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    • Alumni

    1910s 1920s
    1930s 1940s
    1950s 1960s
    1970s 1980s
    1990s
     

    1910s

  • Gladys Manson Haug Arntzen, '18, Seattle, age 105, June 23.

    1920s

  • Janette C. McNamara, '22, San Mateo, Calif.
  • Ruth A. Bray, '25, Honolulu, age 98, May 18.
  • Lorna Logan, '27, San Francisco, age 94, March 25.
  • Cyril E. Cornell, '28, La Mesa, Calif., May 8, 1999.
  • Grace Cornwell, '28, Camano Island, age 94, April 15.
  • Eleanor S. Kitto, '29, Kent.

    1930s

  • Ray F. Kerns, '30, Seattle, age 91, April 8.
  • Margaret M. Clark, '31, Seattle, age 90, April 26.
  • Frank R. DeBruyn, '31, Seattle, age 92, June 7.
  • Lyle N. Jenks, '31, Seattle.
  • Robert T. Boals Jr., '32, Salem, Ore., May 17.
  • Elizabeth E. Lindsay, '32, Seattle.
  • Gilbert Loewing, '32, Seattle.
  • Mildred D. McBroom, '33, Seattle.
  • Mary C. Murphy, '34, West Bridgewater, Mass., age 88, May 7.
  • Paul W. Sweet Jr., '34, Centralia.
  • Harry N. Wallin, '34, '36, San Mateo, Calif., age 88, May 27.
  • Helen Kantner Brown, '35, Walnut Creek, Calif., Jan. 20.
  • Palmer H. Evanson II, '35, Redmond, age 91, May 2.
  • Carl L. Gustafson, '36, Winters, Calif., age 93, Feb. 15.
  • Kenneth Jerome Clark, '37, '39, Mercer Island, age 86, June 1.
  • William G. Ellis, '37, Portland, Ore., age 85, May 12, 2000.
  • Richard P. Moser, '37, Covesville, Va., age 85, June 26.
  • Margaret Odell Lundin Stephens, '37, Seattle, age 85, June 4.
  • Kenneth Knight Bell, '38, Portland, Ore., age 84, April 2.
  • Betty Lou Maus Ellis, '38, Portland, Ore., age 83, March 28.
  • Stanley W. Oliver, '38, Rockville, Md.
  • Robert T. Knappenberger, '38, Portland, Ore.
  • Dana I. Cook, '39, Wilmot, N.H.
  • Arthur I. Ellsworth, '39, Riverside, Calif., age 85, May 25.
  • William E. Elwell, '39, Windsor, Calif., age 88, April 26.
  • William B. Killingsworth, '39, Seattle, age 81, April 20.
  • Mae McDonald, '39, Clarence, N.Y.
  • Mel Oseran, '39, '42, Mercer Island.
  • Florence M. Poorman, '39, '50, Burt Lake, Mich.
  • Ruth L. Setterman, '39, '40, Seattle.

    1940s

  • William Henry Gustilo, '40, Tucson, Ariz., age 80, April 6, 1999.
  • Victor "Mike" Michalson, '40, '43, Des Moines, age 84, March 9.
  • Gilbert M. Nordquist, '40, Seattle, age 82, April 29.
  • Phyllis Johnson Schmidt, '40, Seattle, age 83, May 18.
  • Arnold O. Thumlert, '41, Renton, age 85, May 4.
  • Lorenz F. Laatz, '42, '46, Union, age 80, April 25.
  • James C. Stuart, '43, Laguna Hills, Calif., age 80, April 24.
  • Barbara Rhodes Eriksen, '45, Fresno, Calif., Feb. 20.
  • Richard Brooks, '46, '48, Seattle, age 77, April 17.
  • James P. Goodfellow, '46, Enumclaw, March 15.
  • Lois M. Noren, '46, Santa Barbara, Calif., Feb. 21.
  • William N. Schlax Jr., '47, Calistoga, Calif., age 79, June 11.
  • Arthur Quentin Banks, '48, age 78, May 20.
  • Jacqueline Polson Griffiths, '48, Seattle, age 75, June 12.
  • Barbara Clark Grose, '48, Golden, Colo., age 74, March 3.
  • Irja Taimi Knute Maughan, '48, Seattle, age 86, May 5.
  • Richard Warren Seed, '48, Kirkland, age 77, April 16.
  • Rowlan F. Soderberg, '48, Seattle, age 83, April 24.
  • Jerrold P. Gess, '49, Des Moines.
  • Edwin W. Pettelle, '49, Bothell, age 75, May 10.
  • Howard J. Tagas, '49, Seattle, age 80, May 8.
  • William H. Taylor, '49, Seattle, age 76, April 8.

