Dr. Rollo DuBois “Rolly” Lange passed away peacefully on Monday, July 20, 2009, surrounded by family. In 1956 his family moved to Madison where Rolly maintained a successful medical practice as an ear, nose and throat specialist, serving on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Hospital, and as a staff member of St. Mary’s and Madison General (now Meriter) hospitals.
Alvin J. Greenberg passed away on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at the HospiceCare Center in Madison. He was on faculty at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Stanley Ivan Dodson passed away on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. Stanley was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin from 1970 until his retirement in 2008.
Irwin A. Goodman passed away on August 30, 2009, and Madison mourns the loss of one of its most caring and generous citizens. Along with his brother, Robert D. Goodman, Irwin was instrumental in establishing a long list of facilities, and programs that serve our community.
Irwin Goodman, a pillar of the Madison community who along with his brother Robert gave more than $10 million to philanthropic causes, died Sunday at his Madison home. He was 94.
Though he amassed his fortune selling jewelry, Goodman was able to give so much because of his frugal lifestyle, colleagues said.
….The Goodmans have been among the cityâ??s most philanthropic citizens, providing millions of dollars for civic events, UW-Madison athletics, the United Way of Dane County and the Madison Community Foundation.
Jean Marie Backes, nee Cuta, age 56, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. She was a member of the OT Department at UW Hospital in Madison and held similar positions at other hospitals as well.
MADISON – Jill Dee (Gehm) Wilson, age 56, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, after enduring two years of cancer. She was born on March 14, 1953, in Madison, the daughter of Gerald and Dolores (Pettis) Gehm. Jill graduated from East High School in 1971. She graduated from the LPN program at MATC and worked at UW Hospital for three years.
Hanson worked for 28 years as a policewoman/ detective for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, devoting much of her efforts to crime prevention, especially sexual assault awareness, and was the operational link between the campus administration and the law enforcement community. Frankly, she blazed the way for many women who now call law enforcement their chosen profession and she helped change the attitudes of many men in the then male dominated profession.
BROOKLYN – On Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, God placed a double rainbow over the skies of Green County to open the gateway for Karen to return to her Heavenly Father. How appropriate that was. Karen couldnâ??t read road maps, but she could read the beauty and see the “from here to eternity” qualities of a rainbow. She worked for 28 years as a policewoman/ detective for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, devoting much of her efforts to crime prevention, especially sexual assault awareness, and was the operational link between the campus administration and the law enforcement community. Frankly, she blazed the way for many women who now call law enforcement their chosen profession and she helped change the attitudes of many men in the then male dominated profession.
PLATTEVILLE/ VIROQUA – Laurel A. Skrede, age 54, of Platteville, formerly of Viroqua, died unexpectedly from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Grant County on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. She attended the University of Platteville where she received a B.S. degree in criminal justice and political science in 1982. Following graduation she served the university campus community through the department of protective services for more than 26 years. Her initial work was as a student security officer. She held progressively more responsible positions and served as chief from 1997 through her retirement at the end of 2008.
A UW-Madison faculty member has died as a result of a crash while biking at the Colorado National Monument, the National Park Service reported.
Stanley Dodson, 65, was riding down a road on Saturday afternoon when he lost control of his bike. He was taken to St. Maryâ??s Medical Center in Grand Junction and died Sunday, the Associated Press reported.
For the first time, a cyclist has died after crashing in Colorado National Monument, according to the National Park Service.
Stanley Dodson, 65, of Madison, Wis., died Sunday from injuries he suffered when he crashed his bicycle on Rim Rock Drive, according to a news release from the Park Service.
Madison retired this year as a zoology professor at the University of Wisconsin, said Jeff Hardin, chairman of the zoology department.
The National Park Service says 65-year-old Stanley Dodson of Madison lost control of his bike while riding down Rim Rock Drive on Saturday. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, where he died on Sunday.
Dodson worked as a zoology professor at the University of Madison Wisconsin.
It’s the first fatal bicycling accident in the history of the 98-year-old park, which has sweeping views of red rock canyons.
