Trustees

Howard Krane, JD’57, died November 23 in Chicago. He was 90. Krane, an emeritus trustee, chaired the UChicago Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1999, helping guide the University through budge-tary and enrollment challenges. He also served as a life trustee and board chair at UChicago Medicine, was a member of the Law School and Center in Paris visiting committees, and taught business law as an adjunct faculty member. A graduate of Grinnell College, he joined Kirkland & Ellis in 1957. As a longtime managing partner and tax specialist at the firm, he became a key figure in its global expansion into new areas of practice. The University awarded Krane a doctor of laws honorary degree in 2001. He is survived by two daughters, including University Trustee Hilary K. Krane, JD’89; three stepchildren, including Kyle Harvey, JD’88; and four grandchildren, including Maya Bulkeley-Krane, AB’15, JD’21; Conor Bulkeley-Krane, AB’20; and Henry Bergman, LAB’11, JD’18.

Faculty and staff

Stuart Rice, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, of Chicago, died December 22. He was 92. He made foundational advances that laid the groundwork for technologies such as solar cells, LEDs, and quantum computing. The Wolf Prize and the National Medal of Science were among the many honors he received for his work. Rice mentored countless students, including 107 doctoral students, and received the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1970. During his nearly seven-decade career at UChicago, he served as director of the Institute for the Study of Metals, as chair of the chemistry department, and as the longest-serving dean of the Physical Sciences Division. His daughter Janet Rice, LAB’76, died in 2016. He is survived by his wife, Ruth O’Brien, AB’83, AM’91; a daughter, Barbara Rice, LAB’73; a son, David Rice, LAB’18; and two grandchildren.

John P. “Jack” Gould, MBA’63, PhD’66, the Steven G. Rothmeier Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and former dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, of Chicago, died December 17. He was 85. Gould began teaching at Chicago Booth in 1965. Following a brief period in public service during the Nixon administration, he returned to teaching in 1970, becoming dean in 1983. A champion of educational opportunity, Gould established a director of minority recruitment, encouraged outreach to high school students, and helped launch the Gleacher Center, which expanded access to MBA programs for working professionals. Survivors include his wife, Kathleen Carpenter, and two sons, John P. Gould III, LAB’84, and Jeffrey Gould, LAB’87.

Paul Mendes-Flohr, the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought at the Divinity School, died October 24 in Jerusalem. He was 83. A renowned scholar of intellectual history, modern Jewish thought, and German-Jewish intellectual life, Mendes-Flohr focused particularly on the philosophers Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. After earning his BA at Brooklyn College and PhD at Brandeis University, he became a professor at Hebrew University in Israel, where he directed the Franz Rosenzweig Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. In 2000 he joined the UChicago faculty, dividing his time between Chicago and Jerusalem until his retirement in 2018. Mendes-Flohr’s numerous articles, edited volumes, and monographs include The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (1980) and Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (2019). Survivors include his wife, Rita; two children; and four grandchildren.

Allen Sanderson, AM’70, senior instructional professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College, died January 23 in Chicago. He was 81. During four decades at UChicago, Sanderson taught foundational economics courses to thousands of students, receiving the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1998. He also served as associate provost and NORC senior research scientist, and he contributed widely to news outlets as an expert in labor markets and the economics of sports. Sanderson was active in the Collegiate Scholars Program, the Sawiris Scholars Program, and other initiatives, helping expand educational opportunities for students locally and globally. He is survived by two children, including Matthew Sanderson, MBA’97; and five grandchildren.

Mary Kay “Katy” O’Brien Weintraub, AB’75 (Class of 1974), AM’76, PhD’87, of Chicago, died November 29. She was 72. Weintraub earned her PhD in history and subsequently began teaching History of Western Civilization in 1987, a course she taught continuously for over 30 years. A beloved lecturer and a deeply familiar presence at UChicago, she was also a longtime bookseller at the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. Her husband, Karl Weintraub, AB’49, AM’52, PhD’57, Thomas E. Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History, died in 2004. She is survived by extended family.

Reika Yokochi, research professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, of Chicago, died February 17, 2024, of lung cancer. She was 48. A scholar of noble gas geochemistry, Yokochi joined the UChicago faculty in 2010. Her research focused on the extraction and purification of noble gas radionuclides from water samples, as well as investigations of noble gases in Earth’s mantle and in cometary ices and icy moons. She was recognized with the Young Scientist Award by the Geochemistry Research Association of Japan and was named a NASA Planetary Science Early Career Fellow, both in 2012. Survivors include her husband, Nicolas Dauphas, Louis Block Professor of Geophysical Sciences, and two children.

