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In Memoriam

Deaths reported to the UMass Amherst Alumni Association from September 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018. Submit address changes and notifications of deaths to updates@umass.edu.

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1930s

Helen (Carew) Morris ’38, 9/15/2018, Wilbraham

1940s

Albin F. Irzyk ’40, 9/10/2018, West Palm Beach, FL

Florence (O’Neil) Brannon ’41, 12/9/2018, Oak Park, IL

Frances (Staples) Crawford ’42, 7/14/2018, Dighton

Thyrza (Barton) White ’42, 12/7/2018, State College, PA

Anita C. (Marshall) Sloane ’43, 11/20/2018, Chestnut Hill

William J. Zukel ’43, 7/10/2014, McLean, VA

Marjorie (Watson) Dudley ’44, 9/6/2018, Guilford, CT

Helen (Donnelly) Kelly ’44, 11/7/2018, Santa Cruz, CA

Ruth (Kitson) Lawson ’45, 12/21/2018, Olathe, KS

Margo (Corson) Peckham ’46, 12/4/2018, Westport

Edwin Fedeli ’47, 11/22/2018, Sterling

Edwin A. Springer ’47S, 9/1/2018, Acushnet

Richard P. Joyce ’48, 5/9/2018, Bethesda, MD

John E. Keough ’48, 11/29/2018, Amherst

Henry A. Mathieu ’48S, 8/4/2018, Easthampton

Dorothy M. Davis ’49, 12/9/2018, Fort Pierce, FL

Norman Landesman ’49, 8/21/2017, Franklin

Joan (Jackler) Ratner ’49, 10/23/2018, San Antonio, TX

1950s

William A. Buckley ’50, 11/17/2018, Muskogee, OK

George B. Johnson ’50, 12/13/2018, Medway

William Donald MacKay ’50, 8/15/2018, Holden

Thomas D. McLay ’50, 11/28/2018, Honey Brook, PA

Edward K. Morgan, Jr. ’50S, 8/16/2018, Fort Worth, TX

Dorothy (Beers) Rodriguez ’50, 2/15/2018, Miami, FL

Carol (Hooker) Bibbins ’51, 12/5/2018, Nashua, NH

Marjorie (Briand) Fortier ’51, 9/24/2018, Wallingford, CT

David S. Gould ’51, 10/9/2018, Derry, NH

Gaston G. Kohn ’51G, ’53PhD, 10/24/2018, Peabody

Francis P. Loftus ’51S, 5/23/2018, Belchertown

Albert S. Marulli ’51, 3/25/2018, Westfield

Louis J. Skarbek ’51, 10/1/2018, Bradford

John A. Smith ’51, 6/1/2016, Miami, FL Charles E. Clapp ’52, 8/7/2018, Downingtown, PA

