'27—Aline Jordan Jenkins (Mrs. Du Bois, DVM '18) of Johnson City, NY, November 7, 2007.
'27 GR—Helen E. Whipple of Savannah, NY, December 10, 2008.
'29 BS HE—Alice Blostein Horn (Mrs. Norman '30, BA '31) of Gainesville, FL, formerly of New York City and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, July 6, 2007; dietician, Montefiore Hospital.
'30—Miriam Halperin Ginsburg of New York City, December 1, 2008; active in civic and community affairs.
'31 BA, PhD '36—Cornelius Betten Jr. of Hamilton, OH, September 9, 2008; chemical engineer, Champion Papers; taught paper technology at Miami U.; veteran; active in community affairs. Alpha Zeta.
'31 BA—Gerald Blumberg of Yorktown Heights, NY, January 23, 2009; attorney; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.
'32 MS—Elizabeth van Loben Sels Chamberlin of Los Olivos, CA, August 16, 2008; retired cattle rancher; former high school biology teacher; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.
'32 BA—Rosalind Heidt Hey (Mrs. Emery J. '31, JD '33) of Northville, NY, June 1, 2008; teacher, Wappingers Central School System; active in community affairs.
'32 BS HE—Helen Schroeder Ringrose of Troy, NY, January 12, 2009.
'33 BS Ag—Preston T. Kellogg of Interlaken, NY, January 19, 2009; active in community affairs.
'33 BS HE—Alice Weigand Koller of West Hempstead, NY, January 14, 2007. Kappa Kappa Gamma.
'34 BA—Estelle Markin Greenhill of Rye, NY, January 5, 2009; retired social worker, White Plains Mental Health Assn.; active in civic and community affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi.
'34 BA—Francis M. Shull of Sarasota, FL, formerly of Rochester, NY, March 10, 2008; active in alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.
'34 BA, MD '38—Norman D. Thetford of Eatontown, NJ, November 16, 2008; physician and surgeon; US Public Health Service quarantine officer, US Virgin Islands; research associate in parasitology, DeLamar Inst. of Public Health, Columbia U.; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Wife, Meda (Young) '35.
'35 BS HE—Jean Chase Emerson of Cobleskill, NY, May 26, 2008; professor emeritus, Nursery Education Div., SUNY Ag & Tech Inst.; social worker; superintendent, Saratoga Springs Children's Home; gave Congressional testimony in support of the Head Start program; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Alpha Phi.
'35 BA—Katherine Morris Lockwood (Mrs. George E. '35) of New Rochelle, NY, October 12, 2008; active in community and alumni affairs.
'35 BA—Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond of New York City, December 20, 2008; performed the role of Lady Thiang in the original Broadway production of The King and I; founder, Speech Dynamics; opera singer; TV guest performer; worked for Ogilvy & Mather; author; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.
'35 Harold B. Sweet of Ithaca, NY, December 1, 2008; worked for Cornell Cooperative Extension; also served in the National 4-H Center; active in professional and alumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.
'36 DVM—Robert F. Brown of Paul Smiths, NY, December 15, 2008; veterinarian; dairy farmer; chairman, NYS Board of Veterinary Examiners; active in professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Psi. Wife, Elizabeth (Stephenson) '35.
'37—Baldwin C. Avery of Lansdale, PA, December 17, 2008; manager, Pocono Lake Preserve; worked for Beacon Milling Co.; former mayor, Aurora, NY; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.
'37 BS Ag—Raphael L. Bellinger of Watertown, NY, August 12, 2008; retired dairy farmer.
'37, BA '38—Josephine Sloughter Coggshall (Mrs. William L. '35, PhD '49) of Ithaca, NY, December 7, 2008; worked for the Cornell U. physics dept.; musician; active in civic, community, and religious affairs. Delta Gamma.
'37—Alexander C. Frank of Glens Falls, NY, October 8, 2008. Delta Phi.
'37 BA—Flora Daniel Glass (Mrs. Elwood G. '38) of Cleveland, OH, November 2, 2008; high school teacher; active in community and alumni affairs. Pi Beta Phi.
'37 BA—Edward W. Shineman Jr. of New York City, January 12, 2009; retired executive, Beech-Nut and E. R. Squibb and Co.; active in civic, community, religious, and alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.
'37 BS Ag, MS Ag '38—Myron S. Silverman of Chapel Hill, NC, October 17, 2008; professor, Dept. of Microbiology, researcher, UNC Dental Research Center, and asst. dean, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; head of microbiology and immunology branch, Naval Radiological Defense Lab; veteran; author; active in professional and alumni affairs.
