In Memoriam
Faculty
Linda Karbonit
Linda Karbonit, an assistant professor of environmental medicine at the Medical Center since 1999, died July 20. She was 53.
A staff physician in occupational and environmental medicine, she was certified in obstetrics and gynecology in addition to occupational and environmental medicine. She practiced clinically at Strong Memorial Hospital, Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services, and Nazareth College.
Karbonit earned a bachelor’s degree at Marian College in Indianapolis, and her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also earned a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University.
Robert Wabnitz
Robert Wabnitz, the former director of the University’s medical illustration service unit, died July 28. He was 82.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, Wabnitz helped establish the program in biomedical photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, teaching classes in information graphics and design. In 1975, when the University introduced a new master’s degree program in health sciences education with concentrations in instructional technology, instructional research methodology, and medical illustration, Wabnitz directed the medical illustration track.
When Rochester’s allied health programs were phased out in 1978, the master’s program relocated to RIT. Wabnitz continued to direct both the programs at RIT until his retirement in 1998, while continuing to illustrate at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
During his 45-year career, Wabnitz illustrated more than a dozen surgical atlases, notably John Loré’s Atlas of Head and Neck Surgery, Robert R. White’s Atlas of Pediatric Surgery, and John L. Madden’s Atlas of Technics in Surgery.
Alumni
Sarah Zimmerman Hertzberg ’28, April 2007
Mildred H. Markham ’28, May 2007
Vera Bradley VanLandingham ’29, February 2007
Dorothy M. Eshelman ’30E, May 2007
John W. Lynes ’30, March 2007
Florence Needham Peet ’30E, July 2006
Dorothy Anger Toczynski ’30E, March 2006
Carolyn Jeffery Barden ’33, June 2007
Elton Atwater ’34, July 2007
Jean Holton Clarke ’34, April 2007
Frances M. Coston ’34E, March 2007
Laura Murphy Kavanaugh ’35, July 2007
Frances Schott Meade ’35E, ’37E (MM), May 2007
Marian Wolfe Ming ’35E, ’39E (MM), April 2007
Rocco G. Rotoli ’35, June 2007
Margaret Glynn Foster ’36, July 2007
Irma Rubens Finn ’37, May 2007
Ann Paulus Stewart ’37E, July 2007
John P. Zambuto ’37E, ’83 (MA), May 2007
Mary Kay Wood Haley ’38E, July 2007
Angelo J. Madonia ’38, June 2007
Walter L. Williams Jr. ’39, July 2007
E. Lee Fairley ’39E, ’41E (MM), May 2007
Mac Rogers Morgan ’40E, June 2007
Helen Renzi Navarro ’40, May 2007
Dorothy Cullen Reid ’40, June 2007
Lorraine O. Smith ’40, ’41 (MA), July 2007
Harry K. Tindall ’40, May 2007
Roger W. Erskine ’41, June 2007
Howard B. Hamilton ’41, April 2007
Ann Tyler Stoll ’41, May 2007
Richard H. Tullis ’41, December 2006
Frederick J. Wolff Jr. ’41, ’53 (MS), July 2007
June C. Baetzel ’42, ’48 (MA), July 2007
Virginia Arthur Minnick ’42, April 2007
Harry L. Barrett Jr. ’43, July 2007
Edward E. Dodd ’43, October 2006
Herbert W. Lockman ’43, June 2007
John C. Mairhuber ’43, ’50 (MA), June 2007
Margaret H. Merrell ’43E, April 2007
Charlotte Glagovsky Warshaw ’43E, May 2007
Raymond M. Wetrich ’43M (MD), June 2007
James N. Wilson ’43M (MD), March 2007
Dagmar Olsen Dean ’44, May 2007
James F. Gardner ’44M (MD), July 2006
Patricia Lufkin Webber ’44, May 2007
Muriel Carrier Armitage ’45, May 2007
Rae A. Clark Sr. ’45, July 2007
Robert S. Filsinger ’45, June 2007
Ann Marie Masker Schell ’45N, June 2007
Robert A. Meyer ’46, March 2007
