Alumni Deaths
NOV./DEC. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 3

'23 GR--Viola McCarthy Stephens of Garden City, NY, February 1, 1984.

'26 PhD--Wayne E.Manning of Lewisburg, PA, February 8, 2004; retired professor.

'27 GR--Nellie Price Hoke of Salisbury, PA, December 14, 1995.

'27 BA--Norma RossWinfree of Sun City, AZ, December 21, 2005; active in alumni affairs.

'28, BA '29, JD '31--W.Harwood Hooper of Lockport, NY, April 7, 2003; attorney. Phi Kappa Tau.

'28--Helen Jacobson Papile of Boca Raton, FL, December 1, 1983.

'30--Phoebe Parrott Burdick of Longboat Key, FL, December 29, 2005; active in religious and alumni affairs.

'30 BME--George B. Emeny Sr. of Albuquerque, NM, September 13, 2004; active in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

'30 BA, MD '35--Saul R. Kelson of Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20, 2004; physician.

'30 GR--Clara A. Saxer of Dushore, PA, January 29, 2002.

'31 BA--Margaret Ellis Blabey of Slingerlands, NY, December 27, 2005; social studies teacher; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Chi Omega.

'31--Louise Boyle of Moravia, NY, December 31, 2005; commercial and portrait photographer.

'31--William H. Coburn of Battle Creek, MI, April 1, 1975.

'31-33 SP Ag--Albert W.Musson of Gilbertsville, NY, January 5, 2004.

'32 BEE--Paul Brenn of Springfield, OH, July 11, 2005; active in religious affairs.

'32 BA, JD '34--Herbert A.Heerwagen of Maplewood, NJ, formerly of Chappaqua, NY, December 24, 2005; attorney; active in community and professional affairs.

'32 BS Ag--Donald A. Russell of Fairfax, VA, November 23, 2005; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.Wife, Isabel (Guthrie) '33.

'33 BA, MD '36--Hyman Engelberg of Santa Monica, CA, December 19, 2005; personal physician of Marilyn Monroe; practiced at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; veteran; expert on the link between smoking and heart disease; author.

'33 MS--J. Kenneth Gunther of Kohler, WI, September 10, 2004.

'33 MCE--Walter J. Kubon of Shady Cove, OR, December 2, 2005; retired from Monsanto.

'34 BS Ag, MS Ag '39--Mary Heydweiller Benson (Mrs. Dirck, MA '37) of Saranac Lake, NY, December 28, 2005; librarian; ornithologist; active in civic and community affairs.

'34--Elizabeth Barber Evans (Mrs.William M., DVM '32) of Cohoes, NY, December 18, 2005; homemaker; bookkeeper; lab technician.

'34 BA--Shirley Stapleton Fries (Mrs.William R. '35) of Hurst, TX, December 16, 2005; high school Latin and English teacher; active in alumni affairs.

'34 BA, PhD '47--Victor E. Schmidt of Brockport, NY, November 28, 2005; geologist; taught at SUNY Brockport and SUNY Cortland; author; active in community affairs.

'35--Bernice Tuttle Parker of Moravia, NY, December 28, 2005; secretary, university development, Cornell U.; bookkeeper; active in community and religious affairs.

'35, BArch '36--John Sullivan Jr. of Dayton, OH, December 18, 2005; retired architect; painter; active in community affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

'36 BS HE--Virginia Phillips Godley (Mrs. Grandin A. '36) of Frankfort, IN, December 30, 2005; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'36 BA--Margaret Weekes Hendrickson (Mrs. Edwin F. '33) of Sag Harbor, NY,May 31, 2004. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'36--Margaret Krum Levine of Hollywood, FL, November 17, 2001.

'36 BME--Jose O. Lombard of Miami, FL, October 31, 1999. Delta Chi.

'37-39 SP Ag--Lowell B. Judson of Fort Collins, CO, December 20, 2002.

