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February 5, 2001
William Warner Coon William Warner Coon, professor emeritus of surgery, died Oct. 5, 2000, of leukemia at University Hospital. He was 75. Coon spent his childhood in Saginaw and completed his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University. Following graduation from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1949, he joined the U-M Department of Surgery…
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January 22, 2001
Sergei Raygorodsky Sergei Raygorodsky, a research engineer at the College of Engineering’s Space Physics Research Laboratory, and his wife, Liana, died Jan. 11 at their Ann Arbor home. Raygorodsky, 34, had worked as a space instrument parts engineer at the space physics lab since 1992, where he helped develop equipment for space exploration. “Our laboratory…
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January 15, 2001
Martin W. Slobin Martin W. Slobin, adjunct lecturer in behavioral sciences and social sciences at U-M-Dearborn, died of natural causes Dec. 6 in his campus office. He was 55. Slobin had taught numerous classes in sociology and political science since joining the Dearborn faculty in 1979. In 1999, Slobin received the campus’ Distinguished Teaching Award.…
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December 11, 2000
Herbert P. Galliher Jr. Herbert P. Galliher Jr., professor emeritus of ind-ustrial and operations engineering, died Aug. 16 at Arbor Hospice Residence. He was 81. Galliher held bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics and mathematical logic from Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was honorably discharged as…
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December 4, 2000
Avedis Donabedian Avedis Donabedian, the Nathan Sinai Distinguished Professor of Public Health recognized throughout the world for his work in the area of quality assessment and monitoring of health serv-ices, died of cancer Nov. 9. Donabedian retired from the University in 1989 after 28 years of service. He was described as a “giant” in the…
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November 20, 2000
Raymond F. Mosher Raymond F. Mosher, age 94, died Nov. 8 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. He was born in 1906 in Pittsfield, Mass., the son of Fred and Hattie Mosher. An emeritus professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Mosher taught courses in power systems for the College of Engineering 1957–76. A…
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October 16, 2000
Leslie Kish Statistician Leslie Kish, who developed many sampling techniques used in political polls, surveys and censuses, died Oct. 7 in Ann Arbor at age 90. A member of the small group of social scientists who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Social Research (ISR), the world’s largest academic survey and research organization, Kish was…
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October 9, 2000
Emmanuel-George Vakalo Emmanuel-George Vakalo, associate professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, died Oct. 2 in Ann Arbor. He was 54. Vakalo was born in Athens, Greece, and served in the Royal Greek Air Force. He received bachelor’s (1970) and master’s (1973) degrees in architecture, and a master’s degree in…
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October 2, 2000
John Hermann Enns John H. Enns, professor emeritus of engineering mechanics, died Aug. 30 in Rancho Bernardo, Calif., following a short illness. He was 93. Enns was born in Russia in 1907 and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 1932, and studied…
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September 25, 2000
Colin W. Clipson Professor Emeritus of Architecture Colin W. Clipson died Sept. 18 after an extended illness. He was 66. He received his B.A. degree and a graduate diploma from the University of Durham and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Technology, all in his native England. Prior to joining the U-M faculty in…