'37 BA—Edward A. Speiser of Dresher, PA, November 1, 2008.
'38 BME—Aubrey S. Bowen of Boulder, CO, formerly of Binghamton, NY, January 28, 2008; owner, Cutler Ice and Cold Storage; owner, Bowen Building Block Co.; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon.
'38—Rodney L. Elkind of Scotts Valley, CA, formerly of New York City and Southbury, CT, January 20, 2009; export executive; veteran; active in community affairs. Tau Delta Phi.
'38, BS Hotel '39—Gerald Fried of Scottsdale, AZ, January 2, 2009; retired food service director, Motorola; veteran; active in religious affairs. Tau Delta Phi.
'38 BS Hotel—Martha Omenson Healy of Worland, WY, April 22, 2008; rancher; hotelier; active in civic and community affairs.
'38 MS—James A. Henderson of Victoria, BC, Canada, December 15, 2008; veterinarian; dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State U.; professor, Ontario Veterinary College; established Great Britain's first bovine artificial insemination program; veteran; author; active in community and professional affairs.
'38 BA—Ruth Lowry Lee of Asheville, NC, April 15, 2007.
'39 BA—Charlotte Mahe Farnham of Short Hills, NJ, November 30, 2008; laboratory supervisor, Standard Oil of New Jersey; active in alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.
'39 MS Ag—Homer T. Hopkins Jr. of Sandy Hook, CT, formerly of Beltsville, MD, August 18, 2008; chemist, US Dept. of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration; researcher, Hittman Assocs.; asst. adjunct professor, U. of Maryland Inst. of Applied Agriculture; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.
'39 BA—Jean Linklater Payne of Ithaca, NY, January 12, 2009; retired Cornell U. librarian; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Husband, Douglass M. Payne, SP Ag '36-39.
'39, BA '40—Robert S. Taylor of Syracuse, NY, January 1, 2009; dean emeritus, School of Information Studies, Syracuse U.; professor and director of information science, Lehigh U.; professor and director of Library Center, Hampshire College; veteran; author; active in professional and alumni affairs. Sigma Chi. Wife, Fay (Inman), MEd '67.
'39 BS Ag—Lewis S. Wood of Penfield, NY, August 8, 2006; real estate salesman.
'40 MA—Ethan O. Allen of Romulus, NY, June 28, 2008; aerospace engineer, Bell Aerospace; worked on Gemini Project; veteran; active in religious affairs.
'40 BA—Elise Gaines Revson of New York City, December 26, 2008; worked in public relations, Young & Rubicam; theater producer; active in artistic and community affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi.
'40—Robert J. Vinton of Birmingham, MI, March 30, 2006; president, Vinton Realty. Alpha Delta Phi.
'41 DVM—Anthony J. Ackerman of Sussex, NJ, October 29, 2006; veterinarian.
'41 BA—Nancy Rider Bishop of Lancaster, PA, formerly of Ann Arbor, MI, December 25, 2008; retired physician, U. of Michigan Health Service and Planned Parenthood; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.
'41 BA, JD '43—Constance Eberhardt Cook of Ithaca, NY, January 20, 2009; attorney; NYS assemblywoman; first female VP, Cornell U.; advocate for women's rights; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs.
'41, BEE '42—John T. Elfvin of Buffalo, NY, January 6, 2009; attorney; US District Court judge; US Attorney, Western District of NY; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Tau. Wife, Peggy (Pierce) '43.
'41 BS HE—Clara E. Goodman of Ithaca, NY, January 25, 2009; supervising public health nurse, Tompkins County Health Dept.; home care coordinator; active in community affairs.
'41 BA—Robert Simon of Encino, CA, January 5, 2009; active in alumni affairs. Pi Lambda Phi.
'42 MD—Katherine Swift Almy (Mrs. Thomas P. '35, MD '39) of Hanover, NH, November 26, 2008; assoc. professor, clinical psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School; chief of medicine, Dartmouth Med School clinical program; medical staff officer, United Nations; taught at Cornell Medical College; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.
'42 BS Ag, PhD '51—Russell H. Bradley of Ithaca, NY, December 28, 2008; horticulturist; veteran. Alpha Zeta.
'42 BS HE—Elizabeth A. Chase of Adelphi, MD, December 28, 2008; attorney, Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare; also worked for the US Treasury Dept.; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.
