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’34 BA—Paul T. Clark of Hilton Head, SC, February 25, 2015; former ex-ecutive and director of Corning Inc.; chairman of the board, Corning Com-munity College; president and director, Three Rivers DevelopmentFoundation; golfer; active in civic, community, professional, and religiousaffairs.

’36 BA—Frank F. Drews of Easton, MD, March 2, 2015; emergency roomphysician, Memorial Hospital; president, Englewood Hospital medical staff;veteran; member, US Trotting Assn. and Standardbred Breeders & OwnersAssn. of New Jersey; bridge player; active in community, professional,and alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

’36 BA—Muriel Kinney Reisner of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, July 17,2014; active in alumni affairs.

’39 BA—Janet Wasserman Karz of Fairport, NY, February 14, 2015; mod-el; potter; Red Cross driver in World War II; golfer; traveler; lover of thearts, film, and theatre; active in community affairs.

’40—John A. Kramp of Manhattan Beach, CA, December 15, 2012; re-gional sales manager.

’40 BA—Nelson J. Weiser of Wilkes-Barre, PA, March 31, 2015; physi-cian, V.A. Medical Center; veteran; tennis player; active in civic, com-munity, professional, and religious affairs.

’41 BA—William B. Cosgrove of Raleigh, NC, October 6, 2014; retiredprofessor.

’41-43 SP Ag—Melville D. Merry of New Hartford, NY, March 20, 2015;farmer; rural mail carrier; member, Frankfort Hill Historical Society; ac-tive in community and religious affairs.

’42—James S. Ainslie Jr. of Ithaca, NY, March 11, 2015; dairy farmer;participated in Cornell Cooperative Extension; active in civic, communi-ty, and religious affairs.

’42—Thomas E. Bird of Yates Center, KS, March 29, 2013; owner, TremoCorp.; veteran; active in community affairs. Delta Upsilon.

’42 BEE—Robert O. Dame of Kaneohe, HI, May 14, 2013; retired Hawaiirep, Pacific Tennis Courts.

’42 BS Ag—Eugene L. Datthyn of Fairport, NY, October 19, 2014; farmer;farm chemical company representative; Cooperative Extension agent; vet-eran; active in professional affairs.

’42 MS, PhD ’49—Robert F. Thorne of Pomona, CA, March 24, 2015; pro-fessor emeritus of botany, Claremont Graduate U. at Rancho Santa AnaBotanic Garden; curator emeritus of the herbarium at RSABG; professor,U. of Iowa; recipient of the Asa Gray Award; veteran; author; stamp col-lector; active in community and professional affairs.

’42 MS Ag—Lois Clise Will (Mrs. Emery L., PhD ’49) of Oneonta, NY, March15, 2015; worked in the science and academic advisement departmentsat SUNY Oneonta; homemaker; gardener; animal lover; baker; active incommunity affairs.

’42 MS, PhD ’44—Herbert F. Wright of Worcester, MA, February 11, 2015;

biochemistry professor, chair of biology and environmental science, andfounder of the Dept. of Science, U. of New Haven; also taught at YaleU.; traveler; photographer; painter; studied Italian, Spanish, and Frenchin his retirement; proponent of alternative medicine; active in commu-nity and professional affairs.

’43 BA—Barbara Prescott Arnold (Mrs. Carl D. Jr. ’43) of San Mateo, CA,March 12, 2015; golfer; gardener; music lover; active in community andreligious affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

’43 BS HE—Mildred Keith Bohnet of Lyndonville, NY, March 31, 2015;homemaker; gardener; seamstress; singer; active in community, religious,and alumni affairs.

’43 BS Ag—Roy E. W. Herrmann Jr. of Ontario, NY, February 10, 2015;owner, Herrmann’s Agway; veteran; Rotarian; acted and directed in localtheatre groups; hunter; gardener; stamp collector; active in civic, com-munity, and alumni affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

’43 BA—Dexter M. Kohn of Washington, DC, March 31, 2015; attorney;veteran; advocate for home rule for the District of Columbia; golfer; ac-tive in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.

’43—David P. Mertz of Venice, FL, March 28, 2015; VP of sales and mar-keting, General Machine Products; salesman, Koppers Coke Co.; veteran;fisherman; sailor; golfer. Kappa Sigma.

’43 BA—Gene Saks of East Hampton, NY, March 28, 2015; film andBroadway director and actor; worked with playwright Neil Simon on sev-eral hit plays; directed the film versions of Barefoot in the Park, The OddCouple, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and other Neil Simon plays; won threeTony Awards; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. ZetaBeta Tau.

’43, BA ’48—H. Britton Stolz Jr. of Leominster, MA, March 10, 2015;retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel; director of data processing,Wachusett Community College; active in community, religious, and alum-ni affairs. Alpha Chi Rho.

’43 BS HE—Margaret Morse Thalman (Mrs. Walter A. ’43) of Eastchester,NY, March 3, 2015; homemaker.

’43 PhD—Stuart G. Younkin of Moorestown, NJ, April 11, 2015; presi-dent, Campbell Inst. for Agricultural Research; VP for agricultural research,plant pathologist, and geneticist, Campbell Soup Co.; editor; served onseveral agricultural boards at the National Academy of Sciences; skilledwoodworker; surf fisherman; active in community and professional affairs.

’44, BS Ag ’47—Allen J. Albright of Ontario, NY, March 29, 2015; sen-ior VP, Security Trust Co.; appraiser; banker; fruit farmer; veteran; coachedyouth baseball and basketball; active in civic, community, professional,religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.

’44 MA—Adelaide Vagnarelli Nadler (Mrs. Albert P. ’49, MA ’50) ofBurlington, VT, formerly of Saranac Lake, NY, March 31, 2015; taught atChamplain College, Ithaca College, Saranac Lake Central High School, andother schools; pianist; gardener; active in civic and community affairs.

