of thesis research, U. of Nevada, Reno; manager, UNT Meats Laboratory; of ultrasound at Morris Imaging Assocs.; certified mohel; active in professional and author; judge, Nevada Junior Livestock Show; music lover; skier; boater; traveler; religious affairs. Watermargin. active in community and professional affairs. ’74 BS Ag—Leonarda A. Wroblewski of Otto, NY, July 18, 2016; zookeeper, Buffalo ’70 BS Ag—Julie Mather Schnuck of St. Louis, MO, February 14, 2017; founding Zoological Gardens; wildlife rehabilitator. co-president, St. Louis Archdiocese Foundation for Special Education; partner, Schnuck Markets floral dept.; gardener; birder; active in community and alumni affairs. ’75, BS Ag ’76, DVM ’79—Steven P. Sanford of Greensboro, VT, June 8, 2017; Pi Beta Phi. Husband, Scott C. Schnuck ’72. veterinarian; owner, Northeast Kingdom Veterinary Hospital; tugboat owner; skier; bicyclist; active in professional and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ’70 BS ILR—Katherine D. Schrier of New York City, June 7, 2017. ’76 MPS—Dorothy L. Cobbs of Chicago, IL, June 2, 2017; worked for the American ’71 MS—Laura Feldman of Boston, MA, June 30, 2017; chief of cardiovascular Hospital Assn.; attorney; avid reader; traveler; active in community and professional radiology, Boston V.A. Medical Center; staff radiologist, St. Elizabeth’s, Boston, and affairs. U. of Chicago Medical Center; radiologist, Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque; inter­ ventional radiologist, Baystate Medical Center; also practiced at Mass General; taught ’76 PhD—Daniel R. Deavers of Windsor Heights, IA, April 30, 2017; professor of at U. of Chicago, Tufts U., Boston U., and Harvard U.; advocate for women’s issues; physiology and pharmacology, Des Moines U.; Northrup Educator of the Year in 2009; avid reader; traveler; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. gardener; fisherman; art lover; avid reader; carpenter.

’71 BA—Raymond J. Lovett of Morgantown, WV, May 11, 2017; analytical chemist ’77 MILR—Susan Ingraham Ashley of Sugar Land, TX, May 28, 2017; worked in human in industry; teacher; technical environmental consultant involved in acid mine drainage resources at Exxon and Houston Cellular Telephone Co.; founder, SIA Consulting cleanup; genealogist; Civil War history buff; birdwatcher; blogger; traveler. executive coaching and management firm; active in professional affairs.

’71 MS Ag—Constantine Yiournas of Vineland, NJ, May 8, 2017; food scientist; ’77 BA—Sylvia Hashagen Dempsey of New York City, November 5, 2016. expert in the production of vaccine and cosmeceutical products; director of manufac­ turing operations at IGI; also worked at Vineland Laboratories and Babcock Industries; ’77 BEE—Kenneth D. Jackson of West Orange, NJ, July 25, 2017; technology senior consultant; patent holder; active in professional affairs. consultant at Deloitte and KPMG; former partner, Mitchell & Titus.

’72 MA—Edward J. Hickey of Glastonbury, CT, May 23, 2017; US history teacher, ’78 JD—Deborah E. Curtis of Portland, ME, May 8, 2017; attorney; history teacher, Ithaca High School; veteran; chairman of the Lansing, NY, planning board; active in Waynflete School; assistant district attorney, NYC; led the mock trial and Model UN community affairs. programs at the school; sponsor of the arts, especially theater; active in community and professional affairs. ’72, BArch ’76—Warren W. Lee of Parker, CO, February 9, 2017; architect; principal, Denver Architecture & Design Tours; member of Toastmasters Int’l; active in ’79 BME—Eric Berg of Wilmington, DE, May 20, 2017; mechanical engineer; worked professional affairs. for DuPont and W. L. Gore; avid bicyclist; skier; hiker; sailor; runner.

’72 BS Eng—Anthony J. Orel of Oakdale, PA, July 2, 2017; retired engineer; starting ’79 BA—Wolffe Nadoolman of Berkeley, CA, April 28, 2017; pediatrician; developed offensive guard, 1971 Cornell Ivy League Champions; participated in recreational a caramel candy with capsaicin to treat burning mouth syndrome, a side effect of sports leagues; runner; master storyteller; avid reader; active in community and alumni chemotherapy; helped start RapidTrials to help research sites and biopharmaceutical affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha. companies implement clinical trials; former investment banker; VP of options and mortgage securities trading at Salomon Bros.; author; blogger; collector of movie ’72 DVM—Harry F. Prussner Jr. of Titusville, FL, June 5, 2017; veterinarian, Young’s posters; art collector; active in community and professional affairs. Kappa Alpha. Animal Hospital; golfer; active in professional affairs. Alpha Psi. ’81, BA ’83—Daniel J. Gasteiger of Lewisburg, PA, June 1, 2017; magazine editor, ’72 PhD—Paul M. Skarstad of Plymouth, MN, May 15, 2017; retired from Medtronic; Lotus Development Corp.; also worked for CSSI; consultant for IBM, Procter & Gamble, also worked at the US National Bureau of Standards; post-doctoral researcher, U. of and Harvard U.; self-employed food and gardening writer; blogger; author; golfer; Colorado, Boulder; mentor; bicyclist; cross-country skier; birdwatcher; woodworker; photographer; cook; pool player; hosted international students; active in professional musician; poet; kayaker; traveler; active in professional affairs. affairs.

