Summer 2021

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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

Elaine Landry-Pion, of Acton, Massachusetts, died on May 20. She was an associate professor at Babson for 28 years (1988–2016) and is credited with establishing the Management Division’s teaching competency in negotiation.

Joseph Gordon Mitchell Jr. ’47, of Kensington, Maryland, Sept. 6

Leland Robert Jessen ’49, of Meridian, Idaho, Sept. 9

William C. Arnot ’50, of Rapid City, South Dakota, Nov. 16

George Leslie Ayer II ’50, of Asharoken, New York, March 3

Byron Hale Delavan ’50, of Canandaigua, New York, Sept. 29

Arthur D. Durgin Jr. ’51, of Spokane Valley, Washington, Aug. 22

Philip D. Jennison ’51, of San Francisco, California, Oct. 19

Willard Thorndike Wight ’51, of Camden, Maine, Oct. 6

Robert Bruce Houghton ’52, of Tampa, Florida, Oct. 6

Ralph Sherburne Perkins Jr. ’52, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Nov. 24

Robert M. Crowell ’53, of Absecon, New Jersey, Oct. 21

James Bettner Hughes Jr. ’53, of Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 10

Paul W. Meyer ’53, P’80, of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, Jan. 21

David H. Poverman ’53, of Sea Girt, New Jersey, Dec. 15

Dominic Robert Romano ’53, G’08, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nov. 9

Bruce F. Slocum ’54, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, April 5

Richard R. Blumencranz ’55, of Sarasota, Florida, June 1

Herbert F. Hofer ’55, of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, March 14

Gerald Temple LaMarque ’56, of Solomons, Maryland, Jan. 12

Michael J. Ross ’56, of Great Neck, New York, Feb. 1

Lt. Col. Edward C. Drinkwater Jr. MBA’56, of Bellingham, Massachusetts, Dec. 4

William Gerard Fitzsimmons Jr. MBA’56, of Boca Raton, Florida, Oct. 25

Joseph Robert Piazza ’57, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, Jan. 19

Leon J. Kowalski ’58, of Colchester, Vermont, Jan. 1

Terrence Bauer Windle ’58, of Worcester, Massachusetts, Jan. 31

Robert Mugar Yacubian ’58, of Boca Raton, Florida, Feb. 22

Robert D. Randall CPA ’58, P’78 ’86, of Milton, Massachusetts, March 27

Vincent Rosario Candiano ’59, of Atco, New Jersey, Oct. 26

Paul S. Gass ’59, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Feb. 16

John P. Nixon Jr. ’59, P’89, of Brewster, Massachusetts, Jan. 18

Warren Bernard Sheinkopf ’59, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, May 1

Martin Irwin Veiner ’59, MBA’60, of Ocala, Florida, Dec. 26

Richard M. Boyle MBA’59, of Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 14

Ernest Joseph Bensler Jr. ’60, MBA’61, of Jupiter, Florida, Aug. 19

Charles Clifford Hall ’60, of New Haven, Connecticut, April 8

George Anthony Viehmann Jr. ’60, of Cape Porpoise, Maine, May 22

Robert Herbert Woods ’60, of Forsyth, Montana, Dec. 10

Oswaldo J. Cisneros ’61, H’19, P’25, G’22, of Miami, Florida, Nov. 8

William E. Chipman ’61, of Scarborough, Maine, Feb. 8

Walter Crafts Jr. ’61, of Lewes, Delaware, Dec. 17

Stephen David Cutler MBA’61, of Brookline, Massachusetts, Nov. 24

Peter Rocco D’Angelo MBA’61, of Needham, Massachusetts, Jan. 6

Robert J. Aresty ’62, of Princeton, New Jersey, March 21

John Winter Gartner Jr. ’62, of Cranbury, New Jersey, Feb. 14

Lt. Gen. Harold F. Hardin Jr. MBA’62, of Coalville, Utah, March 2

Robert Eugene Knapp MBA’62, of Putnam, Connecticut, Oct. 6

Albert R. Goodwin ’63, of Swansea, Massachusetts, Feb. 24

Joseph Crowley Keys ’63, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, Nov. 2