Naomi Ornest Yokel ’46E (MM), March 2007
Annette Ely-Smith ’47, ’67W (Mas), November 2007
Marian Wolf Korus ’47, June 2007
Nancy Farnum Odea ’47, July 2006
Carolyn E. Whitney ’47, ’48N, July 2007
Roy E. Williams ’47, May 2007
Frances Root Glerum ’48N, June 2007
Thaddeus M. Biernat ’49E, May 2007
Mary Palmer Gruss ’49, July 2007
Ward D. Noyes ’49, ’53M (MD), May 2007
Steven A. Romanio ’49E, ’52 (MM), January 2007
Shirley Zelden Sass ’49, July 2007
Neil L. Alexander ’50, April 2007
James C. Clark ’50, May 2007
Arthur W. Francis ’50, May 2007
Donald G. Johanos ’50E, ’52E (MM), May 2007
Eugene E. Leidecker ’50, April 2007
Albert Newman ’50, July 2007
Warren A. Reckhow ’50 (PhD), May 2007
Richard J. Schuler ’50E (MA), April 2007
John F. Welter ’50, January 2007
Florence Paul Whittaker ’50 (Mas), June 2007
Sarah Downes Evangelista ’51 (Mas), July 2007
Arnold MacKintosh Jr. ’51 (MS), May 2007
Landon W. Parker ’51, February 2006
Salvatore Silipigni ’51E, April 2007
Charles J. Campbell ’52 (MS), March 2007
J. Robert Kelly ’52E (MM), July 2007
Amelia Lupe Owen ’52, June 2007
Edna F. Pautler ’52, June 2007
Robert H. Ryswick ’52, May 2007
George M. Sisson ’52M (PhD), May 2007
Marjorie Suhs Brewer ’53E, April 2007
Emily Dye Cassebeer ’53, July 2007
John M. Eargle ’53E, May 2007
Dorothy Fahsel Kreutzer ’53, February 2006
Frances L. Zoeckler ’53M (Res), June 2006
Ruth Burlingham Bennett ’54E, ’57E (MM), March 2007
Julie Ann Fay ’54, ’60 (MA), April 2006
John H. Fox Jr. ’54, July 2007
Theodore R. Grimes ’54E, May 2007
William O. Johnson Jr. ’54, April 2007
Howard D. Small ’54E, ’61E (MM), July 2007
Robert W. Warren ’54, July 2007
Margaret Melville Bond ’55N, July 2007
Gabriel Cohen ’55 (Mas), ’93W (EdD), May 2007
Anne Morrow Haynes ’56E (MM), May 2007
David K. Johnson ’56E, June 2007
Virginia Baird Berger ’57E (MA), June 2007
Millard E. Rosenthal ’57, April 2007
Crewdson D. Scott ’57, April 2007
Jerry J. Steinhagen ’57E, ’58E (MM), November 2006
Gerard L. Carges ’59 (PhD), May 2007
Anatol Ryplansky ’59M (Res), May 2007
Linda Fikes Sherbrook ’59, April 2007
John F. Bush III ’60, May 2007
Roger E. Lamphier ’60, June 2007
Edward J. Longosz ’60 (PhD), May 2007
Loretta Higgins Strong ’60M (MS), ’66M (PhD), May 2007
Victor B. Burt ’61M (Res), March 2006
Paul Cherkasky ’61, July 2007
Reynaldo M. Lesaca ’61M (MS), September 2005
Marian Hall Clement ’62W (Mas), May 2007
Sarah Levine Lichterman ’62W (Mas), May 2007
Lenore Ross Mandelson ’62W (MA), ’71W (EdD), June 2007
John W. Cable ’63M (MS), May 2007
Margaret Collins Colby ’63W (Mas), ’70W (EdD), May 2007
Merrill C. Johnson ’63M (MD), July 2007
Arnold Werner ’63M (MD), ’67M (Res), January 2007
Melvin G. Alford ’64E (MM), June 2007
James M. Forsyth ’64, ’69 (PhD), April 2007
Alexander E. Martens ’64 (MS), May 2007
William E. Holland ’65, June 2007
Richard G. Mady ’65 (MS), May 2007
C. Thomas Yarington Jr. ’65M (Res), May 2007
Richard H. Schooler ’66, March 2007
Norris Culf ’67M (Res), April 2007
Karen Nicholson-Paine ’68, July 2007
Michael S. Sorell ’68, April 2007
Albert W. Miller Sr. ’69S (MBA), June 2007
Cassell Wood Jr. ’69, June 2007
Adrian D. Clissa ’70E, April 2007
Gary L. Borton ’71S (MBA), May 2007
Anna Dege Brigham ’71, May 2007
John A. Rein ’73, ’76 (MS), January 2007
John R. Dennis ’75, December 2006
Robert T. Hutton ’75S (MBA), May 2007
Josef C. Lapp ’78, April 2007
John G. Lesko ’80, April 2007
Tucker Collins ’81M (MD/PhD), June 2007
David W. Remington ’81E (MM), June 2007
Cheryl Lynn Cavanaugh ’84, July 2007
Juan C. Robles ’85M (Pdc), March 2007
Peter J. Sitzman ’91, July 2007
Edward J. Mizma ’93E (MM), July 2007
David S. Perkins ’96S (MBA), July 2007
Katherine J. McManus ’07, August 2007
