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February 20, 2006
Paul Carter Paul Carter, professor emeritus of education at U-M-Dearborn, died Jan. 27 of heart failure. He was 96. (Photo courtesy U-M-Dearborn) Carter was instrumental in building the education programs offered at U-M-Dearborn, including the creation of the master’s degree in education in 1975. As coordinator of teacher certification in the liberal arts division, Carter…
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February 13, 2006
Paul Carter Paul Carter, professor emeritus of education at U-M-Dearborn, died Jan. 27 of heart failure. He was 96. (Photo courtesy U-M-Dearborn) Carter was instrumental in building the education programs offered at U-M-Dearborn, including the creation of the master’s degree in education in 1975. As coordinator of teacher certification in the liberal arts division, Carter…
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February 6, 2006
James Wendel James Gutwillig Wendel, emeritus professor of mathematics, died Jan. 16 in Portland, Ore., of complications from cancer. He was 83. (Photo courtesy Department of Mathematics) Wendel was born April 18, 1922, in Portland, where he lived until graduating from Reed College in 1943. His collegiate years were interrupted by World War II, during…
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January 30, 2006
Louis Kazda Louis Frank Kazda, emeritus professor of electrical engineering and computer science, died Jan. 15 at his home in Las Cruces, N.M. (Photo courtesy EECS) Kazda was born in 1916 in Dayton, Ohio and graduated from Stiverson High School in 1934. He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1940 and a…
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January 23, 2006
Dr. Caesar Briefer Former director of the University Health Service (UHS) Dr. Caesar “Cy” Briefer died Jan. 12 at his home in Ann Arbor. He was 76. Briefer (File Photo/U-M Photo Services) During his tenure as director from 1981-99, UHS instituted a full student health fee to cover office visits and many other procedures such…
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January 15, 2006
David Fleisher David Fleisher, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the School of Pharmacy, died Jan. 7 at his home in Ann Arbor after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 61. Fleischer (Photo by Andy Oberdick, Palmer Studios) Born in Rochester, N.Y., Fleisher earned a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the The State…
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January 9, 2006
Emmett Leith Emmett Leith, a professor known widely as one of the founders of modern holography, died Dec. 23 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was 78. Leith (Photo courtesy College Of Engineering) In 1964, Leith and colleague Juris Upatnieks displayed a revolutionary laser transmission hologram of a toy train at the Optical Society Spring…
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December 12, 2005
Edward Loyer Assistant University Registrar Edward Clark Loyer died Sept. 27 after a short illness. He was 68. Loyer (Photo courtesy Loyer family) Loyer was a man of many interests and talents, including being an avid cyclist, jazz enthusiast, and passionate supporter of the arts and theatre. He saw himself as an administrator/educator with an…
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October 31, 2005
William C. Wood, a former Photo Services photographer, died Oct. 14 after a three-year battle with early onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. He was 38. Wood (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) Wood graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Art & Design in 1989. He was a staff photographer…
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October 17, 2005
Ernst Pulgram, professor emeritus of romance and classical linguistics, died Aug.17 while vacationing in Ireland. He was one month shy of his 90th birthday. (Photo courtesy LSA) A colleague wrote in a tribute, “With him the last of the great Romanists who had to flee from the Nazis and went to the states, is gone.”…
