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May / June 2011 Obituaries

'35 BS HE—Janet Hollowell Bradley of Clovis, CA, September 22, 2010; home economics teacher; artist; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. '35 BA—Margaret Hedgcock Church of Annapolis, MD, September 28, 2010; worked for the Republican Nat'l Committee; active in civic and community affairs. Alpha Phi. '35 MA—Eleanor Elmore of West Lafayette, IN, September 20, 2010; […]

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'35 BS HE—Janet Hollowell Bradley of Clovis, CA, September 22, 2010; home economics teacher; artist; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

'35 BA—Margaret Hedgcock Church of Annapolis, MD, September 28, 2010; worked for the Republican Nat'l Committee; active in civic and community affairs. Alpha Phi.

'35 MA—Eleanor Elmore of West Lafayette, IN, September 20, 2010; high school teacher of French, English, and Latin; active in religious affairs.

'36—Charles F. Dickens of Savannah, NY, September 6, 2010; farmer; John Deere machinery dealer.

'37 BS HE—Elizabeth Ferguson Barell of Sherborn, MA, September 23, 2010; retired research technician, Dana Farber Cancer Center; lab assistant, bacteriology dept., Wellesley College; also worked for General Foods; active in community affairs. Alpha Phi.

'38 BME—Jay T. Fish of Englewood, FL, August 31, 2010; plant manager, DuPont Co.; veteran; musician; active in community affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'38 BS Ag, MS Ag '50—William A. Kumpf of Elk City, OK, formerly of Rochester, NY, September 6, 2010; taught high school horticulture; also worked for Monroe County Cooperative Extension Service; active in religious affairs.

'38 MS—Frank L. LeRoy of Monson, ME, September 16, 2010; VP and general manager, the Colombian Petroleum Co.; business manager, American Management Assn.; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

'39 BS HE—Pearl Slocum Thompson of Newark, NY, formerly of Alexandria, VA, August 28, 2010; retired, board of governors, Federal Reserve System; teacher. Wayside Aftermath.

'40-41 GR—Myron C. Hunt of Richmond, IN, September 23, 2010; facilities manager, Dana Corp.; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'40 MS, PhD '43—Clyde D. Mueller of Fayetteville, AR, October 3, 2010; worked in the computing dept., U. of Arkansas; poultry dept. staff, Kansas State U.; poultry geneticist, Arbor Acres and Marshall's Poultry; veteran.

'40 BA—Robert C. Ray of Tampa, FL, September 28, 2010; founder, Franklin Concrete Products; veteran; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

'40 BA—John R. Snow of Chester, CT, formerly of New London and Waterford, CT, September 19, 2010; designed sonar systems, Naval Underwater Systems Center; consultant; author; charter member, Trout Unlimited; active in community affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'41 BS Ag—George A. Marshall Jr. of Fitchburg, MA, September 23, 2010; fruit grower; produced the Marshall Mac; dog trainer; active in professional affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'41-42 GR—Raymond F. Novak of Fort Collins, CO, formerly of Williston, ND, September 26, 2010; president, North Dakota Farmers Union Insurance; veteran; active in community affairs.

'41 BS Ag—Guilford K. Woodward of Johnson City, NY, formerly of Union Center, NY, October 1, 2010; operated Woodward Poultry Farms; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'42, BS Ag '46—Leon H. Mehlenbacher of Burbank, WA, September 22, 2010; farmer; active in religious affairs.

'43 BA, JD '49—George D. Crofts Jr. of Williamsville, NY, September 23, 2010; tax and estate attorney; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'43 DVM—Robert S. Doig of Walton, NY, October 1, 2010; veterinarian; vet supervisor meat inspector, NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets; veteran; active in community and religious affairs. Alpha Psi.

'43 MD—John L. Norris of Nashville, TN, and Winter Haven, FL, October 2, 2010; professor, Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt U. School of Medicine; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Wife, Margaret (Swann), MD '49.

'45, BA '44—Charles P. Argana of Austin, TX, September 29, 2010; chemical engineer and sales manager, DuPont Co.

'45, B Chem E '47—J. Newton Hunsberger III of Wilmington, DE, September 23, 2010; worked for DuPont Co.; veteran; active in community and religious affairs. Alpha Delta Phi.

'45, BS Nurs '46—Gladys Keith Sandwick of Hermon, NY, October 2, 2010; clinical nurse instructor, Canton ATC; nurse, Head Start program; active in community and religious affairs.

'46, BA '47, PhD '51—James C. Keck of Andover, MA, August 9, 2010; professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, MIT; worked on the Manhattan Project; also worked for Avco Everett Research Laboratory; research associate, Caltech; inventor; veteran; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Chi Phi.

'47—John W. Jones of Lynchburg, VA, September 29, 2010; retired real estate broker; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Wife, Ruth (Dymes) '50.

'47 MD—William S. Montgomery of Newburgh, NY, September 18, 2010; family practitioner; chief of staff, St. Luke's Hospital; specialist in diabetes; served in the 4055th M*A*S*H Unit in the Korean War, the basis for 4077th Unit of book, movie, and television fame; founder, Orange County Diabetes Association; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'47, BA '49, JD '51—Richard A. Schwarz of Washington, DC, September 27, 2010; attorney, US Dept. of Labor; veteran; active in professional affairs. Tau Delta Phi.

