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  • Alumni

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  • Julius R. Mariotti, Newington, Conn., age 71, Aug. 7.
  • James Palmer Savery, Edmonds, age 91, Aug. 5.
  • 1920s

  • Weyana Lopp Schaal, '20, Seattle, age 101, July 29.
  • Edgar F. Opdycke, '23, Bellevue, age 94, Aug. 1.
  • Henry W. Peters, '25, Selah.
  • Muriel C. Pfeil, '25, Anchorage, Alaska, age 101.
  • Margaret Emma Duncan Schmitz, '27, Seattle, age 95, June 30.
  • Adelyne R. Freiberg, '28, Seattle, age 93, Sept. 20.
  • Marius Glerup, '28, Seattle.
  • Hazel W. Hopper, '28, Westfield, Ind., July 7.
  • Lucy Dunn Ridgeway, '28, Seattle, age 94, Aug. 22.
  • Payne Karr, '29, Maple Valley, age 92, Oct. 2.
  • Gertrude C. Meinzer, '29, Chicago, age 93, Dec. 12, 2000.
  • 1930s

  • John Kenneth Peterson, '30, Santee, Calif.
  • Robert W. Edwards, '32, Seattle, age 90, July 7.
  • Florence Harrison Nesbit, '32, Bellingham, age 91, Sept. 28.
  • Karl B. Reese, '32, Seattle.
  • Harold Clyde Trueblood, '32, '34, '38, Santa Ana, Calif., age 89, July 26.
  • Lucile Keeney Geibel, '33, Shelton, age 90, Sept. 27.
  • Roy A. Hanson, '33, Kirkland.
  • Ronald H. Nelson, '33, Freeland, age 90, July 26.
  • Clarence A. Gerber, '35, La Mesa, Calif., age 89, April 30.
  • Stanley Nelson Jr., '35, Seattle, age 86, Aug. 24.
  • Ruth Gray Tuttle, '35, Seattle, age 89, Sept. 18.
  • Leah Curran Wright, '35, Albuquerque, N.M., age 84, Aug. 17.
  • Robert D. Beckwith, '36, Snohomish.
  • Ronald E. Fetterley, '36, Seattle, age 87, Aug. 9.
  • Janet Nims, '36, Bothell, age 87, Oct. 4.
  • Don Hume, '37, Sultan, age 86, Sept. 16.
  • Robert Clark Keating, '37, Mercer Island, age 86, Aug. 10.
  • Ralph L. Gregg, '38, Lake Forest Park, age 93, July 10.
  • Helen Melton Mowat, '38, Seattle, age 84, Sept. 26.
  • Robb M. Pineo, '38, Suquamish, age 86.
  • Marjorie R. Drummond, '39, Seattle.
  • Harlan Thomas Hall, '39, '42, Seattle, age 82, Aug. 6.
  • Bruce Leon Miller, '39, Lake Stevens, age 84, July 3.
  • Rose Mary C. Wagoner, '39, '66, Seattle.
  • 1940s

  • John Kenworthy Aldrich, '40, Seattle, Aug. 17.
  • Richard C. Armstrong Sr., '40, Auburn, age 82, Sept. 11.
  • Ralph Follestad, '40, Arlington, age 83, Aug. 29.
  • Walter W. Hogue, '40, Mercer Island, age 85, July 23.
  • Curtis Marshall, '40, Brooklandville, Md., Aug. 21.
  • Raymond Davis Normile, '40, Kenmore, age 89, July 14.
  • Anne B. Selfridge Swensson, '40, Seattle, age 83, Aug. 13.
  • M. Joseph Willis, '40, Oxford, Md., age 83, Sept. 11.
  • Chester Frederick Cole, '41, Fresno, Calif.
  • Harriett Tibbals Dunlap, '41, '50, Redmond, age 82, June 12.
  • Edwin R. Heggen, '41, Seattle, age 82, July 3.
  • Ellen R. Morris, '41, Eugene, Ore., June 10, 2000.
  • Arden Morris Scroggs, '41, '48, Colville, age 85, Sept. 19.
  • Homer Spencer, '41, Richland, age 87.
  • Robert L. Twiss, '42, Seattle, age 80, Aug. 28.
  • Jacob Steen Bassi, '43, Mukilteo, age 80, Aug. 14.
  • W.R. Blaisdell Blum, '43, Acampo, Calif., March 15.
  • Wm. Bruce Cole, '43, Portland, Ore., age 82, Sept. 24.
  • James Sherman Hamilton, '43, Kent, age 82.
  • Robert C. Gilardi, '44, '48, Olympia, age 79, Sept. 16.
  • Bernadine E. Kittelson, '45, Roseburg, Ore.
  • Shirley Pickel Nalle, '45, Seattle, age 79, July 26.
  • Paul A. Rennord, '46, Federal Way, age 83, Aug. 3.
  • Robert E. Roman, '46, Santa Barbara, Calif.
  • Robert John Kelton, '47, Westsound, age 76, July 6.
  • Robert W. Rash, '47, Issaquah.
  • Frank H. Watson, '47, Bellingham, age 83, Jan. 4, 1999.
  • Gordon K. Greene, '48, Port Angeles, age 81, March 12.
  • Jacqueline Polson Griffiths, '48, Seattle, age 75, June 12.
  • Ralph L. Hurtle, '48, West Hartford, Conn., age 86, Sept. 21.
  • Herbert W. Smith, '48, Ojai, Calif.
  • Henry Y. Tu, '48, '52, Corvallis, Ore., age 82, Nov. 24, 2000.
  • Willard P. Britton, '49, Hollywood, Fla., age 77, April 5.
  • James A. Corlett, '49, Seattle, age 74, July 18.
  • Henrietta Eppink, '49, Sioux Center, Iowa, age 93.
  • Robert E. Surber, '49, Kenmore, age 78, Aug. 29.
  • 1950s

