In Memoriam Fall 2024

1940s

Monte Jane McCalla ’43, Walla Walla, WA • Robert Horn Stewart ’43, Wilsonville, Alpha Tau Omega • Thomas Edward Talbot ’43, Hillsboro, Phi Gamma Delta • William T. Wisbeck ’43, Estacada, Chi Phi • Ruth Alcorn Dennis ’46, Portland, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Lorraine Martin ’47, Corvallis • Donald E. Petersen ’47, Bloomfield Hills, MI • Jo Anne Petersen ’47, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Sigma Kappa • Ruth Warris Thompson ’48, Bloomington, IL • Norma Jean Fisher ’49, Caldwell, ID • Jean Agnes Kimsey ’49, Portland, Alpha Omicron Pi

1950s

Marianne Michelle McDonnal ’50, Seattle, WA, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Jo Ann Shoemake ’50, Bellevue, WA, Sigma Kappa • William Eldon Butler ’51, Eugene • Bill Ding Kong ’51, Rancho Cordova, CA • Henry Robert Krebs ’51, Ione, Delta Chi • Mary Josephine Levenspiel ’51 ’71 ’75, Corvallis, Sigma Kappa • Jane McGee ’51 ’62, Gold Canyon, AZ, Alpha Gamma Delta • Ralph C. Shivers ’51, Lead, SD • Robert I. Young ’51, West Chester, PA, Sigma Phi Epsilon • Pauline Deggendorfer Beauchamp ’52, Laguna Hills, CA, Pi Beta Phi • William E. Fasnacht ’52, Campton, NH, Kappa Delta Rho • Myron Daniel McCall ’52, Portland, Sigma Alpha Epsilon • Richard Merrill Oveson ’52, Provo, UT, Beta Theta Pi • Robert L. Wagner ’52, Cornelius • Harry F. Weinert ’52, Hillsboro • Donald James Zarosinski ’52 ’55, Portland, Sigma Chi • Gerald G. Chadburn ’53, Springfield, Beta Theta Pi • John Alan Hentze ’53, Junction City, Theta Xi • Lester L. Hill ’53, Springfield • William K. Minea ’53, Santa Rosa Valley, CA, Theta Xi • Pauleta Robertson ’53, Portland • Gerald J. Anderson ’54, Zion, IL • Patty Craig Dumas ’54, Medford, Kappa Alpha Theta • Shirley Murrell Francisco ’54, Bellevue, WA, Tri Delta • George L. Noakes ’54, Moorestown, NJ • Gerrald Emanuel Church ’55 ’56, Bend, Sigma Nu • Duane Loren Day ’55, Kappa Delta Rho • John Frederick Hodecker ’55, Redmond, Kappa Sigma • James Patrick McClure ’55, Wenatchee, WA • Norman Ruben Ottoman ’55, Sherwood, Phi Sigma Kappa • James A. Roberts ’55, Wilsonville, Alpha Tau Omega • Charles E. Trapp Jr. ’55, Fair Oaks, CA, Alpha Tau Omega • Susan Cooley Burgess ’56, Redmond, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Lorris Ivan Child ’56, Woodburn • Patricia Keller Jacobs ’56, Eugene, Kappa Alpha Theta • Robert M. O’Brien ’56, Renton, WA • Joan Claire Ricketts Toole ’56, Lady Lake, FL, Pi Beta Phi • Helen Louise Gienger ’57, Bay City, Sigma Kappa • Robert J. Hill ’57, Cheshire, Phi Kappa Theta • Helen Pieser ’57, Portland, Alpha Chi Omega • Ronald A. Anders ’58, Tucson, AZ, Phi Kappa Psi • Iral Dean Barrett ’58, Salem • James M. Busch ’58, Ukiah, CA, Alpha Tau Omega • Gary Leon Carnahan ’58 ’61 ’89, Pooler, GA • Wallace N. Cory, ’58, Yellow Pine, Idaho • Dorothy Gathercoal Cruickshank ’58, Bend, Delta Gamma • Charles Albert Fahsholtz ’58, Mercer Island, WA, Alpha Tau Omega • Norman Charles Leeling, ’58 ’61, Florence • John Dennis Roach ’58, Klamath Falls • Winford V. Simmons ’58, Boise, ID • James E. Anderson ’59 ’61, Corvallis, Phi Sigma Kappa • Glenn H. Davenport ’59, Corvallis • Robert M. Farring Jr. ’59 ’62, Fargo, ND • William Crews Long ’59, West Linn, Phi Gamma Delta • Roland D. Schirman ’59, Dayton, WA

