In Memoriam

December 2025

The University recently learned of the passing of these Cornellians

Editor’s note: Please submit notification of alumni deaths—including an obituary, if possible—to the University at cubio-deceased@cornell.edu. Once the University records an alumni death in its database, the relevant information is forwarded to Cornellians for inclusion in a future In Memoriam section; deaths are generally listed three to four months after the University receives notice. If you have questions, please contact Alexandra Bond ’12 at abb83@cornell.edu.

1940s

’41 DVM—Samuel Bender of Providence, RI, July 8, 2025; veterinarian; federal meat inspector; patent holder; enjoyed international travel, theater, concerts, art, and making jewelry; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’46, B Chem E ’47—John W. Drew of Chatham and Manasquan, NJ, July 14, 2025; president, Drew Engineering; also worked at Ciba Pharmaceuticals; president, Algonquin Theater; veteran; enjoyed international travel, jazz, birdwatching, skiing, camping, canoeing, and racquet sports; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Chi Sigma.

’48 BA, MD ’52—Joseph K. Indenbaum of San Dimas, CA, August 5, 2025; physician; medical director, Los Angeles County Health Services; veteran; recipient, Alan Cranston EMS Achievement Award, American College of Emergency Physicians; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’48 BEE—Fred M. Mitchell of North Lovell, ME, and Durham, NH, July 25, 2025; president and CEO, Jenson & Mitchell Inc., a truck suspension spring manufacturing and repair company; veteran; enjoyed international travel, choral singing, hiking, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and competitive horseshoes; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

1950s

’51 BS Hotel—Donald G. Bickert of Vero Beach, FL, August 6, 2024; hotelier; active in alumni affairs. Seal & Serpent.

’51 BA—Nancy Belcher First of Leeds, MA, May 23, 2025; elementary school teacher; oil painter; social justice advocate; enjoyed gardening; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Kappa.

’51 BS CALS—William W. Zimmer of Rotterdam, NY, May 30, 2025; computer accountant, New York State Department of Health and General Electric; teacher of vocational agriculture, general science, biology, driver’s education, reading, and math; volunteer fireman; master gardener; enjoyed international travel; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho.

’52 BS CALS—David L. Diana of Sarasota, FL, formerly of Urbana, IL, May 7, 2025; owner, Diana Foods; president, White Hen Pantry and Eisner Food Stores; veteran; member, Illinois Racing Commission; avid reader; enjoyed international travel, golf, and a good cigar; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Pi Kappa Phi.

’52 BA—Edward C. Hanpeter of Novi, MI, July 25, 2025; attorney; partner, Dykema law firm; also worked at Ford Motor Co.; veteran; enjoyed history, sports, model trains, writing, and gardening; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Theta Xi. Surviving spouse: Joan Ruby Hanpeter ’51.

’52 BA—Lucian L. Leape of Lexington, MA, June 30, 2025; pediatric surgeon; father of the patient safety movement; co-founder, National Patient Safety Foundation; adjunct professor of health policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University; veteran; author; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

’52 BS CALS—Shirley Sagen Norton of Canton, NY, August 3, 2025; founding member, Canton ZONTA; enjoyed international travel and bowling; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Wayside-Aftermath.

’52 BA—Pierre Tonachel of Towanda, PA, July 17, 2025; attorney; active in alumni affairs. Watermargin.

’53 BS CALS—Gerald W. Crump of Madrid, NY, February 13, 2025; guidance counselor, Massena Central School; Future Farmers of America teacher; veteran; Mason; enjoyed travel, camping, and gardening; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Phi Kappa.

’53, BS HE ’52—Joyce Wisbaum Underberg of Rochester, NY, August 15, 2025; director of government affairs, Schlegel Corp.; avid skier and golfer; enjoyed international travel, tennis, sailing, bridge, reading, and crossword puzzles; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Delta Tau.

’54 BA, JD ’58—Stanley R. Birer of Flossmoor, IL, August 6, 2025; manager, Chapman Laundry; attorney; veteran; reading and mathematics tutor; enjoyed international travel, wine collecting, gardening, and classical music; active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta.

’54 BA—Jay Greenfield of New York City, formerly of Mamaroneck, NY, June 29, 2025; attorney; litigation partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison; veteran; author; advocate for social justice; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

’54, BEP ’55—Marshall Lapp of Walnut Creek, CA, May 5, 2025; physicist, Sandia National Laboratories and General Electric Research and Development Center; expert in laser spectroscopy; developed a mobile laser remote sensing system to study the climatological effects of water vapor and the relation to atmospheric carbon dioxide; author; mentor; enjoyed travel, art, architecture, music, books, long conversations, photography, collecting antique photographic equipment and images, and studying the history of science; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Beta Sigma Rho.

