Brandeis Magazine

Laurence Nigrosh ’52, P’96, of Lake Worth, Florida, on July 2, 2025.

Allan H. Applestein ’53, G’21, of Punta Gorda, Florida, on Jan. 3, 2025.

Ruth Shiller Banks ’53, P’79, P’82, Brandeis National Committee, of Marlboro, New Jersey, on Feb. 24, 2025.

Aileen B. Cabitt ’53, Brandeis National Committee, of Canton, Massachusetts, on March 4, 2025.

Lila Goldstein ’54, P’84, of Jupiter, Florida, on May 4, 2025.

Edith K. Jeffrey ’54, of Princeton, New Jersey, on Feb. 1, 2025.

Judith Pensack ’54, Brandeis National Committee, of Richmond, Vermont, on Feb. 11, 2025.

Donald M. Soffer ’54, H’23, Fellow, of Aventura, Florida, on July 20, 2025.

Evelyn Sheffres ’55, Brandeis National Committee, of Carlsbad, California, on Aug. 7, 2025.

Richard Wernick ’55, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, on April 25, 2025.

Grant R. Golub ’56, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, on Feb. 2, 2024.

Sandra M. Hoyt ’56, of Wayland, Massachusetts, on July 16, 2025.

Ruth Krulfeld ’56, of Arlington, Virginia, on July 7, 2025.

Richard Bergel ’57, Trustee, Fellow, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on June 14, 2025.

Richard H. Kaufman ’57, P’83, G’23, Trustee, Fellow, of Harrison, New York, on June 29, 2025.

Ryna Charney Lipkind ’57, G’13, G’14, of Ogunquit, Maine, on April 13, 2025.

James Goldman ’58, of Boca Raton, Florida.

Jerry Josephs ’58, P’85, Fellow, of Santa Ana, California, on April 28, 2025.

Harriet Kaufman Levi ’58, of Portland, Oregon, on Feb. 19, 2025.

Ann Friedlander ’59, of Newry, Maine, on April 30, 2025.

Neil Messinger ’59, P’98, of Miami, on Aug. 1, 2025.

Adrienne Orlin ’59, of New York City.

Paulette Rose ’59, P’84, of New York City, on July 17, 2025.

Eleanor Wenkart ’59, of Toronto, on June 4, 2025.

Murray B. Woldman ’59, of Alexandria, Virginia, on April 28, 2025.

David M. Cerul ’60, P’93, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, on Aug. 3, 2025.

Ian Hay Falconer ’60, of Big Canoe, Georgia, on April 27, 2025.

Harvard Lyman, GSAS PhD’60, of Port Jefferson, New York, on July 11, 2025.

Ron Carner ’61, of Bridgehampton, New York, on June 3, 2025.

Roger Lee Emerson, GSAS MA’61, PhD’62, of London, Ontario, on Feb. 28, 2025.

Adrienne Udis Rosenblatt ’61, P’88, G’20, G’23, President’s Councilor, Brandeis National Committee, of Beverly, Massachusetts, on Feb. 10, 2025.

Jane Hirschfield Bernstein ’62, of Decatur, Georgia, on Aug. 9, 2025.

Jayaseetha Premanand ’62, of Minneapolis, on Feb. 15, 2025.

Joan Niborg ’63, of New York City, on March 27, 2025.

Elizabeth Freund Fideler ’64, Brandeis National Committee, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Jan. 24, 2025.

Joyce Roberts Adamson ’66, of Peabody, Massachusetts, on March 8, 2025.

Eleanor Liebman Johnson ’66, of Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2025.

Marc Levine, GSAS MA’66, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, on Feb. 16, 2024.

Marcia Rubinstein Lieberman, GSAS PhD’66, of Providence, Rhode Island, on April 21, 2025.

Joseph H. Escovitz ’67, of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, on July 7, 2025.

Anne B. Terry ’67, of Taunton, Massachusetts, on July 11, 2025.

Rosamond Drooker Brenner, GSAS PhD’68, of Elmhurst, Illinois, on April 25, 2025.

Jeffrey R. Cohen ’68, of Kansas City, Missouri, on March 28, 2025.

Damir Mirkovic, GSAS MA’68, of Port Moody, British Columbia, on Feb. 17, 2025.

Terry Swanlund, GSAS MA’68, PhD’73, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Feb. 27, 2025.

Peter Elbow, GSAS PhD’69, of Seattle, on Feb. 6, 2025.

Abigail Lodish Labovitz ’69, of Cleveland, on July 5, 2025.

Donna R. McCarthy ’69, of Grass Valley, California, on Oct. 24, 2024.

Stephan Jan Meyers ’69, Brandeis National Committee, on March 8, 2025.

Valerie G. Eckardt ’70, on March 10, 2025.