'42 PhD—Marline G. Cline of Ithaca, NY, January 9, 2009; soil scientist; professor of agronomy, Cornell U.; Cornell's project leader, rehabilitation of U. of the Philippines College of Agriculture; veteran; active in professional affairs.
'42 BME—A. Yates Dowell Jr. of Springfield, VA, February 9, 2009; patent attorney; veteran; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Zeta Psi.
'42 BME—Ronald E. Grover of Binghamton, NY, November 4, 2006.
'42 DVM—Christian J. Haller of Sun City Center, FL, January 20, 2009; veterinarian; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Psi.
'42 BS HE—Edith Sheffield Lesure of Altamonte Springs, FL, January 23, 2009; home manager; active in alumni affairs. Husband, John D. Lesure '44.
'42 BA—Edward A. Sokolski of Redondo Beach, CA, November 9, 2008; attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'42 MS HE—Corinne Heaton Staples of Richland, WA, formerly of Lincoln, NE, December 17, 2008; instructor of textiles, clothing construction, and design, U. of Nebraska; high school teacher; active in community affairs.
'43 BA—Ralph S. Croskey Jr. of Ronkonkoma, NY, October 24, 2008; manager, Mutual of New York; attorney; veteran; author. Alpha Tau Omega.
'43 MS HE—Catharine Rohrer Gross (Mrs. Eric T., GR '39-40) of Bethesda, MD, formerly of Niskayuna, NY, August 30, 2008; high school teacher; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.
'43 BCE—Herbert A. Gustafson of Fort Myers, FL, September 16, 2008; engineer, researcher, and planner for Standard Oil of Ohio; farmer; attorney; active in community affairs. Chi Epsilon.
'43 BME—George W. McGlaughlin of Pittsburgh, PA, December 12, 2008; president, P. C. McKenzie Co.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
'43—George J. Politi of Southbury, CT, June 25, 2008.
'43 BME—Jack D. Rice of Upper St. Clair, PA, December 13, 2008; VP of engineering and construction, Koppers Co.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
'43, BS Ag '42—Paul H. Todd Jr. of Kalamazoo, MI, November 18, 2008; board chairman and former president, Kalsec Inc.; former Democratic Congressman; CEO, Planned Parenthood-World Population; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'44 BA, MD '46—Frederick N. Bailey of Maplewood, NJ, December 25, 2008; physician; medical director, Chubb Insurance; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta.
'44—Robert M. Bolz of Madison, WI, January 19, 2009; former president and vice chairman, Oscar Mayer & Co.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Chi Phi.
'44 BA—Joanne B. Fiero of Erie, PA, August 8, 2008; teacher, Erie and Millcreek schools; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.
'44 BS Ag—E. William Kaegebein of Lakeland, FL, July 11, 2008; agricultural chemicals salesman, FMC Corp.; veteran; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.
'44 DVM—Floyd A. Lockwood of Grants Pass, OR, formerly of Harlingen, TX, and Sioux City, IA, January 2, 2009; USDA veterinarian; veteran; active in community affairs.
'44 BS ORIE—Harold N. Sheble of Coronado, CA, December 18, 2008; active in alumni affairs.
'44, BS Ag '46—Jean Gillis Wagner of Dowling Park, FL, September 25, 2008; retired primary school teacher; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.
'44, BS Ag '47—Roger Warner Jr. of Glen Ellyn, IL, March 8, 2007; retired buyer, Sears; veteran. Kappa Sigma.
'45—Theodora Boucher Bien of Pawcatuck, CT, June 16, 2008; restaurateur; operated Pie in the Sky gourmet shop; active in community and professional affairs.
'45, BEE '50—Donald E. Knauss of Acworth, GA, April 10, 2008; retired engineer. Sigma Nu.
'46 MD—Bruce A. Allison of Kalispell, MT, September 19, 2007; general practitioner; treated Babe Ruth at Bellevue Hospital during his final illness; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'46 BEE—Theodore J. Bliss of Concord, NH, December 3, 2008; engineer. Alpha Tau Omega. Wife, Jane (Bowers) '48.
'46 MD—Donald L. Burnham of Bethesda, MD, July 27, 2008; psychoanalyst; director of research, Chestnut Lodge; researcher, Nat'l Inst. of Mental Health; editor, Psychiatry; active in community and professional affairs.
'46, BCE '45—Lyle B. Rowley of Dallas, TX, October 7, 2008; architect emeritus, Army/Air Force Exchange Services; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Phi Delta Theta.
