UMass Amherst: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends

Spring 2009

CLASS NOTES
In Memoriam
The magazine has received notice of the deaths of UMass Amherst alumni, faculty, and students listed here. For a copy of the obituary (when available), please call Rita (Marlowe) Campbell ’74, business and production manager, 413-545-1149 or email Rita Campbell. Obituaries compiled by Alex Brennan ’12.

ALUMNI
Charles L. Branch ’39, Florence –1/14/09
Herbert S. Howes ’39, Issaquah, WA – 1/11/09
Eleanor Kimball ’44, Pensacola, FL – 5/08
Sheldon Mador ’45, N. Hollywood, CA – 10/21/08
June C. Clark ’47, Clifton Springs, NY – 1/6/09
Joseph Westwater Sr, ’50, McLean, VA – 12/29/08
Arnold Estelle ’50, Huntington – 12/18/08
John Manlich Jr. ’50, ‘51G, Parkville, MD-12/15/08
Emory Grayson ’51, Bernie, NY – 12/08
George W. Yonker Jr. ’51 Revere – 1/1/09
Virginia Mae Weisse ’52, Holyoke –1/15/09
Norma Feingold ’54, Worcester – 1/1/09
Robert Decareau ’49, ’55 PhD, Amherst–1/09
Michael D. Birmingham ’57, Canton, OH – 1/23/09
Cosmo Insalaco ’58, Arroyo Grande, CA –
11/10/08
Diane I. (McKinstry) Lowden ’59, Boston –
10/25/08
Edward Margolin ’60, Winthrop – 1/1/09
Richard Kendra ’60, Chicopee – 10/23/08
Howard P. Kendra ’60, Chicopee – 10/23/08
Thomas Simons ’63, Montague – 2/16/09
Alexander Kotrotsos ’63, Westfi eld – 12/25/08
William Puddester ’66, Chicopee – 1/20/09
Peter Wagner ’68, Norton – 1/15/09
Michael Meunier ’69, Northampton-1/10/09
Judy Gravel ’70, ‘71G, Wilton, CT– 2/31/08
Alan Dodd ’71, Westborough – 12/27/08
Peter Johnson ’71, Conway – 1/9/09
Howard Bresner ’72, San Diego, CA – 10/17/09
Dennis Wrenn ’72, Northborough – 2/20/09
Andrew Jones ’72G, Amherst – 11/8/08
Philip Jardullo ’73, Bedford – 12/31/08
Larry Jaycox ’73G, East Hampton, NY – 1/7/09
James Call ’75, Somers, CT – 11/11/08
Dennis Wrenn ’75 North Grafton – 2/20/09
Kathleen Prins ’74, ’76G, Augusta, ME – 11/08
Fitzmaurice Kelley ’62, ‘77G,
Wilmington,VT–12/15/08
Steven Tavares ’77, Worcester – 10/24/08
Carol Newman ’72G, ’80G Charlotte, NC –
11/12/08
Kevin Francis Kennedy ’78, ’80G, Holyoke –
10/20/08
Kathleen A. Binkley ’80, Ware – 1/9/09
William G. Puddester ’82, Chicopee – 1/20/09
Michael Ledgere ’83, Sunderland – 1/7/09
Lorine L. S. Mazanec ’86, South Hadley – 10/30/08
Debra Anne Robbins ’87, Gary, NC – 1/1/09
Dominick Vene ’91, Granada, Spain – 7/13/08
Kevin Connolly ’79, ‘92G, Marlborough–12/08
James Lavoie ’94G, ’99G, Billerica – 10/23/08
Sandra Darcy-Rodzik ’02, South Hadley – 12/27/08
Eric Estremera ’02, Hyde Park – 9/20/08
Paula Sossen Lawson ’08G, Middletown – 9/21/08
FACULTY
Robert Hoopes, Amherst, English – 9/11/08

 

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