Donato F. Dagnoli ’52, 11/1/2018, Adams

Robert W. Kittle ’52, ’75G, 10/10/2018, Rutland, VT

Andrew N. Mangum ’52, 9/23/2018, Falmouth, ME

Albert L. Pieropan ’52, 10/5/2018, Shelburne Falls

Janet (Bolles) Rothmann ’52, 8/30/2018, Avon, CT

Thomas R. Ruckledge, Jr. ’52S, 8/31/2018, Tewksbury

Verne A. Adams ’53, 11/18/2018, Visalia, CA

Mary-Louise (Drapeau) Fitzgibbons ’53, ’84G, 11/9/2018, Holyoke

Alan J. Havens ’53S, 11/29/2018, Holden

E. Morris Hayn, Jr. ’53, 12/14/2018, Wilbraham

Bruce L. Thomas ’53, 10/9/2018, Warren, OH

Frederick W. Williams ’53, 11/21/2018, Wilmington, DE

Charles W. Dort II ’54, 11/23/2018, Ipswich

Richard J. Ellis ’54S, 9/8/2018, Fuquay-Varina, NC

Pearl (Binder) Rosker ’54, 10/11/2018, Boynton Beach, FL

William F. Carr ’55, 12/11/2018, Westborough

James R. Curtis ’55, 10/19/2018, Austin, TX

Alan H. Gaffin ’55, 9/16/2016, Providence, RI

Richard A. Harding ’55S, 9/11/2018, Standish, ME

Edwin J. Kaine ’55, 9/20/2018, Reading

Virginia (Hayes) Kangas ’55, 11/12/2018, Harwich

David A. Wetterberg ’55, 10/13/2018, Woodland Hills, CA

Virginia (Morrison) Anderson ’56, 10/29/2018, Bloomington, IN

Arthur J. Ballard ’56, 9/8/2018, Rydal, PA

David F. Gormley ’56, 10/7/2018, Denver, CO

Claire (Davis) Ronayne ’56, 12/4/2018, Charlottesville, VA

Sheldon Rutstein ’56, 8/5/2014, Brookline

Victor M. Urbaitis ’56, 9/7/2018, Hendersonville, NC

Roy L. Viens ’56, 10/10/2018, Sanford, FL

William G. Wilkes, Jr. ’56S, 12/5/2018, North Hatfield

Robert N. Bairstow ’57, 10/11/2018, Sebastian, FL

David V. Breen ’57, 10/24/2018, Barefoot Bay, FL

Robert B. Eldredge ’57, 8/12/2014, Aurora, CO

Jocelyn A. (Pratt) Faulkner ’57, 10/2/2018, Wrentham

John A. Hayes, Jr. ’57, 10/21/2018, Bloomfield, CT

Janet A. (Sargent) Kerr ’57, 12/8/2018, Cooperstown, NY

Sherman J. Marks ’57, 11/24/2018, Westborough

Margaret (Sullivan) Slaiby ’57, 11/22/2018, Manchester, CT

JoAnn (Rischitelli) Slattery ’57, 12/2/2018, Enfield, CT

Malcolm E. Tumey ’57, 12/4/2018, Bradenton, FL

Leon V. Bernier ’58, 9/5/2018, Boston

Allan G. Cohen ’58, 7/28/2018, Palmetto Bay, FL

Paul W. Leathe ’58, 11/14/2015, Miami, FL

Peter J. Rimsa ’58, 11/6/2018, Churchville, NY

June P. Spear ’58, 11/6/2017, West Auburn, ME

Ann (Orofino) Bennett ’59, 12/19/2018, Woburn

Gregory B. Clarke ’59, 10/25/2018, Marshfield

William A. Diluca ’59S, 11/7/2018, Hopkinton

Thomas A. Dolan ’59, 12/8/2018, The Villages, FL

Paul A. Kasparson ’53S, ’59, 9/30/2018, Crozet, VA

Philip J. Kennedy ’59, 10/18/2018, Hartford, CT

Frederic Leopold ’59, 11/7/2018, Longmeadow

Leslie G. Rathbun ’59, 10/11/2018, Stockbridge

Marsha I. (Hanson) Stockley ’59, 11/22/2018, Webster

1960s

Raymond F. Bender ’60, 5/23/2016, Hadley

Charles C. Crevo ’60, ’90PhD, 10/2/2018, Wellesley

Andrew M. DeFrancesco ’60, 11/14/2018, Waltham

Donald C. Harpell ’60, 11/6/2018, Gilford, NH

C. William Hilliard ’60, 12/1/2017, Brockton

Albert E. Richey ’60, 11/11/2018, Durango, CO

Priscilla L. (Farr) Brown ’61, 11/18/2018, Ocala, FL

Robert L. Mushkin ’61, 10/3/2018, Naples, FL

Richard A. Wilgoren ’61, 11/25/2018, Lake Worth, FL

