Mason Carpenter, a professor and associate dean within the Wisconsin School of Business, died on Thursday at the age of 50 after a battle with cancer, the university announced. Carpenter was a professor of strategic management, the M. Keith Weikel Professor in Leadership and the associate dean of evening and executive master of business administration programs in the business school.
Mason Andrew Carpenter passed into the hands of God on Thursday evening, Sept. 22, 2011, at his home with his family by his side after a year long battle with head and neck cancer. He joined the faculty in UW-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business in 1997 and went on to earn distinction as the M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership. An international expert in strategic management, Mason’s research focused on corporate governance, social networks and global startups.
Mary Ellen Phelps, age 84, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at her home in Stoughton after a brief battle with cancer. Mary worked in Hector DeLuca’s biochemistry lab at the University of Wisconsin. She and her husband moved to Stoughton in 1974, and Mary continued working as a biochemist in the DeLuca lab for more than 20 years.
Ronald D. Bauer, age 74, of Lake Delton, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at his home. From 1959 to 1991 he was employed by the University of Wisconsin Police Department, retiring as captain of security.
Cody A. Blomgren, age 16, of Arlington, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, at University Hospital, as a result of an automobile accident. He had worked for the UW Arlington Agricultural Research Farm.
Raymond “Ray” Wirsbinski passed away on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, at the age of 87 years, one month and seven days. In 1959 Ray became business manager of residence halls for UW-Madison. While this was initially a temporary position, it became his life’s work, the work he did for nearly 40 years.
Beatrice C. “Bea” Bice, age 86, of Verona, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, at her home in Willow Pointe Assisted Living. In 1966, she began her career at UW-Madison, working as an instructor in the Department of Anatomy and as a Behavioral Disabilities graduate advisor before her retirement in 1991.
A former UW-Madison researcher and physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants ? now conducted on tens of thousands people each year ? died Sunday at his home near Boston. He was 77.
Dr. Fritz Bach was 31 years old and an assistant professor at UW-Madison in 1965 when he began developing techniques to help people survive organ transplants. The test he developed allowed doctors to find the family member who would be the closest match in an organ transplant, in order to avoid transplant rejection.
Cultivating laboratories with the deftness of a master gardener, Dr. Fritz Bach brought to full flowering a half-century of scientific concepts, chief among them a cellular test he developed that led to the first successful bone marrow transplants matching donors and recipients.
W. J. “Tip” Tyler passed away peacefully on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, at his home. Tip, a dairy geneticist, spent his career teaching dairy cattle reproduction and doing research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Agriculture Department. His students remember his quick humor and entertaining exam questions.
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Newell J. Smith, the head of University Housing for 30 years and the namesake of a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall, died on Friday at age 93, the university announced in a news release.
Professor Y. Austin Chang passed away Aug. 2, 2011, at age 78. He was a University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000, and elected a member of Academia Sinica of Taiwan in 2010.
William Davis, age 81, passed away on Saturday, July 30, at his home in Madison. William was the Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Madison, from 1973 to 1985.
Newell J. Smith, 93, died on Friday, Aug. 5, at HospiceCare. He served as the university’s director of Housing from 1955-83 and was regarded as a national expert on student housing during an era of tumultuous change. Newell J. Smith Hall, which opened in August 2006, was named in his honor.
Donald O.M. Sorensen, age 85, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Aug. 4. He once worked for UW-Madison for 26 years as Planning and Construction Field Engineer.
Richard Lyman Cates Sr. died surrounded by family of natural causes Wednesday morning, Aug 3, 2011, in Madison, finishing his 85-year adventure that began on Nov. 22, 1925, in New York City. He prosecuted corrupt police officers, defended both the University and students during the uprisings of the 60’s. In addition to his practice, he taught law at the University of Wisconsin from 1956 until 1980.
Ruth Stahmer Hirsch, age 87, went to heaven peacefully Aug. 1, 2011. During her high school years Ruth met the love of her life…Elroy Hirsch. Ruth followed Elroy’s football career from Chicago to Los Angeles to the University of Wisconsin Athletic Director.
Julius Murray Marks, age 96, passed away Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Ingleside Nursing Home in Mount Horeb. Murray had an early career in finance, and concluded his career working in administration for veteran?s affairs for the UW-Madison. He retired in 1980.
Ruth Hirsch, the widow of iconic University of Wisconsin athlete and athletic director Elroy Hirsch, died Monday. She was 87.
Brad R. Krause, age 40, died on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, from the result of an accident at work. Brad was an accomplished and respected journeyman electrician for more than 20 years. He was an advocate for his union brothers and sisters in Local No.159.
MADISON, Wis. — Brad Krause?s life involved working with his hands. The electrician for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on Tuesday as a result of electrocution while working in the Humanities Building. He was 40 years old.
Brad R. Krause, age 40, died on Tuesday, July 26, while working on the UW campus. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Tuschen-Newcomer Funeral Home in Sun Prairie. A visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home on Monday, Aug. 1. A full obituary will be in Sunday’s paper.
