Faculty and staff

Raul Hinojosa, associate professor emeritus of surgery, died April 26 in Morelos, Mexico. He was 86. Hinojosa taught pathology and histology in Mexico before joining the otolaryngology section of the University’s surgical faculty in 1962. An expert on ear diseases, he consistently earned research funding from the National Institutes of Health, published and lectured widely, and gathered one of the world’s largest collections of temporal bones and related tissue for scientific study. Hinojosa retired from the University with emeritus status in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Berta; two daughters; two sons, including Raul Andres Hinojosa-Ojeda, LAB’75, AB’80, AM’80, PhD’89; two sisters, including Maria L. Hinojosa, LAB’79; and four grandchildren.

Norman W. Ingham, professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature, died April 27 in Wilbraham, MA. He was 80. An expert on medieval Slavic and early-modern Russian literature, Ingham joined the faculty in 1971. He spoke Polish, Russian, Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Old Church Slavonic, and Greek, and published widely on the work of Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy. For nearly two decades, he organized the annual Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop at UChicago. Known for his attentiveness to students and his dry sense of humor, he retired in 2006. He is survived by two nieces and five nephews.

Philip W. Jackson, the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Education, Psychology, and the College, died July 21. He was 86. An expert on education pioneer and Laboratory Schools founder John Dewey, Jackson joined the faculty in 1955, later chairing the Department of Education and holding administrative roles at the Laboratory Schools. Jackson’s research focused on pedagogical methods and how children learn as well as how schools influence children’s moral development. He is survived by his wife, Josephine; a daughter, Nancy Jackson, LAB’73; two sons, David Jackson, LAB’76, and Steven Wesley Jackson, LAB’79; and a granddaughter.

Amy Kass, AB’62, senior lecturer emerita in humanities, died August 19 in Washington, DC. She was 74. Kass taught high school and participated in civil rights advocacy before returning to UChicago in 1976 to teach humanities in the College. Along with her husband, Leon Kass, LAB’54, SB’58, MD’62, she cofounded the Human Being and Citizen course in the Core curriculum and developed a class on courtship and marriage, and she served as an adviser in the Fundamentals: Issues and Texts major. Known for helping students apply the teachings of classic texts to their own lives, she received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching after just four years as a lecturer and received the Alumni Association’s Norman Maclean Faculty Award in 2010, the year she retired. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, including Miriam R. Kass, LAB’89; a sister; two brothers; and four granddaughters.

John “Sean” Mullan, the John Harper Seely Professor Emeritus in Surgery, died June 4 in Chicago. He was 90. Mullan joined the faculty in 1955, becoming a full professor in 1963 and later the neurological surgery section chief and acting chairman of the surgery department. A pioneer in neurosurgery, he developed several minimally invasive methods , variations of which are still in use. He published widely and was a past president of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. He is survived by his wife, Vivian; a daughter, Joan C. Mullan, LAB’78, MD’91; two sons, John C. Mullan, LAB’79, MD’87, and Brian Mullan, LAB’81, MD’91; a granddaughter, Caitlin Goldwater, LAB’12; and four grandsons.

Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, died July 5 in Osaka, Japan. He was 94. An influential theoretical physicist, Nambu joined UChicago in 1954, becoming a full professor in 1958 and chairing the physics department from 1974 to 1977. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for a theory about the behavior of large groups of subatomic particles and was also known for his work on string theory and the forces that bind matter in atomic nuclei. The winner of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, and other honors, Nambu retired in 1991. He is survived by his wife, Chieko, and a son, John J. Nambu, LAB’68, AB’73.

David Raup, SB’53, the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Geophysical Sciences, died July 9 in Sturgeon Bay, WI. He was 82. A paleontologist and authority on evolution and mass extinction, Raup taught at several institutions before returning to UChicago as a visiting professor in 1977. He joined the University faculty in 1980 and chaired the Department of Geophysical Sciences from 1982 to 1985, retiring in 1995. Known for challenging accepted paleontological principles, Raup used the fossil record to develop theories about biodiversity and introduce approaches like computer and mathematical modeling to paleontology. He is survived by his wife, Judith Yamamoto; a son, Mitchell D. Raup, AB’80; a grandson; and a stepson.

