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    1920s 1960s
    1930s 1970s
    1940s 1980s
    1950s 1990s
     

      1920s

    • Evelyn Norman Price, '21, Seattle, age 100, March 17.
    • Raymond Lee Bachman, '26, Vancouver, Wash., age 95, Feb. 14.
    • Frances Frykholm Black, '29, Poulsbo, age 91, Jan. 10.

      1930s

    • Betty Crockett Jackson, '33, Seattle, age 86, Feb. 26.
    • Marion Coyle Smith, '33, Seattle, age 97, Feb. 26.
    • Tom Corwin Logan, '34, Seattle, age 89, April 2.
    • Homer A. Bergren, '35, Issaquah, Feb. 13.
    • Verna Estelle Frederickson, '35, age 86, March 15.
    • Elizabeth Muncaster Sellhorn, '35, Everett, age 86, Feb. 17.
    • Patricia Dee Arnstad, '36, Seattle, age 89, Jan. 31.
    • Arthur C. Lillig, '37, Seattle, Sept. 12, 1998.
    • Ebba Frolund Olson, '37, Seattle, age 84, March 3.
    • Irene Palmer Casey, '38, Seattle, age 81, Jan. 18.
    • Jack Heintzelman, '38, Seattle, age 82, March 3.
    • Jean Leary, '38, Feb. 17.
    • Alan V. Hooper, '39, Kirkland, age 81, Jan. 21.

      1940s

    • Jack R. Altaras, '40, Bellevue, age 80, Jan. 28.
    • H. Eugene Mitchell, '40, Suisun City, Calif., age 82, Feb. 6.
    • Arthur M. Torkelson, '42, Everett, age 80, Jan. 29.
    • Dorothy Jane Avery, '43, Redmond, age 77, Feb. 5.
    • Chloe Cartier Eastland, '43, Jan. 5.
    • James P. Gould, '44, New York, age 76, Dec. 25, 1998.
    • John Carmody, '45, McLean, Va., age 74, March 1.
    • Erwyn H. Algyer, '46, Seattle, age 83, April 3.
    • Robert Eugene Pacquer, '46, Palm Desert, Calif., age 76, April 3.
    • Ruth Louise Humphrey, '47, Nordland, age 73, Feb. 26.
    • Paul A. Diers, '48, Seattle, age 81, April 6.
    • Donald C. Hoyle, '48, Seattle, age 74, Nov. 22, 1998.
    • James H. Van Otegham, '49, Seattle, age 73, Jan. 15.

      1950s

    • Frank Alvau, '50, Renton, age 81, March 25.
    • Edward Higgins McKinlay, '50, Pasco, age 72, Feb. 28.
    • I.E. "Gene" Endicott Sr., '51, Bellevue, Feb. 28.
    • France McCullom, '53, Seattle, age 98, March 20.
    • Gordon R. "Dick" Freeman, '54, Seattle, age 70, Jan. 1.
    • Stanley Spector, '54, Clayton, Mo., age 74, Jan. 29.
    • Michael McManus, '55, '63, Edmonds, age 65, March 14.
    • Lawrence Eliezar Soriano, '56, '59, Bremerton, age 64, March 17.
    • Pasqual Sferra, '58, Seattle, age 69, Feb. 25.

      1960s

    • Roger Pappas, '61, Fair Oaks, Calif., age 59, Nov. 20, 1998.
    • Shirley M. Harrell, '62, Ellensburg, age 75, Feb. 27.
    • Sally Ryan, '62, Seattle, age 54, Jan. 31.
    • Helen Kay Blakney, '63, Bellevue, age 57, March 30.
    • Gordon Albert Seeley, '68, Port Townsend, age 70, Feb. 13.
    • Gloria J. Howell, '69, '71, Seattle, age 64, Dec. 17, 1998.