  • Douglas S. Brown, '50, Lakewood, Colo., age 79, Sept. 14.
  • Donald Hugh Hedges, '50, '53, '54, Edmonds, age 75, July 9.
  • Barry Kirby Kittoe, '50, Bellevue, age 77, Aug. 28.
  • Edwin J. Stempinski, '50, '51, Seattle, age 77, Sept. 23, 2000.
  • William Carpenter, '51, Mukilteo.
  • Donald W. Congdon, '51, Issaquah.
  • David Sherman Dixon, '51, Las Vegas, age 75, Sept. 2.
  • Evelyn R. Gutschmidt, '51, Spokane, age 71, Aug. 31.
  • Harold B. Hemry, '51, age 89, July 22.
  • William E. Hoberg Jr., '51, Seattle, July 30, 2000.
  • John L. Johanson, '51, Port Orchard.
  • Richard Stenshoel, '51, Vancouver, Wash., age 72, July 31.
  • Karl A. Vollmayer, '51, Redwood City, Calif., age 83, Nov. 19, 2000.
  • Michihiko Handa, '52, Bellevue, age 77, June 10.
  • Gordon A. Livengood, '52, Seattle, age 80, Aug. 18.
  • Edward Allen Weaver, '52, Burien, age 70, Sept. 22.
  • Roy O. Bumstead, '53, Bothell, age 72, June 6.
  • David R. Noble, '53, Seattle, age 70, Aug. 21.
  • Virgil B. Thompson Jr., '53, Edmonds, age 74, Aug. 24.
  • Alma Buxton, '54, Lynnwood, age 90, Aug. 11.
  • Virginia Dearborn, '54, '62, Seattle, age 81, July 4.
  • Tyman Harold Fikse, '54, Mapleton, Ore., age 74, Aug. 5.
  • Cleopatra Aurora Higgins Leavitt Barber, '57, '64, Kirkland, age 91, Aug. 29.
  • F. Louise Brincken, '57, Tacoma, age 72, June 4.
  • Frank "Burns" Guthrie, '58, Seattle, age 68.
  • Robert C. Pearson, '58, Issaquah, age 67, Sept. 24.
  • 1960s

  • Jerome Laux, '61, Norwalk, Conn., age 62, Sept. 3.
  • Mildred Darnell Bruer, '62, Lincoln City, Ore., age 85, Sept. 3.
  • Cicely Cerqui, '62, '82, Shoreline, age 66, Aug. 14.
  • Karen S. Larson, '62, Seattle, age 64, Sept. 1.
  • James A. Welsh, '62, Seattle, age 73, July 28.
  • Kenneth V. Kuhns, '63, Longview.
  • David E. Savage, '63, Vancouver, Wash., age 67, July 31.
  • Hope Anderson Tuttle, '63, Bellevue, age 60, Aug. 21.
  • Alice Guthrie Yore, '63, Bremerton, age 61, Sept. 25.
  • Roger Ost, '64, Seattle.
  • Russell M. Saigo, '66, Hilo, Hawaii.
  • Helen J. Walsh, '66, Spokane.
  • Muriel A. Russell, '67, Seattle, age 79, June 21.
  • Jeanne Sharkey Anderson, '68, Seattle, age 80, Sept. 4.
  • Myra M. Haney, '69, East Wenatchee, age 53, June 4.
  • 1970s