Joan Ricketts Toole, ’56

Joan (Ricketts) Toole, ’56, died Feb. 15 in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 89. A home economics graduate, she championed the microwave throughout her career — not as a mere kitchen convenience for warming leftovers, but as an appliance as useful as an oven. “She was a trailblazer in this field,” says her niece, Susan Frost, ’69, who still uses her aunt’s recipe for chicken divan. “No one understood how to use a microwave — they were a little afraid of it.” In addition to writing the bestselling cookbooks Cooking with Microwave Magic, Cooking En Concert with Microwave, and Food for the Heart and Soul, which Writers’ Digest awarded a prize for Best Cookbook of the Year in 1998, Toole also developed a line of porcelain microwave cookware. She remained a staunch advocate for the appliance’s powers, even as The New York Times declared, in 1995, that it “failed to live up to its early promise.” “It just takes a little understanding,” she said then. She was predeceased by her husband, Jerry Toole, and is survived by her sons, Andrew, Ross and Rick, as well as by Frost.

Photo by Susan Frost

1960s

Jack J. Carroll ’60, Salem • Lewis H. Derthick ’60, Beaverton • David G. Dykstra ’60, Washougal, WA, Alpha Tau Omega • Harold Dexter Garey ’60, Burien, WA • Richard D. Hahn ’60, Sequim, WA • Frederick G. Kern ’60, Seattle, WA, Delta Tau Delta • Joseph Stanley Michalek ’60 ’62, Santa Rosa, CA • Marilyn Marie Richards ’60, Portland, Pi Beta Phi • Louisa Gibson Velguth ’60, Lynnwood, WA, Pi Beta Phi • David Mize Crow ’61, Hillsboro, Theta Xi • John D. Dortch ’61, Chambersburg, PA, Delta Tau Delta • Peter Morse Irish ’61, Green Valley, AZ • James Ernest Monroe ’61 ’67, Mount Vernon, WA • Marilyn A. Murphy ’61, Sacramento, CA, Gamma Phi Beta • Louis F. Pratt ’61, Nampa, ID • Aaron N. Thomas ’61 ’67, Corvallis, Lambda Chi Alpha • Margaret L. Wood ’61, Portland, Kappa Alpha Theta • Maurice R. Banning ’62, Kailua Kona, HI, Sigma Phi Epsilon • Charles William Boyd ’62, Bend, Sigma Alpha Epsilon • Frederick Warren Brown ’62, Astoria • Judith Ann Brunkal ’62, Salem, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Richard W. Drosman ’62, Scappoose • James D. Gross ’62, Albany • David D. Hartley ’62, Scotts Mills, Acacia • Don Stanley Hayner ’62, Portland • David Marcel Hite ’62, Bend, Kappa Delta Rho • Ronald Hisaji Koga ’62, Export, PA • Abner Anton Korsness ’62, Happy Valley • Edith Gaynelle Orner ’62, Albany • Richard E. Pritchett ’62, New Braunfels, TX • George B. Reed ’62, Leesburg, VA, Alpha Sigma Phi • Jonathan Nicholas Roth ’62, Goshen, IN • Elisabeth Blanchard Shawl ’62, Wallingford, PA • Robert Arnold Aaserude ’63 ’65, Portland • Claude Oliver Coffman ’63 ’64, North Bend • David A. Geisler Sr. ’63, Murdo, SD • Kenneth G. Haack ’63 ’67, Vancouver, WA • Margaret Marie Heater ’63, Sublimity • Linda Hickman ’63 ’65, Bend • G. Claudine Kratzberg ’63, Vancouver, WA • Kent E. Lambert ’63, Hood River, Alpha Tau Omega • Jane Yantti Marquis ’63, Portland, Alpha Gamma Delta • Roger G. Nibler ’63 ’68, Portland, Phi Gamma Delta • James W. Scott ’63, Portland • C. Samuel Eicher ’64, Albany • Tommy R. Hensley ’64, Walnut Creek, CA • Gary L. Hickman ’64, Fort Pierce, FL • William Rich Hubbard Jr. ’64, Auburn Hills, MI • Jimmie E. Lauman ’64, Summerville • James H. McMurtry ’64, Philomath • Normand D. Raymond ’64, Lavina, MT • Fred L. Rose ’64 ’68, Keizer • Wayne Paul Russ ’64, Long Beach, CA • Sandra Louise Smith ’64, Albany • Allen H. Brady ’65, Reno, NV • Ronald A. Brandt ’65, Glendale • Philip T. Choong ’65, Los Altos Hills, CA • Frank Halstead Clark Jr. ’65, Vancouver, WA, Phi Gamma Delta • Ronald Claas Collman ’65, Warrenton • Susan Roberts Dalke ’65, McMinnville, Alpha Phi • Michael Allen Douglas ’65, Newberg, Phi Sigma Kappa • Mary Eighme ’65 ’66, Scottsdale, AZ • Melvin Guy Epley ’65, Yuba City, CA • William Earl Gilbert ’65 ’67, Corvallis • Dorothy Hudlow Willis ’65, Walla Walla, WA, Chi Omega • James Franklin Willis ’65 ’96, Walla Walla, WA, Pi Kappa Alpha • James A. Young, ’65, Reno, NV • Mary Carl Baines ’66, Green Valley, AZ, Alpha Omicron Pi • Robert Elliott Barnum ’66, Wilsonville, Beta Theta Pi • Jerome Edward Colonna ’66 ’68 ’71, Bend, Phi Delta Theta • Bryan C. Dorner ’66 ’69, Graham, WA • Dennis J. Epping ’66, Salem, Phi Kappa Theta • Larry A. Flick ’66, Cromwell, CT • Victor Harold Holme ’66 ’67, Fircrest, WA • Elizabeth Anne Moore ’66, Roseburg • Douglas Carl Roth ’66, Portland • Donald Laverne Skaar ’66 ’67, San Diego, CA • Walter Leo Ekins ’67 ’68, Saint George, UT • LaRay Harmon ’67, Molalla • John Jennings Hutchins ’67, Naples, FL, Kappa Sigma • Peter Ernest Jensen ’67, Boise, ID, Beta Theta Pi • Stephen Douglas Pancoast ’67 ’68, Tucson, AZ, Phi Delta Theta • John Robert Ray ’67 ’69, Bloomington, IL • Kenneth Bruce Shaull ’67, Woodland, CA, Alpha Sigma Phi • Barbara Schild Carroll ’68, Tucson, AZ, Kappa Delta • Ronald E. Hartz ’68, Philomath • Linda Ann Sims ’68, Albany • Werner Stebner ’68, Spring, TX • Anne Marie Thompson ’68, Corvallis • David C. Bressler ’69, Buckeye, AZ • Diane Engdahl Denero ’69, Stockton, CA, Kappa Kappa Gamma • John Richard Green ’69, Lebanon • Karen Mildren Kump ’69, Elko, NV • Charles Yung Lam ’69, Canby • James August Lichatowich Sr. ’69 ’70, Columbia City • James Lochhead ’69, Redondo Beach, CA • Rudolph A. Mundy ’69, West Linn • Roger J. Schmeltz ’69, Corvallis • Mark Edward Weckesser ’69 ’70, Richmond, KY

