Stuart Heath ‘77 of Springfield, Va., on June 03, 2012. Dennis Arena ‘78 of Pompano Beach, Fla., on June 08, 2012. Raymond Joubert ‘78 of Tiverton, R.I., on June 19, 2012. Mary Waldman ‘78 of Newport, R.I., on June 05, 2011. David Heitke ‘79 of Minneapolis, Minn., on June 29, 2012. T i i n a M a d i s s o - Vo i t k ‘ 8 9 o f Fayetteville, N.Y., on May 24, 2012. Sue-Ann Brown Kresinski ‘92 of North Kingstown, R.I., on July 09, 2012. Michael Morissette ‘96 of Morgantown, W.Va., on January 22, 2011. Matthew Koehler ‘01 of Lincoln, R.I., on July 03, 2012. Melissa Stark ‘10 of Wakefield, R.I., on June 13, 2012.
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Henry A. Dymsza, 90, of East Greenwich, R.I., died on August 14, 2012. He was a professor of food science and nutrition from 1966 until his retirement in 1990, and served as department chair for 12 years. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II, he received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State University and a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin. During his retirement he served as volunteer ombudsman for the Alliance for Better Long Term Care, and was passionate about saving the environment. He is survived by his wife Janina; four daughters, Valerie A. Dymsza ’80, Darlene V. Dymsza ’82, Andrea M. Dymsza Saccoccia ’83, and Cheryl Dymsza Lowell; and three grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, 200 Niantic Ave., Providence, RI 02907, or Save The Bay, 100 Save The Bay Dr., Providence, RI 02905. Natalie (Tally) Boymel Kampen, 68, of Wakefield, R.I., died on August 12, 2012. A pioneering feminist scholar and teacher of Roman art history and gender studies, she taught art history at the University of Rhode Island between 1969 and 1988, where she helped to found one of the first Women’s Studies programs in New England and became a lifelong patron of the Hera Gallery, a feminist artists’ collective in Wakefield. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She taught at Columbia University and Barnard
College, where she held the endowed Barbara Novak chair in Art History and Women’s Studies, and became professor emerita in 2010. Most recently she was a visiting professor of Roman Art and Architecture at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and co-administrator of a Getty Foundation Grant sponsoring international study of the art and architecture of the Roman provinces. An internationally known teacher and scholar, Kampen was one of the world’s most notable experts on the history of the Roman provinces. She was a research fellow at Oxford University in 2000, received the Felix Neubergh Medal at the University of Gothenburg in 2004, and was a visiting professor of Art History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in 2010. She was the author of Image and Status: Roman Working Women in Ostia and Family Fictions in Roman Art, editor of Sexuality in Ancient Art, and author of numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books. She is survived by her sister, Susan Boymel Udin; her brother-in-law, David; and her niece and nephew, Rachel and Michael Udin. Contributions can be made in her name to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, 200 Niantic Avenue, Providence, RI 02907. Shashanka Shekhar Mitra, 78, died on August 8, 2012. He was a resident of Kingston, R.I. Born in Calcutta, he studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics at Allahabad University. He completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Michigan and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada. In 1966, he was hired as a tenured full professor at the University of Rhode Island. A prolific scholar, he was widely published. His theoretical training in physics proved a productive complement to the technical and applied skills of his electrical engineering students. Mitra was a Fellow of the American Physics Association, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America, and was a Senior Member of the IEEE. He directed the NATO Advanced Study Institute at Freiburg, Germany, in 1966, and at URI in 1974. He contributed significant research as a consultant to the U. S. Army Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala. (1964–1985), to the Argonne National Laboratory (1962–1972), and to several major private corporations. He also helped to spearhead a multi-institutional research program concerning thin films, won URI’s Award for Academic Excellence in 1983, and served as president of the URI chapter of the AAUP in the early 1980s. He was Visiting Professor Laboratoire