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Jul./Aug. ’08 Obituaries

'27—Katherine Barton Brauner (Mrs. Erling B. '29, MFA '33) of East Lansing, MI, September 17, 2007; elementary school teacher; active in community affairs. Alpha Phi. '27 BA—Raenette Purdy Meyer (Mrs. Jerold S. '23) of Grand Rapids, MI, November 5, 2007. '29 BA—Virginia Gary Cornwall of Chittenango, NY, January 2, 2008; retired elementary school teacher; VP, […]

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'27—Katherine Barton Brauner (Mrs. Erling B. '29, MFA '33) of East Lansing, MI, September 17, 2007; elementary school teacher; active in community affairs. Alpha Phi.

'27 BA—Raenette Purdy Meyer (Mrs. Jerold S. '23) of Grand Rapids, MI, November 5, 2007.

'29 BA—Virginia Gary Cornwall of Chittenango, NY, January 2, 2008; retired elementary school teacher; VP, Star Molding Corp.; artist; author; active in community affairs.

'29 BA, MA '32—Philip H. Freund of New York City, December 20, 2007; professor emeritus, Fordham U.; author; wrote Stage by Stage; active in professional and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.

'30 BA—Herbert Barrett of New York City, November 5, 2007; former chairman and president, Herbert Barrett Management; represented classical and jazz musicians; active in community and professional affairs.

'30 BS Ag, PhD '36—William A. Rawlins of Black Mountain, NC, formerly of Ithaca, NY, December 31, 2007; professor emeritus of entomology, Cornell U.; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'31 BEE—William H. Vogel Jr. of West Chester, PA, formerly of Warren, CT, November 6, 2007; retired engineer, General Electric; pioneer in television electronics; veteran; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs.

'32 BS Hotel—Harry S. Jackson Jr. of Lakewood, NJ, January 31, 2008; owner, Asbury Carlton Hotel; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'32 BS Ag—Michael J. Sullivan of Peru, NY, July 24, 2005; lumberman; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Wife, Barbara (Tupper) '38, MA '43.

'33—Emil R. Blaukopf of Delray Beach, FL, formerly of South River, NJ, October 21, 2007; dentist; active in professional affairs.

'33-34 Law—Richard G. Cotter of Buffalo, NY, January 1, 1992; attorney.

'33 BS Hotel—Lynn P. Himmelman of Seattle, WA, December 17, 2007; former CEO, Westin Hotels; member, ownership group, Seattle Seahawks; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta.

'33, BCE '34—Frederick F. Wood of Sarasota, FL, January 27, 2008; civil engineer; active in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

'34 BA—Byron A. Hero of New York City, December 31, 2007; surgeon; professor of clinical surgery, New York U. Medical School; veteran; active in community and professional affairs.

'34 BME—Fulton Holtby of Minneapolis, MN, November 19, 2007; professor, U. of Minnesota; forensic engineer. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'34 PhD—Kenneth Hood of Arlington Heights, IL, December 15, 2007; economist and marketing specialist, American Farm Bureau Federation; taught at Cornell U. and Penn State U.; veteran; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'34 BME—Charles D. MacLean of Oshkosh, WI, January 27, 2008; supervisor, Oshkosh B'Gosh. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'34 MD—E. Allan McLean of Falmouth, ME, December 23, 2005; physician; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'35 BA, LLB '37—Edward W. Harker of Media, PA, formerly of Bayonne, NJ, December 29, 2007; attorney; veteran; musician; Pi Kappa Phi.

'35 BA, MD '38—John D. Hunter of Manhasset, NY, January 11, 2008; physician.

'35—Albert J. Rost of White Plains, NY, April 10, 2005; retired school principal and guidance counselor; veteran; active in community affairs.

'35 BS HE—Pearl Margolin Zimmerman (Mrs. Irving, DVM '35) of New York City, January 5, 2008; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs.

'36 BA—Harold R. Berger of Elizabeth, NJ, February 17, 2008; pediatrician; veteran.

'36-39 SP Ag—Charles P. Ingram of Penn Yan, NY, September 5, 2005.

'36 BS HE—Elena Reyna Mathews of Dayton, OH, August 29, 2007.

'37 BA—Bernard E. Diamond of Yonkers, NY, November 28, 2007; owner, Wings Luggage Co.; veteran; active in religious affairs. Beta Sigma Rho. Wife, Adele (Massell) '38. '37—Basil S. DuMond of Walton, NY, November 8, 2006; farmer; active in professional and religious affairs.

'37 PhD—Paul J. Findlen of Caribou, ME, April 18, 1999.

'37 BS Ag—Claire Kelly Gilbert (Mrs. Perry W., PhD '40) of Ithaca, NY, January 1, 2008; author; editor; translator; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'37—Sylvia Gustafson of Ithaca, NY, February 9, 2008; retired from the First Nat'l Bank of Ithaca.

'37 BS HE—Eleanor Slack Hunsdorfer of Apollo Beach, FL, January 14, 2008; retired teacher. Alpha Xi Delta.

'37 BME—Peter B. Rutan of Port Clinton, OH, December 18, 2007; retired from Owens-Corning Fiberglass; developed fiberglass manufacturing plants; veteran; active in community affairs. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'38—Davis E. Adler of Honolulu, HI, December 4, 2007.

'38 BA, DVM '42—Leon I. Blostein of Rochester, NY, August 16, 2002; veterinarian.

'38 BME—Edward R. Brewer of Ithaca, formerly of Cortland, NY, February 3, 2008; mechanical engineer. Sigma Phi Epsilon.

'38 MS—Robert L. Crowell of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, June 29, 2001.

'38 BEE—Horatio W. Dickerson of Huntington, NY, December 27, 2007; retired electrical engineer; active in alumni affairs.

'38 BS Ag—Owen L. French of Contoocook, NH, December 18, 2007; business administrator, New Hampshire state welfare division; mgr., FMC Corp.; treasurer, Merrimack County Telephone Co.; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Acacia.

'38, BA '39—Virginia Dominis Koch (Mrs. Frederick W. '40) of Honolulu, HI, October 23, 2007; active in alumni affairs.

'38 BS HE—Marguerite E. Legge of Ithaca, NY, February 9, 2008; retired science and history teacher.

'38 MS—Thomas H. Lipscomb of Moorestown, NJ, November 14, 2007; retired Army major general; former director, Southeast Michigan Transit Authority and Delaware River Port Authority; veteran; active in professional affairs.

'38 BS Ag—Anthony C. Maier of Tifton, GA, May 27, 2007; owner, Bent Mountain Greenhouses; carnation grower; veteran; active in professional affairs.

'38 BEE—Harry L. Martien Jr. of Pepper Pike, OH, December 31, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

'38—George Nicholls of San Fernando, CA, October 22, 2007; retired electronics technician, Wurlitzer Organ Co.; active in civic affairs.