'37--Kent W. Longnecker of Manchester, NH, formerly of Honolulu, HI, and Rome, NY, December 24, 2005; hospital administrator; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'37 BA--Lyndon M.Virkler of Virginia Beach, VA, January 4, 2006; orthodontist; veteran; active in community affairs.

'37 BA--Hildegard UelzmannWilson of Southampton, NY, December 23, 2005; high school Latin and English teacher; piano teacher; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

'38-40 SP Ag--J. Ralph Fuller of Castile, NY,May 22, 2002.

'38--Margaret KorherrWest of Naples, FL, January 14, 2003. Alpha Phi.

'40 DVM--Milton S.Alberding of Waterville, NY, October 23, 2005; veterinarian.

'40 DVM--Ralph E. Loomis of Warsaw, NY, December 30, 2005; veterinarian; specialist in dairy cattle; active in community affairs.Wife, Grace (Kinney), DVM '42.

'40--John Mason of New York City, formerly of Jakarta, Indonesia, July 4, 2005; retired epidemiologist, US Dept. of Agriculture.

'40 BA--William S. Page of Raleigh, NC, October 1, 2005; retired broadcaster; veteran; active in community and religious affairs. Kappa Sigma.

'41 BS Ag--Stuart E. Cobb of Ithaca, NY, December 19, 2005.

'41 BA--Robert J.Harley of Decatur, AL, formerly of Basking Ridge, NJ, January 1, 2006; veteran; active in civic, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Tau.

'41 BS Ag--Eric V. Seleen of Rockford, IL, December 13, 2005; senior project manager, Ecolab; veteran; active in community affairs.

'41 BA--Aleine EllisWalsh of Southport, ME, January 2, 2006. Husband, Frank V.Walsh Jr. '40.

'42 DVM--Paul Handler of West Palm Beach, FL, formerly of Middletown, CT, December 26, 2005; veterinarian; active in professional and religious affairs. Tau Epsilon Phi.

'42 BME--Philip E.Hogin of Greenwich, CT, December 26, 2005; retired VP, AT&T Technologies; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'42 MS HE--Barbara MorrellMai of Ithaca, NY, December 16, 2005; taught food chemistry,Hotel school, Cornell U.; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Husband,William F.Mai, PhD '45.

'42 BEE--Harry L. Tredennick of Abilene, TX, June 20, 2005; worked for General Electric Utility Sales; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Psi Upsilon.

'43 BA,MBA '48--John B.Abbink of Brooklin, ME, February 8, 1997. Kappa Sigma.

'43 BS ORIE--Charles W.Alcott of Hamilton, OH, November 16, 2005; retired president, Alcott Productions. Delta Upsilon.

'43 BA--Marian Conkling Arms of Getzville, NY, January 6, 2006.

'43 BME--John F.Harper of Ridgewood, NJ, November 3, 2005; mechanical engineer. Psi Upsilon.

'43--Josephine Williams Hulett of Granville, NY, December 25, 2004.

'43 BA--Marion Weinberg Lurie of Larchmont, NY, January 4, 2006. Husband, Alvin D. Lurie '43.

'43 B Chem E--William A.McHugh of Forks Township, PA, December 21, 2005; partner, Easton Electronics Assocs.; veteran; expert in optics; active in community affairs.

'43, BS Ag '45,DVM '45--Grayson B.Mitchell of King Ferry, NY, December 25, 2005; avian pathologist; veteran; author; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha Psi.

'43 BS Ag--William J. Pape of Surprise, AZ, December 6, 2005. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'43, BS Ag '45, MS Ag '46--Robert S. Robison of North Brunswick, NJ, October 15, 2005; microbiologist; agronomist; senior research scientist, Squibb Inst. for Medical Research; author; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'43 BA, PhD '51--Jack H. Smith of Schenectady, NY, April 12, 2005; professor emeritus, physics, SUNY;Wife,Martha (Bogan) '49.