Jimmy Anderson, ’59

Jimmy Anderson, ’59, a 2015 inductee into the Oregon State Athletics Hall of Fame, died March 3 at the age of 86 in Corvallis. Anderson’s story as both a basketball player and coach is intertwined with that of many Beaver greats. He won the Pacific Coast Conference Championship as a player under Slats Gill, won a Pac-8 Conference title as an assistant for Paul Valenti, and claimed four Pac-10 championships as an assistant coach under Ralph Miller. After becoming head coach in 1990, Anderson continued the success of his predecessors, winning a conference title his first season and becoming Pac-10 Coach of the Year. All told, Anderson was part of 576 wins in his 37 years with the Beavers. Teams he played for or coached on won 17 Far West Classic championships. After retiring, Anderson became an informal ambassador for the men’s basketball team, attending games and practices and furthering the cause of a program he deeply loved. He is survived by his wife, Fifi (Quisenberry) Anderson, ’63; sons, Steve and Jeff, ’90; daughters, Kelly, ’88, and Jill Fuller, ’92; as well as his siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Photo by OSU Athletics

1970s

Dennis Fay Chapman ’70, Cottage Grove • David Alan Heatherbell ’70 • Edward P. Howard ’70, West Linn • Keith Irl King ’70 ’71, Corvallis • Robert Lee Offord ’70 ’71, La Mesa, CA • Mary Katherine Reed ’70 ’73, Gresham • Molly O. Schworm ’70, Eugene • Majorie Haile Walker ’70, Bend • James Bruce Campbell ’71, Salem • Joyce M Crowson Cox ’71, Reno, NV, Chi Omega • Dean Edward Freitag ’71, Saint Helens • Bruce Raymond Palmer ’71, Keizer • Carol Tyler Schaeffer ’71, Gresham, Alpha Gamma Delta • Von J. Thompson ’71, Prineville • Dennis Dean Wirth ’71, Tangent • Alan Wythe Budenz ’72, El Dorado Hills, CA • Alan R. Candlish ’72, Rancho Murieta, CA • Lawrence Jon Carroll ’72, Salem, Phi Kappa Theta • Kathryn McGhee Moore ’72, Lake Oswego • Ronald A. Nussbaum ’72, Ypsilanti, MI • Ronald Jay Scheurer ’72, Vancouver, WA • Ralph D. Brown ’73, Cornelius • Richard A. Dawes ’73, Green Valley, AZ, Phi Kappa Tau • Gregory Lawrence Gray ’73, Boise, ID • Mary Ann Isaacson ’73, Olympia, WA, Gamma Phi Beta, Panhellenic • Ronnie Jay Layton ’73, Joseph • John Ernest Liljeberg ’73, Albany • Thomas Evan Schaible ’73, Manasquan, NJ, Phi Delta Theta • Brian K. Stevenson ’73, Anchorage, AK • Emilio T. Vejil ’73, Corvallis • Kerry Dean Viestenz ’73, Tigard, Alpha Sigma Phi • John Harvard Baker ’74, Newport • Janice Ann Gunness ’74, McMinnville • Laurie Jenks ’74, Lakeville, MA • Charles E. Mayo ’74, West Linn • Richard Arlen Miller ’74, Corvallis • Lyle Mayes Cheney ’75, Hammond • Gregory Scott Oriet ’75, Gaston • Robert Lewis Singel ’75 • Barbara Lynn Spangler ’75, Newport • Daniel Alan Larsell ’76 ’80, Albany • Abayomi Adolphus Obadeyi ’76, Ibadan, Nigeria • Karen L. Randall ’76 ’80, Normanday Park, WA • Jerry G. Sachtjen ’76, Salem • Guy Lee Tebbit ’76, Concord, NC • Dennis Alden Bieze ’77, Elk Mound, WI • Hiram Hart ’77, Portland • Barry Mitchell Hasson ’77, Lake Oswego • Randolph Todd Heiman ’77, McMinnville • Eula Faye Henry ’77, Pasco, WA • Kathleen Hart Hohman ’77, Portland • Douglas Roy Dixon ’78, Richland, WA • Susan Lea Gregory ’78 ’99, Redmond • Harold Leroy Harris ’78, Corvallis • Susan S. Johnson ’78, Corvallis • Carol B. Mussler ’78 ’81, Keizer • Bruce Robert Bartlett ’79, Corvallis

