Winter 2005

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UMass Trees

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A Fruitful Partnership

A New Kind of Farm a New Breed of Farmer

A Spoonful of Sugar

Flower Powerhouse

Cranberry Culture

Trees We Love

Dear One Absent This Long While

Extended Family

In Memoriam

NOTICE OF THE DEATHS OF the following members of the UMass Amherst family has been received by the magazine. If you would like a copy of the obituary (when available) please contact Linda Cahillane at lcahillane@admin.umass.edu or call 413-545-2991. Patrick J. Fitzgerald ’36, Sea Cliff, NY – 7/29/04 Frederic Theriault ’38, ’42G, Hyattsville, MD – 9/1/04 Charles F. Mansfield Jr. ’40, Taunton – 8/21/04 Elwyn J. Doubleday ’42, ’57G, Amherst – 6/30/04 Mildred (Culver) Knowles ’42, Northampton – 7/30/04 Mary Jean (Carpenter) Burr ’43, Tolland, CT – 7/14/04 Rita (Skiffington) Martin ’43, Wenham - 8/19/04 Norman Barnes ’44, Port St. Lucie, FL – 6/25/04 Martha Ann (Treml) Ruliffson ’44, Bethesda, MD – 7/24/04 Richard Garvey ’45, ’74G, Northampton – 9/9/04 Ralph Carter Breed ’49, Clinton – 6/22/04 Louis E. Scheller ’50, Norwell – 8/7/04 Richard L. Boynton Sr. ’51, Wellesley Hills – 6/26/04 Walter A. Czelusniak ’51, Westfield – 9/7/04 Bernard Noymer ’51, Newton Highlands – 8/11/04 Henry Swieskowski ’52, Delray Beach, FL – 6/30/04 Robert Maliff ’55, Wellington, FL – 7/1/04 Natalie (Myers) Cutler ’60, Baltimore, MD – 5/20/04 Chester T. Dziekanowski Jr. ’60, ’62G, Platteville, WI – 7/10/04 Judith (Braskie) LaChapelle ’60, Wilbraham – 7/13/04 John A. Kane ’61, Holyoke – 8/27/04 Virgina (Rodgers) Lowry ’63, Hamilton – 11/03 Edward G. Parsons ’63, ’67G, Billings, MT – 8/5/04 Adrienne Joyce Allen ’64, Granby, CT – 8/6/04 John McElligott ’64, Holyoke – 7/17/04 John Patrick Carrigan ’69, Marston Mills – 7/26/04 Philip J. Carpenter ’71, Belchertown – 7/22/04 Donald C. Masson ’72, ’73G, Merrimack, NH – 6/24/04 John A. Badwey ’73G, ’76G, Fairhaven – 7/14/04 Farouk Hamdy ’73G, Silver Spring, MD – 8/2/04 Robert G. Erhardt ’75, Chicopee – 8/31/04 Vincent Peruzzi ’75, Quincy – 8/13/04 Edward S. Graham ’78, Quincy – 7/5/04 Mark Osowski ’85, Akron, OH – 8/22/04 A. Peter Leary ’87, Needham – 9/13/04 Dorothy E. Hayden ’90, Royalston – 7/20/04 Colleen L. (Curley) McClaflin ’96, Chicopee – 6/30/04 Raymond J. Belisle ’00, Holyoke – 7/5/04 Faculty: David H. Navon, Shutesbury–9/8/04–electrical and computer engineering

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