Faculty and staff

Jonathan L. Rosner, professor emeritus of physics, of Chicago, died May 24. He was 83. Rosner conducted research on various topics in particle physics, with a focus on the properties and interactions of quarks and leptons in the Standard Model and beyond. Educated at Swarthmore College and Princeton, he was a central figure in UChicago’s Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute from 1982 until his retirement in 2011. While primarily a theoretician—he published more than 500 theoretical papers—Rosner also taught electronics courses and actively participated in experimental endeavors such as the CLEO Collaboration in high-energy physics. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and received Sloan Research and Guggenheim Fellowships, among many other honors. He is survived by his wife, Joy; two children, Hannah Rosner, LAB’87, and Benjamin Rosner, LAB’97; and a grandchild.

Harvey M. Golomb, AB’64, the Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine, of Las Vegas, died August 20. He was 82. Golomb was a leading authority on the genetic abnormalities that cause various cancers and an expert on chemotherapy for leukemia, lymphoma, and lung cancer. In collaboration with cancer genetics pioneer Janet Rowley, LAB’42, PhB’45, SB’46, MD’48, Golomb conducted pivotal research defining genetic subsets of leukemia. Trained at the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Golomb joined the UChicago faculty in 1975 and became chief of the Section of Hematology/Oncology in 1981. He served as chair of the Department of Medicine from 1998 to 2005 and dean of clinical affairs and chief medical officer for UChicago Medicine from 2002 to 2011. He retired in 2023. Survivors include his wife, Lynne; daughter Sara Golomb, LAB’91; and son Adam S. Golomb, LAB’89.

Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, died September 22 in Chicago. He was 76. A leading scholar of ancient ethics, Lear authored Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (1988), an influential introduction to the philosopher’s work. Lear’s psychoanalytic training drove his later work bridging ancient philosophy and psychology, including Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006), informed by his time on the Apsáalooke Reservation in Montana. Lear joined UChicago in 1996 and remained on the faculty for nearly 30 years, serving as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2014 to 2022. His accomplishments in this role included fostering collaborations between faculty and Indigenous scholars. He is survived by his wife, Gabriel Richardson Lear, the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization; two children, including current Lab student Samuel Lear; and a sister.

1940s

Judith B. “Judy” Daskal, LAB’46, PhB’49, MST’74, died July 30 in Mill Valley, CA. She was 95. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Daskal fled the Nazi regime with her family in 1936 and settled in Chicago. After graduating from the College, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern. She returned to the University of Chicago two decades later to get a master of science in teaching. For 50 years Daskal specialized in tutoring children with dyslexia and worked with adults as well. After 86 years in Chicago, she moved to Mill Valley in 2022 to be closer to family. Her husband, George Daskal, LAB’42, died in 2020. She is survived by her daughters, Elizabeth Daskal, LAB’76, Jessica Daskal, LAB’78, and Kathryn Daskal, LAB’78, and four grandchildren.

Chen Ning Yang, PhD’48, died October 18 in Beijing. He was 103. Yang came to UChicago to study under Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller, moving to Princeton, NJ, in 1949 to work at the Institute for Advanced Study. He spent summers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he codeveloped the Yang-Mills theory, a cornerstone of modern particle physics. In collaboration with Tsung-Dao Lee, PhD’50, he challenged long-held assumptions about the symmetry of physical forces, and the two were jointly awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1966 he joined what is now Stony Brook University as the founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, which today bears his name. Eventually relocating to China, Yang served as a professor at Tsinghua University and helped foster academic exchange with the United States. Survivors include his wife, two children, and two grandchildren.

Evelyn Graves West, SM’49, of Blacksburg, VA, died March 24. She was 102. A graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, West supervised polio units at Vanderbilt Hospital after receiving her master’s degree. Moving to Blacksburg, she worked as a nurse and preschool teacher and was on the nursing faculty at Wytheville Community College for 15 years. West retired in 1989 and sold her hand-knitted and sewn items on the craft circuit; she also was a faithful member of Blacksburg United Methodist Church for nearly 72 years. Survivors include four daughters, a sister, nine grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

1950s

Ellen (Stano) Smith, AB’52, died March 10 in Bethesda, MD. She was 92. Raised in a factory town in rural Pennsylvania, Smith won a scholarship to the College at age 16. Smith gravitated toward the arts and literature and began her career in children’s book publishing. She later joined the US State Department, taught in Bethesda elementary schools, translated classic American books for English language learners, and worked as an editor for US Pharmacopeia. Survivors include two children, a brother, and two grandchildren.

