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In Memoriam

DEATHS REPORTED TO THE UMASS AMHERST ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FROM MAY 1, 2018, TO AUGUST 31, 2018. TO SEND A SUBMISSION, CONTACT US.

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1940s

Frank M. Collingwood ’40S, 7/15/2018, Bloomfield Hills, MI

John E. Filios ’40, 6/12/2018, Longmeadow

Arthur A. Hagelstein ’40, 8/18/2018, Johnston, SC

Millicent (Carpenter) Wettstein ’40, 7/1/2018, Shelburne, VT

William Robbins ’42, 8/8/2018, South Hadley

Doris (Johnson) Kraemer ’43, 4/17/2018, Beverly

Frederick A. McLaughlin ’43, 12/2/2017, Chapel Hill, NC

Barbara (Thayer) Lenhardt ’44, 6/1/2018, Schenectady, NY

Ruth M. (Cole) Howard ’45, 4/6/2018, Longview, WA

Shirley M. (Carlson) Roberge ’45, 9/7/2017, Hendersonville, NC

Henry L. Brahlit ’47, 5/15/2018, Sequim, WA

Carol (Bateman) Hall ’47, 7/21/2018, Peabody

Janice (Riley) Van Riper ’47, 4/27/2018, Vineyard Haven

Elinor (Meiers) West ’47, 8/12/2018, Jaffrey, NH

John W. Mastalerz ’48, 6/1/2018, Chandler, AZ

Jean (Bayles) McGill ’48,’50G, 5/7/2018, Columbia, MO

Edith (Jaffe) Sapolsky ’48, 5/27/2018, Providence, RI

Ruth M. Beebe ’49, 6/7/2018, Haydenville

Anthony E. Koptuck ’49, 6/20/2018, Danvers

Henry R. Macina ’49, 6/9/2018, San Antonio, TX

William J. Mellen ’49, 6/15/2018, Amherst

Andre Patron ’49PhD, 2018, Vevey, Switzerland

Arthur E. Plourde ’49S, 7/29/2018, West Gardiner, ME

1950s

Henry G. Boucher ’50,’68G, 7/14/2018, Westborough

Rachel (Blouin) Bourdon ’50, 8/22/2018, Whitinsville

Morris D. Cave ’50, 8/10/2018, Florence

Jo-Anne Clark ’50, 4/15/2018, Castle Rock, CO 

Melvin C. Crain ’50, 5/14/2018, Falmouth

Theodore Delevoryas ’50, 6/29/2017, Cedar Park, TX

Shirley (Adams) Foss ’50, 7/9/2018, Westborough

John P. Karpuk ’50, 6/2/2018, Northborough

William F. McCann ’50, 3/8/2015, Cranford, NJ

Joseph A. Roulier ’50, 6/26/2018, Adams

Alphonse F. Torchia ’50, 6/17/2018, Adams

William P. Wing ’50, 4/8/2018, Suffield, CT

Warren Averill ’51, 8/8/2018, Amherst

Norman D. Bornstein ’51, 6/3/2018, Spartanburg, SC

Beryl (Fanning) Crosby ’51, 5/20/2018, Bradenton, FL

Martin F. Flynn ’51, 4/9/2018, Slidell, LA

Richard J. Footit ’51, 6/8/2018, Longmeadow

George L. Gallerani ’51, 7/25/2018, Woodstock, CT

Richard R. Gleason ’51, 8/20/2018, Old Town, ME

Arnold J. Kaye ’51, 6/23/2018, Delray Beach, FL

Melvin J. Lederman ’51, 5/8/2018, Homosassa, FL

Constance B. (Whitney) Lehto ’51, 4/24/2018, Maynard

Llan Starkweather ’51, 6/15/2018, Amherst 

William E. Dunn Jr. ’52, 5/29/2018, Monkton, VT

