Passages

We remember those who lost their lives.

12/01/2021 12:13 AM

Current and Emeriti Faculty

Christina McDaniel

Christina McDaniel, assistant professor of education and co-director of the Center for STEM Education, died Sept. 2 in Peoria. She was 53. At ��ý��Ƶ for more than four years, she earned her graduate degrees at Mississippi State University and was the 2020 winner of the College of Education and Health Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Service. Surviving are her husband, Christopher, two daughters, her mother and two brothers.

John Sathoff ’53

John Sathoff ’53, professor of physics, emeritus, who taught at ��ý��Ƶ from 1961–2000, died June 28 at 90. Prior to joining ��ý��Ƶ, John was an Air Force veteran. He served as physics department chair for 30 years and was active in community service. Surviving are a son, J. Blake Sathoff ’83; a daughter, Nadine Sathoff Muehlbauer ’85; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; a sister, Mary Mullinax ’79; and extended family.

Henry Helenek

Henry Helenek, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, emeritus, who taught at ��ý��Ƶ from 1967–2012, died March 7 at 80. While at ��ý��Ƶ, he was instrumental in founding the hockey club team. Surviving are one daughter and extended family.

Edward Kaizer

Edward Kaizer, professor of music, emeritus, who taught at ��ý��Ƶ from 1970–2016, died April 9 at 84. A winner of the Rothberg Professional Excellence Award, he performed nationally and internationally, often with his wife, Janet. He is survived by four children, including Claire Kasamis ’86 and Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsey ’98, and six grandchildren.

Dick Hartman ’54

Dick Hartman ’54, , professor of business administration, emeritus, died Aug. 9 at 89. He taught 40 years, winning the Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000; Dick also served as acting dean of the Foster College of Business, director of the MBA program and chair of business management. Surviving are his wife, Bobbi Parks Hartman ’63; one daughter, Sue Brock ’86; a son, Rick MBA ’92; and extended family.

Staff

Ron Ferguson

Ron Ferguson, athletic director from 1978–96 and executive director of special projects, died July 8 at 89. A member of the ��ý��Ƶ Athletic Hall of Fame and the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame, among others, the men’s basketball team won five conference championships and made eight postseason appearances during his time as AD, winning the 1982 NIT. Ron was also an Army veteran and longtime high school coach. Surviving are his wife and three children, including Brad ’86; two stepchildren; and 12 grandchildren.

Stan Albeck ’55

Stan Albeck ’55, who led ��ý��Ƶ to the NCAA Tournament as a player and a coach, died March 25 at 89. Albeck coached four NBA teams and four collegiate teams, including ��ý��Ƶ, from 1986–91. Stan was the Missouri Valley Conference coach of the year in 1988 and a member of the ��ý��Ƶ and San Antonio sports halls of fame. Surviving are a brother, five children, and extended family.

Alumni

Beth Kingdon Folkers ’43, July 3, Wayzata, Minn.

William Curry ’48, July 28, East Peoria, Ill.

Phyllis Schafer Tabor ’48, April 17, La Jolla, Calif.

Harold Miller ’49, April 14, Peoria

James Burley ’50, June 19, Peoria

John Carlson ’50, July 12, Batavia, Ill.

Nelson KJ Chang ’50, Feb. 15, Honolulu

Thomas Fink ’50, June 6, Anchorage, Alaska

Bernice “Bonnie” Malchow ’50, March 28, Oregon City, Ore.

Conrad Pawlowski ’50, April 28, Northbrook, Ill.

Robert Flanagan ’51, June 21, Mascoutah, Ill.

Owen Henn ’51, April 8, Benbrook, Texas

James Logsdon ’51, April 13, Bartlett, Ill.

Phyllis Hunt Fabry ’52, July 12, Wyoming, Ill.

Robert Pusch ’52, March 14, Menifee, Calif.

Martha Thomas Casselberry ’53, May 20, Pompano, Fla.

Beverly Eisele Holmes ’53, June 4, Brimfield, Ill.

Richard Pealstrom ’53, March 30, North Huntingdon, Pa.