'38—Keith D. Seiffert of Webster, NY, August 17, 1999. Kappa Delta Rho.

'38 BME—James A. Vaughn of Sea Island, GA, formerly of Akron, OH, October 20, 2007; retired president, Vaughn Machinery Co.; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon.

'38 BA—Richard L. Williamson of Diamond Springs, CA, September 27, 2007.

'39 PhD—Paul L. Barrick of Boulder, CO, February 16, 2008; professor of chemical engineering, U. of Colorado, Boulder; consultant; also worked at DuPont; active in professional affairs.

'39 BA—Mary Gilliams Fitzpatrick (Mrs. Hugh F. '36) of Marquette, MI, June 3, 2007; school librarian; active in community and religious affairs.

'39 BA, MA '70—Barbara Babcock Payne of Ithaca, NY, January 19, 2008; fundraiser, St. Paul's College; assistant dean of academic advising, Cornell U.; horticulturist; active in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Phi.

'39—Grant N. Stemmermann of Cincinnati, OH, formerly of Honolulu, HI, November 17, 2007; professor of pathology, U. of Cincinnati; director of laboratories, Kuakini Hospital; principal investigator, Honolulu Heart Program; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Sigma Nu.

'39—Gordon C. Trolley of New York City, October 21, 2007; executive, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; resort manager; veteran. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'39, BS Ag '65—Richard E. Turrell of Chittenango, NY, December 6, 2007; middle school special education teacher, Otsego-Northern Catskill BOCES; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'39 BS Hotel—Richard K. Whitehill of Fort Pierce, FL, December 13, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Wife, Carol (Young) '38.

'40 BS Ag—Earle K. Billington of Pittsford, NY, April 21, 2007; sales representative, Oakite Products; veteran; teacher; carriage horse trainer; active in community and religious affairs.

'40 MS—Richard O. Bohm of Hampton Falls, NH, November 22, 2007.

'40 BA—Shirley Benjamin Feltman (Mrs. Lee '39, JD '41) of New York City, February 4, 2008; psychoanalyst.

'40 BME—Alden W. Gallup of Grosse Pointe, MI, April 4, 2005; district sales manager, Hanna Furnace division of Nat'l Steel Corp.; veteran. Sigma Phi.

'40, BA '41—Robert T. Gilchrist of Burr Ridge, IL, February 14, 2008; chairman and president, Federal Signal; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Delta Upsilon.

'40 BS HE—Frances Raynor Halsey of Westhampton, NY, October 26, 2007; homemaker. Chi Omega.

'40 BA—Marjorie Dale Hemingway (Mrs. John C. '39) of Lyons, NY, December 3, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Phi.

'40 BS Ag—Claire D. Mather of Chesterfield, MO, November 11, 2007; high school teacher.

'40 BS HE—Bette Limpert Mayhew of Sun City, AZ, January 10, 2008; active in alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'40 BS Ag—Charles H. Monroe of McCall Creek, MS, September 22, 2007; retired bacteriologist and biochemist, FDA; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'40 BA, MA '41—Natalie Silverston Nixon of Greenbrae, CA, January 25, 2008; retired social worker. Husband, Charles R. Nixon, PhD '47.

'40 BS Ag, PhD '47—Daniel J. O'Kane of Winchester, VA, December 21, 2007; professor of microbiology, U. of Pennsylvania; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta. Wife, Doreen (Jeffs), GR '46-47.

'40 BA—Charles T. Stewart of Gulf Stream, FL, January 19, 2008; attorney; senior VP and general counsel, J.C. Penney Co.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Theta Delta Chi. Wife, Patricia (Carry) '50.

'40 PhD—Udell B. Stone of Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007. Wife, Barbara (Fitzpatrick) '42.

'40 BS Ag—Rev. Jesse M. Young of North Rose, NY, August 19, 2005; pastor; missionary; former agriculture teacher; active in religious affairs. Cayuga Lodge.

'41 BA—Ruth Christie Barnes of Greenland, NH, November 15, 2007; active in alumni affairs.

'41 BA—Joseph E. Bernstein of Boynton Beach, FL, November 30, 2006; CEO, Central Glass Distributors; veteran. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'41—Philip T. Brodie of Austin, TX, formerly of Farmington, CT, January 27, 2008; retired engineer, Edwards Co.

'41 DVM—Joseph Ferris of Bloomfield, NY, January 29, 2008; veterinarian; veteran; active in alumni affairs.

'41 BCE—Edmund B. King of Rochester, NY, December 12, 2007; retired from Taylor Instrument; retired Army colonel; veteran; active in community and alumni affairs. Tau Beta Phi.

'41, BA '42—John Leto Jr. of Oswego, NY, September 24, 2005; owner, John Leto Assocs. Alpha Chi Rho.

'41, BEE '46, MEE '49—Benjamin Nichols of Trumansburg, NY, November 24, 2007; professor emeritus, Cornell U.; former mayor of Ithaca; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

'41 JD—Harold F. Porter Jr. of Wuerzburg, Germany, April 9, 2007; attorney.

'41 BS Ag—Herman A. Schwartz of Mill Valley, CA, January 12, 2008; retired oncologist, Kaiser Medical Center; founder, Marin-Bolinas Botanical Gardens; taught botany and biology at UC Berkeley; founder, Strawberry Press; active in community and professional affairs.

'41 BA—Richard H. Weiss of Bay Harbor Islands, FL, November 14, 2007; attorney. Beta Sigma Rho.

'42 BA—Beverly Ham Allen of Arcade, NY, December 26, 2007; retired schoolteacher; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

'42, BA '46—David B. Arentzen of Brooklyn, NY, February 19, 2007; social worker; veteran. Sigma Chi.

'42, BA '43—Roger D. Bennett of Hope, AR, March 7, 2008; retired poultry farmer; active in professional and religious affairs.

'42 BA—William J. Bischof of Hayden Lake, ID, July 23, 2007; retired IBM executive; veteran; active in community affairs. Theta Chi.

'42 BS Ag, PhD '51—Lloyd H. Davis of Las Cruces, NM, November 6, 2007; executive director, American Assn. of Adult and Continuing Education; branch chief of science and education staff, USDA; administrator, Federal Extension Svc.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'42 LLB—Richard H. Finefrock of Bellefontaine, OH, April 26, 2005; attorney; judge.

'42 BA—Louis Fishman of Hightstown, NJ, January 22, 2008; physician.

'42 BME—James M. Goodwillie of York, PA, February 6, 2008; retired sales manager, Armstrong World Industries; veteran; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

'42 MD—Carlton C. Hunt of Highlands, NC, February 8, 2008; professor emeritus of physiology, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; chair, physiology depts., Washington U., Yale School of Medicine, and U. of Utah; also taught at Albert Einstein School of Medicine and the Rockefeller Inst.; veteran; expert on spinal cord physiology; author; active in professional affairs.