’54 BA—Alfred D. Loizeaux of Bradenton, FL, August 23, 2025; captain, U.S. Navy Dental Corps; mentor; volunteer, U.S. Chicamacomico (NC) Life-Saving Station; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Seal & Serpent.

’54 BA—Don O. Noel Jr. of Bloomfield, CT, June 30, 2025; journalist; political columnist, Hartford Courant; reporter, Hartford Times; senior news correspondent and host of “Face the State” at WFSB; also worked at the American Friends Service Committee; author; enjoyed theater, opera, symphony, and ballet; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’55—Toimi A. Parssinen of Newport, NH, February 1, 2025; president, Wilton Pressed Metals; automotive contractor; also worked at Joy Manufacturing; taught in the engineering technology program, University of New Hampshire; active in professional affairs. Alpha Tau Omega.

’55 BA—Samuel W. Salus of Savannah, GA, May 31, 2025; trial judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas; chief public defender, Montgomery County, PA; attorney; founder, Koch, Phelps, and Salus law firm; veteran; member, Kiwanis; enjoyed international travel, golf, tennis, and studying early American history; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Theta Delta Chi.

’56—Rhonda Nathan Innes of Chapel Hill, NC, May 19, 2025; community activist and environmentalist; supporter of the North Carolina Symphony and Girl Scouts; enjoyed sailing, gardening, sculpting, long walks in the woods, and golf croquet; active in community affairs.

’56 BA—Paul C. James of Bonita Springs, FL, formerly of Madison, CT, April 27, 2025; president, Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp.; president and CEO, Armstrong Tire Co.; vice president, research and development, BFGoodrich Corp.; jazz musician; enjoyed editing family home movies and performing in community concert bands and Dixieland groups; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Acacia.

’56 BA—Keith R. Johnson of Sharon, CT, April 26, 2025; member, board of editors, Fortune magazine; executive editor, Money and Discover magazines; writer, editor, and correspondent, Time magazine; reporter, New York Herald Tribune; columnist, Lakeville Journal; chair, choir school, St. Thomas Church, New York City; chair, Advisory Council, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

’56 DVM—Charles A. Mebus of Southold, NY, February 5, 2025; veterinarian; chief, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture; professor of veterinary science, University of Nebraska; discovered a rotavirus that causes gastrointestinal disease in calves; helped develop a rotavirus vaccine; researched African swine fever, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and Rift Valley fever; veteran; mentor; avid fisherman; enjoyed travel and gardening; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’56 JD—Albert J. Morhard of Chardon, OH, August 16, 2025; acting judge, Lyndhurst Municipal Court; trial attorney; adjunct professor, Kent State University; author; enjoyed boating; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’57 BS CALS—Lawrence E. Brown of East Rochester, NY, formerly of Jamestown, NY, July 26, 2025; worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture; veteran; member, Kiwanis; volunteer, Audubon Center; recipient, President’s Gold Volunteer Service Award; enjoyed gardening and fishing; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’57—Nancy Moore Gehman of Santa Fe, NM, May 28, 2025; court-appointed special advocate for children; general superintendent, roads and parks, Harris County, TX; sales representative, Triple A Alarm Co.; campaign manager; civil rights advocate; lifelong learner and avid reader; enjoyed international travel; active in civic and community affairs. Kappa Delta.

’57 BA—Bruce E. Slovin of New York City, August 10, 2025; founder, Center for Jewish History; president, 1 Eleven Associates LLP; president, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and Revlon Group Inc.; attorney; philanthropist; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta.

’58 BS HE—Jewelle Carlson Allen of Mystic, CT, March 15, 2025; special education teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools; taught nutrition to nursing students at Old Dominion University; also taught at Pennfield School (RI) and U.S. Department of Defense schools in Italy; enjoyed international travel, music, sailing, and gardening; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’58, BME ’59, MS ’63—Charles P. Burton of Centerville, OH, formerly of Lebanon, NJ, July 17, 2025; manager, AT&T; enjoyed baseball, softball, trains, birdwatching, photography, choral singing, and gardening; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Sigma. Surviving spouse: Barbara Baltzel Burton ’57.