Douglas A. Cowley ’63, 11/7/2018, Centerville

James P. Hickman ’63, 9/9/2018, Acton

Daniel G. Hill ’63, 12/3/2018, Leominster

Susan M. Teto ’63, 9/7/2018, Cambridge

John W. Miner ’64, 12/2/2018, Ft. Pierce, FL

David W. Root ’64, 10/25/2018, Watertown

Elaine C. (Munroe) Root ’64, ’69G, 8/19/2018, Watertown

Claire E. Anderson ’65, 12/4/2018, Belmont

Toby A. (Kaplan) Bird ’65, 3/22/2018, New York, NY

Edward T. Chao ’65G, 12/2/2018, Castro Valley, CA

Judith M. Dimlich ’65, 9/1/2018, Reading

George T. Michael ’65, ’69PhD, 9/3/2018, Salem, NH

William C. Monigle ’65, 8/16/2018, Venice, FL

Charles D. O’Reilly ’65, 9/1/2018, Lexington

Frederick H. Swanson ’65, 8/28/2016, San Francisco, CA

Philip C. Catagnus, Jr. ’66G, 11/27/2018, Dallas, TX

John S. Kobera, Jr. ’66, 12/7/2018, Colchester, VT

Robert W. Lang ’66S, 4/30/2018, Watkinsville, GA

Lawrence C. Mendelson ’66, 12/1/2017, Hamden, CT

Paul R. Sheehan ’66, 10/11/2018, Arlington

Christine (Slifka) Sirota ’66G, 3/10/2016, Massapequa Park, NY

Jay S. Koths ’67PhD, 9/9/2018, Mansfield, CT

Raymond F. Lubelczyk ’63S, ’67, 11/12/2018, Cadillac, MI

Robert C. Pederzani ’67, 12/10/2018, 
Lower Heidelberg Township, PA

Frank M. Robinson ’67, 12/7/2018, Springfield

Barbara (Kaplan) Cohen ’68, 5/11/2018, Chestnut Hill

Richard B. Daluga ’68G, 11/27/2018, Henderson, NV

Judith (Grimes) Mayer ’68, 9/16/2018, Bethlehem, PA

Isidore C. Mineo ’68PhD, 9/12/2018, Riegelsville, PA

Gail A. (Yegian) Sousa ’68, 5/20/2018, Belmont

Richard B. Stevens, Jr. ’68, 10/8/2018, Winchester, NH

Charles E. Hamburg ’69, 7/14/2018, Chicago, IL

Drusilla A. (Young) Haran ’69, 10/10/2018, Braintree

Paul S. Kennedy ’69G, 1/4/2018, Winston-Salem, NC

George R. Kidd ’69G, 9/12/2018, Ocean Springs, MS

Thomas Mason II ’69, 10/24/2018, Marlborough

Gideon A. Rechnitz ’69, 11/10/2014, Largo, FL

Gary N. Sisson ’69, 9/10/2018, Lynn

1970s

William J. Boucher ’70, 9/13/2018, Zephyrhills, FL

Lorraine (Dubois) Goodrich ’70, 5/16/2018, Woodbridge VA

James W. Hurd ’70, 9/25/2018, West Springfield

Martha C. (Kelley) Mauke ’70, 9/9/2018, Stockbridge

Richard R. Mongeau ’70, 12/16/2018, Andover

Steven D. Richards ’68S, ’70, 10/27/2018, Homedale, ID

Robert L. Williams ’70, 10/12/2017, San Diego, CA

Vicki I. Chaet ’71G, 2/26/2012, San Francisco, CA

Alice J. (Nacorchuk) Chapman ’71, ’76G, 9/7/2018, Waterloo, ON

Raymond E. Gaudette ’71, 10/30/2018, Williamstown

Joan M. Grant ’71G, 10/23/2018, Chattanooga, TN

Ann M. Hegy ’71, 9/24/2018, Windsor, CT

James E. Hoover ’71, 10/23/2018, Biddeford, ME

Susan B. (Hoffman) McCarthy ’71, 12/12/2018, Cupertino, CA

Jon E. Newman ’71, 9/5/2018, Oak Bluffs

Rhonda (Davis) Ruigrok ’71, 10/31/2018, Myrtle Beach, SC

Joseph G. Scavuzzo ’71, 5/3/2017, Bourne

Barbara B. Fischer ’72EdD, 10/17/2018, Amherst

William M. Hoffman ’72PhD, 12/6/2018, West Newton

Stephen E. Leonard ’72, ’79, 11/10/2018, Pittsburgh, PA

Joanne (Bonine) Quarles ’72, 10/10/2018, Eagle River, AK

Denise M. St. Jean ’72, 11/28/2018, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Barbara (Stone) Fitzgerald ’72, 9/30/2018, East Sandwich