'42 MEd, PhD '59—M. Boyd Jones of Virginia Beach, VA, January 19, 2008; professor emeritus of mathematics, Norfolk State U.; also taught at Alabama State, Maryland State, and St. Paul's colleges; civil rights leader; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

'42 BS Ag—Edward Miller of Freehold, NJ, November 12, 2007; retired medical director, Organon Pharmaceuticals; former director of clinical oncology, Hoffman LaRoche; veteran; active in civic, professional, and religious affairs.

'42—Richard H. Rothstein of Coconut Creek, FL, August 27, 2007. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'42 BS Ag, DVM '42—Benjamin Sann of New York City, January 19, 2008; retired veterinarian.

'42 BS Hotel—Douglass B. Shivers of Tallahassee, FL, November 11, 2007; chief judge, First District Court of Appeals; attorney; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'42—Frances Wharton Strodel of Syracuse, NY, November 9, 2007.

'42 MS, PhD '44—James D. Stroupe of Newtown, PA, May 21, 2005; worked for Rohm & Haas Co.; worked on the Manhattan Project; active in community affairs.

'42 BS Ag—Raymond D. Thomas of Naples, FL, January 25, 2008; executive VP, Fidelity Bank; worked in int'l marketing; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.

'42 BS Ag—Beverly Phifer Walters of Warren, PA, December 12, 2007; homemaker; active in community and religious affairs. Alpha Xi Delta.

'42 BA—Joseph A. Weinberger of Longboat Key, FL, December 22, 2007; real estate attorney; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Pi Lambda Phi. Wife, Edith (Newman) '43.

'42 BME—Eugene B. Witte of Chapel Hill, NC, October 21, 2007; owner, Witte Engineering Co.; veteran. Zeta Psi.

'42 BA—Richard S. Young of Louisville, KY, December 22, 2007; VP, sales; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'43, BS Hotel '79—Donald W. Black of Charlotte, NC, January 8, 2008; hotelier; veteran; Alpha Sigma Phi.

'43—Kirk E. Browning of New York City, February 10, 2008; director of "Live From Lincoln Center"; active in professional affairs.

'43 BA—Marjorie H. Cruthers of Whiting, NJ, February 3, 2008; chief financial analyst to the senior VP, Irving Trust; seaplane pilot; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

'43, BME '47—Joaquin De la Roza Jr. of San Francisco, CA, October 1, 2007. Delta Tau Delta.

'43 BEE—Frank K. Faulkner of Georgetown, TX, January 25, 2008; electrical transmission engineer; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs. Triangle. Wife, Ruth (Russell) '43.

'43 BME—Horace F. Ferry of San Rafael, CA, January 29, 2007; retired businessman. Theta Delta Chi.

'43-44 GR—Barbara N. Gallo of Binghamton, NY, January 5, 2008; retired from First Nat'l Bank; active in community and religious affairs.

'43—Thomas L. Hoyt of Pensacola, FL, November 18, 2005; physician; veteran; active in professional affairs.

'43 BS HE—Margaret Dilts Lakis of Peabody, MA, November 9, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'43 BS Ag, DVM '47—Edwin D. MacKey of Locke, NY, January 14, 2008; veterinarian; active in community affairs. Alpha Psi.

'43 BS Ag—Elaine Stone Millner of Fort Lee, NJ, January 13, 2008; psychologist; epidemiologist; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'43, BS Ag '46—James F. Morgan Jr. of Honolulu, HI, December 29, 2007; sugar industry executive; artist; veteran; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Delta Phi. '43, BS Ag '47—Clifford L. Orbaker of Bonita Springs, FL, December 31, 2007; real estate appraiser; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'43 BME—John T. Richards of South Yarmouth, MA, August 15, 2006; mechanical engineer; veteran; author; active in community affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'43 BA—Hope T. M. Ritter Jr. of Athens, GA, December 7, 2007; professor emeritus, Dept. of Cell Biology, U. of Georgia; veteran; active in civic, religious, and alumni affairs. Beta Theta Pi.

'43 BS Ag—Esther Clark Stewart of Skaneateles, NY, March 14, 2007.

'43—Lenore Zipser Zeldow (Mrs. Walter '40, LLB '42) of Hilton Head Island, SC, January 18, 2008; retired high school English and French teacher. Sigma Delta Tau.

'44 BA—Winifred Wright Edwards (Mrs. Irving H. '44) of Wynantskill, NY, August 31, 2005.

'44, BCE '43—Alexander P. Hutchinson of Pittsburgh, PA, January 24, 2008; owner, civil engineering company; municipal engineer; active in community affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'44 BS HE—Greta Wilcox Leighton of Scottsdale, AZ, December 14, 2007; retired bookstore manager; active in community and religious affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'44, BS ORIE '47—W. Addison Lincoln of Bradenton, FL, December 8, 2007; retired president, YMCA; veteran; active in civic and community affairs. Sigma Chi.

'44, B Chem E '48—Calvin L. Martin of Richmond, VA, October 16, 2007; senior project engineer, Honeywell; veteran.

'44, BArch '46—Edwin J. Mullens III of Lyon, MS, December 12, 2007; architect; farmer; veteran. Sigma Chi.

'44 BEE—Morton J. Savada of Harrison, NY, February 11, 2008; owner, Records Revisited, NYC's largest store of 78 rpm records; president, Savada Bros. apparel firm; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Pi Lambda Phi. Wife, Lila (Perless) '44.

'44, BA '43—Louis B. Webster of Gilbertsville, NY, July 17, 2005; research chemist; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'45 DVM—A. Stanton Colvin of Durham, NC, November 26, 2007; veterinarian; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'45, BA '48—John K. Cousens of Sarasota, FL, January 12, 2008; insurance broker. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'45—Robert E. Heilman Sr. of Clearwater, FL, November 26, 2007; restaurateur; veteran; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

'45 BA—Marjehne Andrae Hoefer of Atlantic Beach, FL, November 21, 2007; retired assistant dean, School of Humanities and Sciences, Ithaca College; secretary; also worked for the US Geological Survey; active in professional and alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'45—Arthur S. Miller of Virginia Beach, VA, October 14, 2007. Beta Theta Pi.

'45 BS Chem E—John J. Potter Jr. of The Villages, FL, November 21, 2007; director of physical facilities, West Virginia State College; director of engineering, Union Carbide Corp.; veteran.

'45 MS HE—Marjorie E. Rankin of Newtown Square, PA, January 20, 2008; retired dean of Nesbitt College, Drexel U.; author; active in professional and religious affairs.

'45, BME '44—Alvin Rogal of Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 2007; insurance executive; chairman, Hilb Rogal and Hobbs; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau. Wife, Ann (Lawrence) '47.

