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In Memoriam

Alumni

Cathleen Cole Burditt ’26, June 2003
Meyer Fix ’28, August 2003
Earl P. Bowerman ’29, ’33M (MD), November 1999
Mildred Worthington Falsion ’29, July 2003
Mildred Messinger Goldstein ’29, July 2003
Kenneth M. Ingison ’29, May 2003
Alma Lissow Oncley ’30E, ’32E, ’33E (MM), June 2003
Evelyn King Benedict ’31N, September 1999
Arthur C. Potter ’31, January 2003
Ruth Ries Smith ’31, September 2002
Frieda Chapin ’32, ’35N, January 2002
Helen Kingsbury Coffin ’32M (MD), May 2003
George F. Leader ’33, June 2003
Radford C. Tanzer ’33M (Res), June 2003
Juanita Border Gardner ’34, March 2003
Frederick S. Miller ’34, November 2002
Margaret Skiff ’34, March 2003
Phoebe Babbage Grefrath ’35, January 2000
Esther Samys ’35, July 2003
Daniel Andrews ’36, July 2003
Catharine Crozier ’36E, ’41E (Mas), September 2003
George C. Dick ’36, March 2003
Gilbert B. Forbes ’36, ’40M (MD), June 2003
John B. Hursh ’36M (PhD), March 2003
Frances Mihill ’36, January 2003
Benjamin J. Beach ’37, ’38 (MA), March 2002
Helen Hatch Heller ’37, ’37N, June 2003
Harold E. Bush ’38, May 2003
A. Gordon Ide ’38M (MD), April 2003
Dorothy Borschel Jennings ’38E, ’42E (Mas), June 2003
Esther Tuthill Bellwood ’39, ’40N, August 2003
Viola Brody ’39E (Mas), August 2003
Victor R. Ells ’39 (PhD), January 2001
Margaret Grove Marsh ’39E, June 2003
Bertha Hendryx Trueheart ’39, June 2003
Mortimer Alderman ’40, May 2002
Alfred M. Decker ’40, ’43M (MD), August 2003
Robert J. King ’40, September 2002
Walter C. Newcomb ’40, ’42 (Mas), March 2003
Phyllis Neidig Radin ’40, April 2003
Emerson E. Chapin ’41, April 2003
Bernard W. Fleckenstein ’41, August 2003
Joseph E. Gould ’41, May 2001
Robert J. Grab ’41, May 2003
Lula Lubchenco Josephson ’41M (Res), September 2001
Frank P. Smith ’41M (MD), September 2003
Anne Skelton Bergstrom ’42N, August 2003
Margaret Corn King ’42, May 2003
David D. Michaels ’42, April 2003
Martin Q. Moll ’42, May 2003
Dorothy Ornest ’42E, July 2003
Carolyn Nowack Thieser ’42N, March 2003
Juanita Warner ’42, February 2003
Royal S. Cutler ’43M (MD), November 2000
Elaine Gleichauf Ellis ’43, August 2003
Gordon H. Kester ’43, May 2003
Malcolm M. Ellison ’43M (MD), October 2000
Wallace H. Mann ’43E, March 2003
Robert J. McMahon ’43, June 2003
E. Albert Moody ’43M (MD), June 2003
Peter P. Muirhead ’43 (MS), February 1996
Paul A. Rockwell ’43M (MD), February 2003
Jean Steckroth Yells ’43N, October 2002
Margaret Mattison Bittinger ’44, June 2001
Betty Burnett ’44E, July 2000
G. Edwin Kindig ’44, May 2003
David H. Raab ’45 (PhD), March 2003
Gustave T. Ruckert ’45M (MD), ’51M (Res), April 2003
Marian Powelson Snearowski ’45, December 2002
Joseph A. Tihen ’45 (PhD), November 2002
Clyde M. Chumbley ’46, April 2003
Helen Long Hoe ’46, July 2003
Marie Lowes Sauter ’46N, July 2003
M. Elizabeth Townley Whippie ’46E, May 2003
Dennis K. Andal ’47E, ’49E (MM), May 2003
Martha Trytten England ’47, May 2003
Noel T. Maxson ’47, December 2000
Rhoda Shapiro Rabin ’48E, April 2003
John C. Scobell ’48, February 2003
Stanton B. Smith ’48 (PhD), August 2003
Myra Winchester Wicklein ’48E (Mas), October 2002
Barbara Forbes Alexander ’49, February 2003
James O. Dungan ’49, ’54 (Mas), June 2003
