Class Notes

In Memoriam

Alumni

Robert E. Critchell ’28, September 2005
Beatrice Poulton Rogers ’30, July 2006
John G. Urbanik ’31, August 2005
Eleanor Long Corlett ’33, February 2006
Anna Bullis Koch ’33, July 2006
Rheta Shepard Bonnivier ’34, August 2006
Rosalie DePauw ’34N, August 2006
L. Dudley Field ’34, September 2006
Ruth Bretschenider Kannwischer ’35, October 2006
Lawrence C. Kolb ’36M (Res), October 2006
James W. Phillips ’37, July 2006
Monroe J. Romansky ’37M (MD), August 2006
Edward O. Stephany ’37, ’38 (MA), September 2006
Beatrice Killip ’38, October 2006
Stanley McClellan ’38, February 2006
John J. Weinzweig ’38E (MA), August 2006
George Kaiser ’39, September 2006
Elizabeth Chambers Loomis ’39, November 2006
John F. Bonner ’40M (MS), ’48M (PhD)
Gertrude Robinson Fox ’40, June 2006
Jean Watts Gaudioso ’40N, July 2006
John M. Wolgast ’40, June 2006
Charles M. Fisher ’41E (MA), August 2006
Harry J. Gerbasi ’41, July 2006
Jack M. Pitlick ’41, September 2006
Harriette Slack Richardson ’41E, ’43E (MM), August 2006
Dorothy Longyear Flaherty ’42, October 2006
Robert S. Gurney ’52, October 2006
Adeline Sears LaPlante ’42, November 2006
Donald S. MacLeod ’42, August 2006
Traian Stoianovich ’42, December 2005
Evelyn Eagan Swan ’42, July 2006
Jane Sylliaasen Will ’42E (MA), August 2006
Dorothy Jones Coutant ’43E, November 2006
Jean Ancaldo Gerbasi ’43, July 2006
Marion Scutt Cole ’44N, November 2006
John W. Simpson ’44, July 2006
Willis F. Weeden ’44M (MD), July 2006
G. Milton Wing ’44, ’47 (MA), February 2006
Ruth Kohman ’45W (Mas), June 2006
Barbara Taylor Rodwell ’45, March 2006
Richard H. Saunders ’45, July 2006
Martha Haussman Anthony ’46N, March 2005
Richard S. Gordon ’46, July 2006
Mark I. Miller ’46, April 2005
Jean Seelbach Ellis ’47, November 2006
Betty Bennett Rasmussen ’46E, August 2006
Bradford Simmons ’47M (Res), July 2006
James F. Dougherty ’48M (MD), August 2006
Donald W. Frank ’48, ’51M (MS), ’55M (MD), ’60M (Res), October 2006
Dorothy Lindgren Johns ’58E, January 2006
Charles J. Warner ’48E, ’49E (MM), August 2006
John L. Adams ’49E (MM), September 2006
Arthur V. Engert ’49, ’53W (MA), August 2006
Robert J. Hampton ’49, April 2006
Lois Miller ’49N, September 2006
Anthony M. Partigan ’49, ’64W (MA), July 2006
Samuel Rolick ’49, April 2006
William A. Taylor ’49E, ’51E (MA), July 2006
Thomas F. Gillard ’50, August 2006
Robert H. Linnell ’50 (PhD), November 2006
Saul L. Montoya ’50E, ’51E (MM), August 2006
Eugene D. Shales ’50, August 2006
Marilyn Merz Sobolewski ’50, September 2006
Louis A. Alexander ’51, November 2006
Barbara Ball ’51, November 2006
Franklin P. Cobb ’51, November 2006
Robert J. Edwards ’51 (PhD), July 2006
H. William Geil ’51, September 2006
Marian Kirk Loucks ’51E, October 2005
W. Gilmore McKie ’51, July 2006
G. Roger Weeden ’51M (MD), August 2006
Bertram J. Wilson ’51, February 2005
June Bond Carlson ’52N, April 2006
William H. Chambers ’52, July 2006
Joan Wright Goodman ’52M (PhD), July 2006
John P. Hemiup ’52, November 2005
Edmund Chi Chien Lin ’52, March 2006
Carl Butenas ’53M (MD), July 2006
Karl E. Green ’53W (Mas), July 2006
Finn Brudevold ’54M (MS), January 2006
Russell J. Cassata ’54, September 2006
Mario J. Frati ’55, September 2006
Stephen H. Bender ’56, July 2006
Berah D. McSwain ’56, ’62 (MS), April 2006
Charles B. Andrus ’57, October 2006
Audrey Goodenow Scott ’57N, September 2006
Donald E. Wiig ’57, July 2006
Anita Bittker Dushay ’59W (MA), September 2006
Richard C. Palermo ’59, ’63 (MS), September 2006
Frederick H. Sohn ’59W (Mas), August 2006
Joseph G. Whelan ’59 (PhD), August 2006
Robert C. Zajkowski ’59E (MM), September 2006
Alan B. Bierworth ’60S, November 2006
Andrew J. Ciulla ’60, September 2006
Mary Ellen Lynch ’60W (MS), July 2006
Alfred A. Masino ’60W (Mas), August 2006
Marie Joerger Swanson ’60W, September 2006
Albert E. Baker ’61S, June 2006
Donald K. Freeman ’61M (MD), August 2006
Christopher J. Ladelfa ’61, August 2006
Suzanne Klabunde Cantor ’62, March 2006
Nancy Horton ’62, December 2005
James H. Neyhart ’62 (MS), August 2006
Edward L. Towle ’64 (MA), ’66 (PhD), September 2006
Harry A. Ashworth ’65, September 2006
A. Lawrence Lyon ’65E (PhD), November 2006
Howard M. Randall ’65M (PhD), May 2006
Lawrence G. Goldberg ’66, March 2005
Frances Wynns Knudtson ’67 (MA), October 2006
James G. Sadler ’67, September 2006
James L. Waters ’67E (PhD), July 2006
William A. Crombe ’68W (EdD), November 2006
Sol B. Packer ’68, August 2006
Gettis A. Blocker ’69S (MBA), November 2006
Carol Rohner Farley ’69W (Mas), June 2006
Virginia Carter Grammer ’70, October 2006
Laslow F. Bartok ’71, March 2006
Sharon Decter Brendzel ’71W (MA), November 2006
Sanford L. Weltman ’71W (MA), August 2006
Ronald E. Byrd ’72 (MS), July 2006
Mary Curran O’Connor ’74W (Mas), September 2006
Mark C. Taylor ’76S (MBA), November 2005
Bruce D. Kent ’79M (Pdc), May 2006
Pradeep G. Saraf ’79M (Res), ’84M (Res), August 2006
Thomas R. Larkin ’80S (MBA), July 2006
Richard G. Ross ’80, April 2006
Adam W. Lawas ’84, August 2006
Stephen M. Schulz ’89, July 2006
Aaron R. Brock ’03E (DMA), August 2006
Krystle Dixon ’05, August 2006
Frank G. Beltran ’06W (MS), December 2005
Ana Macia ’06S (MBA), September 2006
George R. Tobin ’06S (MS), August 2006