Eleanor (Zamarchi) Landau ’52, 7/13/2018, Oceanside, CA

Richard W. MacCallum ’52, 7/27/2018, Stratham, NH

Americo Palatino ’52S, 4/17/2018, Ludlow

Russell I. Pomeroy ’52S, 8/1/2018, North Hatfield

Jane S. (Dockerty) Ross ’52, 6/29/2018, Ipswich

Betty-Lou (Johnson) White ’52, 5/26/2018, Louisa, VA

John C. Belding ’53, 6/23/2018, Barre, VT

Thomas E. Cauley ’53, 4/9/2018, Yorba Linda, CA

Richard K. Cornfoot ’53, 5/20/2018, Surfside Beach, SC

Jeanne (Parker) Gold ’53, 5/6/2018, East Brunswick, NJ

Warren R. Gove ’53, 5/5/2018, Leominster

David E. Hawes ’53S, 7/10/2018, Claverack, NY

Donald L. Hooper ’53S, 5/24/2018, Laurel, DE

Ronald H. Smith ’53, 8/6/2018, Prescott, AZ

Andrew A. Ayers ’54, 8/11/2018, Naperville, IL

A. Clayton Copeland ’54, 6/16/2018, Litchfield, CT

Avit R. Dostaler ’54S, 6/19/2018, Northampton

Edward A. Filiault ’54, 7/11/2018, Williamstown

Richard L. Miller ’54, 7/6/2018, New Hartford, NY

Charles F. Reeves ’54, ’57G, 5/2/2018, McFarland, WI

Mary A. Shea ’54, 5/18/2018, Amherst

Carolyn R. (Fiske) Threadwell ’54, 8/8/2018, Albuquerque, NM

Thomas M. Cahill ’55, 5/29/2018,  Winchendon

George H. Kennedy ’55S, 6/6/2018, Sunderland

Robert L. Levesque ’55, 1/31/2017, Winthrop

Philip H. Mitchell ’55, 6/22/2018, Orleans

Kenneth R. Orff ’55, 5/5/2018, Hopedale

David L. Shores ’55, 4/10/2018, Cushing, ME

Roger L. Streeter ’55, 4/21/2018, Bow, NH

James J. Dunham ’56, 7/5/2018, West Hartford, CT

William F. Lepp ’56, ’64G, 5/3/2018, Harrisburg, PA

Ann R. (Kennedy) O’Brien ’56G, 6/9/2018, Poughkeepsie, NY

James K. Stewart ’56S, 5/31/2018, Montague

William H. Walker ’56, 7/13/2018, Champaign, IL

Robert E. Arthur ’57, 8/9/2018, La Crosse, WI

Anthony J. Kozak ’57, 3/16/2018, Jacksonville, FL

John Towse ’57, 12/2017, Tacoma, WA  

Walter J. Wojner ’57, 4/26/2018, Weymouth

Peter B. Childs ’58S, 4/24/2018, West Barnstable

Walter F. Cislo ’58, 7/2/2018, White Lake, MI

Richard P. Coleman ’58, 1/24/2018, Marblehead

Edward G. Denton ’58S, 7/22/2018, Moravia, NY

Richard Gamble ’58, 8/17/2018, Alexandria, VA

Edward J. Gilbody ’58, 5/13/2018, Falmouth, ME

Donald J. Goodwin ’58, 6/25/2018, Cape Neddick, ME

Thomas S. Madru ’58, 5/19/2018, Westfield

Theodore D. Sargent ’58, 7/29/2018, Leverett 

Lynn W. Anderson ’59, 7/1/2018, Holyoke 

Thomas F. Champion ’59G, 8/21/2018, Newburyport

Eleanor (Matheson) Dexter ’59, 6/18/2018, Indianapolis, IN

Henry J. Frederickson ’59, 2/29/2016, Boxborough

D. C. McDonough ’59, 4/11/2016, Manchester

Syma (Daniels) Mulich ’59, 6/20/2018, Fairport, NY

John M. Naughton ’59, 4/16/2018, Bonita Springs, FL

