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In Memoriam Rev. Francis J. Murphy, S.J. The Rev. Francis J. Murphy, S.J., a former faculty member in the industrial relations department at Rockhurst University, died March 21, 2014, at age 93. Born in Kansas City, Murphy was a 1938 graduate of Rockhurst High School and a 1942 graduate of Rockhurst College. He served with the Navy during World War II, afterward entering the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Mo. He earned a master’s degree in industrial labor relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and completed a licentiate in sacred theology in 1957 from St. Mary’s College in Kansas in 1953. A faculty member at Rockhurst from 1960 to 1991, Murphy also arbitrated labor disputes in the Kansas City area and was a rector for the Rockhurst Jesuit Community.
Thomas L. Lyon Jr., Ph.D. Thomas L. Lyon Jr., Ph.D., died Feb. 24, 2014. He was born March 1, 1944, to Thomas Lowrie Lyon Sr. and Katherine Edelman Lyon in Kansas City, Mo. He grew up in Kansas City, graduating from Rockhurst High School in 1961 and from Rockhurst College in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. In 1970, he earned a Ph.D. in economics and finance from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 1975, he returned to Rockhurst where he served in a number of faculty and administrative roles. He was the Helzberg School of Management’s first-ever recipient of the Fr. Nick Rashford, S.J., Award for Leadership and Ethics (see page four). Lyon is survived by his wife, Teresa, two children, Laura Melo and Thomas L. Lyon III, and three grandchildren. Rev. John L. Cooper, ’37 — Feb. 21
Dr. Mark D. Ost, ’54 — Feb 10
Ronald J. Johnson, ’71 — Dec. 5
Bernard V. Welsh, ’40 — April 5
Donald J. Quinn, ’58 — Nov. 22
Robert W. Vincent II, ’71 — April 7
Rev. Frank J. Murphy, S.J., ’42 — March 21
George L. Blomster, ’59 — March 14
J. Leo Amor, ’73 — Jan. 27
John R. Grindel, ’59 — Jan. 10
Walter R. Roher, ’77 — Jan. 7
Robert E. Nestel Jr., ’59 — Dec. 20
Alfred F Lilly Jr., ’78 — Nov. 24
James A. Vaughn, ’61 — Jan. 15
Walter D. Whitchurch, ’79 — Jan. 17
Robert L. Hagan, ’47 — Jan. 20
Robert B. O’Gorman, ’62 — Dec. 9
Kevin M. Hart, ’87 — Dec. 3
James L. Miller, ’47 — Feb. 4
John R. Meyers, ’64 — Jan. 17
Jason T. White, ’95 — Feb. 27
John H. Bolin Jr., ’48 — Dec. 30
Thomas L. Lyon Jr., Ph.D., ’65 — Feb. 24
Joseph L. Dattilo, ’00 — March 28
William R. Burrichter, ’43 — Jan. 17 Dr. William A. Geiger Jr., ’47 — Jan. 19
Rex W. Ulricksen, ’48 —Nov. 5 Lawrence E. Growney, ’49 — Jan. 09 Josef P. Kessler, ’49 — Dec. 26 Michael J. Maher, ’50 — Dec. 09 Dr. Edward J. Heilman, ’51 — Feb. 20 Oneil Planck, ’51 — Dec. 25 James E. Hamburg, ’53 — March 30 Philip D. Jackson, ’54 — Jan. 10
Michael H. Vervynck, ’65 — March 3 Robert J. Hauber, ’66 — Jan. 1 John E. McConnell, ’67 — Dec. 30 John R. Clayton, ’69 — Nov. 17
Scott S. Gibson, ’01 — April 4 Teresa LaManno, ’06 — April 13 Annabelle Allen, ’08 — Feb. 10 Jason Crabtree, ’08 — March 16
Michael J. Murray, ’69 — March 6 Gerald F. Johnson, ’70 — April 14 M. Larry Harmon, ’71 — March 3
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