Alumni
Lois Thorne ’36, Oct. 5, 2019
Jean Kupack Block ’45, Oct. 13, 2013
Hope DePuy ’45, Feb. 13, 2018
June Brignall Renner ’45, Oct. 20, 2019
Barbara Jean Roach McCaffrey ’51, Aug. 9, 2019
Cynthia Witt ’51, Feb. 19, 2018
Mary Philippone ’53, Oct. 2, 2019
MaryAnn Leicht Blum ’54, Nov. 1, 2019
Harlan Munn ’54, Dec. 29, 2019
Rosalie Bly McCaffrey ’56, Sept. 20, 2019
John Bellomo ’58, Dec. 29, 2019
Nancy Habes Rathke ’64, Oct. 23, 2019
Christine Peters Park ’66, Oct. 14, 2019
Michael Rezmerski ’66, Jan. 8, 2019
John Noble ’67, Sept. 30, 2019
George Snyder ’68, May 4, 2018
Stephen Carris ’71, Jan. 5, 2018
Anne Marie Miller ’71, Oct. 14, 2019
Elizabeth Scelzo Svigals ’75, Sept. 30, 2019
James Shepard ’80, June 21, 2019
D. Scott Morrison ’87, Jan. 4, 2020
Fawn Bloom ’90, Feb. 24, 2014
Kathianne Komurek ’92, March 5, 2019
Gabriel Guzman ’97, Aug. 29, 2019
Alicia Saviola Hermsen ’99, Oct. 26, 2019
Faculty
- Richard Beale, assistant professor emeritus of art history, died on Aug. 26, 2019. He taught from 1963 to 1984 and then returned to campus as an adjunct professor in the 1990s.
- Wayne Mahood, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Education, died on Nov. 7, 2019. A member of the faculty from 1969 to 1994, he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1976 and was named the New York State Council for the Social Studies’ Distinguished Social Studies Educator in 1984. He also co-authored the history book “SUNY Geneseo: From Normal School to Public Ivy, 1871–2007.”
- Herbert N. Simpson, professor emeritus of English, who was faculty from 1966 to 1998 and helped develop courses in the arts, including theatre criticism, theatre appreciation and dramatic literature, died on Nov. 24, 2019.
- Margaret “Meg” Stolee, assistant professor emerita of history, died on Oct. 9, 2019. During her tenure as faculty from 1985 to her retirement in 2018, she received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service as well as the President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advising.
- Won Zoon Yoon, associate professor of history from 1963 to 1971, died on Dec. 5, 2019.