Spring 2006

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In Memoriam

NOTICE OF THE DEATHS OF the following members of the UMass Amherst family has been received by the magazine. The full obituary (when available) is online. Please click the link at right. Elizabeth (Flint) Bentley ’35, Shushan, NY – 4/18/05 George W. Simmons ’36, San Antonio, TX – 1/16/06 Harry L. Blaisdell Jr. ’38, Palm Harbor, FL – 1/31/06 Louise (Rudder) Towle ’38, Waltham – 8/4/05 Gerhard M. Wilke ’39, West Springfield – 11/28/05 Robert D. Firestone ’41, Springfield – 10/27/05 Anna (Harrington) Herring ’41, Glen Cove, NY – 12/15/05 Walter Melnick ’42, Huntington – 10/30/05 Otto S. Nau Jr. ’42, Havertown, PA – 11/23/05 Kenneth W. Williams Jr. ’42, Deerfield – 1/5/06 Genevieve (Lekarczyk) McKinney ’46, ’47G, Dade City, FL – 1/21/06 Natalie (Hambly) Griffith ’47, Pensacola, FL – 6/14/05 George D. Clark ’48, Providence, RI – 12/7/05 Woodrow H. Miller ’48, DeLand, FL – 11/11/05 Harold W. Bonneville ’50, Baldwinsville, NY – 2/1/06 William Lieberwirth ’50, South Dennis – 10/26/05 Charles E. Nichols ’50, Hampden – 2/2/06 Paul R. Wilbur ’50, New Salem – 2/5/06 Alfred N. “Buddy” Rabaioli ’53, Mendon – 1/20/06 Donald A. Smiaroski ’53, South Deerfield – 12/3/05 Paul J. Sobala ’54, Salem, OR – 10/15/05 Marie Saunders ’54, Montague – 12/4/05 William K. Danaher, Jr. ’56, Springfield – 11/23/05 Philip J. Kuzmeski ’57, Glastonbury, CT – 2/16/06 Michael F. O’Sullivan ’59, Punta Gorda, FL – 12/14/05 Margery Barous ’60, Seabrook, NH – 3/29/05 Nancy (Woodruff) Georgiou ’60, Gainesville, FL – 12/12/05 Robert J. Heeley ’66, Syracuse, NY – 3/1/05 Doris (Pimental) Anselmo ’67, Somerset – 11/10/05 Alan R. Miller ’68G, Arlington, VA – 12/30/05 Lawrence “Jack” Baccari ’69, Alabaster, AL – 5/26/05 Alexander G. Anagnos ’72, San Francisco, CA – 6/16/05 Eric D. Savage Jr. ’72, ’74G, Boise, ID – 10/17/05 Marjorie Sullivan ’72, South Hadley – 11/29/05 Barbara (Tabor) Southworth ’74G, North Andover – 11/24/05 J. Roger Seabury Jr. ’77, Wakefield – 5/1/05 Cynthia (Cowell) Nalewanski ’78, Easthampton _ 11/28/05 Robert E. Dowler ’79, Belchertown – 12/9/05 Bernice Abbe ’82, Enfield, CT – 11/30/05 Michael Robb ’82, Seattle, WA – 6/26/05 Erica (Palmer) Beauchamp ’87, Wilbraham – 1/8/06 Robert P. Scanlon ’94, Bennington, VT – 10/9/05 Rachellé Curry ’95, Mt. Vernon, NY – 2/24/06 Duong Van Chu ’96G, Springfield – 11/21/05 Matthew S. Soumakis ’97, East Longmeadow – 12/20/05 Jennifer Keller ’00, Springfield – 12/3/05 Ayman Taha ’02G, Vienna, VA – 12/30/05 FACULTY Nancy Lee Beaty, West Springfield – 1/20/06 – English literature Benjamin Ricci, Amherst – 1/21/06 – exercise science

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