Western New England University mourns the loss of the following members of our community who have recently passed away. Please note that this information is updated by our records team. If you are aware of any errors or omissions, please call 413-796-2240 or email alumwne@wne.edu. 

Bernard M. Crosby ’53 (Accounting), West Springfield, Mass.; November 14, 2024

Maurice J. Ferriter L’57 (JD), Holyoke, Mass.; December 24, 2024

Robert L. Collingwood ’58 (Management), Puryear, Tenn.; October 18, 2022

John P. Toohey ’58 (Engineering and Business), Great Falls, Va.; November 28, 2023

Roy S. Alonzo G’61 (MBA), Exeter, N.H.; October 2, 2024

Edward Lantzakis ’61 (Mechanical Engineering), Longmeadow, Mass.; December 1, 2024

Roy E. Simmons, Jr. ’61 (Industrial Engineering), The Villages, Fla.; October 8, 2022

William H. Jankins ’62 (Management), West Brookfield, Mass.; January 4, 2025

Thomas P. Laurino ’62/G’68 (Mechanical Engineering/MBA), Wilbraham, Mass.; April 17, 2025

Norman J. Moreau G’62 (MBA), South Hadley, Mass.; October 19, 2023

Norman E. Brown G’63 (MBA), Hadley, Mass.; January 2, 2025

George R. Dalrymple ’63/G’69 (Mechanical Engineering/MBA), Suffield, Conn.; July 20, 2024

Robert Deutel ’63 (Mechanical Engineering), Oxford, Pa.; March 17, 2023

Eugene S. Du Bois ’63 (Management), Keene, N.H.; December 3, 2024

Richard W. Jagodowski ’63 (Mechanical Engineering), Feeding Hills, Mass.; December 17, 2024

Robert D. Mashia G’63 (MBA), Holyoke, Mass.; February 10, 2025

William Oehler, Jr. ’63/G’66 (Mechanical Engineering/MBA), South Hadley, Mass.; November 6, 2024

Albert M. Sullivan G’63 (MBA), Douglasville, Ga.; April 14, 2024

Robert P. Traggio ’63 (Mechanical Engineering), Lakeland, Fla.; March 17, 2023

David R. Trombley ’63 (Management), Punta Gorda, Fla.; January 30, 2023

Robert Emerson Wells, Jr. G’63 (MBA), Dennis, Mass.; March 12, 2025

Paul B. Whelan ’63/G’80 (Mechanical Engineering/MBA), Peabody, Mass.; March 30, 2025

Hayden L. Bradley ’64 (Mechanical Engineering), Pittsfield, Mass.; January 29, 2025

J. Arthur Finch G’64 (MBA), Brandon, Fla.; December 16, 2024

David M. Keith ’64/G’82 (Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Management), Holyoke, Mass.; March 28, 2024

Rudolf J. Rexer ’64 (Mechanical Engineering), West Springfield, Mass.; March 23, 2025

Richard F. Ziemba ’64/G’68 (Management/MBA), Suffield, Conn.; November 24, 2024

Donald W. Butler G’65 (MBA), Fountain Hills, Ariz.; April 10, 2024

Gerard G. Parent ’65 (Engineering and Management), Chicopee, Mass.; November 26, 2024

Eugene H. Walz G’65 (MBA), Belchertown, Mass.; December 9, 2024

Paul F. Gaudette ’66 (Mechanical Engineering), Rockwall, Texas; October 28, 2024

Kenneth R. Burr ’67 (Management), Wethersfield, Conn.; May 19, 2022

Daniel G. Ferguson G’67 (MBA), Lansing, Mich.; April 6, 2024

Russell F. Newton ’67 (Marketing), Northfield, Mass.; March 31, 2025

John L. Parker ’67 (Management), Ocala, Fla.; February 14, 2024

David Stuart G’67 (MBA), Charlestown, Mass.; January 24, 2025

Richard J. Duquette ’68 (Management), West Springfield, Mass.; December 25, 2024

Paul J. Gonville G’68 (MBA), West Barrington, R.I.; January 27, 2025

Thomas W. Herrala G’68 (MBA), Alpharetta, Ga.; December 24, 2023

Richard N. Paul ’68 (Mechanical Engineering), Kennebunkport, Maine; November 27, 2024

