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In Memoriam

Alumni

Elizabeth Shempp Colclough ’22, April 2004
Florence Freeman Coller ’27, February 2004
Doris Twitchell Fitch ’27E, October 2003
Ruth Cochran Safron ’28, April 2004
Mary Williams McAmmond ’30, April 2003
Gertrude Corbin Dunn ’31, March 2004
Elizabeth Keenholts Crawford ’33E, February 2004
Max Kaplan ’33, February 2004
Thomas F. Keyes ’34, ’37M (MD), April 2004
Lois Swanson DeGraff ’35N, February 2004
Ruth Hunt Lopez-Sanchez ’35N, March 2004
Donald E. McConville ’35, March 2004
Charles T. Crandall ’37, February 2004
Myron W. Cucci ’37, October 2002
Gordon McHardy ’37M (Res), December 2000
Elbert L. Scrantom ’37, April 2004
Frank L. Foote ’38, March 2004
Robert C. Amero ’39, March 2004
Edward E. Bickel ’39, December 2003
J. Edward Hammond ’39, October 2001
James E. Slavin ’39, June 2001
Frederick W. Westphal ’39E (Mas), ’48E (PhD), December 2003
Robert A. Bruce ’40M (Mas), ’43M (MD), February 2004
Alfio Micci ’40E, ’41E (MM), January 2004
Louis O. Nelson ’40E, July 2003
Ernest A. Pinson ’40M (PhD), December 2003
John E. Zimmerman ’40, April 2004
Doris Hover Farquhar ’41, December 2003
Thomas F. Frawley ’41, February 2004
Catherine Maclarty Perhamus ’41, October 2003
Charlotte Wachs Schuster ’41E, February 2004
R. David Missal ’42E, November 2003
Everett L. Timm ’43E (Mas), ’48E (PhD), February 2004
Harriet Carnrite Bressoud ’44E, December 2003
John S. Crowley ’44, March 2004
Marguerite Zoppoth Whybrew ’44E, ’50E (Mas), December 2003
Alice Cave ’45E, January 2004
Franklin H. Schaefer ’45M (MD), February 2004
Cynthia Allen Hart ’46N, ’70, ’76N (MS), ’86W (EdD), March 2004
Rita Thomas Malone ’46E (Mas), February 2003
J. Warren McKibben ’46M (MD), February 2004
Marion Pearson Finnegan ’47N, February 2004
Janet Barry Jack ’47, April 2004
William J. Barnett ’48 (Mas), April 2004
Nancy Penoyar Craddock ’48N, November 2003
Edward A. Fuller ’49, December 2003
Norman R. Garner ’49, December 2003
Peter J. Sammartino ’49, March 2004
Henry Shur ’49, March 2004
G. Richard Sutherland ’49, January 2004
Donald B. Tatlock ’49, February 2002
Herbert G. Wood ’49, April 2004
Joseph H. Bayer ’50, April 2004
Robert S. Elwell ’50, March 2004
Marvin W. Herrick ’50, February 2004
Samuel R. Salamone ’50, February 2004
Herbert J. Schuhart ’50, March 2001
Lester T. Gootnick ’51M (Res), February 2004
Francis E. Greene ’51, May 2003
Donald L. Hinman ’51M (MD), April 2004
Edward C. Parkhurst ’51M (MD), January 2004
Charles F. Sepsy ’51 (Mas), February 2004
Robert D. Coye ’52M (MD), ’55M (Res), February 2004
Robert W. Diehl ’53E, February 2004
Rudolph V. DiFelice ’53E, March 2004
Mildred Plunkett Wolf ’53, ’54, March 2004
Peter D. Coutts ’54, February 2004
Jim E. Fuller ’54M (MD), March 2004
John W. Henner ’54, March 2004
Jack A. Van Ingen ’54, September 2002
Austine Dougherty Warren ’54, September 2003
Mary Jo Corrick Pierce ’56E, February 2004
Josephine Schramm ’56, ’60W (Mas), March 2003
Beverly Roberts Eaton ’57, March 2004
Carol Zefers Harrigan ’57E, January 2004
Mary de La Salle McKeon ’57E (PhD), February 2004
Marilyn Ingalls Rogers ’57, March 2004
William A. Johnson ’58, April 2004
Nathan S. Taylor ’58M (Res), February 2004
William A. Buck ’59, February 2004
Rita North Polak ’59W, ’62W (MS), May 2001
Benjamin Raphan ’59, May 2003
Joseph A. D’Ambrosia ’60W (Mas), May 2003
Arthur G. Doege ’60, January 2004
Lenore Sifferd Warwin ’60W (Mas), April 2004
Donald J. Weiland ’60, ’76W (Mas), February 2004
Richard F. DeFendini ’61M (MD), October 2001
Helen Rose Basch ’63N (Mas), February 2004
Charles R. Canan ’63, February 2004
Janet Hatch Galley ’63W, April 2002
Susan Andrew Sweet ’63, ’63W, November 2003
Richard H. Roydhouse ’64M (Mas), May 2003
Marjorie Rude Cook ’66W (Mas), June 2003
William C. Hamel ’66S, March 2004
William T. VanHuysen ’66M (Res), March 2004
Bonnie VanDelinder ’67, January 2004
James W. Luening ’68 (MS), February 2004
Arthur K. Champlin ’69 (PhD), April 2004
Judith Goberman ’69 (MA), March 2004
Joan Vigushin ’69, ’69W, June 2003
Mona Moss ’70, November 2003
Robert G. Samberg ’71 (PhD), February 2004
C. Samuel Grove ’74M (Res), March 2004
Geraldine Schmidt Navratil ’74W (Mas), July 2002
Glaslyn Griffiths ’75M (Res), May 2001
Daniel D. McCooey ’75E, April 2004
David G. Pfeiffer ’75 (PhD), December 2003
Douglas L. Rook ’75, November 2003
Eric R. Alling ’76, April 2004
Kenneth F. Yarka ’78, April 2004
Charles H. Long ’80M (MD), February 2004
Tex L. Horning ’82M (Flw), March 2003
C. John Chapman ’83S (MBA), March 2004
Robert T. Connolly ’86, ’91M (MD), April 2004
Robert W. Pavlicin ’87, February 2003
Ronald E. Laird ’88, November 2003

Faculty

Stratis Sotirchos, a professor of chemical engineering for 15 years before taking an adjunct position, died June 13 at the age of 48 in Brussels, Belgium. He was struck by a car while attending a scientific conference.

Known internationally for his work in complex chemical systems, Sotirchos joined the University in 1982 and became a full professor in the chemical engineering department in 1992. He conducted research in chemical reaction engineering, which involved modeling how chemical reactions that work well in a test tube might function in larger-scale industrial applications, such as how best to convert coal into fuel.

Sotirchos studied chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens where he earned his diploma in 1979. In 1982 he earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Houston before accepting his appointment at the University. He joined the Institute of Chemical Engineering in Patras, Greece, in 1997 as a research director, a position that allowed him to remain on the Rochester faculty as an adjunct professor.