Carole Law (McAtee) Trachy ’72, ’73G, 12/8/2018, Deland, FL

Maureen (Tracy) Venti ’72, 11/15/2018, Key West, FL

Bernard J. Burke ’73, 8/25/2018, Medfield

Dennis C. Crowley ’73, 12/7/2018, Saint Petersburg, FL

Peter M. Dailey ’73, 9/22/2018, Sarasota, FL

Clifford E. Desch, Jr. ’68G, ’73PhD, 9/20/2018, Conway

Katherine (Laidley) Fudge ’73, 10/12/2018, Byfield

Jules J. Jaeger ’73G, 11/3/2018, Midlothian, VA

Michael W. Laczynski ’73, 11/26/2018, Wilmington, DE

Joseph Lukiwsky ’73, 8/21/2017, West Springfield

Betty Parker ’73, 8/1/2018, Leesburg, GA

Nicholas L. Saakvitne ’73, 10/2/2018, Los Angeles, CA

Kathleen J. (Dingman) Walters ’73, 12/4/2018, East Sandwich

Patricia A. Webb-Hayes ’73, 12/19/2017, Randolph

Elizabeth R. Young ’73, 10/14/2018, Washington DC

Kevin C. Conry ’74, 11/26/2018, Jupiter, FL

Steven L. Gagne ’74, 7/23/2017, Worcester

Stanley J. Gniadek, Jr. ’74, 10/12/2018, Worcester

Joseph P. Grabon ’74G, 10/24/2018, Florence

Michael C. King ’74G, 10/29/2018, Ware

Maureen E. Phelan ’74, 9/11/2018, Salem

Paul H. Sienkiewicz ’74, ’75G, 5/23/2017, Sherborn

Alan A. Belinskas ’75, 11/3/2018, North Grafton

George E. Boilard ’75, 8/31/2018, New Milford, CT

Mary (Lane) Dubois ’75, 11/24/2018, New Bedford

Wayne C. English ’75, 8/1/2018, Easthampton

Garrett G. Hollands ’75G, 9/22/2018, Boylston

Karen M. Malikowski ’75, 12/9/2017, Waltham

Linda (Ford) Parker ’75, 10/23/2018, South Deerfield

Eric H. Stokes ’75, 7/10/2016, Tuftonboro, NH

Laurie A. Teraspulsky ’75, ’83G, ’88PhD, 9/18/2018, Keene, NH

Nancy L. Thomas ’75, ’78, 2/5/2018, Emeryville, CA

Rosalind V. (Donahue) Watson ’75, 12/3/2018, Milford, PA

Paul A. Alexanderson III ’76, 8/16/2018, Belchertown

Ernest S. Dagnelli ’76, 12/1/2018, Natick

Marc A. Dargis ’76, 12/2/2018, Belchertown

Alan F. Dole ’76S, 11/11/2018, Old Chatham, NY

Leslie G. Gasser ’76, 10/16/2018, Urbana, IL

Patricia A. Jayko ’76, 10/22/2018, Cheshire

William R. Menezes ’76G, 11/23/2018, San Pedro, Belize

Nancie (Jolda) O’Brien ’76, 9/22/2018, Midlothian, VA

Cheryl A. Possardt ’76, 10/20/2018, Daytona Beach, FL

Dante F. Quercio ’76, 10/6/2018, Auburn

Kevin P. Sullivan ’76, 12/15/2018, Carefree, AZ

Leslie J. Taft ’76S, 11/7/2018, Cape Elizabeth, ME

Robert C. Gray, Jr. ’77, 8/30/2018, Derry, NH

Jeannette E. Herrick ’74G, ’77EdD, 9/27/2018, Washington, DC

Ronald P. Johnson ’77, 10/31/2018, Worcester

