In Memoriam: Alumni

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1950s

Claire Tickner Mayers ’52, G’24, of Walnut Creek, California, on July 11, 2023.

Stephen Meltzer ’52, G’10, of Bethesda, Maryland, on Sept. 16, 2024.

Leonard Russman ’52, of Madison, Connecticut, on July 20, 2024.

Helen Gruskin Steinman ’52, of New York City, on April 11, 2024.

Joyce Cohen ’53, Brandeis National Committee, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Dec. 4, 2024.

Adaire Joy Klein ’53, GSAS MA’57, of San Francisco, in July 2023.

Alice Kraus Rabinowitz ’53, Brandeis National Committee, of Sarasota, Florida, on Nov. 8, 2024.

Joan Benjamin ’54, P’85, G’17, Brandeis National Committee, of Brookline, Massachusetts, on Dec. 23, 2024.

Johanna Hirsch Bromberg ’54, P’79, G’07, G’12, Brandeis National Committee, of Clearwater, Florida, on May 11, 2024.

Sandra Starr Glassman ’54, P’76, G’03, of Needham, Massachusetts, on Aug. 4, 2024.

Elaine Kahn Kaufman ’54, Brandeis National Committee, of Sarasota, Florida, on Oct. 25, 2024.

Harvey Steinberg ’54, G’22, of Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 23, 2024.

Sherwood Gorbach ’55, Fellow, of Topanga, California, on Dec. 7, 2024.

Sandra Israel ’55, of St. Petersburg, Florida, on July 19, 2024.

Charlotte Lipson ’55, Brandeis National Committee, of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, on Nov. 13, 2024.

David Blumenfeld ’56, of New Rochelle, New York.

Barbara Borkum Weinstock ’56, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Jan. 12, 2025.

Robert N. Brooks ’57, Fellow, President’s Councilor, of Amherst, Massachusetts, on Jan. 3, 2025.

Sylvia Goldstein ’57, Brandeis National Committee, of West Hartford, Connecticut, on July 29, 2024.

Diane Goldberg Zisk ’57, P’82, P’93, Brandeis National Committee, of Framingham, Massachusetts, on Nov. 4, 2024.

Marvin Grossman ’58, of Roswell, Georgia, on Sept. 4, 2024.

Iris Newman ’58, of Philadelphia, on Dec. 24, 2024.

Robert Paul ’58, of Sausalito, California, on Aug. 24, 2024.

Judith Belson-Feldman ’59, of Silver Spring, Maryland, on July 9, 2024.

David Levine ’59, P’09, of Baltimore, on Nov. 5, 2024.

Sandra Rudnick Luft, GSAS MA’59, PhD’63, of Berkeley, California, on July 13, 2024.

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1960s

Sylvia Aranow ’60, of Guilford, Connecticut, on Oct. 31, 2024.

Robert Berkman ’60, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, on Aug. 9, 2024.

Bernard Gray, GSAS PhD’60, G’15, of Jamaica Plain, Massa­chusetts, on Sept. 3, 2024.

B. Robert Kolber ’61, on Sept. 25, 2024.

Devra Marcus ’61, of McLean, Virginia, on Aug. 27, 2024.

Edna Newmark ’61, Brandeis National Committee, of Auburndale, Massachusetts, on Aug. 10, 2024.

Linda Levy-Peck ’62, of Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2023.

James David Felsen ’63, of Great Cacapon, West Virginia, on Nov. 26, 2024.

Naomi Hordes ’63, of Jerusalem, on Oct. 24, 2024.

Arnold Springer ’63, of Fort Myers, Florida, on Nov. 6, 2024.

Stephen Sumner ’63, P’91, of Middlesex, New Jersey, on Nov. 30, 2024.

Michael D. Freed ’64, P’98, of Brookline, Massachusetts, on Dec. 11, 2024.

Tim Levenson ’64, of Paris, on Jan. 29, 2025.

Linda Story Dingman, GSAS MA’65, of Glade Park, Colorado, on Sept. 21, 2024.

Michael J. Eschelbacher ’65, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, on Dec. 31, 2024.

Robert F. Marcus ’65, Heller MSW’70, of West Newton, Massachusetts, on Nov. 22, 2024.