'47, BA '46—Jane Yetter Studer of Clarks Summit, PA, September 27, 2010; executive director and founder, Trehab Center; director of mgmt. services, Eureka Printing; also worked for Daystrom Industries; pilot; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs.

'48 BS Ag—Douglas K. Dillon of Naples, FL, September 30, 2010; chairman, Dillon Floral Corp.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Wife, Doris (Corbett) '48.

'48 BS ORIE—Robert A. Nelson of Princeton, NJ, September 22, 2010; president, Nelson Glass & Aluminum Co.; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'49 MD—John A. Bell of Fishkill, NY, February 25, 2010; co-founder, Mid-Hudson Medical Group; veteran; active in community affairs.

'49 BEE—Robert T. Dean of Ithaca, NY, September 25, 2010; founder, Deanco, an electronics distributor; veteran; active in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'49 DVM—Isidor Yasgur of Polk City, FL, formerly of Mamaroneck and Jeffersonville, NY, August 3, 2010; veterinarian; pilot.

'50—Donald E. Erdman of Scotia, NY, August 7, 2010; retired chemical engineer; active in civic and community affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma. Wife, Mary Lou (Dorward) '49.

'50 BA—Robert S. Feller of Mammoth Lakes, CA, formerly of Silver Strand Beach-Channel Islands and Thousand Oaks, CA, September 2, 2010; dentist; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Pi Lambda Phi.

'50 BA—Lorraine Vogel Klerman of Waltham, MA, August 26, 2010; professor and director, Institute for Children, Youth, and Family Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Mgmt., at Brandeis U.; health services researcher; active in professional affairs. Sigma Delta Tau.

'50, BA '51—Paul S. Martin of Tucson, AZ, September 13, 2010; professor emeritus of geosciences, U. of Arizona; researched the role of humans in the extinction of large North American Ice Age mammals; studied the ecological and climatic record of packrat middens; active in professional affairs.

'50 BA—Helen Bull Neuhaus of Montclair, NJ, October 3, 2010; retired administrator, New Jersey Evening School, World Trade Inst. of New York and New Jersey; taught English and special-needs classes; author; editor; active in community affairs.

'50 BS Hotel—Carl C. Parker Jr. of Federal Way, WA, September 3, 2010; retired internal auditor. Alpha Phi Omega.

'51 JD—Seymour Brown of New Rochelle, NY, September 23, 2010; attorney; founder, NAACP chapter at City College of New York; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'51 BS Ag—Richard E. Holmberg of Warwick, NY, formerly of Berwyn, IL, September 24, 2010; owner, Nelson & Holmberg Greenhouses; veteran.

'51 BA, MBA '52—Archie J. Shipman of San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2010; business systems analyst, Procter & Gamble and Montgomery Ward; Civil Aeronautics pilot; veteran.

'52, BS Hotel '53—Thomas C. Walsh of Port Washington, NY, September 14, 2010; general manager, New York Athletic Club. Sigma Nu.

'53, BME '55—Donald R. Carhart of Naperville, IL, October 4, 2010; mechanical engineer. Theta Chi.

'53 PhD—Ronald H. Forgus of Vernon Hills, IL, October 1, 2010; psychologist; professor, Lake Forest College; staff member, V.A. Hospital and Alfred Adler Inst.; consultant to the NSA; author; active in community and professional affairs.

'53, BCE '54—Carl D. Hobelman of Washington, DC, August 31, 2010; attorney; senior and managing partner, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae; specialist in energy and environmental law; director, Adirondack Lakes Survey Corp.; veteran; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Chi.

'53 BS HE—Joan Thostesen Kelsey of East Lansing, MI, September 8, 2010; lay leader, United Methodist Church; trained Stephens Ministers; taught "Living Fully, Dying Well"; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Wayside Aftermath. Husband, Myron P. Kelsey '53, MS '56.

'53 BA—Dominic J. Scaramuzzino of Geneva, NY, September 14, 2010; practiced internal medicine; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'54 JD—Carl I. Kaminsky of Brooklyn, NY, September 20, 2010; intellectual property attorney; active in alumni affairs.

'54 MD—Philip R. Nast of Ripon, CA, formerly of Gladwyne, PA, September 1, 2010; practiced at Bryn Mawr Hospital; founder, Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists Assn.; veteran; active in community affairs.

'54—Walter J. Schwan of Ithaca, NY, October 1, 2010; owner and founder, Schwan's Trailer Park; led consortium to build Bolton Point Water Plant; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.

'55 MS, PhD '56—Borislav J. Stojanovic of Stakville, MS, September 29, 2010; soil microbiologist, Dept. of Agronomy, Mississippi State U.; developed methods for safe disposal of waste pesticides, including Agent Orange; professor of enology and microbiology and director, A.B. McKay Food Research and Enology Lab, Mississippi State U.; helped reestablish the wine industry in Mississippi; author; editor; active in professional affairs.