Professor Emeritus William F. “Jack” Fry, passed away at his home in Madison, Wis., on July 18, 2011, at 8:45 p.m. Dr. Fry was a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin from 1952 to 1998. He was an experimental high energy physicist at the university and pioneered the astrophysics program.
To his three daughters and friends, Milwaukee lawyer Gerald Kahn was a man who didn?t take himself seriously. A philanthropist, he gave generously of his time and money to various efforts, including the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where was the founding president. He also helped Children?s Hospital of Wisconsin, the Jewish Federation and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., his daughters said.
Niles S. Schley, age 92, passed away on Saturday, July 2, 2011, at his home in Fitchburg. He worked as a master plumber for the University of Wisconsin for more than 25 years.
William “Bill” Hilsenhoff passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Middleton. Bill had a distinguished career as a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in association with numerous professional societies and committees.
With hindsight – and all history is hindsight – it made sense that Simon K. Chen would write a history of his family in retirement.
Heather Crispen died on June 6, 2011, after a courageous battle with cancer. Heather?s love of science took her to the Harlow Primate Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She started as a student worker in 1982, and after receiving her B.S. in psychology in 1983, she continued to work there until her illness prevented it. Her passion for science and monkeys continued through her career as she worked her way to becoming a research program manager. Recently Heather was awarded emerita status by the University of Wisconsin after a long and committed career cut short by her illness.
Maureen Ellen Grant, age 58, of New Glarus, passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. She was a librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 26 years. An informal gathering to celebrate her life and to visit with her family will be held at a later date in New Glarus.
Liz was known for her passion for the out-of-doors, for music, her cats, for her beloved husband, Jeff, and for her commitment to positive social change. As a producer for Wisconsin Public TV, she was ideally suited to the research and storytelling required for the job, working tirelessly to make sense of the world and pass that understanding onto others. Many of her Tribe met Liz through her work producing gardening shows (“she was an elegant gardener”), documentaries (“one of our best educators”), concerts (“a musician and director”), social issues (“sorting out the important things in life”), and environmental concerns.
Toni R. (Pankow) Mills, 68, died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, June 16, 2011. She retired from University Hospital in 2010 after seven years of service.
Former Madison resident, Dr. John F. Morrissey died Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at home in Bend, Ore. He spent his entire career at the University of Wisconsin where he retired in 1989 as an emeritus professor of medicine in the field of gastroenterology. From 1973 to 1984 he was vice chair of the Department of Medicine. He was a pioneer in the use of the gastric camera and established the first endoscopic training program in the United States.
William “Bill” Hilsenhoff passed away on Thursday June 16, 2011, in Middleton. He became a project associate with the UW Entomology Department, and eventually full professor. He received a UW Faculty Meritorius Emeritus award. in 1999. In June 2010, he received the North American Benthological Society’s Award of Excellence and Environmental Stewardship Award. Among his other achievements was the development of the Hilsenhoff Biotic Index used world-wide by water resource managers to gauge water quality.
Simon Chen, a leading diesel engine expert who donated a $1.5 million collection of modern Chinese art to the UW-Madison?s Chazen Museum of Art in 2007, died last week at age 85. He earned a master?s in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. at UW-Madison.
Madison?s Forward Theater Company came on the scene in 2009 with ?All About Eve,? broadcast as a radio play on Wisconsin Public Radio. In the leading role of Broadway star Margo Channing was none other than one of the area?s grande dames of performance: Colleen Burns.
A graduate of UW-Madison, Burns had appeared on well-known stages across the country, including in New York, Chicago and Milwaukee. Her works as a playwright and composer with collaborator Jack Forbes Wilson premiered at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and Madison Repertory Theatre and won the writing team the Dale Wasserman Award for Musical Theatre Composition. Burns also was a founding member of Beloit?s New Court Theatre and its artistic director in 2007 and 2008.
Timothy Scott Connelly, age 51, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, June 11, 2011, at his camper on the Wisconsin River. He was born in Madison, on April 18, 1960, to James J. and Norma R. Abramson Connelly. He was employed in construction until he started working for UW-Madison, where he has been employed for more than 20 years. He worked at Campus Services and delivered campus mail.
Larry M. Thompson, age 66, of Reeseville, died on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, at his home surrounded by his family. He worked for UW-Madison as a police officer for many years.
Phyllis Lucile Graham Boyle, age 87, passed away peacefully on June 4, 2011, in Monona, of causes associated with Alzheimer?s disease. Phyllis received a master’s of library science from the University of Wisconsin in 1969, and worked until 1985, as an administrative assistant and in Admissions and Placement in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin. She loved her colleagues and the students.
The only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger died Saturday at age 80. Over 27 years in the foreign service, he served in the Nixon administration as executive assistant to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, as President Jimmy Carter?s ambassador to Yugoslavia, and as an assistant secretary of state and then undersecretary of state in the first Reagan administration. Born Aug. 1, 1930, in Milwaukee, Eagleburger graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
Nina Leopold Bradley, age 93, died May 25, 2011, at her home on the Leopold Reserve near Baraboo…. Along with her second husband Charles Bradley, she rekindled the “axe-in-hand” philosophy of her father (Aldo Leopold), establishing the Bradley Study Center on the Leopold Reserve along the Wisconsin River in 1976. This work included creation of a graduate ecological research program in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin and expansion of the land restoration and phenological observation that her family had begun so many years ago.