Aaron Thomas, ’61

Aaron Thomas, ’61, died April 26 in Corvallis. He was 86. After a standout football career at Oregon State — Hall of Fame coach Tommy Prothro called Thomas the best tight end he ever coached — he was drafted into the NFL in 1961. He played for the San Francisco 49ers for a year and was then traded to the New York Giants, where he played until retiring in 1970, becoming one of the most prolific receiving tight ends in Giants history. After his playing days were done, Thomas worked as a stockbroker in Los Angeles; ran a restaurant/bar/bowling alley in Yreka, California, with his father; and was head football coach at Klamath Falls High School in the early 1980s. He then returned to Oregon State, where he served as assistant director of the Beaver Club from 1983 to 89. Thomas was predeceased by his first wife Jeanie, ’62, and his son Todd, ’84. He is survived by his wife, Joan, ’62, and children Troy, ’88; Robb, ’89; Lance; and Leslie.

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1980s

Bruce Elderkin Blackmer ’80, Moore, ID • Gregory Paul Brown ’80, Rigby, ID • Kevin Richard Carter, ’80, Chapel Hill, NC • Marc Alan Ferries ’80, Salem • Lorrie Jo Kagayama-Heleker ’81, Payette, ID • Patricia Ann Mason ’81, Portland • Kim Marian Spotts ’81, Hood River • John Michael Coles ’82, Lake Oswego • Kenneth Alan Rauscher ’83, Corvallis • Rodney Craig Leeper ’84, Eugene • Jean Isabelle Clark Morgan ’84, Corvallis • Cheryl Lynn Dalton ’85, Lake Oswego • Marilyn Ehrenshaft ’86, Cary, NC • Gary Jay Haldorson ’86 ’90, Pullman, WA • Daniel Raymond Corpron ’87, Portland • Andrew Warren Lacey ’88, Pendleton • Tracey Leanne Brenneman Lucht ’88, Molalla

1990s

Sarah Maria Hendren ’90, Salem • David Howard McNabb ’90 ’91, Edmonton, AB • James P. Denevan ’91, Sioux Falls, SD • Ann Brookhyser Eichelberg ’91, Gresham • Julie Anne Koch ’92, Beaverton • Ronald J. Spisso ’94, Albany • Rachel A. Ozretich ’95, Corvallis • Judith N. Bennett ’96, Ashland • Darin Gernot Colby  ’96, ’03, Portland, Chi Phi • James Russell Davis ’97, Beaverton • Matthew E. Anderson ’99, Millbrook, NY • Naomi Goldberg Mazzeo ’99, Mullica Hill, NJ

2000s

Eric Kenneth Cook ’02, Hammond, LA • Jill Champney Phillips ’03, Sitka, AK • Chad Nathan Waldron ’03, Silver Lake • Elizabeth Lorraine Dungy ’05, Monmouth • Monica Sue Hildebrand ’05, Eugene • Jacqueline Riviere Smith ’05, Corvallis • Annette Phyllis Gapp ’09, Aumsville • Valerie Jean Kelly, ’09, McMinnville • Adrienne Rose Strubb ’09, Cornelius

