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Those We Have Lost

In Memoriam

  • Robert Redford, class of 1958; Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts 1979 (read the NPR obituary; read the Wall Street Journal obituary)

  • James Grashow, BFA Graphic Arts ’63; MFA Art Education ’66, former faculty member of the School of Art and Design (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Emma Lee Crawford, BFAf Fine Arts ’70; MS Package Design ’75

  • Virginia Brooks Manbeck, MLS ’68

  • David James Tubridy, BArch ’72

  • Marie Gray, BS Art Teacher Education ’58

  • Margaret Eichhorn Westin, BFA Home Economics ’58

  • John Cullen, MS Art Education ’70

  • Janet M. Anderson, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’60

  • Dorothy Meyer Fellinger, BS Home Economics ’57

  • Gunther Hain, AAS Mechanical Technology ’61

  • Jean Marie Schwartz, BFA Interior Design ’56

  • Paul Wollman, Certificate, Advertising Design ’52

  • Thomas Otto Valente, BArch ’12

  • Arthur I. Hansen, BArch ’55

  • Morgan Chu, Master of Architecture ’58

  • Glenn W Hoffman, BFA Advertising Design and Visual Communication ’68

  • Kenneth Marcell, BID ’74

  • Isaac “Sam” Berger, BID ’60

  • Gerda E. Ruehl Rajicic, MSLIS ’84

  • Doris Modell Tipograph, BS Home Economics ’46

  • Thomas W. Orlando, former faculty member of the School of Art and Design 

  • Robert Wilkoff, BArch ’75

  • Sandra “Sandi” Kochiss, MFA Fine Arts ’78

  • Kenneth S. Carluccio, Certificate, Industrial Design ’50

  • Donald Kelemen, BID ’64

  • Christian Juarez, Fine Arts (1999–2002)

  • Karen W. Moy, BFA Fashion ’72

  • Angelo Tornabene, BME ’46

  • Michael Hampton, BFA Advertising Design ’63

  • Jacqueline Freedman, BFA Advertising Design ’58

  • Mark Van Note, MS Computer and Decision Science ’88

  • Thomas Medsger, BFA Advertising Design ’62

  • Rita Kay Meyer, MSLIS ’90

  • Stephen Boras, BEE ’83

  • John D. McCarty Jr., MFA Art Education ’67

  • Henry T. Debski, BEE ’56

  • Herbert Migdoll, Advertising Design (1952–1954)

  • Gerard Nucera, Food Science and Management (1963–1966)

  • Richard Hodes, Illustration (1948–1950)

  • Rona Lepine Lambing, BEE ’62

  • Rebecca S. Hollenbaugh, MLS ’65

  • Bruce Brooks, MFA Fine Arts ’75

  • Ira P. Kurlander, BArch ’62

  • Mary M. Lee, MLS ’59

  • Carl W. Bergquist, BID ’64

  • Mahmood Shaikh, MS Package Design ’86

  • Jane DeMelis, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’58

  • Kai S. Tom, BFA Advertising Design ’62

  • Peter S. Constable, BID ’73

  • Doris Faith Klueg, BS Home Economics ’51

  • Deanna Lorenz, BFA Communications Design ’74

  • Everett Adelman, Architecture (1964–1966), former faculty member of Pratt Munson 

  • John Thorpe Feidt Jr., MFA Art Education ’67

  • Ann Marie Adams, Certificate, Textile Design ’53

  • Leander Fornas, Certificate, Illustration ’50

  • Alfred Kohler, MS Computer Science ’76

  • Phyllis (Turcott) Palestri, BCE ’48

  • Cynthia Stoddard Ganea, MFA Fine Arts ’84

  • Joe Caroff, Certificate, Advertising Design ’42 (read the New York Times obituary)
  • Federico Savini, longtime Fine Arts technician and faculty member of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the School of Art
  • Robert Wilson, BFA Interior Design ’66 (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Alisa Zamir, MS Package Design ’71, professor emerita of Graduate Communications Design

  • Terry Siegel, former longtime professor of English and Humanities

  • Terry Smith, Campus Safety Officer (1990–2025)

  • George Smaragdis, MFA Digital Arts ’09 

  • Del Footer, BID ’53

  • Joseph Csatari, Evening Art School (1953)

  • William “Bill” L. Porter, MID ’60 (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Charles N. Hickok, MFA Fine Arts ’74

  • Ronald Marini, BFA Fashion ’70, former visiting associate professor of Fashion Design

  • Philip Catania, BFA Graphic Arts ’68

  • Barry Seidman, Advertising Design and Visual Communication (1961–1968)

  • Madelaine “Maddy” Gold, MFA Fine Arts ’80

  • Norma Joy Goldwyn, BFA Fine Arts ’46

  • Robert Leslie Webster, Architecture (1963–1968)

  • Robert Jacobson, Chemical Engineering (1949–1953)

  • Jackie (Cohen) Heyman, Costume Design (1948–1949)

  • Charles Lewis Hill III, Graphic Arts (1962–1965)

  • Barbara Neski, former faculty member in the School of Architecture 

  • Norman Greenblatt, Certificate, Interior Design ’49

  • Norma R. (McNitt) Treichler, Certificate, Dietetics ’47

  • Keith Mervis, BFA Interior Design ’65

  • Thomas Keough, BFA Communications Design ’80

  • Elizabeth A. Dolman, BFA Graphic Arts and Illustration ’57

  • Lorraine (Wark) Diamond, BS Home Economics ’54

  • Stephen Grabow, Master of Architecture ’66

  • Stanley Smokler, MFA Fine Arts ’75

  • David Edward Byrd, former faculty member in the School of Art and Design

  • Michael Piazza, BID ’74

  • Jose I. Fortoul, MS Computer Science ’75

  • Gerald Luss, Certificate, Interior Design ’48 (read the New York Times obituary)

  • President Emeritus Thomas F. Schutte (read the obituary)
  • Paul McDonough, adjunct associate professor emeritus of photography (read the New York Times obituary)
  • Erich Kuersten, academic advisor and former assistant to the chair of Humanities and Media Studies
  • Morton Künstler, Certificate, Illustration ’50; 2002 Alumni Achievement Award recipient (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Robert P. Kalish, Master of Architecture ’74

  • Tracy McGrath Neitze, Fine Arts (1969–1971)

  • Elizabeth A. Robbins, MS Interior Design ’87

  • Pauline (Liszewski) Syslo, BFA Home Economics ’56

  • Antonio Lima, BFA Art Education ’66

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