John T. McCarty ’63, of Chatham, New Jersey, Aug. 6

Sidney John Ward Jr. ’63, of Jay, New York, Aug. 24

Robert E. Aspell ’65, of Townsend, Massachusetts, July 9

Gregory Montgomery Davidson ’65, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, May 7

Francis Plummer Jenkins Jr. ’65, of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Oct. 3

John J. Macredie ’65, of Crossville, Tennessee, Nov. 10

James R. Steel Jr. ’65, of Pensacola, Florida, Jan. 28

Cornelius T. Duffy MBA’65, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Sept. 15

Edward Paul Lemack MBA’65, of Allentown, New Jersey, Jan. 9

Peter Frederick Mletschnig ’66, of Eagle River, Wisconsin, Sept. 11

Paul C. Listro MBA’66, of Providence, Rhode Island, Sept. 30

Richard Arlin Montgomery ’67, of Randolph, Vermont, Sept. 2

Richard Gregory Nelson ’67, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Jan. 22

Everardo Goyanes MBA’67, of Austin, Texas, March 20

Stephen G. Harper MBA’67, of Plymouth, Michigan, March 10

Jonathan Heath Love ’68, of Savannah, Georgia, Sept. 19

Irving F. Orrell Jr. MBA’68, of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, Sept. 5

Retired Brig. Gen. Maxie O. Redic Jr. MBA’68, of Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 29

Richard J. Johnson MBA’69, P’89, of Waltham, Massachusetts, Sept. 5

Robert Scott Krieger ’70, MBA’71, of New York, New York, Oct. 9

Frederic C. Quittell ’70, of Norwalk, Connecticut, Aug. 28

David Nims Streeter MBA’70, of Quechee, Vermont, March 25

Frederick Michael Achille ’71, of Sarasota, Florida, Dec. 29

Dennis P. daRosa ’71, of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, Aug. 20

Randall Stuart Fried ’71, of Earlton, New York, April 15

Peter A. Gootman ’71, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Jan. 2

Barry Stephen Levine ’71, of Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 10

Dana S. Swanson ’71, of Hampton, New Hampshire, June 2

Thomas Michael Feeley MBA’71, of Andover, Massachusetts, Feb. 5

Errol George Roy MBA’71, of Sun City, Arizona, Sept. 30

David Dean Cowan ’72, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sept. 30

Matthew Douglas Nicholas ’72, of Unionville, Connecticut, Oct. 7

Dennis Peter Burgess MBA’72, of Lake Mary, Florida, March 29

Leo Wilfred LeClaire MBA’72, of Medfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 17

Thomas Benjamin Newman Jr. MBA’72, of Bradenton, Florida, Oct. 4

Richard Philip Williamson Jr. MBA’72, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Jan. 12

Bruce Michael Becker ’73, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, March 8

Nathaniel Cameron Bradley ’73, of Gouldsboro, Maine, Feb. 17

Kent W. Comstock ’73, of Kailua, Hawaii, Sept. 3

Retired Lt. Col. Danny Darwin Curtis MBA’73, of Hills, Iowa, Oct. 24

Gregory Bruce Gerrish ’74, of Worcester, Massachusetts, Sept. 29

Kenneth Barry Green ’74, of Needham, Massachusetts, Nov. 14

Tawndra Merrill Haynes ’74, of Ponce Inlet, Florida, April 8

Christine Marie Murphy ’74, of Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 14

William P. Giordano MBA’74, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 29

John F. Harrington MBA’74, of Peabody, Massachusetts, Jan. 22

William Frederick Pabst III ’75, of Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 14

Kevin R. Wolfenden ’75, of Rutland, Vermont, March 31

Raymond G. Gabler MBA’75, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 26

Retired Lt. Col. Edward H. Grazier MBA’75, of Mesa, Arizona, March 6

Retired Col. Raymond Livingston Stearns MBA’75, of Gainesville, Virginia, Jan. 21

Edward S. Cummings III ’76, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, Dec. 14