'43 BS ORIE--James D. Sowdon of Kingston, MA, December 21, 2005; retired engineer, General Electric; realtor; veteran; active in community affairs.

'44 BS HE--Barbara Brittain Abbink (Mrs. John B. '43, MBA '48) of Brooklin, ME, April 5, 1998. Kappa Delta.

'44, BA '46--Robert C.Adee of Warwick, NY, November 29, 2005; bank examiner, NY State; veteran; active in civic and religious affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'44, BA '47--Louis J. Daukas of Glastonbury, CT, December 22, 2005; active in alumni affairs.Wife, Janet (Buhsen) '44.

'45--Elizabeth Young Inman of South Daytona, FL, September 3, 2005; active in civic affairs. Kappa Delta.

'45, BA '44--Robert E. Kugler of Seneca, SC, August 28, 2002.Wife,Marilyn (Betz) '45.

'45--Allan M.Unger of Rancho Mirage, CA, December 22, 2005. Beta Sigma Rho.

'45 BA, PhD '58--Dora E.Worbs of Brooktondale, NY, December 20, 2005; author; conservationist.

'46 DVM--Ray O. Delano Jr. of Lakeville, MA, December 16, 2005; veterinarian. Alpha Psi.

'46-48 SP Ag--Joseph B. Erickson of Ulster, NY,March 23, 2003.

'46-47 GR--Florence Miller Jones of Starkville, MS, October 25, 2003; active in community affairs. Husband, Eric W. Jones, PhD '50.

'46, BA '45, MS '48--Irvin L. Tailleur of Sequim,WA, October 24, 2004.Wife,Mary (Huntley) '50.

'47--David R.Moyer of Livermore, CA, June 28, 2002. Delta Chi.

'47, BA '48--Jerome M. Silver of Boston, MA, December 21, 2005; retired VP, Robert Hall; active in alumni affairs.Wife, Barbara (Bayer) '47.

'47 BME--Philip A. Teese of Aiken, SC, December 21, 2005; retired insurance underwriter; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'48 BA--Asa C.Allison Jr. of Oneonta, NY, December 28, 2005; owner, Sisson's Ladies Dept. Store.

'48 BS HE--Stephanie ThurnauerWeiss (Mrs.Walter '43, JD '49) of Teaneck, NJ, December 25, 2005; active in community affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi.

'49 BCE--Robert Gross of Great Neck, NY, December 17, 2005; real estate developer; historian; veteran; active in civic and community affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'49 MFS--Kathleen Brand Hilfinger of Birmingham, MI, December 17, 2005; microbiology teacher, Oakland Community College; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'49 BS Ag--Anthony Maltese of Lakeland, FL, January 18, 2005.

'49 B Chem E--John H. Pickin of Madison, NJ, October 26, 2005; chemical engineer; helped to develop Irish Spring soap; veteran; active in alumni affairs.

'49 MS--Joseph C. Podany of Temple Hills, MD,May 10, 2005.

'50 BS Ag--Edward A. Karsten of Ft.Myers, FL, November 9, 2003; VP, Kidder Peabody.

'50 BS Ag--Robert M. Stratton of Sauquoit, NY, December 15, 2004; credit request coordinator, Agway; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'50--Ron W.Wilcox of Sacramento, CA, April 14, 2001; president,Wilcox Bonds & Insurance Svcs.; designer and developer, Bell Acqua Ski Lakes; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'51 BA--Harold Abramowitz of Newton, MA, October 20, 2001; physician. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'51--Ed Seward Hill of Dryden, NY, December 21, 2005; postmaster; bank teller; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'51--Ernest A. Luleich of Maitland, FL, September 20, 1998. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'51 MS--Marianne Graetzer Yancey of Santa Fe, NM, December 19, 2005; chemical researcher; librarian; technical translator; active in community and religious affairs. Sigma Delta Tau.