Laurence K. Treadwell ’59, 5/9/2018, Indianapolis, IN

1960s

Robert L. Clarkson ’60, 7/27/2018, Naples, FL

Charles R. Gillette ’60, 6/3/2018, Unionville, VA

Paul E. Maynard ’50S, ’60, 4/30/2018, Greenville, DE

Michael J. Whiteman ’60, 6/5/2018, Cummington

N. Joseph Dahrouge ’61, 5/20/2018, Pittsfield

Joseph L. Dupont ’61S, 7/6/2018, Beverly

Walter R. Hartfield ’61, 6/21/2018, Goleta, CA

Edwin J. Panichas ’61, 5/8/2018, West Monroe, LA

Warren E. Parsons ’61, 8/23/2018, Haw River, NC

Richard E. Barnes ’62G, 6/11/2018, Hinsdale, NH

James B. Loew ’62, 6/12/2018, Salem, NH

Carl A. Signet ’62, 6/15/2018, Holyoke

Francis I. Broadhurst ’63, 7/5/2018, Centerville

Johanna M. Butler ’63G, 8/6/2018, Boston

Lewis P. Councilman ’63, 6/13/2018, Bondsville

Walter M. Crotty ’63, 8/16/2018, Marietta, GA

Barbara J. (Fitz) Wilson ’63, 7/18/2018, Gloucester

David S. Mitchell ’64, 6/3/2018, East Falmouth

Robert A. Paoletti ’64, 8/18/2018, Mountain Top, PA

Richard F. Phillips ’64, 8/20/2018, Mathews, VA

Charles A. Sherman ’64, 5/30/2018, Troy, NY

Hsiao-Kang Yeh ’64G, 4/27/2018, Fremont, CA

Arthur G. Busher ’65S, 5/17/2018, Ashburn, VA

Jerene E. (Taylor) Kruszewski ’65, 7/7/2018, Newton

Francis M. Signet ’65G, 10/23/2017, Springfield, VA

John H. Bergstrom ’66, 10/30/2016, Plymouth

Sergius J. Bernard ’66G, 5/17/2018, Stow

David C. Cafarelli ’66, 5/7/2018, Pittsfield

Robert C. Chisholm ’66, 6/25/2018, West Boylston

Ronald L. Cole ’66, 6/21/2018, Milford

Gema J. (Sermuknis) Danahar ’66, 4/17/2018, Worcester

Hyla (Gold) Foulis ’66G, 12/22/2017, South Hadley

Karin (Holzer) O’Neil ’66G, 4/25/2018, Columbus, OH

Sally (Hanchett) Rivers ’66, 8/12/2018, Springfield

Harvey Shultz ’66, 8/7/2018, Cherry Hill, NJ

James R. Dennis ’67, 3/29/2018, The Villages, FL

Delbert P. Gariepy ’67S, 7/20/2018, Mansfield, MO

Everett T. Kilbride Jr. ’67, 6/9/2018, Madison, CT

William H. Shaw ’67S, 11/23/2015, Rumney, NH

Thomas H. Trotman ’67G, 7/12/2018, Amherst

Charles T. Wallis ’67, 7/1/2018, Ipswich

Edward E. Berrett Jr. ’68S, 5/19/2018, Bath, ME

Stephen H. Brown ’68, 8/16/2018, Carthage, ME

Ellen (Murphy) Carpenter ’68, 4/6/2018, Cohasset

Robert C. Godwin ’68, 2/13/2016, Pensacola, FL

Russell G. Philbrook ’68, 5/30/2018, Blandford

William R. Seley ’68S, 6/2/2018, Wellington, FL

Betsy (Lincoln) Bashaw ’69, 7/28/2018, Salem, NY

Gary L. Carroll ’69G, 4/25/2018, Westminster

Robert K. Clapp ’69PhD, 5/13/2017, Jenks, OK

Richard E. Colman ’69, 5/6/2018, Manchester, NH

Joseph F. Dingman, Jr. ’69, ’70G, ’72PhD, 7/16/2018, Lancaster, PA

