ALUMNI DEATHS ’36—Reinald Werrenrath Jr. of Evanston, IL, August 8, 2019; TV pioneer; created, 2019; worked at the Cornell Campus Store; home economics teacher; author; enjoyed produced, and directed several early TV shows; produced educational films; televised sewing, reading, traveling, and antiquing; active in community and alumni affairs. the 1964 Nobel Prize Award ceremonies and the World Series of Golf; veteran; human Alpha Omicron Pi. rights advocate; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Alpha Delta Phi. ’44—Charles T. Derry of Paoli, PA, November 5, 2018; national sales manager, ’37 BS Ag—John D. Henderson of Vero Beach, FL, formerly of Glen Rock, NJ, and Flintkote Co.; also worked for Monsey Building Products; veteran; enjoyed tennis, Greensburg, PA, September 8, 2019; president, Harder Jersey Pest Control; director, golf, and travel; active in professional affairs. Glen Rock Savings and Loan; veteran; Rotarian; enjoyed travel, photography, and raising orchids; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. ’44—William V. Gaffney of Rush, NY, January 16, 2019; financial manager, classified photography satellite program at Kodak; veteran; active in civic, community, and ’39 BA—Edward J. Moore of Woodbury, NJ, July 3, 2019; analytical chemist, Socony professional affairs. Mobil Co.; also worked at Dugway Proving Ground and Homestead Steel Works; enjoyed golf, bridge, windsurfing, reading, music, and dancing. Theta Chi. ’44 BA, JD ’48—George H. Getman of Sun City Center, FL, February 20, 2019; attorney; NYS tax attorney; veteran; Mason; president, Masonic Medical Research ’40 BME—Paul W. Koenig of Auburn, NY, August 29, 2019; engineer, General Electric; Lab; Shriner; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. patent holder; enjoyed hunting, fishing, and building and flying model airplanes. Lambda Chi Alpha. ’41-42 SP Ag—John K. Hall of Lockport, NY, May 18, 2019; co-owner, Hall’s Apple ’44 BME—Robert R. Leech of Wilmington, NC, August 17, 2019; founder, Necor Co.; Farm; local historian; volunteer firefighter; 4-H sponsor; Mason; president, local mechanical engineer and executive, Ducon Co.; also worked for US Rubber; veteran; Kiwanis Club; author; enjoyed music, rose gardening, and woodworking; active in enjoyed boating, fishing, woodworking, and serving as a patient advocate and hospice civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. volunteer; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’42—Emilio F. DePetris of Southampton, NY, October 30, 2018; attorney; Quogue ’44, BA ’43—Nancy Smith Lesure of Phoenix, AZ, May 26, 2019; travel consultant, and Southampton village attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, and profes­ Kachina Travel; travel writer; correspondent for Travel Age Publications; tour guide; sional affairs. active in professional affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ’42 BA—Elizabeth Schlamm Eddy of New York City, May 14, 2019; retired advertising ’44 BS HE—Nanette Zorn Schneiderman of Tiburon, CA, April 29, 2019; enjoyed executive; president and treasurer, Class of 1942; recipient, Frank H.T. Rhodes Ex­ travel and thoughtful opinion. Sigma Delta Tau. emplary Alumni Service Award; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Phi. ’44 BA—Madeleine King Short of Marina Del Rey, CA, formerly of Cincinnati, OH, ’42 BA—Marion Rosenfeld Friedman of Rockville Centre, NY, November 1, 2018; January 22, 2019; worked at PNC Bank; taught ESL; volunteer, Aronoff Center; enjoyed golf, bridge, and fine dining. Alpha Epsilon Phi. museum guide; lover of the arts; enjoyed theater and orchestral and chamber music; active in community affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ’42—Bernard A. Sachs of Los Angeles, CA, June 28, 2019; endocrinologist; expert on the harmful effects of high cholesterol; staff physician and endocrinologist, Long ’45, BA ’44—Reta Keenan Davidson of Hillburn, NY, February 23, 2019; employee Beach Memorial Medical Center; professor of medicine at UC Irvine and Albert Einstein communications editor, Lederle Laboratories; active in civic, community, and alum­ College of Medicine; also practiced at Montefiore Hospital; veteran; active in com­ ni affairs. munity and professional affairs. ’45, BS HE ’44—Margaret Eldredge Hummel of Bethel, CT, January 18, 2019; real ’42—William H. Webster of Little Rock, AR, June 26, 2019; retired brigadier general, estate broker; clothing store secretary/bookkeeper; ticket sales manager, United Air US Air Force; trust deptartment director, Union Nat’l Bank; associate director, Unit­ Lines; secretary, San Francisco Area Council, Boy Scouts of America; secretary to ed Methodist Fdn. of Arkansas; president, Trust Co. of Florida; executive VP and the head librarian, Town of Reading; secretary, Grange