In memoriam

August 14, 2023

We remember members of the UM-Dearborn community who we lost this year.

A fall scene on the UM-Dearborn campus with sunlight peaking through a grove of trees with red leaves.

 

A headshot of Associate Professor Keith DyeKeith Dye, UM-Dearborn’s first African and African American Studies professor, died Sept. 25, 2022, following a brief illness. He was 67. When Associate Professor Dye was a child, he witnessed the 1967 Detroit riots: “It looked like war,” he said to students in a 2015 Studies in Detroit Culture course. Dye focused on education and resilience, often reflecting on the people who made up the city he lived in — and loved. Read more about Dye's career at UM-Dearborn.

’60s

Judith Hooper
(’62 B.A.)
Dec. 3, 2022

Robert McWilliam
(’62 B.B.A.)
July 13, 2022

Charles Carrig
(’63 B.S.E., 
’63 B.S.E.M.E., 
’66 M.S.E.) 
July 21, 2022

Roger Marshall
(’63 B.S.E.I.E.)
March 6, 2023

John McRae
(’63 B.S.E., 
’63 B.S.E.M.E., 
’65 M.S.E.)
March 10, 2023

Philip Phillips
(’63 B.B.A.)
Sept. 20, 2022

Paul Schulz
(’63 B.B.A.)
Sept. 27, 2022

Theodore Bensinger
(’64 B.S.E.E.E.)
Dec. 14, 2022

Ralph Berres
(’64 B.S.E.M.E.)
Oct. 27, 2022

James Houser
(’64 B.S.E.I.E.)
June 3, 2022

Donna McEachern
(’64 B.A., 
’64 Teach. Cert.)
Aug. 17, 2022
James Williams
(’64 B.S.E.I.E.)
July 9, 2022

Thomas Cooley
(’65 B.B.A.)
March 7, 2023

Lonnie Gillum
(’65 B.S.E.E.E.)
Oct. 26, 2022

Aileen Clark
(’66 B.A., 
’66 Teach. Cert.)
Nov. 18, 2022

Joseph Fabiszak
(’67 B.S.)
April 24, 2023

Thomas Helzerman
(’67 B.S.E.I.E., 
’91 M.S.E.)
June 3, 2022

Richard Rumohr
(’67 B.S.E.M.E.)
Aug. 6, 2022

Michael Locke
(’69 B.S.E.M.E.)
Jan. 31, 2023

Warren Schattler
(’69 B.A., 
’69 Teach. Cert.)
Sept. 19, 2022

’70s

Anna Hughes
(’70 B.A., 
’70 Teach. Cert.)
Nov. 15, 2022

Joseph Bonar
(’71 B.S.E.E.E.)
July 25, 2022

Donn Czegus
(’71 B.B.A.)
Oct. 8, 2022

James Gromek
(’71 B.B.A.)
Feb. 7, 2022

Harriet Kofta
(’71 B.A., 
’71 Teach. Cert.)
March 26, 2023

Virginia Sayles
(’71 B.A., 
’71 Teach. Cert.)
Dec. 1, 2022

Patricia Stutler
(’71 B.A., 
’71 Teach. Cert.)
Nov. 13, 2022

Doris Suarez
(’71 B.A., 
’71 Teach. Cert.)
Aug. 7, 2022

Eugene Nault
(’72 B.A., 
’72 Teach. Cert.)
Aug. 6, 2022

John Jennings
(’73 B.A.)
July 12, 2022

Lois Garriott
(’74 B.A.)
Feb. 18, 2023

David Jobe
(’74 B.S.E.M.E.)
Oct. 28, 2022

Richard Lindgren
(’74 B.B.A.)
Dec. 11, 2022

Ronald Robinson
(’74 B.G.S.)
Aug. 21, 2022

Sharon Kerr
(’75 B.A., 
’75 Teach. Cert.)
Jan. 25, 2023

Emery Seaman
(’75 B.S.E.M.E.)
March 9, 2023

Daniel Hackman
(’76 B.A.)
Nov. 17, 2022

Charles Kase
(’76 B.B.A.)
Sept. 20, 2022

Kenneth Romo
(’76 B.A.)
Sept. 7, 2022

Barbara Daoust
(’77 B.A.)
Oct. 9, 2022

Mary Murphy
(’77 B.A.)
March 24, 2023

Daniel Dubriwny
(’79 B.G.S.)
May 17, 2022

Mark Reeves
(’79 M.S.E.)
Jan. 21, 2023

Tim Rosalik
(’79 B.G.S.)
Aug. 11, 2022

’80s

Michael Gill
(’80 M.S.E.)
Oct. 31, 2022

Daniel Gougherty
(’80 B.S.A.)
Nov. 15, 2022

Lawrence Vockler
(’80 B.S.A.)
Feb. 22, 2023

Thomas Mellos
(’81 B.A.)
Jan. 24, 2023

Donald Pall
(’82 B.A.)
Oct. 8, 2022

Thomas Collins
(’83 B.S.A.)
July 3, 2022

Joseph O’Reilly
(’83 B.A.)
Nov. 1, 2022

Jack Samples
(’83 B.S.E.I.S.)
Feb. 18, 2023

Cecil Keith
(’84 M.A.)
Aug. 21, 2022

Kevin Currier
(’86 B.S.E.E.E.)
July 13, 2022

David Jaworski
(’86 B.S.E.E.E., 
’88 M.S.E.)
June 22, 2022

Matthew McMaster
(’86 B.A.)
March 6, 2023

Shirley Pretzlaff
(’86 M.A.)
Dec. 13. 2022

Frank Sall
(’87 B.A.)
May 18, 2022

James Wasiloff
(’89 M.S.E.)
May 25, 2022

’90s

Mary Shiroda
(’90 B.A.)
March 27, 2023

David Putrycus
(’91 B.A.)
April 3, 2023

Carles Tye
(’91 B.A.)
May 14, 2022

Richard Cathey
(’92 B.A.)
Dec. 8, 2022

Michael Kondek
(’94 MPA)
July 3, 2022

Mitchell Quint
(’94 M.S.E.)
Aug. 18, 2022

Elizabeth Dombrowski
(’95 B.G.S.)
Feb. 19, 2023

’00s

Laura Kaetz
(’01 B.G.S.)
Oct. 21, 2022

Carol Wittig
(’01 M.Ed.)
May 6, 2022

Marcus Ecie
(’05 B.G.S.)
March 7, 2023

Daniel Miller
(’07 M.S.)
July 13, 2022

Thomas Ensor
(’10 B.A.)
March 27, 2023

Laura Domasneanu-Miulescu
(’12 M.S.)
Dec. 17, 2022

Brenda Moore
(’12 MPA)
Sept. 27, 2022

Rebecca Wallace
(’12 B.B.A.)
Sept. 19, 2022

Jessica Hermenitt-Faath
(’16 MBA)
March 6, 2023