In honor of our SUNY Geneseo community who have passed:
ALUMNI
Leah Hakes Gilmore ’40, Sept. 15, 2023
Esther Little Kroeger ’48, July 15, 2023
Kathleen Toper Kamm ’58, Aug. 26, 2023
Charles Yueckstock ’58, Sept. 16, 2023
Samuel Montello ’62, Sept. 1, 2023
Beverly Leo Van Curen ’64, Oct. 17, 2023
Kathi Yule ’64, July 11, 2023
Jane Klukkert ’65, Sept. 9, 2023
George Lavery ’65, July 18, 2023
Walter Cole ’69 , May 4, 2023
Roger Brady ’70, May 18, 2023
Victor Ladota ’70, Sept. 8, 2022
Joanne Deck ’71, July 19, 2023
Thomas Nichols ’71, July 6, 2023
Karen Gregory Buyck ’72, Aug. 17, 2023
Gerald O’Reilly ’72, September 29, 2023
Martha Cady Palumbo ’72, July 25, 2023
Rose Marie Sparagana ’72, Oct. 6, 2023
Susan Thayer Hughes ’73, Sept. 5, 2023
Jody Kearney ’73, Oct. 18, 2023
June Crnko Adams ’74, July 13, 2023
Edward Colcord ’74, Sept. 1, 2023
Anne Meacham Marotta ’74, Aug. 23, 2023
Jerry Calvin ’76, Oct. 9, 2023
Ellen Allenza Wheeler ’76, March 4, 2022
Craig Warvel ’77, June 20, 2023
Patricia Moonen Finewood ’79, June 23, 2023
Barbara Cole Loring ’79, June 27, 2023
William Rumble ’79, July 18, 2023
Peter Feltham ’83, Aug. 16, 2023
Bonnie Hazard ’85, Aug. 12, 2023
Robert Kaskel ’85, Aug. 11, 2023
Edna Huber ’86, June 23, 2023
Stacy Mooradian ’91, June 25, 2023
Jeffrey Tabor ’96, Sept. 23, 2023
Sarah Colligan ’16, July 5, 2023
FACULTY/STAFF
Kurt Cylke, professor of sociology emeritus, died on July 29, 2023. Kurt began teaching at Geneseo in the fall of 1990 and retired in January 2023. Cylke was also integral to the The Association for the Preservation of Geneseo and its efforts to restore a historic nineteenth-century, mile-long stone wall in Geneseo.
Thomas Donnan, retired adjunct lecturer of foreign languages, died on Aug. 18, 2023.
Carol Ann Harter, Geneseo’s first female president, died on Sept. 14, 2023. She served the College for six years, from 1989 to 1995, during which she sought greater diversity of students, faculty, and experiences on campus, and her vision was to create a sense of cosmopolitanism at the college with quality academic and intellectual life. Under Harter’s leadership, Geneseo enjoyed a positive brand reputation, a more research-oriented faculty, and larger annual fund donations, among other developments. During Harter’s tenure, the Small Business Center opened and the Roemer Arboretum was dedicated. In 1990, she established the Drs. Carol and Michael Harter Endowment for Faculty Mentoring award, which is given annually to a faculty member whose commitment to students’ intellectual or creative development goes beyond the classroom.
James Karl Somerville, associate professor of history emeritus, died on Oct. 2, 2023. He joined the history faculty in 1967 and retired in 1997. He and his wife, Arleen, were dedicated supporters of the The Geneseo Foundation and established the Somerville First Generation Scholarship.
