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Obituary: Stephen A. Resnick, professor emeritus of Economics

Stephen A. Resnick, 74, of Newton Center, professor emeritus of Economics and Helen Sheridan Memorial Scholar, died Jan. 2 of leukemia.
 
Born in New Bedford, he was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1963.
 
As a graduate student, Resnick was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1960-62 and held a Brookings Institution fellowship from 1962-63.
 
After completing his doctorate, he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of the Philippines from 1964-65.
 
He joined the faculty of Yale

Obituary: Jacqueline W. Mellen, former staff member and alumna

Jacqueline Wyman Mellen, of Hadley, a former campus staff member and lecturer, died Jan. 1 at Hospice of the Fisher Home in North Amherst.

Born in Bennington, Vt., she moved at the age of 2 to Guilford, Vt., where she lived with her parents. She attended Brattleboro High School where she met William J. Mellen, whom she married in 1943.

After World War II, the couple moved to Amherst, where he continued his studies at the University on the GI Bill, and she worked for the Music Department. She played trombone in the UMass Marching Band and Orchestra, and sang in the chorus.

Sinha is featured commentator on 'The Abolitionists' on PBS

As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, historian Manisha Sinha of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies has been tapped for a three-part public television presentation titled “The Abolitionists,” being shown on successive Tuesdays beginning Jan. 8.
 
Part of the American Experience series, “The Abolitionists” will be presented from 9-10 p.m. on PBS stations nationwide.

Bryan appointed to new post of associate provost for personnel

John G. Bryan of the University of Cincinnati has been named to the newly created position of associate provost for personnel, according to Provost James V. Staros.
 
In a Dec. 13 e-mail to all faculty, Staros said the new post was created to consolidate major aspects of the jobs held by Associate Chancellor Susan Pearson, who has managed the contract with the Massachusetts Society of Professors, and Donna Marino, director of Academic Personnel. Pearson is retiring and Marino plans to retire next summer, he said.
 
Bryan, who has served as Cincinnati’s vice provost for academic personnel and

Obituary: William Pleppo, retired Physical Plant plumber/steamfitter

William Pleppo, 89, of Hadley, a retired plumber/steamfitter for Mechanical Maintenance at Physical Plant, died Dec. 19 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

Born in Amherst, he graduated from Smith Vocational High School. After school he entered into the U.S. Army and served in the Korean War.

He worked at Westinghouse in Springfield, and then at Physical Plant for 35 years until his retirement in 1986.
 
He leaves his wife Frances, daughter Karen Ann Pleppo and his sister.

The funeral will be Saturday, Dec. 22 at 9:30 a.m. at the Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley.

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