’44 BEE—Milton Stolaroff of Newport Beach, CA, formerly of Kailua

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Kona, HI, March 22, 2015; electrical engineer; owner/president of MAS-CO; veteran; fisherman; theatre enthusiast; active in community andalumni affairs.

’44 BS HE—Margaret Hallock Wiggins (Mrs. Platt K. Jr. ’46) of GreenValley, AZ, April 4, 2015. Delta Delta Delta.

’44 BME—Philip J. Williams of Fort Pierce, FL, December 31, 2014; en-gineer; pioneer in honeycomb structures; designed prosthetics for theV.A.; designed computer and office furniture hardware; veteran; patentholder; coached baseball and basketball; author; active in communityand religious affairs.

’45 BS Ag—Marjorie Fine Albert of Pleasant Hill, CA, March 22, 2015;VP, Digiray Corp.; registered nurse; editor-in-chief, Cornell Countryman;master gardener; active in community affairs.

’45, BA ’44—Max Cohen of Port Washington, NY, September 30, 2011;psychiatrist; psychoanalyst; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta.

’45, BA ’44—Marguerite O’Neill Conan of Syracuse, NY, March 7, 2015;taught at Moses DeWitt Elementary School; also worked at Bristol Labo-ratories; bridge player; golfer; active in community and professional af-fairs. Delta Gamma.

’45 BA—Sallye Josephs Esterson of Pikesville, MD, March 15, 2015; re-altor; traveler; active in community and religious affairs.

’45 DVM—Francis H. Fox of Ithaca, NY, March 13, 2015; professor emer-itus of large animal medicine, Cornell U.; veterinarian; chair, TompkinsCounty Board of Health; active in community, professional, and religiousaffairs. Alpha Psi.

’45 BS HE, MS HE ’49—Dorothy Dietrich Gardner of Exeter, NH, March18, 2015; taught home economics at UConn; costumer for local theatreproductions; singer; gardener; hiker; camper; skier; painter; active in com-munity and religious affairs.

’45—Ralph N. Keyes of Livonia, NY, October 14, 2014; farmer; bus driv-er; active in professional and religious affairs.

’45 BME—Robert A. Mycoff of Delray Beach, FL, July 18, 2013; me-chanical engineer.

’46, MD ’48—John H. Laragh of Village of Golf, FL, March 20, 2015; for-mer chief of cardiology and founder of the Hypertension Center atNYP/Weill Cornell Medical College; founding president, American Societyof Hypertension; founding editor-in-chief, American Journal of Hyperten-sion; did groundbreaking research that led to two new classes of hyper-tensive drugs; golfer; active in professional affairs.

’46—Richard H. Sforzini of Auburn, AL, January 8, 2015; professor emer-itus of aerospace engineering, Auburn U.; expert on jet propulsion andaerodynamics; worked on NASA research projects related to the SpaceShuttle; conducted courses on solid rockets for NASA and the RocketPropulsion Lab at Edwards Air Force Base; taught in the Dept. of Ord-nance at West Point Military Academy; director, anti-tank guided missileproject, Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal; director of engi-neering for Thiokol Chemical Corp.’s Space Booster Div.; successfully test-ed the first three million pound thrust solid-propellant rocket; veteran;recipient of the Hermann Oberth Award for achievements in aerospace;active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

’46 BS Nurs—Barbara Forscht Shanabrook of Lancaster, PA, February 18,2015; nurse. Husband, Albert H. Shanabrook ’45.

’46 MS HE—Katherine Stanford Staples of Greensburg, PA, October 28,2014; assistant professor of food and nutrition, North Dakota State U.;home nursery school director; high school home economics teacher; pub-lished a cookbook for special needs individuals; helped develop the

“Stakota” breed of chicken; seamstress; cook; baker; active in commu-nity and religious affairs.

’46, BS HE ’45, PhD ’75—Helen Murphy Zabinski of Cortland, NY, Feb-ruary 25, 2015; associate professor, College for Human Development,Syracuse U.; also taught at SUNY Oneonta; head dietitian, Lourdes Hos-pital in Binghamton, NY; high school teacher; also worked for CornellCooperative Extension; dancer; traveler; choral singer; active in commu-nity, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’47, BS Ag ’46—Janet Matez Duncan (Mrs. James A. ’47, MD ’49) of Bri-arcliff Manor, NY, April 6, 2015; special education teacher, Ossining SchoolSystem.

’47, BS Ag ’50—George C. Field of Ithaca, NY, April 22, 2015; direc-tor, St. Lawrence County Cooperative Extension; also worked for South-ern States Cooperative; veteran; hospice volunteer; active in communityaffairs.

’47 BA—Irving D. Isko of Mendham, NJ, March 20, 2015; president andCEO, Engelhard Corp.; attorney. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

’47 B Chem E—William J. Rossi of San Francisco, CA, March 20, 2015;chemical engineer, Chevron; patent holder in the fields of petroleumprocessing and petrochemicals; author; active in professional affairs.Alpha Chi Sigma.

’47 BME, BCE ’48—H. James Spelman Jr. of Annandale, VA, February8, 2015; engineer, D.C. Dept. of Highways and Traffic; active in commu-nity affairs. Sigma Nu.

’48 BS Nurs—Majanah Hagan Bender of El Paso, TX, March 26, 2015;retired school nurse; nurse supervisor, Southwest General Hospital; alsoworked at Providence Memorial Hospital; veteran; birdwatcher; traveler;fan of crossword puzzles.

’48 BS HE—Anne Lynn Cousin of Newtown, CT, March 22, 2015; home-maker; home economics teacher; pianist; bridge player; knitter; active inalumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

’48 BS Ag—John B. Dewey of West Grove, PA, March 16, 2015; workedfor DuPont’s agricultural products division; veteran; showed championAyrshire cattle; editor, Ayrshire Digest; gardener; active in community andprofessional affairs. Alpha Zeta.

