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| Roy L. Mathiasen ’31, retired engineer, Exxon Research & Engineering; May 30. Everett F. Johnson Jr. ’33, retired design project engineer with E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co.; Feb. 19. Morris Yasler ’35, longtime businessman in Danbury, Conn., and active community member; Aug. 22. Archibald W. Ruether ’36, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; May 27. Lester T. Dennis ’38, former project engineer, U.S. Army Research & Development Command; Feb. 21. Thomas P. Engster ’38, family physician and retired chief of nuclear medicine, Samaritan Hospital, and WWII Navy veteran; May 14. David H. Goodman ’39, retired president, Recorded Publications Mfg. Co., and a benefactor of Rensselaer; May 11. John W. Hurley ’40, retired manager, Divisional Quality Center, St. Regis Paper Co.; Sept. 9. James A. Mann ’40, former research chemist at Weyerhauser Paper Co., chemical engineering professor at University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and longtime planning board member; Sept. 23. Marvin M. Ramer ’40, retired vice chairman of the Lummus Co., consultant, and active Rensselaer alumnus; July 18. Leslie Ackerman ’41, retired manager, technical services, W.R. Grace & Co., former research specialist and commodity manager for U.S. Rubber Co., and active in scouting activities; Jan. 26. John H. Barnard ’41, retired sales representative, J.L. Clark Rockford Division; July 18. B. Austin Barry ’42, former head of civil engineering at Manhattan College and a well-known figure in the civil engineering and surveying fields; Aug. 2. Russell E. Strayer ’42, retired after 41 years from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft/Convair (later, General Dynamics), where he managed the flight test program for the F-106, among other projects; July 21. John F. Daly ’43, former chairman and CEO, Hoover Universal, vice chairman of Johnson Controls, and director of numerous corporations; Oct. 11. Charles W. Mathews ’43, program manager of NASA’s Gemini program in the 1960s, a manager during the Apollo lunar program, retired as chief of NASA’s office of applications; Sept. 10. Herman Vener ’43, retired owner, Amirprat Consulting Co. in Weston, Conn.; Sept. 28. Daniel D. Woodward ’43, former management analyst, R.B. Austin & Associates; June 6, 2000. John F. Hildebrand ’44, former principal metallurgical investigator, General Dynamics Corp., and materials engineer, General Atomic Co.; Feb. 9. Ward W. Minkler ’45, a pioneer of the titanium metal industry, retired vice president of Timet and president of ALS Co., and a WWII Army veteran; Aug. 12. Robert H. Covell ’49, retired chief circuit engineer for Conrail, and WWII Army Air Force veteran; June 20. Harold Lakin ’49, sculptor and former consultant with Optimetrix; May 13. Paul S. Methe ’49, formerly employed at Alcoa, Allegheny Ludlum Steel, Knolls Atomic Power Lab, and the Watervliet Arsenal, patent holder in titanium metal alloy research, and WWII Army veteran; Aug. 9. David B. Selip ’49, former sales manager, Acme Visible Systems, in Rochester, N.Y., and a WWII Navy veteran; Sept. 14. Richard F. Headley ’50, former owner, Lake & Stream Realty in Alton, N.H., active in civic affairs; Sept. 20. Edwin E. Nowak ’50, former senior engineer, Bechtel Power Corp.; Aug. 11. Arthur D. Raszmann ’51, retired vice president of Siegfried Construction Co., a former Marine, and sailing enthusiast; May 5. Harold C. Vance Jr. ’52, of Orlando, Fla., former group engineer, Lockheed Martin Corp.; Sept. 1. John B. Harry ’53, of Sterling, Va., former senior principal engineer, CACI International Inc.; July 1. William B. Ackroyd ’54, former electrical engineer with Anitec Imaging Corp., antique shop owner, firefighter, and WWII Navy veteran; Aug. 12. Wayne R. Wilcox ’55, former senior engineer at Lockheed Missile and Space Co. and at Mason Chamberlin; Aug. 6. John A. Eggen ’56, former owner, John A. Eggen, Architect, in Coral Gables, Fla.; March 2001. Robert L. Staley ’56, former vice president, Fosdick & Hilmer, and active Rensselaer alumnus; Sept. 9. John S. Liptay ’62, M.E.E. ’66, former senior technical staff member, IBM; June 9. J. Nicholas Humber ’63, an environmental expert and executive of Enron Wind Corp., adviser to the World Bank, founder of Energia Global, and past president of BioMed; on American Airlines Flight 11, Sept. 11. See, also, "Voices From Rensselaer". James D. MacKinnon, M.M.E. ’64, M.S. ’75, project engineer at Pratt & Whitney, pilot, and sailor; Sept. 1. Allan D. Bozenhard ’66, former forge engineer for Accuride and Kaiser Aluminum; Oct. 7. Stanley A. Miske Jr., M.E. ’67, retired senior application electrical engineer with General Electric Industrial Systems, active in the Elfun Society and IEEE; Oct. 14. Carolyne Clay ’74, quality assurance supervisor, metallurgy department, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co., former mentor and chair of the Black Students’ Alliance at RPI, honored with many awards for her community service; Jan. 12. Thomas J. McFee ’74, 26-year employee of Rochester Gas and Electric; July 27. |
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