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April 25, 2005
Sally Fleming Sally (Aldyth Louise) Fleming, wife of former U-M president Robben W. Fleming, died April 15 in Naples, Fla., with family at her side. She was 87. (U-M Photo Services file photo) A memorial service in her honor was scheduled for April 23 at the First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor. Born in 1917…
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April 11, 2005
Robert Grosse Robert Nathan Grosse, professor emeritus in the School of Public Health (SPH) and the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning died March 21 in St. Petersburg, Fla., after a brief illness. He was 82. Grosse (Photo courtesy School Of Public Health) “In an era in which we in public health…
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March 28, 2005
Gerald Dunn Former regent Gerald “Gerry” Dunn died March 22 in Garden City, Mich., after a brief illness. He was 70. Dunn served the University for 16 years and continued as a loyal contributor and fan. Dunn (Photo by File Photo By Bob Kalmbach, U-M Photo Services) Regent Emeritus Deane Baker, a Republican, remembers the…
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March 21, 2005
Through the late 1960s, many incoming freshmen waited patiently in a line that snaked through the University Health Service (UHS) building for a mandatory student chest x-ray. (Photo courtesy Leslie Family) As they wound to the top of the stairs, the students were greeted warmly by the veteran coordinator of the program, Wilma (Billie) Rose…
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March 14, 2005
Charles H. Sawyer Charles (Charlie) H. Sawyer, former director of the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), died Feb. 25 after a brief illness. He was born Oct. 20, 1906, in Andover, Mass., to James Cowan Sawyer and Mary Pepperrell Frost Sawyer. (Photo courtesy UMMA) Sawyer attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and then Yale University, where he…
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February 21, 2005
Janet Baylis Janet Baylis, an Information Technology Central Services (ITCS) administrative staff member, died Jan. 7 at Arbor Hospice Residence after a brief illness. She was 61. Baylis worked for U-M for more than 40 years. She was a graduate of Ann Arbor High School and began her University career in the Extension Services department…
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January 31, 2005
Gerard Faeth Gerard Faeth, an aerospace engineering professor and top NASA advisor who led a 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle experiment examining how to reduce soot and other pollutants in the burning of fuel, passed away suddenly Jan. 24. Prof. Gerard Faeth, left, speaks to a team of researchers and astronauts, including astronauts Kalpana Chawla (right,…
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January 24, 2005
Michael Radock Michael Radock, vice president for university relations and professor of journalism from 1961-81, died Dec. 15 at age 87 at the Glacier Hills Nursing Center in Ann Arbor. Courtesy Radock family Radock was born July 17, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Penn. In 1942, he graduated magna cum laude from Westminster College in Pennsylvania.…
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January 17, 2005
Frank W. Gallup Frank W. Gallup of Concord, Mich., passed away Jan. 7 at home with family by his side. Gallup was a U.S. Army Tank Commander from 1955-58 and worked as a maintenance supervisor at U-M. He began working at the University in 1990 as a custodian in Plant Building Services (PBS). He also…
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January 10, 2005
Michael Radock Michael Radock, vice president for university relations and professor of journalism from 1961-81, died Dec. 15 at age 87 at the Glacier Hills Nursing Center in Ann Arbor. Courtesy Radock family Radock was born July 17, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Penn. In 1942, he graduated magna cum laude from Westminster College in Pennsylvania.…