’48 BA—Marilyn Dulin Dewey of West Grove, PA, February 28, 2015;homemaker; gardener; seamstress; vocalist; pianist; active in communi-ty and religious affairs. Wayside Aftermath. Husband, John B. Dewey ’48.

’48 BS HE, MNS ’49—Ann Donnelly DiLaura of Sarasota, FL, formerly ofBuffalo, NY, February 28, 2015; public health nutritionist for Erie Coun-ty and NYS health depts.; nutritionist consultant, Children’s Rehabilita-tion Center; golfer; bridge player; active in community and professionalaffairs. Alpha Phi.

’48 MD—Craig R. Hope of Greenbrae, CA, March 2, 2015; orthopaedicsurgeon, UCSF and San Francisco V.A. medical centers; veteran; skier;hunter; tennis player; sailor; active in community and professional affairs.

’48 LLB—Elizabeth Storey Landis (Mrs. William B. Jr, LLB ’49) of NewYork City, April 14, 2015; attorney; helped Milton Konvitz codify the lawof Liberia; recipient of the Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption;professor of African studies, American College in Paris; senior political af-fairs officer, UN Council on Namibia; activist for the independence ofAfrican countries; editor, American Committee on Africa’s Africa-UN Bul-letin; author; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’48 BS ORIE—David J. Lautz of Orchard Park, NY, March 9, 2015; engi-neer; photographer; member, Great Lakes Kite Flyers Society; active incommunity, professional, and religious affairs.

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’48 BA—Joan Rothschild of New York City, February 1, 2015; professorof political science and technology and chair of the women’s studiesprogram at Lowell Technological Inst. (UMass, Lowell); expert on femi-nist issues in technology; research associate, Center for Human Envi-ronments, CUNY Graduate Center; author, The Dream of the Perfect Childand other books; editor; active in civic, community, professional, andalumni affairs.

’48—Kathleen O’Connell Webster (Mrs. Louis R. ’51) of Ithaca, NY, March22, 2015; teacher, Ithaca City Schools; traveler; birdwatcher; golfer; mu-sic lover; enjoyed learning through Elderhostel.

’49 JD—John C. Dorfman of Wayne, PA, March 1, 2015; retired patentattorney; veteran; traveler; golfer; art and theatre lover; active in pro-fessional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta.

’49 BCE—Robert W. Engelbert of Rocky River, OH, February 17, 2015;assistant VP, Republic Steel Corp.; veteran; active in professional, reli-gious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Delta Phi.

’49 BME—Robert I. Epstein of Homeland, MD, March 1, 2015; engineer,Aberdeen Proving Ground; mechanical engineer, Thiokol Chemical Co.;also worked at Maryland Cup Corp.; veteran; enjoyed Irish dancing; drum-mer in an Irish pipe band; personal trainer at the YMCA; pilot; skier;golfer; tennis player; fisherman; active in community, professional, andreligious affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

’49 BA—William B. Irvine of Goldsboro, NC, March 12, 2015; presidentand founder, Classified Development Corp.; founder, Pennsylvania Graph-ic Arts; investment firm partner; VP, Basil Smith Systems; veteran; ledthe Army Band unit, the former Bing Crosby band; editor-in-chief, Cor-nell Widow; active in professional affairs. Delta Phi.

’49 BA—Marilyn Morehouse Jenny of Johnstown, NY, March 20, 2015;active in community and religious affairs.

’49 MS, PhD ’50—A. Colin McClung of Washington, DC, February 2,2015; soil scientist; improved soils and food production in Brazil’s Cer-rado region; World Food Prize Laureate; worked for the IRI ResearchInst.; taught agronomy at North Carolina State College; active in pro-fessional affairs.

’49 BS Ag—J. Charles McCullough of Covington, KY, May 27, 2013; pho-tographer. Beta Theta Pi.

’49 BS Ag—C. Lavett Smith Jr. of Fort Collins, CO, February 10, 2015;ichthyologist; specialist in coral reef fish and freshwater fish of the Low-er Great Lakes; curator, American Museum of Natural History; hosted 20of the museum’s tours and cruises; worked summers at Ohio State U.’sF. T. Stone Lab; taught at Ohio State U. and other universities; alsoworked underwater in the Tektite Program and Hydrolab; veteran; scubadiver; author; woodworker; blacksmith; boat builder; sailor; photogra-pher; traveler; birdwatcher; fly fisherman; active in community and pro-fessional affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

’49 B Chem E—William P. Vosseller of Green Valley, AZ, March 29, 2015;engineer, NL Industries; outdoorsman; music lover; chess player; activein alumni affairs. Cayuga Lodge.

’50 BA—William L. Huston of Venice, FL, April 7, 2015; development en-gineer, Corning Glass Works; research engineer and advertising writer, Tay-lor Instrument Co.; programming writer/analyst and technical writer, IBM;science and mathematics teacher; veteran; musician; traveler; active incommunity, religious, and alumni affairs. Wife, Aleta (Getman) ’46.

’50—Marie Veitel Kelly of Loveland, OH, September 3, 2014.

’50, BME ’51—John W. Laibe of Greenwich, CT, March 29, 2015; exec-utive, Exxon; president, Enjay Chemical Co.; veteran; golfer; active incommunity, professional, and alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon.

’50 B Chem E—Fredric A. Obstfeld of Walnut Creek, CA, December 29,2013; chemical engineer; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta.

’50 MBA—Herbert T. Perrin Jr. of Hot Springs, AR, March 7, 2015; chair-man of the laboratory dept., Inland Steel Container Co.; veteran; activecommunity and religious affairs.

’50 BA—Pamela H. Smith of Boston, MA, March 4, 2015; retired highschool English teacher; active in alumni affairs.

’50 BS Ag—Herman Timm of Davis, CA, April 10, 2015; emeritus veg-etable crops specialist, UC Davis; expert in the physiology and nutritionof the potato; veteran; Scouting volunteer; active in community andprofessional affairs.