      1970s

    • Frances Christina Doph Nordby, '70, Lake Stevens, age 87, Jan. 14.
    • George E. Roberts, '70, Seattle, age 59, April 5.
    • Keith Henry Rousu, '70, Woodinville, age 53, March 24.
    • Aaron McKiernan, '71, '76, Santa Monica, Calif., age 50, Sept. 1, 1998. PHOTO
    • Janice Ariel Perry, '72, Seattle, age 58, Feb. 4.
    • Charles Robert Brookes, '74, Seattle, age 55, Feb. 26.
    • Marjorie Ann Currid Hamrick, '74, Redmond, age 78, Feb. 22.
    • Kathleen Cooper Kranz, '78, Leavenworth, age 45, Dec. 18, 1998.
    • Paul F. Walker, '79, Las Vegas, Nev., age 42, Jan. 3.

      1980s

    • Gary Bridgman, '81, Seattle, age 59, March 23.
    • Astor V. Rumbaoa, '87, Poulsbo, age 33, Aug. 31, 1998.

      1990s

    • Douglas W. Ball, '95, Redmond, age 25, Jan. 4.


    Faculty & Friends

    Medicine Professor Emeritus Harold Tracy Dodge died Feb. 26, after serving the UW since 1957. He taught until his retirement in 1991. He was 74.

    Microbiology Professor Emeritus Howard Clark Douglas died Feb. 24. Born on July 4, 1910, in Los Angeles, he earned his bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Cal-Berkeley and joined the UW faculty in 1941. He taught until his retirement in 1980. He was 88.

    Law Lecturer Paul Martin Feinsod, '82, died Feb. 14, after serving the UW from 1983-1984 and 1997-1999. Born on April 22, 1955, in Newtown, Mass., he taught classes in business, government and society, then spent a number of years in private practice before returning to teach in 1997. He was 43.

    Business Professor Emeritus Charles N. Henning died Feb. 21, after serving the UW since 1948. Born on June 20, 1915, in Pittsburgh, he earned all three degrees from UCLA. He taught until his retirement in 1985. He was 83.

    Computer Science and Engineering Professor Emeritus Alistair David Craig Holden, '64, died Feb. 3, after serving the UW since 1958. Born in 1928 in Scotland, he pioneered artificial intelligence and drew minorities into electrical engineering and computer sciences. He received degrees from the Univ. of Glasgow and Yale, and received his Ph.D. from the UW in 1964. He retired in 1998. He was 70.

    Library and Information Science Professor Emeritus Irving Lieberman died Dec. 6, 1998. He was born on Jan. 6, 1914, in Newark, N.J., and earned one degree from New York Univ. and three from Columbia. He joined the UW in 1956 as professor and director of the School of Librarianship. He retired in 1979. He was 84.

    Law Dean Emeritus Richard Stiles Roddis died Feb. 16. Born on March 18, 1930, in Washington, D.C., he earned degrees from San Diego State and Cal-Berkeley and joined the UW law faculty in 1968. He was dean of the law school from 1970-1978, and retired in 1995. He was 68.

    Pathology Professor Russell Ross, '62, died March 18, after serving the UW since 1957. Born on May 25, 1929, in St. Augustine, Fla., he had degrees from Cornell, Columbia and the UW, and made many major research discoveries relating to atherosclerosis. He served as chairman of the UW Department of Pathology and as associate dean for scientific affairs in the UW School of Medicine. He was 69.

    Medicine Associate Professor Emeritus Donald Ross Sparkman, '30, died Jan. 24. Born on June 7, 1907, in Seattle, he earned a bachelor's degree from the UW and his M.D. from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He joined the UW in 1947 as a clinical instructor in medicine and later served as coordinator of the Regional Heart Cancer and Stroke Program and director of Regional Medical Programs for the UW School of Medicine. He retired in 1976. He was 91.

    Education Professor Emeritus Gerald Torkelson died Jan. 20. Born on Feb. 28, 1917, in Merrill, Wis., he joined the UW in 1965 as a professor of education and taught until his retirement in 1984. He was 81.

    Accounting Professor Emeritus Lauren MacNeal Walker, '39, '43, died Jan. 6. Born on Jan. 11, 1916, in Seattle, he received a bachelor's and master's degrees from the UW and joined the faculty in 1941 as an associate in accounting. He later served as chairman of the accounting department. He retired in 1982. He was 82.


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