Category: Obituaries

In 1978, he took a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin to run the million-volt electron microscope at a national facility. For 16 years he also directed the internationally-known 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on UBC’s campus, providing the foundation for his best-known work, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, still an essential resource.

He joined the faculty of UW-Madison Department of Mathematics, where he became professor Emeritus in 2016. In addition to his significant research contributions in mathematical logic and recursion theory, and his graduate and undergraduate teaching, Terry served for a couple decades as associate dean for the Physical Sciences in the UW-Madison Graduate School.

Ron became a music librarian at Mills Music Library in the Memorial Library at UW-Madison, until his retirement in 2017.

After returning to the University of Minnesota, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and joined the University of Wisconsin Chemical Engineering Dept. where he taught for 32 years.

Noted: Bill Haberman was born on April 20, 1940, in Princeton, N.J.; his father, Frederick W. Haberman, was teaching there. In 1947, Frederick Haberman joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a communication arts professor and, later, chairman of the Athletic Board.

A star golfer, football and basketball player in high school, Bill Haberman also was a star academically, his son said. After graduating with a degree in history from UW-Madison, Bill went to Harvard Law School, returning to Wisconsin and joining the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee.

Born and raised in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Mr. Draeger served in the Army in the United States and occupied Japan. He went to college on the GI Bill, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin.

He earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Wisconsin and served in the Army during World War II in Europe, where he was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.

As executive secretary of TAUWP, Ed, along with many others throughout the state, played a central role in a nearly 40-year effort to win collective bargaining rights for faculty and academic staff in the UW-System.

For 37 years, he worked for UW-Madison in Poultry Research, and 29 of those years at the University Turkey Farm in Arlington.

She was appointed head of the Business School Library at UW-Madison, a position she held for many years. In 1991, she moved to the Memorial Library where she served as bibliographer for higher education and transportation until her retirement in 2014.

He took a position at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and Hospital. Stuart taught and practiced medicine at the University from 1964-1996, when he retired.

She worked in accounting for the University of Wisconsin in the College of Engineering and later at the College of Letters and Science, where she also developed close friendships.

He was employed for 26 years at the UW Extension Photo Lab and he photographed many weddings in Madison and the surrounding area.

Karpat, an expert on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkish history, was an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Internationally acclaimed Turkish historian Kemal Karpat died on Feb. 20 in the United States aged 96, a Turkish official said.

Lou received a PhD from UW-Madison, where he served in the Horticulture Dept. for 30 years

After traveling widely, he graduated in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also received a master’s degree in English in 1983.

He graduated from Duquesne University’s School of Music in Pittsburgh, PA and completed his M.A. and Ph.D in musicology at the University of Wisconsin Madison.  A recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he was a professor of musicology at the UW-Madison.

Terry was a dedicated employee for 53 years in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department at UW-Madison, where she was an alumna.

Erik Olin Wright, who died on January 23 2019, begged to differ. Wright devoted his career as a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to breathing new life into the study of alternatives to capitalism.

Shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Wright, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, began work on a series of lectures.

Dr. Wright, who was the Vilas distinguished research professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, spent his entire teaching career at Madison, starting in 1976.

I first met Erik Olin Wright when I arrived in the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Ph.D. student in the summer of 2016. Having already read most of his work I could not wait to meet him in person.

Erik Olin Wright never gave up on the dream of a just and equitable society in which human beings might treat one another as kindly as the University of Wisconsin sociology professor and internationally renowned public intellectual treated his students, his colleagues and the communities that he nurtured in Madison and around the world.

Together with Bruce Lacey, John Latham and others, they created the sTigma, a 1965 installation at Better Books in Charing Cross Road, London. Islwyn left for the US, taking a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taking part in other remarkable happenings.

Wright focused his research on inequality, alternatives to capitalism.

Erik Olin Wright never gave up on the dream of a just and equitable society in which human beings might treat one another as kindly as the University of Wisconsin sociology professor and internationally renowned public intellectual treated his students, his colleagues, and the communities that he nurtured in the United States and around the world.

Erik Olin Wright, a renowned UW-Madison sociologist known internationally for his writings on inequality and “real utopias” published in his 42-year campus career, died Wednesday at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. He was 71.

Erik Olin Wright, a University of Wisconsin–Madison sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association, died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 23, 2019. He was 72.