Lee M. Greenberg ’70, of Hoover, Alabama, on March 16, 2025.

Martin Langer ’70, of Malden, Massachusetts, on July 9, 2025.

John Peavoy, GSAS MA’70, PhD’81, of Claremont, California, on Oct. 13, 2024.

Albert Daniel Abrams ’71, P’00, of DuBois, Pennsylvania, on March 16, 2025.

Sundar Burra ’71, P’00, of New Delhi, on Jan. 24, 2025.

Anne F. Greene, GSAS MA’71, of Middletown, Connecticut, on May 12, 2025.

Jackson Koffman ’71, of Brooklyn, on July 31, 2025.

Irit Krygier ’71, of Los Angeles, on Oct. 28, 2024.

Lorraine O’Conor, GSAS MA’71, of Castle Hayne, North Carolina, on March 11, 2025.

Judith Anker Plotz ’71, of Providence, Rhode Island, on March 18, 2025.

Arthur Poulton, GSAS PhD’71, on April 14, 2025.

Walter J. Tyszka Jr., GSAS MFA’71, of New York City, on June 28, 2024.

Yale H. Bohn ’72, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2025.

Janet Fidelman ’72, of Arlington, Massachusetts, on July 10, 2025.

Marsha I. Abrams ’73, P’00, of DuBois, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 2025.

Curtis H. Tearte ’73, Trustee, of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept. 30, 2025.

Roger L. Danchik, GSAS MFA’74, of Boston.

Sara Naylor Swensrud, GSAS MFA’74, of Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 15, 2025.

Robert S. Caulk, Heller PhD’75, of Davis, California, on June 15, 2025.

David H. Ginsburg ’75, of Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, Israel, on Feb. 12, 2024.

Roger A. Lohmann, Heller PhD’75, of Morgantown, West Virginia, on June 3, 2025.

Midge R. Taylor ’75, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on March 6, 2025.

Dov Hyman ’76, of Scarsdale, New York, in 2025.

Marla C. Kott ’76, P’05, of Vancouver, British Columbia, on April 10, 2025.

Judith Sigel Fox ’77, of Teaneck, New Jersey, on Feb. 14, 2024.

Mary Johanna Meehan ’77, of Grinnell, Iowa, on Jan. 8, 2024.

Susan Jane Simmons, GSAS MA’77, of Concord, Massachusetts, on March 13, 2025.

Michael Z. Jody ’78, of East Hampton, New York, on Feb. 19, 2024.

Thomas Kono Ranuga, GSAS MA’79, PhD’83, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Jan. 18, 2025.

Karen L. Stroud ’79, of Oakland, California, on Jan. 30, 2025.

J. Kent Boynton, Heller PhD’80, of Harvard, Massachusetts, on June 8, 2025. 

Tim Byrne ’81, of Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2024.

Gregory S. Gillette, GSAS MFA’82, of Chelsea, Michigan, on March 22, 2025.

John T. Schreiber ’82, of Benicia, California, on July 29, 2025.

Dina Shargel ’82, of White Plains, New York, in February 2025.

Garthleen E. Thomas ’82, of Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2025.

Natalie Carlson ’83, of Seattle, on July 31, 2025.

Richard A. Lehrer ’83, of Canton, Ohio, on April 16, 2025.

John McClain, Heller PhD’83, of Omaha, Nebraska, on Aug. 1, 2025.

Barbara Skydell Safran, Heller PhD’83, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in April 2025.

David Salsberg ’83, of Larchmont, New York, on June 20, 2025.

Charles Shereff ’84, of Forest Hills, New York, on Jan. 22, 2025.

Daniel J. Zunitch ’84, P’13, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on May 7, 2025.

Claudia Thomas Kairoff, GSAS PhD’85, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 4, 2025.

Marcia Kathleen McDonald, GSAS MFA’86, of Bloomington, Illinois, on April 26, 2025.

Robert Whalen ’86, of Boston, on May 23, 2024.

Aviva L. Abeshaus ’88, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, on April 12, 2025.

Linda B. Cohn ’88, Brandeis National Committee, of Palm Desert, California, in June 2025.

James F. Tobin, GSAS PhD’89, of Newton, Massachusetts, on July 25, 2025.

Jennifer Ann Swidler ’92, of New York City, on Feb. 10, 2025.

Jenifer M. Madison ’95, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on July 3, 2025.

Vladimir Shendelman ’97, of the Bronx, on Dec. 26, 2024.

Judith Dour ’04, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, on March 10, 2025.

Jacinta A. Ogolla Odhiambo, Heller MA’08, of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 16, 2025.

Charles H. Francis, Heller MPP’10, of Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 19, 2025.

Malcolm Jasper Phillips, GSAS MA’13, on May 30, 2025.

Charles Eng ’25, of Wilton, Maine, on May 28, 2025.