Converse Herrick “Connie” Blanchard, emeritus professor of physics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, died unexpectedly on Aug. 13, 2009 in Chilmark, Mass. He taught at UW-Madison from 1961 to 1991.
Gerhard “Gary” Schulz, age 87, of Fond du Lac, passed away Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Gary covered the UW campus for 37 years for the News Service including research projects and all sports events. He also taught photography courses at UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison.
Helen M. Hull, age 97, of Madison, passed away peacefully on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. She worked as a secretary for the University of Wisconsin retiring in 1976.
Noted: One of his sculptures, titled “Nightwater” and installed on the University of Wisconsin campus, is made of aluminum and depicts an abstract wave.
Nancy Nan-hwa Wu passed away at the age of 89 on the morning of March 13, 2009. Nancy taught at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison, and at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, until she retired in 1994.
Aletta “Polly” Harbort, age 91, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. She worked for Red Dot Foods and UW Hospital.
Josephine A. Cerro, age 86, passed away peacefully on Aug. 9, 2009. She worked at the UW – Madison Registrar’s office for 39 years until her retirement in 1986.
Verna Eleanor Smith, age 85, passed away on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Verna worked as a housekeeper for the UW-Madison dormitories for 17 years.
Ross B. Inman, age 77, died on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, at HospiceCare, Madison. Ross was professor of biochemistry and molecular virology at UW-Madison from 1967 until his retirement in 2008.
Charles F. Koval, age 71, lost his valiant battle to multiple myeloma on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. Chuck enjoyed a long, fulfilling career as a professor and administrator at UW-Madison.
Josephine Lutz died on July 16, 2009. She enjoyed her work as a hospital supervisor and nursing instructor at Cape Palmas Hospital in Liberia, West Africa, and teaching at San Diego State University, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research increased our understanding of amino acid transport in brain tissues; the effects of the acid-base composition of foods on calcium metabolism; and the genetic relationships of bone density between mothers and their daughters.
Longtime Madisonian Sandy Starrett died on Sunday, July 5, 2009. As captain of the UW-Madison women’s rugby team for many years, she lovingly and tirelessly corralled her team to many victories. Many will remember her as a teacher of womens studies at the UW-Madison.
Jean H. Haltvick passed away on Monday, July 20, 2009. Through the years Jean held various secretarial positions with Forest Products Laboratory, UW-Madison, the Iron Workers and Cement Finishers Union office, Wild Masonry and Wisconsin Culvert.
Rhonda Renee Spaeni, age 54, passed away on Saturday, July 18, 2009. She worked for several Madison companies over the years, including UW Health.
Muriel Esther Onsrud Stoneman, age 83, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, July 19, 2009. During the 1940s, Muriel worked as an x-ray technician at University Hospital.
Shereen Beaulieu, age 51, of Madison, died Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at her home. Shereen was a grants specialist with a graduate program at UW-Madison.
Betty Ann Vaughn, age 86, passed away at her home on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Betty was the first woman alumni representative on the UW-Madison Athletic Board, president of the Alumni Association, co-founder of the WIS Club, president of the Jaycettes, chairman of Civics Club, president of Madison Symphony Orchestra League and a strong supporter of Olbrich, University Foundation, Hospice and many other organizations.
Dorothy J. Brewer, of Monona, passed away on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Dorothy was the personnel director of Residence Halls at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked for 37 years, and was known for her tact, graciousness, hard work and discipline.
A man who was killed when a large tree split and landed on his car is being remembered Friday.
A memorial was held for Roch Kendrick, 46, of New Glarus, Friday. He worked as an engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department.
Friends say a memorial service is set for UW-Madison researcher Roch Kendrick.
A gathering of friends and family will be held Friday, July 17, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wilhelm Tell Shooting Park, N8741 Cty Hwy O, on the North end of 2nd Street, in New Glarus, Wis.
A memorial fund has been established for the children and contributions can be made to:
Tae kwon do master Dr. Sang Kee Paik passed away at the age of 80 on Sunday after a long battle with cancer, leaving behind a legacy of humanitarianism and exceptional training of martial arts.