1940s

Allen McCrady, PhB’47, of Idaho Falls, ID, died October 14. He was 95. Following military service in the Korean War, McCrady pursued two professions in Pittsburgh: practicing law and collecting fossils for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In 1975 he left the law to train at the Smithsonian’s vertebrate paleontology lab and held positions at the Carnegie Museum and the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Active in the Unitarian Universalist Church, McCrady was a life member of the Sons of Norway and the National Speleological Society. He is survived by two daughters, a son, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Herbert Rothenberg, SB’49, MD’51, of Denver, died October 7. He was 96. A physician, Rothenberg worked at Denver General Hospital and served as a captain in the US Air Force during the Korean War. He joined the clinical faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School, and as a practitioner he was notable for taking night calls and making house calls throughout his career. Working with the American College of Physicians, Rothenberg developed a neighborhood health program in Denver; he also volunteered at medical clinics for migrant workers and in Kosovo. Survivors include three children and two grandchildren.

1950s

Mary Jane (Gholson) Engh, AB’51, died July 11 in Garfield, WA. She was 91. After studying history, archaeology, and library science at UChicago, Engh worked as an editor in the United States and Japan. She later completed a master’s degree in library science and became a science librarian at Oklahoma State and Washington State Universities. Under the pen name M. J. Engh, she published several science fiction novels and a children’s book; she also wrote nonfiction, including a 3,000-year history of religious persecution. She is survived by a daughter, Alyssa Ferguson, AB’81; a son; and a brother, Robert K. Gholson, AB’50.

Barbara Taylor Bowman, AM’52, died November 4 in Chicago. She was 96. Bowman, a pioneering researcher, educator, and advocate for early childhood education, taught preschool at UChicago’s Laboratory Schools while pursuing her master’s in education. In 1966 she cofounded what became the Erikson Institute, a graduate school and research center in Chicago that trains teachers to prepare young children from all backgrounds to reach their full potential. Bowman served as the institute’s president and as a professor of child development, influencing policy at the local, state, and federal levels. Her husband, James E. Bowman, EX’65, professor emeritus in pathology and medicine at UChicago, died in 2011. She is survived by a daughter, University Trustee Valerie B. Jarrett; a grandchild, Laura Jarrett, LAB’03; and two great-grandchildren.

Julian Rial Hansen, LAB’43, JD’52, died October 24 in Sarasota, FL. He was 97. A US Navy pilot who served in the Korean War and the Navy Reserve, Hansen headed a family law practice in suburban Chicago. He also served on the Barrington, IL, school board and the zoning board of appeals for Barrington Hills, IL. He and his wife, Barbara P. Hansen, LAB’45, who met at the Laboratory Schools, retired to Sarasota in 2017 after wintering for many years on Longboat Key, FL. His wife died in 2023. Survivors include two daughters, Jane Hansen, MBA’76, and Dicie Hansen, MBA’84, and two grandchildren.

Alan Sparks Ward, JD’55, died September 23 in Shelby, MI. He was 93. Ward, who earned an undergraduate degree in English at Wesleyan University, settled in Chevy Chase, MD, after law school. He held various public-sector legal positions before joining Baker & Hostetler as a partner in the 1970s. Ward practiced antitrust law and continued working as a consultant and lecturer following his retirement from the firm in 2001. He is survived by three children, including Guy G. Ward, AB’89 (Class of 1984); a brother; and three grandchildren.

Eugene Halpert, MD’56, of San Francisco, died October 31. He was 93. For more than four decades, Halpert—a Union College graduate and US Army veteran—had a distinguished career as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He helped train generations of psychiatrists as a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center, published scientific papers, and served on the editorial boards of leading publications in his field. He is survived by three sons, including Douglas Halpert, AB’84; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

John P. Ellis, LAB’52, AB’56, MBA’58, of Oak Lawn, IL, died March 30, 2024. He was 87. A piano player, car collector, and lover of history and politics, Ellis graduated at the top of his law school class and had a successful career in retail. Survivors include two brothers and his partner, Kathy Flynn.

Janet (Bezark) Freed, LAB’49, AM’58, of Niles, IL, died October 17. She was 91. With her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and master’s degree in social work from UChicago, Freed volunteered with numerous organizations, mostly those centering on families. She was also a frequent volunteer at her children’s schools. Her husband, Merrill Freed, AB’49, JD’53, died in 2018. She is survived by four children and six grandchildren.

Howard Hallengren, MBA’58, died October 13 in Chicago. He was 94. Hallengren, a Princeton graduate, was chief investment officer for the First National Bank of Chicago in the 1970s, where he was a critic of the philosophy of investing only in America’s 50 leading companies, coining the phrase “Nifty Fifty.” Later, after a decade as chief investment officer of international private banking at Chase Manhattan Bank, he formed Falcon Real Estate Investment Company. Hallengren was a longtime supporter of UChicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and wrote two novels following his retirement in 2012.