Paul A. Agerty ’69 (Marketing), Springfield, Mass.; January 13, 2025

Roland J. Beauregard G’69 (MBA), Auburn, Mass.; August 8, 2024

Richard H. Bowers ’69 (Mechanical Engineering), Harwich, Mass.; August 8, 2022

Joseph L. Doucette ’69/G’72 (Engineering and Management/MBA), Agawam, Mass.; March 31, 2025

David J. Dunaj ’69 (Management), Chicopee, Mass.; December 18, 2024

A. Kippery Bochain, Jr. ’70 (Management), Stonington, Conn.; October 30, 2024

Lee T. Bongiolatti ’70 (Marketing), Brewster, Mass.; November 18, 2024

Richard L. Cathie G’70 (MBA), Fort Myers, Fla.; February 5, 2025

James C. Jodoin G’70 (MBA), Dudley, Mass.; April 19, 2025

Rodney J. Kelley, III ’70 (Accounting), Allendale, Fla.; December 17, 2024

Roger G. Leblond ’70 (Accounting), Corpus Christi, Texas; February 26, 2025

Thomas A. Smith G’70 (MBA), Fort Worth, Texas; January 20, 2025

George R. Bruhns ’71 (Management), Fort Mill, S.C.; December 17, 2024

George N. Sarikas ’72 (Management), Norfolk, Mass.; February 1, 2025

Rene P. Thomas L’72 (JD), East Dennis, Mass.; October 7, 2023

John F. Albano ’73/G’80 (Marketing/MBA), Fort Myers, Fla.; December 6, 2024

Michael R. Martin ’73 (English), East Longmeadow, Mass.; April 3, 2025

Richard W. Turschman ’73 (History), East Longmeadow, Mass.; December 13, 2024

John E. Brady, III L’74 (JD), Plattsburgh, N.Y.; March 4, 2025

Philip H. Lauro L’74 (JD), Springfield, Mass.; December 25, 2024

Kenneth W. Manning G’74 (MBA), Windsor Locks, Conn.; May 26, 2024

David C. Saunders G’74 (MBA), Hilton Head Island, S.C.; August 30, 2024

Richard W. Machler ’75 (Management), Wilmington, N.C.; May 9, 2023

Kandadi V. Reddy G’75 (Accounting Concentration), Penfield, N.Y.; January 1, 2024

Alvin E. Whitmore, Jr. ’75 (Accounting), Chicopee, Mass.; November 30, 2024

James F. Birrell ’76 (Accounting), Chicopee, Mass.; March 2, 2025

David K. Dambroff L’76 (JD), White Plains, N.Y.; March 16, 2025

Robert J. De George, Sr. ’76 (Management), West Springfield, Mass.; January 27, 2025

Richard L. Herrick L’76 (JD), South Glastonbury, Conn.; April 5, 2023

Mary A. Massey ’76 (English), Enfield, Conn.; February 3, 2025

David M. Rothschild ’76/G’80 (Industrial Engineering/MBA), Longmeadow, Mass.; March 12, 2025

Dennis E. Tully L’76 (JD), Springfield, Mass.; January 11, 2025

Robert W. Fardin G’77 (MBA), Marlborough, Mass.; January 11, 2025

Donna L. Goldthwaite L’77 (JD), Springfield, Mass.; November 13, 2024

Sean M. Philbin ’77 (Marketing), East Longmeadow, Mass.; December 18, 2024

Albert J. Pikul G’77/G’78/G’79 (MBA)/Industrial Relations), West Greenwich, R.I.; March 8, 2023

Francis J. Quinlan G’77 (Accounting Concentration), Granby, Mass.; January 23, 2025