Charles Rubin, associate professor of pediatrics, died of heart failure on July 17 in New Lenox, IL. He was 62. An expert on the genetic aspects of pediatric cancer, Rubin came to UChicago in 1985 as a fellow in Janet Rowley’s (LAB’42, PhB’45, SB’46, MD’48) laboratory, joining the faculty of the Cancer Research Center in 1987. He cofounded UChicago Medicine’s Cancer Risk Clinic in 1991, directed the pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship and the pediatric neuro-oncology program for many years, and helped lead the University’s efforts to bring pediatric cancer care to local communities. He is survived by his wife, Gretchen; four daughters; and three brothers.

Che-Lin Su, associate professor of operations management at Chicago Booth, died July 31 of cancer. He was 41. Su was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwestern University before joining the Booth faculty in 2008. Also a scholar with the Becker Friedman Institute, Su researched structural estimation, optimization, and computational economics, and earned grants from IBM, the Initiative on Global Markets, and the National Science Foundation. He is survived by his wife, Bella; his parents; a sister; and a brother.

Pera Wirszup, lecturer in Russian and longtime resident master, died August 20 in Chicago. She was 100. Pera and her husband, Izaak Wirszup, PhD’55, both Holocaust survivors, came to Hyde Park in 1949 when Izaak joined the mathematics faculty. They served as resident masters of Woodward Court from 1971 to 1985. Pera worked at women’s clothing store Peck & Peck, rising to a management position, before teaching conversational Russian (one of the six languages she spoke) at the University from 1980 to 1992. Izaak died in 2008, and Pera is survived by their daughter, Marina D. W. Tatar, LAB’54, AB’59; three granddaughters, including Carolyn Beth Tatar, MBA’86, and Audrey Michelle Tatar, MD’88; and six great-grandsons, including Jacob Rosenbacher, LAB’12, and current Lab student Reed Rosenbacher.

1930s

Frances O. Kelsey, PhD’38, MD’50, died August 7 in London, Ontario. She was 101. Kelsey joined the US Food and Drug Administration in 1960 and is best known for her work preventing the approval of thalidomide, a drug used to alleviate morning sickness in pregnant women that was later linked to birth defects. She was honored with the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service in 1962 and spent the rest of her 45-year career at the FDA strengthening the country’s pharmaceutical testing regulations. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2000, and a day before her death, her home country recognized her with the Order of Canada. She is survived by two daughters, a sister, and two grandchildren.

Theodore “Ted” Caplow, AB’39, died July 4 in Charlottesville, VA. He was 95. A World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Caplow taught at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University before joining the University of Virginia in 1970 as chair of the sociology department. He is known for his work on the “Middletown” studies, which used Muncie, IN, as a microcosm from which to examine 20th-century American life. The author of several books, Caplow retired from UVa in 2005. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; seven children; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1940s

Harriet Bachman, AM’41, of Lenox, MA, died July 25. She was 100. After a brief stint at Henry Holt Publishing Co., Bachman joined Time magazine, where she was copy desk chief for more than 30 years. She was the author of the Time stylebook, which was used by two generations of staffers. In 1997 she was honored by her home state with her induction into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. She is survived by two sisters and eight nieces and nephews.

William E. Frye, PhD’41, died April 15 in Palo Alto, CA. He was 97. Frye joined the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and took a job at North American Aviation in Southern California after the war. In 1956 he began working in research and development at Lockheed Missiles and Space, retiring in 1990. His wife, Betty Frye, AB’35, died in 1990. He is survived by a daughter, a son, three granddaughters, two grandsons, and a great-grandson.

Clara R. Johns, MD’41, died May 18 in Umpqua, OR. She was 98. Johns spent her medical career providing care to underserved populations on the West Coast, from migrant children in Santa Clara County to Native Americans living on remote tribal lands. Following her retirement as medical director of a home care program in 1982, the State of California commended her for her service to the community. Her husband, William A. Hall, MD’44, died in 2002. She is survived by three daughters, one son, two granddaughters, two grandsons, and two great-grandchildren.