George A. Glasser ’49, December 2002
Robert R. Kadesch ’49 (MS), July 2003
Norman Meyer ’49, March 2002
George S. Allen ’50M (MD), July 2003
Thomas H. Armstrong ’50, July 2002
Anne Lapham Blevins ’50, October 2002
Robert M. Dinse ’50, July 2003
Charles D. Legg ’50, April 2003
Ralph E. Bigelow ’51E, ’53E (Mas), July 2003
Eugene J. Linehan ’51, January 1998
Harry L. Reynolds ’51 (PhD), May 2002
William J. Stageman ’51, May 2003
James Wilson ’51, May 2003
Aida Baghdassarian ’52, April 2003
Warren J. Clark ’52, February 2003
Richard A. Grayson ’52, June 2003
Gloria Eshelman Hodges ’52E, November 2002
Gerald S. Kanter ’52M (PhD), April 2003
Mei Yu Dju ’53M (PhD), June 2003
Esther Goldenson Sultz ’53, February 2003
Donald L. Whitcomb ’53, ’57 (PhD), October 1997
Ruth Richardson Collier ’54, ’55N, July 2002
Nelson J. Zimmer ’54, March 2003
Donald R. Goodenough ’55 (PhD), April 2003
Arthur A. Chambers ’56, May 2003
Irving Guttenberg ’56, August 2003
Robert W. Schreiber ’56, May 2002
Warren A. Carlough ’58, June 2003
Kathryn Fox Hoffman ’58N, July 1997
Ernest P. Resner ’58, July 2003
Sandra Nadeau Schoff ’58N, July 2003
Earl R. Willard ’58 (MA), December 2000
Anne Fitelson Wolk ’58, July 2003
Edwin W. Manktelow ’59S, April 2003
Lawrence Palvino ’59, September 2003
Roger K. Powell ’59W (MA), April 2003
John A. Flavia ’60, December 2002
Jane Engel LaJeunesse ’60N, December 2002
Margaret Thompson Shaffer ’60E, December 2002
Elsa Glover ’61, June 2003
Howard J. Senecal ’61S, May 2003
John A. Stewart ’61M (MD), ’68M (Mas), June 2003
Dean H. Weaver ’61M (MD), June 2003
Kirsten Huehn ’62E, July 2003
Andrei Konradi ’62 (PhD), August 2002
George P. Lord ’62M (Flw), November 2000
Dale E. McFarlin ’63M (Res), October 1992
Barbara Hogan Craven ’64N, ’68N (Mas), December 2002
Jonathan A. Mezz ’66, June 2002
Ellen Coolman Rappaport ’66, May 2003
F. Frederick Romanow ’66S, April 2003
Hugh B. Hunt ’67M (MD), July 2003
Dale J. Rider ’67, March 2003
William T. Hyde ’69, February 2003
Samson C. Ushe ’69, ’71W (Mas), July 2003
Theodore L. Biddle ’70M (Flw), ’84M (Flw), June 2003
Michael J. Kaufman ’70, ’72 (Mas), March 2003
Pamela Dvorak Miller ’70E (MA), March 2003
Nikola L. Ovanin ’70E (PhD), February 1992
Josephine Amish ’71S (MBA), July 2003
Bernice Poletto Bayer ’71, February 2003
Donna Benedict ’71, April 2003
Bruce H. Clark ’72S, July 2003
Ronald J. Pedrone ’72S (MBA), July 2003
Gordon A. Porter ’72, August 2003
Stephen A. Estes ’73M (MD), May 2003
Margaret Balinsky Hartman ’73 (Mas), ’73 (PhD), May 2003
Kenneth N. Rosenblum ’73, February 2003
Wilbur L. Gerst ’74W (Mas), July 2003
Rosemarie Montegani Winstanley ’76, April 2003
Ashar Najmi ’77, April 2001
Joan Beugless Williams ’78, May 2003
Mary Therese Magin ’80 (MS), August 2003
Ruthanne Epstein Wiley ’80E, February 2001
Leon H. Clary ’81S (MBA), July 2003
Joseph M. Cash ’82M (MD), February 1998
Gail Cornell Revell ’83N (Mas), November 2001
Paula Flanders ’85W (Mas), July 2003
Jonathan R. Woolston ’86, October 2002
Jennifer Sloan ’90, June 2003
Dennis B. Taylor ’94E (MM), January 2002
Jonathan E. Burchell ’95, June 2003
Hans H. Haverstick ’95, May 2003
Tamara Twitchell Crafts ’99N (MS), April 2003
Nathan G. Heslink ’99, March 2003