Edward N. Hurley, Jr. ’78 (Sociology), East Longmeadow, Mass.; February 20, 2025

Bernard J. Lavoie G’78 (MBA), Springfield, Mass.; June 30, 2024

Charles E G Leech, Sr. G’78 (MBA), Huntington Beach, Calif.; January 25, 2024

Edwin W. Lindsay ’78 (Marketing), Cumberland, R.I.; December 27, 2024

Edward F. Pytka, Jr. ’78 (Accounting), Charlestown, R.I.; December 2, 2024

Gary D. Wodlinger L’78 (JD), Millville, N.J.; November 14, 2024

Donald C. Dunham G’79 (MBA), Fort Walton, Fla.; December 29, 2023

Margaret M. Eglinton L’79 (JD), Meadville, Pa.; June 6, 2023

Ruth V. Kolodziej ’79 (Accounting), Richmond, Va.; December 31, 2022

Philip M. Pahl G’79 (MBA), Freeport, Fla.; July 14, 2022

John G. Van Kamerik ’79 (Mechanical Engineering), Schenectady, N.Y.; November 23, 2024

Ronald F. Vincent G’79 (MBA), Chicopee, Mass.; November 21, 2024

Joseph W. Andrews G’80 (MBA), Springfield, Mass.; August 22, 2024

Philip W. Gorman, Jr. ’80 (Electrical Engineering), Hampden, Mass.; December 14, 2024

Joseph A. Kovach G’80 (MBA), Port Saint Lucie, Fla.; July 21, 2022

William J. Mahoney G’80 (Public Administration), Cape Coral, Fla.; June 17, 2023

Jeffrey W. Newman ’80 (Management), Ludlow, Mass.; March 6, 2025

Donald J. Ball G’81 (MBA), Agawam, Mass.; December 3, 2024

William R. Craddock G’81 (MBA), Edmond, Okla.; February 28, 2025

Mary W. Davis G’81 (MBA), Lorton, Va.; December 16, 2023

Norma S. Kerlinsky L’81 (JD), Longmeadow, Mass.; December 1, 2024

Blanche D. Martin ’81 (Psychology), Springfield, Mass.; January 11, 2025

Beverley F. Sunderland L’81 (JD), Chesterfield, Mass.; December 1, 2024

Theodore H. Beck G’82 (MBA), Belleair, Fla.; August 10, 2023

Jeffrey M. Cawley ’82 (Marketing), West Springfield, Mass.; March 2, 2025

Lawrence J. Levine L’82 (JD), East Longmeadow, Mass.; January 16, 2024

Mark A. Scribe ’82 (Electrical Engineering), Southbury, Conn.; December 8, 2024

Jerome M. Czuprynski ’83 (Accounting), Agawam, Mass.; October 28, 2024

Geraldine J. Duffy G’84 (MBA), Springfield, Mass.; January 27, 2025

Betty J. Gelinas G’84 (MBA), Fitchburg, Mass.; November 15, 2024

Michael T. Conley G’85/G’89 (Systems Management/MBA), Abington, Mass.; January 24, 2025

Howard E. Emond, Jr. L’85 (JD), Placida, Fla.; April 8, 2025

Norma C. Seim G’85 (MBA), Exter, N.H.; February 28, 2025

Robert P. Solomon G’85 (MBA), Carmel, Ind.; November 26, 2024

Robert F. Kane, Jr. ’86 (Government), Holyoke, Mass.; November 5, 202

Waldo A. Lunetta ’86 (Law Enforcement), Framingham, Mass.; November 15, 2024

John J. Mandile ’86 (Law Enforcement), Medford, Mass.; April 20, 2024

John J. McLaughlin ’86 (Law Enforcement), Medford, Mass.; August 13, 2023

Peter J. Passatempo ’86 (Law Enforcement), Medford, Mass.; July 26, 2024

Gur D. Singh G’86 (MBA), Andover, Mass.; March 5, 2025

William F. Page G’87 (Accounting Concentration), Forestdale, Mass.; December 8, 2023

Paul M. Richter G’87/G’88/G’90 (Engineering Management/Systems Management), Acton, Mass.; October 8, 2023

