In Memoriam

Alumni
1930s
Mildred S. Johnson ’31 of Virginia Beach, July 5, 2008.
Elizabeth Spivey Reynolds Miller ’33 of Norfolk, July 24, 2008.
Madora Ann Greenwell ’37 of Virginia Beach, April 17, 2008.
Warner O. Chapman ’39 of Virginia Beach, June 11, 2008.

1940s
Corrie L. Whitehurst Jr. ’40 of Roanoke, Va., April 25, 2008.
William S. Cook ’42 of Norfolk, May 31, 2008.
Morris S. Marchant ’42 of Virginia Beach, June 9, 2008.
Homer F. Lewis ’46 of Virginia Beach, April 15, 2008.
Dorsey B. “Jim” Tisdale III ’47 of Norfolk, May 3, 2008.
James L. Atkins ’49 of Marion, Ill., Oct. 27, 2007.
William M. Harris ’49 of Virginia Beach, May 23, 2008.
James H. Short ’49 of Portsmouth, July 6, 2008.

1950s
Loring W. Rue Jr. ’50 of Suffolk, July 19, 2008.
Marilyn M. Sinkez ’50 of Virginia Beach, July 13, 2008.
Theodore R. “Ted” Collins ’51 of Virginia Beach, May 24, 2008.
Betty G. Floyd ’52 of Virginia Beach, April 8, 2008.
Robert P. “Bob” Coulsting ’53 of Virginia Beach, May 30, 2008.
John E. Swink ’54 of Augusta, Ga., Jan. 26, 2008.
Edward L. Thurmond ’55 of Norfolk, Aug. 7, 2008.
Kathleen N. Driskill ’57 of Brookhaven, Miss., Sept. 6, 2007.
Charles A. “Chuck” Stevenson III ’59 of Virginia Beach, June 2, 2008.

1960s
Ruth E. Wallace ’60 of Virginia Beach, June 19, 2008.
Carl D. Webb ’60 of Virginia Beach, April 16, 2008.
Nancy Winfree Diamond ’61 of Locust Grove, Va., Aug. 14, 2008.
Billie R. Hummel ’61 of Federal Way, Wash., Aug. 21, 2007.
Aubrey L. Sawyer ’61 of Virginia Beach, Aug. 7, 2008.
Robert M. “Bobby” Hoffman ’62 of Chesapeake, May 2, 2008.
Don W. Korte Sr. ’62 of Virginia Beach, June 14, 2008.
Edgar C. Meeks ’62 of Virginia Beach, May 20, 2008.
Cynthia Powers Carper ’64 of Virginia Beach, June 23, 2008.
Shirley Leah Nichols Gray ’64 (M.S.Ed. ’68) of Virginia Beach, July 14, 2008.
Mildred Bell Mears Cox ’66 of Hendersonville, N.C., June 11, 2008.
Fletcher A. Manning ’67 of Norfolk, July 18, 2008.
William E. Morton Jr. ’67 of Portsmouth, Aug. 2, 2008.
L. Stewart Payne Jr. ’68 of Virginia Beach, June 16, 2008.
Robert P. Hutcheson ’69 of West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 7, 2007.
Margaret B. Wildermann ’69 of La Plata, Md., March 21, 2008.

1970s
Charles V. Craig ’70 (M.S.Ed. ’78) of Suffolk, April 22, 2008.
Helen E. Davis Johnson ’70 of Norfolk, Aug. 4, 2008.
Juanita T. Turner ’71 of Chesapeake, July 25, 2008.
Page Kelly Vaughan (M.S.Ed. ’71; C.A.S. ’85) of Chesapeake, April 23, 2008.
Benjamin S. Ellis ’73 of Portsmouth, Aug. 4, 2008.
Lee Gwin ’73 of Norfolk, May 23, 2008.
Robert E. Souder ’73 of Virginia Beach, April 11, 2008.
William H. “Bill” Thomas ’73 (M.B.A. ’82) of Chesapeake, Aug. 15, 2008.
Francis K. Ferebee ’74 of Virginia Beach, Jan. 14, 2008.
Yolanda C. Hampel (M.S.Ed. ’75, Ph.D. ’91) of Virginia Beach, Aug. 5, 2008.
Richard D. Marlatt ’75 of Springfield, Va., June 30, 2008.
Carlton W. Crawford ’76 of Alexandria, Va., June 25, 2008.
Beverley Rosalie Kaufmann Edwards (M.S.Ed. ’76) of Virginia Beach, April 11, 2008.
Eugene “Woody” P. Woodward ’76 (M.S.Ed. ’82) of Virginia Beach, April 10, 2008.
Philip H. Jones II ’77 of Virginia Beach, April 19, 2008.
Thomas E. Soles ’77 of Grants Pass, Ore., Jan. 31, 2008.
Lethia J. Robertson ’78 of Portsmouth, June 10, 2008.
Ronald G. Goodson ’79 of Virginia Beach, Aug. 10, 2008.

