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    • Alumni

    1920s 1930s
    1940s 1950s
    1960s 1970s
    1980s 1990s
    2000s  
     

    1920s

  • Carroll Haeske, '24, Arcadia, Calif., age 96, Jan. 28.
  • Carl Myron Cleveland, '26, Seattle, age 97, Jan. 30.
  • Cathryn Margaret Britton, '27, Seattle, age 95, April 3.
  • Charles W. Franklin, '27, East Wenatchee.
  • Lorna Logan, '27, San Francisco, age 94, March 6.
  • Ora Eleanor Stowell, '27, Bainbridge Island, age 96, Jan. 28.

    1930s

  • George M. Hocking, '31, Auburn, age 92, Feb. 13.
  • Jane Bixby McCoy, '31, Cleveland, age 90, Feb. 18.
  • Donald A. Date, '32, Towson, Md., Jan. 18.
  • Bernard Goiney, '32, '42, Shoreline, age 90, Feb. 25.
  • Alvin Howard Palmer, '32, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., age 93, March 17.
  • Mary Katherine Simeon, '33, '35, Seattle, age 91, March 11.
  • Charles P. Duffy, '36, '39, Portland, Ore., age 86, Feb. 17.
  • Helen M. Laughlin, '37, Seattle.
  • Dorothy McDevitt, '38, '40, Lakewood, age 85, Dec. 8, 2000.
  • Raymond Royal, '38, '42, Seattle, age 84, Jan. 11.
  • Sidney Duncan Campbell, '39, Bellevue, age 84, March 16.
  • Mary Elizabeth Strain Copernoll, '39, '40, Bellevue, age 83, March 28.
  • Mary Richards Heady, '39, Seattle, age 83, Feb. 18.

    1940s

  • William D. Castle, '40, Honolulu, Jan. 31.
  • Douglas P. Payne, '40, Seattle, age 81, March 5.
  • Russell Craig, '41, Falls Church, Va., age 82, March 14.
  • John R. Wallace Jr., '41, Issaquah, age 85, March 14.
  • Warren L. Flock, '42, Boulder, Colo., age 80, March 4.
  • Frederick James Orth, '44, Kenmore, age 85, March 8.
  • Gerald B. Talbot, '44, '48, Bellevue, age 88, Dec. 16, 2000.
  • Donald Wayne Arntzen, '45, Seattle, age 75, March 7.
  • James S. Edmunds, '46, '47, Palm Springs, Calif., age 75, Jan. 5.
  • Janet Brandon Poggi, '46, '73, Redmond, age 79, Jan. 9.
  • Dennis Warren Boddy, '47, '55, Portland, Ore., age 78, Jan. 9.
  • Clara Mae Hamel, '47, Seattle, age 74, March 15.
  • Frank E. Seeley, '47, Bainbridge Island, age 79, Dec. 14, 2000.
  • Harold James Carter, '48, Freeland, age 76, March 23.
  • James Patrick Curran, '48, Kent, age 82, Jan. 30.
  • Harry A. Dunlop, '48, '49, Cincinnati, age 72, March 9, 2000.
  • Darby W. Huntington, '48, Retsil.
  • Muriel Montague Kriebel, '48, Seattle, age 75, March 26.
  • George Edgar Sherwood, '48, Seattle, age 85, Feb. 14.
  • Richard Kent Stacer, '48, Penrose, Colo., age 79, Jan. 25.
  • Charles E. Conner, '49, Seattle, age 79, Jan. 18.
  • Ruth Aileen Webb Fraser, '49, '51, Kent, age 73, March 8.
  • Franklin N. Lonsbery, '49, Seattle, age 80, Feb. 24.
  • William Harry Taylor, '49, Mercer Island, age 76, April 8.
  • Larry Wells, '49, Seattle, age 71, Jan. 24.

    1950s

  • Robert Milton Arwine, '50, Kenmore, age 76, March 19.
  • Jack Ross Brown, '50, Bainbridge Island, age 75, April 3.
  • Gene E. Guthrie, '50, Kirkland, age 78, March 13.
  • Wendell B. Lile, '50, Tualatin, Ore., age 74, April 5.
  • Robert Edmund Skarperud, '50, Mercer Island, age 74, April 2.
  • E. Byron Smith, '50, Sherwood, Ore., age 79, March 23.
  • John R. Donaldson, '51, '54, '67, Portland, Ore., age 71, Oct. 31, 2000.
  • Frank C. McAuley, '52, Mercer Island, age 79, Jan. 13.
  • Dorothy Louise Soriano, '52, Blaine, age 70, Jan. 4.
  • Mabel F. Eliason, '53, Bremerton, age 92, Feb. 1.
  • Martin J. Omoth, '53, Seattle, age 80, Jan. 15.
  • Robert N. Chang, '54, San Francisco.
  • Robert Charles Ely, '54, Snohomish, age 70, March 9.
  • Joan L. Kamm, '54, Seattle, Feb. 28.
  • Paul L. Koepsell, '54, Brookings, S.D., age 70, March 17.
  • David H. Thorsness, '54, Anchorage, Alaska.
  • Alida Toulouse, '57, Bellevue.
  • George G. Cunningham, '59, Guilford, Conn.
  • Donald Roger Heinle, '59, Redmond, age 63, Jan. 17.
  • Albert F. Hixenbaugh, '59, Auburn, age 70, Dec. 22, 2000.
  • Bill E. Mahlik, '59, Seattle, Jan. 9.
  • Walter Marcelja, '59, '62, Tacoma.

