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Those We Have Lost

In Memoriam

  • Nadia Merzliakow, MLS ’74, retired longtime director of the Office of International Affairs (read the remembrance post)

  • Edward DeCarbo, retired longtime faculty member and interim chair (2008–2010) of History of Art and Design
  • Bruce M. Newman, BFA Interior Design ’53, Trustee Emeritus (read the New York Times obituary)
  • Lisa Hunt, Communications Design (Graphic Design, 1987–1991) 

  • Aviva Gold, MFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’66; MPS Art Therapy and Creativity Development ’80

  • Sandra Hetzel, Assistant to the Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

  • Ann Renee deVere, BArch ’88

  • William Pope.L, Foundation (1973–1974) (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Andrew T. Ward, MSLIS ’16

  • Radoslav L. Sutnar, BArch ’55; Master of Architecture ’56 (read the Print obituary)

  • John R. Crellin, BArch ’75

  • Ralph Case, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’60

  • Ross McLaren, former faculty member of Film/Video

  • Nancy Purcell Scholhamer, Advertising Design (1951–1953)

  • Raymond Waites, Art Education (1965) 

  • Mark E. Morrissey, BFA Graphic Design ’88

  • Daniel H. Ferrari, Mechanical Engineering (1943)

  • Frank Vero, Advertising Art (1955–1959)

  • Myra Silver, MLS ’61

  • John A. Lopez, BCE ’50

  • Randie Wasserman, BFA Graphic Arts ’68

  • Harold Cheney Jr., Illustration (1951–1953)

  • Phillip J. Ratner, BFA Communications Design ’59

  • Alan Daninhirsch, BArch ’66

  • Frank Angelucci Jr., BA Art and Design Education ’55

  • Mego M. Saienni, BFA Fine Arts (Drawing) ’12

  • George Tscherny, Advertising Design (1947–1950) (read the Print obituary)

  • Ira Michael Roshberg, Architecture (1958–1959)

  • Judith McGowan, MLS ’66
  • Winifred O’Dougherty, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’48
  • Sherry Lauraine (Dolson) Long, MSLIS ’71

  • Susan Turconi, MFA ’76
  • Karl A. Vermandois, Graduate Fine Arts (1967–1969)

  • Diane Laviolette, Fashion Design (1959–1961)

  • Jeffrey G. Heffner, Architecture (1986)
  • Richard L. St. Vincent, Advertising Design (1951–1952)
  • David Matthewson, MSLIS ’80
  • Jilleen Nadolny, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’87 (read the Forbes obituary)

  • Olelia Nori Blanchard, Certificate, Costume Design ’41

  • Maria V. Pappas, BS Home Economics ’45

  • Angelo B. “Bill” Proto, BS Food Science and Management ’64

  • Alan C. Frick, BID ’85

  • Caroline Nuytkens, Certificate ’51; BFA Interior Design ’53

  • Stephen Timothy Riley, BFA Fine Arts ’73

  • Patricia Feeney Murrell, MFA Fine Arts ’73

  • John O’Donnell, Mechanical Technology (1958–1961)

  • Ed T. Young, class of 1959, former faculty member in the School of Art and Design (read the New York Times obituary)