2010s

Angela Louise Walker ’12, Gainesville, VA • Ross D. Lingenfelter ’15, Yakima, WA • Maxwell Dunlap Taylor ’15, Reno, NV • Matthew Edward Wilkinson ’16, Corvallis • Frederick Paul Groh ’17 ’18, Harrisburg, PA • David Matthew Skeen ’19, Corvallis • Matthew Michael Vanbemmel ’19, Albany 

Clemens “Clem” Starck

Clem Starck, longtime carpenter with Oregon State’s Facilities Services and award-winning poet, died March 21, in Dallas, Oregon. He was 86. Starck, whom The New York Times called “an essential plain-spoken poet of work” published eight collections of poetry, including his first, Journeyman’s Wages, which won the 1996 Oregon Book Award in Poetry and the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award. His poems have been widely anthologized, and two more of his books were honored as Oregon Book Award finalists. As Elizabeth Gunderson of Booklist wrote, “Starck is an expert workman, building his original lines nail by nail.” He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara, and is survived by his children, Rachel Starck, Daniel Starck and Deborah Pruitt; his sister, Juanita Rodriquez; and grandchildren.

Photo courtesy of Charles Goodrich, MFA ’02

Faculty, Staff and Friends

Carlos Enrique Alvarez, San Antonio, TX • Roland F. Banks Jr., Portland • Marion E. Borchgrevink, Medford • Martin M. Burrus, Corvallis • David L. Carter, Kimberly, ID • Kenton Lee Chambers, Corvallis • Joan L Bradley Child • Fred Stokes Coombs • Orla Currie, Lebanon • Robert S. Custer, Corvallis • Paul Daghlian, Corvallis • Alice Yvonne DeArmond, Rathdrum, ID • Jay Dixon, Albany • Marlys Mae Dolan, Phoenix, AZ • Sharon L. Dolan, Missoula, MT • John T. Egan, Eugene • Steven K. Esbensen, Corvallis • Robert C. Foreman, Salem • Salem Milton Freewater • John Simon Gillis, Corvallis • Terry Glover, East Wenatchee, WA • JoAnn Graves, Keizer • Gary Graybeal, Pendleton • Lois B. Greig, Corvallis • Oscar Grischkowsky, Corvallis • Marilyn D. Helle, Eagle, ID • Julia Hume, Irvine, CA • Philip Lloyd Jackson, Corvallis • Francis K. Johnson, Corvallis • Michael Josephson, Astoria • Clifford P. Judy, Pendleton • Agnes C. Keller, Albany • Arlene Kern, Seattle, WA • Eric Larkin, Burns, TN • Diane L. Loney, Eugene • Masakazu Matsumoto, Corvallis • William Stephen McKinney, Corvallis • Dorothy M. Minea, Santa Rosa Valley, CA • Brigitte Moesta, Westborough, MA • Robert G. Moore, Portland • Wayne H. Nierman, Flint, MI • Diane Oster-Courtney, John Day • Casper S. Owen, Lebanon • Arlene F. Pearson, Wenatchee, WA • Petri Juha Pohjanpelto, Corvallis • David H. Powell, Beaverton • Lloyd Walter Ream, Corvallis • Helmut W. Riedl, Hood River • Richard P. Riess, Sherwood • Janice Mildred Ryum, Phoenix, AZ • Carol Ann Schwartz, Bethesda, MD • Kent Settles, Corvallis • Joyce Lance Spain, Corvallis • Charles “Chuck” Stamps • Carol Ann Stanton, Los Angeles, CA • Clemens Starck, Dallas, OR • John L. Stephens, Pomeroy, WA • Linda S. Tedisch, Albany, OR • Eunice I. Theriault, Salem, OR • Gordon H. Vanderzanden, North Plains • Robert H. Williams, Clarkston, WA • Forrest E. Winkler, Sun City West, AZ • Claude R. Winter, Corvallis • Brian K. Winterfield, Tualatin • Carol J. Wright, Tucson, AZ • Patricia Zysett, Monroe

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