'45—David H. Shepard of Coronado, CA, November 24, 2007; inventor, optical character recognition machine; started Intelligent Machines and Cognitronics; president, Sky Wind-power Corp.; veteran; codebreaker; active in professional affairs. Delta Chi.

'45 BA, MBA '48—Jane Knauss Stevens of Pittsford, NY, February 15, 2008; first woman MBA graduate; first chair, NYS Regents Advisory Council on Educational Telecommunications; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

'45 BCE—Miguel Torregrosa of Santurce, PR, October 13, 2007; partner, J.E. Amaral Architect & Assocs.

'46 BS HE—Katherine Pearsall Berg of Newark, DE, May 16, 2007; Husband, Edward H. Berg '47.

'46, BS Hotel '49—Richard N. Boland of Boca Raton, FL, March 14, 2005. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'46 BME—Carl E. Glasgow of Maryville, TN, January 31, 2007; retired minister, United Methodist Church; veteran; active in religious affairs.

'46 BS Ag, MS Ag '52—John B. Keller of Perry, NY, July 28, 2007; retired teacher. Alpha Zeta.

'46 BA—Cynthia Martin McBride of Bethesda, MD, January 22, 2007; Christian Science practitioner. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'46—Sidney B. Mead of Red Hook, NY, January 9, 2008; owner, Mead Orchards; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

'46, BA '45—Dorothy Sells Miller of Floral Park, NY, December 11, 2007; mental health counselor.

'46, BME '47—Stuart K. Sherman of Ft. Lee, NJ, January 24, 2008. Pi Lambda Phi.

'46, MD '48—James W. Wilkes Jr. of Columbia, TN, October 6, 2007; retired physician. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'46, BME '48—Richard Zechlin of Beloit, WI, January 6, 2008; mechanical engineer.

'47 BS ILR—Hannah Jackson Ellis (Mrs. Eldon E. '49) of Naples, FL, December 30, 2007; clerk, First Church of Christ, Scientist; active in community affairs.

'47 MEd—William F. Griffith of Penney Farms, FL, formerly of Hamilton, NY, November 19, 2007; retired dean of students, Colgate U.; public school teacher; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'47 DVM—Alvin H. Safanie of Champaign, IL, January 10, 2008; veterinarian; professor emeritus, Veterinary College, U. of Illinois. Alpha Psi.

'47 PhD—David W. Thompson of St. Paul, MN, October 16, 2007; professor and chairman, Theatre Dept., U. of Minnesota; veteran; author; Fulbright Scholar; active in community and professional affairs.

'47 BS Hotel—Harold E. Tower of Sedona, AZ, January 4, 2007; hotelier.

'47 MS, PhD '49—Emery L. Will of Oneonta, NY, May 22, 2007. Wife, Lois (Clise) '42.

'47 BME—Kenneth R. Wisner of Riverhead, NY, September 26, 2007; mechanical engineer; invented the flying head, which makes computer disc drives possible; won an Oscar for Technical Achievement for a printer that transfers digital video to film; active in professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Wife, Jeanne (Hart) '63.

'47 BCE—John P. Woodford of Okemos, MI, October 28, 2007; civil engineer; director, Michigan Dept. of Transportation; taught at Michigan State U. and Oakland U.; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Acacia.

'48 MS HE—Loretta Anderson Bardewyck (Mrs. Arthur H. '24) of Phoenix, AZ, December 10, 2007; founding dean and professor, College of Nursing, Arizona State U.; public health and mental health nurse; active in community and professional affairs.

'48 BS ORIE—Richard S. Barrett of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, February 25, 2008; psychologist; expert in testing and fair employment; consultant, US Dept. of Justice, NAACP, EEOC; taught at New York U. and Stevens Inst. of Technology; author; veteran; active in civic and professional affairs. Alpha Chi Rho.

'48 BS Ag—Loyd V. Bell Jr. of Brodnax, VA, April 29, 2007.

'48 LLB—Stanley Berman of New York City, February 20, 2008; attorney; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'48 BS ILR—Evelyn A. Brion of Tallahassee, FL, December 29, 2007; director of employee relations, City of Tallahassee; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'48 BS Hotel—Edgar E. DeGasper of Williamsville, NY, January 17, 2008; former director of food services, Buffalo Board of Education; restaurant manager; veteran; pilot; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'48 BS ILR—Calvin R. Depew of Staunton, VA, December 25, 2007; operated Staunton Bowling Lanes; worked for Westinghouse, American Safety Razor, and General Electric; veteran; active in civic and community affairs. Wife, Marilyn (Vitalius) '47.

'48, BS Hotel '49—Richard E. Dunn of Sarasota, FL, formerly of Providence, RI, January 17, 2008; president, Coquina on the Beach; managed Gasparilla Inn; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'48 BS HE—Florence Dombrowski Engh of Dekalb, IL, May 15, 2004; active in community and religious affairs. Kappa Delta. Husband, Harold V. Engh Jr. '48. '48—Frederick E. Jenks of St. George, UT, December 7, 2007; carpentry teacher, BOCES; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Wife, Marilla (Oaks) '45.

'48 BS ILR—John C. Lorini of Grass Valley, CA, February 5, 2008; head of western regions operations, Booz Allen and Hamilton; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

'48, BME '49—Daniel C. McCarthy of Essex Falls, NJ, November 13, 2007; retired executive; active in alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon.

'48 BME—Francis P. McCrossen of Blue Bell, PA, July 17, 2007.

'48 BA, PhD '51—Bob J. Rubin of Washington, DC, January 18, 2008; mathematician and physicist, Nat'l Bureau of Standards; active in community and professional affairs. Wife, Vera (Cooper), MA '51.

'48 BA—Harold P. Staley Jr. of Sarasota, FL, December 16, 2007; treasurer, Coats and Clark; veteran; active in community affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.

'48 BA—Joan Norwood Staley (Mrs. Harold P. '48) of Sarasota, FL, December 30, 2005; homemaker; active in community affairs.

'49 JD—Franklin C. Anderson of Manchester, CT, February 17, 2008; attorney, Equitable Life Assurance; veteran; active in community affairs.

'49 BEE—Harry H. Beahm of Raleigh, NC, March 12, 2008; retired from IBM; veteran.

'49 MEd—Earl V. Boyd of Queensbury, NY, January 17, 2008; teacher; guidance counselor; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'49 BS Hotel—Gordon F. Craighead Jr. of Hilton Head Island, SC, November 7, 2007. Beta Theta Pi.

'49 MS ILR, PhD '52—Jack F. Culley of Fort Collins, CO, July 7, 2007; professor emeritus and director of special programs, Colorado State U.; labor arbitrator; dean, college of liberal and fine arts, U. of Liberia; director, bureau of labor and management, U. of Iowa; veteran; author; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'49 BS Ag, PhD '53—Clement E. Dasch of New Concord, OH, November 29, 2007; retired biology professor, Muskingum College; veteran; author; active in professional and religious affairs.

