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Those We Have Lost

In Memoriam

  • Richard North, retired longtime faculty member, professor in the School of Engineering Mechanical Engineering Department and the School of Architecture Undergraduate Architecture Department, and dean of engineering (1992–1993), Distinguished Teacher 1991–1992

  • Paul Edward Chandler, BFA Art Education ’70

  • Anna Sanko, BID ’95

  • Leonard Sirowitz, Certificate, Advertising Design ’53; Honorary Degree Recipient 1983 (read the New York Times obituary)

  • M. H. Dhananjaya, MEEE ’67

  • Robert H. Flanagan, BFA Art Education ’78

  • Lewis Tanner, MFA Fine Arts ’76
  • David Baranowski, BArch ’80

  • Meryl Taradash, MFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’78

  • Gus Rohrs, retired professor and former department chair of Interior Design (read the remembrance post)
  • Gaetano Pesce, former faculty member (read the New York Times obituary) 

  • Nadia Merzliakow, MLS ’74, retired longtime director of the Office of International Affairs (read the remembrance post)

  • Gerson Sparer, retired professor of the Department of Mathematics and Science
  • Edward DeCarbo, retired longtime faculty member and interim chair (2008–2010) of History of Art and Design
  • Patrick Stanigar, BArch ’67
  • Robert Petrucelli, Master of Architecture ’68

  • Lillian “Ellen” Black Heston, BA Food Science and Management ’55

  • Frank D. George, BArch ’43

  • Ira Bernstein, Certificate, Industrial Design ’50

  • Bruce M. Newman, BFA Interior Design ’53, Trustee Emeritus (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Lisa Hunt, Communications Design (Graphic Design, 1987–1991) 

  • Aviva Gold, MFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’66; MPS Art Therapy and Creativity Development ’80

  • Sandra Hetzel, Assistant to the Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

  • Ann Renee deVere, BArch ’88

  • William Pope.L, Foundation (1973–1974) (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Andrew T. Ward, MSLIS ’16

  • Radoslav L. Sutnar, BArch ’55; Master of Architecture ’56 (read the Print obituary)

  • John R. Crellin, BArch ’75

  • Ralph Case, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’60

  • Ross McLaren, former faculty member of Film/Video

  • Nancy Purcell Scholhamer, Advertising Design (1951–1953)

  • Raymond Waites, Art Education (1965) 

  • Mark E. Morrissey, BFA Graphic Design ’88

  • Daniel H. Ferrari, Mechanical Engineering (1943)

  • Frank Vero, Advertising Art (1955–1959)

  • Myra Silver, MLS ’61

  • John A. Lopez, BECE ’50

  • Randie Wasserman, BFA Graphic Arts ’68

  • Harold Cheney Jr., Illustration (1951–1953)

  • Phillip J. Ratner, BFA Communications Design ’59

  • Alan Daninhirsch, BArch ’66

  • Frank Angelucci Jr., BA Art and Design Education ’55

  • Mego M. Saienni, BFA Fine Arts (Drawing) ’12

  • George Tscherny, Advertising Design (1947–1950) (read the Print obituary)

  • Ira Michael Roshberg, Architecture (1958–1959)

  • Judith McGowan, MLS ’66
  • Winifred O’Dougherty, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’48

  • Sherry Lauraine (Dolson) Long, MLS ’71

  • Susan Turconi, MFA ’76

  • Karl A. Vermandois, Graduate Fine Arts (1967–1969)

  • Diane Laviolette, Fashion Design (1959–1961)

  • Jeffrey G. Heffner, Architecture (1986)
  • Richard L. St. Vincent, Advertising Design (1951–1952)
  • David Matthewson, MSLIS ’80

  • Jilleen Nadolny, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’87 (read the Forbes obituary)

  • Olelia Nori Blanchard, Certificate, Costume Design ’41

  • Maria V. Pappas, BS Home Economics ’45

  • Angelo B. “Bill” Proto, BS Food Science and Management ’64

  • Alan C. Frick, BID ’85

  • Caroline Nuytkens, Certificate ’51; BFA Interior Design ’53

  • Stephen Timothy Riley, BFA Fine Arts ’73

  • Patricia Feeney Murrell, MFA Fine Arts ’73

  • John O’Donnell, Mechanical Technology (1958–1961)

  • Ed T. Young, class of 1959, former faculty member in the School of Art and Design (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Marian Grebski, AAS Environmental Interior Design ’73