'46, BS HE '45—Mavis Gillette Sand (Mrs. Seaward A. '45, PhD '55) of East Aurora, NY, November 29, 2008; active in alumni affairs.
'46 MEd—Lillian Krulis Wilcox of Ivoryton, CT, August 16, 2008.
''47 BS Ag—Amory J. Cooke of Paso Robles, CA, September 16, 2008; VP and general mgr., Hearst Corp.'s Sunical Land & Livestock and San Francisco Realities; rancher; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.
47 BS HE—Charlotte Roll Dubin of Dallas, TX, October 9, 2007; artist; art teacher; active in community and religious affairs.
'47 BCE, PhD '51—James Gillin of North Palm Beach, FL, and Westfield, NJ, December 8, 2008; retired chemical engineer, Merck and Co.; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Chi Sigma. Wife, June (Jacobi) '48.
'48—Melvin L. Adams of Macon, GA, October 27, 2007; emergency physician, Medical Center of Central Georgia, Charter Northside Hospital, and Heart Works Cardiac Rehabilitation; founded urgent care center, East Dublin, GA; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Phi Delta Theta.
'48 PhD—Robert F. Eshelman of Mount Joy, PA, November 24, 2008; emeritus professor of sociology, Franklin and Marshall College; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'48 BArch—Oliver J. Foster Jr. of Bennington, VT, formerly of West Hartford, CT, September 6, 2008; architect; partner, Moore and Salsbury; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.
'48 BCE—Gerard F. Fox of Garden City, NY, December 12, 2008; expert in bridge design; partner, HNTB Corp.; taught at Columbia U.; veteran; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Wife, Jeanne (McNulta) '49.
'48 BME—James Greene of Auburn, NY, and Fripp Island, SC, June 4, 2008; VP, Greene Air Control; experimental design engineer, Auburn Spark Plug; veteran; active in civic and community affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.
'48 BS HE—Marjorie Leonard Hopkins (Mrs. Thomas M. '48) of South Lyon, MI, formerly of McLean, VA, December 30, 2008; active in community affairs. Chi Omega.
'48 BS Ag—Thomas W. B. Lins of Henderson, NV, formerly of State College, MS, December 8, 2008; petroleum geologist, Monsanto Oil Co.; retired geology professor, Mississippi State U.; also taught at Lamar U.; active in community and professional affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
'48 BCE—James W. Scott of West Columbia, SC, November 24, 2008; retired president/CEO; active in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.
'48—Martha Jewett Thomas of Canandaigua, NY, formerly of Watchung, NJ, September 20, 2008; children's librarian. Delta Delta Delta.
'49 MA—Marcia J. Bowden of Jordan, NY, April 29, 2008.
'49 BCE—Richard J. Gilbert of Lexington, MA, November 22, 2008; president, Joy Realty Assocs.; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu. Wife, Joy (Stern) '51.
'49 BS ORIE—Severn Joyce of Toledo, OH, December 18, 2008; VP, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; CEO, Northwest Ohio Health Technology Center; asst. VP, Medical College of Ohio; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Theta Delta Chi.
'49 BS Ag—Ernest A. Riegel of Batavia, NY, August 15, 2007.
'49 BS HE—Twila Kieda Szazvay of Bordentown, NJ, May 3, 2006; worked for Human Svcs., Div. of Mental Retardation, State of New Jersey.
'49 BA—George W. Tuttle of Charlotte, NC, November 14, 2008; inspector, Dept. of Agriculture, State of Connecticut; veteran; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.
'49 BS Ag—Edgar L. Van Zandt II of Plainsboro Township, NJ, December 25, 2008; owner, Van Zandt Sales & Service Co.; sales representative, Hobensack Farm Equipment; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.
'49 BS Ag—Constance M. Williams of Horseheads, NY, November 16, 2008; retired teacher; veteran; active in community and professional affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.
'50 PhD—Richard H. Allaway of West Orange, NJ, June 28, 2008; VP of compensation, NY Metropolitan Transit Authority; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. Watermargin.
'50 MS, PhD '53—Paul C. Berg of Blythewood, SC, January 10, 2009; professor, U. of South Carolina College of Education; veteran; active in professional and religious affairs.
'50 BA—Richard Neimeth of New York City, January 7, 2009; founder and CEO, NMC Labs; president, Nat'l Magnesia Co.; VP and partner, Major Pharmaceutical; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.
'50 DVM—Milton Schmidt Jr. of Dracut, MA, November 14, 2008; veterinarian.
