Winter 2024–2025

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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

Richard Gustafson ’51, of Mystic, Connecticut, Oct. 23 

Todd Baldwin ’55, of Thornton, New Hampshire, Sept. 15 

James Glaser ’55, of Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 15 

Neal Michael Keefe-Feldman MBA’58, of Beverly, Massachusetts, July 11 

Peter David Hunter ’59, of Deephaven, Minnesota, Oct. 11 

David B. Priest ’61, of Ayer, Massachusetts, Aug. 3 

P. Newell Freeman Jr. ’62, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 22 

Robert Terry Snyder ’62, of Sharon, Massachusetts, Aug. 2 

Stephen Allan Hawkins ’63, of Johns Island, South Carolina, Sept. 3 

Eugene Paul Kelley ’63, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, July 10 

Thomas W. Cunnington MBA’63, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Oct. 16 

Lee Douglas Thomson ’64, of Austin, Texas, Sept. 19 

Robert William Horgan ’66, P’14, of Damariscotta, Maine, July 29

Jules Geoffrey Johnson ’67, of Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts, Dec. 25, 2022 

Edward J. Sparks ’68, of Martha’s Vinyard, Massachusetts, July 1 

George Franklin Wilkins Jr. MBA’68, of Sherborn, Massachusetts, July 10 

Towar Neave Vilas ’70, of Aurora, Ohio, July 31 

George Emile Young Jr. MBA’72, of Westwood, Massachusetts, Aug. 8 

Henry Herbert Applin Jr. MBA’73, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, June 29 

Vincent Anthony Restivo MBA’74, of Burlington, Massachusetts, Feb. 25, 2023 

Bruce Carlisle Edenton III ’75, of Naples, Florida, July 20 

Maurice L. Castonguay MBA’75, of Canton, Massachusetts, Oct. 2 

Harold Putnam Hanna Jr. MBA’75, of Canton, Massachusetts, Aug. 15 

Roderick Dean Haley ’76, of Manchester, New Hampshire, July 4  

Donald Patrick Fabrizio MBA’76, of Newton, Massachusetts, July 26 

Paul Edward Rogers MBA’76, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, July 21 

Andre W. Courchesne MBA’77, of Peterborough, New Hampshire, July 31

David Francis Donnelly MBA’77, of Hillsborough, New Jersey, Aug. 6 

David Yoder Gardner MBA’77, of Peachtree City, Georgia, May 13 

Mary Jane Flower MBA’79, of Wayland, Massachusetts, Aug. 18, 2023 

Robert Angelo Ghelfi MBA’79, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, July 29

William Albert Heskey MBA’79, of Northborough, Massachusetts, July 19 

Mark A. Chickering ’80, of Millville, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 

Thomas William Crosby Jr. MBA’80, of Natick, Massachusetts, Aug. 1

Bradford Cheney Surner MBA’80, of Salem, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 

David Brian Murray ’82, MBA’10, of Norwalk, Connecticut, July 21 

Peter J. Hemingway ’84, MBA’91, P’20 ’24, of Westford, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 

Alexander R. Pegnato ’84, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, June 17

Timothy Richard Lucier ’85, of San Francisco, California, June 14

Trisha A. Gianatasio ’92, of Everett, Massachusetts, July 30 

Christopher J. Hanson MBA’98, of Hanover, Massachusetts, Sept. 11  

Cornelius Allen Bottomley Jr. MBA’00, of Hanover, Massachusetts, Sept. 13

Chan Mya Mya Zaw ’23, of Braintree, Massachusetts, Aug. 13 

Arthur C. Gudikunst, of Newport News, Virginia, March 12


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