Class Notes

In Memoriam

Alumni

Louise Leadley Thorne ’27, November 2003
Carl E. Tremer ’31, November 2003
Fern Matteson Tremer ’31E, October 2003
Alden H. Livingston ’32, October 2003
Janet Davis Saunders ’32N, November 2003
Flora Manwell Stene ’33N, September 2003
Kent W. Kennan ’34E, ’36E (Mas), November 2003
Aubrey L. Whittemore ’36, September 2003
Gertrude Morley Lines ’37, July 2003
Elsa Reith O’Brien ’38, October 2003
Louis Saverino ’38E, June 2003
Harold H. Steve ’38, October 2003
John N. Abbott ’39M (MD), October 2003
Laura Ford Kempers ’39E (Mas), November 2003
Mervin S. Snider ’39E (Mas), June 2003
Mary Sutton Smith ’40, November 2003
Robert L. Preston ’41, August 2003
Edwin T. Smith ’41, October 2003
Marilyn Jo Stolnitz Aroesty ’44, September 2003
Joanna Sohn Giroux ’44, ’45N, October 2003
Edamay McCulley Exner ’45E, October 2003
James P. Rizzo ’45, October 2003
Earl S. Christman ’46, July 2003
Esther Spencer Clark ’46, October 2003
James G. Sloman ’46, November 2003
Stephen Michel ’47, October 2003
Miriam Fischer Shapiro ’48, November 2003
Scott N. Swisher ’48M (Res), September 2003
Richard F. Erb ’50, November 2003
M. Edward Puffer ’50E, ’56E (MM), October 2003
Robert L. Sant ’51, October 2003
Richard G. Rice ’53 (Mas), September 2003
Marjorie Bell ’54, September 2003
Martha Zepp Salzman ’56E, January 2003
John R. Tracy ’56, April 2003
Gerald K. Vick ’56 (PhD), July 2002
Margaret McMillan Stevens ’65W, September 2003
James W. Wolfe ’67 (PhD), August 2003
Boguslaw Zernicki ’67M (Flw), April 2003
Charles E. Swenberg ’68 (PhD), October 1999
Charles B. Meyer ’69, October 2003
James Wagner ’69E, August 2003
Robert M. Dawley ’70E, October 2003
Arnold Angert ’73 (MS), April 2003
Hideo Kubo ’74 (PhD), October 2003
Marguerite Henderson Varner ’78N, October 2003
Robert P. Kissel ’85, November 2003

Correction
Our apologies to Nathan Heslink ’99 and Ruth Ries Smith ’31 who were included in the In Memoriam list in the Winter 2004 issue of Rochester Review. They each are alive and well. We regret the errors.

Faculty

Robert Atkins ’51M (Res), a retired professor of psychiatry who taught at the School of Medicine and Dentistry for more than 30 years, died September 28. He was 85.

A highly regarded psychoanalyst, Atkins was part of a team under the direction of psychiatry department founding chair John Romano that helped establish a pioneering psychiatric treatment center at Strong Memorial Hospital in the 1950s.

He joined the faculty in 1951 and was named full professor in 1970. He retired from the medical school in 1983.

Bernard Cohn, an expert on modern Indian culture and society who helped establish what is now Rochester’s Department of Anthropology, died November 25.

Cohn first came to the University as an associate professor of anthropology in 1960 and was named chair a year later. He laid the groundwork for the department’s graduate program, which began in 1963, and founded the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, one of the oldest and most prestigious lecture series in anthropology in North America.

After leaving Rochester, Cohn went on to a long career as a professor of anthropology and history at the University of Chicago, retiring in 1995.

Rabbi Abraham Karp, an expert on the integration of Jewish culture into American society, died November 24 at the age of 82.

A professor of history and religion, Karp joined the University faculty in 1972 and was the first holder of the Philip S. Bernstein Professorship in Jewish Studies. He retired from the University in 1991.

A scholar and teacher whose research focused on Jewish culture, thought, law, and history, Karp assembled one of the most important collections of primary materials relating to Jewish history, a collection that included Hebraic and Yiddish books and manuscripts.

A prolific author, his books include Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America, The Golden Door to America: The Jewish Immigrant Experience, and The Jewish Way of Life and Thought.

Karp served as a president of the American Jewish Historical Society, receiving the society’s Lee M. Friedman Medal for distinguished service, and was named a fellow of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Science in 1984. In addition to holding visiting professorships at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Dartmouth College, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Karp served as rabbi of three congregations, including Temple Beth El in Rochester.

Directors

Harvey Pollicove ’73, a founder and the director of the Center for Optics Manufacturing, died January 25. He was 59.

After a career at the Eastman Kodak Co., where he led a team that developed a lens-fabrication process that allowed the creation of disk cameras and later helped develop a process that led to better optics in CD players, he joined the University in 1990.

At the center, which Pollicove founded with Duncan Moore, the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering, researchers design methods to produce lenses and other optical components that are traditionally difficult to create.

Chaplains

The Reverend Leon (Jack) Hedges, the first full-time Catholic chaplain of what would become the Newman Community at Rochester, died January 16. He was 85.

Beginning his work with the Newman Club in 1955, Hedges was appointed full-time chaplain of the Newman Oratory in 1963, a position he held until 1968.