'50 PhD—Charles B. Tennant of Chapel Hill, NC, December 10, 2008; manager of developmental research, N. J. Zinc; veteran.
'51 BS ILR—Paul J. Fasser Jr. of Vienna, VA, November 22, 2008; labor arbitrator; asst. secretary of labor for labor-management relations; federal manpower administrator; asst. director, contract administration, United Steelworkers of America; veteran; active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. Theta Chi.
'51, BME '52—Sigmund E. Herzstein Jr. of Cambridge, MA, October 9, 2008; investor and venture capital advisor; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.
'52 PhD—Henry R. Brandt of Singer Island, FL, November 26, 2008; pioneer in biblical counseling; psychologist; educator; author; consultant; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.
'52 B Chem E—David W. Clarke of Penn Yan, NY, formerly of Seattle, WA, March 12, 2008; chemical engineer, Boeing.
'52 BS ILR—David R. MacDonald of Bethesda, MD, November 28, 2008; attorney; Asst. Secretary of the Treasury and Undersecretary of the Navy under President Ford; deputy trade representative, Reagan Administration; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta.
'52 PhD—Miner J. Sloan of Washington, DC, January 3, 2009; entomologist, Shell Oil Co.; toxicology expert; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'52 BEE—George C. Whiteley Jr. of Herndon, VA, December 18, 2008; electrical engineer.
'52 BA—Norman R. Zitron of Lake Hiawatha, NJ, November 7, 2006.
'53 PhD—W. Brady Anthony of Waco, TX, formerly of Auburn, AL, December 15, 2007; president, W. B. Anthony Enterprises; professor emeritus, Auburn U.; inventor; veteran; active in professional affairs.
'53 BS Ag—Charles F. Cady of Sackets Harbor, NY, September 23, 2008; retired dairy farmer; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Wife, Joyce (Rupp) '53.
'53—Perry W. Cornell of Brockport, NY, April 13, 2008; headed agricultural dept., Jasper Central High School; FFA advisor; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'53 JD—John D. Dragat of West Hartford, CT, August 11, 2008; attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.
'53 MS, PhD '55—Robert S. Shallenberger of Geneva, NY, December 28, 2008; professor of chemistry, NYS Agricultural Experiment Station; taught food and carbohydrate chemistry, Cornell U.; veteran; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. Wife, Carol (Naumann), GR '51-52.
'54 BA—William J. Baldwin of Vista, CA, November 30, 2008; retired Lt. Col., US Air Force.
'54 BME—Robert W. Benzinger of East Setauket, NY, December 27, 2008; retired marketing director; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.
'54—Austin J. Edgar of Chittenango, NY, April 27, 2008; retired wholesale florist; active in community and professional affairs.
'54 BS HE—Jane Foster Hobkirk of Fountain Valley, CA, January 4, 2003; lighting expert; saleswoman; active in civic and community affairs.
'54 PhD—Margaret Young Jackson of Washington, DC, December 22, 2008; retired English professor, U. of the District of Columbia; veteran.
'55—Laurence A. Caperton of Louisville, KY, August 31, 2008; partner, first Volkswagen dealership in Louisville; active in civic and community affairs. Theta Delta Chi.
'55 PhD—William R. Gill of Auburn, AL, September 2, 2008; research scientist and director, USDA Nat'l Tillage Machinery Laboratory; adjunct professor of agricultural engineering, Auburn U.; research scientist, Hawaiian Pineapple Research Inst.; veteran; author; active in professional affairs.
'55 BS ILR—Albert J. Mackie Jr. of Fernandina Beach, FL, December 22, 2008. Pi Kappa Alpha.
'56, BME '59—Stephen D. Bailey of Fairway, KS, November 24, 2008; mechanical engineer; active in alumni affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
'56 BA—John R. Bolton of Sisters, OR, July 2, 2008. Beta Theta Pi.
'56—Charles W. Guyett of Trumansburg, NY, December 13, 2008; senior life safety officer, Cornell U.; veteran; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'56 BA—Carol Negin Minkow of New York City, December 7, 2008.
'56, BEE '57—Milton Pelovitz of Lawrenceville, NJ, November 25, 2008; retired engineer, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton U.; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.
'56, BME '57—Richard Sklar of San Francisco, CA, January 20, 2009; ambassador to the United Nations, Clinton Administration; US special representative for Bosnian reconstruction; worked on Montenegro's independence and received the country's highest non-citizen honor; president, San Francisco Public Utilities Comm.; helped rebuild San Francisco's cable car system and clean up San Francisco Bay; president and co-owner, Allied Steel and Tractor Corp.; worked for O'Brien-Kreitzberg Construction Mgmt.; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.