’58 BA—Douglas M. Horne of Amherst, MA, January 31, 2025; pilot, United Airlines; inventor, AccuPark system; veteran; active in professional affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

’59, BS ILR ’62—Richard J. Cowles of Santa Fe, NM, May 6, 2025; executive, Telerate Systems and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; also worked at IBM; facilitated Russia’s and Eastern Europe’s transition to market economies; member, Merchant Marine; Rotarian; helped rebuild and preserve the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

’59 JD—Victor Friedman of Merion Station, PA, June 28, 2025; judge, Superior Court of New Jersey; attorney; veteran; lifelong learner; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’59 DVM—George C. Shurtleff of Moravia, NY, formerly of Port Charlotte, FL, and Liverpool, NY, June 28, 2025; veterinarian; active in community and professional affairs. Alpha Psi.

1960s

’60, BS CALS ’61—Peter J. Olin of St. Paul, MN, June 30, 2025; professor emeritus and director, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum; enjoyed international travel; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Kappa Sigma.

’61 BA—Edith Milhorat Boothby of Falmouth, ME, July 22, 2025; real estate agent; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

’61, BEE ’63, PhD ’66—Donald M. Kerr of Denver, CO, July 13, 2025; chairman, MITRE Corp.; director, Michael Baker International LLC and Orbis Operations LLC; principal deputy director, National Intelligence; director, National Reconnaissance Office; assistant to the secretary of the Air Force for Intelligence and Space Technology; deputy director, science and technology, Central Intelligence Agency; assistant director, Laboratory Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation; deputy manager of Nevada Operations, and deputy assistant secretary and acting assistant secretary for Defense Programs and Energy Technology, U.S. Department of Energy; executive vice president and director, Science Applications International Corp.; director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; active in professional and alumni affairs. Psi Upsilon. Surviving spouse: Alison Kyle Kerr ’62.

’61 BA—Emily Tall of Buffalo, NY, September 26, 2024; professor of Russian, SUNY Buffalo; expert on the reception of modern western writers, such as James Joyce, in the Soviet Union; author; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’62, BS Nurs ’63—Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman of San Anselmo, CA, May 14, 2025; professor emerita of nursing, University of California, San Francisco; expert on dyspnea; author; active in professional and alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

’63 MS, PhD ’65—Uma Godbole Lele of Washington, DC, July 28, 2025; specialist in international economic development, World Bank; researched complex interactions among agricultural policy, agricultural growth, equity, environment, and gender, chiefly in the Global South; professor, University of Florida; prolific author; advocate for women’s empowerment; mentor; established an award for the best research on gender in agriculture; recipient, B.P. Pal, M.S. Swaminathan, and Clifton Wharton awards; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’63 BA—Harold S. Nathan of New York City, August 3, 2025; attorney; partner, Rimon Law; active in alumni affairs. Beta Sigma Rho.

’64 BA—William L. Barney of Chapel Hill, NC, April 28, 2025; professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; leading scholar of 19th-century America and the Civil War era; also taught at Trenton State College; author; enjoyed travel, physical and mental fitness, and dogs; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Tau.

’64 BA—Arnold M. Friedman of Providence, RI, July 29, 2025; attorney; vice president and deputy general counsel, Textron Inc.; partner, Widett and Widett; also worked at Edwards Wildman; active in professional and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

’64 BA—Michael B. Goldstein of Washington, DC, April 26, 2025; managing director, Tyton Partners; attorney, Cooley LLP; journalist, United Press International; founding director, New York City Urban Corps; assistant city administrator and director of university relations, Office of the Mayor of the City of New York; associate vice chancellor for urban and governmental affairs and associate professor of urban sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago; board member, Washington Ballet; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Epsilon.

’64 JD—Klaus H. Jander of Greenwich, CT, July 8, 2025; international attorney; partner at Alexander & Green, Rogers & Wells, and Clifford Chance; official counsel to the German government at the United Nations, Consulate General in New York, and Embassy in Washington, DC; veteran; author; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’64—Lee J. Manning of Vienna, VA, July 23, 2025; mechanical engineer; worked at the Environmental Protection Agency; veteran. Lambda Chi Alpha.

’65 BA—Gordon D. Hirsch of St. Paul, MN, October 7, 2024; professor emeritus of English and director of the Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota; author; co-founder and editor, Journal of Stevenson Studies; recipient, Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Gordon L. Starr Award for Academic Advising; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’65 BA—Erik W. Wiisanen of Jacksonville, FL, January 8, 2025; vice president of marketing, Omega Metals; vice president, Barnett Bank; history aficionado; active in community and professional affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

’66 DVM—Errol J. Cady of Columbus, NJ, March 14, 2025; veterinarian; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho. Surviving spouse: Nicole Duran Cady ’64.