Roy A. Duddy ’69G, 5/6/2018, Hampton, NH

Joan E. (Samuels) Kaiser ’69, 12/13/2017, Boynton Beach, FL

Paul A. Leary ’69G, 4/29/2018, Charleston, WV

Paul A. Parent ’69S, 8/13/2018, Kennebunk, ME

James T. Pye ’69, 5/26/2018, Duxbury

Gary K. Schubert ’69G, 7/27/2018, Milwaukee, WI

Christopher A. Sullivan ’69, 7/10/2018, East Longmeadow

Christopher P. Sullivan ’69S, 6/23/2015, Pittsfield

Kenneth N. Urquhart ’69S, 4/12/2018, New Sweden, ME

1970s

Robert D. Brown ’70S, 7/28/2018, Queensbury, NY

Leonard P. Coffin ’70, 5/24/2018, Naples, FL

Alice E. (Vartanian) King ’70, 6/30/2018, Concord, NH

Robert C. Singer ’70, 7/30/2018, Durham, NC

Kenneth L. Bergstrom ’71G, 1/18/2017, Fort Myers, FL

Edith M. (Mantyla) Bugbee ’71, 7/23/2018, Citra, FL

Leo M. Melanson ’71G, 4/27/2018, Ocean Isle Beach, NC

William J. Quinlan ’71, 4/11/2018, North Palm Beach, FL

Robert F. Robinson ’71, 8/12/2016, Kingwood, TX

Elizabeth M. Schneider ’71G, 5/21/2018, Florence

William J. Fleming ’72, 8/4/2018, Winchester

Loraine S. (Smith) Gates ’72, 8/11/2018, Mesa, AZ

Harvey W. Gendreau ’72, 6/17/2018, Colorado Springs, CO

Debra A. Heffernan ’72, 8/15/2018, Gloucester

John M. Hogan ’72, 7/28/2018, Miami Beach, FL

Gerald C. Kirby ’72, 7/16/2018, Carthage, NC

James J. McCarthy ’72G, 6/14/2018, Easthampton

James W. Murphy ’72, 7/19/2018, Saint Petersburg, FL

Margaret J. Petersen ’72, 7/15/2018, Bozeman, MT

Charlotte A. (Curci) Plaxico ’72, 6/23/2016, Fredericksburg, VA

Carolyn A. (Ouellette) Racicot ’72, 4/21/2018, East Longmeadow

Susan T. Watson ’72, 5/17/2018, Canton, NY

Francis E. Abbondanzio ’73, ’80G, 5/9/2018, Millers Falls

Mark D. Bramble ’73, 7/10/2018, Cambridge

Peter T. Bull ’73, ’77G, 7/18/2018, New Milford, CT

Michael J. Chalifoux ’73, 6/25/2018, North Adams

Anthony W. Czaja ’73, 6/13/2018, Moscow, VT

Valerie J. (Goldzung) Faith ’73G, 4/26/2018, Amherst 

John F. Hennessey ’73, 4/28/2018, Orono, ME

John H. Kucinskas ’73, 7/22/2018, Bristol, CT

Susan V. (Cross) Meader ’73, 4/12/2018, Harwich

Terry P. Roof ’73, ’74G, 4/13/2018, Santa Barbara, CA

Leonard P. Silvia ’73, 4/12/2018, Westport

Douglas M. Buitenhuys ’74, 7/11/2018, Kingston

Jamie A. Cope ’74, 4/18/2018, Montpelier, VT

Stephen C. Crooker ’74, 11/23/2017, Natick

James J. Culhane ’74, 5/29/2018, Marlborough

Francis A. Kriff ’74, 5/8/2018, North Billerica

Hugo B. Wallgren ’74G, 6/21/2018, Middletown, RI

Richard M. Wolters ’74G, 2/4/2017, Lincoln, NE

Eric J. Cesan ’75, 10/12/2017, North Fort Myers, FL

William A. Condon ’75, 4/28/2018, Barrington, NH

Susanne (Bracker) Cousineau ’75, 6/18/2018, San Jose, CA