1980s
Edward J. Lowery Jr. ’80 of Virginia Beach, March 31, 2008.
Robert W. “Bob” Thompson ’80 (M.B.A. ’84) of Norfolk, May 8, 2008.
Grace Veronica Brown ’81 of Fort Smith, Ark., June 28, 2007.
Paul Donald Quimper ’82 of Windham, Maine, June 4, 2008.
Steven T. Spillman ’82 of Waxahachie, Texas, Nov. 28, 2007.
Louis T. Faison Jr. (M.S.Ed. ’83) of Norfolk, April 2, 2008.
Jeannette Kofa (M.S.Ed. ’85) of Virginia Beach, April 24, 2008.
Michael J. Tylavsky Jr. (C.A.S. ’86) of Pittsburgh, Pa., May 15, 2007.
Giovanni Passaro Sr. ’89 of Virginia Beach, April 29, 2008.

1990s
Lynette Copeland Thomason (M.S.Ed. ’91) of Virginia Beach, June 1, 2008.
Stephen H. “Steve” Cornwell (M.P.A. ’93) of Virginia Beach, April 21, 2008.
Faith Anne Hendrix (M.S.Ed. ’94) of Virginia Beach, April 15, 2008.
Melanie M. Baier ’95 of Frisco, Texas, Feb. 4, 2008.
Kimberly H. Ripley-Adams ’97 of Norfolk, Aug. 4, 2008.
Ronald D. Jones ’98 of Chesapeake, April 5, 2008.

2000s
Mary Ann Ridgway ’00 of Virginia Beach, June 11, 2008.
Joyce C. Gaver (M.S. ’02) of Virginia Beach, July 18, 2008.
Howard L. Douthit III ’05 of Chesapeake, Aug. 7, 2008.
Charles H. Griffiths (M.E.M. ’05) of Middletown, R.I., March 2, 2008.
Lindsay Schafer Pankey (M.S.Ed. ’06) of Courtland, June 1, 2008.
Brent M. Terres ’08 of Virginia Beach, Aug. 6, 2008.

Faculty
Surendra N. Tiwari
Surendra N. Tiwari, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died June 10, 2008, at his home in Yorktown.

A native of India, Tiwari, who retired in May as eminent scholar of mechanical engineering, joined the Old Dominion faculty in 1971. During his career, he received both the Research Award and Tonelson Award. He mentored over 100 graduate students.

He directed efforts to create the Institute for Computational and Applied Mechanics and established the Institute for Scientific and Educational Technology.

A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tiwari received more than $14 million for his research and scholarly activities. He authored or co-authored more than 400 research publications and 10 books, and received the AIAA Thermophysics national award.

Survivors include his wife, Surya Bansi Tiwari, and a daughter, Meena.

Memorial donations, toward the Tiwari Endowed Graduate Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering, may be made to the ODU Educational Foundation, 4417 Monarch Way, Norfolk, VA 23529.

J. Hirst Lederle
John Hirst Lederle, associate professor emeritus of engineering technology, died July 16, 2008, in his Norfolk home. He was 81.

Hirst, who joined the Old Dominion faculty in 1960 and retired in 1992, taught electrical engineering technology for more than 30 years. He began his career teaching in the former Technical Institute, which was subsequently merged with Old Dominion College prior to its achieving university status.

Lederle was also a principal investigator on research projects funded by the Naval Surface Weapons Center and the Center for Innovative Technology. He wrote several electrical engineering technology laboratory manuals. He served as an officer in the local chapter of AAUP and was listed in “Who’s Who in the South.”

Survivors include his wife, Jean K. Lederle; a daughter, Fern Lederle McDougal; a daughter, Sherry Seacrist Davis; a daughter, Marybeth Seacrist Shullick; a son, Jay Seacrist; five grandsons; three granddaughters; two great-grandsons; and one great-grand- daughter.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.hollomon-brown.com.

Friends
Dr. Hugo A. Owens Sr.
Dr. Hugo A. Owens Sr., Old Dominion’s first African American Board of Visitors rector and a well-known civil rights activist, died July 29, 2008, in Chesapeake. He was 92.

Owens, for whom the university’s African American Student Cultural Center was named in 1996, served on the ODU board from 1990-94. He was rector from 1992-93.

James V. Koch, who was president during Owens’ term on the board, called him “a man of great integrity and an individual of strong and enduring human values.”

After being drafted into the Army, Owens trained to become a dentist and opened a practice in Portsmouth in 1947. He joined the civil rights movement and filed his first lawsuit in 1950 to integrate the city parks. Later, he sued to gain access to city golf courses and he helped win a lawsuit to desegregate the city’s libraries. He was part of a group of doctors and dentists who desegregated Portsmouth General Hospital.

In 1970, Owens was one of two African Americans elected to Chesapeake City Council, where he served for 10 years.

At his family’s request, memorial contributions may be made to the Hugo A. Owens African American Student Cultural Center Fund at Old Dominion University, Office of Development, 4417 Monarch Way, Norfolk, VA 23529.