Summer 2023

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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

J. Barkev “J.B.” Kassarjian, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, died May 16. He was a professor of management and taught at Babson for 40 years, serving as chair of the Management Division from 1981 to 1987.


Terrance “Terry” M. Sullivan P’14, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, died April 2. He was the assistant director of Babson’s facilities department and worked in the department for 35 years. Sullivan followed in the footsteps of his father, Ed Sullivan, who headed Babson’s facilities department for 42 years.


Richard L. Biggs ’47, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Nov. 11

Charles Elliott Beckman ’49, G’03, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, April 12

Ralph Frederick Cox ’49, of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, May 18

John Gaines Johnston ’51, of Fresno, California, April 17

Stephen Durfee Peirce ’51, of Groton, Connecticut, May 4

Frederick Leroy LaFontaine ’52, of Concord, New Hampshire, May 25

James C. Coulter ’56, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, March 3

Everett R. Bosselait ’57, of Charlotte, North Carolina, May 10

Harry W. Vincent Jr. ’58, of Richmond, Massachusetts, Feb. 27

Robert Henry Buettner ’60, P’92, of Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 5

John Daland Elliot ’60, of St. Petersburg, Florida, May 9

Aaron J. Fuchs ’60, of St. Petersburg, Florida, April 15

Joseph Thomas Scarlata ’60, of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, March 1

Barry Stephen Silver ’61, of Olivette, Missouri, March 13

George Allen Stetson ’61, of Centreville, Delaware, Jan. 28

John Henline Moran ’62, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, Feb. 24

Ronald Kitchener Stribley ’63, MBA’70, of Vero Beach, Florida, May 8

Kenneth David McDonald ’64, of Needham, Massachusetts, April 21

Peter J. Sinnott III ’64, of Rye, New York, April 12

Robert E. Weissman ’64, H’94, P’87 ’90, G’19, of Estero, Florida, April 4

James L. Cooney Jr. ’65, of Lowell, Massachusetts, Feb. 20

Gerald Arthur Levenson MBA’65, of Needham, Massachusetts, April 17

Henry Alan Wheeler ’67, of Needham, Massachusetts, Feb. 16

Robert A. Bower MBA’70, of Denver, Colorado, Feb. 15

Richard W. Garrett MBA’71, of Salem, Massachusetts, Jan. 30

Paul J. Sheehan Jr. MBA’71, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, Feb. 2

Paul Robert Bednarz ’73, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, May 22

Jeffrey L. Bromberg ’73, MBA’74, of Boxford, Massachusetts, April 11

Richard Allen Steiner ’74, of Westerville, Ohio, May 19

James Michael Wilson MBA’75, of Saint Helena, California, Jan. 22

Edward L. Simmons ’76, of New York City, New York, Jan. 22

Paul Hohl MBA’76, of Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 13

Barbara Jean Stevenson ’77, MBA’82, of Port Angeles, Washington, April 25

Christos L. Tsokanis MBA’77, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, March 11

Frederick R. Hatfield Jr. ’78, M’79, of Chandler, Arizona, July 28, 2021

Joseph Edmund Minihan ’80, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, Jan. 26

Stacey Ann McCarthy ’81, of Portland, Maine, April 26

Joshua Leland Evans ’83, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, Dec. 27, 2020

Michael Leo Neville MBA’83, of North Reading, Massachusetts, May 14

Ilene Nusblatt ’84, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, Feb. 24

Jeffrey Rich Cagnina Sr. ’85, of Dallas, Texas, Feb. 20

A. Dale McMullan MBA’85, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, April 9

Jeffry Michael Morrison ’86, P’19, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, March 28

Herman Paraison Jr. ’86, of Dallas, Texas, March 30

Robert H. Studley ’90, of Boxford, Massachusetts, Jan. 27

Christopher L. Sherman ’93, of Honeoye, New York, May 11

Daniel J. Freeman MBA’93, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 15

Michael M. Scanlon MBA’93, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, April 18

Shoichiro Toyoda H’94, P’82, G’14, of Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 14

Richard J. Wanstall MBA’98, of Watertown, Massachusetts, April 29

Rachel Avery Connell MBA’99, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 14

Cynthia Cortez Kamishlian MBA’00, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 26

Eric Tie ’02, of Wilton, Maine, March 7

Steven David Woodward MBA’04, of Carmel, Indiana, April 1

Sreenivasa R. Tadimarri MBA’09, of Lexington, Massachusetts, May 6


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