Kohlstedt He came received a master’s degree in genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Elmer and Florence moved to LaFayette County in 1954. He served LaFayette County for 13 years as UW-Extension 4-H Agent and 18 years as a Farm Management Agent.
Martha E. Peterson, the president of Barnard College in the turbulent Vietnam War era who went on hold the same position at Beloit College, died last Friday at her home in Madison, Wis. She was 90.
In 1952, she was promoted to dean of women at University of Kansas, and five years later was appointed to a similar post at the University of Wisconsin.
BELOIT-Martha E. Peterson, a former president of both Beloit College and Barnard College in New York City, died at the age of 90 on Friday.
She also served as assistant to the president at UW-Madison.
RACINE – Brandon M. Zimmerman, age 20, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, July 15, 2006, at his home in Racine….He was preparing to enter his junior year at UW-Madison.
Everyone who knew Colin recognized his powerful creative gifts as a writer, musician, storyteller, and, in his earliest postgraduate years, filmmaker. One of his first UW Film Program short features, “Tilt,” won high honors at the Montreal Film Festival. He held a coveted position in New York with the Maysles Brothers Studios, and later, was invited back to Madison to appear as a panelist at a UW Symposium on film where he shared the stage with such international film legends as Hitchcock, Cacoyannis, and Pasolini.
MADISON – Ruth Bachhuber Doyle passed away on Saturday, May 6, 2006, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 89.
Doyle worked as assistant to the dean of University of Wisconsin Law School in the 1970s and pushed for greater recruitment of women and minorities.
Radke was employed by the University of Wisconsin at UW Arlington Farms, as feed mill operator for 30 years.
Miss Florence M. Daul, age 89, died on Saturday, April 22, 2006. Miss Daul was a secretary for the UW-Madison Department of Linguistics and she retired on Dec. 11, 1981, after a 35-year career on the UW-Madison Campus. Florence was hired by the UW-Purchasing Department in 1946 and was a secretary for UW-Madison News Service before joining the Linguistics Department in 1971.
When Bob Rennebohm traveled to Fort Atkinson last April to pay his final respects to longtime friend and former University of Wisconsin teammate Fred Negus, it was clear age had taken its toll.
Rennebohm, 82 at the time, moved hesitantly, spoke softly and appeared almost fragile. On Saturday, Rennebohm passed away at his home in Madison. He was 83.
….ON THE subject of high-profile murders, Tuesday’s New York Times contained an obituary of a longtime UW-Madison neurologist who testified on the last day of testimony in the 1964 trial of Jack Ruby for fatally shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, of course, had been arrested and charged with murder in the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Francis M. Forster, who died last month in Cincinnati at 94, was living on North Prospect Avenue in Madison in March 1964 when the prosecution in the Ruby case called him during its rebuttal to Ruby’s defense case put on by famed attorney Melvin Belli.
Luna B. Leopold, a gifted scientist and influential conservationist who turned the study of rivers and how they shape the landscape into a science, died Feb. 23 at his Berkeley home. He was 90 and had emphysema and congestive heart disease, said his daughter, Madelyn Leopold of Madison, Wis.
Leopold was the son of eminent wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold.
Frank Nelson Campbell, age 87, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2006. Frank joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he remained for 33 years. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1979.
In 1958, Forster joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a professor of neurology, and he remained there for the rest of his teaching career. After retiring from the university in 1978, he was director of the Francis M. Forster Epilepsy Center at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Madison until 1982.
Dr. James B. Skatrud, age 59, of Madison, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006. Jim was board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the areas of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. Faculty appointments at the University of Wisconsin in Madison included Professor of Medicine and Head of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section from 1984-2004.
Emeritus Professor Gerhard B. Lee, age 88, of Madison, died on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006. In 1955 and was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Soil Science at UW-Madison in the fall of 1956.
Harold Frank Scott, age 91, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. In 1964, Harold moved his family to Madison when he took a position with the University of Wisconsin Physics Department as an electronic technician.
Ruth Elfrieda Johnson, age 90, of Madison, passed away on Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. She worked at the University of Wisconsin for 20 years.
Glenn Charles Hillery, MD, age 76, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006. He helped train new physicians in family medicine with an appointment as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Herbert Harvey, passed away on Dec. 1, 2005. He joined the faculty of the UW Anthropology Department in 1962.
Prof. John R. Schmidt, passed away on Jan. 30, 2006. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin as a professor of agricultural economics in 1956.
Nellie Y. McKay, a distinguished scholar and critic who helped secure a place for African-American women in the modern literary canon, died last Sunday at a hospice in Fitchburg, Wis. She was a resident of Madison, Wis., and was believed to have been in her mid-70’s.
Before coming to Oak Creek High School, he worked as the assistant band director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under director Mike Leckrone.
Nellie Y. McKay, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who introduced African-American literature to college students around the world, has died, a university official announced Monday.
Nellie McKay, a University of Wisconsin professor of African-American literature, died Sunday at the age of 67 after a battle with liver cancer.
MADISON – James B. Bower, age 84, passed away peacefully with his family at his side on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006, in his home in Madison.
He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. For the next 41 years, he was an outstanding educator and teacher. He served the University with distinction, including work as the Chairman of the Department of Accounting and as a leader in Health Care Fiscal Management. He served on many university committees and was particularly proud of his work on the Athletic Committee where he helped to lead an increase in facility growth and participation in intramural athletics.
Professor Nellie McKay, one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of African- American literature, died Sunday of cancer.
Mike O’Melia wasn’t the best player on the 1962 University of Wisconsin team that upset top-ranked Ohio State and snapped the Buckeyes’ 47-game, regular-season winning streak, but he ran the show.
“He was like the quintessential point guard,” former Badgers athletic director Pat Richter said Monday night. “He handled the ball. Good defender. A real playmaker.”