Raymond C. Crooks, SB’42, of Oklahoma City died May 7. He was 94. For 39 years, Crooks was a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the United States and Ireland, retiring as chief meteorologist of Oklahoma City in 1981. He enjoyed traveling and hosting international visitors. He is survived by his wife, Lois; three daughters; two sons; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Bette (Hinkel) Dorge, SB’43, of Lake Forest, IL, died June 27. She was 94. An American Red Cross worker in Japan and the Philippines from 1945 to 1947, Dorge pursued a career in nutrition before marrying and raising a family. She enjoyed playing golf, tennis, badminton, paddle tennis, and bridge; volunteering with her church; and hosting friends and family. She is survived by her husband, Donald; two daughters, including Pamela D. Russell, MBA’86; a sister; a granddaughter; and four grandsons.

Helen Tyler Parisi, AB’43, died June 16 in Chicago. She was 92. Parisi worked in the armaments industry during World War II and later in administration at Northwestern University. A believer in the power of education, Parisi endowed scholarships at UChicago, Sarah Lawrence College, and DePaul University with her husband, Dominic G. Parisi, EX’43, MBA’48, who died in 2010. She is survived by three daughters; a son; a sister, Ann T. Fathy, AB’56; a brother; a granddaughter; and four step-grandchildren.

Elizabeth (Dickson) Eberhard, AB’46, of Santa Fe, NM, died September 2, 2012. She was 95. Proud her entire life of completing college in two years, Eberhard worked as a writer and editor at organizations including Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health. She is survived by a daughter and two grandsons.

Olga Giacchetti Fineman, SB’46, died April 20 in Idaho Falls, ID. She was 92. Fineman worked as a laboratory technician for the Manhattan Project and later as an encyclopedia saleswoman and a livestock auction cashier. A homemaker, PTA president, Cub Scout den mother, and theater usher, she enjoyed playing bridge and tennis. She is survived by two sons, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Don Yoder, DB’45, PhD’47, of Devon, PA, died August 11. He was 93. Yoder taught American, religious, and folklife studies at the University of Pennsylvania for 40 years, retiring with emeritus status in 1996. An expert on Pennsylvania Dutch culture, he was also dedicated to its preservation, helping to establish the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center and the Kutztown (PA) Folk Festival and cofounding the Pennsylvania Folklife Society.

Marvin L. Shapiro, SB’47, SM’49, died May 19, 2014, in Houston. He was 90. A World War II veteran of the US Navy, Shapiro worked on geological projects at BP Amoco for 33 years, then spent the next 20 years as a geologist for a Texas oil company. He is survived by his wife, Lou; one daughter; two sons; a brother; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two stepdaughters; and a stepson.

Clara Magnusson Weaver, PhB’47, SB’52, of Inverness, FL, died August 9, 2014. She was 86. A registered nurse, Weaver worked for many years at Citrus Memorial Hospital and Seven Rivers Hospital, both in Florida, and was a consistent supporter of social and environmental advocacy groups. She is survived by three daughters, a son, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Nathaniel Sisson Eek, AB’48, died April 30 in Santa Fe, NM. He was 87. Eek spent his career in arts education, working as a theater director at the University of Kansas and an assistant professor of speech at Michigan State University before being appointed director of the University of Oklahoma’s drama school in 1962. He became dean of the fine arts college in 1976. A volunteer with many arts education organizations, in 1997 Eek was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. He is survived by two sons, a brother, and four grandchildren.

Irwin A. Rose, SB’48, PhD’52, died June 2 in Deerfield, MA. He was 88. Rose was on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine before moving to Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, where he studied how cellular proteins are broken down. His work led to better understanding of many diseases and to the development of a new class of cancer-fighting drugs, and earned Rose and two collaborators the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. He is survived by his wife, Zelda; three sons; and five grandchildren.

