UMass Amherst: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends

Summer 2008

CLASS NOTES
In Memoriam
Notice of the deaths of the following UMass Amherst alumni, faculty, and students has been received by the magazine. For a copy of the obituary (when available), please contact us at 413-545-2991 or at sshaffer@admin.umass.edu.
Sally Shaffer

Francis O’Grady ’30, Westborough – 2008
Gertrude K. Spooner ’31, Ambler, PA – 4/11/08
Luther Barstow, Jr. ’35, Tolland, CT – 1/2008
Roger Taylor ’37, Orono, ME – 3/5/08
Inez Hutchinson ’39, Haverhill – 1/14/08
Mildred Ann Czajkowski Zachowski ’39, Beaufort, SC – 4/8/08
Henry Holihan ’42, Granby, CT – 5/6/06
Marion Bodwell de Rivero ’43, Caracas, Venezuela – 10/07
Arthur Foley ’43, ‘47G, Agawam – 4/20/08
Arthur Koulias ’43, Burbank, CA – 1/6/07
Elliot Allen ’45, Longmeadow – 3/7/08
Sylvia Peck ’46, Greenfield – 2/9/08
Jerome Geller ’48, Pittsfield – 1/24/08
William Austin Hosmer ’48, Cape Elizabeth, ME – 3/5/06
John Aldrich ’49, Chicopee – 12/19/07
Ralph P. Marble, Jr. ’50, Deltona, FL – 5/9/07
Edward Chapdelaine ’51, Chicopee – 1/23/08
Albert J. Hodgess ’51, Maynard – 2/5/07
Dominic Dicenzo ’52, Orlando, FL – 1/16/08
William Harrington ’52, Granby, CT – 12/20/07
Ralph Wheeler ’53 ‘57G, Daytona Beach Shores, FL – 10/25/07
Nicholas M. Gralenski ’54, Aptos, CA – 3/18/08
Rev. Alan H. Buttaro ’57, East Granby, CT – 10/13/07
Paul E. Chamberlin, Jr. ’59, Northfield – 12/16/07
Susan Fleisher ’60, Oak Park, IL – 6/17/07
Bruce B. Linton ’63, Beverly – 11/22/07
Cheryl Pinkham ’68, Greenfield – 12/17/07
David L. Thompson ’68, Springfield – 8/30/07
Lonnie Lehrer ’69, New York – 4/08
Stanley Kogut, Jr. ’70, Wilbraham – 1/4/08
Michael Kadish ’71, Melrose – 2/1/08
Gary Doherty ’72, Shelburne Falls – 3/29/08
Hedy Sara Lopes ’73, Action – 2/24/07
Anna Garbiel ’74, Montague Center – 1/17/08
Karen Scheufele ’77, Bradford, NH – 2/2/08
Gail Kowalski ’78, Southampton, NJ –  3/29/08
Harry E. Childs ’79, Northampton – 1/14/08
Carol Whitcomb ’79, Houston, TX – 4/3/08
Rufus Kneeland ‘81G, Hadley – 1/17/08
Beth Mae Fendell ’84, Edison, NJ – 1/27/08
Deborah Hill-Bidi ’87, Northampton – 4/5/08
Stephanie Parker ’04, Longmeadow – 9/5/07

Faculty

Joseph Hernon, Boston – 6/29/07, history
John Dittfach, Belmont – 2/29/08, mechanical engineering
Curtis Thorne Jr., Amherst – 1/10/08 microbiology

 

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