Jan M. Bliese, age 65, met with Jesus on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Jan worked as an account specialist for the University of Wisconsin for 43 years before she retired.
Before he advised Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, before he flew to China and Yugoslavia on diplomatic troubleshooting missions and later helped orchestrate the first Persian Gulf War, Lawrence Eagleburger was a staunch member of the Young Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kathleen “Kay” Kraemer, beloved wife and mother, age 64, passed away Monday, May 30, 2011, at St. Mary?s Care Center in Madison after a long and courageous battle with multiple sclerosis. Kay worked as an obstetrics nurse at University of Wisconsin and Meriter hospitals.
Nina Leopold Bradley is being remembered as a visionary who inspired many to respect the world in which they live. Bradley, 93, died Wednesday at her home in Baraboo. She was the middle of five children to Aldo and Estella Leopold. Aldo Leopold is the renowned author of “A Sand County Almanac,” which was inspired by the Leopold family?s restoration of a worn-out farm in the town of Fairfield along the Wisconsin River. Bradley grew up in Madison and attended UW-Madison. She conducted research from Hawaii to Botswana on wildlife issues with her first husband, William Elder, Huffaker said.
BARABOO – Buddy Huffaker will remember Nina Leopold Bradley as a visionary who inspired many to respect the world in which they live.
Terry Lee Kell, age 60, of Madison, died peacefully surrounded by family on Monday, May 23, 2011, at HospiceCare in Fitchburg, following a battle with cancer. Terry retired as assistant director of financial aid for the University of Wisconsin, where he worked for 35 years.
Kenneth Walter Keul, age 79, passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2011, due to Parkinson?s Disease. Ken worked for the State of Wisconsin in various capacities until retiring from Protection and Security at the UW Hospital.
Prof. Dean Otis Cliver, born March 2, 1935, died Monday, May 16, 2011, at his home in Davis, Calif. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the Food Research Institute from 1962 to 1995 and was a professor at the University of California in Davis from 1995 to 2008, continuing as a professor emeritus until his recent illness.
Edward F. Acker, age 82, of Waunakee, died on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at Fort Atkinson Hospital in Fort Atkinson following a brief illness. Ed was employed at the University of Wisconsin and retired in 1991.
Gail Jeanne Irwin Petersen died on Sunday, May 15, 2011, after a courageous battle with cancer. She received her M.A. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in comparative literature and was later on the faculty of the Department of Comparative Literature for four years.
Laura Ann Fraser, 48, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends in hospice on Saturday, May 14, 2011. In 1991, Laura became an alumni housing board member for the Chi Omega sorority, where she remodeled and preserved the chapter house on Langdon Street.
Gwenn Joanne Opsal died on Sunday, May 8, 2011, surrounded by her family. She worked at the UW-Madison Air Force ROTC for 29 years before retiring.
Lucille A. Alt, age 95, of Madison, passed away on Monday, May 9, 2011. She worked for many years for the State of Wisconsin, retiring in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin Library School.
Manindra K. Verma of Railroad Place in Saratoga Springs, and a 35-year resident of Madison, died peacefully at home on Sunday May 1, 2011. As a professor of linguistics for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he served both as the chairman of Linguistics and as the director of South Asian Studies at the university. Under his guidance the annual conference of South Asian Studies grew to international prominence.
Noted: While an undergraduate studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin, he visited Berlin to look for the house where his grandmother had lived during the 1930s, and found a city still in the grip of conflict.
Mom died on April 30, 2011, during hymn sing at Covenant Oaks. While in Madison, Mom was very proud of her employment as an LTE with the UW Registrar?s Office for 20 years. So, how do you say goodbye to someone who has been a part of your life longer than most parents have been?
Robert C. Walsh, age 84, passed away on Sunday, April 24, 2011, at his home. He was employed by the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Engineering Department for 30 years, retiring in November 1994. He was employed as a machinist and welder, and assisted many students in their thesis projects.
Emily Hornblower Earley, age 94, died on April 16, 2011, in the Health Center at Capitol Lakes Retirement Residence. She worked for the University of Wisconsin Institute for Environmental Studies as editor of technical reports until her retirement in 1986. An active conservationist, she was a founder of Environment Wisconsin after Earth Day in 1970. She served for 13 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum Committee.
Noted: Before coming to Reno, Mr. Glick had served in senior leadership positions at Arizona State and Iowa State Universities, and the University of Missouri at Columbia. He held a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Dr. Glick graduated with a bachelor?s degree in chemistry from Augustana College in Rock Island in 1959. He later earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. After two years of postdoctoral studies at Cornell University, he joined the chemistry department at Wayne State University, where he remained for 17 years.