'49 MBA—Frederick R. Goodridge of Pittsford, NY, August 7, 2007.

'49 BS Hotel—V. Richard Hawkins of Tucker, GA, December 13, 2007; retired Episcopal priest; active in religious affairs.

'49 BA, BS Ag '52—Jane Sickels Jorgensen of Brooktondale, NY, February 17, 2008; freelance illustrator; active in civic and community affairs.

'49 BEE—Joseph A. Magnus of Cincinnati, OH, December 11, 2006.

'49 BS Ag—Robert F. Small of Albuquerque, NM, formerly of Princeton, NJ, January 3, 2008; veteran. Phi Delta Theta.

'49 BEE—Eugene A. Snelling of The Villages, FL, September 22, 2007.

'49 MBA—David T. Stebbins of West Grove, PA, January 18, 2008.

'49 BS Ag—Mitchell Van Yahres of Charlottesville, VA, February 8, 2008; former mayor of Charlottesville; represented Albemarle County in Virginia House of Delegates; tree surgeon; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Wife, Elizabeth (Franklin), MS '49.

'49 BEE—Roland J. White of Chestertown, MD, formerly of Jennings, LA, December 27, 2007; retired electrical engineer; veteran; rice farmer; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'49 BS Ag, MFS '50—Theodore Wishnetsky of East Lansing, MI, December 6, 2007; retired associate professor. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'49 B Chem E—Edwin C. Younghouse of Florham Park, NJ, November 9, 2007; chemical engineer, research division of Exxon; veteran; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs.

'50 BEE—John E. Barnes Jr. of Ballston Spa, NY, March 6, 2008; electrical engineer; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'50 PhD—John W. Bicknell of Little Deer Isle, ME, January 14, 2006.

'50 BS Ag, PhD '57—Martin A. Blum of Potomac, MD, November 28, 2007.

'50 BA, MPS '80—Howard S. Cogan of Ithaca, NY, February 16, 2008; advertising executive; creator of "Ithaca Is Gorges" slogan; professor of advertising and public relations, Ithaca College; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.

'50 BS HE—Elsie Myer Costello of Plaistow, NH, December 25, 2007; nursing instructor; active in community affairs.

'50—Franklin S. Coyle of Hendersonville, NC, October 29, 2007; retired history professor, Oral Roberts U.

'50 BS Ag—William D. Edson of Kitty Hawk, NC, September 16, 2007. Delta Tau Delta.

'50 BA, MBA '51—Glenn W. Ferguson of Santa Fe, NM, December 20, 2007; former US Ambassador to Kenya; president, U. of Connecticut, Clark U., and American U. of Paris; president, Radio Free Europe; president, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; founder, Equity for Africa; first director, VISTA; assoc. director, Peace Corps; author; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

'50 BA—Houston I. Flournoy of Bodega Bay, CA, January 7, 2008; former state controller of California; gubernatorial candidate, California; state legislator; political science professor, Pomona College; public admin. professor, U. of Southern California; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'50 BA—J. Claude Forter of Novato, CA, formerly of Wallkill, NY, August 26, 2007; manager of int'l sales, Fair-Rite; int'l marketing representative, Helena Rubinstein Co.; veteran; active in community affairs. Delta Chi.

'50 BS Ag—Allyn W. Hoffman of Elmira, NY, January 2, 2008; horticulture instructor; landscaper; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Pi. '50 BS Ag, MEd '51—Edward K. Knapp of Colorado Springs, CO, August 17, 2007; retired professor, U. of Massachusetts; veteran; active in community affairs. Acacia. Wife, Monica (Marx) '53.

'50 BA—Clarence C. Larkin of Ithaca, NY, January 28, 2008; founder, Larkin Insurance Agency; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Delta Upsilon. Wife, Mary (Ketchem) '58, MA '71.

'50 BS Ag—Cobert D. Le Munyan of Troutman, NC, April 18, 2007; retired physician.

'50 BS Hotel—George J. Pandl of Bayside, WI, October 20, 2007; owner, Pandl's in Bayside; active in professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'50 BEE—David W. Plumer of Sun City Center, FL, December 10, 2007. Wife, Marilen (Tarleton) '50.

'50 DVM—John W. Rich of Myrtle Beach, SC, October 10, 2007; veterinarian.

'50 MD—Albert L. Rubin of Englewood, NJ, February 23, 2008; nephrologist; founder and director, The Rogosin Inst.; professor of surgery, medicine, and biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'51 BS Ag, MS Ag '54—Eunice Chambers Beam of Naples, FL, February 5, 2008; research scientist, Abbott Laboratories; asst. dean, Rush Medical College; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Kappa.

'51 BA—David A. Botwinik of Port Washington, NY, November 11, 2007; attorney; active in community and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.

'51-59 GR—Albert M. Chammah of Austin, TX, January 24, 2008; professor of psychology and management, U. of Texas, Austin; veteran; co-author of Prisoner's Dilemma; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'51 BS Hotel—David W. Deacon of Latham, NY, December 17, 2007; retired comptroller, Union College; veteran.

'51 BS Ag—Helen Wilson Ely of Tunkhannock, PA, June 12, 2007. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Husband, Frank C. Ely, MEd '67.

'51 MD—Frederick M. Evans of Tiverton, RI, November 12, 2007; physician.

'51 MS HE—Nannie R. Evans of San Antonio, TX, November 24, 2007; retired Lt. Col., US Army; dietitian; nursing home inspector, Texas Dept. of Health; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'51 BA, MBA '54—David H. Gruen of Buffalo, NY, February 12, 2008; certified public accountant; bank officer, Marine Midland Bank; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Kappa Sigma.

'51 BA—James R. Hillas of Long Valley, NJ, October 25, 2007; attorney; municipal judge; veteran; active in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs. Beta Theta Pi.

'51 BA, LLB '53—John L. Kirschner of Longboat Key, FL, and Buffalo, NY, January 13, 2008; attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

'51 BA—William C. McNeal of New Orleans, LA, January 5, 2008; VP, Oil Transport; marine consultant; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Delta Phi. Wife, Carolyn (Lovejoy) '52.

'51 BA, MBA '55—William T. Reynolds of Silver Spring, MD, November 18, 2007; stock broker and VP, Merrill Lynch; veteran; active in community and alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

'51 MA—Willard D. Sheeler of Batavia, IL, August 16, 1998; librarian, CIA and Holy Child School; active in religious affairs.

'51 JD—Andrew F. Siedlecki of Waverly, NY, January 26, 2008; county court judge; district attorney, Tioga County (NY); veteran; active in civic affairs.

