Obituaries

Katharine Morrison Teegarden ’31 passed away peacefully December 22, 2002 at age 93. She was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wellesville, Ohio. During her time at Antioch, she spent her junior year in France. Following graduation, she married Kenneth Teegarden ’30. They made their home in Dayton, Ohio, where Ken was employed by the Frigidaire Division of General Motors. Kay was active in the First Baptist Church and in many civic and philanthropic organizations. For the past 35 years, she spent her summers at their retirement home in rural Vermont. Ken passed away in 1970.

Paul Lewis Munson ’33 died on May 15, 2003 from complications of lung cancer. He was 92. Born in Washta, Iowa, he was chair of the department of pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill from 1965 to 1977 and was Sarah Graham Kenan professor from 1970 to 1981. He was a research associate at Yale University School of Medicine from 1948 to 1950. He also served as a research associate at Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1950 to 1965, where he earned his professorship.

Donald S. Harper ’34 passed away in June of 2003.

Charles David Stevens ’34 passed away in 2001.

Dr. Leo L. Leveridge, M.D. ’38 passed away in 2000. His years at Antioch meant a lot to him throughout his life.

Roger Lorenz ’38 passed at the age of 87 after a short retirement at the home of Joseph and Dorinda Enzenberger in Oroville. He was a founding member of the Antakharana Circle. He was also the purchaser of a 550-acre, community-owned land trust at Bolster Creek on the western slopes of Buckhorn Mountain, now known as Triple Creek Ranch, in Chesaw, WA.

Mr. Lorenz helped to establish the Okanogan River Natural Foods Co-op in Tonasket, by loaning the funds to purchase the permanent storefront. At his request, the repayment of the loan was used to establish a community loan fund, which has been used to help dozens of small business ventures in North Okanogan County. As a young man, Lorenz learned the Swedish language during a two-year residency in Stockholm; studied at Antioch College, and earned a degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He later farmed for many years in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Roger Lorenz was devoted to the cause of peace his entire adult life.

Jane Brown ’39 and Ed Brown ’39 passed away in 1999 and 2002, respectively.

Betty Jane Lewis ’41 died on December 13, 2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She was born on February 14, 1916 in Ohio. At age two and a half, she was diagnosed with polio and was not able to stand or walk. Her mother carried her to the chiropractor for treatments for two years until she was able to walk again. At age five, she started school in a one-room schoolhouse in Moore’s Run. When she was eight, her family moved to West Virginia where she completed her schooling, graduating from Wheeling High School in 1933. She was active in Girl Scouts where she won the Golden Eaglet Award. After graduation she held several temporary jobs and finally was hired at the Wheeling Public Library where she decided she wanted to be a librarian.

The President of the Library Board arranged for her to co-op with another student so they could each attend Antioch. She graduated in only five years and went on to Columbia University School of Library Science. She graduated in 1943 and took a job in Cincinnati, Ohio as Children’s Librarian at the East Branch. She worked in several branches and after six years was promoted to branch Librarian. She lectured at the University of Cincinnati on Bibliography and Reference Work and was Chairman of Staff Organization Round Table of the American Library Association. She retired in 1980, as Head of Book Selection in the Main Library. She continued to work as a substitute for two years and took charge of the library at The Seasons Retirement Facility when she moved there in 1987.

In the 1990s, she began to feel the effects of Post-Polio Syndrome and after several falls was forced to wear braces and resort to an electric scooter to get around. She had a lift put on the back of her car so she could continue to drive. However, in October of 2001, her legs had become so weak that she needed to move into the Courtyard Assisted Living Facility where she resided until her death.

Betty Jane led a remarkable life, never allowing her disability to slow her down. In 1951 she took driving lessons and bought her first car. She loved traveling, drove all over the states and went to England and Greece, documenting her trips with photos. She also enjoyed horseback riding, swimming, and going to concerts, opera and the theatre. She did beautiful needlework and knitted Christmas stockings for three generations. She loved cats, caring for several in her lifetime. She used her computer to write her memoirs and was an avid reader, bridge player and fan of the Cincinnati Reds up to the end. She was a member of the Polio Connection and the Hartzell Methodist Church, serving as chairman of the Social Concerns Committee.