1950s

Mirl Wesley Whitaker, AM’51, died June 10 in Springfield, IL. He was 93. A School of Social Service Administration graduate, Whitaker worked in children’s homes in Illinois, Washington, and New York before becoming executive director of the Child Care Association of Illinois in 1968. He later earned a real estate license and sold residential properties. He is survived by three sons, including Stuart M. Whitaker, AB’77, MBA’80; three sisters; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

James I. Doi, AM’50, PhD’52, of Seattle died June 5. He was 92. Detained in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, Doi went on to serve in the US Army’s Military Intelligence Service in occupied Japan, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013. He completed his dissertation at UChicago and later held professorships at several universities before being appointed dean of the University of Rochester’s school of education in 1971. In 1979 he became dean of the education school at the University of Washington, retiring in 1988. He is survived by a daughter and two sisters.

Robert H. March, LAB’49, AB’52, SM’55, PhD’60, of Madison, WI, died August 4 in Fitchburg, WI. He was 81. For more than 40 years, March was a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he conducted high energy physics and astrophysics research and helped to redesign the science component of UW’s liberal studies program. He was also a folk musician and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is survived by a son; two brothers, including William James March, PhD’75; and a grandson.

Frank M. Byers, PhD’55, died July 12 in Longmont, CO. He was 99. Byers worked for the US Geological Survey from 1941 to 1980, conducting fieldwork in Alaska, Nevada, California, and Colorado. He then joined Los Alamos National Laboratory where he worked as a full-time research geologist until 1988, continuing to consult for the laboratory and the USGS until 2006. He is survived by two daughters, two sons, three granddaughters, four grandsons, one great-granddaughter, and two great-grandsons.

George William Lang, AM’55, of Sioux Falls, SD, died June 4. He was 86. Lang was a Baptist minister in Chicago and lived in several areas of Cameroon, moving to Sioux Falls in 1971. There, he worked as a library administrator and instructor for the North American Baptist Seminary until retiring in 1999. He served as a deacon at his church and enjoyed photography, gardening, and stamps. He is survived by his wife, Lenore; two daughters; two sons; a brother; five granddaughters; two grandsons; and three great-grandsons.

James Schoenwetter, AB’55, AB’56, died in Tempe, AZ, on August 22. He was 80. A professor of anthropology at Arizona State University for more than 30 years, Schoenwetter was a pioneer in the application of pollen analysis to archaeology and a proponent of preserving sites untouched for future scientists with better tools. He is survived by his partner, Jan Jacobs; a son; a brother, David M. Schoenwetter, SB’65; and two grandchildren.

Laurie Martin Gunter, PhD’59, died June 15 in Seattle. She was 93. Gunter taught at the University of Washington for five years before joining the faculty of Penn State’s College of Human Development in 1971. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, Gunter focused her research on nursing care for the elderly, a topic on which she published widely. She retired from Penn State with emerita status in 1987. She is survived by two daughters, two granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren.

Theodore S. Piwowar, SB’59, of Chicago, died July 13. He was 85. A Korean War veteran, Piwowar worked as a chemist for the US Food and Drug Administration for three decades. He is survived by four sisters, a brother, and many nieces and nephews.

1960s

David B. Straus, EX’51, PhD’60, died June 11 in Gardiner, NY. He was 84. Straus was a chemistry professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo (1965–72) and at SUNY New Paltz (1972–99), as well as a longtime councillor for the American Chemical Society. He contributed to social justice causes and was active in Gardiner’s local government. He is survived by his wife, Harriet; a daughter, Lisa Straus, AB’78; two sons; and eight grandchildren.

Barbara E. Spitzer, AB’60, of Stamford, CT, died July 5. She was 78. Dedicated to helping others, Spitzer was a clinical psychologist and active in various political, peace, and humanitarian causes. She is survived by her husband, Donald P. Spitzer, PhD’60; three sons; a brother; and seven grandchildren.

Christopher M. Mould, JD’61, died July 10 in Scarborough, ME. He was 78. In 1965 Mould joined the US Department of Justice’s Community Relations Services as a principal negotiator and conciliator for race and civil rights, and later helped develop the Model Cities Program. He was part of the original organizing staff of the National Urban Coalition and the first director of the US Office of Voluntary Action, where he helped oversee the Peace Corps, VISTA, and other programs at the resulting agency, ACTION. From 1973 until his retirement in 1997, Mould held leadership roles with the national YMCA. He is survived by his wife, Martha; two daughters; a sister; a granddaughter; a stepdaughter; a stepson; and five step-grandchildren.