’50 BS Ag—Warren M. Wigsten of Pleasant Valley, NY, March 15, 2015;owner/operator of Wigsten Highline dairy farm, an ice cream home de-livery business, and a seasonal ice cream shop; involved in internationalcattle exportation to help governments improve dairy herds in Europe,Africa, and South America; veteran; member, Dutchess County legisla-ture; 4-H member; dairy cattle show judge; instrumental in the Pleas-ant Valley Train Station restoration; traveler; active in civic, community,professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta. Wife, Betty(Greening) ’49.

’51, BA ’52—Charles P. Burdick of Glenville, NY, March 12, 2015; math-ematics and science teacher; chairman of mathematics, Mont PleasantHigh School; also taught graduate computer programming at Union Col-lege; general manager, Blitz Buggy Co.; veteran; textbook author; scout-master; court appointed special assistant, Schenectady County FamilyCourt; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’51 BS Ag—Walter H. Dean of Marietta, GA, April 14, 2011; consultant,Prudential Georgia Realty; active in alumni affairs.

’51 BS Hotel—Richard P. Degnan of Mesa, AZ, December 3, 2014; workedin hotel sales and management for Statler, Hilton, the Biltmore, and oth-er major hotel companies; taught at hotel schools at Polytechnic inPomona, CA, and Phoenix, AZ; veteran; recipient, first Certified HotelSalesman Executive accreditation conferred in California; member, HSMAIHall of Fame; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’51 DVM, PhD ’62—Jay R. Georgi of Astor, FL, April 3, 2015; professoremeritus, Cornell Veterinary college; active in professional affairs. AlphaPsi. Wife, Marion (Schott), DVM ’52.

’51 BA—Joan Cohen Halpern (Mrs. Stanley I. ’48) of Middle Island, NY,September 22, 2013.

’51 BS ILR—Robert J. Malm of Vero Beach, FL, March 30, 2015; part-ner/ executive VP of Concord Stuart; veteran. Delta Upsilon.

’51 BS Ag—Harry Merker of Ithaca, NY, formerly of Las Vegas, NV, March26, 2015; musician; composer; won a CLIO award for best advertisingjingle adaptation for a radio advertising campaign for Cal-Train commuterrail; veteran; active in professional, political, and alumni affairs.

’51 MS, PhD ’54—William S. Ryder Jr. of West Dennis, MA, March 7,2015; senior research specialist, General Foods Corp.; veteran; gardener;active in civic and community affairs.

’51 BA—Sally Peard Wagner of Sanborn, NY, April 2, 2015; co-owner,Wagner’s Farm Market; treasurer and director, Sanborn Library; skier; avidreader; traveler; crossword puzzle enthusiast; active in community, reli-gious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

’51, BA ’52—Charles K. Watters of Denver, CO, formerly of Erie, PA,March 1, 2015; founder, Assembly Machines Inc.; worked in sales forSwanson Erie Co., Raymond Bag Co., and Canada Dry; veteran; fly fish-erman; traveler; active in community and religious affairs.

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’51 BS HE—Joann Lane Traeger Wilson of Chesterfield, MO, March 5,2015; artist; taught at Dallas Arts Magnet School; docent, Dallas Muse-um of Fine Arts; active in community affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

’52 BS Nurs—Jean Thompson Crago of Waynesville, NC, October 7, 2013;registered nurse.

’52 DVM—Harry V. Hagstad of Baton Rouge, LA, April 1, 2015; profes-sor emeritus and head of the Dept. of Epidemiology and CommunityHealth, Louisiana State U.; also taught at Ross U. School of VeterinaryMedicine; veterinarian; worked in a leprosy control program in India; vet-eran; author; active in professional and religious affairs.

’52 BA—Anne Baldwin Tenney of Washington, DC, February 21, 2015;worked for the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; community or-ganizer; active in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs. DeltaDelta Delta.

’53 MBA—Elliot B. Corman of Brookline, MA, January 16, 2013; presi-dent, American Bag and Burlap Co.; veteran; active in religious affairs.

’53 BA—Diane Miller DeVido of Fearrington Village, NC, March 8, 2015;retired school librarian; junior high school teacher; active in communi-ty, religious, and alumni affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

’53 BS Ag, PhD ’60—Robert W. Ficken of Grafton, WI, March 31, 2012.Phi Kappa Tau.

’53, BEE ’54—Robert E. Flory of Oro Valley, AZ, March 16, 2015; elec-trical engineer, RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center; helped develop thetechnologies for high definition TV; amateur astronomer; photographer;music lover.

’53 BS ILR—James I. Galusha of Fairport, NY, March 25, 2015; insur-ance agent; member of Cayuga’s Waiters; active in alumni affairs. SigmaAlpha Epsilon.

’53-57 GR—Mary Simmons Kahn of Ithaca, NY, March 8, 2015; painter;printmaker; photographer; widow of Prof. Alfred E. Kahn; also worked forthe Federal Public Housing Authority; skier; tennis player; active in com-munity and alumni affairs.

’53 BS ILR—John R. McCarthy of Pittsford, NY, April 12, 2015; seniorVP for corporate relations, Eastman Kodak; veteran; golfer; gardener; ac-tive in community affairs. Chi Phi.

’53, BEE ’54—William R. Millager of Rogers, AR, March 16, 2015; ad-junct professor; supporter of the Razorback Trail; active in communityaffairs.

’53 BS Hotel—Richard A. Morton of Iowa Falls, IA, February 28, 2015;executive secretary and director of development, Iowa State U. Founda-tion; veteran; golfer; active in community and professional affairs.

’53-55 SP Ag—Lee A. Roberts of Medina, NY, April 7, 2015; farmer; toytractor collector; active in civic, community, professional, and religiousaffairs.