'51 BA—Col. Lawrence R. Smith of Colorado Springs, CO, December 27, 2007; physician; commander, Air Force Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'51 LLB—Walter C. Wallace of New York City, November 27, 2007; former chairman, Nat'l Mediation Board; general counsel, Presidential Railroad Commission; asst. secretary of labor under President Eisenhower; veteran; active in civic and professional affairs.

'51, BME '52—Erich C. Weber of Walnut Creek, CA, November 10, 2007; retired engineer, Bechtel Corp.; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs. Delta Upsilon.

'52 BS Nurs—Eleanor Tynan Bent of Lafayette, LA, February 20, 2008; nurse, Lourdes Hospital; active in community and religious affairs.

'52 BA—James N. Diefenderfer of Emmaus, PA, November 14, 2007; retired judge; veteran; active in civic and religious affairs. Sigma Chi.

'52 BS Ag—Lawrence N. Korn of Green Valley, AZ, December 2, 2007.

'52 MS ILR—Richard G. Lesser of Johnstown, NY, July 31, 2007; personnel executive; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'52—Phillip N. Morrison of Corning, NY, November 22, 2007; builder/contractor; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'52 BS HE—Barbara Kane Patchen of Glendale, AZ, December 2, 2007.

'52 BA—Suzanne Kreisman Siegel (Mrs. Robert I. '48) of Weston, CT, December 27, 2007; journalist; fashion stylist, McCall's and Photoplay.

'52 BS HE—Betty Woodard Smith (Mrs. James A. Jr. '53, MBA '55) of Bellevue, WA, December 1, 2007.

'52 BS HE—Barbara Medland Struck of Mesa, AZ, November 2, 2007; dietician; proofreader; active in community and religious affairs. Husband, Robert W. Struck, '48-50 SP Ag. '52 BS Ag—Howard H. Voelker of Hope, NJ, December 4, 2007; retired Methodist minister; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

'52 LLB—Bernhard A. Von Falkenhausen of Bad Homburg, Germany, May 29, 2005; executive; attorney; active in alumni affairs.

'52—James T. Whitehead of Detroit, MI, November 6, 2007. Kappa Alpha.

'53 BA—Vincent I. Maddi of Binghamton, NY, November 14, 2007; former chief of medicine, UHS; active in professional affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'53 MS ILR—Nim Chee Siew of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 3, 2008; founder, Persatuan Ekonomi Malaysia; treasurer, Esso Malaysia; head of economic research, Bank Negara; head of the Dept. of Economics, Universiti Malaya; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

'53 JD—Stanley Watsky of Stonington, CT, January 6, 2006; owner, Coveside Marina; attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'53 MS Ag—William H. Wolfrum of Fort Collins, CO, November 23, 2007; Episcopal bishop; chair of religious studies, St. Stephen's Episcopal School; fisheries biologist; veteran; active in community and religious affairs.

'53 BA, MBA '54—Richard M. Wright of Elliotsburg, PA, July 31, 2007; budget analyst, Pennsylvania Game Commission; active in alumni affairs.

'54—William R. Conde of Canandaigua, NY, November 5, 2007; retired mechanical engineer, Pfaudler Co.; active in community affairs.

'54—Donald F. Fuller of Cortland, NY, January 5, 2008; dairy farmer; director, Farm Credit.

'54, BEP '55—Alan M. Jacobs of Gainesville, FL, August 3, 2007; professor emeritus, nuclear and radiological engineering, U. of Florida; also taught at Pennsylvania State U. '54 MS, PhD '61—Laurence C. Judd of Whitewater, WI, January 28, 2008; professor emeritus of sociology, Illinois College; Presbyterian minister; missionary; author; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'54 BS Hotel—Richard E. King of Boca Raton, FL, September 27, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Beta Sigma Rho.

'54—Linda Burrus Morrisey of Mercer Island, WA, September 8, 2007; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Phi. Husband, Donald C. Morrisey '54.

'54 MEd—William R. Pulhamus of Spencerport, NY, April 7, 2001.

'54, BArch '55—Jerrold R. Voss of Worthington, OH, November 20, 2007; professor and director, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State U.; United Nations advisor; veteran; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Sigma Chi.

'54 BS HE—Kathryn M. Wright of Asheboro, NC, December 30, 2007; retired elementary special education teacher; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'55, BME '56—John D. Bartley Jr. of St. Louis, MO, February 1, 2008; mechanical engineer; veteran. Delta Tau Delta.

'55, BME '56—Leonard D. Brown of Springfield, NJ, September 18, 2007. Wife, Barbara (Balsam) '55.

'55 BA—James H. Kleckner of San Diego, CA, November 5, 2007; clinical psychologist; director, San Diego Drug Assistance, Rehabilitation, and Education; asst. academic coordinator, Chapman U.; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

'55 BS Ag—Peter G. Neilson of Kenockee, MI, December 17, 2007; fire chief; product safety consultant; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Wife, Doris (Wunsch) '55.

'55 BS HE—Charlotte Reit Seager of Smyrna, NY, November 10, 2007; retired teacher; active in alumni affairs. Husband, Barton D. Seager '55.

'55-56 GR—Margaret Jones Siefert of Columbus Township, MI, February 4, 2008; social worker, State of Michigan. Husband, Wayne B. Siefert, MS '54.

'55 MS Ag, PhD '57—Dale R. Waldo of Fayetteville, PA, December 4, 2007; dairy cattle nutrition research scientist, USDA.

'56 PhD—Harry I. Ashkenas of Altadena, CA, April 26, 2007; senior scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Wife, Dorothy (Klitzke), PhD '52.

'56 BA—Peter A. Burckmyer of Somers, NY, January 25, 2008; retired contract administrator, Readers Digest; active in civic and community affairs.

'56 PhD—Anthony F. Caputi of Ithaca, NY, February 6, 2008; professor of comparative literature and English, Cornell U.; veteran; novelist; playwright; active in professional affairs. Wife, Adrienne McNair '57, MEd '61.

'56 BS Ag, PhD '61—Geir V. Gudnason of Atlanta, GA, August 7, 2007; manager of food technology, Coca-Cola Co.; active in professional and alumni affairs. Watermargin.

'56 JD—William J. Hickey of Palm Springs, CA, January 4, 2008; attorney; veteran.

'56, BS Ag '57—Norman R. Ingalls of Pulaski, NY, November 11, 2007; retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb; former instrumentation technician, Spectrum Technologies; amateur radio enthusiast.

'56 BA—Joyce L. Kerr of Columbia, MD, December 1, 2007; retired software engineer. Kappa Delta.

'56 BS ILR—Richard H. Metzler of Pawling, NY, August 24, 2007; former senior VP, Revlon Cosmetics. Chi Phi.

'56—Clare Butler Weisman of Seattle, WA, October 28, 2006; librarian; active in community affairs. Husband, Paul C. Weisman '54, BEE '55.