Gerhard E. Spiegler, DB’56, AM’60, PhD’61, died August 24 in Wynnewood, PA. He was 85. A religious studies scholar, Spiegler taught at Haverford College and served as its provost and interim president before joining Temple University as provost, later becoming a professor and department chair. In 1985 he was appointed president of Elizabethtown College, from which he retired in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Ethel; a daughter; two sons; a sister; and two granddaughters.

James Ely Shrauner, PhD’63, died June 1 in Chesterfield, MO. He was 82. A student of Yoichiro Nambu [See page 80.—Ed.], Shrauner joined the physics department at Washington University in 1965, retiring as professor emeritus in 2001. He was a trustee of the Universities Research Association panel for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a consultant for the URA’s Superconducting Super-Collider Central Design Group. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; a daughter; a son; a brother; and four grandchildren.

Robert K. Dewar, SB’64 (Class of 1965), PhD’68, died June 30 in Bennington, VT. He was 70. Dewar joined the computer science faculty at New York University in 1975, becoming a full professor in 1976 and later chair of the department. Involved with the Ada programming language since its earliest stages, he implemented the first validated compiler for Ada 83 at NYU. In 1994 he cofounded AdaCore to commercialize Ada language compiler technology, serving as CEO until 2012 and president until his death. His wife, Karin E. Dewar, AB’65, died in 2013. He is survived by a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren.

Donald C. Wellington, AM’61, PhD’66, died March 12 in Winter Park, FL. He was 85. A specialist in economic history and thought, Wellington taught at San Diego State University (1964–67) and then at the University of Cincinnati (1967–2001). He published widely in the field of economics and also wrote two novels. He is survived by his wife, Jean; a daughter; a sister; and four grandchildren.

Douglas Neil Upshaw, MBA’67, died July 18. He was 84. Upshaw began working at International Harvester in 1957 and rose through the ranks, retiring as vice president of international operations in 1985. He went on to serve as manager of international trade for the State of Arizona, department director at Thunderbird University, and vice chancellor at Western International University, and also volunteered with the International Executive Service Corps. He is survived by three sons, a granddaughter, and two step-granddaughters.

John A. Marino, AB’68, AM’70, PhD’77, died December 3 in San Diego. He was 68. A scholar of early modern European history, Marino joined the University of California, San Diego, as assistant professor in 1979. He went on to chair the history department and published widely, including two influential monographs on 16th-century Naples. He retired from UCSD with emeritus status in 2014. He is survived by his wife, Cynthia Maria Truant, AM’72, PhD’78; a daughter; and a son, Marc J. Marino, AB’11.

1970s

Helen Hughes, PhD’70, died May 26 in Belfast, ME. She was 93. Hughes was a longtime psychology professor at Governors State University, where she was also the founding editor of the Creative Woman, a journal for women from many fields to share ideas and creative works. She maintained a private practice in neuropsychology and was active in social justice movements throughout her life. She is survived by a son, a sister, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Elizabeth Hedwig Floyd, AB’76, MBA’77, died on March 15 in Hunterdon County, NJ. She was 61. A business executive, she had retired in 2006 as managing director of Concurrent Industries Group in New York City. She was an avid equestrian, a student of the political economy, and proud owner of a smooth collie. She is survived by her husband, Randolph Floyd, AB’79, MBA’83; a brother, Andrew Kleczek, AB’64; four nieces, including Julie (Kleczek) Cohen, AB’00; and two nephews.

1980s

Charles H. Howell, AB’84, of Staten Island, NY, died of a heart condition on July 5 in Boulder, CO. He was 53. Howell worked in Boston’s Department of Public Welfare before becoming an Episcopal priest and spending 11 years serving a church in Grand Rapids, MI. In 2006 he was called to be the rector at Christ Church New Brighton on Staten Island. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a daughter; two sisters; a brother; and his stepmother.

2000s

Timothy W. Doede, AM’98, MBA’00, of New York City, died March 26. He was 41. Doede spent his career in finance, working most recently as portfolio manager for a series of small funds. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Hornstein Doede; a daughter; and a son.