    1960s

  • Lloyd A. Olden, '60, Arlington, Va., age 65, May 2000.
  • Paul Stackhouse, '60, Seattle, age 69, Dec. 22, 2000.
  • Michael A. Gates, '61, Waldport, Ore., age 63, Feb. 24.
  • Mary Ellen Phipps, '61, Bothell, age 83, March 13.
  • Richard Douglas Cunningham, '62, Seattle, age 62, March 25.
  • Vera A. Horton, '62, Port Orchard.
  • Dorothy D. Clagett, '64, King City, Ore., age 88, Nov. 30, 2000.
  • LindyLou Holverstott, '65, '68, Lynnwood, age 72, Feb. 3.
  • Arline Brauer Broy, '66, Seattle, age 78, March 2.
  • Frank Brouillet, '68, Puyallup, age 72, Jan. 20.
  • George W. Burton, '69, Mercer Island, age 76, Jan. 28.
  • Emily Young Chinn, '69, Bellevue, age 53, March 14.

    1970s

  • Lawrence Lee Odle, '70, '71, '73, age 85, April 3.
  • Jairo C. Chaves, '71, Colombia, age 54, Jan. 8.
  • Denise M. Earle, '71, Idaho Falls, Idaho, age 52, Feb. 13.
  • Anne Grosvenor Robinson, '71, Seattle, age 81, March 11.
  • Phillip C. Tarro, '71, Mount Vernon.
  • Gregory Keith Harrison, '72, '74, Maple Valley, age 51, March 1.
  • Jesus Salinas, '72, Seattle, age 63, March 21.
  • George Bly Wilcox, '72, '75, Marysville, age 51, Feb. 27.
  • Donald Arthur Saunders, '76, Seattle, age 66, Dec. 29, 2000.
  • Janet Wilson de Cardona, '77, '82, Tucson, Ariz., age 46, Jan. 27.
  • Margaret D. Lazetti, '77, Bellevue.
  • James Edward Stahlecker, '77, Dallas.
  • Dennis M. Hibbert, '79.

    1980s

  • Milo J. Clancy, '80, Seattle.
  • Trace Lynn Johnson, '81, Seattle, age 46, Jan. 25.
  • Robert Paul Wells, '81, Seattle, age 41, March 10.

    1990s

  • Catherine A. Glapion, '98, Seattle, age 37, March 1.

    2000s

  • Bryan Taylor Phillips, '00, Seattle, age 25, March 28.

    • Faculty & Friends

    Barnet Baskerville, '40, '44, professor emeritus of speech communication, died Dec. 31. He joined the UW in 1948 and retired in 1979. He also served as chair of the Faculty Senate. He was 84.

    Edward P. Bassett, who led the UW School of Communications for seven years and saved most of the program during a budget-cutting period, died March 1 in Portland, Ore. Born Feb. 27, 1929, the Boston native led journalism programs at five universities, including a five-year stint as dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern Univ. He headed the UW communications school from 1989-1996, when he became acting director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He also served for five years on the Columns Advisory Committee. He retired in 1997. He was 72.

    William Z. Birnbaum, professor emeritus of statistics and mathematics, died Dec. 15, 2000. He joined the UW faculty in 1939 and retired in 1979. He was 97.

    Ray Dorr, former Husky assistant football coach, died March 1 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Dorr, the Huskies' quarterback coach from 1975-1984, mentored Warren Moon, Tom Flick, Steve Pelluer, Chris Chandler and Hugh Millen—all eventual pro football players. He was 59.

    Eva Heinitz, honored as this country's "grande dame of the cello," died April 1. A longtime faculty member in the UW School of Music, she was born Feb. 2, 1907 in Berlin. She was a brilliant, temperamental cellist who performed with Europe's top orchestras before fleeing Germany after Hitler took over. She came to the Seattle in 1948 and joined the UW music faculty, where she taught at the UW until her retirement in 1976. She was 94.

    Dan Fenno Henderson, who started the UW's Asian Law Program in 1962 and directed it for almost 30 years, died March 14. Born May 24, 1921 in Chelan, he joined the UW law faculty in 1962 and retired in 1991. He was 79.

    Eric M. Kashino, '82, '85, who overcame cerebral palsy and confinement to a wheelchair to earn two degrees from the UW and enjoy a long career with the IRS, was killed Feb. 27 when his wheelchair was struck by a bus in downtown Seattle. A longtime football season-ticket holder, he was a fixture in the wheelchair section at Husky Stadium. He was 43.

    Art Pringle, '44, director of Housing and Food Services from 1955 to 1975, died Feb. 25. Under his direction, the UW greatly expanded its student housing, adding Haggett, McMahon, Mercer, Terry and Lander residence halls, and brought all family housing units on line. He also oversaw all food service operations on campus. An avid traveler and bicyclist, he retired in 1975. He was 83.

    Andrew Smith, who served on the UW Board of Regents from 1989-1995 and was board president when the regents selected Richard L. McCormick as UW president, died Feb. 13. A former president of Pacific Northwest Bell, he served on the boards of numerous community agencies. He was 76.

    Martha Jane Trotter, assistant professor emeritus of rehabilitation medicine, died Jan. 26. She joined the UW in 1963 and taught until her retirement in 1995. She was 67.

    San-Pin Wang, professor emeritus of pathobiology, died Feb. 5. He joined the UW in 1961 as a clinical assistant professor in preventive medicine, and later switched to pathobiology. He was 80.

    Walter Woodward, '33, a Bainbridge Island newspaper editor who was the only newspaperman to editorialize against the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, died March 13 on Bainbridge Island. He was the inspiration for the character of the newspaper editor in the best-selling novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, '78, '82. He was 91.

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