IN MEMORIAM Lynn Ann Adams ’83
Michael Kolesar ’49
R. Glenn Adams ’48
Joann Leckfor
Errol Anderson ’64
John H. Loncosky ’59
Blaine E. Anthony
Elsie Luke ’50
Richard B. Bennett
Geraldine Moyer Malmberg ’46
Gloria Krichbaum Bollens ’52
Paul R. Malmberg ’44, H’81
Betty Bowen
Domenick Marsiglio ’45
John T. Braughler ’47, H’68
Ivan C. Marsteller ’37
Sheryl J. Brinker
Barbara McGrath Massing ’55
William Cadman
Guy F. McCracken
Charles M. Cagno ’64
Raymond G. Millero
Patricia Murray Callan ’75
Robert Morneweck
Paul S. Clare ’60
Carl O. Nelson
Robert E. Clark ’62
George R. Oesterling ’70
Judith Szall Dinsmore ’69
Donald I. Oill ’90
Wayne Eakin
Marian Orr
Janet K. Ellwood
Robert Patton
Robert J. Firman ’36
Idalia Brisco Payne ’64
Alice G. Flemming ’43
Bruce E. Perkins
Eleanor Gordon
Winifred Gamble Powless ’53
Deborah Kling Graff ’74
Elizabeth Clepper Reyer ’37
Ethel Haag
Timothy D. Riemer ’86
Robert M. Hamilton
Deborah Yesko Smith
George M. Hanko ’60
Kathleen S. Sorber
Barbara Curley Hartman ’61
Harry G. Souders ’64
Bruce E. Hause ’79
Carol Shifler Stemple ’74
Cassandra S. Hazuda
John W. Stevenson ’61
Shirley Hellyer
Richard Stevenson
Theodore G. Hines
David Sundholm ’65
Charmaine Curry Hutcheson ’75
Carolyn A. Thieme-Busch ’70
Jack G. Johnson
Michael B. Tidd ’93
Sherman S. Jubelirer
Beatrice D. Vuocolo
Margretta Judy
Lynn Decker Vuocolo ’68
Gene B. Kather
Mark E. Walker ’77
Paul Kikel
Robert R. Weisner
Margaret Harry Klingensmith ’47
Dale A. Wenzelburger ’64
Rudi K. Klobach ’67
Peter R. Wishart
Dr. Bennett, professor emeritus of chemistry, passes Richard B. Bennett, Ph.D., ‘82, professor emeritus of chemistry, passed away March 5, 2015. Bennett taught from 1964 to 1998, and was the 1995 recipient of the Professor of the Year award. He was a resident of Greenville. He served on various committees in his threeplus decades at Thiel College. He was a member of the faculty senate, the faculty council and its executive committee, the Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Academic Standing Committee and the 1976 Presidential Search Committee. He combined his administrative responsibilities with a dedication to his students that carried on long after they graduated. “I don’t think Dr. Bennett ever forgot a student. Decades after my graduation, he still remembered me, remembered my family, and seemed to somehow know what I was doing,” said Board of Trustees member Robert Burns, M.D. ’74. “He also knew where my peers were living and what they had accomplished. He was a true Thiel gem. He made a difference in my life and in many others. He will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by countless Thiel alumni.” “I know I’m not alone when I say that Dr. Bennett was my favorite professor at Thiel. At our recent science reunion, his name came up over and over as the one who got them through organic chemistry, or the one who helped them find the right job, or the right graduate school position,” Burns said. “Dr. Bennett had a love of teaching that went beyond the classroom. His lectures were interesting and laced with his wonderful, dry sense of humor. But also, his office door was always open, and there was a steady stream of students seeking him out for advice or just a friendly chat. I don’t know how he got anything done.” The family has suggested memorial contributions be made to Bennett-Heald Scholarship Fund at Thiel College. Spring 2015
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