Summer 2024

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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Remembering the alumni and members of the Babson community who have passed recently:

George Calvin Yates ’47, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Aug. 8, 2021 

Marvin Zuck Myer ’49, of Whitehall, New York, Aug. 7, 2022 

Robert W. Craig ’50, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, April 22 

Ernest Elmer Witschi Jr. ’51, of Hudson, Florida, April 21 

Alan H. Springer ’54, of La Jolla, California, May 13 

Albert Mihran Papazian ’55, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Feb. 14 

John Goodale Hutchens ’56, of Phelps, New York, Aug. 8, 2021 

Robert Taylor Stainton MBA’56, of Los Altos, California, April 8  

James A. Bourne ’57, of Buffalo, New York, March 15 

Peter Bacon Keene ’57, of Homosassa, Florida, Jan. 9, 2023 

Sven E. Tilly ’57, of Summerfield, Florida, Feb. 6 

Louis G. Sardina ’58, G’13 ’21 ’23, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 28 

Gerald R. Swirsky ’59, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, Jan. 23 

Emerson Donald White ’59, of Placida, Florida, Oct. 29, 2023 

John Caleb Forman Clarke ’61, of East Hampton, New York, May 4 

G. Richard Duffy ’61, of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, May 12 

Philip Marcus ’61, of Apex, North Carolina, March 31 

Benjamin J. Rosof ’62, of Jamaica, New York, March 19 

James Lord Bishop III ’63, of Palmer, Massachusetts, May 11 

Nathaniel Preston Breed Jr. ’63, of Washington, D.C., April 27 

Terry Blake Cronin ’63, of Skidaway Island, Georgia, Jan. 27 

Frank A. Stanush III ’63, of San Antonio, Texas, May 10 

Roger Clark Welch ’63, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, May 17 

James Samuels MBA’65, of Westport, Connecticut, Feb. 28 

Robert B. Baldwin ’66, of Wichita, Kansas, May 14 

James Joseph Boutilier ’66, of Knoxville, Tennessee, Jan. 31 

William Kelly Young ’66, of Hollister, Missouri, Jan. 14 

Harry W. Hall Jr. ’68, of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, Oct. 26, 2023  

James Francis Martin Jr. MBA’68, of Holliston, Massachusetts, April 4 

Retired Lt. Gen. Fred Hissong Jr. MBA’69, of Findlay, Ohio, May 14 

Retired Col. George Thatcher Shepard MBA’69, of Huntsville, Alabama, March 1 

Charles David Whitman MBA’70, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Feb. 26 

Jeffrey S. Brown ’71, of New York, New York, Feb. 16 

Frederick L. Wood ’71, of Wawa, Pennsylvania, April 23 

Robert F. Gerbrands MBA’71, of Bedford, Massachusetts, Feb. 8 

Daniel Z. Gould MBA’71, of Boynton Beach, Florida, March 4

Retired Col. Maury Leslie Jones MBA’71, of Huntsville, Alabama, March 26 

Edward P. Facchetti ’72, of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, April 19 

Jonathan Richard Gordon ’72, of Minnetonka, Minnesota, Feb. 13 

Leo Francis Swift MBA’72, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 13 

Lawrence Edgar Tuck MBA’72, of Venice, Florida, Feb. 2 

Russell Walter Boothroyd ’73, of Exeter, Rhode Island, April 7 

Linda E. F. Lach ’73, MBA’74, of Kauai, Hawaii, Jan. 1 

Thomas William Drummy MBA’73, P’14 ’19, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, April 16 

James Michael O’Connor MBA’73, of Needham, Massachusetts, Jan. 29 

Retired Major Ronald Joseph Comeau MBA’75, of Seminole, Florida, Feb. 18 

Dennis Ivan MBA’75, of Oakton, Virginia, Aug. 21, 2022 

Robert J. Pallone ’76, of Norfolk, Connecticut, April 12 

Robert Rupp ’76, MBA’88, of Canyon Lake, Texas, Feb. 1 

Ronald F. McKinnon MBA’76, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Jan. 16 

Arthur James Worsh MBA’76, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, Nov. 22, 2023 

Benjamin John Chapman MBA’77, of Claremont, New Hampshire, May 9 

David James Little MBA’77, of Tucson, Arizona, May 17 

Charles Gerard Richmond MBA’77, of Fort Myers, Florida, March 1 

Hays Jeffrey Dawson ’78, of Verona, Pennsylvania, Nov. 26, 2023 

Col. Warren F. Hodge MBA’78, of Eldridge, Iowa, March 29 

Stephen Michael Donovick ’80, of Houston, Texas, Jan. 21 

Carlyn Frances Craig M’80, of Washington, D.C., April 18 

Steven P. Hodgson MBA’81, of Reston, Virginia, March 15 

Gregory E. George ’82, of North Conway, New Hampshire, Feb. 13 

David Rodger Bradley ’83, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, March 26 

Virginia A. Platt ’85, of Naples, Florida, April 22 

Cynthia A. Eaton MBA’85, of Stowe, Vermont, March 6 

Carolyn A. Hunter ’88, of North Grafton, Massachusetts, May 11 

Burton J. Synnott MBA’89, of Reading, Massachusetts, March 24 

Terry Ann Cohen MBA’91, of Greenwich, Connecticut, May 22 

Paul Weitz MBA’93, P’12, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, March 3  

Keith Bernard Colter MBA’98, of Pasadena, California, April 8 

Angela N. Tufts ’99, of Ashland, Massachusetts, Dec. 31, 2021 

Dr. Tala Khudairi MBA’22, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 4 

Ding Mayen Kuai Mayen ’27, of Juba, South Sudan, March 22


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