Class Notes Category: In Memoriam
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Samy Allal ’21
Samy Allal ’21, who majored in mathematics of computation, passed away unexpectedly in April 2025, just days before his 25th birthday. His family, who moved to the U.S. from North…
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Peter Hamilton Raven, Ph.D. ’60
Peter Hamilton Raven, Ph.D. ‘60, a botanist who transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden into a global leader in plant science and became one of the world’s most prominent advocates for…
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Biruté Galdikas ’66, M.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’78
Biruté Galdikas ’66, M.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’78, one of the world’s most prominent researchers in Orangutans, passed away March 24 at age 79. On Facebook, the Center for Great Apes…
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Sherrill D. Luke ’50
Sherrill D. Luke ’50 UCLA’s first – and America’s second – black student body president, a tireless foe of discrimination from his student days who went on to become a…
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Virginia Tang Corrigan ’65
Virginia Tang Corrigan ’65, beloved mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend, passed away at the age of 88 on the morning of Nov. 10, 2025, at her home…
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Gary Marc Lazarus ’66
Gary Marc Lazarus ’66, O.D., Ph.D, F.A.A.O., passed away after a long illness on Nov. 23. He was 81. Lazarus received his bachelor’s degree in psychology and while an undergraduate…
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Sara Linderman, MBA ’07, Cert. ’23
Sara Linderman, MBA ’07, Cert. ’23, passed away Nov. 30 at age 45. Born and raised in Carmel, Indiana, the daughter of Dr. Richard B. Linderman and Jane Linderman, she…
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Beth Bloom ’99
Beth Christine Bloom ’99 passed peacefully Saturday, Nov. 15, at the age of 48. Her final days were spent in a place of beauty, a peaceful turn-of-the-century bungalow, surrounded by…
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Marina McIntire, Ph.D. ’80
Marina McIntire, Ph.D. ’80, who earned her doctorate in linguistics, studied internationally and taught at universities throughout the U.S., passed away on Oct. 2. Born Marina Lucile LaRay in Los…
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Harry Stanley (Stan) Jones ’55
Harry Stanley (Stan) Jones ’55 passed away on Sept. 11 at home in Kailua, Hawaii. Born March 24, 1931, in Decatur, Illinois, to Clarence and Doris McClelland, Jones earned his…