Faculty

Robert Boynton, who founded the Center for Visual Science at the University, died on September 4. He was 81.

A renowned visual scientist, Boynton came to Rochester in 1952 as an assistant professor of psychology. In 1963, he founded and became the director of the Center for Visual Science, which brings together scientists from a variety of disciplines to collaborate on vision-related research.

In 1974, Boynton took a position at the University of California at San Diego, where he remained until his retirement in 1991.

Best known for his book Human Color Vision, he received many awards throughout his career. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.

Lyle Brown, one of Rochester’s most successful coaches and a member of the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame, died on September 28. He was 83.

In 19 seasons as Rochester’s men’s basketball coach, Brown won 222 games and took the Yellowjackets to the NCAA basketball playoffs four times. He also coached the men’s soccer team for 20 years, winning 50 games. His Rochester soccer teams were some of the most successful in school history.

Brown, who coached six All-American players in soccer and four in basketball, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.

Hong Li, the Loretta C. Ford Professor of Nursing and associate professor of nurisng, died on October 15. She was 47.

In her eight years at the School of Nursing, Li was a respected teacher and nationally recognized researcher in the field of family care for frail older adults. She received a number of research awards and honors, including the James G. Zimmer New Investigator Award from the American Public Health Association and the Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award from the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.

The Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice in the School of Nursing will support the completion and disseminaiton of her unfinished work.

Alfred Mann, professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School, died on September 21. He was 89.

Mann, an Eastman professor for seven years and longtime director of publications of the American Choral Foundation, was also a noted choral conductor. His translation of J. J. Fux’s book on contrapuntal theory was published twice, in 1943 and 1965. Mann also was the author of Theory and Practice: The Great Composers as Teachers and Students and Bach and Handel: Choral Performance Practice.

In 1987 he was made an honorary member of the International Bach Society—only the third American to be so honored.

Brenda Meehan ’70 (PhD), professor emerita of history and of religion, died on August 27. She was 64.

After completing her doctorate at Rochester, Meehan joined the faculty as an assistant professor of history and spent her entire academic career at the University. She founded the Russian Studies program and served as its director for 20 years. She also served as senior associate dean in the then College of Arts and Science, was instrumental in the creation of the women’s studies program, and later was a founding member of what is now the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. In 2005, she received the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anthony Center.

Meehan’s 1993 book, Holy Women of Russia, is considered a groundbreaking contribution to the study of women’s and church history.

Students

Patrick Connelly, a doctoral student who had successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in biomedical engineering this fall, died on October 29. He was 39.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and a master’s degree from Thomas Jefferson University, he completed his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rochester.

Connelly was a biomedical engineer at VirtualScopics in Rochester, where he focused on the development of pacemakers that would be compatible with magnetic resonance imaging technology.

Donations in Connelly’s name may be made to Inner Faces, Forward Face. Contact Dottie Welch at (585) 273-4754 or Patty Poteat at (585) 275-0453 or go to www.forwardface.org.

Correction

Our apologies to Jaime DeJesus ’76M (Pdc), who was included in the In Memoriam list in the Fall 2006 issue of Rochester Review. We regret the error.