’53 PhD—Richard L. Sawyer of Raleigh, NC, March 9, 2015; founder,Int’l Potato Center in Lima, Peru; collected potato genetic material nowhoused in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault; professor of horticulture,North Carolina State U.; professor of vegetable crops, Cornell U.; veter-an; author; gardener; birdwatcher; active in community and profession-al affairs.

’53 BS Hotel—William L. Sullivan of San Mateo, CA, formerly ofRochester, NY, April 22, 2015; entrepreneur; co-developer of StrathallanHotel; golfer; philanthropist to charities in Waterford, Ireland, throughthe Rochester/Waterford Sister City Program; active in community, pro-fessional, and alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta.

’53 PhD—John S. Warner of Brier, WA, March 7, 2015; research chemistat Battelle Memorial Inst.; birdwatcher; gardener; active in civic, com-munity, and religious affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

’53, BS Ag ’52—Nelson F. Wright of Little York, NY, January 24, 2015;associate district superintendent of Cayuga County BOCES; vice princi-pal, Marathon Central School; dairy farmer; high school agricultureteacher; member, Cortland County legislature; inventor; house renovator;active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

’54, ’55 BME, MBA ’58—Edward M. Krech Jr. of Salem, SC, March 23,2015; associate director of engineering, Procter & Gamble; veteran; trav-eler; sculptor; painter; runner; hiker; mountain climber; sailor; scuba div-er; model train enthusiast; author; active in community, professional,and religious affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha. Wife, Joan (Gras) ’58.

’54 BS Ag—Dwight H. Lane of Springboro, OH, October 17, 2014;worked for Sharon Springs Central Schools; owner, Dairyland Restaurant;veteran. Alpha Zeta.

’54 BS ILR—Paul V. Napier of Sherman Oaks, CA, February 21, 2015;VP, Screen Actors Guild; founding producer of the SAG Awards show; TVand film actor who appeared in more than 400 commercials; hockey an-nouncer; radio broadcaster; veteran; coached Pop Warner and high schoolfootball, Little League, and basketball; active in community, profession-al, and alumni affairs. Chi Phi.

’55, B Chem E ’56—Robert L. Bunting Jr. of Hilton Head Island, SC,March 2, 2015; chief founder and president, Steel of West Virginia; pi-lot; skier; golfer; boater; active in community, professional, religious,and alumni affairs. Chi Phi.

’55 BS Ag—Charles L. Caton of New Hartford, NY, March 15, 2015; earthscience teacher, Holland Patent Central School; active in civic and com-munity affairs.

’55, B Chem E ’59—William G. Hanson of Ridgway, CO, April 1, 2014;chemical engineer. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

’55, BS Ag ’56—Albert J. Hardiman of Cape Coral, FL, March 4, 2015;trial attorney; veteran; active in community and professional affairs.

’55 BS Nurs—Patricia Gold Hutzelman of Hawthorne, NJ, March 8, 2015;community health and hospice care nurse; swimmer; painter; bridge play-er; master gardener; active in community and professional affairs. DeltaDelta Delta.

’55 BA—Robert U. Phillips of Jensen Beach, FL, November 12, 2014;salesman. Theta Chi.

’55 BA—Frances Williams Scott of Austin, TX, March 23, 2015; profes-sor of philosophy and asst. dean of the College of Human Sciences, TexasTech U.; VP, United Way of Lubbock; civil rights activist; Rotarian; ac-tive in civic, community, and professional affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

’55—Pauline Remington Thompson of Palm Desert, CA, and MountainLake, MN, March 29, 2015; farmer; horsewoman; author; craftswoman;bridge player; avid reader. Kappa Alpha Theta. Husband, James P. Thomp-son ’54.

’55 BA, PhD ’59—David A. West of Blacksburg, VA, April 2, 2015; pro-fessor of biology and genetics, Virginia Tech; author, A Naturalist in Brazil;advocate for wilderness areas in Jefferson National Forest; music enthu-siast; avid reader; traveler; active in community and professional affairs.Tau Kappa Epsilon. Wife, Lindsay (Butte), PhD ’59.

’55 BS Ag—Kenneth H. Wieschhoff of Midway, KY, January 11, 2015;retired US Navy Captain and pilot; planner at NATO HQ in Brussels; com-mander of Mission Team Alpha, US European Command; weapons offi-cer, USS Enterprise; head of Training Squadron 31; taught government,

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’56 MA—Charlotte Green Baker of Fort Myers, FL, January 15, 2015.

’56 BS Ag—Ruth Morse Harris of Livingston, TX, April 13, 2015; ele-mentary school teacher; active in alumni affairs.

’56, BME ’57—John V. MacGuffie of Brooklyn, NY, February 27, 2015;president, SPS Inc.; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

’56 BS Hotel—Robert A. Minium of Bay Village, OH, February 25, 2015;worked for the Stouffer Corp.; veteran; sailor; traveler; active in alumniaffairs. Sigma Nu.

’57 B Chem E—Edgard W. Averill Jr. of La Habra Heights, CA, March 10,2015; patent attorney; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.Tau Kappa Epsilon. Wife, Janet (Brekke) ’58.

’57, BArch ’60—William S. Cullen of Paradise Valley, AZ, March 1, 2015;architect; principal and head of design, Cullen Burr Assocs.; traveler; ac-tive in community and professional affairs. Phi Gamma Delta. Wife,Kathryn (Helm) ’58.

’57—Byron R. Prusky of Penn Valley, PA, May 23, 2008; attorney; CPA;former IRS agent; helped incorporate more than 500 small and medium-sized businesses; veteran; lecturer; author; boater; skier; bicyclist; trav-eler; active in professional and religious affairs.

’57 BA—Joan Wilson Randall of Sarasota, FL, July 6, 2007.

’57 JD—Richard S. Ringwood of Endwell, NY, October 30, 2014; attor-ney; specialist in personal injury law; skier; golfer; softball pitcher; ac-tive in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’57—Elizabeth Goodell Russell of Foster City, CA, October 30, 2013.