Herman Kattlove, SB’58, MD’62, died June 25 in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 86. Katt-love spent two years in the US Army prior to his residency and fellowship in hematology at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. In 1970 he joined the medical school faculty at UCLA and later went into private practice for 20 years. Kattlove completed a master’s in public health, worked at the American Cancer Society until 2003, and then taught medical students at UCLA until 2018. He is survived by his wife, Rose Weiner Kattlove, AB’60; three daughters; and a grandchild.

1960s

Melvin R. “Mel” Goodes, MBA’60, died September 30 in Palm Beach, FL. He was 89. Goodes attended Queen’s University (Canada) and joined Warner-Lambert (now Pfizer) in 1965, becoming chief operating officer in 1985. In the 1990s, as the company’s chair and CEO, he extended stock options to employees and authorized early testing of what would become the best-selling cholesterol medication Lipitor. Goodes was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009 and worked with the Alz-heimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation to establish an annual prize honoring scientists doing research on the disease. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; three children; a brother; and eight grandchildren.

John Edward “Ed” Murray, SM’60, of Springfield, VA, died October 15. He was 86. With his graduate degree in statistics, Murray became an aerospace engineer in the Washington, DC, area and raised a family in Vienna, VA. After 44 years of service in government and the private sector, he retired in 2000. Survivors include three children and six grandchildren.

Reuben I. Sandler, SM’58, PhD’61, died September 8 in San Francisco. He was 87. A Reed College graduate, Sandler earned a doctorate in mathematics and held professorships at universities in New Zealand, Israel, and the United States. He left academia to live communally on Waiheke Island in New Zealand and later became a business consultant, board member, and executive at research and development companies including Intelligent Optical Systems, which he cofounded. Sandler received UChicago’s Alumni Service Award in 2013, and he served on and chaired the Physical Sciences Division Council. He is survived by three children; a sister; 10 grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and his partner, Emily.

Barbara Morton, AB’63, died September 7 in Toronto. She was 83. After studying mathematics and education in the College, Morton moved to Hamilton, Ontario, in 1969 and stayed for nearly 50 years. As an educator at Hamilton Hebrew Academy, she taught creative writing and performing arts for over three decades; later, she opened branches of the Kumon Learning Center and founded the Knowledge Tree, a learning program she ran until 2018. Morton loved music and the outdoors and belonged to multiple book clubs. Survivors include four children, two brothers, and four grandchildren.

Lawrence “Larry” Domash, SB’63, of Conway, MA, died November 22, 2020. He was 78. Domash studied physics in the College and began teaching at Maharishi International University in 1973. From 1977 to 1980 he served as the university’s president through a pivotal period of growth. A devoted supporter of Chabad House Amherst, Domash bequeathed his estate to the organization to foster Jewish community and spiritual development.

Pamela “Lynn” Grace, AB’69, died October 2 in Eugene, OR. She was 77. Raised in small towns and logging camps in southern Oregon, Grace became valedictorian of her high school class. She later completed a master’s degree in education and retired at 53 to enjoy her many interests, which included gardening, bodybuilding, gourmet cooking, wine tasting, travel, and tango dancing. She is survived by her husband, Denis; her children; a brother; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.

1970s

Raymond Sipowicz, AM’62, PhD’70, of Park Ridge, IL, died December 15, 2023. He was 89. Formerly of Mundelein and Evanston, IL, Sipowicz received degrees in comparative human development and worked as a psychologist at Elgin Mental Health Center and other institutions. Survivors include his wife, Ann; three children; a stepchild; and six grandchildren.

William Weber, AM’65, PhD’70, died August 8 in Los Alamitos, CA. He was 83. Known for his innovative scholarship on the social history of music, Weber was a professor of history at California State University, Long Beach. His numerous books, journal articles, and edited volumes include The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (2008). Active with the teaching division of the American Historical Association, Weber served on the editorial board of The History Teacher. He is survived by his wife, Linda Clark; two daughters; and a grandchild.

Lynn A. “Yael” McKeever, AB’71, of Albuquerque, NM, died October 4. She was 77. McKeever completed law school in Iowa and moved to New Mexico, where she maintained a longtime practice as an estate-planning and small-business attorney. In 2001, after years of study and living a Jewish life, she was ceremonially received by the Jewish people and adopted the Hebrew name Yael. McKeever retired from her legal practice in 2019. She is survived by her partner, Deborah J. Brin; a son; and a grandchild.

Alane Rollings, AB’72, AM’75, of Atlantic Beach, FL, died November 10. She was 74. Rollings attended Bryn Mawr College before completing UChicago degrees in the humanities and Far Eastern languages and civilizations. Over four decades in Chicago, she wrote poetry and taught creative writing at Loyola University and UChicago, later settling in Tybee Island, GA. Rollings published six books of poetry and contributed to literary journals and anthologies; she also had several unpublished manuscripts and at the time of her death was working on a book set in South Africa. Her husband, Richard G. Stern, the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature and the College, died in 2013. Survivors include six siblings.