'57 BA—Valerie J. Austin of Paris, France, December 19, 2008.
'57 BS Ag—Robert E. Hook of Fulton, NY, formerly of Syracuse, NY, August 28, 2008; chemical and feed salesman; vocational agricultural instructor; insurance salesman; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.
'57 BS HE—Sylva Espenscheid Stoevener of Blacksburg, VA, October 19, 2008; home economics extension teacher; bank customer service representative; active in community and religious affairs. Husband, Herbert H. Stoevener '58.
'57 BS Ag, MBA '58—Wayne A. Taylor of Chester Springs, PA, June 19, 2008; active in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma. Wife, Gail (Kias) '58.
'57, BS ILR '60—John H. Wilson of New Berlin, PA, October 19, 2008; parole hearing officer; retired lieutenant colonel, US Army; professor of military science, Bucknell U.; active in community and professional affairs.
'58 MD—John P. Donohue of Melbourne Beach, FL, September 4, 2008; urologist; professor and chair, Dept. of Urology, Indiana U. School of Medicine; veteran; author; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.
'58 MBA—Douglas P. McGandy of Merrimack, NH, December 2, 2008; worked for St. Joseph Hospital, Mobil Oil Corp., U. of Hawaii, and Hawaiian Telephone; veteran; active in community affairs.
'58 BS HE—Sara Simmons Quartararo of Dataw Island, SC, formerly of Poughkeepsie, NY, October 24, 2008; former president, Children's Home of Poughkeepsie; active in community and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. Husband, Anthony M. Quartararo '53, JD '59.
'59 BA—Robert I. Dodge III of Stafford, VA, December 6, 2008; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Delta Phi.
'59—Stetson C. Edmunds Jr. of Arroyo Seco, NM, January 12, 2008; head of timber management and fire staff, Kit Carson Nat'l Forest, US Forest Service; active in professional affairs. Phi Delta Theta.
'59 PhD—Davison G. Grove of Chambersburg, PA, May 4, 2008; retired biology professor, Wilson College; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.
'59 LLB—Dan Rooney III of Denver, CO, October 9, 2008; attorney.
'59 BA—Barbara Bergenfeld Stern of Newark, NJ, January 15, 2009; professor and chair, Dept. of Marketing, Rutgers U.
'59 BA, PhD '72—Heng L. Thung of Bangkok, Thailand, January 12, 2009; expert in satellite imagery and aerial photograph interpretation; author; active in professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.
'60 BA—Giles S. Brown of Mahwah, NJ, March 13, 2008; worked in the textile industry; veteran; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Nu.
'60 PhD—Edward L. Hart of Knoxville, TN, November 14, 2008; professor emeritus, U. of Tennessee; consultant, Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory; active in professional affairs.
'60 BS HE—Susan Jacoby Sprick of Grover Beach, CA, October 21, 2008; critical care registered nurse; active in community affairs.
'61—Dan B. Haymes of Morrison, CO, April 5, 2007.
'61 BS Ag—William C. Rolland of Youngstown, NY, December 4, 2008; co-owner, Rolland Development Corp.; also worked for the Donaldson Co. and John Deere; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Cayuga Lodge. Wife, Mary (Tower) '61.
'62 BS Hotel—Archie Casbarian of New Orleans, LA, January 10, 2009; restaurateur; owner, Arnaud's Restaurant; active in professional affairs.
'62, BArch '63—George S. Salabes of Baltimore, MD, December 1, 2008; architect president, Nelson-Salabes Architects; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi.
'63 LLB—Leonard J. Connolly of Locust Valley, NY, January 24, 2009; corporate attorney; adjunct professor of law, Hofstra Law School; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'63 JD—James W. Hagan of Lincoln, NH, April 29, 2007; attorney; veteran; active in religious affairs.
'63 BS Hotel—Charles A. Jones of Kingston, NY, August 14, 2006. Alpha Sigma Phi.
'63-66 GR—Virginia Sager Spevak of Washington, DC, November 20, 2008; retired science teacher; former development officer, Green Acres School; advocate for solar power; active in civic, community, and religious affairs.
'64 MS ILR, PhD '67—Walter L. Balk of Delmar, NY, July 24, 2008; professor emeritus, Rockefeller College, U. at Albany; also worked for IBM; veteran; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'64, BS Ag '65—John W. Grove of Ft. Walton Beach, FL, December 17, 2008; retired US Air Force officer; executive, humanitarian organization; active in civic and community affairs.
