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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.…
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December 13, 2004
Michael Radock Michael Radock, vice president for university relations and professor of journalism from 1961-81, died Dec. 15 at age 87 in the Glacier Hills Nursing Center in Ann Arbor. Radock was born July 17, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Penn. In 1942, he graduated magna cum laude from Westminster College in Pennsylvania. He held a…
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November 1, 2004
Gail W. Rector Gail W. Rector, president emeritus of the University Musical Society (UMS), died Oct. 18 from complications following a stroke suffered in September. (Photo by U-M Photo Services) “We were saddened to learn of Gail’s passing,” says current UMS President Kenneth C. Fischer, who first worked for Rector as an assistant during the…
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October 25, 2004
Thomas M. Donahue, one of the nation’s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Oct. 16 from complications following heart surgery. He was 83. Thomas M. Donahue in August with granddaughters Kielan and Innes. (Photo courtesy Donahue Family) Donahue, the Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor of Planetary Science,…