'52 BA, LLB '54,MBA '65--Robert B.Hardy Jr. of Middlebury,VT, formerly of Ithaca, NY, December 22, 2005; administrative law judge; active in community and religious affairs.Wife,Miriam (Smith) '58.

'52 MS--Robert P. Langguth of Overland,MO, September 14, 2005.

'52 BS Hotel--John C.O'Donnell of North Bend, OR, December 25, 2005; hotelier. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'52 MS--John H.Watt of Brooklyn, New Zealand, July 2, 2005; director.

'53--Frank H. Becker of Rensselaer, NY, September 17, 1996.

'53-55 GR--Lyle G. Bunville of Newark, DE, January 15, 2005; chemist.

'53 BLArch--David B. Chase of Arlington, VA, December 8, 2004.

'53, BCE '54--Joseph S. Cohen of Delray Beach, FL, April 8, 1989. Phi Sigma Delta.

'53-54 GR--Lawrence E. Collins of Trenton, NJ, August 21, 2000.

'53 BS HE--Joan Kramer Condon of Reseda, CA,March 28, 2002.

'53 BS Nurs--Beverly Benjamin Daut of Hanover, PA, August 27, 2003.

'53 BS Ag, PhD '60--Charles R. Frink of Branford, CT, November 30, 2005; soil scientist; vice director, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; veteran; author; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.Wife, Roberta (Manchester) '53.

'53--Jean Refowich Gerstley (Mrs. Kiefer N. '48) of Wyncote, PA, January 1, 2001.

'53--Eugene S.Grafton of Sharon, MA, August 24, 2001.

'53, BCE '55--William A.Harvey of Indianapolis, IN,May 4, 1999. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'53 LLB--David B.Hayter of New York City, October 3, 1992; attorney.

'53--Thomas L.Heithaus of Greenwich, CT, September 19, 2005; hotelier; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'53--Robert M.Maloney of Houston, TX, April 22, 2005; worked for Borden Inc. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'53--Sally Reed Mason of Birmingham, AL,March 27, 2005; active in religious affairs.

'53 BA, MD '57--Robert A.Michals of West Hills, CA, January 8, 2000; physician. Delta Chi.

'53 BS Nurs--Aldona Dervinis Szewczyk of Bakersfield, CA,May 5, 2001.

'54, BME '55--David L. Champlin of Clearwater, FL, December 29, 2005. Acacia.

'54 BA--Lorraine Niedeck Gardner of Ringwood, Australia,March 1, 2005; director & puppeteer, Gardner Puppet Theatre; musician; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'54 BS Nurs--Alma SchelleWoolley of Catonsville,MD, December 17, 2005; professor emerita and former dean, School of Nursing, Georgetown U.; former director, School of Nursing, Illinois Wesleyan U.; taught at U. of Maryland, Stockton State Coll., Atlantic Comm. Coll., U. of Pennsylvania; author; active in professional affairs.

'55 BCE--William A. Lydon of Oak Brook, IL, December 12, 2005; retired engineer.

'55 BS Ag--Lorens Persson of Barnstable, MA, April 10, 2005; businessman; active in alumni affairs. Seal & Serpent.

'55 PhD--Robert C. Tang of El Centro, CA, July 29, 1996.Wife, Helen (King), MS HE '55.

'56--Jane Berke Ente of Roslyn, NY, September 13, 2000.

'56 BA--Edward B. Fitzgerald of Hamden, CT, November 11, 2005; attorney. Alpha Tau Omega.

'56 BS Ag, PhD '61--Robert G.Mower of Ithaca, NY, December 27, 2005; professor, CU Dept. of Floriculture & Ornamental Horticulture; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'58 M ILR--R. David Niebler of Gulf Shores, AL, December 11, 2005; business executive.

'58--Robert F. Phillips of Chillicothe,MO, October 9, 2005.

'58--Dorr F. Town of Westfield, NY,March 10, 2003.

'59 BA--Barbara Kaplan Krause of Brookline, MA,May 22, 2004.

