Category: Obituaries

To see the impact Tom Pleger had on friends and colleagues, one need look no further than his Facebook page.

Tom was a registered RN and over time his work in animal husbandry and research led him to a vibrant and successful career at the University Of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, as the Director of Animal Research, a position he loved and was exceptional at.

Bob was also a well respected clinical instructor for many years at the UW School of Pharmacy, working with many students and faculty members.

David spent his last years enjoying his work at Der Rathskeller in the UW Memorial Union.

In 1994, he changed careers to become a Lab Animal Technician at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

dward was a laboratory engineer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Campus, for 38 years.

She also served as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin from 1990 to 2013.

He served as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin and built and maintained a private practice in psychology.

In the 1970s and 80s, Bill served two terms on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. He was appointed by Governor Lucy and reappointed by Governor Dreyfus. While serving as chair of the Real Estate Committee, Bill was instrumental in developing the University of Wisconsin Madison Research Park, an area to house the cutting-edge research done at UW Madison.

Before and after his enlistment, he worked for 44 years at the U.W. Hospital in the recovery room.

Creola worked for over 30 years at the UW-Madison Registrar’s Office.

Creola worked for over 30 years at the UW-Madison Registrar’s Office.

After he retired, he developed and taught the Government and Administrative Law Clinic at UW Law School, where he trained second and third year law students to be compassionate and thoughtful lawyers and policy makers through clinical placements in state administrative agencies.

He worked at the UW Synchrotron Radiation Center as assistant director of research and retired in 2010.

She subsequently taught at the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Meghan Flannery, 26, was from Milwaukee and a former soccer player at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jaafar was a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for 30+ years until his retirement in 1997.

Quirt Sann graduated from the Valparaiso University School of Law in 1999 and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a journalism degree in 1996.

Harold was employed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Electrical Maintenance Department.

She worked at UW Police and Security for many years and retired in 1998.

After completing her Ph.D. at UW-Madison, Nancy became a full professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and taught there for 15 years, until her retirement in 1998.

Later he partnered in ownership of the Middleton A&W, founded a cellulose fiber insulation plant, and eventually retired from the UW-Madison Enzyme Institute.

She was employed at the University of Wisconsin Accounting Department.

Former controller for Memorial Union.

he held several different positions with the State of Wisconsin, the most recent as a financial specialist with the Department of Geology, UW-Madison.

Roger worked as a building and grounds superintendent, most recently for UW Waisman Center.

She was a student at the UW-Madison where she was on the Dean’s List, studying elementary education and teaching English as a second language. She was known for her kindness and thoughtfulness for others.

Once her boys were in college, Emily began a career assisting hundreds of medical students at the UW-Madison Medical School.

Dorothy Rice, a pioneering government economist and statistician whose research about the need of the aged for health insurance helped make the case for the passage of Medicare in 1965, died on Feb. 25 in Oakland, Calif. She was 94. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Terry was a professor in the Cooperative Extension Service in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 31 years.

George Mairet Richard died Feb. 16, 2017, one month shy of his 94th birthday. George was editor of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Magazine in the 1950s.

Edward Garvey was born on April 18, 1940, in Burlington, Wis., and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its law school. A job with a law firm in Minneapolis led to his work for the players’ union.

Noted: Schickel went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a journalism scholarship, and was editor of the Daily Cardinal and did some freelance work for The Milwaukee Journal. (In “Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip,” he says he lost his job as editor of the Cardinal because of his “anti-McCarthyism.”). Schickel left Wisconsin in 1956 for Los Angeles, where he worked as a freelance writer and reviewer.

Jan Vansina, 87, a pathfinder in the field of African history and a quiet but enthusiastic leader, author and mentor, died Feb. 8 of lung cancer in Madison.

Larry was employed for 35 years by the State of Wisconsin, where he was a maintenance mechanic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She then worked as an IBM Operator before beginning a career at the University of Wisconsin working as the manager of the Hospital Gift Shop and then in Residential Life.

He devoted himself to the study and teaching of African History and related subjects at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1961 until 1994.

Marvin worked as a professor in the UW Physics Department and, after 1976, as an Associate Dean of the Graduate School until his retirement in 1994. Throughout his tenure at UW, Marvin maintained a robust research network.

He worked for the Gordon Flesch Company in Madison and later became an electrician for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a career that spanned more than 30 years, until his retirement in 1999.

After college, Liz worked for the WIBA Radio Station. During her time at WIBA, she was the first female reporter to become a regular in the all men’s press room at the State Capitol. After her employment with WIBA, Liz went on to work part-time at the Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her position at the UW later turned to full-time employment with UW News & Public Affairs.

Larry was employed for 35 years by the State of Wisconsin, where he was a maintenance mechanic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Harald S. Naess, an affable, accessible UW-Madison professor who for many years was Wisconsin’s go-to guy for answers to all questions about Norway, died Sunday in Kristiansand, Norway, where he grew up. He was 91.

Oliver Smithies had a habit of inventing ways to do the experiments he wanted to do, and crafted tools that are now used widely in biology. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for developing methods to genetically modify individual mammalian genes.

Following early life values and directions, she was always grateful for the privilege of serving the UW-Madison as a program manager, researcher, writer and artist for departments and units dedicated to expanding social, economic and educational opportunities for all.

Bill was an instrument maker for the UW-Madison Electrical Engineering Dept. for 30 years, where he was credited in many research publications.

Noted: After earning a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1949, she traveled to Paris, where she enrolled in the atelier of Fernand Léger. On returning to New York, she took a course with the German art theorist Rudolf Arnheim at the New School.

He became a graduate student in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, studying under the supervision of Professor William S. Johnson. He received his Ph.D. in 1960, with a thesis on “Approaches to the Synthesis of the Alkaloid Veratramine.” Shortly thereafter, Howard began an academic career that spanned over 50 years at the University of Wisconsin.

For 46 years she supported graduate students and professors with their research as a medical technologist in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Anesthesiology at UW Madison. She was awarded Emeritus Status by then Chancellor Donna Shalala in September 1991.

During his career, he served as a captain with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department; as an investigator with the Dane County Vice Squad; and as chief of police with the Waunakee Police Department.

At the age of 50 she returned to graduate school and earned an M.S. degree in Preventive Medicine/Epidemiology at UW-Madison. She designed and carried out research projects for the UW Department of Family Medicine, the State of Wisconsin Division of Health, and the World Bank.

She dedicated many years working for the University of Wisconsin at Lowell Hall.

After several years in Vail, he returned to Madison and began his 23 years of Wisconsin state service, the majority at UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies where he worked until his retirement in 2014.

In 1968 Carol moved the family to Madison, Wis., where he had taken a job as a Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin. He retired from this job in 1994.

Oliver Smithies, a renowned geneticist, Nobel laureate and former UW-Madison professor, died Tuesday at the age of 91.

CHAPEL HILL — Oliver Smithies, the first person to win a Nobel Prize while a member of UNC-Chapel Hill’s faculty, died Tuesday at age 91 after a short illness.

Oliver Smithies, a British-born biochemist and inveterate tinkerer who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering a powerful tool for identifying the roles of individual genes in health and disease, died on Tuesday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 91.

Services for a UW-Madison freshman nursing student who died in a plane crash along with her father in December will be held on Sunday, with a scholarship established in her name at the nursing school.