Category: Obituaries

Upon completion, he started work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Plant Steam-Fitters Shop where he worked for 40 years until his retirement.

She was born an ordinary little girl in Mississippi, to the Gambrell family, and she became an extraordinary scholar and researcher at the University of Wisconsin, focusing on the application of effective instructional practices. Sara was a tireless advocate for evidence-based teaching methods and her legacy in this area continues to grow.

In March of 1983, he was called back to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, which was building a new School of Veterinary Medicine, as the Director of Pharmacy. Don was there for 25 years until he retired.

Mary Ann worked 32 years as a statistical typist for the University of Wisconsin Madison, retiring in 1994, at the age of 62.

Tom was employed for a few years as a lab technician at the University of Arizona in Tucson then returned to UW-Madison, earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in 1985. He continued to do research in several labs on campus and particularly enjoyed exploring starch synthesis and corn genetics in Oliver Nelson’s lab. Before retirement, Tom was a member of Bruce Klein’s research group that investigated various aspects of blastomycosis.

Upon graduation, she attended the UW-Madison and was employed by the Memorial Library on campus. She spent 37 years working for the library system; a place she loved and where she met many life-long friends.

She had a long and successful career with the University of Wisconsin.

Loran was then employed at the University of Wisconsin food services until 2013 when he retired.

Kevin began his career in epilepsy and neuroimaging in the Department of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2004. Kevin became an integral part of the UW Epilepsy Research group collaborating with researchers in neuropsychology, neurology, and radiology.

He joined the faculty of the Educational Psychology Department, in the School of Education, at UW Madison in 1965, and retired in 1994. He was an internationally recognized authority in the areas of human creativity and gifted education.

In 1974, Joel and Connie moved their family to Madison where he worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a certified concert piano tuner, responsible for more than 250 pianos at the School of Music, the dormitories, and other campus buildings. He initiated and taught piano technology classes at the UW.

After earning degrees from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wageningen Agricultural University’s institute of genetics, and the University of Cambridge, he turned down a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin.

After completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at Boston University Hospital, he moved with his wife Peg (whom he met in a downhill ski club while Peg was a nursing instructor at Boston City Hospital) and their three children (Eric, Edward, and Julia) to Madison, WI, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He served as Head of the Gastroenterology Section, as well as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital.

During his 42-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he instructed thousands of undergraduates, mentored dozens of graduate students, collaborated with colleagues, and produced a steady stream of innovative research. Pat’s area was analysis, the complexity of which is reflected in the title of his most cited paper according to Web of Science: “A theorem of Brown-Halmos type for Bergman space Toeplitz operators.”

She graduated from Central High School during the weekend of June 1960. That following Monday she started her job at the UW Sociology Department Center for Demography, where she worked for 43 years.

In 1977, however, a call came that transformed the second half of Davis’s life. The University of Wisconsin in Madison wanted a bass teacher, and he took the post, not just because the examples of his childhood tutor Walter Dyett, and of Martin Luther King Jr, had inspired a love of teaching in him, but because he was ready to ease the pressures of being a freelance musician.

MURA then became part of the University of Wisconsin, known as the Physical Sciences Laboratory, and Carl worked there as a research tech until his retirement fifty and a half years later. Carl was a member of the University Academic Staff and his title was Distinguished Senior Instrumentation Technologist Emeritus.

Ken’s professional and personal interests led him to a career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he spent over 30 years conducting research and teaching. Ken’s research was centered around fluid dynamics, combustion, air pollution control, and renewable energy. In 1995, Ken was chosen Department Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. In 1999, Ken’s career was recognized by UW-Madison with Emeritus status.

Davis was a massively influential professor, musician and civil rights activist in the city of Madison and throughout the country.

In 1970, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was known to hold office hours sailing on Lake Mendota and where he was professor emeritus at the time of his death.

His death was announced by Persia Davis, his daughter, who said he had been in hospice care for the last two years. Mr. Davis had taught music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Beginning in 1972, Joan was Program Advisor and Volunteer Services Coordinator for the Wisconsin Union, retiring in 1980.

Schmidt worked for the UW-Madison Department of Kinesiology to retirement.

After working for the State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau she landed her “dream job” as an attorney for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Richard Davis, the internationally renowned jazz bassist who taught at the University of Wisconsin for more than 40 years, has passed away at the age of 93, his daughter Persia Davis confirmed. He died Wednesday afternoon after two years in hospice care.

Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison 365; Davis taught at the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years, but spent the last two years in hospice care. “We appreciate all the love and support the community has shown him over the years,” Persia Davis added.

Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison 365; Davis taught at the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years, but spent the last two years in hospice care. “We appreciate all the love and support the community has shown him over the years,” Persia Davis added.

She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia; a bureau director for Wisconsin’s Department of Health and Human Services; the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin; and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, sharing with a new generation of social workers her passion for public policy.

She worked for UW Madison for many years, including in the History of Medicine Department and as the administrative assistant to the dean of the School of Education. She retired in 1999.

Nicholas Hitchon, the University of Wisconsin engineering professor who appeared in the acclaimed “Up” series of British documentary movies, died from complications of throat cancer at age 65.

He worked for the Pet Milk Company in New Glarus until its closing in 1962, in construction for a short time, and finally for UW Madison Administrative Data Processing until his retirement, where he was a manager of student service analysts and programmers responsible for the design, development and maintenance of student data programs and systems.

He worked for the Pet Milk Company in New Glarus until its closing in 1962, in construction for a short time, and finally for UW Madison Administrative Data Processing until his retirement, where he was a manager of student service analysts and programmers responsible for the design, development and maintenance of student data programs and systems.

His proudest moments were constructing a low-cost filmless radiographic system that can perform all the functions required of a field hospital during his years in Department of Medical Physics at UW-Madison with his good friend Dr. Melvin P. Siedband.

Nicholas Hitchon, whose life was chronicled in the acclaimed “Up” series of British documentaries, beginning when he was a boy in the English countryside in 1964 and continuing through the decades as he grew to become a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin, died on July 23 in Madison, Wis. He was 65.

Fred joined the Agricultural Engineering faculty of Michigan State in 1956. He became an Assistant Dean at MSU in 1966, before coming to the University of Wisconsin in 1967 as Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Engineering. While at Madison, Fred worked with his colleagues to gain professional accreditation for the Agricultural Engineering Department. He especially enjoyed teaching classes and mentoring his graduate students from all over the world.

That same year, Dr. Ramirez joined the Department of Neurosurgery at UW Hospital and made many contributions. He was an outstanding teacher and mentor for both medical students and residents.

After moving to Madison, Myra worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Information Technology until retirement.

That same year, Dr. Ramirez joined the Department of Neurosurgery at UW Hospital and made many contributions. He was an outstanding teacher and mentor for both medical students and residents. For many years, Dr. Ramirez oversaw the success of the neurosurgical residency training program.

Ms. Deer racked up a long list of firsts over the course of her life. She was the first member of her tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the first to receive a graduate degree; she was also the first woman to lead the Menominee and the first woman to lead the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Deer was the first member of the Menominee Tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to become the first Native American to obtain a master’s in social work from Columbia University, according to both schools’ websites.

Calvin began teaching at UW-Madison in 1954, as an instructor and joined the faculty in 1959, in the Department of Agricultural Engineering. He taught the design and construction of agricultural buildings, later expanding to courses in the area of construction administration particularly residential construction.

He also worked as a professional electrical engineer at the UW Physical Sciences Laboratory, where he designed the precursor to the telephone answering machine.

He was employed by the UW Madison Athletic Department. He provided massage therapy to Badger student athletes, mainly football and wrestling.

Nick was about to make a major change in his life, as he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US in the early 1980s to continue his work in nuclear fusion.

He remained at the university’s Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering for four decades. Nick became a full professor in 1994, and was department chair from 1999 to 2002. He was the author of more than 100 articles and three books in his specialist field.

After receiving his PhD from the University of Tuebingen, he and the love of his life, his wife Margaret, took on the adventure of a lifetime and traveled by freight ship to Wisconsin, intending to stay for three years. There, Klaus became Director of the UW-Madison Geology Museum, a position he held for 34 years, where among other things he led a team to collect and restore the first dinosaur to be displayed in Wisconsin.

During 39 years of teaching first at the University of Wisconsin and later at the University of Virginia, she dazzled undergraduates in always-packed introductory courses with humour-filled lectures and she trained generations of psychologists who now occupy positions in academia, private practice, and government service.

A Wisconsin farm kid that became an accounting professor, Darryl taught managerial accounting at the Pennsylvania State University, then at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Executive MBA program. He later led a nationally recognized distance learning program for engineering executives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In 1974, Ron came to the University of Wisconsin, where he spent almost 40 years of his academic career. He retired in 2013, as the William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine emeritus.

A graduate of West High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS ’62, MBA ’64), he had a successful career in investment management that allowed him to share his love of the work and his insights both through meeting with and teaching business students, and in supporting and advising the Applied Security Analysis Program (ASAP) in the Wisconsin School of Business.

Peter became an academic librarian, first at UW–Parkside in Kenosha, then at the UW–Madison Instructional Materials Center (now MERIT Library).