'55 BS ILR—Jose E. Tamayo of Shelton, CT, September 19, 2010; owner, J.E.T. Corp. Kappa Alpha.

'56 PhD—Willard L. Lindsay of Provo, UT, September 27, 2010; professor of soil science, Colorado State U.; soil chemist, Tennessee Valley Authority; author; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs.

'56 BS Hotel—Robert L. Marks of West Hartford, CT, formerly of Bloomfield, CT, September 30, 2010; worked in the jewelry business; restaurant owner. Phi Sigma Delta.

'57 BS HE—Barbara Haglund Schlerf of West Islip, NY, September 20, 2010; home economics teacher; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. Husband, Gilbert W. Schlerf '55.

'57 BA—Capt. Keith A. Stewart of Punta Gorda, FL, October 5, 2010; retired US Navy officer; instructor, Naval War College; senior ship-handling instructor, Maritime Safety Int'l; active in professional affairs. Delta Tau Delta.

'58 BS Nurs—Joan Merrill Chase of Boscawen, NH, October 4, 2010; registered nurse; artist; writer; active in community affairs.

'58—Margaret Call Hiler of Powhatan, VA, September 29, 2010; taught English and reading at Byron-Bergen Central School; active in community affairs.

'58 BA—R. Robin Palmer of Ithaca, NY, August 20, 2010; teacher; diver, Int'l Underwater Contractors; weatherman; tree surgeon; television host and producer; active in civic and community affairs.

'59 MS—Arthur L. Aronson of Raleigh, NC, September 22, 2010; veterinarian; helped establish the North Carolina State U. Veterinary School; professor and dept. head, anatomy, physiological sciences, and radiology, NC State U.; also taught at Cornell U.; editor; musician; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'59, BA '60—Howard W. Roth of Loudonville, NY, September 20, 2010; taxation and real estate attorney; active in religious affairs. Tau Delta Phi.

'60, BCE '62—Donald W. McPherson of Ithaca, NY, September 16, 2010; owner, McPherson Sailing Products and Ski Center.

'62 DVM—Richard K. Zeitel of Naples, FL, September 28, 2010; veterinarian. Alpha Psi.

'65, BS Ag '67—Elan J. Benamy of Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2010; active in alumni affairs.

'65 BS Hotel—Donald B. Ross Jr. of South Portland, ME, June 2, 2010; president, Camelot Hotels; active in alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'67 BS Ag—Robert I. Ferguson of Vernon, BC, Canada, October 3, 2010; administrator, Vernon Jubilee Hospital; co-owner, Interior Landscape; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'67 BS Hotel—Richard K. Margolis of Ventnor City, NJ, September 26, 2010; realtor. Pi Lambda Phi.

'67-68 GR—Albrecht B. Pütter of Gluecksburg, Germany, July 22, 2010; attorney; active in alumni affairs.

'67 MD—Christopher D. Saudek of Lutherville, MD, October 6, 2010; founder and director, Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center; pioneered the implantable insulin pump; professor of endocrinology and metabolism, Johns Hopkins Medical School; faculty member, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; program director, Johns Hopkins General Clinical Research Center; ABC News consultant for "OnCall + Diabetes Center"; taught at Weill Cornell Medical School; fellow, Nat'l Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; co-author, The Complete Diabetes Prevention Plan, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes, and Diabetes; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs.

'68, BS Hotel '69—Clinton T. Walker of Fort Lauderdale, FL, September 30, 2010; real estate broker. Sigma Pi.

'69 PhD—Lucille Stoeppler Baker (Mrs. Walter H. '48) of Groton, NY, October 6, 2010; professor emerita of sociology and anthropology, Tompkins County Community College; also taught in Connecticut and at several Dept. of Defense base schools; executive director, Area Girl Scouts of America in Manchester, CT; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

'71 BS Ag, MS Ag '73—G. Brian Smith of Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2, 2010; executive director, Agricultural Service, Nova Scotia Dept. of Agriculture; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'76 BS Ag—Capt. Thomas M. Craig of Bellefonte, PA, September 14, 2010; dairy farmer, Murmac Farms; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'77 MD—Kenneth A. Brown of Colchester, VT, September 11, 2010; professor of medicine, U. of Vermont College of Medicine; head of Nuclear Cardiology Dept., Fletcher Allen Health Care; expert in non-invasive cardiac imaging; clinical fellow, Harvard U. hospitals; author; former president, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; mountaineer; active in professional affairs.

'90 MD—Kathreen Gimbrere of Seattle, WA, September 30, 2010; clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, U. of Washington; inpatient psychiatrist, Skagit Valley Hospital; active in civic and professional affairs.

'95 BA—Ethan T. Johnson of Minneapolis, MN, September 21, 2010; research scientist, U. of Minnesota; studied the biochemistry of photosynthesis; musician; puppeteer; active in community affairs.

'01 BS Ag, MS Ag '03—John A. Merrill of Cortez, CO, September 26, 2010; Nat'l Park Service employee; Peace Corps volunteer; active in civic affairs.

GR—Jade Moore of Freeville, NY, formerly of Soper, OK, October 5, 2010; Master of Public Administration grad student; focused on public and nonprofit management; active in community affairs.

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