O’Melia, the captain of the Badgers’ 1964 squad, died Saturday of unknown causes. He was 63.
Nellie Y. McKay, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who introduced African-American literature to college students around the world, has died, a university official announced Monday.
“She helped shape the transition of black women’s studies from the margins of awareness to the center of intellectual life,” Craig Werner, who teaches in the university’s department of Afro-American studies, said in the release.
University of Wisconsin senior Eric Passon died after falling 50 to 60 feet inside a Fond du Lac warehouse in the early morning hours of New Year�s Day.
Marvin J. Kammer passed away on Monday, Jan. 9, 2006. He worked for the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Visual Instruction and the Extension Photographic Laboratory.
Evans started at the University of Wisconsin as an instructor and assistant professor, rose to associate professor and professor of English at the University of Illinois, and joined the Harvard faculty as a professor of English literature in 1967.
Elizabeth R. Tennant, age 90, of Portage, died on Monday, Jan. 2, 2006. She was the director of Wesley Foundation at UW-Madison (1944 to 1948).
Howells worked as a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History until 1939, when he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy in 1943, he was assigned to naval intelligence in Washington and served until the end of the war, when he returned to Wisconsin as an associate professor. He became a full professor by 1948.
Milton B. Thorpe, age 85, of Sun Prairie, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005. Milton was a carpenter all of his life and retired from the University of Wisconsin, carpentry shop in 1982.
Wife of UW-Madison physicist Heinz Barschall.
In an odd twist on history, the story of Robert Wollersheim’s professional life begins with the space program and moves back into the hills of a 19th-century vineyard.
The result was the Wollersheim Winery, overlooking the Wisconsin River near Prairie du Sac. Wollersheim – then engineering manager and a project manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center – was already starting to grow grapes when he discovered the long-abandoned vineyard.
Robert P. Wollersheim, age 66, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. He was an electrical engineer for the UW Space Science program and helped develop weather radar and space satellites during the ’60s and ’70s. He was also a professor at UW-Madison in electrical engineering and taught mini-courses on wine appreciation for more than 20 years.
Jim F. Valeria, age 59, passed on into the next life on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. He will be most remembered for his work as a police officer for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, where he received commendations including the Medal of Valor for actions in the line of duty.
Joseph Petrus “the Fox” Wergin, author of seven books on card games, former postmaster of McFarland, high school teacher and two-time Democratic candidate for state Assembly, died Saturday the age of 95. Wergin earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Madison, then taught science and coached sports at Edgerton High School.
Marvin Foster died on Sept. 26, 2005. During the 1960s, Foster was director of the Bureau of Lectures and Concerts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he produced art programs for schools throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest.
Though he finished his coursework for a doctorate in philosophy at UW-Madison, the death of a friend, poet Paul Blackburn, led him to commit to poetry.
Robert R. Ledin, age 85, passed away on Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. Robert worked for the University of Wisconsin, Physics Department as an instrument maker, retiring in 1982.
Over his lifetime, Paul had been a generous contributor to the music department and crew at UW, the latter including the Porter Boathouse, Jablonic Boat Fund, support for publication of Wisconsin Where They Row – A History of Crew at UW, Women’s Boat Fund, and George “Mike” Murphy Endowment Fund, the latter in honor of his former coach.
Gerry Bernhoft changed the way the world worked with a better way to run hydraulic machinery. A mechanical engineering graduate of UW-Madison, he died Saturday at age 75.
Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first “Tonight Show” bandleader, died Tuesday.
In 1975, Henderson was sentenced to six months in prison and a $10,000 fine for filing false income tax statements. He was convicted of wrongly reporting that he donated musical scores and arrangements worth $350,000 to the University of Wisconsin in 1969.
An associate professor of dairy science and dairy systems management extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has died. Roger Palmer passed away on Monday at his home. He was 62 years old.
John E. Proctor, age 71, passed away Sept. 25, 2005. John retired from the University of Wisconsin System in Madison, as director emeritus of data processing in 1997.
Roger W. Palmer, age 62, of Madison, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2005. In 1997 he became assistant professor in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with responsibilities in teaching and extension and was promoted to associate professor in 2003.
Moon taught military history in the ROTC Program at the University of Wisconsin for three years.
Van joined the UW football staff as an assistant coach in 1949, and remained until 1972, during which time Wisconsin went to three Rose Bowls, 1953, 1960 and 1963. In 1972, be became Director of Grant In Aid for all UW athletes. He was honored as “Badger of The Year” by the National “W” Club in 1994.
Russell A. Jones, age 83, died Sept. 27, 2005. He was the Director of Small Business and Outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison. He retired in 1984.
Carter Denniston, age 67, died on Tuesday evening, Sept. 27, 2005. He joined the Genetics faculty as Assistant Professor, becoming Associate Professor in 1975 and full Professor in 1981. He retired and made Emeritus Professor on Jan. 1, 2005.
Anthony Allen “Tony” Clementi passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 200. He worked at the UW Physical Plant for the last seven years.
For many years, he was a part-time instructor on personnel and business courses at the UW Extension Division.
Deneen joined the University of Wisconsin Madison Electric Shop from where he retired in 1978.
Terry D. Snowden died on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005. His working career included Maintenance Supervisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Liz Little was a past president of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee and served on the board of the University of Wisconsin Foundation School of Veterinary Medicine.
As a State Senator, Heinzen chaired the State Education Committee and was chief sponsor of the University Merger Bill, which combined the 10 state universities with the University of Wisconsin at Madison under one board of regents.
Services were held Saturday in Washington, D.C., for Dr. Allen Ryan of Edina, whose pioneering work in sports medicine included establishing a college for it at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He died of congestive heart failure Aug. 14 at age 89.
