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    • Dorothy J. Mutchler-Burhans, Mercer Island, age 78, Aug. 24.

      1920s

    • Pearl Wintermantel Blakesley, '25, King City, Ore., age 96, June 2.
    • Carolyn F. Chinn, '25, Seattle, age 95, July 18.
    • Frederick Juergens Peters, '28, Seaview, age 92, June 22.
    • Florence Mertie Willigar Buckman, '29, '30, Memphis, Tenn., age 94, June 1.
    • Helen G. Rowley, '29, Edmonds, age 91, Sept. 24.

      1930s

    • S. Kenneth Dickinson, '30, Seattle, age 89, Aug. 23.
    • Ruth Martha Lawton, '30, Seattle, age 92, Sept. 17.
    • Marion S. Loe, '31, Seattle, age 89, Aug. 2.
    • Roy Bucy, '32, age 93, Sept. 23.
    • Beatrice Germaine Donovan, '32, Seattle, age 91, Aug. 30.
    • Margot D. Erckenbrack, '32, Seattle, age 88, June 28.
    • John Albin Soderberg, '32, Seattle, age 88, July 9.
    • Dorothy Ellen Findlay, '33, '36, Seattle, age 92, Aug. 24.
    • Mildred Larson Proctor, '33, Seattle, age 89, July 23.
    • Glendora Louise Rucker, '34, Marysville, age 87, July 10.
    • Margarete E. Chalfant, '35, '36, Seattle, age 84, Oct. 18, 1998.
    • Lois Reynolds Congdon, '35, Boise, Idaho, age 86, July 25.
    • Virginia Maier Lyford, '35, Kirkland, age 84, Aug. 23.
    • Edgar R. Rombauer, '35, Seattle, age 92, Sept. 3.
    • Bernice Bretland, '36, Camano Island, age 85, Sept. 2.
    • Robert Thompson White, '36, Lafayatte, La., age 86, July 2.
    • Monte Edgar Brown, '37, Seattle, age 84, July 14.
    • George E. Hunt, '37, Issaquah, age 83, Sept. 3.
    • James E. Malone, '37, Sea-Tac, age 95, Sept. 7.
    • Irving Stimpson, '37, Seattle, age 85, Aug. 19.
    • Adolph Martin Samuelsen Jr., '38, Seattle, age 83, Aug. 24.
    • Winifred M. Alexander, '39, Lopez Island, age 82, Aug. 23.
    • Victoria Penlick Millington, '39, Seattle, age 93, Sept. 9.

      1940s

    • Howard L. Burke, '40, Portland, Ore., age 82, Sept. 7.
    • Louise Mae Davis, '40, Carson City, Nev., age 86, July 24.
    • Donald N. Jackson, '40, Seattle, age 81, Aug. 7.
    • Paul Oscar Kather, '40, Seattle, age 83, July 10.
    • Sylvia Siegel Kutoff, '40, Seattle, age 81, April 7.
    • Donald Arthur Clausen, '41, Portland, Ore., age 80, June 10.
    • Frederick L. Coddington, '42, Reno, Nev., age 83, March 28, 1998.
    • Edward Duff Murray, '42, Seattle, age 80, Aug. 9.
    • James A. Myklebust, '42, Longview.
    • Henry Kristian Clausen, '43, Redmond, age 87, Sept. 12.
    • Mila Liff Eisenhardt, '43, age 78, Aug. 13.
    • Harold C. Halvorson, '43, Seattle, age 83, Sept. 28.
    • Robert H.P. Moffat, '43, Issaquah, age 84, July 12.
    • Robert L. Hass, '44, Bellevue, age 77, July 30.
    • Alan Angus McLean, '44, Westport, Conn., age 73, June 30.
    • William C. Wilson, '44, Seattle, age 77, Sept. 4.
    • Katherine DeLosh Woody, '44, Seattle, age 77, Aug. 3.
    • John Porel Jr., '45, Seattle, age 77, May 15.
    • Rudolph Michael Hentz, '46, Bellevue, age 73, Aug. 1.
    • Robert Alfred Balle, '47, Sea-Tac, age 74, July 19.
    • Donald Alan Buchanan, '47, '51, Bellevue, age 78, Aug. 29.
    • Marilou Green, '47, Seattle, age 70, Sept. 17.
    • Dorothy Hellenthal Mowery, '47, Mercer Island, Aug. 11.
    • Paul Barton, '48, Indianapolis, age 81, April 7.
    • Ray Burgess, '48, Seattle, age 76.
    • Bruce G. Finke, '48, Shoreline, age 73, Aug. 25.
    • Margaret Elaine Fraser, '48, Issaquah, age 72, Aug. 29.
    • Colin McLennan, '48, Edmonds, age 77, July 23.
    • Ruth Allingham Soriano, '48, '49, Seattle, age 72, July 31.
    • Hugh E. Williams, '48, Olympia, age 81, Sept. 13.