’57, BS Ag ’59—G. Neil Smith of Spencer, NY, March 15, 2015; super-intendent, McGuire & Bennett Contractors; active in community, profes-sional, and religious affairs.

’57 BA—Donald M. Spanton of Boca Raton, FL, May 26, 2013; estateattorney. Tau Epsilon Phi.

’57 BA, MBA ’62—Sterling B. Withington Jr. of Madison, AL, October24, 2014; worked at Republic Aviation, the New York World’s Fair, andChrysler; entrepreneur; started businesses including a dating service, ad-vertising and typesetting, tax preparation, air freight, trucking, real es-tate investment, and marine salvage; veteran; pilot; traveler. Chi Psi.

’58 BA—Marlene Goodman Blumberg of Smithtown, NY, October 26,2014; taught English at Fort Hamilton High School and East Islip HighSchool; lifetime member of Hadassah. Phi Sigma Sigma.

’58 PhD—Carl J. Buck of Berkeley Heights, NJ, March 28, 2015; organicresearch chemist at Pfizer, Shell Petrochemicals, and Johnson & John-son; instructor in biochemistry and dental materials, Temple U.; invent-ed several polymers; received the Philip B. Hofmann Award for Research;also worked for Sinclair Oil; classical music lover; fly-fisherman; activein community affairs.

’58 BS Nurs—Helene Rizzo Curley of Lumberton, NJ, February 27, 2014;court mediator; member, New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps; bridge play-er; kayaker; traveler; active in civic and community affairs.

’58, BS Ag ’63—Dalton P. Foster of Massena, NY, March 10, 2015; di-rector of worldwide regulatory compliance for Bristol-Myers Squibb; USchair of the public advisory board, St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario RiverStudy; veteran; boater; outdoorsman; active in community and profes-sional affairs.

’58 DVM—Clinton M. Greenwood of Billings, NY, October 17, 2014; vet-erinarian. Alpha Psi.

’58 BS Ag—June Hamilton of Rose, NY, April 2, 2015; antiques collec-tor; gardener; animal lover.

’58, BArch ’59—Stephen Lepp of New York City, September 26, 2014;architect; owner, Stephen Lepp Assocs.; designed the Int’l Design Cen-ter of New York; Glee Club member; active in community and professionalaffairs. Phi Sigma Epsilon.

’58 BS Ag—John A. Nelson of Springfield, NY, March 19, 2015; farmer,Rock Spring Farms; operated dairy farms in Maryland and New York; pi-anist; All-American in soccer; basketball player. Beta Theta Pi. Wife, Nan-cy (Stone) ’59.

’58, BA ’59—James H. Stallkamp of Wilmington, DE, March 13, 2015;president, Banker’s Trust Delaware; jazz enthusiast; active in communi-ty and alumni affairs. Chi Phi.

’58, BME ’59—Burt L. Swersey of Stephentown, NY, March 9, 2015; lec-turer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.; started Inventor’s Studio course atRPI; founded four medical technology companies; partner and founderof Shadowbrook Nursery; patent holder; recipient, Sustainable PracticeImpact Award; active in civic, community, professional, and religious af-fairs.

’59-61 GR—Ernest H. Alter of North Smithfield, RI, March 2, 2015;worked in the financial services industry for Bache & Co., Dean Witter,Shearson Lehman, and Phoenix Home Life/Phoenix Equity Planning; vet-eran; active in civic and religious affairs.

’59—Eric L. Knudsen of Verdi, NV, March 17, 2015; botanist and trop-ical soils expert; created, built, and ran Kahili Mountain Park; also workedin the Marshall Islands; horseman; craftsman.

’60-63 GR—Bruce C. Brotzman of Haddonfield, NJ, March 28, 2015;partner, PayAll Solutions; project manager for computer mainframes, Colo-nial Penn Group; designer, Scott Paper; also worked for Condata and AIGLife Insurance; runner; scoutmaster; active in community and religiousaffairs.

’60 BS Nurs—Fay Eshelman Fowler of Philadelphia, PA, October 15,2009; nurse.

’60 BA—Michael B. Greer of New York City, February 15, 2010; actorand writer.

’60 BS Ag—Robert H. Haeger of Verona, NY, February 14, 2015; taughtat UFA and Oneida County BOCES; 4-H Club agent; also worked for Madi-son Silo; veteran; director, Boonville Oneida County Fair; active in civic,community, professional, and religious affairs.

’60 MA, PhD ’64—H. George Henry of Leesburg, FL, June 22, 2014; pro-fessor emeritus of economics, Colgate U.; head of the Dept. of Econom-ics, Pius XII U. in Lesotho; traveler; active in professional affairs.

’60-61 SP ILR—Jan P. Maersk-Moller of Skive, Denmark, September 3,2014.

’60 BA—Marcia Brown Meigs of Ithaca, NY, March 14, 2015; gardener;rock gardener; active in community and religious affairs. Husband,Jonathan C. Meigs ’59, BArch ’62.

’60 BS HE—Anne Warren Smith of Corvallis, OR, March 13, 2015; author;writing teacher; events coordinator, Oregon State U. Dept. of Music andthe Best Cellar Coffeehouse; singer; guitarist; harpist; washtub bass play-er, the Virgin Frets. Pi Beta Phi.

’61, BME ’62—Eugene L. Appel of La Jolla, CA, March 7, 2015;

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general and trauma surgeon, Sharp Memorial Hospital. Beta Pi.

’61 BS Hotel—Peter J. Flood of Ketchum, ID, March 8, 2015; hotelier;landscape contractor; pilot; veteran; hunter; fisherman; skier; scuba div-er; active in community affairs.