Sanfred Koltun, AB’54, MBA’55, of Chicago, died May 9, 2024. He was 90. As the CEO of Kolcraft Enterprises Inc., Koltun grew a small family-owned crib mattress and pad business into a leading children’s product company. Koltun supported the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Joffrey Ballet, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He also served on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; three children; one sibling; and seven grandchildren.

Chung Nan Lee Kim, AM’57, died February 10, 2021, in San Mateo, CA. She was 87. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim was the daughter of Yi Kwang-Su, a pioneering Korean novelist. Kim left the country during the Korean War to study English literature at Bryn Mawr College on a scholarship. She went on to complete master’s, doctoral, and law degrees and to practice immigration and family law in San Francisco. She is survived by her spouse, Young-Shik Kim; two sons; a sister; and five grandchildren.

Richard Emmons Luthin, MBA’57, died June 14 in Freeport, IL. He was 95. A Lawrence College graduate and US Army veteran, Luthin became an accountant and auditor at Micro Switch in Freeport. In 1972 he became dean of business services at Highland Community College, serving in that role until 1992. His involvement in local government and civic organizations included eight years as a Freeport alderman, service on many boards, support for conservation groups and the arts, and 59 years in the Freeport Noon Kiwanis Club. Survivors include four children; six grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and his partner, Carol Russell.

Ronald Anthony Crutchfield, AB’58, SB’59, of San Jose, CA, died March 22. He was 88. A first-generation college student, Crutchfield studied mathematics at UChicago and did graduate work at American University and the University of Rochester. His career started in Virginia with missile-defense design and ended at Lockheed Martin in California with big-picture thinking about national security strategy and geopolitics. He remained in this line of work long enough to meet his Soviet counterparts at the end of the Cold War. After retirement Crutchfield played soccer, traveled, studied foreign languages, and taught English as a foreign language on a volunteer basis. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; four children, including Amy (Crutchfield) Boone, AB’84 (Class of 1985); and 11 grandchildren, including Jonathan Boone, AB’22, and Caroline Boone, AB’25.

Mary Kazik Trusela, AM’58, died September 13 in State College, PA. She was 93. Trusela earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing education at the University of Pittsburgh before her graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where she focused on maternal-child health and nursing. She became a pediatric nurse at Ohio Valley Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, and she taught nursing at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Pediatrics. She is survived by three children and five grandchildren.

Robert Eugene Williams, AB’58, died June 27 in Evanston, IL. He was 88. After earning his psychology degree from the College, Williams later studied calligraphy in England for a year before returning to Chicago and starting work as a book designer with the University of Chicago Press. There he designed and illustrated many books, including the first edition of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) by Norman Maclean, PhD’40. Williams cofounded and led the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, teaching calligraphy for them as well as for the Newberry Library and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Leonard Gottesman, AM’58, PhD’59, of Bala Cynwyd, PA, died August 16, 2024. He was 93. A psychologist, Gottesman specialized in gerontology and embraced approaches that addressed the needs of seniors while supporting their independence and dignity. Outside of work he enjoyed gardening, folk art, folk toys, and travel. Survivors include two sons, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Marion Deckert, DB’59, AM’65, PhD’69, of North Newton, KS, died June 6. He was 90. Deckert first graduated from Bethel College; then, after earning graduate degrees in philosophy, he taught at the University of Southern Colorado before returning to Kansas. He spent most of his career at Bethel College, serving as academic dean and teaching philosophy and computer science, and even after his retirement in 1996 he continued to take on short-term teaching assignments. Deckert served with the Mennonite Central Committee in Morocco and Indonesia; he also enjoyed biking and gardening. Survivors include two children, a sister, and two grandchildren.

1960s

Larry P. Scriggins, JD’61, died March 31 in Morgantown, WV. He was 88. A Middlebury College graduate, Scriggins was a longtime partner and specialist in corporate business law at Piper & Marbury (now DLA Piper). He served on the boards of Baltimore cultural and business institutions and chaired corporate, banking, and business law for the American Bar Association. In retirement Scriggins joined the boards of the Four Seasons Hotels and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is survived by his wife, Victoria; a daughter; a sister, Sheila Scriggins, AM’72; a brother; and three grandchildren.

