Winter 2023–2024

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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

Allyn C. Woodward Jr. ’63, P’88 ’93, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, died Aug. 17. He served Babson in a multitude of ways, including as a College Advisory Board emeritus and as a member of the Babson Corporation, Graduate and Executive Education Advisory Board, and Board of Overseers.

David Cary Hayward ’50, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, Aug. 15

Richard Joseph Birmingham ’51, of Warren, New Jersey, Oct. 30, 2021

Richard E. Lucas ’51, P’10, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, Sept. 3

John Richmond Walker ’52, of Amherst, Massachusetts, June 24

Kenneth D. Elgart ’53, P’90, of Newton, Massachusetts, Jan. 14, 2022

Albert George Morhart Jr. ’55, of Beaver, Pennsylvania, June 17

William Milan McEvilly ’56, of Statesville, North Carolina, March 29, 2022

Ricardo Uribe ’56, of Medellin, Colombia, Oct. 11, 2022

Joseph M. Rotondo ’59, of Freeport, Maine, July 12

Errol Joel Delott ’60, of Cheshire, Connecticut, June 15

Edward Eugene Richardson III ’60, of Westborough, Massachusetts, June 11

Lawrence Palmer Kimball ’61, MBA’65, of Bartlett, New Hampshire, July 8

Joseph David LoBello ’61, of Dallas, Texas, Aug. 18

Arthur Maurice Cohan ’62, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, Oct. 19, 2022

Robert Ira Chitel ’63, of Old Tappen, New Jersey, July 26

John Richard Gregory ’63, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, June 9

Joel Tarlow Lazarus ’64, P’94, of Plantation, Florida, June 16

Robert J. White Jr. ’64, of Live Oak, Florida, June 15

Richard Ramsey Dailey ’65, of Halifax, Massachusetts, July 17, 2021

Louis Salemy MBA’66, of New Providence, New Jersey, Aug. 16

Donald R. West MBA’66, of Bedford, Texas, Aug. 5

Peter Sutherland Olson ’67, of Groton, Massachusetts, July 22

Stephen Paul Chalmers MBA’67, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, Feb. 13

Gary Stephan Klerman ’68, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, October 2022

Daniel Carleton Wright ’70, of Medfield, Massachusetts, Aug. 13

Arthur F. Handel MBA’70, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Aug. 16, 2020

Bruce Edward Oman ’72, of Mandeville, Louisiana, July 16

Mark Stuart Bedrick ’73, P’05, of Windham, New Hampshire, Feb. 2, 2021

David Alan Katseff MBA’73, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, July 25

Retired Col. Walter Francis Piff Jr. MBA’73, of Clearwater, Florida, June 16

Oliver Thompson Campbell Jr. ’74, of Lusby, Maryland, June 19

William B. Ahearn ’76, of Norwell, Massachusetts, Aug. 10

John Brunnock ’76, MBA’79, of Randolph, Massachusetts, June 2

George Carlton Lind MBA’76, of Concord, North Carolina, June 4

Fredda Lynn Rago ’77, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, April 8, 2021

Baron Manning Hartley ’78, of Boston, Massachusetts, Aug. 27

Lee E. Coldwell ’79, of Tampa, Florida, July 5

Douglas Mark Hermance ’80, of Houston, Texas, June 13

Michael Alton Reynolds ’80, of Dover, Massachusetts, July 19

Michael P. Clancy ’81, P’24, of Boston, Massachusetts, Aug. 11

David J. Simm MBA’81, of Westfield, Massachusetts, July 6

Weston Osbourne Graves ’84, P’11, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, July 7

Thomas L. Dwyer MBA’86, of Scituate, Massachusetts, June 13

Marra M. Lochiatto MBA’91, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, June 30

Chris John Stakutis MBA’93, of Daytona Beach, Florida, Aug. 22

James P. Kaufman MBA’98, of West Boylston, Massachusetts, June 26

John Andrew Edward-Corbett ’05, of Newport, Rhode Island, March 13

Emily Claire Aksak ’09, of Huntington, New York, June 5

Suraj Utkarshbhai Patel MBA’16, of Vadodara, India, June 12

Eduardo Andres Basauri ’23, of Middletown, Connecticut, June 6


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