Audrey Susanna Bingel, passed away earlier this year. She was an only child of William and Lillian Bingel, was born in the Bronx, NY, on January 21, 1942. In her youth Audrey sang in her church choir and was an avid fencer. She had a lifelong love of music: plays the piano regularly, a country music devotee; and was a life-long fan of the New York/ San Francisco Giants baseball team (not Cubs, although she lived near Wrigley Field for more than 30 years). Audrey spoke several languages, including Portuguese, Italian, and German, the latter being spoken at home by her first generation German parents, aunt and uncle. Following graduation (BA) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1963, Bingel studied reproductive biology under the guidance of Prof. Neena B. Schwartz at the UIC/Medical Center, receiving a Ph.D. (Dissertation: “The timing of cyclic and post-partum ovulation in the mouse”) in 1968. She immediately joined the UIC College of Pharmacy in its new Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. She was a dedicated teacher and was rewarded by one of her classes as a Golden Apple recipient. Dr. Bingel’s research endeavors focused on the biology of reproduction, which enabled her to serve, along with Drs. Don Waller (reproductive toxicology), D. Doel Soejarto (botany), Geoff Cordell (phytochemistry/chemistry) and Harry Fong (phytochemistry/project leader) as members of a multidisciplinary collaborative research project, funded by the World Health Organization’s Human Reproduction Programme, in the search for active anti-fertility compounds from plants (1977-1987). Significantly, this collaborative team approach represents a new research paradigm in the then prevalent philosophy of “independent” research. Dr. Bingel was responsible for the protocols for conducting the anti-fertility bioassays in hamsters and other animal models. In 1982, Dr. Bingel became a permanent research faculty member in the College’s Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, until her retirement in 1998. Alvin S. Anderson, BS 1953, passed away on April 19 at the age 86, in Bedford, Texas. Al was born in Rockford Illinois, graduated from East High and the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy, currently know as the UIC College of Pharmacy. He was the owner of Anderson Rexall Drugs in Belvidere Illinois and later become president of Boone State Bank-Belvidere.
John Eichstaedt, BS 1972, passed away on July 28. Ken Gogol, PharmD 2016, passed away on August 24. Ken was born June 10, 1976 in Toledo, Ohio to Thomas S. and Linda S. (Nadeau) Gogol. Ken was a 2016 graduate of UIC College of Pharmacy at Rockford and was voted by fellow students as Student of the Year. James Hunt, BS 1970, MS 1972, passed away September 2017. Jeffrey C. Koszczuk, BS 1978, passed away September 12. In 1978, he earned a degree in pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and went on to graduate from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1982. He did his internship and residency at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Martin “Marty” Lebedun, BS 1952, passed away in December 2017. Marty was a respected pharmacist at Endler’s Pharmacy for 40 years. Riley Lambert, BS 1952, passed away on May 13. Riley was a World War II Veteran and upon his discharge he attended the University of Illinois at Navy Pier, now the UIC College of Pharmacy. Upon graduation in 1951, Riley became a registered pharmacist. Riley established Lambert’s Village Drug Store in Clarendon Hills, IL on April 1, 1962 until they closed it on Dec. 31, 1987. Marshall S. Miller, BS 1952, passed away on July 30 of complications from a fall he suffered in his home two weeks before his death. He was admitted to Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL, and entered hospital-based hospice care four days before his death. Mr. Miller was a proud member of the United States Navy during World War Two, then a pharmacist until retirement, first owning and operating his own drugstore on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, then selling that to work for Kmart. Andreas “Andy” J. Politis, PharmD 1994, passed away suddenly on August 29. Steve C. Schumann, BS 1970, passed away on August 17. After high school, Steve earned his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked as Director of Pharmaceutical Technology for Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company as well as Searle Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Donald Goesel, BS 1955, passed away in April of 2016. The Pharmacist | 29