Lyman Riegel M.A. ’53, March 14, Springfield, Ill.

Roger Anderson M.S. ’54, March 19, Watseka, Ill..

Leo Davis ’54, Dallas, Texas

John Deininger ’54, July 21, Newport Beach, Calif.

Ernst Kellerstrass ’54, March 19, Elmhurst, Ill.

James Oltman ’54, April 7, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Les Podgorny ’54, Feb. 28, Seattle

Stanley Togikawa ’54 MBA ’54, March 6, 2020, Honolulu

Robert Engelman ’55, May 10, Bellevue, Iowa

Marilyn Flynn ’55, M.A. ’63, July 16, Stockbridge, Ga.

Barbara Brown Hutt ’55, May 8, Peoria

Ron Konetsky ’55, June 5, Thousand Palms, Calif.

Thomas Kromphardt ’55, July 30, Peoria

Alan Lisle ’55, April 2, Indianapolis

Jack McCurdy ’55, April 25, Elmhurst, Ill.

Kenneth Blair ’56, May 9, Peoria

Robert Reber ’56, June 6, Crystal Lake, Ill.

Joseph Shryock ’56 M.A. ’71, May 10, Chillicothe, Ill.

John Spring ’56, July 13, Empire, Mich.

Robert Denton ’57, May 23, Peoria

G. Paul Gerdes ’57, July 12, Peoria

Lois Ladley Powers ’57 M.A. ’78, Aug. 4, Charlotte, N.C.

David Anderson ’58, March 4, Ellensburg, Wash

Edwin Ehrgott ’58, May 27, Peoria

Patricia Foster Frederick ’58, May 26, Great Falls, Va.

Louis Larson ’58, April 25, Darien, Ill.

Edward Markey ’58, Feb. 23, Columbus, Ohio

Frank Vojta ’58, April 5, Toulon, Ill

Nancy Lahvic Borman ’59, July 18, Montrose, Colo.

James Brentz ’59, April 23, Sandy, Utah

Patricia Prazak Eldridge’59, June 24, Decatur, Ill.

Ned Flesher ’59, May 17, Galesburg, Ill.

Eileen Timboe Pelini ’59, May 22, Ludlow, Ky.

George Tanaka ’59, Jan. 26, Fairfield, Calif.

Quintin Damerell ’60, April 30, East Peoria, Ill.

Darrell Fox ’60, Nov. 18, 2020, Haines City, Fla.

Gerald Hoeft ’60, May 13, Oro Valley, Ariz.

Judith Benthaus Ingersoll ’60, March 15, Naples, Fla.

Harold “Lanny” Lamont ’60,, April 4, Lake St. Louis, Mo.

Joy Grabow Maier ’60, April 10, Flossmoor, Ill.

William Powell ’60, July 6, Topeka, Kan.

Janice Heinz Ruggerio ’60, April 24, Champaign, Ill.

James Suffield ’60, April 29, Rhinelander, Wis.

Richard Taylor Jr. ’60, June 23, Johnson City, Tenn.

Harold Clasing ’61, June 17, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Madeline “Jean” Phillips Gove ’61, April 16, Peoria

Rosemarie “Rosie” Schneider Langfels ’61, March 31, Peoria

Charles Murphy ’61, March 17, Medford, N.J.

Charles Williams M.A. ’61, July 18, Washington, Ill.

Florence “Betsy” Bliss Aldred ’62, June 21, Elmhurst, Ill.

Richard Gardner MBA ’62, May 11, Morton, Ill.

Richard Hawker ’62, July 20, Bailey’s Harbor, Wis.

William McLaughlin ’62, April 16, Morton, Ill.

Peter Pasquel ’62, July 30, Peoria

Robert Higgins ’63, March 24, East Wenatchee, Wash.

Mary Shively Baker ’64, May 27, Sun City Center, Fla

Ron Coons ’64, Aug. 10, Louisville, Ky.

James Pike Jr. ’64, May 18, Morton, Ill.

Jeff Goetz ’65, Jan. 12, 2019, Camas, Wash.