      1950s

    • Robert Edwin Bannister, '50, Seattle, age 75, Sept. 29.
    • T. Kenneth Tang, '50, '64, Seattle, age 76, March 2.
    • John Melton Little, '51, Everett, age 72, June 28.
    • Harold Duncan Wilson, '51, Renton, age 74, Sept. 6.
    • Barbara Ann Goodman Chenoweth, '52, Seattle, age 69, Sept. 9.
    • Glenn Henry Martin, '52, Woodinville, age 71, July 20.
    • Charles H. Gillam Jr., '53, Fairbanks, Alaska, age 68, May 2.
    • Roy Volpone, '53, Seattle, age 79, Sept. 19.
    • Ronald L. Markey, '54, Kent, age 67, Sept. 11.
    • Margaret Staeger Woods, '55, Coupeville, age 87, Aug. 6.
    • Clemewell MacKenzie Case, '56, Shoreline, age 93, July 10.
    • Richard Howe Philips, '56, Seattle, age 64, Aug. 15.
    • Irving Wheatley Hull, '57, Grants Pass, Ore., age 70, June 29.

      1960s

    • Don Gasaway Sr., '60, age 70, Aug. 12.
    • Harvey Jackins, '60, Seattle, age 83.
    • Richard A. Willette, '60, Enumclaw, age 61, Sept. 3.
    • Jerri D. Witt, '61, Temecula, Calif., age 63, Sept. 21.
    • Carol Marjorie Keener, '62, Kirkland, age 62, Aug. 28.
    • Armand Marion, '63, Seattle, age 60, Sept. 15.
    • Jack Neal Seidel, '63, Kirkland, age 69, Aug. 28.
    • Jack Nilles, '64, '66, Seattle, age 62, Sept. 10.
    • Ellsworth “Chick” Baker, '67, '71, Snohomish, age 75, Aug. 19.
    • Don William Worrall, '67, Hansville, age 61, Sept. 2.
    • Denis M. Coughlin, '68, '72, Republic of Palau, age 57, July 11.

      1970s

    • Cynthia Mary Lester, '71, '82, Seattle, age 52, Aug. 15.
    • James Arthur Greene, '73, Bothell, age 55, July 16.
    • Patti Shannon, '73, Seattle, age 48, Sept. 21.
    • David L. Nesheim, '74, Bothell, age 50, Sept. 27.
    • Debra Rae Schaar Sargent, '75, Edmonds, age 47, Aug. 27.
    • Kelly Jarvis, '79, Seattle, age 42, July 18.

      1980s

    • Kenneth R. Leeper, '80, Houston, age 45, Aug. 24.
    • David James Woolston, '84, Seattle, age 37, Sept. 28.

      1990s

    • Jaime D. Fields, '93, Carson, Calif., age 29, Aug. 29.
    • Winona Celeste Hudson Phillips, '97, Seattle, age 34, Sept. 5.


    Faculty & Friends

    Mechanical Engineering Professor Dale Eugene Calkins died June 29 after serving the University since 1979. He specialized in computer-aided design engineering and knowledge-based engineering, and created the University's Formula SAE car program, which allowed engineering seniors to complete their programs by building a formula race car for national competition with other universities. He was 61.

    Civil Engineering Professor Emeritus John Reed Clanton died July 11. Born on July 14, 1914, in Hamburg, Iowa, he earned his degrees from the Missouri School of Mines and the Univ. of Pittsburgh before joining the UW faculty in 1947. He retired in 1979. He was 94.

    Art Professor Emeritus Steven D. Fuller, '39, '48, died July 24, after having served the UW for more than 35 years. After obtaining his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the UW and serving in World War II in Alaska and Nagasaki, he joined the art school faculty. His main area of interest was 3-D design. He was a pioneer in the Northwest art glass movement and was responsible for the establishment of classes in glass design, firing and annealing. He retired in 1981. He was 88.

    Law Professor Emeritus Ralph Whitney Johnson died Aug. 3. He joined the UW faculty in 1955 and made notable contributions to the fields of water and environmental law, and Indian law. He retired in 1994. He was 75.

    Geography Professor Emeritus Marion Ernest Marts, '37, '44, died Aug. 26. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the UW and a Ph.D. from Northwestern. He joined the UW faculty in 1946. In addition to teaching geography, he served as dean of summer quarter, director of evening classes, vice provost, and ombudsman. He retired in 1984. He was 84.

    Epidemiology Professor Emeritus Donald R. Peterson died July 19. He joined the UW faculty in 1960. After 10 years on the clinical faculty, he was named professor of epidemiology and international health and later served as chair of that division in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.


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