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May 21, 2012
William C. Parkinson William C. Parkinson, professor emeritus of physics, died March 19 at the age of 94. A native of Ontario, Canada, Parkinson earned his collegiate degrees at U-M, his Bachelor of Science in 1940, Master of Science in 1941, and a Ph.D. in 1948 as a student of Physics Professor H.R. Crane. He…
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April 16, 2012
Radio and television journalist and U-M alumnus Mike Wallace died on April 7. He was 93 years old. Wallace’s stature as a broadcast journalism icon was rooted in his over 40-year tenure with the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Wallace, AB ’39, HLLD ’87, of New York City was part of the original “60 Minutes”…
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April 9, 2012
Hubert (Hu) English Hubert (Hu) English, emeritus professor of English, LSA, died suddenly Feb. 8 in a manner wholly in keeping with the civility of his life, family members say, while walking with his wife and their dog in a park. English was born July 2, 1925, in Gary, Ind. At 18, he entered national…
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April 2, 2012
Celebrated civil rights litigator John Payton has died at age 65. He was the lead counsel throughout the university’s landmark case Gratz v. Bollinger, the LSA undergraduate admissions case argued in 2003 before the Supreme Court of the United States. Payton was remembered by President Barack Obama as a “personal friend” and “a true champion…
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March 12, 2012
Leo F. McNamara Leo F. McNamara, emeritus professor of English, died Feb. 9 at the age of 78. McNamara was born June 3, 1933, in Clinton, Mass., the son of Leo and Helen (Weaver) McNamara. He received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1954. The next year he married Barbara…
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January 16, 2012
Cecelia Banwell-Graham Cecelia Banwell-Graham, a former Medical School illustrator, died Dec. 14 in Tacoma, Wash. She was 87. Photo courtesy Patty Graham. Born in Detroit in 1924, Graham was identified early as an art prodigy. In 1943 she graduated from Cass Technical High School and entered Wayne State University, to pursue a degree in art…
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October 31, 2011
Deane Baker Former U-M Regent Deane Baker died Oct. 19 in California at the age of 86. Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library. “He taught us about possibility, public service and an engaged life,” says his daughter Betsy Baker, associate professor at Vermont Law School. Baker devoted his political life to strengthening public education, as an…
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October 24, 2011
Galen Toews Dr. Galen Toews, a pioneering lung researcher who led the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the U-M Health System for more than 20 years, died Oct. 12 after stepping down in September due to illness. Toews’ influence will continue to be seen for years to come, says pulmonologist Dr. Theodore…
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October 10, 2011
Roy Proffitt For several generations of Michigan Law students and alumni, Emeritus Professor Roy Proffitt was the face of the Law School itself. Last week Proffitt died at age 93. Proffitt, who earned his J.D. and Master of Law degrees at Michigan in 1946 and 1948, joined Michigan’s law faculty in 1956 and served in…
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August 15, 2011
Eric Stein Eminent legal scholar Eric Stein, who first came to the Law School as a refugee from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and later helped his adopted country draft rules that still govern the United Nations, has died in Ann Arbor at 98. Read a complete obituary for Eric Stein > The passing of a man universally…