John Hickey ’65, March 15, Lisle/ Naperville, Ill.

Patricia Heeler Kozlevcar ’65,, June 7, Washington, Ill.

James Martin ’65, March 18, Crestview, Fla.

James Newman ’65 M.S.’76, March 23, Washington, Ill.

Roy Senffner ’65, Jan. 17, Joliet, Ill.

Michael Stuart M.A. ’65, June 7, Peoria

James Eilers ’66, March 12, Edwardsville, Ill.

Donald Hughes ’66, Sept. 20, 2020, Fox River Grove, Ill.

Carol Planck McDonald ’66, April 16, Carmel, Ind

Robyn Heinrich Michaelis ’66, March 4, Tujunga, Calif.

James Walser ’66, April 9, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Jerry Wright M.S. ’66, April 17, Trivoli, Ill.

Robert Mendelsohn ’67, May 12, Manchester, Conn.

Wylvan Parker ’67 M.A. ’70, July 4, Knoxville, Tenn.

Alan Sporn ’67, March 29, Flossmoor, Ill.

William “Bubba” Wessels ’67, April 17, Ark Rapids, Minn.

Barbara Renfrew Armstrong ’68, July 28, Las Cruces, N.M.

Kirk Giloth ’68, Jan. 25, Mukilteo, Wash.

John Lucido ’68, Sept. 13, 2020, Garland, Texas

Margi Bogner ’69, April 15, Chicago

Nancy Zobel Koch ’69, April 19, Morton, Ill.

John Matarelli ’69, July 10, Peoria

Douglas Brush ’70, March 6, Tulsa, Okla.

Daniel DeCremer ’70, Oct. 5, 2020, Estero, Fla.

Roger Fry ’70, Jan. 23, Hurst, Texas

Robert E. Gunter ’70, June 4, Lakeland, Tenn.

Rolland Hannam ’70, April 10, Galesburg, Ill.

Marvin Marquart ’72, April 26, Lawrenceville, N.J.

David Cook MEA ’73, May 4, Peoria

David Gillespie M.A. ’73, April 5, Princeton, Ill.

Robert Bach ’74, May 17, Peoria

Joseph Hobbick ’74, Aug. 1, Peoria

Craig Kassabaum ’74, April 27, Bellevue, Ill.

Margaret Heick Kohlhase M.A. ’74, March 24, Peoria

Brian MacPhee ’74, May 5, Peoria

Martin Meehan ’74, March 27, Oswego, N.Y.

Joseph Glossick ’76, April 24, Lakeland, Fla.

Terrell Jones ’76, July 10, Columbus, Ohio

Priscilla McCarthy ’76, July 3, East Peoria, Ill.

Roland Harms II ’78, May 20, Peoria

Nancy McAtee Sedin ’80, May 29, Huntley, Ill

Bill Geyer ’81, March 28, Morton, Ill.

Steve Lovell ’83, May 23, Corydon, Ill.

Kirk Ford ’84, April 9, Peoria

Vicki Wagner Aeschleman Bilsland ’86 MBA ’92, July 19, Saint Augustine, Fla.

Ronald Reisner ’87, June 29, Charleston, S.C.

Stanton Cook ’88 MSIE ’94, Aug. 5, Washington, Ill.

Marta Darling ’90, June 28, Peoria

Charles Pyle M.S.’91, July 19, Peoria

David Becktel MBA ’95, May 21, Washington, Ill.

Ryan Madden ’95, April 12, Peoria

Charlotte Miller Griminger M.A. ’96, June 11, Peoria

Monica Neidorff ’98, March 24, St. Louis

Kevin Graham ’00, July 15, Pekin, Ill.

Michele Plaag Teske ’00, July 15, Peoria

David Jerger M.S. ’03, Feb. 13, Chesapeake, Va.

Lauren Ross ’03, July 23, Evanston, Ill.

Ronald Hamm Jr. ’07, March 16, Kickapoo, Ill.

Eric Weber MBA ’11, April 5, Fletcher, N.C.

Melissa Hoerber ’17, Oct. 15, 2020, Watertown, Mass.

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