John M. Quimby ’77, 11/19/2018, Saint Petersburg, FL

Lucille P. Shores ’71G, ’77PhD, 8/9/2018, Hartford, CT

Lillian J. Waugh ’77PhD, 10/8/2018, Morgantown, WV

Peter J. Bittel ’72G, ’74G, ’78EdD, 11/17/2018, Pelham

John P. Cosgrove ’78, 10/1/2018, North Charleston, SC

Ann Marie R. Guiel ’78, 11/11/2018, Agawam

Felicia D. Gulachenski ’78, 11/13/2018, Hazlet, NJ

Wendy P. Nelson ’78G, 7/16/2018, Falmouth

Hildred G. Robertson ’78, 9/3/2018, West Yarmouth

Michael S. Rochemont ’78PhD, 7/3/2018, Vancouver, BC

Marjory K. Smith ’78, 10/28/2018, Kennebunk, ME

Douglas B. Thurlow ’78, 9/15/2018, Madison, WI

Jonathan B. Tullis ’78, 5/14/2014, Durham, NC

Timothy F. Tunstall ’78, 11/29/2018, Hampden

Patricia K. (Doran) Villa ’78G, 10/18/2018, Albany, NY

Charles M. Campion ’79, 3/7/2018, Brookline

Michael J. Coughlan ’79, 9/24/2018, Alexandria, VA

Robin P. (Frankel) Gurlitz ’79, 9/23/2018, Newbury

Daniel M. Huse ’79, ’83G, 8/30/2018, Sharon

Ronnie J. Oliver ’79, 10/20/2018, Wareham

1980s

Jon M. Daly ’80, 3/12/2018, Vienna, VA

Philip M. Defusco ’80, 9/21/2018, Haverhill

Nicole (Schott) Desrosiers ’73G, ’80PhD, 9/1/2018, Pittsfield

Wendy A. Frey ’80, 9/19/2015, Boston

Robert W. Gailey ’67G, ’80EdD, 10/2/2018, North Brookfield

Lewis D. Kramer ’80, 8/24/2018, Toms River, NJ

Robert C. Cadle ’81, 10/11/2018, Lunenburg

Edward W. Travis ’81EdD, 12/14/2018, Millbrook, NY

Lawrie A. Bertram ’82, 11/2/2018, Beverly

Marita E. Callahan ’82EdD, 10/20/2018, Holyoke

Martin R. Hanley, Jr. ’82G, 11/5/2018, Bradford

Desiree C. (Church) Hopkins ’82, 10/31/2018, Shutesbury

Lynda A. (Olson) Kiansten ’82, 9/8/2018, Ellenton, FL

Nancy (McCormick) Caffall ’83, ’86G, 8/30/2018, Northampton

Diane M. Couture ’83, 11/11/2018, Bandon, OR

Paul R. Fogarty ’83, 9/29/2018, Westminster

Patricia A. Mercaitis ’79G ’83PhD, 9/7/2018, Brewster

Ann-Marie (Langlois) Murray ’83, 8/27/2018, Bow, NH

Paul E. Nadeau ’83, 9/30/2018, Kingston, NH

Robert J. Toth ’83G, 11/6/2018, Pittsfield

Margaret J. Baxter ’84, 10/22/2018, Monson

Robert C. Cook ’84, 11/18/2018, Reston, VA 

Kevin D. O’Brien ’84, 11/23/2018, Springfield

Dennis L. Doherty ’85, 11/3/2018, Columbia, MD

Guillermo Cuellar ’86EdD, 10/20/2018, Sunderland

Richard F. Dworsky ’86PhD, 11/5/2018, Steamboat Springs, CO

William L. Myers ’86G, 12/9/2018, Ithaca, NY

Michael F. O’Donnell ’86, 11/25/2018, Denver, CO