'57—William G. Gibson of Tampa, FL, November 26, 2007; head pathologist, Tampa General and Brandon Regional hospitals; county medical examiner; veteran; active in professional affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

'57 PhD—Vernon W. Larsen of Orem, UT, November 7, 2003; retired professor, Brigham Young U.

'57 BA—Naomi E. Lohr of Ann Arbor, MI, November 21, 2007; assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry, U. of Michigan; psychotherapist; active in community and professional affairs.

'58 PhD—Robert A. Danley of Santa Monica, CA, November 29, 2007; sociologist, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health.

'58 MBA—Lewis E. Darby of Whitefield, NH, February 10, 2008; retired executive recruiter for int'l consulting firms; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.

'58 BS Hotel—Robert J. Flynn of Bloomfield Hills, MI, November 18, 2007; president, Funding Enterprises; active in alumni affairs. Theta Xi.

'58 BS Hotel—Richard M. McCarthy of Katy, TX, February 4, 2007; worked for Procter & Gamble; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.

'58 MS—Stevan N. Vojnovic of Alpharetta, GA, January 22, 2008; research engineer, US Steel Research Laboratory; also worked for Corning Glass Works; active in alumni affairs. '58—Gordon J. White of Pottsville Beach, New South Wales, Australia, formerly of Syracuse, NY, December 22, 2007; veteran.

'59, BS Ag '64, MBA '66—Eugene G. Arnold of Ithaca, NY, December 17, 2007; principal consultant, Gibson Assocs.; active in alumni affairs. Pi Kappa Phi.

'59 BA—H. A. Carter of Eastchester, NY, February 2, 2008; senior VP, Wood Asset Mgmt. Tau Epsilon Phi.

'59 BA—Diane Hoffberg Eisen of Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2006; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. Husband, William B. Eisen '56.

'59—Mary Knappen Johnson of Charlotte, NC, February 22, 2008; homemaker; active in civic and religious affairs.

'59 PhD—Edward J. Mizma of Rochester, VA, July 17, 2007; retired from Kodak; music director; active in community affairs.

'59 BA—Linda J. Nessel of New York City, January 20, 2008; senior extension associate, Cornell Cooperative Extension.

'59 PhD—Elizabeth M. Ray of Polson, MT, January 3, 2007; professor emerita, Pennsylvania State U.

'59, BS Hotel '60—David E. Van Buren of Deltona, FL, December 18, 2007; executive. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'60 BA—J. Peter Harrington of St. Petersburg, FL, December 19, 2007; senior trader. Sigma Chi.

'60 PhD—Donald H. White of Monmouth, OR, January 25, 2008; physicist; professor emeritus, Western Oregon U.; also taught at UC Berkeley; researcher, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory; author; musician; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'61 BS Ag, MS Ag '63—Edward A. Capra Jr. of Greeley, CO, November 6, 2007; president and CEO, Weld County Bank; financial advisor; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Sigma Phi. Wife, Mary (Dietrich) '64.

'61—Stanton H. Cramer of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, June 18, 2007. Alpha Delta Phi.

'61 MRP—John R. Richards of Lakemont, GA, August 20, 2007; retired director of business planning and development.

'62 MS—James A. Beck of Gurnee, IL, February 17, 2008; sales development manager; active in community affairs.

'62 DVM—Robert H. Cane of Baton Rouge, LA, February 12, 2008; veterinarian; veteran. Alpha Psi.

'62 BS Nurs—Mary Gingrich Caswell of Murrells Inlet, SC, January 20, 2008; nurse.

'62 BS Ag, DVM '66—John H. Nelson of Jamestown, NY, October 15, 2007; veterinarian; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

'62 BA—Cheryl Chadbourn Schell of Washington, DC, January 9, 2008; physician. Alpha Phi.

'63 MILR—Walter S. Hauck Jr. of Stonington, CT, January 14, 2008; dean, Gibbs College; director of New Jersey's GED program; special education director; author of Skippy's Brave Adventures; veteran; active in community and professional affairs.

'63 MA—Usha Mehta Helweg of Kalamazoo, MI, May 28, 1998.

'63 BS Hotel—Caesar A. Perotti of Palm Springs, CA, February 23, 2007. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'64 LLB—Francis X. Kennedy of Rochester, NY, November 18, 2007; attorney; active in community and religious affairs.

'64 BS Ag—Terrance F. Williams of Middleport, NY, December 8, 2007; horse breeder; operated Williamsburg Farm and Chestnut Ridge Equestrian Center. Sigma Chi. Wife, Sue (Burkhardt) '64, MAT '70.

'65 PhD—Francis R. Allaire Jr. of Columbus, OH, November 27, 2007; professor emeritus of dairy science, Ohio State U.; researcher, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization; active in community and professional affairs.

'65 MA, PhD '72—Francis R. Czerwinski of Cortland, NY, November 25, 2007; professor of history, SUNY Cortland.

'65 BA—Kathryn Schuette Dietz of Ithaca, NY, January 17, 2008.

'65 BS HE—Susan Nye Woehr of Rochester, NY, October 28, 2007; active in religious and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. Husband, David T. Woehr '63.

'66 MS Ag, PhD '69—George L. Good of Dryden, NY, December 24, 2007; professor emeritus, Dept. of Horticulture, Cornell U.; director, Cornell Pesticide Mgmt. Education Program; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'66 BA—James W. Pyle of Granville, OH, December 26, 2007; attorney; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

'66 BS Nurs—Karin Thorsen Thompson of Westfield, NJ, October 25, 2007; nurse.

'66 BS Eng—Paul C. Westenheffer Jr. of Westerville, OH, January 8, 2008; worked for American Electric Power; active in religious affairs.

'67 JD—Walter R. Bailey of New York City, March 23, 2008; trusts and estates attorney; also worked for the FBI; active in community affairs.

'67, BS '68—Stephen Pincus of Albany, CA, September 25, 2007; mental health counselor; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.

'67—Kenneth E. Seaman of Baltimore, MD, October 6, 2000; active in religious affairs.

'68 BS—Daniel J. Fink of Norwood, NJ, November 29, 2007; associate professor of clinical pathology, Columbia U.; founding director, Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine; studied effects of the Chernobyl accident on thyroid diseases; active in public affairs.

'68 BS Ag—John L. Morgan of Cortland, NY, December 24, 2007; proprietor, Morgan's Sunoco; veteran.

'69 BA—James L. Bariski of Boiling Springs, PA, December 20, 2007; financial planner; active in community and religious affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

'69 JD—Howard M. Bergtraum of Old Westbury, NY, November 13, 2007; attorney; former advisor, US Securities and Exchange Commission; active in civic, professional, and alumni affairs.

'69 PhD—John G. Streeter of Wooster, OH, June 26, 2007; professor of agronomy, Ohio State U.; expert on soybeans; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

'70 DVM—Paul J. Gordon of Millington, NJ, February 11, 2008; veterinarian; active in professional and religious affairs. Wife, Deborah (Goodenough) '67.

