Until now, the memory of his death has been overshadowed by the 1970 anti-war bomb explosion at UW’s Sterling Hall, which took his life.
Friday, a plaque was unveiled at Sterling Hall to commemorate his death and his family’s loss, in a quiet ceremony attended by Fassnacht family members, friends and people who were on campus, at the same place, where the bomb created incredible destruction.
When four young men blew up the building and its Army Math Research Center in the wee morning hours of August 24, the perpetrators did not know Fassnacht, 33 and a father, was working in his lab.