'64, BEP '65—Alan S. Hirshberg of Potomac, MD, December 21, 2008; retired energy consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton; former NASA analyst, Mariner Venus and Mariner Mars space missions; consultant; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.
'64 MILR—Rudolph B. Sutherland of Vestal, NY, September 29, 2008; worked for IBM; worked for Moore Business Forms; photographer, General Electric; veteran; active in community affairs.
'65 MFA—Joseph R. Brown of Sebastopol, CA, June 22, 2008; artist; active in community affairs.
'65-66 GR—Father Joseph A. Kelly of Jersey City, NJ, December 5, 2008; Jesuit priest; campus minister, St. Peter's College; parochial vicar, St. Malachy's Church; worked for int'l food pantries; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.
'65 PhD—James R. Millar of Washington, DC, November 30, 2008; emeritus professor of economics, George Washington U.; expert on economies of Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia; founder and director, Soviet Interview Project; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'65 MA—Patricia Smithurst Scholsshan of Frankfurt, Germany, December 11, 2007; writer.
'65, MS ILR, PhD '68—Allan M. Schwartzbaum of Jerusalem, Israel, August 21, 2007; executive administrator, Zaidner Inst. Wife, Barbara (Shapiro), MAT '66.
'65 MST—Douglas B. Seager of Penn Yan, NY, December 16, 2008; science coordinator, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES; taught at Keuka College, Brockport State U., Rochester City School's PRIS2M project, and Fayetteville-Manlius School district; set up science programs for Ugandan government; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'65—Ken L. Tenen of Salisbury, MD, August 26, 2008. Sigma Alpha Mu. Wife, Lynne Edelstein Hecht '64.
'65 JD—Walter J. Ward of Canandaigua, NY, August 5, 2008; attorney; public defender, Seneca County; counsel, NYS Assembly Comm. on Transportation; veteran; active in civic and community affairs.
'66 PhD—William H. Kaven of Ithaca, NY, December 27, 2008; professor emeritus, Hotel School, Cornell U.; active in professional and alumni affairs. Wife, Frederica (Kraft), GR '75-77.
'66 MD—I. Ira Mason of New York City, December 29, 2008; physician.
'66, BArch '67—Joseph Pomerance of Brooklyn, NY, July 17, 2008; artist; copy editor of math and science books; harpist.
'66 BS HE—Karen L. Sands of New York City, December 24, 2007; psychotherapist. Alpha Epsilon Phi.
'66 MS Ag—Michael B. Spevak of Washington, DC, November 20, 2008; primary psychiatrist, Lorton prison facility; worked with troubled adolescents; advocate for solar power; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'67—Peter A. Cofrin of Green Bay, WI, July 10, 2008; owner, Third Coast Records and Pierce Arrow Recording; helped establish Cofrin Memorial Arboretum, U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay; active in civic and community affairs. Psi Upsilon.
'68 MS Chem E, PhD '70—Lawrence R. Daley of Lexington, KY, June 6, 2008; associate professor of computer science, Hampton U.; chemical engineer, IBM; active in community affairs.
'68 BEE—William A. Geohegan of Andover, MA, October 27, 2007; electrical engineer, Compugraphics.
'68 EdD—Donald J. Hennigan of West Chatham, MA, April 18, 2008; superintendent of schools, Manchester, CT; school principal; middle and high school English teacher; active in community affairs.
'68 PhD—Arnold W. Tremere of Medicine Hat, Alberta, October 26, 2008; executive director, Canadian Int'l Grains Inst.; general manager, Maple Leaf Mills; active in community and professional affairs.
'69 BA—Robert P. Geronemus of Fort Lauderdale, FL, January 24, 2009; nephrologist; senior partner, South Florida Nephrology; clinical associate professor, Florida Atlantic U.; former chief resident, Mt. Sinai Hospital; author; active in professional and alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Epsilon.
'69 BA—Rick M. Stillman of Parkland, FL, November 26, 2008; general and vascular surgeon; former chief of staff and medical director, Wound Healing Center, Northwest Medical Center; director, Health Science Center, Kings County Medical Center; assoc. professor of surgery; author; active in community and professional affairs. Watermargin.
'69 BA, MD '73—Nicholas G. Ward of Seattle, WA, October 28, 2008; professor emeritus, Dept. of Psychiatry, U. of Washington; active in professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.