Edward Wilson L’87 (JD), Largo, Fla.; December 18, 2024

Joan K. Peterson ’88 (Computer Information Systems), Mifflinburg, Pa.; January 12, 2025

Lillian F. Stapleton L’88 (JD), Holyoke, Mass.; October 21, 2023

Stephen G. Sullivan ’88 (General Business), Chicopee, Mass.; July 1, 2023

Michael J. Fenton L’89 (JD), Springfield, Mass.; December 9, 2024

Timothy J. Blackwell G’90 (MBA), North Reading, Mass.; January 4, 2025

John B. MacDonald ’90 (Law Enforcement), Norfolk, Mass.; February 4, 2023

Leah R. Kunkel L’92 (JD), Northampton, Mass.; November 26, 2024

Frank L. McDonald L’92 (JD), Simsbury, Conn.; July 4, 2023

John B. O'Neil ’92 (General Business), Niceville, Fla.; February 1, 2025

Michael Paul Cass L’93 (JD), Berlin, Conn.; November 25, 2024

Sharon L. Flanagan ’93 (Management), East Longmeadow, Mass.; March 31, 2025

John R. Reese ’93 (Management), Johnstown, N.Y.; February 20, 2025

Robert A. Winston ’93 (Law Enforcement), Dedham, Mass.; May 17, 2023

Christine T. Slattery ’94/’03 (Liberal Studies), East Longmeadow, Mass.; January 10, 2025

Roger E. Corey ’95/’96/G’98 (Liberal Studies/MBA), Tyngsboro, Mass.; January 17, 2022

Perry A. Goldaper G’95 (Information Systems), Enfield, Conn.; November 24, 2024

Frank Buda ’96 (Management), Fairfield, Conn.; January 10, 2025

Lucille Mainville ’96 (Finance), Leeds, Mass.; September 9, 2024

Kevin L. Goudreau ’97 (Industrial Engineering), The Villages, Fla.; November 16, 2024

Michael B. Wall ’97 (Law Enforcement), Northampton, Mass.; April 9, 2025

Jay F. Jackson G’98 (Health Care Administration), Taunton, Mass.; August 7, 2022

Timothy L. Jawitz ’98 (Mechanical Engineering), Deerfield, N.H.; November 24, 2024

Rocky B. Brooks ’00 (Law Enforcement), Stoneham, Mass.; March 17, 2024

Michele D. Morris L’01 (JD), Longmeadow, Mass.; August 12, 2024

Paul J. Murphy G’02 (Criminal Justice Administration), Holbrook, Mass.; December 14, 2024

Joseph R. Smith G’02 (Criminal Justice Administration), Tewksbury, Mass.; June 8, 2024

Scott F. Carroll ’04 (Law Enforcement), Melrose, Mass.; November 3, 2024

Catherine T. Finnie ’08 (Communications), Abington, Mass.; January 28, 2025

Christopher D. Loschi G’09 (Mathematics for Teachers), East Granby, Conn.; January 24, 2025

Marge M. Orfanello ’09 (Management Studies), New Bedford, Mass.; April 25, 2025

Michael W. Knamm ’13 (Information Technology), Trenton, N.J.; January 31, 2025

Deirdresha Wint-Eversley L’15 (JD), East Orange, N.J.; May 9, 2025

John L. Magistro, IV L’19 (JD), Utica, N.Y.; November 1, 2024

Stephen A. Hill ’23 (Sport Management), Middletown, Conn.; March 31, 2025

Cecily H. Alexander (English), Belfast, Maine; December 30, 2024

Christopher T. Williams (PharmD), Easthampton, Mass.; December 18, 2024

Marilyn A. Charwick (Employee), Wilbraham, Mass.; December 19, 2024

David L. Johnson (Employee), Springfield, Mass.; February 27, 2025

Dr. David F. Savickas (Retired Employee), Orland Park, Ill.; March 6, 2025

Judith M. Tadevich (Retired Employee), Springfield, Mass.; March 13, 2025

Cheryl A. Weaver (Employee), Sandwich, Mass.; August 1, 2024

Kenneth Wessel (Employee), Moneta, Va.; June 11, 2023