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October 1, 2012
Pauline Steele Pauline Steele, the second director of the dental hygiene program at the School of Dentistry from 1968 to 1988, died Sept. 13 in Columbus, Ohio, after an extended illness. She was 88. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Miami University in Ohio (1946), she managed a physician’s office…
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August 13, 2012
Paul McCracken Professor Emeritus Paul W. McCracken, a man who helped shape both U.S. economic policy in Washington, D.C., and the minds of business students at U-M, died Aug. 3 in Ann Arbor at the age of 96. McCracken served as adviser in various capacities to several U.S. presidents, in addition to teaching. But his…
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July 23, 2012
Dr. Gerald Charbeneau Dr. Gerald Charbeneau, who chaired the School of Dentistry’s Department of Operative Dentistry from 1969-86, died July 2. He was 86 years old. Charbeneau earned his dental degree from the School of Dentistry in 1948 and received a master’s degree in pediatric dentistry in 1949. That year he also went into part-time…
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June 25, 2012
Joyce (Johnson) Bonk Joyce (Johnson) Bonk, former assistant curator of books at the William L. Clements Library, died June 9 in Ann Arbor, in the care of the staff at Huron Woods — a memory support assisted living community at St. Joseph Mercy — and Arbor Hospice. She was born in Dovray, Minn., on March…
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June 11, 2012
Dr. James Rogers Hayward World-renowned oral surgeon Dr. James Rogers Hayward died May 20 in Naples, Fla. He was 91. During a distinguished career at the School of Dentistry and the Medical School, Hayward trained 83 residents in oral surgery and was known as an extraordinarily gifted surgeon who demanded knowledge, preparation, and excellence in…
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May 21, 2012
William C. Parkinson William C. Parkinson, professor emeritus of physics, died March 19 at the age of 94. A native of Ontario, Canada, Parkinson earned his collegiate degrees at U-M, his Bachelor of Science in 1940, Master of Science in 1941, and a Ph.D. in 1948 as a student of Physics Professor H.R. Crane. He…
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April 16, 2012
Radio and television journalist and U-M alumnus Mike Wallace died on April 7. He was 93 years old. Wallace’s stature as a broadcast journalism icon was rooted in his over 40-year tenure with the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Wallace, AB ’39, HLLD ’87, of New York City was part of the original “60 Minutes”…
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April 9, 2012
Hubert (Hu) English Hubert (Hu) English, emeritus professor of English, LSA, died suddenly Feb. 8 in a manner wholly in keeping with the civility of his life, family members say, while walking with his wife and their dog in a park. English was born July 2, 1925, in Gary, Ind. At 18, he entered national…
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April 2, 2012
Celebrated civil rights litigator John Payton has died at age 65. He was the lead counsel throughout the university’s landmark case Gratz v. Bollinger, the LSA undergraduate admissions case argued in 2003 before the Supreme Court of the United States. Payton was remembered by President Barack Obama as a “personal friend” and “a true champion…
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March 12, 2012
Leo F. McNamara Leo F. McNamara, emeritus professor of English, died Feb. 9 at the age of 78. McNamara was born June 3, 1933, in Clinton, Mass., the son of Leo and Helen (Weaver) McNamara. He received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1954. The next year he married Barbara…