Walter Telesetsky, MBA’61, of Rockville, MD, died June 16. He was 87. Working in the federal government from 1970 to 2002, Telesetsky helped improve national weather forecasting systems and fostered international cooperation in atmospheric and oceanographic science. As director of the office of systems operations at the National Weather Service, he led the deployment of NEXRAD—the Doppler radar network used in severe storm detection and early warning systems—and received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal for his contributions. He is survived by a daughter.

Perry Lewis Weed, JD’61, of Annapolis, MD, died June 20. He was 89. Weed, a litigation specialist, dedicated his career to law, politics, economics, and writing. He practiced law for more than 20 years while pursuing varied interests: publishing The White Ethnic Movement and Ethnic Politics (1973), becoming special assistant to a US senator and a US representative, and serving as vice president of government affairs for the Travel Industry Association of America. In retirement Weed wrote commentary for the Capital Gazette and several other papers on economics and politics. He also founded the Economic Club of Annapolis. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Fisher Weed, AB’63, AM’70; a daughter; a sister; a brother; and two grandchildren.

Robert Willey Barton, SB’62, MD’67, PhD’67, died June 11 in St. Louis. He was 84. Barton completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Washington University. Remaining in St. Louis, he established the first endoscopy lab at St. Luke’s Hospital West. After Guillain-Barré syndrome left him physically disabled, Barton returned to clinical practice for 10 years and became a volunteer teacher for 30 more, winning several teaching awards. He is survived by his wife, Premsri; five children, including Melissa Barton, AM’05, PhD’12, Jeffrey Barton, MD’08, and Grant Barton, MD’11; and 11 grandchildren.

Robert W. Fuller, EX’62, died July 15 in Berkeley, CA. He was 88. A math and physics prodigy who never finished high school or his Oberlin College bachelor’s degree, Fuller completed a PhD in physics at Princeton and later studied economics at UChicago. In 1970, after teaching physics at Columbia University and Trinity College, Fuller became Oberlin’s 10th president at the age of 33, serving until 1974. Later, as a self-described “citizen diplomat,” he arranged exchanges between Soviet and American scientists and authored 12 books, including Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (2003) and a 2013 memoir. Survivors include his wife, Claire Sheridan; a daughter; two sons; a stepson; a brother; and four grandchildren.

Naomi A. Parish, AB’63, of Kennett Square, PA, died May 21. She was 84. Following her medical studies at Temple University and her psychiatry residency, Parish established a private psychiatry practice in Pennsylvania. She worked to support women survivors of domestic abuse, with local hospitals and treatment centers, and with patients with intellectual disabilities. A fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Parish advocated for women’s rights in medicine and founded an early support group for women psychiatrists in the Philadelphia area. She is survived by her husband, Roger Parish, SM’64, PhD’65; two daughters, including Rebecca Parish, AB’91, MST’92; a sister; and two grandchildren.

Gilbert Asher, JD’64, died June 9 in Peabody, MA. He was 85. A University of Michigan graduate, Asher was a lawyer and investor in Chicago and later in Santa Fe, NM. He loved skiing, photography, and traveling. He is survived by two children, including Whitney Asher, AB’98; a brother; and two grandchildren, including Arden Berg, Class of 2028.

Joseph G. Kotzin, AM’65, died April 14 in Los Angeles. He was 86. Kotzin hitchhiked to New York City to work and immerse himself in the jazz scene after his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Later, with his master’s degree in human development and psychology, he dedicated himself to public service and philanthropy. As a longtime volunteer at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Kotzin helped residents facing eviction; he also supported an adult literacy program, volunteered in public schools, and cofounded a humanistic Judaism group in the city. Survivors include his wife, Diana Slaughter Kotzin, AB’62, AM’64, PhD’68, and a brother.

Charles Lanski, SB’65, SM’66, PhD’69, of Pasadena, CA, died June 6. He was 81. With three degrees in mathematics, Lanski joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, where he taught, advised students, and did research from 1969 to 2016. A lover of music, he played viola in the Santa Monica Symphony early in his career. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, including Alison Lanski, AB’04; and two grandchildren.

Michael A. Sherman, AB’66, AM’67, PhD’74, died April 8 in Berlin, VT. He was 80. Sherman earned his doctorate in history in 1974 and worked as an adjunct professor and at a humanities nonprofit before joining the Vermont Historical Society in 1985. After a decade as executive director, he continued as editor of the journal Vermont History and coauthored Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont in 2004. He taught in the adult degree program of what was then called Vermont College, served as academic dean at the now closed Burlington College, and was deeply engaged in the community of Montpelier, VT. His wife, Nancy Grabill Sherman, AB’67, MBA’75, died in 2018. Survivors include two sons and two grandchildren.