’61, BME ’62—David C. Shanks of Vero Beach, FL, April 8, 2015; VP ofhuman resources, public affairs, and strategic planning at Sunoco; VPand managing director, New England region of Arthur D. Little; alsoworked for DuPont and Eastern Airlines; consultant; sailor; golfer; avidreader; pianist; scuba diver; active in community, professional, religious,and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

’62, BS Ag ’63—John R. DeGlopper of Arlington, MA, April 5, 2015;worked for NYS Dept. of Agriculture and Markets; veteran; gardener; his-tory buff; fan of crossword and jigsaw puzzles.

’62 BS Ag—Lawrence A. Menahan of Kent, WA, September 25, 2013;worked at the GSA in Auburn, WA; research scientist, Einstein School ofMedicine.

’62, BEP ’65—Edward L. White of Westbrook, ME, September 26, 2014;attending psychiatrist, Maine Medical Center; champion of the mental-ly ill; member of the Sherwoods; poet; hiker; backpacker; skier; runner;gardener; kayaker; flutist; active in community and professional affairs.Chi Psi.

’63 BS HE—Bonnie Simonson Suchet of London, England, April 15, 2015;executive assistant to Chuck Feeney ’56, the Atlantic Philanthropies, andits investment arm, General Atlantic; traveler. Delta Gamma.

’63 BA—Henry D. Wong of Roslyn, NY, March 19, 2014. Triangle.

’64 LLB—Neil J. Abelson of Garnet Valley, PA, October 15, 2014; at-torney.

’64 MA—Mary E. Arendas of Wilmerding, PA, March 29, 2015; architectand president for architecture development.

’64, BEP ’65, ME Aero ’66—Ronald H. Aungier of Greensburg, PA, April7, 2015; engineer in the turbomachinery industry; worked for CarrierCorp. and Elliott Co.; founded RHA Consulting; veteran; author; activein professional affairs.

’64 BS Ag—James E. Konstanty of Oneonta, NY, April 3, 2015; attor-ney, towns of Oneonta and Davenport; Otsego County Attorney; activein civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Chi.

’64 BA, JD ’67—Alexander W. Luckanick of Binghamton, NY, February24, 2015; attorney; active in community and religious affairs.

’64, BS Ag ’66, DVM ’67—John J. Missenis of Hagerstown, MD, Febru-ary 25, 2015; veterinarian, USDA APHIS; veteran; active in communityand religious affairs. Alpha Psi.

’64—Gordon A. Robbins of Bondville, VT, February 27, 2015; sculptor;fly fisherman; director, US Boardsailing Assn.; director, Okemo MountainResort snowboarding program and supervisor of Okemo Ski + Ride School;coached Olympic medalists; nationally ranked board sailor; snowboard-er; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha Delta Phi.

’64, BS ILR ’65—Daniel I. Schechter of New York City, March 19, 2015;VP, Globalvision; “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector” on WBCN-FM;media critic; human rights activist; filmmaker; producer, ABC News mag-azine “20/20” and “South Africa Now”; anti-apartheid activist; author,WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, Madiba A-Z: The Many Faces of NelsonMandela, and other books; blogger; active in civic, community, and pro-fessional affairs.

’65 BA—Steven C. Gurkin of New York City, November 16, 2014; ra-diologist; founding partner, Friendly Hills Medical Group; author; jazzaficionado.

’65 BS Ag, MBA ’68—Francis T. Stadelberger of Maitland, FL, April 1,2013. Beta Theta Pi.

’65 MS Ag—Jonas Ystaas of Lofthus, Norway, July 1, 2014; senior re-search officer and head of station, Ullensvang Research Station; author;active in professional affairs.

’66, BS Ag ’67—Frederick J. Thompson of Brimson, MN, February 6,2015; co-owner, Midwest Visuals educational media firm that specializedin the history and ecology of the Upper Midwest; worked on programsfor smoking cessation and other health challenges; helped start PioneerCrafts Cooperative; Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey; environmental ac-tivist who worked to preserve the Boundary Waters Canoe Area; volun-teered to help Iraqi and Afghan refugees; active in civic and communityaffairs. Wife, Pamela (Mattice) ’67.

’66 BS Hotel—Linwood K. Wales of Houston, TX, February 23, 2015;restaurateur; entrepreneur; golfer; active in civic, community, and alum-ni affairs.

’67 B Chem E, ME ’68—Gerald W. Safarik of Kingwood, TX, March 5,2014; retired principal application engineer.

’67—Bruce L. Wilson of Delran, NJ, September 7, 2014.

’68—Bruce N. Dean of Trumansburg, NY, April 18, 2015; farmer; beefcattle raiser; hog breeder; tractor-trailer driver; diesel mechanic; out-doorsman; active in community affairs.

’69 BS Hotel, PhD ’77—James J. Eyster Jr. of Lansing, NY, April 7, 2015;chair and professor emeritus, Cornell Hotel School; taught financial man-agement and real estate, and created the course Housing and Feeding theHomeless; veteran; author; carried the Olympic torch in Seneca Falls aspart of the 2002 Olympics; expert witness for management contract dis-putes; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’69, BS Ag ’70—Michael C. Fitch of Buffalo, NY, April 12, 2015; VP, Mer-rill Lynch; supporter of the arts; sailor; active in community affairs. PhiKappa Sigma.

’69 BA—Richard S. Tyce of Titusville, FL, February 10, 2010. Theta Chi.

’70-72 GR—Bruce M. John of Ithaca, NY, March 15, 2015; worked forCornell Cooperative Extension; founder, Better Housing; founder, Moun-tain Heritage Festival; took part in a USAID team in Tanzania; active incivic, community, and religious affairs.

’70 BS Ag—William C. Kimball of Greenwich, NY, March 31, 2015; di-rector of agriculture protection and development, NYS Dept. of Agricul-ture and Markets; veteran; active in religious affairs.

’71 BS—Donald E. Joslyn of Greenville, SC, March 31, 2015; electricalengineer; worked for American Electric Power; traveler; skier; photogra-pher; active in professional affairs.

