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Lucille K. Steinberg Malvani (BA Sociology ’48) passed away September 9, 2022

Esther Baum (BA Languages ’50) passed away August 5, 2022

Harold T. Ginsparg (BA Psychology ’50, MA Psychology ’53) passed away October 20, 2022

Lester G. Telser (BA Economics ’51) passed away September 3, 2022
Lester Telser received his undergraduate degree from the Roosevelt’s College of Arts & Sciences and
obtained a Ph.D in mathematics, economics and econometrics. After his tour of duty in the Army ended,
he returned to the University of Chicago to teach, where he taught economics for 35 years. It was a
statistics professor at Roosevelt, Norman Rudy, who would introduce him to games theory, an
application that became a life-long interest and the subject of four of the six books that he has written
during his professional career.

Joseph F. Borowski Jr. (BM ’52, MM ’57) passed away November 27 2022

Bernard W. Revsine (BSC Accounting ’56) passed away November 20, 2022

Leo Rosenthal (BSC Finance ’58) passed away September 25, 2022

Patricia M. Pates Eaton (BM ’60) passed away September 15, 2022
Patricia Pates Eaton, has left her legacy in the music world several times over.
Patricia Pates Eaton was the founder of Three on 3 Music concert series, which brings live music to the
community and produces the Harlem Classical Music Jubilee Festival featuring music of African
American composers and artists. She was retired cofounder of the Brooklyn Ecumenical Chorus of
Bedford Stuyvesant (STAI-VUH-SNT) and retired principal conductor of the New York All-City High School
Chorus. Patricia was the recipient of the Chicago College of Performing Arts Deans Award in 2021.

Guillermo O. ‘Bill’ Perez (BA Mathematics ’60) passed away November 29, 2022

John A. Giertz Jr. (BSBA Management ’61) passed away November 14, 2022

David W. Rest (BA Psychology ’61) passed away August 2, 2022

John E. ‘Gene’ Craig (MA Education ’62) passed away November 9, 2022

Henry Katz (BA Psychology ’62) passed away September 28, 2022

Edmund V. Sroczynski (BA Psychology ’62) passed away November 26, 2022

Sybil Janofsky Marshall (BA Education ’64) passed away August 31, 2022

Donald C. Leavitt (MA Political Science ’65) passed away October 1, 2022

Earl S. Newling (BSBA Marketing ’65) passed away November 17, 2022

Charmaine E. DeNoyer (MM ’66) passed away November 23, 2022

Barry C. Nelson (BS Mathematics ’69) passed away October 22, 2022

Dorothy E. Powers (MM ’69) passed away August 18, 2022

John P. Yasenak (BA Education ’69) passed away September 11, 2022

Bashir M. ‘Bob’ Kagda (BSBA Accounting ’71) passed away December 4, 2022

Warren D. Gipson Sr. (BSBA Accounting ’72, MS Accounting ’77) passed away November 26, 2022

Jane Ellen Derendinger Oswald Johnston (MA Sociology ’72) passed away August 4, 2022

James F. Weldon (BGS Business Institutions ’72) passed away September 10, 2022

Betty L. Davis (BS Biology ’73) passed away 2022

David N. Porter (MBA ’74) passed away August 10, 2022

Martha H. Bryant (BGS Sociology ’76) passed away September 5, 2022

Robert W. Matthews Jr. (BGS English ’76) passed away October 11, 2022

Wayne K. Tarney (BGS Science Teacher Education ’76) passed away September 9, 2022

Thomas P. Hudock Jr. (MBA ’77) passed away September 13, 2022

Eugene McCarthy (BGS Computer Science ’77) passed away September 18, 2022

Cynthia A. Tiffany (MA Education ’77) passed away August 8, 2022

Bertha Peterson (MA Psychology ’78) passed away November 11, 2022

Lynn B. Evans (MBA ’80) passed away August 17, 2022

Jeannette E. Satterfield Miller (MM ’82) passed away November 24, 2022

Larry C. Cose (BGS Marketing ’84) passed away August 2, 2022

Katherine P. Hutter Coyner MA Education ’84) passed away October 10, 2022

Alice Marie Costabile (BSBA Finance ’86) passed away October 6, 2022

Falicia C. Slavik (BA ’86) passed away August 25, 2022

Marijean A. Extrom (BGS Psychology ’88) passed away October 11, 2022

Dennis M. Halbert (BGS Computer Science ’89) passed away September 14, 2022

Charlane A. Shea (BGS Computer Science ’89) passed away November 25, 2022

Herbert A. Ross (MBA ’94) passed away November 23, 2022

William J. Zborowski (MBA Marketing ’94) passed away August 22, 2022

Doreen Jantz Makofski (MPA ’98) passed away August 3, 2022

Jill McDowell Mawhinney (MA Sociology ’98) passed away October 29, 2022

Harriet J. ‘Jerry’ Beard Ackerman (BGS Liberal Arts ’01) passed away October 24, 2022

Mark A. Phillips (BSBA Accounting ’03) passed away September 5, 2022

Michael K. ‘Kirk’ Stevenson (MA Secondary Education ’03) passed away October 23, 2022

Matthew W. Regan (BA Communications ’05) passed away October 26, 2022

Susan K. Fortmann (MA Secondary Education ’07) passed away October 18, 2022

​David B. Spangler passed away August 19, 2022

David Spangler taught at Roosevelt University as an adjunct mathematics professor. David was passionate about the teaching and learning of mathematics for understanding, which drove how he approached professional development for teachers, the university mathematics methods courses that I taught, and in the pre K–12 mathematics curriculum materials that he developed.

David B. Miller passed away June 20, 2022

David Miller served in the US Army of Occupation in Germany 1954-56. Upon discharge David enrolled in the Russian Institute program, Columbia University, New York, where he completed his MA & PhD. David taught at Roosevelt University for 38 years, serving as chair of the history dept. for some years. David was honored with the Seymour N. Logan Chair in History. During his teaching career, he spent a year in the Soviet Union on an academic exchange and another half year teaching at Taejon University, So. Korea.

Theodore L. ‘Ted’ Gross (Honorary ’02) passed away August 16, 2022

During his presidency, Ted implemented several institutional additions, including the development of Roosevelt’s permanent campus in Schaumburg in 1996 – which, at the time, marked the first new comprehensive University campus to be established in Illinois since the late 1960s. Ted was also instrumental in the creation of the Chicago College of Performing Arts and the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate. He led the development of an honors program, for which the Theodore “Ted” Gross Endowed Scholarship in Honors continues to provide financial support to students today. He also increased enrollments to 7,500. A fundraiser extraordinaire, Ted began and grew Roosevelt’s endowment to $35 million, and he led a highly successful $53 million capital campaign.

Alan G. Schwartz passed away December 2, 2022

Alan Schwartz founded Midtown Tennis Club, the world’s largest indoor tennis club, in 1969. Alan was an accomplished player, winning eight National Public Parks Tennis Championships and seven Illinois State Tennis Championships. He had a passion for tennis and has worked tirelessly to grow the game. Alan served on Roosevelt’s Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2014.