Other Deaths Reported

Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear.

1939David W. Mason, retired teacher and camp owner, Fryeburg, Maine, on September 15, 2017.
1941Erwin V. Alpert, retired store manager, New Haven, Conn., on January 28, 2018.
1942Elbert C. Mead Jr., retired bank controller, New Bern, N.C., on October 10, 2017.
1945Julian B. Hyman, retired physician, Hackensack, N.J., on October 13, 2017.
1946James W. Gell, ob/gyn, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., on February 2, 2018.
Robert Greiff, retired, Princeton, N.J., on January 15, 2018.
1948Robert K. Haupt, Cincinnati, on August 16, 2017.
Kenneth R. Williams, retired research scientist, Kennett Square, Pa., on November 4, 2017.
1949Campbell R. Geeslin, retired editor, White Plains, N.Y., on August 30, 2017.
1951Bruno J. Giletti, retired professor, Oakland, Calif., on January 29, 2018.
1952Philip Bloom, retired judge, Miami Beach, Fla., on January 4, 2018.
Alan L. Stein, financial executive, San Francisco, on February 11, 2018.
1953Richard M. Phillips, Tiburon, Calif., on September 12, 2017.
Ronald Schaffer, retired professor of history and military historian, Los Angeles, on September 1, 2017.
1954Herbert H. Frommer, dentist, New York City and Westhampton, N.Y., on February 1, 2018.
Herbert G. Hagerty, retired Foreign Service officer, Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2017.
Keith E. Krebs, Walla Walla, Wash., on October 11, 2017.
Eric Salzman, composer and former music critic, Brooklyn, N.Y., and East Quogue, N.Y., on November 12, 2017.
1956Jerry A. Fodor, philosopher and professor, New York City, on November 29, 2017.
Carl W. Norden, retired physician, Philadelphia, on August 26, 2017.
1957Saul S. Cohen, retired, New York City, on January 15, 2018.
Richard D. Gooder, professor, Cambridge, U.K., on October 30, 2017.
Mauro J. Pittaro Jr., engineer, Hoboken, N.J., on August 21, 2017.
Louis P. Rothman, attorney, Delray Beach, Fla., on October 17, 2017.
Elliott S. Schwartz, professor of music emeritus, composer, Brunswick, Maine, on December 7, 2016.
1958Richard 'Dick' H. Bakalor, attorney and lecturer, Merrick, N.Y., on July 14, 2017.
Barry Dickman, attorney, Ridgewood, N.J., on January 29, 2018.
Michael O. Lesch, attorney, Larchmont, N.Y., on August 21, 2017.
John J. McGroarty, retired ophthalmologist, Burbank, Calif., on December 22, 2017.
1959Kenneth R. Gros Louis, retired university chancellor, Bloomington, Ill., on October 20, 2017.
Hugh B. McSurely, Canton, Mich., on October 20, 2015.
Richard A. Merrill, professor and dean emeritus, Charlottesville, Va., October 26, 2017.
Bruce M. Stave, professor emeritus, Coventry, Conn., on December 2, 2017.
1960Frank A. Siracusa, Seaford, N.Y., on February 1, 2017.
1961Jay T. Carrigan, Hendersonville, N.C., on August 22, 2015.
Peter King III, Greensboro, N.C., on September 16, 2016.
1962Robert A. Kohn, retired diplomat, Washington, D.C., on December 8, 2017.
Charles C. Rohrs, physician, North Petersburg, N.Y., on June 14, 2016.
1964Michael L. Barnett, dental research consultant and retired periodontist, Princeton, N.J., on November 22, 2017.
1965Jeffrey L. Bell, conservative theorist, politician and consultant, Annandale, Va., on February 10, 2018.
William L. Weinstock, retired attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 12, 2017.
1967Richard H. Bullen Jr., financial services system designer, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on February 3, 2018.
1969Jeffrey M. Sydney, attorney, La Quinta, Calif., on January 18, 2018.
1971Elliot S. Frank, retired computer scientist, Las Vegas, on October 14, 2017.
1977J. Douglas Newman, financial executive, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on October 7, 2017.
1984Anthony E. Kaye, history professor and writer, Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 14, 2017.
1987Gary L. Rempe II, entrepreneur, Albuquerque, N.M., on September 24, 2017.
1993Rachel M. Mintz, photographer and artist, New York City, on January 10, 2018.

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