Charles Pratt, JD’67, of New York, died May 30. He was 86. After graduating from Harvard in 1961, Pratt spent three years in the US Army as a Russian linguist. He worked as a lawyer in private practice and served as general counsel for the New York Power Authority for 20 years before launching a second career as an energy and utilities entrepreneur. Pratt spent many summers in Murray Bay, Quebec, and traveled to France and Italy to pursue his interest in formal garden design. Survivors include two sons, a brother, and three grandchildren.

Linda Leinweber, AB’68, AM’70, of Wheaton, IL, died October 21, 2024. She was 78. As a young woman, Leinweber developed a lifelong love of music and the theater and was active in the antiwar movement. Following her graduate studies in English literature, she became a researcher with Encyclopedia Britannica. Leinweber later joined Golin Harris, a Chicago-based public relations firm, as a secretary and was promoted to research analyst and corporate librarian, a role she held until 2001. She later taught composition, logic, poetry, and world literature at the College of DuPage. She is survived by her husband, Joseph; two children; and a brother.

Edward F. Zalewski, PhD’68, died May 4 in Tucson, AZ. He was 84. With his doctorate in physical chemistry, Zalewski worked for 20 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology with the group that revolutionized radiometry through the use of photodiodes. He spent six years at Hughes Danbury Optical Solutions, receiving patents for his work on the MODIS satellite sensor program, and later was a research professor in the Remote Sensing Group at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. Zalewski is survived by his wife, Christine Porch; two daughters; two stepsons; a sister; grandchildren; and step-grandchildren.

Thomas M. Conley, PhD’69, died August 26 in Champaign, IL. He was 84. During his doctoral studies Conley tended bar at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap, where he also met his wife, Elizabeth Goldsmith Conley, AM’64. As a communications professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1980 to 2010, Conley became a distinguished scholar in the history of rhetorical theory. His research explored rhetorical practice across cultures and eras, leading him to write Rhetoric in the European Tradition (1993) and Toward a Rhetoric of Insult (2010). He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

Salim M. “Sal” Lalani, MBA’69, of Bozeman, MT, died July 13. He was 80. Raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Lalani graduated from Swansea University in Wales. He began his finance career in the international division of Bank of America in San Francisco, working in credit, commercial, and investment banking. Lalani established an investment banking boutique, Sandown Capital Corporation, in 1987 and commuted between Montana and London to run it. He and his wife, Carol, supported arts and medical causes in Bozeman and Livingston, MT, in memory of their son, Shane, who died in 2008. Survivors include his wife.

1970s

Virginia Wright Wexman, AB’70, AM’71, PhD’76, of Altadena, CA, died March 14. She was 83. Wexman, a professor emerita of English and art history at the University of Illinois Chicago, helped shape the field of film and media studies through her scholarship. Her publications include A History of Film (now in its seventh edition) and the edited volumes Film and Authorship (2002) and Women and Experimental Filmmaking (2005). A past president of what is today the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Wexman edited what is now the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies from 1982 to 1987 and served on international film festival juries. Survivors include her husband, John Huntington.

Francis A. Boyle, AB’71 (Class of 1972), died January 30, 2025, in Urbana, IL. He was 74. Boyle, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, published and consulted widely in the field of international and human rights law. He represented Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada and advised international bodies on human rights, war crimes, genocide, nuclear policy, and biowarfare—providing counsel, for example, to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the International Court of Justice and in Middle East peace negotiations. Boyle received his master’s, doctoral, and JD degrees at Harvard and served on the board of Amnesty International. He is survived by his wife, Betsy; three sons; and five siblings. His sister, Eileen Boyle, AB’88, died April 13 (See below.—Ed.).

Margaret Vogel Sheldon, PhD’71, died August 15 in Thompson, PA. She was 82. As a doctoral student, Vogel, a Bryn Mawr College graduate, did biophysics research that contributed to early studies of gene expression and mRNA. While raising her family in Scranton, PA, she served as president of the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Temple Israel, and the Scranton chapter of Hadassah, as well as on the boards of many other organizations. Retiring to rural Susquehanna County, Vogel and her husband lived in the house his ancestors had homesteaded four generations earlier. She is survived by her husband, Douglas; three sons; a sister; two step-siblings; and six grandchildren.

