February 1, 1993
William Mirsky William Mirsky, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died Jan. 22. He was 70. Mirsky was born July 10, 1922, in Prystan, in what is now the Ukraine. He was the son of Peter and Mary (Yewush) Mirsky. He attended public school in Hartford, Conn., then received a B.S. in mechanical engineering at the…
January 25, 1993
William S. Benninghoff William S. Benninghoff, 74, professor emeritus of botany and director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens from 1977 to 1986, died Jan. 8 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Internment will be at Arlington National Cemetery later. In 1957 Benninghoff joined the botany faculty, and during his 31-year academic career taught plant ecology, general…
January 11, 1993
Otto G. Graf Otto Gotthold Graf, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literatures, died Dec. 15 at Glacier Hills Nursing Center. He was 82 years old. Graf came to the U-M as a student in 1927 and devoted his entire professional career to serving the University as a teacher, scholar and administrator. He directed the…
November 16, 1992
Aleksandra Ligita Rozentals Aleksandra Ligita Rozentals, lecturer in French, died of Hodgkin’s disease on Nov. 3. She was 29. Rozentals was born Sept. 9, 1963, in Kalamazoo. She was a graduate of Kalamazoo College and of Michigan State University (master’s degree in art) and attended the University of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. She was a…
November 2, 1992
Shien-Ming Wu Shien-Ming Wu, the J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, died of complications from heart surgery on Oct. 28 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was 68 years old. An internationally known researcher in the fields of manufacturing engineering and dynamic systems analysis, Wu created and defined the modern field of…
September 21, 1992
Waldo E. Sweet, professor emeritus of Latin and the teaching of Latin, died here Sept. 15 of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. He was 80 years old. Sweet was best known for his development of a new approach to teaching Latin based on the application of modern linguistic theories and modern language learning theories. His textbook,…
September 8, 1992
Edward S. Bordin Edward S. Bordin, professor emeritus of psychology, died of cancer Aug. 24 in La Jolla, Calif. He was 78. Bordin, who was director of the Counseling Center for more than 30 years, was a distinguished scholar, researcher and clinician in psychotherapy. “Generations of graduate clinical students, many now in leadership roles across…