’66 BA—Christopher S. Kinder of Oakland, CA, April 14, 2025; labor activist, socialist, and writer; printer, Inkworks; Marxist theoretician and researcher; leader, Trade Union Commission, Spartacist League; founder and organizer, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; enjoyed international travel, camping, nature, music, humor, science, history, river rafting, backpacking, and drawing cartoons; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’66 BS HE—Barbara A. Lawrence of Fort Lauderdale, FL, August 20, 2025; owner, Healthy 4 Your Life; also worked at Reagan Equipment Company Inc., Kilo Pak Marine Generators, and Hobart Corp.;active in alumni affairs. Kappa Delta.

’66 BS ORIE, ME ’67—Richard A. Stone of Park City, UT, November 4, 2024; proposal manager; director, business development, Bull Systems; manager, IBM; enjoyed computers, skiing, biking, Jeeping, and camping; active in alumni affairs.

’67 BS Hotel—Arpad M. Mihaly of Santa Rosa, CA, April 18, 2025; president, Hospitality Unlimited Inc.; active in alumni affairs.

’68 BS ILR—Loren R. Barker of Clinton, MT, May 31, 2025; teacher, Oak Grove Schools; also worked at Hawaii Prep Academy and Career Enterprises; coach; outdoorsman; wellness advocate; enjoyed running, bicycling, hiking, camping, windsurfing, backpacking, fly fishing, and photographing and drawing wildlife; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

’68 BA—Emily Boykoff Berger of Brooklyn, NY, August 28, 2025; attorney; federal prosecutor and deputy chief of criminal appeals, Eastern District of New York, U.S. Attorney’s Office; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Delta Phi Epsilon. Surviving spouse: Andrew Berger ’66, JD ’69.

’68 BA—Corinne Dopslaff Smith of Spring Lake, NJ, and New York City, July 11, 2025; worked at IBM; senior consultant, Milliman Inc. and American Re-Insurance; enjoyed international travel, reading, bridge, and canasta; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Delta Gamma.

’69 BA—Kenneth W. Dryden of Toronto, ON, September 5, 2025; led the Big Red to the first three of its four consecutive ECAC Hockey Tournament titles (1967–69), two ECAC Hockey regular-season championships (1968, 1969), and the 1967 NCAA title; Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender, Montreal Canadiens; won six Stanley Cups, five Vezina Trophies, the Conn Smythe Trophy, the Stanley Cup playoffs’ most valuable player, and the Calder Trophy as the league’s Rookie of the Year; helped lead Canada to victory against the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summit Series; president, Toronto Maple Leafs; executive, National Hockey League; attorney; minister of social development, Canadian Parliament; member, House of Commons of Canada; author; television commentator; inductee, Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi. Surviving spouse: Lynda Curran Dryden ’69.

’69 BS Hotel—Walter A. Nacrelli of El Cajon, CA, July 5, 2025; healthcare systems engineer; commander, military hospitals; veteran; active in military and professional affairs.

’69 BA—Robert E. Ryan of Rio Verde, AZ, February 14, 2025; CEO, Union Bank of Switzerland and Source One Inc.; senior executive vice president, Timex, ITT/Nabisco, and Bulova Watch Co.; active in professional and alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

’69 JD—Brian F. Toohey of Cleveland, OH, August 15, 2025; attorney; partner, Jones Day; veteran; mentor, Veterans Treatment Court; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’69 BME—Richard D. Wright of Bluffton, SC, April 5, 2025; estate and tax attorney; veteran; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

1970s

’70 MS Eng, PhD ’73—James J. Bisogni of Ithaca, NY, August 19, 2025; professor of civil and environmental engineering, Cornell University; studied the chemical and physical processes that shape water quality; consultant and process engineer, Eastman Kodak; village trustee, Cayuga Heights; enjoyed woodworking and making furniture; active in civic, community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’70 BA—Hank W. Tomlinson of Phoenix, AZ, formerly of Salem, OR, July 10, 2025; worked at the Government Accounting Office; church elder; lifelong learner; marathon runner; enjoyed butterfly collecting; active in professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Chi.