Henry Tuckerman Michie ’76, P’05, of West Boylston, Massachusetts, Oct. 18

William Merrigan Cannon MBA’76, of Stowe, Vermont, Aug. 11

James J. Reba MBA’76, of Dighton, Massachusetts, Jan. 22

Gary Lamont Burke ’77, of Bowie, Maryland, Nov. 19

Kenneth F. DiRaffael MBA’77, of St. Augustine, Florida, Feb. 15

John Kevin Burns ’78, of Millis, Massachusetts, Dec. 25

Jefferson Smith Caverly ’78, of Thousand Oaks, California, Dec. 9

Thomas Adam Gladstone ’78, of Greenwich, Connecticut, July 18

James Wing Yong ’78, of Dedham, Massachusetts, Oct. 4

Thomas Joseph Ellam MBA’78, of Worcester, Massachusetts, Sept. 23

Brendon Francis Shea MBA’78, of Rockville, Maryland, Oct. 8

Jerold A. Shoer MBA’78, of Rockland, Massachusetts, Dec. 12

Patricia B. Stevens MBA’78, of Franklin, Indiana, Dec. 25

Robinson Reese Willis MBA’78, of Sausalito, California, Feb. 8

Kathryn Ann Flory ’79, of Acton, Massachusetts, Dec. 23

Eduardo E. Perez-Paris ’79, of Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 2

Robert Charles Hogan MBA’79, of Melbourne, Florida, May 19

Joanne Reid Runyon MBA’79, of Portland, Maine, April 4

Joseph D. Sheedy Jr. MBA’79, of Lowell, Massachusetts, Dec. 12

Norman Bernard White MBA’79, of Leesburg, Florida, Dec. 23

Ann Ruth Steinberg Oulton ’80, of Milton, Massachusetts, June 21

Sharon Ann Clark MBA’80, of West Concord, Massachusetts, Jan. 9

Gregory Joseph Hill MBA’80, of Lowell, Massachusetts, March 1

Christopher Charles Mungovan MBA’80, of Beverly, Massachusetts, March 16

David Aloysius Ryan ’81, of East Walpole, Massachusetts, Oct. 28

David Lawrence Bramley MBA’81, of Providence, Rhode Island, Sept. 2

Thomas Lee Ruegg MBA’81, of Columbus, North Carolina, Oct. 15

James H. DerMinasian ’82, of Jacksonville, Florida, Dec. 20

Alice Marie Guiney MBA’84, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sept. 27

Stephen Anthony Tahmosh MBA’84, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nov. 7

John Michael Gaffney ’85, of Barrington, Rhode Island, Dec. 22

Walter Roland Levesque MBA’85, of Bloomington, Minnesota, Jan. 17

John G. Mulvihill MBA’85, of Medfield, Massachusetts, March 6

Allan E. Smith MBA’85, P’97, of Halifax, Massachusetts, April 13

Bradley M. Jones ’87, of Cumming, Georgia, Dec. 22

David Goodwyn Elmore MBA’87, of Cape Coral, Florida, Sept. 23

Don R. Michael MBA’87, of Stow, Massachusetts, Sept. 27

Julianna H. Coutu MBA’88, of Murrieta, California, Dec. 31

Sandi J. Stewart MBA’88, of Scarborough, Maine, Dec. 9

Ellen E. Greene ’90, of Newton, Massachusetts, Nov. 24

Christopher Emerson Prinn ’92, of Yarmouth, Maine, Jan. 26

Mary Jane Walsh-Ellis MBA’93, of Brookline, Massachusetts, Feb. 23

Douglas W. Hick ’95, of Cheshire, Connecticut, March 11

David W. Gearin MBA’97, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Nov. 22

Joseph Auguste King ’98, of Colebrook, New Hampshire, March 21

Matthew D. Carroll ’01, of Reading, Massachusetts, April 8

Edward L. Hays MBA’01, of Milton, Massachusetts, Feb. 12

Douglas Bardwell Salmon MBA’02, of Worcester, Massachusetts, March 23

Marcos Flegmann ’12, of Cuajimalpa, Mexico, Dec. 21

Christina Allison Marzilli ’12, of Leighton, Pennsylvania, Oct. 9

Davin Richard Garcia ’16, of Essex Junction, Vermont, Oct. 31

Karen Djuhadi MS’20, of Kudus, Indonesia, April 8

Eleanor Gross, of Boston, Massachusetts, March 31

Timothy P. Ryan, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, Dec. 17


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