Mark J. Rosen ’86EdD, 8/25/2018, Sudbury

Eugene Davidov ’87, 10/11/2018, Hamden, CT

Paul J. Henle ’87G, 10/7/2018, Concord, NH

Elaine H. Reichert ’87, 8/5/2018, Westmoreland, NH

Robert J. Kiley ’88, 8/20/2018, Reading

Debra E. Lowman ’89, 12/3/2018, Tucker, GA

1990s

Amy T. Germain ’90, 12/12/2016, Provincetown

David J. Maisey ’90, 9/22/2018, Northampton

Donald C. Haggerty ’89S, ’91, 10/31/2018, Little Valley, NY

Sheila M. Mahoney ’91, 12/12/2018, North Reading

William L. Pughe ’91, 8/18/2018, Somerville

Gregg H. Clements ’92, 12/1/2018, Andover

Christopher W. McHallam ’93, 9/17/2018, Medfield

Richard G. Bligh III ’94G, 11/22/2018, Holyoke

Heather F. (Cumming) Gomez ’94, 11/26/2018, New Bedford

Paul E. Seelig ’94, 9/2/2018, Rifle, CO

Leda E. Masse ’95, 12/18/2018, Sunderland

Jeffrey J. Yu ’95PhD, 9/12/2018, Pelham

Heidi L. Martin-Coleman ’96, 9/5/2018, Easthampton

Kevin P. Fitzgerald ’96, 11/30/2018, Agawam

Scott L. Keyes ’96, 8/29/2018, Sebring, FL

Kelly L. Reddy ’96, 11/25/2018, Shelburne Falls

Doretha Pressey ’97EdD, 9/18/2018, New Lebanon, NY

Robert J. Syniec ’97, 10/15/2018, Springfield

Eugene B. Williams ’97G, 3/3/2017, Santa Fe, NM

Suzanne M. Florence-Zavatter ’98, 9/30/2018, Pittsfield

Matthew P. Kyvelos ’98, 3/16/2016, Somerville

2000s

Kenneth C. Jamrog ’03, 8/31/2018, Natick

Michael J. Maslowski ’03, 11/3/2018, Southwick

Jeffrey E. Bercury ’04, 10/5/2018, Dorchester

John Cavazos, Jr. ’05G, 11/03/2018, Newark, DE

Manuel D. Matos ’05, ’08G, ’18PhD, 9/7/2018, Hadley

Patrick D. Guirnalda ’08PhD, 9/8/2016, Framingham

Jonathan C. Hall ’08G, 11/6/2018, Williamsburg, VA

Christopher J. Roy ’09, 12/9/2018, Shrewsbury

2010s

Kasie D. Collins ’13G, 9/22/2018, Belchertown

Lucas E. Ivaldi ’14, 11/4/2018, Bridgewater

John S. Scagliarini ’14, 11/11/2018, Springfield

Eric J. Witunski ’16, 10/6/2018, Framingham

faculty

Paul E. Berube, 9/5/2018, Amherst

Peter J. Bittel ’72G, ’74G, ’78EdD, 11/17/2018, Pelham

Emma Cappelluzzo, 9/5/2017, Tucson, AZ

Vincent J. Cleary, 9/24/2018, Amherst

Gellestrina T. DiMaggio, 12/21/2018, Arlington

Roberts W. French, 11/26/2018, Santa Fe, NM

George Goodwin, Jr. ’85H, 10/20/2018, Amherst

Samuel S. Holland, 10/13/2018, Eastham

Patricia A. Mercaitis ’79G, ’83PhD, 9/7/2018, Brewster

Doris S. Stockton, 12/13/2018, Belchertown

George T. Sulzner III, 10/28/2018, Amherst

Zina Tillona, 12/6/2018, Amherst