'70, BS Ag '71—Thomas P. Quinn of Montville, NJ, February 18, 2008; senior VP for marketing, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; active in community affairs.

'70 BEE, MEE '71—Michael P. Scanlon of Pittsfield, MA, January 14, 2008; electrical engineer, General Electric; active in community affairs. Sigma Nu.

'70 B Chem E, ME '71—Thomas Sherman of Manahawkin, NJ, December 6, 2007; chemical engineer, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection; active in civic and alumni affairs. Alpha Phi Delta.

'71 BS Hotel—Thomas J. Masie of Lindenhurst, NY, June 3, 2007; worked in real estate and mortgages.

'72 BS Ag—Alan J. Saulpaugh of Germantown, NY, February 3, 2008; fruit farmer; president, George W. Saulpaugh & Son Fruit Corp.; active in religious affairs. Alpha Zeta. '72-76 GR—Ralph E. Williams of New Windsor, MD, September 17, 2006; supervisory auditor, Nat'l Institutes of Health.

'73 BS Ag—William A. Abbott of Gurnee, IL, May 27, 1996; research investigator.

'73 BS Ag—David M. Buckingham of Taberg, NY, November 9, 2007; designer, Oneida Ltd.; active in religious affairs.

'73 BS HE—Lynn A. Classen of Watsonville, CA, December 6, 2007; physician assistant; active in civic and community affairs. Husband, Howard M. Classen, MPS '73.

'73 BEP—James A. Singer of Greenwich, CT, October 21, 2007; partner, C. E. Unterberg, Towbin; active in alumni affairs. Beta Pi.

'73 BEP—John A. Wert of Roskilde, Denmark, July 23, 2007; worked for materials research dept., Risoe National Laboratory.

'73 BS Ag, PhD '79—Steven C. Wiest of Manhattan, KS, January 8, 2007; retired professor, Kansas State U.; active in community and professional affairs.

'75 BS Hotel—Carl A. Emilius Jr. of Warminster, PA, June 27, 2007.

'75, BS '77—Andrew M. Schultz of Denver, CO, December 15, 2007; petroleum engineer; VP of production, Teton Energy; active in alumni affairs.

'76 BS Hotel—Alfred A. Bentley III of Orlando, FL, May 11, 2006; mosquito specialist, Orange County (FL); active in religious affairs.

'76 DVM—John A. Clark of Providence, RI, January 20, 2008; veterinarian; active in community affairs.

'76 BS Nurs—Eileen DeCastro Emmel of Avon, CT, January 18, 2008; head nurse, Home Care Dept., New York Hospital.

'76 JD—Phillip S. Figa of Denver, CO, January 5, 2008; US district judge; founding partner of Burns, Figa & Will; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

'76 BS Ag—Jean Stephans Kavanagh of Lubbock, TX, January 25, 2008; assoc. professor of landscape architecture, Texas Tech U.; active in community and professional affairs. '76 BEE—Bruce S. Laskin of Purchase, NY, December 28, 2007; president, Matrix General; active in alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha.

'76 BS Engr—Martin G. Meder of Neenah, WI, December 18, 2006; patent attorney, Georgia Pacific; active in alumni affairs.

'76 BA—Sandra J. Widener of Denver, CO, December 22, 2007; co-founder of Westword; author; librarian; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'77 BCE—Christopher S. Haynes of Lexington, KY, November 12, 2007; national construction manager, Bechtel Corp.; veteran; active in professional and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi.

'77 DVM—Christine M. Makowski of Landenberg, PA, October 13, 2007; veterinarian.

'78 BS ORIE—Scott M. Casassa of Hopkinton, MA, August 19, 2007; program manager, Raytheon Corp.

'78 BA, MD '81—Alan L. Hillman of Bala Cynwyd, PA, May 24, 2007; professor of medicine, U. of Pennsylvania. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'80 BS Ag—Stanley Antosh of Spartanburg, SC, February 21, 2008; anesthesiologist; active in professional and alumni affairs. Wife, Rosemary (Tammaro) '81.

'80 MS, PhD '83—Ralph Byers of Lawrence, KS, December 15, 2007; mathematics professor, Kansas U. Wife, Margaret (Bayer), PhD '83.

'80 DVM—Priscilla Smith Irwin of Geneva, NY, December 10, 2007; veterinarian.

'80 BS ILR, MS ILR '86—Joseph R. Rich of Southborough, MA, December 28, 2007; chairman, Pearl Meyer & Partners; author; active in professional and alumni affairs. Wife, Beth (Florin) '85.

'82 BS Ag—Thomas E. Isphording Jr. of Huron, OH, November 17, 2007; pediatrician. Wife, Murrie (Lambers) '82.

'82 BME—Daryl P. Killip of Hudson, NH, December 9, 2007; worked for AT&T and Vectron; active in community affairs.

'82 BS ILR—Bruce A. Levy of Towaco, NJ, January 14, 2008; senior VP and senior corporate counsel, Affiliated Computer Svcs. Kappa Sigma.

'82 PhD—Ralph D. Waniska of College Station, TX, June 25, 2007.

'82—Helen B. Wilkins of Ithaca, NY, November 9, 2007; librarian; active in community and religious affairs.

'85 DVM—Joyce L. Colbert of Oakland, MD, formerly of Wilmington, DE, November 7, 2007; veterinarian; active in community and professional affairs.

'85, BArch '86—Peter C. Noble of Oakland, CA, November 11, 2007; architect; artist; co-founder, Revolver Design; outdoorsman.

'88 JD—David A. Brown of Hingham, MA, January 19, 2008; attorney; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Wife, Mary (Brinson), JD '88.

'88—Paul A. Conway of Richford, NY, December 11, 2007; worked at Cornell U.

'88 , BS Ag '93—Daniel E. McNulty of Port Jefferson, NY, September 3, 2007.

'91 PhD—Geoffrey D. Wheelock of Ithaca, NY, February 7, 2008; senior scientist and director of research, Vybion Inc.; created the Ah Immunoassay; author; active in community and professional affairs.

'97 BS Hotel—David P. Gogolak of Whitefish, MT, January 20, 2008; restaurateur; active in alumni affairs. Phi Delta Theta.

'98 BS Ag—Neil H. Murphy of Brewster, NY, August 15, 2007.

'04 BS HE—Page V. Turner of New Hope, PA, October 19, 2007; worked for Regatta USA Pacific Alliance; active in community and religious affairs.

'05 BA—Khiem D. Nguyen of Kensington, MD, September 3, 2007; worked at SmithGroup, Netvitz, and IBM.

'07 BS Ag—Collin E. Haight of Delhi, NY, December 26, 2007; worked for Donnan Farms; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.

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