'71 MILR—Donald F. Fenily of Scottsdale, AZ, August 28, 2008; worked for the US Postal Service.
'72 JD—Albert H. Meyerhoff of Beverly Hills, CA, December 21, 2008; labor, environmental, and civil rights lawyer; brought case against sweatshops in Saipan; director, public health program, Nat'l Resources Defense Council; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'72 BS HE—Mary R. Myers Cole (Mrs. Sylvan '39) of New York City, November 28, 2008; product development consultant; active in alumni affairs.
'72 BA—Joseph A. Seale of Navarre, FL, January 5, 2009.
'72 MA—William I. Shorter of Baltimore, MD, January 20, 2009; retired manager, Verizon; active in civic and community affairs.
'73-76 GR—Jo Ann Wimer of Newfield, NY, January 22, 2009; university editor, Cornell Office of Publications and Marketing; worked for the Foreign Service and the United Nations; active in professional affairs.
'73 PhD—Guirguis F. Yassa of Sussex, NJ, September 3, 1993; civil engineer.
'74—Michael Milano of Las Vegas, NV, January 9, 2009; president, Milano Wealth Management.
'74 MEP—Steven J. Ostro of La Crescenta, CA, December 15, 2008; senior NASA research scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; pioneer in asteroid radar astronomy; asst. professor, Cornell U.; active in community and professional affairs.
'75 BA—Thomas P. Lyne of Boise, ID, October 23, 2008.
'75 BA—William D. Manns Jr. of Maplewood, NJ, November 24, 2008; attorney; veteran; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs.
'76 BA—Charles M. Cook of Mendham, NJ, August 14, 2008; co-founder and VP of information services, Provid Pharmaceutical; researcher, Hoffman-La Roche; active in professional affairs.
'77 BS Ag, DVM '83—Deborah E. Light of Bowdoinham, ME, January 1, 2009; veterinarian; equestrian; active in community and alumni affairs. Alpha Psi.
'79 BA—William V. Adamski of Oyster Bay, NY, January 12, 2009; CEO, NY Credit Advisors; former managing director, Credit Suisse First Boston; active in alumni affairs.
'80 JD—Stephen R. Seely of Rahway, NJ, November 1, 2008; attorney.
'81 MBA—Karen Wehmann Seldomridge of Ghent, NY, formerly of Lancaster, PA, November 11, 2008; healthcare marketer; sales manager, St. Joseph's Hospital (Lancaster, PA); active in community affairs.
'84 BA—Susan Martin Goodrich of Marquette, MI, January 11, 2009; assoc. professor of modern languages and literature, Northern Michigan U.; Latin American scholar; author; active in community and professional affairs.
'85, BS Ag '86—Leda M. Liounis-Boyce of New York City, May 26, 2008; director, inventory and special projects, Sterling Publishing.
'85, BArch '88—Peter P. Newell of Murrells Inlet, SC, formerly of Ithaca, NY, November 23, 2008; architect; real estate developer; designed Hospicare Center, Ithaca, NY. Wife, Cherie (Tiffany) '93.
'86, BS Ag '87—Lisa Brigham McCarthy of Tallahassee, FL, January 11, 2009; investment banker. Pi Beta Phi.
'86 BEE—Eric J. Westerdahl of Williamstown, MA, June 10, 2008; safety engineer, Underwriters' Laboratories and Lasermax Roll Systems; assistant, Museum of Black World War II History; ski instructor; active in civic and community affairs. Wife, Martha (Bennett) '86.
'88 BS HE—Joanne Fanelli-Panus of Mendham, NJ, January 7, 2009; researcher in immunology; author; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Husband, Mark J. Panus '88.
'89 PhD—Thomas V. Long II of Wrightsville Beach, NC, January 10, 2009; pioneer in energy analysis and biomedical research; assoc. professor, U. of Chicago; CEO, Maine Center for Innovation in Biotechnology; founded Zuzu Bioceuticals and Maricultura Inc.; also taught at U. of Michigan, Penn State U., Medical College of Virginia, and Cornell U.; author; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.
'89 BS, MD '94—Lance Peters of Ithaca, NY, December 26, 2008; orthopedic surgeon; specialist in joint replacements; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
'00 BA—Ned E. Fellman of Las Vegas, NV, formerly of Demarest, NJ, March 26, 2008; attorney. Pi Kappa Alpha.
'06 BEE, MEE '08—Jonathan Zhi-Xiang Shao of Brookline, MA, August 15, 2008.