’71 BS CALS—Floyd C. Douglas of Broadalbin, NY, August 11, 2025; vice principal, Guilderland and Saratoga Springs high schools; taught agriculture and agriculture mechanics at Cobleskill Central School; also taught at Sharon Springs High School; insurance broker; enjoyed golf, fishing, refereeing soccer and basketball, and umpiring softball; active in community and professional affairs.

’71 BS CALS—Richard D. Gilbert of Syracuse, NY, December 24, 2024; county health supervisor, Onondaga County Dept. of Health; helped manage Fellowship Farm; horseman; master of the fox hounds, Stonehedge Hunt Club; active in community and professional affairs.

’71 BS Hotel—Norman Rafelson of Fountain Hill, PA, August 15, 2025; hotel manager, Hyatt Hotels and Silversea Cruises; general manager, the Regent Shanghai; first general manager, Hyatt Hotel on Mt. Scopus and the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem; hotel director, Silver Whisper World Cruise; enjoyed international travel, sports cars, running marathons, skiing, swimming, and baking; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

’72 PhD—Charles L. Brazie of Washington, DC, August 24, 2024; championed the future of fiber optics; president, Telcom; also worked at Booz Allen, Arthur Little, Arthur Young, General Electric, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Bell Labs; veteran; enjoyed hunting, fishing, golf, and “Jeopardy!”; active in civic, community, and professional affairs.

’72, BS CALS ’73—Thomas J. Hilson of Bovina Center, NY, July 10, 2025; owner, Hilson Brothers Farm; feed salesman, McDowell and Walker, and Ralston Purina; also worked at Delaware County Watershed Department; co-founder, Bovina Emergency Squad; volunteer fireman; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’72 PhD—George Schuler of Ithaca, NY, September 7, 2024; psychologist; professor emeritus and chair of psychology, Ithaca College; enjoyed Cornell hockey, baseball, checkers, and a dry gin martini; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’72 BS Hotel—Emile Q.L. Thai of Singapore, April 30, 2025; director of marketing and sales, Meritus Hotels & Resorts; director, Mandarin Restaurant, Marmaris; general manager, TPC Nghi Tam Village Co.; executive director, Pico Creative Center; director of marketing, Singapore Mandarin International; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’72 JD—Albert J. Zangrilli of Pittsburgh, PA, August 13, 2025; attorney; partner, Yukevich, Marchetti, Fischer, and Zangrilli; president, St. Thomas More Society; enjoyed golf and handball; active in civic, community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’73 BA—Mark D. Marder of Weston, MA, May 23, 2025; principal consultant, ASG; systems architect and product manager in the computer industry; attended Woodstock; lifelong learner; enjoyed international travel, boating, landscape painting, woodworking, origami, and chess; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs. Surviving spouse: Mary Chandler Marder ’73.

’74 BA—Vincent P. Larobina of Stamford, CT, May 28, 2025; worked in public relations, Norden Systems; fitness center owner; entrepreneur; avid football and basketball fan; enjoyed running.

’74 MBA—Wilbur G. Streams of Brentwood, TN, February 3, 2025; director of engineering, National Castings Inc., a steel foundry business that supplied couplers and undercarriages for rail cars; also worked at Philadelphia Electric Co.; enjoyed travel, woodworking, and reading; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Surviving spouse: Edith DuBose Streams, PhD ’78.

’75 DVM—John D. Cogar of Saranac Lake, NY, August 21, 2025; veterinarian, High Peaks Animal Hospital; provided veterinary care to abandoned and injured animals in Ukraine; competitive bobsledder; enjoyed international travel, tennis, racquetball, hiking, biking, golfing, boating, snowshoeing, and cross-country and downhill skiing; active in community, professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

’75 BS HE—Jan D. Miller of Elmira, NY, April 25, 2025; director of business development, Traffix Devices Inc.; enjoyed golf, squash, pickleball, and playing piano and trombone; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’75, BS CALS ’79—Arthur C. Smith III of Kaktovik, AK, April 20, 2025; wildlife photographer and filmmaker, PolarArt Productions; created the documentary Ice Bears of the Beaufort; research director, Stanford Seed Co.; manager, family beef farm; bass guitar player for the progressive metal band Kronos; also worked at Grant Heilman Photography, Waldo Arms Hotel, Frontier Flying Service, USGS, and the City of Kaktovik; active in community and professional affairs.

