In memoriam


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In memoriam

The Wisconsin Alumni Association recently upgraded its software that keeps track of university alumni. As part of that upgrade, the College of Engineering has received an updated list of alumni who have passed away from July 2003 to June 2004. The following alumni are listed in order of the month that WAA received notice of their passing.

Longtime benefactor of college passes away

Helen Whitman-Obert, a generous College of Engineering benefactor, died Aug. 26, 2004, in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. She spent her professional career as a nursing supervisor at the University Hospital and Clinics Oncology Unit. In 1980, she married Professor of Mechanical Engineering Edward F. Obert, who preceded her in death in 1993. In 1998, she donated two colorful murals for the refurbished and redesigned lobby of the Mechanical Engineering Building. Funds for the lobby work were included in the will of the late Professor Obert.

JULY 2003

Ashokkumar Mahatekar (MSCEE '67)
Charles Russell (MSChE '39, PhDChe '41)
Robert Fibikar (BSME '48)
Lawrence Greenfield (BSECE '56)
John Brown (BSChE '43)
Walter Friedman (BSME '47)
Price Davis (BSChE '49)
Walter Rasmussen (BSCEE '33)
Frederick Seifert (BSECE '34)
Mitchell Szelonski (BSChE '42)
Lawrence Jacobsen (BSME '41)
Paul Hopkins (PhDCEE '93)
Richard Crolius (BSChE '54)
Robert Lyneis (BSCEE '48)
Paul Korbach (MSChE '58, PhDChE '62)

AUGUST 2003

Milo Swanson (BSME '56)
James Schilder (BSCEE '71)
Lawrence Allan (BSME '34)
Robert Fleischacker (BSECE '60)
Robert Diehl (BSECE '43)
Roger Kragness (BSECE '61)
Joseph Bisek (BSECE '80, MSECE '83)
Eugene Perchonok (BSME '42, MSME '48)
Harold Oates (BSECE '52)
Alan Haase (BSChE '68)
Donald Paquette (BSMSE '43)

SEPTEMBER 2003

Peary Nelson (BSECE '53)
John Loether (BSChE '42)
Duane Barrington (BSME '50)
Richard Peterson (BSECE '42)
Harold Schlintz (BSME '41)
William Scofield (BSME '42)
Patrick Doolan (BSME '69, MSME '70, PhDME '74)
William Welch (BSEP '36)
John Reinhardt (BSCEE '58)
Elizabeth McLean (BSCEE '54)
Stanley Plzak (BSECE '70)
Myron Thompson (BSCEE '42)
Keith Jensen (BSCEE '50)
Clifford Hanninen Jr. (PhDMSE '70)
Donn Fischer (BSECE '64)
James Watson Jr. (BSMSE '39)

OCTOBER 2003

Russell Lange (BSECE '33)
Charles Wilke (PhDChE '44)
Walter Rahn (BSChE '44)
Richard Cadman (BSME '61)
Herbert Schwantes (BSME '40)
Melvin Fiss (BSCEE '34)
Michael Mattheisen (BSME '82)
T. Earl Poulson (BSECE '63)
Walter Erbach (BSME '41)
Jack Killian (BSME '47)
Vincent Grudzina (BSECE '71)
Joseph Batch (BSME '49)
James Hunter (BSME '42)

NOVEMBER 2003

John Gallagher (BSECE '46)
Milford Odell (BSECE '24)
Charles Newing (BSCEE '31)
Donald Reek (BSECE '43)
Stewart Anderson (BSME '33, MSME '34)
Frederick Stolz (BSME '32)
George Icke (BSCEE '33)
Keith Anderson (BSCEE '53)
James Knight (MSChE '67, PhDChE '70)
Robert Prescott (BSME '34)
David Verbrick (BSChE '82)
Neal Wagner (BSCEE '62)
James Gorton (BSME '47)
Glenn Petersen (BSECE '50)
Robert Hueschen (BSMSE '50)
Robert Stamp (BSME '48)

DECEMBER 2003

Morris Thorson (BSME '49)
Victor Kosydar (BSME '47)
Everett Barlow (BSME '41)
Lorch Cleven (BSME '43)
Kenneth Peterson Sr. (BSChE '47, MSChE '47)
Philip Coerper (BSME '47)
Russell Vandermus (BSECE '47)
Wayne Deringer (MSMSE '43)
David Minshall (MSME '63)
Edmund Garber (BSECE '50)
Alan Ross (BSECE '38)
Kermit Johnson (BSECE '36)
Robert Meyer (BSChE '43)
William Smythe (BSME '49)
Leonard Pesetsky (BSME '60)
David Nelson (BSChE '62)
Richard Ericsen (BSCEE '52)
Robert Worden (BSChE '49)
Erwin Gigot (BSECE '41)

JANUARY 2004

Robert Lochen (BSMSE '42)
Edward Sisolak (BSME '49, MSME '54)
Richard Hantke (BSME '62)
George Daniels (BSECE '97, MSMSE '03)
Robert Blackwood (BSMSE '53)
Edward Borkenhagen (BSCEE '33)
Jerome Hanson (BSCEE '61)
Walker Smith (BSECE '43)
John Rezba (BSChE '39)
Charles McMullen (BSECE '49, MSECE '50, PhD ECE '52)

FEBRUARY 2004

Ralph Jensen (BSECE '51)
Beth Ketterer-Jug (BSECE '86)
Melvin Krueger (BSME '51)
Edward James (BSME '53)
Gordon Anderson (BSME '63)

MARCH 2004

Carl Otjen (BSME '44)
Paul Rohling (BSME '44)
G. Riley Cummings (BSME '61, MSME '65)
Jerome Gerner (BSECE '89)
William Zehrt (BSCEE '44, MSCEE '58, PhDCEE '61)
David Hall (MSECE '52, BSME '53)
W. James Muegge (BSCEE '59)

APRIL 2004

Lew Porter (BSChE '40, MSMSE '50, PhDMSE '56)
Robert Greenwald (BSME '44)
Robert Kohlmann (BSChE '86)
Robert Perthel (BSME '47)
John Woods (PhDChE '53)
Richard Duvall (BSME '48)
Robert Theisen (BSChE '59)
Howard Curler (BSChE '48)
Raymond Lambeck (BSME '39)
Merritt Bauman (BSCEE '44)

MAY 2004

Jerome Seifert (BSECE '37)
Roy Gustavson (BSME '54)
John Keenan (BSECE '58)
Ralph Unrath (BSECE '50)
Paul Uhlrich (PhDECE '64)
Charles Kasal (BSECE '49)
Latham Davies Jr. (BSME '50)
Donald Stenske (BSME '50)
Harold Wolf (BSChE '32, MSChE '33)
Ewald Parduhn (BSME '42)
Edward Schlimgen (BSChE '48)

JUNE 2004

Byron Zolin (BSBChE '42)
F. John Barlow (BSME '37)

Date of death unknown

Garret Heebink (BSCEE '08)
Walter Otto (BSChE '47)
David Weis (BSCEE '50)
Thomas Backer (BSECE '60)
Robert Allen (BSMSE '49)
David Baatz (MSECE '50)
Herbert Schmidt (BSME '25)
Robert Cole (BSCEE '48)

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