Huey L. Perry, AM’73, PhD’76, died August 3 in Baton Rouge, LA. He was 76. A 1970 graduate of what is today Grambling State University, Perry studied political science at UChicago and later taught at schools including Loyola University Chicago and Texas A&M University. During his three decades at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Perry published extensively on politics and race in the United States. He received two National Science Foundation grants. He served as chair of Southern’s political science department, dean of its public policy school, and president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He is survived by his wife, Emma; a son; two brothers; a grandchild; and a great-grandchild.

David B. J. Adams, AM’68, PhD’77, died May 1, 2024, in Olympia, WA. He was 82. Adams, who attended the College of William & Mary, specialized in the history of Thailand and taught political science at several colleges. He later became area chief for East Asia and the Pacific for the Fulbright Scholarship Program and received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Asian Studies. Survivors include his spouse, Thomas G. Willis, and a brother.

Terrence M. “Terry” Slaven, JD’77, of Wakefield, RI, died October 28. He was 75. Raised in upstate New York, Slaven practiced law in Arizona for 42 years. He began his legal career at Lewis & Roca, a Phoenix firm where he became a partner. In 1990 he joined Phoenix Children’s Hospital as general counsel and held similar positions at Sun Health and Banner Health before retiring in 2019. Slaven served on the board of the Phoenix Chorale and advised on the creation of KidsCare, a health insurance program for Arizona children. He is survived by his wife, Chris Coffey; three sons; and a grandchild.

Louise Myers, AM’70, PhD’78, of Waltham, MA, died April 6, 2024. She was 78. As a professor emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Myers taught American literature, poetry, and creative writing. She also played violin in the New England Philharmonic for 47 years, making her the orchestra’s longest-serving member since its founding in 1977. Survivors include two children and five grandchildren.

1980s

Geert Broos, MBA’82, died July 10 in Hasselt, Belgium. He was 64. Broos started his career with Proctor & Gamble Belgium and worked for the company in Casablanca, Morocco. Moving to Coca-Cola, he spent several decades in positions with increasing responsibilities, including as managing director of Coca-Cola Korea, and retired as the company’s general manager for North and Equatorial Africa. He is survived by his wife, Ann Delbrassine, and two daughters.

Ted B. Chang, MBA’84, of Corona del Mar, CA, died May 19, 2024. He was 76. After graduating from the Royal Naval Engineering College in England in 1972, Chang served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Malaysian Navy, a post that included a year in Sweden. Moving from Kuala Lumpur to attend Chicago Booth, he later took a position with EPE USA, a subsidiary of Kaneka of Japan. As the company’s general manager and vice president, Chang helped EPE build factories for packaging material around the United States before he left the company in 2002. Survivors include extended family.

Michelle Steele Rebelsky, AB’86, died October 8 in Grinnell, IA. She was 59. Rebelsky studied chemistry in the College before completing her MD at the University of Illinois Chicago and an MBA at the University of Tennessee. She spent most of her career as a family physician in Grinnell, where she was dedicated to providing care that addressed both the physical and psychosocial needs of her patients. Rebelsky became a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2006. She is survived by her husband, Samuel A. Rebelsky, SB’85, SM’87, PhD’93; three children; and a brother.

Jerry Van Polen, PhD’87, died September 29 in Napa, CA. He was 65. Van Polen studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and later was a UChicago graduate fellow and a research assistant at Argonne National Laboratory. An electrical engineer and software developer, he worked for 20 years as a project director for Electro-Motive Diesel, a division of General Motors in McCook, IL. Van Polen’s team, charged with research and development of locomotives for high-speed rail, received 15 patents for their inventions. Survivors include his mother and a sister.

1990s

Anne Flueckiger, AB’92 (Class of 1991), AM’92, of Duluth, MN, died September 26 after a brief illness. She was 55. Flueckiger focused on Russian studies at UChicago and later studied educational policy and administration at the University of Minnesota. As a guide with Adventures in Good Company, she led outdoor adventure and cultural exploration trips for women in the United States and internationally for over 25 years. In Duluth she also served as a nonprofit research collaborator and substitute teacher, volunteered with homeless people, and assisted with work on the Superior Hiking Trail. Survivors include her mother and a brother.

Boris Wolfson, AB’97, of Amherst, MA, died June 13 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 49. In the College Wolfson majored in Fundamentals: Issues and Texts and was active in University Theater. He received his doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in early Soviet theater, and taught at the University of Southern California. In 2008 he became an associate professor of Russian at Amherst College, where he published scholarly works about Russian literature, culture, and theater and chaired the Russian department. He is survived by his wife, Amanda Walling, AB’99; a son; his parents; and his brother.

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