In memoriam BGSU Magazine has received notices of the following deaths. For additional information or to make a memorial gift, please contact the Office of Alumni and Development at 419-372-2424. Alumni Helen Geesey Beatty ’27 Ruth Mills ’27 Virginia Young Waha ’36 Ellen Rudolph Bowe ’37 Arlene Yates Gerber ’37 Jane McConkey Krynock ’37 Melva Rohde Myers ’37 Jeanette Wright Anderson ’40 John DeHaven ’40 Dorothy Rothrock Lemmerbrock ’40 Helen Kersten Brandeberry ’41 Rita Fender Berry ’43 Lucile Russell Hodgins ’43 Norman Huffman ’43 Elizabeth Ragg ’44 Ruth Balsizer ’45 Ruth Proudfoot Hunter ’45
Carolyn Albert ’48 Walter Bartlett ’49 Barbara Osmun Provost ’49 James Provost ’49 Neil Rattray ’49 William Rupp ’49 Johann Warner Spalding ’49 Carl Yuk ’50 James Leite ’51 Frederick “Fritz” Rudolph ’51 Edwin Bernard ’52 Lois Conrad ’52 Joseph D’Entremont ’52 JoAnne Vickers Sommers ’52 Elvin Ferres ’53 Thomas Treon ’53 Edward Bessire ’54 Ralph Simmonds ’54 Marlo Snyder Keller ’55 Ann Tabor Keating ’57 Ann Sesok Subler ’58 Elizabeth Caves Elchert ’59 David Busser ’60 Micheline Patti Donovan ’60 Earl Shaffer ’61 Thomas Gibbs ’62 Leota Cashen Hetrick ’62 Caryl Dodd Pape ’62 Thomas Press ’62
Linda Evans ’64 Phyllis Sleasman ’65 Carol Helman Cobb ’66 Carol Lowry Decker ’66 Joseph Marley ’66 Glenn Meikle ’66 David Rand ’66 David Zeigler ’66 Linda Werner Chug ’68 Pierre Amburn ’70 Robert Pasen ’70 Robert Sanka ’71 Karen Brinley Worster ’71 Donnel Doblinger ’72 Mary Ann Plas Kelley ’72 Joanne Humphrey Konieczny ’72 John Mergenthaler ’72 Patrick Piekarczyk ’72 John Brennan ’73 Kathleen Nickelsen Schimming ’73 Barbara McKown Matoney ’75 Elizabeth Siciliano ’75 Mark Seiser ’76 Alan Vargyas ’76 Douglas Dysinger ’78 Linda Ball Will ’78 Gregory Wyant ’78
Dorothy Clark ’79 Barbara Kuzma O’Reilly ’80 Douglas Haynes ’82 Mark Brookey ’84 Richard Greaser ’85 Joanne Zimmer Holt ’85 Timothy Quick ’94 Robert Callaway ’98 Michelle Gottschalk Kosmatka ’00 Nicole Solomonoff ’00 Teri Carl ’03 Keri Shryock ’08
Faculty/staff Margaret Aller, dining services Zola Harvey Buford, associate registrar and director of records Mona Cretney Clafin, library John Fogel, development office Dr. Carl Hallberg, biology Richard Hoffman, General Studies Writing, University Honors Program and Partners in Context and Community Residential Learning Community Bette Jean Logsdon, professor emeritus of health, physical education and recreation Paul Makara, professor emeritus of music performance studies Robert A. Patton, professor emeritus of applied statistics and operations research and former dean of the College of Business Administration Ronald Pattison, University Bookstore Dr, Virginia Platt, professor emeritus of history Larry Shaner, shuttle driver, transportation department Joseph Spinelli, associate professor emeritus of geography James Synnamon, chemistry department Betty Jo Triggs, secretary Dr. Ivan Trusler, professor emeritus of music education
Dr. Virginia Platt
Dr. Robert Allen Patton
Dr. Virginia Bever Platt, an emerita professor of history who in retirement was a University Trustee known for her outspokenness, died Jan. 15, 2009, in Cleveland. She and her husband, Grover Cleveland Platt, also a historian, came to the BGSU history department after World War II. His specialty was European history. Hers was Colonial America, from the work of 18th century women to the triangle trade of slaves, sugar, and rum among Africa, the Caribbean, the colonies, and England. She helped write the charter for the Faculty Senate, on which she served from 1964-75. She was advisor for the Student Government Association and was active in the University Honors Program. In 1984, then-Gov. Richard Celeste named her to a nine-year term as a trustee. She was a strong voice for academic freedom and the rights of faculty, and a strong voice for the University. She was the first female president of the Ohio Academy of History, was president of Ohio-Indiana Chapter of the American Studies Association and served on the Ohio Historical Society Board of Trustees for six years. Memorials may be made to the Grover and Virginia Platt Memorial Scholarship Fund at BGSU.
Dr. Robert Allen Patton, former professor and dean of the College of Business Administration, died Jan. 29, 2009, in Seven Lakes, N.C. He joined the BGSU faculty in 1967 and was promoted to full professor in 1976. In 1977 he was named chair of the department of applied statistics and operations research, and in 1982 as dean of the College of Business Administration, where he served until 1990. Following early retirement from BGSU in 1992, he was appointed dean of the School of Business, Economics and Management at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. There he served on the Maine Council of Economic Education and the Greater Portland Economic Development Council, retiring to Seven Lakes in 1996. Among Patton’s honors were selections for Outstanding Young Men of America, American Men and Women of Science, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Beta Gamma Sigma. Memorials may be sent to the Robert Patton Book Scholarship, BGSU Foundation, Mileti Alumni Center.
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