Winter 2025-2026

News, Notes, and Nods: In Memoriam

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

James David Bailey ’48, of Alexandria, Virginia, July 5 

Joseph Champ ’52, of West Palm Beach, Florida, June 16  

Aaron Sockol ’53, MBA’64, of Needham, Massachusetts, August 25 

Maurice Goralnick ’56, of Simi Valley, California, May 13 

Reid Weiner Ruttenberg ’57, P’95, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 7 

William Neal Monsen ’60, of Concord, Massachusetts, August 12 

Jed Wentworth Bullen ’61, of Grafton, Massachusetts, April 14, 2018 

Huntington Blatchford ’63, P’89, G’12, of Yarmouth, Maine, June 23 

Joseph Cohen ’63, of Boynton Beach, Florida, June 5 

Col. William Page Menefee MBA’65, of Luray, Virginia, August 7 

John W. Gobron ’66, P’01, of Naples, Florida, March 23, 2020 

George Edwin Schutz ’66, of Newbury, Massachusetts, August 6 

William P. Daly ’67, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 19 

Paul Michael Zarella MBA’67, P’92, of Westborough, Massachusetts, July 7 

John F. Garbarino ’68, of Mystic, Connecticut, June 2 

Robert Ernest Erickson MBA’68, of Augusta, Maine, May 24   

John George Dickison MBA’70, of Lexington, Massachusetts, June 23   

Barry S. Gradwohl MBA’70, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, June 12 

Worth D. Murphy Jr. MBA’70, of Natick, Massachusetts, June 29 

Neal W. Stone MBA’70, of Wells, Maine, June 8 

Robert J. Waddell MBA’70, P’84 ’92 ’94, of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, May 29   

Steven George Landsman ’71, of Potomac, Maryland, August 6 

David Morris Waldman MBA’71, of Bonita Springs, Florida, June 1   

Col. George Nelson Bentley Jr. ’73, of Kennebunkport, Maine, July 1  

Michael J. Nemitz ’73, of Durham, North Carolina, October 4, 2024 

John Mitchell McPhie MBA’73, of Edgewater, Florida, July 12 

John Lawrence Roberson ’74, of Poinciana, Florida, June 10   

Frederick Joseph Curran MBA’74, of Marshall, Virginia, May 27   

Jack David Bilodeau MBA’75, of Westford, Massachusetts, August 14 

Louis J. Farina MBA’75, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, September 20, 2021 

Richard H. Hankel MBA’76, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 8 

Victor Louis Machunski Jr. MBA’76, of Hopedale, Massachusetts, July 31 

John Louis Barbieri ’77, of Natick, Massachusetts, August 4  

Dana P. Downes ’78, of Bedford, New Hampshire, June 14 

Jeffrey M. Berenson ’79, MBA’89, of Bradenton, Florida, August 20 

Richard J. Laramee MBA’79, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, August 14  

John A. Pini Jr. MBA’79, of Ashland, Massachusetts, June 14 

Jenny E. Noonan ’81, of Block Island, Rhode Island, July 25 

Jonathan Charles Cunningham ’82, of Chatham, Massachusetts, August 12 

Lorraine Patricia (Farrel) Steele MBA’86, of Boston, Massachusetts, July 19 

Heidi Adler Matthews ’87, P’15, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, June 23   

Nancy Adele Coderre MBA’87, of Cary, North Carolina, July 24 

John Cranwell Downey MBA’87, of Canton, Massachusetts, June 8 

Rosemary A. McCrevan MBA’88, of Randolph, Massachusetts, July 25 

Matthew Wilson Kovar ’90, MBA’94, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, July 4   

Paul H. Marchinetti MBA’90, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, August 1 

Patricia R. Murphy MBA’90, of Naples, Florida, August 8 

Brijesh Chetan Sangani MBA’21, of Watertown, Massachusetts, June 17  


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