IN MEMORIAM Paulo, Brazil. In 1971, Bill and his family settled in Crystal Lake, where he resided for the next 40 years. Ultimately, Bill would own and run his company DriRite East Corp., a manufacturing and packaging facility of raw chemicals. Richard Bell ’64 - Bell passed away on November 13, 2020, just before his 85th birthday following a prolonged illness. He served in the Army during the Korean War. For most of his career, Dick worked for the Agency for International Development at the U.S. Department of State and for the U.S. Department of Commerce as an International Trade Specialist. He retired in Fernandina Beach. William “Bill” Gleason ’66 - Gleason was born on October 14, 1939, in Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1962, Bill enlisted in the US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps and was posted in Bangkok, Thailand for three years during the early Vietnam conflict. There he performed intelligence gathering in Laos and Cambodia via parachute, while ostensibly teaching English in Bangkok. Upon completion of his military service, he returned to the US and attended Thunderbird. In 1966, Bill was hired by Crown Zellerbach Corporation and soon transferred to their export division in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This started Bill’s global travels that took him to six of the seven continents. Bill’s love for international travel adventures continued right up to his death, having just visited the Seychelles, his 179th country. Bill died on February 28, 2020. David G. Fisher ’67 - Fisher passed away in April 2020, at the age of 100 years old. After leaving the Air Force in the 1960s, Fisher attended Thunderbird. He moved to Japan and became a respected English language teacher. He was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, American military veterans in Japan. Joseph Segura ’67 – Segura passed away on July 10, 2020. Tony was born May 21, 1942, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tony had a successful career as V.P. of Daniels Insurance in Santa Fe. He married Susan Williams Segura and they shared 40 wonderful years of marriage. Tony was an avid skier, fly fisherman, former marathon runner, and gym rat.
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Harald Biedermann ’68 - Biedermann passed in July 2020 in a car accident. Carl Stegall ’70 - Stegall, 79, passed away on July 6, 2020, from metastatic lung cancer. He began his first career working for the U.S. Forest Service in California and Arizona. He used this new knowledge for a second career in finance, working as a broker for Coldwell Banker in San Francisco. Another of Carl’s careers was in the Army National Guard trained as a medic during the Vietnam War. Marilyn Ward (née Muessel) ’70 – Ward, 73, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 4, 1947, and passed away on November 27, 2020, at her home in Lakewood, Colorado. Marilyn loved the mountains and the people who lived there. Ravi Parameswaran ’73 - Parameswaran, 72, was a Professor of Marketing and International Business at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. As a tenured professor, he dedicated his 44-year career to preparing students for a successful career in marketing and marketing research. His research interests included marketing and sustainability issues related to marketing. His industry experience included positions at Ford Motor Company, Carson Roberts, Focus Advertising, India, and Richardson Hindustan. He passed away on October 16, 2020.
Jana Siman ’74 - Siman passed away at her home in Twinsburg, Ohio, on November 8, 2019. Born in Germany on September 7, 1950, she moved to Ohio that year. She studied in South Africa as well as the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon. During her life, she had three careers: international marketing executive, mother, and Adult Practice Nurse Practitioner (APRN). She thrived as a medical professional; especially as a lecturer and preceptor at the Yale School of Nursing. In addition, she volunteered extensively in Ecuador, Uganda, and India. Gary Martin ’77 - Martin was born on October 9, 1949, in Houston, Texas. Gary was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, in February of 2018. Gary died at home on October 25. He served aboard diesel