Paik was born into Japanese-occupied Korea on Aug. 21, 1929. He started his martial arts training in 1945, and received his first black belt in 1947.
Paik and his two children joined his wife in America in 1969 when the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored him to come and work. He worked as a lab scientist in the UW primate research lab, eventually becoming Unit Chief.
Marian B. Peckham, age 82, of Madison, passed away on Monday, July 13, 2009. Marian was a radiotherapy technologist at UW Hospital for 16 years.
Clarence Boles Jr., age 65, of Madison, died on Tuesday, July 14, 2009. He retired from Oscar Mayer, returned to work and then retired from the UW-Madison.
Geneva June Rusterholz, age 89, of Madison, died on Saturday, July 4, 2009. June worked as a cook at the University of Wisconsin cafeteria for more than 20 years.
Arthur Kelman, who was a highly regarded professor and researcher with UW-Madison’s plant pathology department for nearly 25 years, died Monday (June 29)at the age of 90.
“He was a stellar scientist and scholar of the first rank,” said John Andrews, a UW-Madison professor of plant pathology. “But beyond that he was a great humanitarian. He understood people very well, was a great advocate for his profession and always saw the best in people. He was broadly influential and well known on this campus.”
Arthur Kelman, age 90, passed away on Monday, June 29, 2009. In 1965 he came to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to assume the chair of the Department of Plant Pathology. Despite an extremely demanding schedule, he taught the basic undergraduate course in plant pathology for many years.
Elwood A. Brickbauer, age 88, passed away on Sunday, June 28,2009. Elwood was employed by the University of Wisconsin for more than 34 years in the Extension Service.
James A. Mott, age 79, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday evening, June 21, 2009. During his last two years of college, Jim researched the school’s complete basketball history under the guidance of Sports Information Director Art Lentz. He graduated in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in zoology. Following graduation he entered the military, serving with the U.S. Army Transportation Corps from 1951-53 including 16 months in Korea. He returned to the University of Wisconsin and worked as a student assistant in the Sports Information Office while earning a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. He was appointed assistant sports information director in July 1954 and was appointed head sports information director in March 1966, and served in that capacity until his retirement in June 1990.
Whenever an artist such as Jim Mott dies, those fortunate enough to own pieces of his work invariably take a moment to quietly reflect upon them.
That was me Monday, a day after one of the great historians of University of Wisconsin athletics passed away peacefully following a prolonged battle with Parkinsonâ??s Disease.
Mott, 79, was the mild-mannered guardian of all things Badgers during his 36 years in the sports information office. He ran the show from 1966 to his retirement in 1990. He was perfectly suited for the job given the fact he attended UW and received two of the most compatible undergraduate degrees imaginable for dealing with sports media: zoology and journalism.
Marcelitte D. Hood (nee Porter), age 101, a resident of Omro Care Center, passed away on June 12, 2009. She was employed as a ward clerk at the University Hospital, Madison, until retiring in 1973.
William R. “Bill” Hansen, age 83, of Sun Prairie, formerly of Madison, passed away on Thursday, June 18, 2009. Bill was formerly employed at UW Hospital and Whalen Transfer.
Robert Grilley, age 88, died in Madison on Monday, June 15, 2009. Robert joined the UW Art Department faculty in 1945, where he taught life drawing and painting for 42 years. He was selected by a prominent group of individuals representing Art in America as one of the country’s rising new talents as a painter in 1957. He was chair of the Graduate Art Program from 1960-65, of the Art Department from 1962-65 and conferred Professor Emeritus status upon retirement in 1987.
David C. Brown, age 76, passed away after a long illness, in Dallas, Texas, on Monday, June 15, 2009. Dave was an assistant basketball coach at UW-Madison from 1963-1971.
Ella Ilene Miller, age 85, of Richland Center, died on Thursday, June 18, 2009. Ella had worked for a brief time at the Richland Hospital, for Premo Orchard and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has lost an institution.