Thomas P. Deane ’75, 5/10/2018, Egg Harbor Township, NJ

Jeffrey E. Fisher ’75, 8/5/2018, Lakeville

Francis J. Fitz-Gibbon ’75S, 10/9/2010, Holyoke

Gregory E. Gunter ’75S, 6/12/2018, Miami, FL

Jerome P. Morin ’75, 11/22/2017, North Augusta, SC

Elizabeth F. Burke ’76G, 4/25/2018, Schenectady, NY

Michael M. Doyle ’76, 7/22/2018, Warwick, RI

Thomas M. Heffernan ’76, 7/7/2018, Bayside, NY

William D. (Pappas) Papagelis ’76, 5/22/2018, Gloucester

Robert R. Perry ’76, 6/9/2018, Jennings, FL

Carol J. (Aldrich) Plourde ’76, 4/22/2018, Lisbon Falls, ME

Paula Rogers-Zofrea ’76, 7/11/2018, Derry, NH

Charles Burack ’77, 6/30/2018, Worcester

Paul J. D’Onfro ’77, 7/11/2018, Leominster

Christopher E. Doyle ’77, 8/16/2018, Richmond

Gayle (Leppin) Smith ’77, 7/29/2018, Dalton, PA

Alan R. Townes ’77, 3/14/2015, Seattle, WA

Neil E. Waisnor ’77, 7/26/2018, Andover

Philip J. Clarkson ’78, 5/22/2018, Wolfeboro, NH

Gale A. Hartel ’78, 4/13/2018, Cumberland, MD

Gloria Hooper-Rasberry ’78, 5/7/2018, Syracuse, NY

Thomas L. Kent ’78, 7/2/2018, Gainesville, FL

David J. Nicoll ’78, 8/5/2018, Enfield, CT

Michael H. Sharff ’78, 3/24/2017, Columbia, MD

Jeffrey W. Weinstein ’78, 4/18/2018, Framingham

Daniel J. Barry ’79, 5/2/2018, South Dartmouth

Robert M. Cudd ’79, 6/5/2017, Spartanburg, SC

William L. Debo ’79, 5/1/2018, Hudson, OH

Melinda J. (Martin) Gildea ’79, 6/12/2018, Cohasset

Pamela J. (Arnold) Meadows ’79, ’82G, 7/28/2018, Amherst

Barbara Pridham ’79, 8/5/2018, Plymouth

1980s

Michael J. Bufis ’80, 8/18/2018, Pittsfield

Roland E. Chaffee ’80, ’05G, 4/27/2018, Pittsfield

Gordon H. Fletcher-Howell ’80, ’82G, 7/23/2018, Amherst

William F. O’Meara ’80G, 2/17/2017, Avon, CT

Kenneth E. Roos ’80, 7/29/2018, Danvers

Richard F. Walsh ’80, 5/15/2018, Lanesboro

Charles F. Crowley ’81, 7/15/2018, Trenton, ME

Christopher J. Desler ’81, 7/23/2016, Delhi, NY

William C. Lawler ’70G, ’81PhD, 6/16/2018, Harvard

John E. Mauldin ’71G, ’81PhD, 5/5/2018, Fort Pierce, FL

David L. Thurlow ’81, 8/4/2018, Leicester

Belinda J. Brooks ’82, 5/22/2018, Garnet Valley, PA

Paul F. Devine ’82, 6/19/2018, Las Vegas, NV

Lester M. Friedman ’82, 4/6/2017, Thousand Oaks, CA

Jeffrey Houston ’82, 1/22/2018, Westfield

Ann D. (Batchelder) Lashendock ’82, 8/8/2018, Cape Elizabeth, ME

Judith L. Kinley ’85, 4/18/2018, Brattleboro, VT

Christine L. McGinnis ’85, 7/6/2018, Belchertown

M.D. Milbier ’85, 9/30/2015, Windsor, CT

David G. Dolan ’86, 8/18/2018, Otego, NY

Joseph J. Gutt ’86, 6/21/2018, Westfield

Philip J. Malone ’87, 8/22/2018, Westboro