’72 MS Ag—Martin C. Whitby of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, April 12, 2017; ’82 PhD—David A. Herrup of Cambridge, MA, June 18, 2017; medical physicist in professor emeritus of countryside management, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne; active in radiation oncology at Mass General Hospital; research physicist at Fermilab; traveler; professional affairs. lover of European literature; talented cook.

’73 BS Ag—Peter E. Küng of Grand Junction, CO, June 27, 2017; field biologist; founder, ’82 MA—Mary Simmons Kevlin of Cooperstown, NY, June 16, 2017; co-publisher of Biological Consulting and Survey; co-founder of Bio Resources; biologist for Bio-West The Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta, and AllOTSEGO.com; first city planner environmental consulting firm; ornithologist; established EarthMatters.org and the of Watertown, NY; obtained funding to restore Watertown’s Frederick Law Olmsted Park; Harpy Eagle Conservation group; pioneer in the use of GPS technology in dense rain executive director, Pennsylvania Downtown Center; vice chair, Pottsville Development

9 ALUMNI DEATHS Cornell Alumni Magazine NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 Corp.; taught the historic survey course in Cornell’s Dept. of City and Regional Planning; resources manager, St. Mary’s School for the Deaf. Kappa Delta. active in civic, community, and professional affairs. ’89 PhD—Benjamin B. Stone of Holliston, MA, May 4, 2017; worked in biotechnology; ’82 BS HE—Dorothy M. Owen of Skaneateles, NY, July 14, 2017; social worker; lover expert in assay development; wooden boat builder; furniture maker; fly fisherman. of classical music; gardener; cook; active in religious affairs. ’90 BA—Barbara E. Hurley of Gaithersburg, MD, June 19, 2017; attorney; avid reader; ’83 BEE—Jonathan A. Cooper of Ashburn, VA, January 18, 2017; electrical engineer. animal lover; swimmer; active in professional affairs.

’84 MCE—Robert L. Greco III of Golden, CO, May 17, 2017; group director, downstream ’93 BME—Anastasia A. Habenicht of Littleton, CO, June 3, 2017; aerospace and and industry operations, American Petroleum Inst.; senior environmental policy analyst, aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin; worked on the X33, the Crew Transfer Tri-State Generation and Transmission Assn.; environmental engineer, Office of Mobile Vehicle, and the 2 Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle; key leader in payload Sources, US Environmental Protection Agency; sports enthusiast; music aficionado; integration and software for Phoenix, MAVEN, and OSIRIS-Rex for Mars exploration; wine and craft beer connoisseur; active in professional affairs. recipient of the NOVA award for exceptional engineering; NASA named an asteroid after her; volunteer for Girls Exploring Science Technology Engineering and Math; chair, ’84 MEE—Rodolfo Lucero Jr. of Scottsdale, AZ, May 30, 2017; electrical engineer; Women’s Intrinsic Network; representative, Space Systems Company Diversity Council; principal staff engineer, General Dynamics. Space Day Ambassador in Denver area schools; assistant Girl Scout leader; technical appraiser for Destination Imagination; outdoorswoman; traveler; lover of the performing ’84 BS Hotel—Adam W. Minton of Westerville, OH, June 7, 2017; real estate investor; and fine arts; active in community and professional affairs. partner in businesses in the Columbus, OH, area; veteran; delivered food to the homeless; board member, St. Joseph Montessori School; swimmer; active in ’93 BS HE—Brian A. Kelly of New York City, November 1, 2016; attorney at Martin, community affairs. Clearwater & Bell. Delta Upsilon.

’84 BA—Thomas R. Plenefisch of Kirkland, WA, June 5, 2017; retired US Navy ’94 BA—Alexandra Ornitz Hastings of Greenwich, CT, March 26, 2017; director; stage submariner; product manager, Crane Electronics; oversaw development of electronics combat performer. for cochlear implants and neurostimulator applications; photographer; hiker; sailor; nature lover; music aficionado; science enthusiast. ’98 BS Ag—Jessica A. Panzer of Philadelphia, PA, May 13, 2017; pediatric neurologist and researcher in neuro-immunology and movement disorders; worked at U. of ’87—Conrad A. Episcopo of Wyckoff, NJ, June 16, 2017; IT manager at NEX Group; Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; active in professional affairs. consultant. Delta Upsilon. ’18—Oliver R. Bolger of Merritt Island, FL, April 22, 2017; studied mathematics and ’88 BS ILR—Howard N. Madris of Beverly Hills, CA, July 20, 2017; bankruptcy attorney; computer science; musician; skateboarder. active in alumni affairs. Theta Chi. ’18—Aalaap G. Narasipura of Sandy, UT, May 19, 2017; engineering student; gifted ’89 BS ILR—Laura M. Dudley of East Aurora, NY, November 25, 2016; human photographer; member of the Ultimate Frisbee team.

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