  • Dakin W. Morehouse, BID ’62
  • Virginia de Ronde Becher, MLS ’64
  • Walter Frederick Cerny, AAS Advertising Art ’59
  • Clair A. Samhammer, Certificate, Industrial Design ’50
  • Ryan Thoresen Carson, BFA Writing ’14
  • Joseph Trivisonno, BArch ’66
  • Norma Heller, MSLIS ’74
  • David S. Ferebee Jr., Fashion Merchandising, Interior Design (1970–1973)
  • Benjamin Kowalchuk, BEEE ’55
  • Knina Magnani Strichartz, Critical and Visual Studies (2007–2008)
  • Susan R. Burdick, MSLIS ’73
  • Susan Hoskins Peterson, Creative Arts Therapy (1998–2000)
  • Nubar L. Shahbazian, BArch ’60
  • Charles A. Quinn, BA Social Science ’70
  • Patricia Caputo, Communications Design (1986–1990)
  • Debora K. Reiser, BArch ’48 (read the Architect’s Newspaper obituary)
  • Marguerite D. Valenti, BFA Merchandising and Fashion Management ’52
  • Ron Emmerling, BID ’58
  • C. Robert Helms, BID ’62
  • Christopher Laux, BArch ’70
  • Jeanne Marie Raciborski, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’48
  • Beth A. Portuesi, BFA Communications Design ’83
  • Richard E. Swarts, BEME ’50 
  • Alan D. Jacobus, BArch ’59 
  • Marie L. McCormack, BS Home Economics ’49
  • Charles V. Walt, Foundation Art (1962)
  • David Broad, Certificate, Illustration ’50 
  • Paul Nocella, BEEE ’72
  • Matthew D. Sylvester, BFA Painting ’92
  • Anne Cowin Fahey, BFA Communications Design ’87
  • John Ryan, Mechanical Technology Design (1956–1959)
  • Robert Lacava, Evening Art School, Illustration (1952–1953)
  • Emilie Adams, BS Food Science and Management ’54
  • George Brome, MS Computer and Decision Science ’78, longtime coach of men’s and women’s tennis
  • Myron Goldfinger, former faculty member in the School of Architecture (read the New York Times obituary)
  • David Walczyk, former assistant professor in the School of Information
  • Mary Ann Dionne, BFA Fashion Design ’59
  • Veronica E. Johnson, MLS ’63
  • Elizabeth Thompson, MFA Fine Arts ’77
  • Eleanor C. Dreskin, Certificate, Illustration ’46
  • Kathleen Farrell Hefty, MS History of Art ’13
  • Edward Lamkay, BArch ’59
  • Joseph L. Aversano Jr., BFA Merchandising and Fashion Management ’73
  • Malcolm Lanphear, BFA Advertising Design and Visual Communications ’70
  • George Brody, BECE ’58
  • Lorie Hansen-Boveroux, MS City and Regional Planning ’01
  • Dorothea Gerjovich DeVoe, BFA Art Education ’48
  • Edward K. McCabe, Certificate, Electrical Tech Power ’57
  • Elizabeth L. Beadle, MLS ’60
  • Evelyn A. Nilsen, BS Nutrition and Dietetics ’77
  • Mary Wallis Gutmann, BID ’56
  • Albert Lorenz, BArch ’65, former longtime faculty member in the School of Architecture, Distinguished Teacher 1989–1990
  • Thomas Kochie, BFA Fine Arts ’70
  • Meroojan Mellian, AAS Building and Construction ’61
  • Virginia P. Dawe, MSLIS ’86
  • Robert A. Freese Sr., BFA Communications Design (Graphic Arts and Illustration) ’64
  • William L. Border, Certificate, Illustration ’53
  • Heidi S. Holliger, MSLIS ’81
  • Vashti Davidson-Clarke, MSLIS ’90
  • Paula Burksy, MSLIS ’86
  • Donald J. Schwarz, BID ’52
  • Dimitri Hazzikostas, former assistant professor of History of Art and Design and faculty member of Pratt in Venice
  • Henry Halpern, MLS ’59
  • Elizabeth Drago, BFA Photography ’05 
  • Alfred Heiler, BEME ’60 
  • C. Fred Grimsey Jr., BEME ’59 
  • Phyllis Feld, attended, Interior Design
  • Stephan Green, BArch ’80
  • Doris B. Nelsen, Certificate, Advertising Design ’53 
  • Mark M. Mendlovsky, BArch ’93 
  • Beverly Morotwitz Warmath, BFA Fashion Design ’61
  • Herbert G. Anderson, BEEE ’58
  • Woody Rainey, former faculty member of Interior Design
  • Joseph George Shannon, attended, Advertising Art
  • Thomas William Mulvey, attended, Architecture 
  • Howard I. Chechik, BECE ’52 
  • Margery Scott Daniels, BFA Fashion Merchandising ’70 
  • Glenn A. Roopchand, AOS Illustration ’79  
  • Gregory F. Brazaitis, BEME ’71 
  • Robert Eugene Berner, attended, Industrial Design
  • Cheryl Lynne Sims, attended, Fashion Design
  • Paul W. Bruner, MFA Art Education ’68 
  • Edward Koren, MFA Art Education ’64 
  • Sandra B. Schwartz, MFA Fine Arts ’69
  • Beck L. Krajcir, BFA Communications Design (Advertising/Art Direction) ’97 
  • August Lebkuecher, BEEE ’56 
  • Ruth M. Fowler, Certificate, Advertising Design ’53
  • Judith Draper Martin, Certificate, Illustration ’52; BFA Illustration ’53
  • Daniel Steppe, BECE ’63
  • Margaret A. Santacroce, Certificate, Retailing ’52
  • Norman L. Wax, BArch ’57 
  • Inger Erickson, BFA Art Education ’93 
  • Robert D. Zera, BID ’74 (read the Star Tribune obituary)
  • Nancy J. Bodine, BS Art Education ’65
  • Ernest A. Vigdor, Certificate, Advertising Design ’49 
  • Rita Edwards, Certificate, Costume Design ’47
  • Hanford Yang, former professor in the School of Architecture

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