James T. Hinchliff, JD’72, of Chicago, died February 20, 2025. He was 85. Hinchliff’s first love was music, which he studied at Drake University and Harvard. While in law school, he taught music at Roosevelt University and sang professionally in a choir. After joining the law department of Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and gaining expertise in utility law, Hinchliff became senior vice president and general counsel of Peoples Energy in Chicago. He supported Chase House, an Episcopal-affiliated charity, and arts and music organizations. He is survived by his wife, Margot; two children; two brothers; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Kubet Emil “Kubie” Luchterhand, AM’68, PhD’74, of Ellison Bay, WI, died August 12. He was 80. An anthropologist, Luchterhand worked as a research associate at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History from 1964 to 1988, traveling the world to find and classify fossils and early tools. He taught anthropology at Roosevelt University for 17 years and then moved to Wisconsin’s Door County in 1988 to open and run an independent bookstore, William Caxton Ltd. Bookseller and Publisher, in Sister Bay. He also served with the Sister Bay Volunteer Fire Department.

Robert Keating O’Neill, PhD’75, AM’76, died August 11 in Gilbert, AZ. He was 80. A veteran of the Army National Guard of Arizona and US Army Reserves, O’Neill completed graduate degrees in history and library science. As director of the John J. Burns Library at Boston College from 1987 to 2013, he led efforts to grow the library’s special collections. In 1991 the American and Irish governments honored O’Neill for his role in an international sting operation that broke up a stolen antiquities ring and returned priceless artifacts to Ireland. He is survived by his wife, Helen; six children; six grandchildren; two sisters; and two brothers.

T. David Brent, AB’70, AM’71, PhD’77, of Chicago, died August 18. He was 76. As a graduate student in philosophy, Brent—the son of Chicago bookseller Stuart Brent, EX’40—joined the University of Chicago Press as an entry-level first reader. He remained at the press for 42 years, editing many notable books in anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. As executive editor, Brent helped the press develop an African studies category and oversaw the publication of works by French philosopher Jacques Derrida and Divinity School professor Mircea Eliade, among others. He is survived by his wife, Jataun Martin; two sons; and seven siblings, including Jonathan Brent, AM’73, PhD’80.

D. Garth Taylor, AM’73, PhD’78, of Harbert, MI, died May 10. He was 75. Trained as a sociologist, Taylor taught in his field, worked at the Chicago Urban League, and led the nonprofit Metro Chicago Information Center as executive director for 20 years before retiring in 2010. A passionate supporter of music education and performance—including the UChicago Folk Festival—Taylor cofounded the School of American Music in Three Oaks, MI, in 2012. He also played guitar, composed music, and wrote curricula for teaching guitar. Survivors include his wife, Sue; a son; a sister; and a brother.

Robert Earl “Bob” Washington, PhD’78, of Gulph Mills, PA, died February 17, 2025. He was 83. Washington graduated from Columbia University and volunteered with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan before undertaking his doctoral studies in sociology. In 1971 he joined the Bryn Mawr College faculty—becoming the school’s first African American faculty member in the arts and sciences—and remained there until his retirement in 2020. Washington’s scholarship on social theory, race relations, urban sociology, and sociology of deviance includes The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt (2001) and three coauthored and coedited books on the sociology of sport. Survivors include his partner, Rose A. Makofske, and two brothers.

Carol Studenmund, AB’79, died December 20, 2024, in Portland, OR. She was 67. Studenmund trained as a court reporter in Portland and cofounded a business, LNS Court Reporting, that has served legal clients for nearly four decades. An advocate for closed-captioning services to support the deaf and hard of hearing community, Studenmund taught captioning workshops and cowrote best practices for the profession that were adopted by the Federal Communications Commission. She supported Planned Parenthood and local and state political campaigns and enjoyed hiking and kayaking. Her first husband, Robert Larson, AB’79, died in 2004. Survivors include her spouse, Jay Hutchins; two children; and two siblings.

1980s

Edward John “Jack” Helbig III, AB’80, died January 28, 2025, in Oak Park, IL. He was 66. Known in the Chicago theater community as a thoughtful and sometimes sharp-tongued critic, Helbig wrote theater reviews and more for publications including the Chicago Reader, Newcity, and newspapers in Oak Park. He was also a playwright and trained improviser. With his master’s degree in education, Helbig taught high school English for 17 years at Holy Trinity High School in Chicago and most recently at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield. He is survived by his wife, Sherry Kent; a daughter; and a sister.