Michael J. Stennes ’87, ’90G, 7/22/2018, Green Bank, WV

Mary A. Siok ’88, 5/23/2018, Melrose

Federico I. Agnir ’89, 7/9/2018, Wesley Chapel, FL

Lawrence D. Engstrom ’89, 7/25/2016, Milford, MI

1990s

Valerie O. Hamilton ’90, 7/7/2018, Pittsfield

Carlos M. Santos ’90, 4/14/2018, North Billerica

Sandra (Mcintyre) Walker ’90, 7/5/2018, Springfield

Carolyn H. Sawyer ’91G, 5/26/2018, Pittsfield

Dana M. Tracy ’91, 7/15/2018, Northampton

Kathleen M. Gorski ’89G, ’92PhD, 6/19/2018, Hampden

Timothy J. Gloster ’93, 6/18/2018, Washington, DC

Richard S. Lizek ’94, 2/15/2017, Granville

Christopher P. Parker ’94, 7/5/2018, Plainville

Kathleen A. (Horgan) Terry ’94, 7/20/2018, Belchertown

Elizabeth Moses ’95, 7/23/2018, Union, SC

R. C. Wilkins ’95, 7/19/2018, Boston

Joel A. Connor ’96, ’98G, 8/14/2018, Brockton

Ina J. McCravy-Buntin ’96G, 8/6/2018, Springfield

Ronald J. Bohonowicz ’97G, 5/16/2018, South Deerfield

Andrew P. Hamlen ’97, 7/6/2018, Sandwich

Keiley A. (Branch) Banfield ’98, 4/18/2018, West Tisbury

Karen B. Cavanaugh ’98, 6/1/2018, South Hadley

2000s

Heidi A. Kozikowski ’00, 4/16/2018, Chicopee

John E. Schmitt ’00, 7/2/2018, Fiskdale

Stephen T. Phaneuf ’01, 8/9/2018, West Springfield

Timothy S. Perry ’02, 5/22/2018, Waltham

David A. Coughlin ’71S, ’04, 7/23/2018, Agawam

Kelly C. Hickson ’06, 4/16/2018, Boston

Christopher R. Hans ’07S, 5/24/2018, Kensington, CT

Daniel D. Damm ’08, 5/21/2018, Grantham, NH

John J. Morris ’09, 12/25/2016, Ware, MA

2010s

Conor V. Stenerson ’11, 7/19/2018, Plympton

Deborah D. Becker ’12, 6/4/2018, Plainfield

Joann Gill ’13, 5/27/2018, Charlotte, NC

Holly M. Llewelyn ’14, 7/9/2018, Northfield

William W. Kazar ’15, 7/15/2018, Greenfield

Augusta S. Mfuko ’07G, ’15EdD, 6/30/2018, Hamden, CT

Alex D. Stolicny ’16, ’18G, 6/20/2018, Shrewsbury

Radha R. Dutta ’17, 4/9/2018, Worcester

Faculty

Jeanne Antill, 2018, Amherst

Richard S. Ellis, 7/2/2018, New York, NY

William Fanslow, 7/1/2018, Albuquerque, NM

David J. Foulis, 4/3/2018, South Hadley

Craig S. Harbison, 5/17/2018, Montague

Merle L. Howes, 5/8/2018, Amherst

John F. Hubert, 8/23/2018, Amherst

David P. LePak, 12/7/2017, Amherst

Thomas G. Lessie, 5/5/2018, Madison, WI

Paula F. Mark, 8/24/2018, South Deerfield

William J. Mellen ’49, 6/15/2018, Amherst

Melton M. Miller, 5/28/2018, Sarasota, FL

Anne Mochon, 4/28/2018, Amherst

Alex R. Page, 5/4/2018, Amherst

Peter L. Pellett, 5/10/2018, Amherst

Theodore D. Sargent ’58, 7/29/2018, Leverett

David M. Schimmel, 5/9/2018, Boca Raton, FL

Robert L. Stern, 8/28/2018, Amherst

Michael J. Whiteman ’60, 6/5/2018, Cummington