Jim Mott, the schoolâ??s Sports Information Director for 34 years, died Sunday night. His age was not available late Sunday night, but research showed he most likely was 79 or 80.
â??It might sound corny,â? Mott told The Capital Times just before his retirement in June 1990, â??but it really has been a love affair between me and Wisconsin athletics.â?
Philip D. Curtin, a historian of the African slave trade who after World War II was a leading figure in reviving the neglected field of African history, has died. He was 87.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Curtin applied more rigorous and scholarly methods to the study of the slave trade and brought the topic to the attention of a wider academic audience. He published more than a dozen books and co-founded the department of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin, which the American Historical Assn. said was the first in the United States.
Edythe Hawthorne Myers, 89, has died. Beginning in the 1960s, Edythe worked for the American Red Cross and later the University of Wisconsin Hospital in cancer research.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Phil Curtin died June 4 of pneumonia. According to published reports, he was 87 and living in Kennett Square, Pa.
Curtin is credited with helping to start the department of African languages and literature at UW-Madison, which is believed to be the first department of its kind in the United States.
Robert Grilley, age 88, died Monday, June 15, 2009. Plans for a Memorial Service are pending. A full obituary will appear in the Sunday paper.
My friend Phil Curtin died a couple of weeks ago. William Grimes published one of his characteristically nicely researched and written obits in The New York Times yesterday, accompanied by a nice photograph that was probably taken by his wife, Anne. Phil was 87 at the time of his death, and his health had been quite poor for the last couple of years. Still, it is hard to lose Phil.
Adria and I have been close to Phil and Anne since those years in the 1960s when we all lived in Madison, where Phil and I taught in the history department of the University of Wisconsin. I was then an altogether obscure assistant professor of early American history, but Phil was already a genuine titan. He was, above all, one of the pioneers of serious African history â?? one of those who studied Africa in context rather than as an emanation of European imperialism. He collaborated with Jan Vansina in those years to produce an entirely new school of African history, the most important in the world.
Philip D. Curtin, a wide-ranging and influential historian whose pioneering use of modern statistical methods to determine the extent of the Atlantic slave trade suggested that far fewer slaves were transported from Africa than had previously been thought, died June 4 in West Chester, Pa. He was 87 and lived in Kennett Square, Pa.
At the University of Wisconsin, where he began teaching in 1956, he and a colleague, Jan Vansina, started a department of African languages and literature, helping to establish African studies as an academic discipline in the United States. From 1975 until his retirement in 1998, he taught at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Norman S. Greenfield died on June 10, 2009, at his California home at age 86. In 1954 he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, where he was one of the founders of the Department of Psychiatry. The early values he brought to the Department of Psychiatry, using rigorous scientific methods to integrate psychology with psychiatry to improve the lives of those suffering from mental illness, continue today as the Department of Psychiatry’s guiding principles.
Caroline Mack, 100, passed away on Thursday June 11, 2009. Caroline attended Madison Vocational School, learning typing and bookkeeping. She worked in those professions at Quality Service Laundry, and later at UW Heating Plant, from which she retired.
Amarillo, TX –Dr. Chester A. “CAB” Bond, age 60, died Monday, June 8, 2009. He was a professor of Pharmacy Practice at Texas Tech University-HSC School of Pharmacy. Previously he was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, where he was a professor of pharmacy and psychiatry and served as associate dean for professional affairs.
Philip D. Curtin, an internationally recognized scholar of African and world history, died Thursday, June 4, 2009 at age 87 in West Chester, Pa. He taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Wisconsin, and the Johns Hopkins University. The author of 14 books and numerous articles, his work focused on cultural, economic, social, and epidemiological history.
Donald T. Fullerton Jr., age 76, died Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Before retiring as Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, he was Associate Dean at the UW-Madison Medical School and Clinics, Director of Clinical Affairs, and Chairman of the Medical Board.
Irene Lee Mueller, age 95, passed away on Friday, June 5, 2009. After her children were raised, Irene worked at the Wisconsin Center on the UW campus.