Rudy spent 26 years with the University of Wisconsin Extension as a farm management agent in Columbia County

Frank joined the faculty of the Art History Department at UW-Madison in 1958, retiring in 1995 after 36 years of committed service to the university and his students.

She was blessed to work with Dr. Bruno Balke and Dr. Francis Nagle in the Department of Kinesiology Bio-Dynamics Laboratory at the UW-Natatorium, until they retired, then she transferred to the UW Dance Dept. at Lathrop Hall where Susan retired after 24 and 1/2 years within the UW system.

Jeanne became a stenographer for the chairman of the University of Wisconsin History Department, worked in the School of Education for the Office of Field Experiences, and then retired as office manager in the Dairy Science Department.

He became a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962; professor emeritus in 1986. He was also chairman of the Institute of Industrial Relations at Wisconsin.

He was a professor in the UW–Madison Food Science Department and the program director for the Wisconsin Cheese and Dairy Manufacturing Short Courses.

Noted: List includes Vel Phillips: A pioneer in civil and human rights in Milwaukee, Phillips’ career was full of firsts. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951; in 1956, she became the first woman and first African-American to sit on Milwaukee’s City Council; she was the first female judge in Milwaukee County and the first African-American judge in Wisconsin; and from 1979 to 1983, she was the first female and nonwhite secretary of state in Wisconsin. Phillips died on April 17 at 95 years old in Milwaukee.

Nelson worked as a payroll and insurance counselor at the UW Physical Plant.

He moved to Madison in 1962, and served sequentially as a UW-Madison research administrator, Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science with concurrent duties in the Chancellor’s Office, Assistant, then Associate Vice President and Executive Vice President in the pre-merger central administration, Senior Vice President for Administration in the merged UW system. He also taught graduate courses in the Schools of Business, Education, and Medicine on the Madison campus.

Lorraine worked at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Catalog Department, progressing from a clerk to a cataloguer through the departments, before retiring as a library technician in September, 1988.

She taught for several years, worked at Eau Clair County Extension Office, and at UW Madison in the Department of Consumer Science.

Jane … retired in 2000 from the UW-Madison as a program assistant III for the Rec. Sports Dept. at the Natatorium.

Barb was a registered medical technologist in the clinical chemistry laboratory at UW Hospital for 11 years. She left the lab to oversee the Proficiency Testing Program for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene from 1985 until 2016.

He enjoyed a career working in research for UW-Madison, studying the immunobiological relationship between host and parasite in African trypanosomiais.

In 1970, she became a laboratory technician at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. For over 20 years she was involved in cancer research.

Noted: His keen intelligence was noticed by his teachers, and he was admitted to the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, in New York, which specialized in sciences. He then earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from City College of New York and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from UW.

It was Mercile’s visionary leadership that led her to establish The Chancellor’s Scholars Program and The Powers-Knapp Scholars Program at UW-Madison.

In 1962, he joined the UW-Madison faculty in the Department of Educational Psychology, retiring in 1998.

Laurens joined the UW-Madison Biochemistry faculty, where he remained until his retirement in October 1986.

Doug worked at the University of Wisconsin Physical Plant until his retirement.

Dr. Paik moved to Madison after being invited to work at the University of Wisconsin Chemistry Department as a research pathologist.

In 1944, the family moved to Madison, WI. Webb took on the mantle of family patriarch at barely 17 when his father died suddenly. He stayed in Madison and attended the University of Wisconsin, where he studied Economics, played baseball, was in the ROTC and enjoyed the brotherhood of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity

He was appointed to the Dairy Science faculty at UW-Madison in 1959. After completion of his Ph.D he was appointed full professor.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked in the Graduate School as an advisor for the Fulbright Scholarship program, she became highly regarded for guiding brilliant, young minds with practical, common-sense life lessons.

Her finding, which appeared first in her doctoral dissertation in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, surprised many.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison she worked in the graduate school as an advisor for the Fulbright Scholarship program.

Her book “Marked” evolved from her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which she graduated in 2002.

Noted: “Had she not died, she was a sure bet to be elected,” Robert M. Hauser, who was one of Dr. Pager’s advisers on her dissertation at Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview.

Eileene worked at Lowell Hall Center, and later as a librarian for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.