'59 BS Hotel--Thomas E.Moritz of Abilene, TX, December 20, 2005; professor emeritus, Hardin-Simmons U.; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Seal & Serpent.

'59 BS Hotel--Robert B.Nordlander of Fruitland Park, FL, December 24, 2005; owner, home building business; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Phi.

'59--William H. Scott of Omaha, NE, September 14, 2003; civil engineer; land surveyor. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'60, BS HE '59--Cathi M.Hunt of New York City, December 25, 2005; consumer affairs consultant. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'60 MD--Richard J. Lynch of Pittsfield, MA, January 1, 2006; physician; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.

'60 MA--Margaret Mansfield Miller of Hammondsport, NY, January 1, 1996.

'60 DVM, PhD '67--David A.Morrow III of State College, PA, December 22, 2005; professor,Michigan State U.; veterinary consultant; author; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.Wife, Linda (MacDonough), MNS '66.

'61-62 GR--Ernest N.Gutierrez of Albuquerque, NM, August 7, 2001.

'61, BArch '62--Glen R.McGonagle of Tucson, AZ, formerly of Huntsville, TX, June 2, 2005; retired pilot, Continental Airlines; veteran. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'62 BS Nurs--Edith Kott Donenfeld of New York City, December 28, 2005; contract administrator,Westchester Cty. Dept. of Planning.

'62 LLB--Gerald Levy of Parsippany, NJ, August 18, 2002; attorney; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'65 MA--Kenneth A.Miller of Hammondsport, NY, December 7, 2002.

'66 MA, PhD '81--Peggy G. Endel of Pinecrest, FL, December 17, 2005; professor of Renaissance literature, Florida Int'l U.; active in professional affairs. Husband, Barnett Guttenberg, PhD '72.

'67 MST--Lucille McDonald Leisner of Santa Fe, NM, formerly of Washington, DC, January 4, 2006; junior high school teacher; active in professional affairs.

'68--David E. Krino of Manistee, MI, December 14, 2005; vocational coordinator, Lansing (MI) School District. Delta Upsilon.

'68--William B. Lewis of Boston, MA, April 8, 1988. Phi Kappa Psi.

'71 PhD--Robert P.Moore of Lexington, KY,May 27, 2005.

'71 BS Ag--Donald B.Norton of Germany, June 10, 2004. Phi Epsilon Pi.

'71 BS Ag, MS HE '82--Mildred Shepard Zien (Mrs. Dewitt '40, PhD '52) of Colorado Springs, CO, December 9, 2005; owner, Sir Zien Realty; active in alumni affairs.

'74 BA--Ira F.Mollick of Great Neck, NY,March 21, 1995. Tau Epsilon Phi.

'77 MPS--Salvador I. Rubio of Los Banos, Philippines, February 8, 2000; worked for Bureau of Soils, Suncresco.

'78 PhD--William F.Haxby of Westwood, NJ, January 4, 2006; geologist; expert on ocean-mapping.

'79 BS Ag--Debbie G.Moses of Chevy Chase, MD, December 24, 2005; senior VP and attorney, Boston Properties; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

'81--Catherine Chigaridas of Montpelier, VT, December 22, 2005; landscaper.

'81 MS Ag--Joseph A. G. Roussos of Fayetteville, NC, September 15, 1996.

'85 MS EE--Heather Corey Dee of Ocean, NJ, November 10, 2002; electrical engineer, AT&T Bell Laboratories and MITRE Corp.

'85 MS Ag, PhD '98--Anne L.Westman of Griffin, GA, November 20, 2001; worked for USDA Genetic Resources.

'86 BS Ag--Gavin R.Wright of El Centro, CA, April 17, 2004; biologist, US Bureau of Land Management; also worked for Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge, Nat'l Maritime Fisheries, and the Peace Corps.

'96 BA--Philip S. Taksen of New Haven, CT, February 1, 2005; co-founder, CEO, and president, Venan Entertainment; active in professional affairs.