’71 BS, M Chem E ’72—Robert P. Matusiak of Silver Spring, MD, Feb-ruary 25, 2015; owner, Acutran Inc. transformer manufacturing compa-ny; refinery engineer, Sunoco; director of mergers and acquisitions forSun Co.; VP of business development for National Intergroup; veteran;skier; tennis player; model train and jazz aficionado. Acacia.

’71 MA, PhD ’72—Gesa Muller Valk of Horseheads, NY, March 19, 2015;senior lecturer, German Studies, Cornell U.; literary scholar; expert on thework of Georg Kaiser; also taught at Union Springs High School; author;

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’72 PhD—Patrick W. Concannon of St. Pete Beach, FL, and Ithaca, NY,February 23, 2015; founding chairman, Int’l Veterinary Information Serv-ice; professor and research scientist, Cornell College of Veterinary Medi-cine and Div. of Biological Sciences; sailor; traveler.

’72 BA—James L. Dinnerstein of Liberty, NY, February 21, 2012; retiredmanager, Stevensville Hotel; bowler; fisherman; woodworker; golfer; ac-tive in community affairs.

’72, BA ’71—Barbara Posner Jungman of Houston, TX, December 20,2012; mathematics instructor, North Harris College; active in alumni af-fairs. Delta Phi Epsilon. Husband, David Jungman, JD ’74.

’72 BA—Neil Henry Reid of New York City, February 9, 2015; attorney;annual subscriber, New York Philharmonic; avid reader; music lover; trainenthusiast; active in community and alumni affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

’73 BA—Kathy J. Atkinson of Salt Lake City, UT, March 1, 2015; emer-gency room physician; dancer; traveler; active in professional affairs. Kap-pa Kappa Gamma.

’74 PhD—Jeffrey D. Bishop of Ithaca, NY, April 4, 2015; psychologist;psychotherapist; human ecologist; taught at Ithaca College and SUNYCortland; worked with incarcerated youth; volunteer instructor, Lifelong;author; active in community and professional affairs.

’74 BA—Mitchell C. Pollack of Setauket, NY, March 13, 2015; directorof emergency medicine at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital; pioneerin emergency medicine; helped develop the first chest pain emergencyroom on Long Island; volunteer medical director of several Long Islandambulance corps; active in community and professional affairs. Tau Ep-silon Phi.

’75 BA—Jody Mazur Haley of Medfield, MA, October 19, 2014; teacher,Boston Public Schools; active in professional affairs. Delta Gamma.

’77 MNS—Elizabeth M. Andrew of Memphis, TN, April 6, 2015; pedia-trician, Memphis Children’s Clinic; advocate for children and adolescents;gardener; sang in the Memphis Symphony Chorus; marathon runner.

’79 MS, PhD ’83—Kevitt D. Brown of Lafayette, IN, October 24, 2014;plant geneticist; corn research coordinator at FFR Cooperative; cornbreeder and researcher, Beck’s Superior Hybrids; active in professionaland religious affairs. Wife, Sara (Estrada), MS Ag ’83.

’79 BS—John T. Harriott of Winston Salem, NC, March 5, 2015; oph-thalmologist, Central Piedmont Retina; retinal surgeon; woodworker whomade flooring, doors, moldings, beds, dressers, and tables; sports carrebuilder.

’79—Pamela D. Niehoff of Ithaca, NY, March 20, 2015; fabricated cus-tom marine canvas, Navy Point Marine; worked at Sally Forth in Ithaca;chef at Wegmans; gardener; music lover; active in community affairs.

’79—Eric A. Saalfeld of Palm Bay, FL, March 23, 2015; math tutor, PalmBay Learning Lab, Eastern Florida State College; chess player; active incommunity and professional affairs.

’81 ME—Jorge L. Boria of Austin, TX, March 4, 2015; co-founder andinternational VP of process improvement, Liveware Inc.; professor, U.Nacional de San Luis, who helped establish the university’s Inst. for Com-puting and Computer Science; restructured the curriculum in systems en-gineering at U. Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; leadconsultant and appraiser of CMMI; author.

’81—Jacob R. Gavish of Brooksville, FL, July 25, 2009; real estate bro-ker; Rotarian.

’83 MA—Linda M. Mason of Browns Mills, NJ, February 28, 2015; leg-islative representative, American Federation of Government Employees;taught Bible studies; active in religious affairs.

’86 BA—Benjamin P. Brown of Juno Beach, FL, March 23, 2015; attor-ney; commercial and trusts and estates litigator; active in alumni affairs.Phi Gamma Delta.

’87 MBA—Julia B. Poduch of Portland, OR, March 14, 2015; VP of mar-keting, Regence Health Care; marketing executive at Procter & Gamble,Birds Eye Foods, Dole Foods, and Oregon Cherry Growers; hiker; bicyclist;gardener; traveler; glassblower; active in civic, community, and profes-sional affairs.

’88 PhD—Jean Schmittau of Candor, NY, March 5, 2015; professor of ed-ucation, SUNY Binghamton; also taught at Cornell U., Cleveland State U.,and several high schools; expert on Vygotskian mathematics; author; hik-er; musician; theatre and ballet enthusiast; collected books, stamps, andcoins; active in community and professional affairs.

’89 BA—Jennifer Anne Whitehead of Binghamton, NY, formerly of Itha-ca and Syracuse, February 24, 2015; resource coordinator for the NYS Uni-fied Court System-Integrated Domestic Violence Court; social justicechampion; reader; listener/communicator; Cayuga boater; gardener; 8-ball champion. Husband, Daryl Santos ‘87.

’94 BS—Robert Y. Chung of New York City, February 18, 2015; attorneyat the firm of Anderson Kill; interned for the Hon. Denny Chin in the USDistrict Court for the Southern District of New York; author; active in com-munity and professional affairs.

’05 BME—Anthony W. Suggs Jr. of Clayton, NC, April 24, 2014; aerospaceengineer at UTC Aerospace Systems; also worked at Pratt & Whitney.