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March 2, 2009
Thomas McClure Tom McClure, emeritus professor of art, died Feb. 11 at Glacier Hills Nursing Home. He was 88. McClure was a well-known sculptor and artist. He taught at U-M for more than 30 years. His work can be seen in many museums including the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the Syracuse Museum of Fine…
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February 16, 2009
Faith Vlcek Faith Vlcek, a University employee for more than 10 years, was killed Feb. 10 in a car accident. Vlcek was as a program administrator for the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the Ford School in 2007, she worked at the Stephen M. Ross…
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February 9, 2009
Emanuel Hertzler Emanuel Hertzler, emeritus professor of biology at U-M-Dearborn, died Jan. 28 in Granger, Ind. He was 92. Hertzler, who held a doctorate in biology, also taught at Kent State University. He was born Jan. 7, 1917, in Norristown, Penn. On June 14, 1942, he married Myrtle Schnell in Orville, Ohio. Hertzler is a…
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December 15, 2008
Thomas Roach > Robert Zajonc Social psychologist Robert Zajonc, who conducted groundbreaking research on the complexities of social life, died after a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer Dec. 3 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 85. Born in Lodz, Poland, Zajonc’s parents were killed during World War II in a German air raid when he…
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October 13, 2008
Joseph Hawkins Jr. Joseph Hawkins Jr., professor emeritus at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, died Oct. 6 in Ann Arbor. He was 94. He was a physiologist and morphologist, a psychoacoustician, a student of animal behavior, a biochemist and a historian of auditory science. His research appeared in publications spanning from 1939-2006. In 1963 Hawkins…
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July 28, 2008
Dorwin Cartwright Dorwin “Doc” Cartwright, one of the founders of the field of group dynamics, died of chronic renal failure July 18 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. “Doc Cartwright was one of the pioneers in the field,” says social psychologist James S. Jackson, director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), where Cartwright…
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July 14, 2008
Ted Dielman Ted Dielman, professor emeritus of health behavior and health education and professor emeritus of medical education, died June 29 at home in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 68. Dielman was born Aug. 15, 1939, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Frederick Charles and Hazel Farrell Dielman. He grew up in Canton, Kansas,…
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June 23, 2008
The Record accepts obituaries from University departments, family members and funeral homes acting on behalf of the family. All obituaries must be for active or retired faculty and staff members.
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June 9, 2008
Walter Clark Jr. Walter Clark Jr., associate professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at LSA, died May 11 in Hancock, N. H., where he had built a house and retired in 1993. He was born Oct. 6, 1931, in Pittsfield, Mass., the son of Walter and Ruth O’Brien Clark. The family spent parts of…
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May 27, 2008
Arthur Burks Computer science and philosophy professor Arthur Burks, whose late-1940s work on the logic of computer programming helped to lay the foundation for the digital age, died May 14 in Ann Arbor. He was 92. Burks, an active faculty member for 40 years, also was one of the principal engineers of the first general…