League Federation; active in senior trust officer, Citizens Fidelity Bank; senior trust officer, NBC; banking instruc­ community affairs. Chi Omega. tor; pilot; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Chi Psi. ’45—Spear P. Johnson of Palm Harbor, FL, June 17, 2019; engineer at Honeywell; ’43, BS Ag ’44—Eleanor Gillmor Amos of Columbus, OH, July 14, 2019; docent, veteran; enjoyed hunting, fishing, hiking, and woodworking; active in religious affairs. Columbus Museum of Art; served on legislative committees for the mentally disabled; Phi Delta Theta. active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. ’46, BME ’49—Martin H. Buehler III of Waynesboro, VA, August 14, 2019; man­ ’43, BS HE ’44—Betty O. Bowman of Denver, CO, February 21, 2019; retired nurse; ager of market development, Genicom; headquarters sales manager, TermiNet; also lieutenant colonel, Army Nurse Corps; dietician; veteran; enjoyed bowling, tennis, worked for General Electric, Standard Pressed Steel, and JE Lonergan; veteran; swimming, singing, and travel; active in professional affairs. Kappa Delta. active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Chi. ’43 BME—S. Jackson Hunt of Richmond, IN, January 5, 2019; VP, NATCO; veteran; ’46—Mary Catherine Butler of Worcester, MA, May 29, 2019; dean of the graduate Scout leader; enjoyed golf, fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, and animals; active school, Brandeis U.; psychological counselor, Worcester State Hospital; avid gar­ in community, professional, and religious affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma. dener and reader; active in community and professional affairs. ’43 BME—Theodore K. Morse of White Plains, NY, July 24, 2019; founder of Andia ’46-48 SP Ag—Jean Moore Carson (Mrs. James R., PhD ’49) of West Lafayette, IN, Progress Co., a sporting goods business; also worked for the family toy and juvenile August 3, 2019; enjoyed knitting, gardening, birding, watching sports, reading mys­ furniture company; veteran; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Pi Lamb­ teries, late night TV, and bowling; active in community affairs. da Phi. ’46—Nancy Holcomb MacKay of Scituate, MA, November 17, 2018; artist; specialist ’43 BS HE—Gracia Byrne Ostrander (Mrs. Charles E. ’41) of Ithaca, NY, August 17, in early childhood education; pilot; active in community affairs. Delta Gamma. 1 ALUMNI DEATHS CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2020 ’46 BA—Kathleen Smith Mancini of Palm Coast, FL, February 12, 2019; high school Africa, and hospital projects in the US; enjoyed reading, nature, history, geography, physical science teacher; educator, NYC Museum of Natural History; enjoyed reading, and travel; active in professional affairs. the natural world, and lifelong learning; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ’48 BCE—Robert F. Harsch of West Chester, PA, January 27, 2019; founder, Robert F. Harsh Assocs.; project engineer, Philadelphia Electric Co.; project manager, Bureau ’46 BME—Robert J. Nist of Trinity, FL, January 31, 2019; retired general contractor; of Yards and Docks; veteran; Rotarian; enjoyed birdwatching, amateur theater, and real estate agent; machine engineer; veteran; tax preparer; enjoyed sailing, the puns; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Tampa Bay Rays; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. ’48 BEE—W. Frederick Hickling of Endicott, NY, July 17, 2019; retired from NYSEG; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Wife, Barbara (Abt), MAT ’66. ’46 BS Ag—Janet Bassette Summerville (Mrs. David S. ’48) of Sackets Harbor, NY, July 24, 2019; retired executive director, Planned Parenthood of Northern New York; ’48 BS Nurs—Lois Boyd Longendorfer of North Attleboro, MA, formerly of Nashua, social worker; enjoyed sailing, bridge, reading, painting, and travel; active in com­ NH, July 18, 2019; registered nurse; devoted pet owner. munity, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. ’48 BS Ag—Warren D. McPherson of Fredonia, NY, August 10, 2019; insurance and ’46 MS HE—Sadye Appleby Young of Atlanta, GA, February 15, 2019; professor of risk management consultant; founder, McPherson Management Co.; Kiwanis member; human behavior, family life education, and child development, and director of home enjoyed sailing, canoeing, cross county skiing, and board and card games; active in economics and preschool at Arkansas A&M College; college administrator; author; community, professional, and religious affairs. Cayuga Lodge. mentor; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’48, MD ’51—Edwin P. Russell Jr. of Rome, NY, September 18, 2019; physician; ’47—Harley B. Arnold of Mattituck, NY, June 18, 2019; engineer and systems analyst, veteran; enjoyed hunting, fishing, Civil War history,