Faculty

Catharine Crozier ’36E, ’41E (Mas), chair of the organ department at the Eastman School from 1953 to 1955, died September 19. She was 89.

Proficient in French and German music, she was chosen as one of the players to inaugurate the new organ at Avery Fisher Hall in 1982 and performed the dedication of the Alice Tully Hall organ at Lincoln Center in 1975.

Most recently, she was artist in residence at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Ore.

Her husband, Harold Gleason, an organ professor at Eastman, died in 1980.

Gilbert Forbes ’36, ’40M (MD), internationally recognized scholar of pediatric care and noted Medical Center pediatrician, died June 26 at Strong Memorial Hospital. He was 87.

Forbes, professor emeritus of pediatrics and biophysics and a widely cited researcher on body composition and nutrition and fitness, discovered Forbes disease, a pediatric glycogen storage disorder. The author of Human Body Composition: Growth, Aging, Nutrition, and Activity, he received the University’s Arthur Kornberg Research Award in 1997.

The mezzanine in the Kornberg Research Building and a prize in pediatric research are named in his honor. The Gilbert B. Forbes room in the new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit/Cardiac Intensive Care Unit is scheduled to open in the fall of 2004.

Marshall Gates, the Charles F. Houghton Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, died October 1, one week after his 88th birthday.

With a goal of finding a painkiller that would not be addictive, Gates, an organic chemist, was the first to synthesize morphine in 1952, an achievement that earned the chemistry department national attention. In recognition of his dedication to his students, he received the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He retired in 1981.

The Marshall Gates Distinguished Faculty Scholar award is given to chemistry faculty members who have outstanding research and teaching programs.

Louis Lasagna, former chair and professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Medical Center, died August 7. He was 80.

Considered the “father of clinical pharmacology,” due in large part to his scholarship following his groundbreaking 1954 article on “the placebo effect” in the American Journal of Medicine, Lasagna taught at several universities, most recently at Tufts.

In 1986, the University established the Louis Lasagna Professorship in Experimental Therapeutics, an appointment currently held by neurologist Ira Shoulson.

Frank Smith ’41M (MD), the influential chair of the division of neurosurgery at the Medical Center from 1954 to 1974, died September 22, one month shy of his 88th birthday.

The author of the book Neurology and Neurosurgery: Common Principles and the neurosurgical section of the first and second editions of White’s Atlas of Pediatric Surgery, Smith was honored with the prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 2001.

The Frank P. Smith Lecture Series and Visiting Professorship is named in his honor. He endowed the Frank P. Smith Chair in Neurosurgery in 1981 and developed the Frank P. Smith Neurosurgical Laboratories in 2001.

Smith’s wife, Ruth Finnie Smith ’40N, died earlier.

Governing Board Members

Lawrence Palvino ’59, an honorary member of the Trustees’ Alumni Council of the College and a charter member of the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame, died September 21 at age 65.

As a lineman for the Yellowjackets football team, he earned All-American honors for three consecutive seasons in 1956, 1957, and 1958. A history major, he served as president of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

A partner with the law firm Harter, Secrest & Emery, he served on several boards in the Rochester community and was chair of the Garnish Scholarship Committee and founding chair of the Alumni Hellenic Council.