Joel M. Rubin ’65, of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 19, 2025.

Phemie Brown ’66, of San Francisco, on Sept. 30, 2024.

Sarah Rosen-Webb ’67, of London, in September 2024.

Grant Ujifusa, GSAS MA’67, of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 21, 2024.

Jane Bunin, GSAS MA’68, of Boulder, Colorado, on Sept. 22, 2024.

Louis Riceberg ’68, GSAS MA’73, PhD’79, P’98, of San Diego, on July 20, 2024.

Jeffrey Speiser ’68, of Maplewood, New Jersey, on Jan. 16, 2025.

Philip Grossman ’69, of Coral Gables, Florida, on Aug. 9, 2024.

William Poe, GSAS MA’69, PhD’71, of Santa Rosa, California, on Aug. 25, 2024.

Emmett Roden ’69, of Rockville, Maryland, on Sept. 28, 2024.

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1970s

Peter Castle, GSAS PhD’70, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 12, 2024.

James Donegan ’70, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2024.

Sidney R. Kushner, GSAS PhD’70, of Athens, Georgia, on Dec. 11, 2024.

Claire Rabin ’70, of Israel, in July 2024.

Andrea Natsios ’71, of Waltham, Massachusetts, on July 21, 2024.

Victor Shear ’71, of Atherton, California, in July 2024.

John Lawrenz, GSAS MA’72, PhD’73, of Watertown, Wisconsin, on Sept. 22, 2024.

Samuel Silver ’72, P’01, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Aug. 14, 2024.

Paul Mendes-Flohr, GSAS MA’73, PhD’74, of Jerusalem, on Oct. 24, 2024.

Carol Tashjian, GSAS MA’73, PhD’74, of Auburndale, Massa­chusetts, on Sept. 12, 2024.

Laura Gerard Hassan ’74, of Chicago, on Sept. 18, 2024.

Lawrence S. Tesser ’75, on July 27, 2023.

Joan Brunwasser, GSAS MA’76, P’03, of Evanston, Illinois, on July 30, 2024.

Lloyd Corwin, GSAS PhD’76, of Largo, Florida, on Jan. 20, 2025.

Francis Driscoll ’76, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2024.

Nina Baron Einhorn ’77, P’12, of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, on Sept. 13, 2024.

Amy Epstein ’77, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 17, 2024.

Helena Wall ’77, of Claremont, California, on Aug. 3, 2024.

Gary Yurow ’78, of Baltimore, on Oct. 4, 2024.

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1980s

Seth Epstein ’80, P’28, of East Meadow, New York, in October 2023.

Roman Gershkovich ’81, of Easton, Connecticut, on Oct. 5, 2024.

Gilbert Raiford, Heller PhD’81, of Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2024.

Ruth Stock Zober, Heller PhD’81, Brandeis National Committee, of Pittsburgh, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Emmanuel Ojadi, GSAS MA’82, PhD’86, of North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, on July 9, 2024.

James Harnagel, GSAS MFA’83, of Pasadena, California, on Dec. 20, 2023.

William Morse, GSAS MA’83, PhD’87, of Woodstock, Connecticut, on Nov. 8, 2024.

Jane O’Hern, Heller MMHS’83, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, on Sept. 27, 2024.

David Greenberg ’84, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, on Aug. 3, 2024.

Myrna Schultz, Heller MMHS’84, P’89, Brandeis National Committee, of Canton, Massachusetts, on Dec. 1, 2024.

Constance Cutter, Heller PhD’85, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 29, 2024.

David Simon ’88, of Sarasota, Florida, on Sept. 7, 2024.

Diane Disney, Heller PhD’89, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in April 2024.

Michelle Bochner Spitz ’89, of Encino, California, on Jan. 10, 2025.

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1990s

Daniel Korschun ’92, of Philadelphia, on July 17, 2024.

Jaimie Wengroff ’92, of West Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 11, 2024.

Nancy Klayman Nelson, GSAS MA’97, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 15, 2024.

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2000s

Osaze O. Akerejah ’14, of Brooklyn, on Dec. 4, 2024.

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2010s

No In Memoriam items this issue.

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2020s

Toni LoSchiavo ’25, of Spokane Valley, Washington, on Sept. 8, 2024.

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