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Those We Have Lost

In Memoriam

  • Austin F. Lawther, MPS Design Management ’09

  • Charles Colliflower, MS Art Education ’77

  • Vera M. Barrick, Certificate, Costume Design ’49

  • Walter Ungerer, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’58

  • Helen Hatcher, Certificate, Clothing and Costume Design ’44

  • Russell Blue, BArch ’84

  • John Rutledge Howard, BID ’62

  • Maurice List, BFA Advertising Design ’54

  • Robert E. Knoetgen, BEE ’56

  • Kaare Rafoss, BFA Art Education ’64

  • Barbara A. Burger, MLS ’76

  • Raymond Verostko, MFA Art Education ’61

  • James P. McNally III, MFA Fine Arts ’76

  • Charles J. Halpin, BME ’54

  • Edward Askins, Fine Arts (1974)

  • James Louis Moroney, MFA Art Education ’67, retired longtime professor of Fine Arts

  • Ann Marie (Reiss) Keeler, Certificate, Food Management ’49

  • Arthur P. Rice, BFA Fine Arts ’73

  • Edward Turanchik, BFA Interior Design ’73

  • Bartholomew Peluso, AAS Advertising Art ’70

  • Anne Marie Michael, BArch ’81

  • Lois Fitzpatrick, MLS ’75

  • Marton C. Ommundsen, BFA Advertising Design and Visual Communication ’71

  • Beverly Himelstein, MLS ’65

  • Jana Winthers Zide, BFA Art Education ’69

  • Joan Elizabeth McLachlan, MLS ’74

  • George W. Hayes, BID ’74

  • Gloria Magat, MLS ’71

  • Donald J. Gagne, BEE ’43

  • Joseph Thomas Gabriel, Mechanical Engineering (1956–1960) 

  • Loretta Efsits, Fashion Design (1959–1961) 

  • Ralph Olson, MArch ’64

  • Joseph L. Duffy, BS Food Science and Management ’64

  • Nadine Hoak Bangsberg, BLS ’50

  • Claude van Lingen, MFA Fine Arts ’80

  • Joan Mills Young, Certificate, Interior Design ’53

  • Donald A. Chiaretta, BS Art Education ’64

  • Janet F. Brasco, Art Education (1950–1952)

  • Karen L. Berryman, MLS ’76

  • Richard R. Bryant, BFA Advertising Design ’59

  • Ellen J. Streisand, BFA Advertising Design ’57

  • Zohrab Khatchadourian, BCE ’57

  • Andrew Burkard, AAS Building and Construction ’58
  • Edith Schwarz Ehrlich, Certificate, Dietetics ’45

  • Paul Canin, BArch ’51

  • John Waldron, AAS Electrical Technology ’63

  • George C. Heffernan, BME ’59 

  • Anna E. Novikoff, BFA Communications Design ’73

  • Edmond Carrelli, AAS Electrical Technology ’60

  • Lynn D. Bobowick, MFA Fine Arts ’84

  • Donn Albright, longtime professor of Undergraduate Communications Design 

  • Peter L. Kern, BECE ’62

  • Charles J. Baroczy, BEME ’47

  • Mary Carmen Ward Earle, BS Home Economics ’47

  • Beverly Ann Harris, MLS ’67

  • Bernice Maseritz Hoyt, BFA Advertising Design ’60

  • Bess Moran, BFA Art Education ’79

  • Mary-Martha M. Grenon, BID ’68

  • Walter E. Lewis, AAS Advertising Art ’59

  • George P. Rutkunas, BEEE ’75

  • Nonny Hogrogian, Saturday Art School (read the Publishers Weekly obituary)

  • Paul S. Veres, Industrial Design (1961–1963)

  • James M. Crawford, BFA Communications Design ’73

  • Sarah Perkins Fowler, Foundation Art (1963–1964)

  • Jack Rose, Advertising Design (1962–1964)

  • Christopher T. Montgomery, MLIS ’60

  • Mark D. Bright, BFA Illustration ’78 (read the DC remembrance)

  • Marcel Beaudin, BArch ’55

  • Bruce Robertson, BID ’86

  • Lois H. Ratner, Advertising Design (1952–1954)

  • Robert T. Howitt, BID ’60

  • Edward J. Centanni, BArch ’52

  • Jean Hines, longtime librarian at Pratt Manhattan Library
  • Richard C. North, BME ’58, 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 (read the remembrance post)
  • Eric Morad Nejadian, BArch ’75; MS Urban Design ’75

  • John P. Fillo, BECE ’74

  • Barbara E. Mills, Certificate, Illustration ’47

  • 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 ’78

  • Allen P. Abramson, BID ’66

  • 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
  • Robert Moskowitz, Architecture Drafting (1956–1958) (read the New York Times obituary)
  • Bernard Hamel, Illustration (1956–1959) 

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

  • Susan “Suzie” Levitz, Film (1972–1973) 

  • John “Jack” Schumacher, BID ’66

  • 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
  • John Feidt Jr., MFA Art Education ’67

  • Gerardo Castro, MFA Fine Arts ’97

  • Jean Matthiessen, MFA Fine Arts ’85

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

  • Frank D. George, BArch ’43

  • Helen (Biel) Labieniec, Certificate, Costume Construction ’43

  • Sister Maria Martineau, MPS Art Therapy and Creativity Development ’86

  • Carol Fischofer Dierkoph, Certificate, Costume Design ’50

  • Barbara King Paxson, MFA Fine Arts ’72

  • Robert W. Flynn, BS Building Science ’69

  • Eleanor (Schenker) Herlands, BS Home Economics ’46

  • Marie Calise Sodaro, Certificate, Costume Design ’51

  • Robert A. DeRose, BS Food Science and Management ’72

  • Nancy L. (Thropp) Skelsey, BFA Fashion ’64  

  • 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