Charles F. Pohl, AB’80, MBA’81, of San Francisco, died June 2 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 67. Pohl began his career at Wells Fargo Investment Advisors before joining the investment management company Dodge & Cox. As the firm’s chair and chief investment officer, he helped shape its investment philosophy for more than three decades and won the 2014 Morningstar Award for International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year. Pohl published a book, The Professional’s Guide to Long-Term Investing (2025), and mentored many colleagues; he also enjoyed global travel and tennis. Survivors include his wife, Eve Niquette, and three daughters.

John Patrick “Jack” Frestel Jr., MBA’81, died July 10 in Lakewood Ranch, FL. He was 86. Prepared by his Chicago Booth business training and studies at Marquette and Georgetown Universities, Frestel built a career in labor relations. He held senior executive positions in human resources at the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Railway and US Airways. In retirement he cofounded Dirty Dick’s Crab House on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Frestel had a deep appreciation for his Irish roots and loved to travel, especially with family. Survivors include his wife, Dianne; five children; his stepchildren; and his grandchildren.

Sally Gail Hoskins, PhD’82, died July 24 in New York. She was 71. Hoskins, a developmental neurobiologist, taught at City College of New York until retiring in 2019. She won numerous grants and awards for her research and teaching and developed a nationally recognized model for science education called CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the hypotheses, Analyze and interpret the data, and Think of the next Experiment). Hoskins also was a writer, crafter, and musician who created SHE (Sally Hoskins Ensemble), a women’s a cappella group that supported various charities through their performances. Survivors include two brothers.

Elise Iekyung Junn, AM’85, died August 4 in New York. She was 65. Junn graduated from her Michigan high school as valedictorian and earned Harvard–Radcliffe and UChicago degrees in economics. She was a serious runner who finished 17 marathons, including the New York (nine times), Boston (three times), Chicago (twice), Berlin, London, and Tokyo marathons. In April 2025 she completed her final race, the Boston 5K, while undergoing cancer treatment. She is survived by her husband, Al Sawyers, JD’86, MBA’86; three children; her mother; and two sisters.

Eileen Marie Boyle, AB’88, of Chicago, died April 13. She was 66. Survivors include five siblings. Her brother Francis Boyle, AB’71 (Class of 1972), died January 30, 2025 (See above.—Ed.).

Jennifer Costello McBride, AB’88, of Princeton, NJ, died March 26 following a brief illness. She was 58. Trained at Manhattan’s French Culinary Institute, McBride worked at the Consulate General of France in New York and later as a private caterer in the Princeton, NJ, area. She loved to travel, visiting Africa and China and trekking to Everest Base Camp. A Chicago Cubs season-ticket holder, McBride also kept beehives and led trivia night teams at Princeton’s Ivy Inn. She is survived by extended family and her boyfriend, Benjamin Warren. (This notice corrects information in the Fall/25 issue.—Ed.)

1990s

Jennifer T. Strickland, AB’91, MBA’97, of Las Vegas, died August 7, of cancer. She was 56. Trained in statistics, Strickland began her career as an editor/analyst at Morningstar. She next worked for Citi Private Bank in Hong Kong and held senior positions at HBK Investments, BlueMountain Capital, and PIMCO before joining Pretium, an investment firm, in 2020 as senior managing director and head of business development. A founding member of Women in Private Credit, Strickland created a foundation to provide mentoring and career development resources to women in the industry. She is survived by her husband, Shawn Yang, MBA’97, and two daughters.

Timothy H. Steele, PhD’93, of Grand Rapids, MI, died June 14 following a brief illness. He was 66. Steele completed degrees in music education and music history at Temple University before his doctoral studies in musicology. He taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University and Covenant College before joining the Calvin University faculty, where he served from 2007 to 2025. Steele’s expertise as a musicologist ranged from medieval music to progressive rock; he was a founding member of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, played early wind and string instruments, and directed early music ensembles. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth; five children; two sisters; and six grandchildren.

Joan Bentley Hoffman, AM’97, died July 11 in Westmont, IL. She was 78. Before entering UChicago’s doctoral program in ethnomusicology, Hoffman studied music at Goucher College and Yale. She taught elementary music in Baltimore County, MD, public schools and served as a church organist; later, as a fundraiser at UChicago, she supported the development of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. Hoffman enjoyed attending concerts and theater performances and was a devoted member of the Morton Arboretum. She is survived by three daughters, a sister, and five grandchildren.

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