The Rensselaer Chapel + Cultural Center will host the annual memorial service.
The Pillars of Rensselaer cordially invite members of the Rensselaer community, and extended Rensselaer family, to attend the annual Faculty-Staff Memorial Service honoring those faculty and staff who have passed away since the last memorial service. The service will be held beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 31, in the Chapel + Cultural Center.
Active faculty and staff who passed will be eulogized, and the names of other deceased faculty and staff will be read and a candle will be lit in their honor. Light refreshments will follow the service.
A eulogy will be given for:
Michele Edwards – Rensselaer Union
Mark Smith – Dean of Students
Elizabeth A. Distin Large – School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Pauline Oliveros – Professor of Music
Theresa ‘Terry’ A. Hayden – Computer Science
Names will be read and candles lit for:
Virginia M. Anderson – Registrar’s Office
Arlene A. Bestle – Finance / Houston Field House
Jean “Sheena” McLeod Bestle – Psychology
Kenneth Barry Bitter – Finance
William D. Bradley ’48, ’49G – Chemical Engineering
Carol A. Bryan
Willard Allen Bryant – Nuclear Engineering
Albert J. Buher – Physical Plant
Beverly Anne Carter
Catherine I. Charette – Mail Room
Robert J. Cramer
Lee Roger Desmond – Environmental Services
Katherine T. Deutsch – DotCIO
Victoria C. Mamone Dunson – Food Service
Byron Evans – Student Affairs
James P. Ferris – Chemistry
Mary Kellett Floyd – Admissions & Financial Aid
Florence A. Hupe Foley – Food Service
Joyce E. (Reckner) Foster – Food Service
Angelo Frascarelli – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Jeffrey S. Fryar Sr. – Student Life
Rich Gilooly – Athletics
Diane VanArnum McNulty Gulum – Math and Science
Howard C. Jones – Mathematics
Herb Koster – University Affairs
James J. Levesque – Comptroller
Jan Lubas – Environmental Services
Robert K. MacCrone – Materials Engineering
Rita A. Martinoli – Folsom Library
William J. McGarry – Finance
Heinrich Adolf Medicus – Physics
Alan S. Meltzer – Physics
Mary E. Middleton – Environmental Services
Gerald Moss – Biomedical Engineering
Randy Norsworthy – Lally School of Management
Ruth E. (Pratt) Pettit
Tawfik Raby – Nuclear Engineering
Pamela I. Behan Ragone – Career Placement
Julia Ann Rizzo
Robert V. Sands – Lally School of Management
Robert D. Saunders – Athletics
Rudolph Joseph Scavuzzo Jr. – Mechanical Engineering
John G. Schatz Jr. – School of Engineering
Ernest A. Seglie – Physics
Thomas Reid Stanwood – Development
Christine Stephenson – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Margaret Burek Verville – SCOREC
Melodie Warner (Graham W. Zeh) – Public Relations
Leslie R. Winner – Transportation
Barbara Mrozik Wolff – Financial Aid
Rose Anne Wolk – Dean’s Office
Paul F. Yergin – Physics
Houman Younessi ’83, ’09G – Computer Science