’76 JD—Michael J. Leslie of New York City, July 20, 2025; actor and singer in Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, and a touring veteran who acted in Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, The Wiz, and more; most notably voicing the plant, Audrey II, in the 1983, 1984, and 2004 touring productions of Little Shop of Horrors; attorney; also worked at Meetings in Medicine; active in professional and alumni affairs.

’77 BA—Sharon Odrobina Cassidy of Pittsford, NY, July 8, 2025; programmer and data analyst, Xerox Corp.; active in professional and alumni affairs. Surviving spouse: John C. Cassidy ’73, PhD ’79.

’78 BArch—Linda F. Lanton of Newton, MA, July 6, 2025; public defender, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; vice president of financial management at Motorola and Blue Cross Blue Shield; mergers and acquisitions specialist on Wall Street; active in professional affairs.

’79 BS ORIE—James R. Rice of Irvine, CA, May 9, 2025; active in alumni affairs.

1980s

’80, B Chem E ’81—Robert B. Fuchs of Austin, TX, August 14, 2025; vice president, fuel oil trading, Castleton Commodities International; regional director, Westport Petroleum Inc.; active in professional and alumni affairs. Sigma Pi.

’81 MS ORIE—Patricia Yatsko Clark of Sterling, MA, August 3, 2025; mathematics and computer science teacher, Nashoba Regional High School; software engineer, Bell Labs; artist; lifelong learner; enjoyed teaching piano, playing organ at church, designing sets for community theater, photographing dogs, and coaching Odyssey of the Mind; active in community and professional affairs.

’82, BA ’83—William C. Johnson of Washington Township, NJ, May 20, 2025; labor attorney; director of employee relations, Quest Diagnostics; adjunct professor, Pace University School of Law; coach; avid reader; baseball aficionado; enjoyed travel; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs. Alpha Tau Omega.

’83 MS ORIE—Joshua B. Levy of Lowell, MA, June 29, 2025; adjunct professor of mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; professor of mathematics, Colgate University; lifelong learner; enjoyed baseball and exercise; active in professional affairs.

’84 PhD—Sherri M. Matteo of Palo Alto, CA, July 20, 2025; regulatory affairs consultant, Varian Medical Systems.

’86 DVM—Cecilia Castro of Tupper Lake, NY, July 12, 2025; veterinarian; active in professional affairs.

’87 BS CALS—Tracy Sullivan-Bedford of Kissimmee, FL, April 12, 2025; third grade teacher; taught in Hawaii, Oklahoma, Georgia, and New York State; active in professional and alumni affairs.

1990s

’90 BA—Eileen R. McPeake of Walnut Creek, CA, May 13, 2025; financial advisor; principal, McPeake & Co. LLC; enjoyed international travel, hiking, and scuba diving; active in community and alumni affairs. Delta Delta Delta.

’90 BS CALS—William A. O’Hanlon of Canandaigua, NY, April 16, 2025; CFO, Leonard’s Express shipping firm; division manager, Lecesse Construction; professional indoor lacrosse player, Buffalo Bandits; enjoyed sports, hunting, fishing, golf, waterskiing, and wakeboarding; active in community, professional, and alumni affairs.

’92 DVM—Dorothy N. Chary of West Palm Beach, FL, January 28, 2025; veterinarian; high school French teacher; active in community, professional, and religious affairs.

’97 BA—Cheryl Tourney Campbell of San Francisco, CA, September 11, 2024; developer in the tech industry; helped save endangered turtles in Guatemala, educated impoverished children in Malawi, and tackled deforestation in Uganda; enjoyed international travel, golf, and volleyball; active in community and alumni affairs.

’97 MD—Peter G. Sultan of Westhampton, NY, July 13, 2025; orthopedic surgeon; chair of orthopedic surgery, Peconic Bay Medical Center; enjoyed running, cycling, hiking, snowboarding, competing in triathlons, building model helicopters, and playing concert-level piano; active in community and professional affairs.

2000s

’06 MPA—Brian White of Newbury, OH, August 5, 2025; director of communications, Iron Ore Co. of Canada; communications expert, Rio Tinto mining and metals company; resident director, American Center for Mongolian Studies; Peace Corps volunteer; English teacher in Japan; blogger about Mongolian politics, economics, and society; enjoyed international travel, reading, running, and deep conversations; active in community and professional affairs.

’07 BS MSE—Max S. Aubain of Olympia, WA, formerly of Berkeley, CA, August 15, 2025; software developer, INCATech.

2020s

’20 BS Hotel—Julia A. Hyman of New York City, July 28, 2025; worked at Rudin Management Co.; active in alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.