    1950s

  • Sidney G. Borella, '50, Lacey, age 90, June 10.
  • Gilbert L. Duckworth Jr., '50, Sumner, age 79, June 5.
  • Wendell B. Lile, '50, Tualatin, Ore., age 74, April 5.
  • Homer S. Smith Jr., '50, Port Townsend, Nov. 4, 1999.
  • William Stimpson Taylor, '50, Seattle, age 84, June 11.
  • Clair Moord Aase, '51, Everett, age 82, April 27.
  • Sheldon B. McGillivray, '51, Bellevue.
  • Mildred N. Anderson, '52, Carnation, Feb. 15.
  • James Joseph Broulette, '52, Seattle, age 71, May 27.
  • Charles Gieser, '52, Seattle, age 71, April 12.
  • Carol E. Harper, '52, '59, Seattle.
  • W. Frank Scott, '52, Friday Harbor, age 81, Dec. 2000.
  • Kenneth B. West, '52, '59, '65, Flint, Mich.
  • Karl Jacob Andersen, '53, Seattle, age 71, May 20.
  • Kirk Alexander Brown, '53, Marysville, age 71, May 29.
  • Lowell E. Hovis, '53, Seattle, April 24.
  • John H. Nesland, '53, Everett.
  • Howard Dale, '54, Kenmore, age 74.
  • Margaret Irene Nickerson, '54, Seattle, age 94, May 4.
  • Nancye H. Holt, '55, Bainbridge Island, age 67, May 24.
  • Albert Floyd Williams, '55, Hartington, Neb., age 80, Dec. 29, 2000.
  • Mary C. Hurlbut, '57, Maple Valley.
  • David D. Vangelisti, '57, Kirkland, April 2, 1999.
  • Sharon Tina Hofstedt, '58, Palm Springs, Calif., age 64, April 16.
  • Kurt Verner Borgstrom, '59, Seattle, age 78, June 3.
  • William Jones Hughes, '59, Tacoma, age 76, May 8, 2000.
  • Victor L. Wowaras, '59, Seattle, age 71, April 20.

    1960s

  • Thor O. Jensen, '60, Palo Alto, Calif., age 57, March 23.
  • Nikki D. Phillips-Baker, '60, Renton.
  • Arnold Tamarin, '60, Seattle, age 78, June 26.
  • Robert D. Black, '61, Sunnyvale, Calif., age 67, Dec. 25, 2000.
  • Paul J. LaBossiere, '61, Lake Forest Park, age 68, May 6.
  • Katherine Despina Athanas, '63, Seattle, age 63, June 13.
  • Genevieve Cole, '63, Newberg, Ore.
  • Lenore Y. Cranston, '63, Burlington, Vt.
  • William C. Gillespie, '63, Sonora, Calif., March 19.
  • Ann Catherine Esch Cline, '66, Oxford, Ohio, age 59, May 19.
  • George Thomas Leslie Jr., '66, Globe, Ariz., age 70, May 4.
  • Ben Darrell Loftin, '67, Seattle, age 63, April 21.
  • Sandra Jeanne Perry, '67, '77, '78, '94, Seattle, age 56.
  • Charlotte J. York, '67, Port Orchard, age 60, Nov. 26, 2000.
  • Sherwood B. Martin, '69, Renton, age 72, May 2.
  • John D. Mitchell, '69, age 53, April 19.
  • Mary Natale, '69, Boston, age 53, Feb. 27.

    1970s

  • Christine E. Jones, '70, Minneapolis.
  • John E. Turner, '70, Stanwood, age 57, June 10.
  • Peter Artin Odabashian, '71, '72, Edmonds, age 51, April 25.
  • Corrine L. Baker, '72, Seattle, age 51, June 20.
  • Paula A. Hoffman, '72, '74, Anaheim, Calif.
  • Michael Eugene Taylor, '72, Seattle, age 51, June 4.
  • Edwin L. Ross, '73, Arlington, age 62, April 14.
  • Conrad McFarland, '74, Seattle, age 60, April 15.
  • Alan J. Riem, '74, Normandy Park, age 50, June 14.
  • John W. Collier, '75.
  • Joanne Fujita Asaba, '76, '79, Bellevue, age 47, April 13.
  • Karen Lee Ramey, '76, Beaverton, Ore., age 48, June 10.
  • Richard D. Hendricks, '79, Los Angeles.

    1980s

  • Lana Kay Speicher, '80, Fort Knox, Ky.
  • Virginia M. Brelje, '81, Lake Oswego, Ore., age 55, April 5.
  • Susan Alice Roche, '83, Charlotte, N.C., age 38, Dec. 19, 1999.

    1990s

  • John R. Sanders, '90, Seattle, age 56, April 2.
  • Dean W. Mullis, '91, Petaluma, Calif., age 28, May 1994.
  • Hugh Harrison Hutcheson, '97, Seattle, age 95, Dec. 30, 2000.
  • Roscoe J. Sandberg, '99, Moses Lake, age 23, March 3.

    • Faculty & Friends

    Physics Professor Emeritus Arnold B. Arons died Feb. 28. A native of Lincoln, Neb., he joined the UW faculty in 1968 and taught until his retirement in 1982. He won a UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973. He was 84.

