Category: Obituaries

He was employed with the University of Wisconsin for over 34 years in the maintenance department.

Noted: She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelors of nursing in 1977. She earned a masters in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1996.

Winspur taught French literature at North Carolina State University, Columbia University, and UW-Madison.

Elvehjem’s career included positions at WARF and the UW.

Zach served as the chief engineer in the Planning and Construction Department at UW-Madison for 31 years.

Dally taught at UW-Madison Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine from 1969-83.

Robert Stuart Elvehjem, age 77, passed away peacefully from multiple complications on Friday, April 24, 2015. He was born on March 13, 1938 in Madison to Conrad Arnold Elvehjem and Constance Waltz Elvehjem. Bob graduated from West High School and the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS in Bacteriology. He served in the U.S. Army. Bob’s career included positions at WARF and the UW.

Schweppe worked for UW-Madison as a carpenter until his retirement.

Siegfried is a former chair of the History of Science Department. During his UW tenure, he created nine courses, served on a dozen UW committees and published many articles and reviews. His primary focus was classroom teaching, but his commitment to the public understanding of science led him frequently to write and lecture for the lay-audience.

The columnist, who first met Stanley Kutler in Dec. 2001, says because the former UW–Madison professor was an esteemed author and academic, he had a showman side to him.

Custer worked for 43 years in the Registrar’s Office until her retirement in 2011.

Williams is a former assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and Bacteriology.

Vicki was employed as a teacher at UW-Madison Preschool Lab.

In nearly four decades on campus, from 1951 to 1990 and as dean of students from 1970 to 1987, Ginsberg witnessed such historic events as the post-World War II arrival of GIs and the Vietnam War protests. Ginsberg died Monday in Madison at age 90.

Hartshorne worked for the University of Wisconsin’s Archives and was head of The Oral History Project.

Nelson joined the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in September 1961 where he was elevated to the rank of professor in 1969. He served as a member of the faculty at Wisconsin until he retired in 1995 as Professor Emeritus.

Stanley I. Kutler, a historian who fought for the release of President Richard M. Nixon’s White House tapes and concluded that they proved Nixon was “deeply and intimately involved in sometimes criminal abuses of power, both before and after the Watergate break-in,” died on Tuesday in Fitchburg, Wis., a suburb of Madison. He was 80.

tanley I. Kutler, Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in U.S. legal and constitutional history, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate era, died April 7, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. He was 80.

Louis Brandeis was, of course, correct when he observed that, just as “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” so “publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.”

MADISON — Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday. He was 80.

Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday in Wisconsin. He was 80.

Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died in Wisconsin. He was 80.

She worked at the University of Wisconsin as an administrative assistant for the Dean of General Engineering for over 25 years.

He previously served as professor of computer sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also worked in the Mathematics Research Center.

She spent her working career as a business administrator for the University of Wisconsin housing department.

Mayvis’ career included working in various capacities at UW-Madison. She worked for and with such notable campus pioneers as Drs. Harry Waisman and Paul Carbone.

He was a Spanish instructor at his beloved UW-Madison.

Hazel moved to Madison, and out of school began working for the State of Wisconsin at the Memorial Union and also tap dancing at the old Eastwood Theater before she met and married Harry Imhoff on Aug. 18, 1933. In addition to working for the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, Hazel worked for University of Wisconsin Neurological Hospital as a nursing assistant and as a cook/chef for University of Wisconsin Residence Halls for a total of more than 20 years before retiring in 1976.

Budig worked at the UW Department of Ophthalmology.

Noted: Darling, a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, met his future wife when they were undergrads at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alberta Darling recalled. The couple married in 1967.

Richter joined the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF, now Covance, on Sept. 1, 1949, as a chemist, and enjoyed a highly successful career in chemistry and leadership.

Rosemary was the tour coordinator at the UW-Madison Arboretum from 1965 to 1980.

He worked as head of the Planning and Construction Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for over 40 years.

Scott worked at the UW Medical Library

Hunt worked in the Clinical Laboratory at University Hospital for 37 years.

In 1970, Bill returned to the UW to complete his medical residency in internal medicine and then a fellowship in the newly emerging specialty of infectious diseases. He joined the UW faculty in 1973, as a founding member of the new infectious disease division.

rom 1963-64, he was invited to teach Hausa at UCLA, and then in 1966, he was hired by the African Languages and Literature Department of UW-Madison. … At UW-Madison, Neil taught Hausa, Fufulde, and Arabic language and literature.

An art historian, he retired in 2007 as Emeritus Curator of Visual Resources at the UW Madison Department of History.

Lou began a career with UW-Madison in 1946 where she served as a dietician at Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall on the UW Madison Campus until 1954.

Sam graduated from Tomah High School in 1967 and worked at UW Hospital as a health unit coordinator and also served as president for the UW Union Local 1942.

He was a professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

After his college education, he began his career teaching at UW-Madison in the Physical Education Department. From 1957 to 1958, he served as assistant basketball coach under Coach Harold “Bud” Foster. Al directed the required and elective physical education programs for men as coordinator from 1960 to 1980. He retired in 1985 after 37 years in the department.

He worked for 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the University Hospitals, the University Physical Plant and the University Division of Information Technology before retiring in 2004.

Harry worked for William Powell cleaning, Bob & Gene’s and the UW Hospital Physical Plant. After 29 years at the UW, Harry retired in protest at the age of 55.

Bernice worked for years at the UW Memorial Library in the binding department.

She joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2001, retiring in 2014. She directed UW’s Chicana/o Studies Program, which became the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program under her leadership, and she also served as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies in the History Department.

For years, as an associate professor of pathology at UW-Madison, the white-bearded no mustache Huntington was the go-to man for autopsies for many counties in Wisconsin, including Dane County, that had elected coroners instead of licensed medical examiners.

A CPA, Sue worked at a number of careers, retiring from UW-Madison, where she worked in the registrar’s office.

Bob was on the faculty at UW-Eau Claire, University of Minnesota, UW-Green Bay, UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point, and the UW-Extension

He also worked at UW Provisions and Woodmans until his retirement.

Jill worked for the UW Athletic Department prior to her diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s.

In 1958, the family moved to Madison, Wis., where Jim earned his Ph.D. in journalism and directed the University of Wisconsin photojournalism program until retirement in 1984, at which time the UW darkroom was given his name. He also taught magazine courses and chaired the journalism extension program.

Noted: They attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Rose studied the genetics of fruit flies. Then, as World War II erupted, David was sent to the fledgling Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M.

During his long career in medicine, he held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Worked at University of Wisconsin Stores Department until he retired in 1982.