  • Michael C. Redman, '70, Lacey, age 59, Aug. 5.
  • Robert E. Russell, '70, Ann Arbor, Mich., age 53, April 21.
  • David Henry Sheridan, '70, Seattle, age 53, Oct. 3.
  • Ardelle Williams, '70, San Diego, Aug. 1.
  • Richard K. Muffett, '71, Seattle, age 59, July 16.
  • Peter D. Fischer, '73, Chevy Chase, Md.
  • Norma Lea Olausen, '73, Bainbridge Island, age 78, June 30.
  • Delbert A. Cornelison, '74, Thornton.
  • Marily Hinrichs Sande, '75, age 48, Oct. 5.
  • Dionisio Vargas Corsilles, '76, Renton, Aug. 26.
  • Eva Sue Crystal, '78, Olympia, age 48, Aug. 25.
  • Dana J. Reinke, '78, Shoreline.
  • Elizabeth May Gregory, '81, '83, Seattle.
  • 1980s

  • Kevin Eng Lew, '81, Mercer Island, age 42, July 10.
  • M. Catherine Miller, '81, San Francisco.
  • Thomas A. Deckwitz, '82, Kirkland, age 39, Aug. 11.
  • Kathleen Baxter Gargett, '82, Shoreline, age 46, Aug. 29.
  • Roxanna Frost, '84, Seattle, age 44, Aug. 15.
  • Lathyjo T. Johnson, '84, Tacoma.
  • Ann-Louise Bates, '86, Albuquerque, N.M., age 38, Nov. 29, 2000.
  • 1990s

  • Katrina Gia Nghe, '90, Kent.
  • Rachael Hammond McKeag, '91, Anacortes, age 87, Sept. 30.
  • Jess Allen Baggerly, '97, age 35, Sept. 12.
  • Gina DeVita, '97, Seattle.
  • Linda Louise Bilsborrow, '98, Seattle, age 53, July 5.

  • Faculty & Friends

    Online Services Librarian Kay Denfeld died June 24 in a kayaking accident. In her 27-year UW Libraries career, she held positions in the health sciences library, forest services information, libraries administration, Odegaard Undergraduate Library and the sciences libraries. At the time of her death, she was sciences libraries' computer resources coordinator.

    History Professor Emeritus Gordon Griffiths died Jan. 13. He specialized in Renaissance and Reformation era history. A champion of progressive politics, he was active in the Democratic Party and supported the campaign for universal health care, movements for women's rights, civil rights and peace. He was 87.

    Husky rowing legend Gerald Joseph Keely Sr., '40, died July 9. A three-time Husky crew letterman and member of the UW crew that won the 1940 national championship, Keely would have been a member of the 1940 U.S. Olympic crew had those games not been cancelled by the start of World War II. Keely, a member of the Husky Hall of Fame, served on the Board of Rowing Stewards from 1958-1996 and served as chairman of that board from 1962-1989. He and the late Dick Erickson, '58, developed the Husky crew into a perennial power. He was 86.

    Ibsen A. Nelsen, an architect responsible for designing and preserving some of Seattle's most important landmarks, died July 19. His achievements include the Museum of Flight, the Inn at the Market and the Merrill Court Townhouses on Capitol Hill. Nelsen spent 10 years on the faculty of the UW College of Architecture and retired to Vashon Island in the mid-1980s. He was 81.

    Gervais Reed, professor emeritus of art history, died Sept. 24 after serving the University since 1950. The Kansas native joined the UW faculty in 1950 to work with film and other special programs for the Instructional Materials Center. Later he was curator and associate director of the Henry Art Gallery, where he fostered interest in film, crafts and the work of Northwest artists. He developed an international crafts exhibition, "Adventures in Art," for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. He retired in 1992. He was 75.

    Robert Rushmer, founder and former chairman of the UW's Dept. of Bioengineering, died July 13. As a medical researcher, his exploration of heart function was considered ground-breaking. He received many honors, including membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He was 86.

    Paul E. Strandjord, professor and founding chair of the UW Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, died June 29. Arriving in 1969, he held this position for 25 years before retiring in 1994. He was active in the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, which now offers Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Awards, which provide opportunities for young men and women to present their research work at the academy's national meeting. He was 70.

    Geography Professor Emeritus Morgan David Thomas died Aug. 8 after serving the University since 1959. A native of South Wales, he joined the UW in 1959 and taught until his retirement in 1996. He was an expert in the fields of economic geography and regional science. He also served as associate dean of the graduate school, was chair of the geography department from 1983-90 and was on the adjunct faculty of the UW School of Nursing. He was 76.

    Betsy L. Williams, a pioneer in psychoneuroimmunology, died July 1. She taught and did research at the UW, earning a doctorate in microbiology and a master's in psychology. Williams was also an accomplished musician and a skilled sportswoman.


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