  • Marian Grebski, AAS Environmental Interior Design ’73

  • Dakin W. Morehouse, BID ’62
  • Virginia de Ronde Becher, MLS ’64
  • Walter Frederick Cerny, AAS Advertising Art ’59
  • Clair A. Samhammer, Certificate, Industrial Design ’50
  • Ryan Thoresen Carson, BFA Writing ’14
  • Joseph Trivisonno, BArch ’66
  • Norma Heller, MSLIS ’74
  • David S. Ferebee Jr., Fashion Merchandising, Interior Design (1970–1973)
  • Benjamin Kowalchuk, BEE ’55
  • Knina Magnani Strichartz, Critical and Visual Studies (2007–2008)
  • Susan R. Burdick, MSLIS ’73
  • Susan Hoskins Peterson, Creative Arts Therapy (1998–2000)
  • Nubar L. Shahbazian, BArch ’60
  • Charles A. Quinn, BA Social Science ’70
  • Patricia Caputo, Communications Design (1986–1990)
  • Debora K. Reiser, BArch ’48 (read the Architect’s Newspaper obituary)
  • Marguerite D. Valenti, BFA Merchandising and Fashion Management ’52
  • Ron Emmerling, BID ’58
  • C. Robert Helms, BID ’62
  • Christopher Laux, BArch ’70
  • Jeanne Marie Raciborski, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’48
  • Beth A. Portuesi, BFA Communications Design ’83
  • Richard E. Swarts, BME ’50 
  • Alan D. Jacobus, BArch ’59 
  • Marie L. McCormack, BS Home Economics ’49
  • Charles V. Walt, Foundation Art (1962)
  • David Broad, Certificate, Illustration ’50 
  • Paul Nocella, BEE ’72
  • Matthew D. Sylvester, BFA Painting ’92
  • Anne Cowin Fahey, BFA Communications Design ’87
  • John Ryan, Mechanical Technology Design (1956–1959)
  • Robert Lacava, Evening Art School, Illustration (1952–1953)
  • Emilie Adams, BS Food Science and Management ’54
  • George Brome, MS Computer and Decision Science ’78, longtime coach of men’s and women’s tennis
  • Myron Goldfinger, former faculty member in the School of Architecture (read the New York Times obituary)
  • David Walczyk, former assistant professor in the School of Information
  • Mary Ann Dionne, BFA Fashion Design ’59
  • Veronica E. Johnson, MLS ’63
  • Elizabeth Thompson, MFA Fine Arts ’77
  • Eleanor C. Dreskin, Certificate, Illustration ’46
  • Kathleen Farrell Hefty, MS History of Art ’13
  • Edward Lamkay, BArch ’59
  • Joseph L. Aversano Jr., BFA Merchandising and Fashion Management ’73
  • Malcolm Lanphear, BFA Advertising Design and Visual Communications ’70
  • George Brody, BCE ’58
  • Lorie Hansen-Boveroux, MS City and Regional Planning ’01
  • Dorothea Gerjovich DeVoe, BFA Art Education ’48
  • Edward K. McCabe, Certificate, Electrical Tech Power ’57
  • Elizabeth L. Beadle, MLS ’60
  • Evelyn A. Nilsen, BS Nutrition and Dietetics ’77
  • Mary Wallis Gutmann, BID ’56
  • Albert Lorenz, BArch ’65, former longtime faculty member in the School of Architecture, Distinguished Teacher 1989–1990
  • Thomas Kochie, BFA Fine Arts ’70
  • Meroojan Mellian, AAS Building and Construction ’61
  • Virginia P. Dawe, MSLIS ’86
  • Robert A. Freese Sr., BFA Communications Design (Graphic Arts and Illustration) ’64
  • William L. Border, Certificate, Illustration ’53
  • Heidi S. Holliger, MSLIS ’81
  • Vashti Davidson-Clarke, MSLIS ’90
  • Paula Burksy, MSLIS ’86
  • Donald J. Schwarz, BID ’52
  • Dimitri Hazzikostas, former assistant professor of History of Art and Design and faculty member of Pratt in Venice
  • Henry Halpern, MLS ’59
  • Elizabeth Drago, BFA Photography ’05 
  • Alfred Heiler, BME ’60 
  • C. Fred Grimsey Jr., BME ’59 
  • Phyllis Feld, attended, Interior Design
  • Stephan Green, BArch ’80
  • Doris B. Nelsen, Certificate, Advertising Design ’53 
  • Mark M. Mendlovsky, BArch ’93 
  • Beverly Morotwitz Warmath, BFA Fashion Design ’61
  • Herbert G. Anderson, BEE ’58
  • Woody Rainey, former faculty member of Interior Design
  • Joseph George Shannon, attended, Advertising Art
  • Thomas William Mulvey, attended, Architecture 
  • Howard I. Chechik, BCE ’52 
  • Margery Scott Daniels, BFA Fashion Merchandising ’70 
  • Glenn A. Roopchand, AOS Illustration ’79  
  • Gregory F. Brazaitis, BME ’71 
  • Robert Eugene Berner, attended, Industrial Design
  • Cheryl Lynne Sims, attended, Fashion Design
  • Paul W. Bruner, MFA Art Education ’68 
  • Edward Koren, MFA Art Education ’64 
  • Sandra B. Schwartz, MFA Fine Arts ’69
  • Beck L. Krajcir, BFA Communications Design (Advertising/Art Direction) ’97 
  • August Lebkuecher, BEE ’56 
  • Ruth M. Fowler, Certificate, Advertising Design ’53
  • Judith Draper Martin, Certificate, Illustration ’52; BFA Illustration ’53
  • Daniel Steppe, BCE ’63
  • Margaret A. Santacroce, Certificate, Retailing ’52
  • Norman L. Wax, BArch ’57 
  • Inger Erickson, BFA Art Education ’93 
  • Robert D. Zera, BID ’74 
  • Nancy J. Bodine, BS Art Education ’65
  • Ernest A. Vigdor, Certificate, Advertising Design ’49 
  • Rita Edwards, Certificate, Costume Design ’47
  • Hanford Yang, former professor in the School of Architecture