    Education Professor Emeritus Earl C. Butterfield died April 26. A native of Washington, D.C., he taught at Yale and the Univ. of Kansas Med. Ctr. before joining the UW faculty in 1981. He taught education, psychology, engineering and technical communication before he retired in 1996. He was 65.

    Communications Professor Emeritus Alex Edelstein died May 16 after a long struggle with cancer. A native of Russia, he joined the UW faculty in 1955 and spent 33 years with the University, including eight as director of the School of Communications. He launched the school's international communications program and was an expert on the use of propaganda. He was 82.

    Charles C. Gale, retired professor of physiology and biophysics, died May 26. He joined the UW faculty in 1964 and taught until his retirement in 1982. He was 74.

    Former Economics Professor Donald F. Gordon died March 15. Born in Canada, he joined the UW faculty in 1950 and taught for 16 years. He was 78.

    Epidemiology Professor Emeritus Neal B. Groman died March 31. A Minnesota native, he joined the UW microbiology faculty in 1950 and taught for 39 years. He served two years as special assistant to the VP for academic affairs, and retired in 1989. He was 79.

    English Professor Emeritus Markham Harris died April 11. Born in New York City, he joined the UW faculty in 1946 and taught short story and novel writing for 30 years. Among the many students he mentored was Ann Rule, '53, the best-selling author of books dealing with crime. He was 93.

    Dorothy Hokanson, '39, a UW music instructor from 1949-52, died June 25. A member of the famous Robert Shaw Chorale, she was also well known for the children's music she created. She had to leave the UW because of an anti-nepotism rule (her husband was also on the UW faculty). She was 84.

    James D. Holloway, '98, a popular music instructor and organist at Pacific Lutheran University, was shot and killed May 17 on the PLU campus in Tacoma by a gunman who later committed suicide. Holloway, who received his Ph.D. in music from the UW in 1998, was a studio teacher, choral conductor and expert in the history and science of music. He also directed a new Mentorship Program for Vocations in Church Music at PLU. He was 40.

    Hank Ketcham, creator of the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon strip that entertained newspaper readers for 50 years, died June 1 in Pebble Beach, Calif., at the age of 81. Born March 14, 1920 in Seattle, Ketcham dropped out of the UW after his freshman year in 1938 to work as an animator in Southern California. He worked for Walt Disney on Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia and Donald Duck shorts before starting the Dennis the Menace cartoon strip in 1951. Although Ketcham retired in 1994, the strip was drawn by other artists and continued under his name.

    Hank Ketcham's most famous creation: Dennis the Menace.

    Richard Larsen, '52, a former Seattle Times political writer who devoted his 50-year career to the cause of civility in American politics, died April 19 after a long illness. A Seattle native, he joined the Times in 1968 and soon became its chief political writer, covering local, state and national politics. A believer in strict bipartisanship and fairness, he also worked on the staffs of Democrats and Republicans in Congress. He authored books on U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, '32, and serial killer Ted Bundy,'74. He retired from the Times in 1992 and later served four years on the Columns Advisory Committee. He was 73.

    Former Foresty Instructor Floyd Schmoe, a legendary peace activist, volunteer leader, forest ecologist, marine biologist and college professor, died April 20 in Seattle. Born in 1895, he lived to be 105 years old and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. He became Mount Rainier's first official naturalist from 1924-28, ultimately climbing it 14 times. The first in his family to finish college, he was a forestry instructor at the UW from 1935-42 but gave up his teaching position during World War II to help Seattle's Japanese-Americans, who were being relocated to internment camps in Idaho. In 1948, he recruited two dozen volunteers to help rebuild the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs during World War II. For his efforts, he was awarded Japan's highest civilian honor, the Order of the Sacred Treasure. When Schmoe was in his 90s, he converted a neglected patch of grass into the Seattle Peace Park, located north of Lake Union near the University Bridge. At the front of the park stands a bronze statue of a young Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia 12 years after the bombing of Hiroshima. A move is currently afoot to have the park renamed in Schmoe's honor.

    Dorothy Strawn, '59, dean of women and director of women's programs at the UW from 1960-1975, died June 19. As dean of women, she directed the behavior, clothing and class schedules of female students. When that job was phased out in 1970, she became director of women's programs in the division of continuing education. She retired in 1975. She was 85 when she died of cardiac arrest in Seattle.

    Kent Ueland, '63, former professor of OB-GYN at the UW School of Medicine, died June 11. The Chicago native completed his residency at the UW in 1963 and served 17 years on the UW medical school faculty, specializing in difficult baby deliveries. In 1973, he delivered the first quintuplets born in Washington. He left the UW in 1977 to become chair of the OB-GYN department at Stanford Univ.'s School of Medicine. He was 70.

    Music Professor Emeritus John Verrall died April 15 of congestive heart failure. An Iowa native, he joined the UW faculty in 1948 and taught music theory and composition during his 25 years at the University. In 1989, he was asked to compose a choral symphony for the Washington Centennial celebration. He was 92.

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