Harold A. Mandelbaum ’41, president of the Briarcliff Manor School Board from 1965 to 1970, died in New York City on September 28, 2002 at the age of 83. A resident of Briarcliff Manor from 1952 to 1978, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York at the time of his death.

Mr. Mandelbaum joined the Legal Aid Society in the early 1970s and was, at the time, the oldest attorney ever hired for that position. He practiced family law in the Brooklyn office, where he specialized in complex divorce and custody cases. Before joining Legal Aid, he worked in a small family business.

Shortly after moving to Briarcliff, Mr. Mandelbaum became the president of the Briarcliff Civic Association, and also its representative to the School Board. This led to his election as a School Board member in 1964. A year later, he was elected by his fellow board members as president.

After leaving Briarcliff, he resided in New York City and Bailey Island, Maine.

Errol Kellogg Peckham ’41, or Kelly as everyone knew him, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

He developed a strong liking for music, getting free dance lessons to partner with the girls at the Arthur Murray dance studio in Pasadena. He then explored singing and dancing while at Westtown School in Pennsylvania. After graduating from Westtown in 1935, he was accepted into the new work-study program at Antioch.

At Antioch Kelly did a great deal with music, also meeting Betty Jane during their work in Pirates of Penzance. They were to perform and star in several such productions, developing a feel for Gilbert and Sullivan, which he and Betty carried forward in parodies over the decades. While Betty could read any musical manuscript at the piano, Kelly couldn’t read a note of music. But he harmonized every single thing he sang. In fact, we are not sure that he knew the melody to any hymn or Christmas carol written!

With the war years, Kelly had to leave college in 1941 before graduating, with a draft number of 16, and take up the life of a Quaker Conscientious objector. He did, however, take away something very important to him and his eventual family – and that was Betty.

During wartime, Kelly volunteered for many tasks – from forestry work to dishwashing and mental health care nursing. The most dangerous were medical experiments. He and his brother Bill volunteered to help out the Italian-based troops, who had a huge problem with jaundice. They were then exposed for the purpose of allowing the medical military to work on cures for it. Not only did they get sick, so did Betty!

After the war years, Betty joined Kelly in a commitment to Quakerism when she joined the Providence Meeting in Media, Pennsylvania. Not long afterward, Kelly went to Cairo for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), where a major relief program was underway for Arab refugees on the now all-too-famous Gaza strip. Eventually Betty followed. However, with the formalization of relief through the United Nations, the work took on a different focus. Rather than join the United Nations staff, they decided to fly back to Olean, New York, where Jeffrey was born in 1951. A few weeks after that event, the family drove across the country to a new life in southern California, joining the Pasadena Orange Grove Meeting. Here, Kelly became finance secretary for the AFSC office in Pasadena. This was to be a 31-year commitment to raising funds for them, as well as a life of social witnessing in the traditions of the Quaker faith.

In 1959, with Betty just reaching 40, along came Laurel. Kelly was the inveterate traveler during all of these years, raising money throughout the Southwest, including a three-month sabbatical to Africa.

Of these child-rearing years, his children remember his gentle counterbalance to Betty’s intellectual fire and energy. He was a quiet, classically Quaker man in almost every way – except while watching the news, during which many loud, strong, un-Quakerly expletives were sometimes heard.

After retirement in 1982, Kelly moved with Betty to Santa Rosa, CA, where he devoted many happy hours participating in, and at times managing, the Santa Rosa Creek Commons.

He became a member and part-time fundraiser for the Redwood Forest Friends Meeting, where he helped them with their strategic expansion plans, as well as serving as Clerk. He also worked with the local Friends House retirement home, providing fundraising and planning skills. Since the kids had already moved north, he and Betty were able to participate in the musical events ever-present in their children’s lives, as well as the grandchildren.

Kelly will be fondly remembered by those who knew him for all of these elements – religion, politics, music, dance, parody, and gardening. He was 86 years old, had five grandchildren and will be missed by all, but especially by his kids, who found him to be an encouraging audience and coach for their own musical and personal family lives.

John McCormick Diehl ’44 died in June 2003 after fighting cancer for two years.

He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1921, the son of Harry L. Diehl and Ella Sudduth McCormick Diehl. When John was four years old his family moved to a farm near Gibson City, Illinois where he attended a one-room school.

On inactive duty from the U.S. Army, he did research on rocket fuels and engines for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA).

He moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 1948 to study law at the University of Wisconsin. He was executive director of the Wisconsin Law Review, and received his LL.B, in 1951. During 1951 to 1978 he was a patent attorney, serving at various times as head of product development with Bjorksten Research Laboratories, as a partner in Diehl and Bjorksten, and in independent practice. He was named inventor in more than 25 patent applications, with more than 15 issued. Subsequently he did research and product development in a wide variety of fields and was active in business until his final illness. He was active for many years in the Democratic Party. He was an avid sailor, a skilled photographer, and a past president of the Orchid Growers Guild of Madison.

Jean Shields Inman ’45 died in her sleep on Friday, July 11, in Port Townsend, Washington.

She was the daughter of Ida and Guy Shields, raised in Chicago by her mother and two aunts after the death of her father. She learned to drive at an early age. She drove her aunt and sister to Brownsville, Texas, and had enjoyed cross-country trips ever since.

She graduated from Antioch where she met and married Irwin Inman. Together they have three children.

Jean studied science at Antioch and spent the years of World War II working at Vernay Laboratories and then for Leland Clark at the Fels Research Institute.

While raising her children, she developed an interest in art and took drawing and ceramics classes at Antioch. She went on to teach art at the Antioch School and also at Farm and Wilderness Camps in Vermont, where she worked to pay for her children’s camp fees. She so enjoyed the summers in Vermont that she continued her association with the camps long after her children outgrew them. She tried her hand at watercolor painting as a medium for children’s films and audited film courses at Ohio State University and San Francisco State College. She produced one short animated film and worked on another before her death. She became involved with children’s theater, where she collaborated with Kitty Holyoke Jensen and the late Phyllis Cannon of Yellow Springs.

Jean loved singing and the outdoors. She sang with the Antioch Chorus and the Yellow Springs Community Chorus for several years, as well as with a small ensemble led by Kitty Jensen and, later, with a chorus in Port Townsend, Washington.

She walked every day in Glen Helen or John Bryan State Park. She assisted Barbara Case of Yellow Springs with a wildflower survey in the Glen and loved to look up new species she had never noticed before. She enjoyed bird watching and spent many of her last hours watching birds at the feeders outside the window of her little house next door to her son Richard in Port Townsend.

Frances S. Toynbee ’46 died on March 8, 2003. Margaret Barton Miller ’46 wrote in to share these words: “In memory of a life-long friend, a woman of compassion, kindness and laughter. Widow of Philip Toynbee, son of Arnold Toynbee, the historian, mother of three, died in the first week of March while in the hospital of a heart attack in Oxford- shire, England. Our last talk on the telephone was about dying, and Sally was very much at peace in letting go. Perhaps Jung’s words speaks to this: ‘Life, so-called is a short episode between two great mysteries, which yet are one.’ I miss her very much.”

Charles W. Schoenfeld ’48 passed away on January 26, 2003.

Chuck entered Antioch in the fall of 1941 and studied there until he entered the aviation cadet program in 1943. Upon his discharge from the service in 1945, he returned to Antioch for a short time. He received his BSME from the University of New Mexico in 1951 and his MBA from the University of Connecticut in 1981. In 1986, he retired from Unimation, Inc. where he was Manager of the Mechanical Engineering Systems Division. His retirement gave him many opportunities for travel and projects on the home he loved.

Jo Ann Williams Dennett ’49 died February 27, 2003, just past her 76th birthday.

George McKlveen ’50 passed away on May 15, 2003.

William (Bill) Drozda ’51, age 74, of Upper Arlington, died on November 22, 2002 at his residence. Bill was a retired scientist from Battelle Memorial Institute and former professor at DeVry. Former school football player, redcoat gateman at OSU home games, and an avid Buckeye fan, he served his country in the U.S. Army in ballistic intelligence during the Korean Conflict.

Dr. Gikonyo “Julius” Kiano ’52, veteran politician, died at age 77. Kiano was a member of the Kenyatta cabinet when Kenya first became independent, and most recently he had been chair of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.

President Kibaki led Kenyans in mourning his death and said Dr. Kiano played a prominent role in the country’s struggle for independence. The leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, described Dr. Kiano as a hero who had left an indelible mark in the history of Kenya.

Louise Adalia Doxtator ’53 died in April, 2003, after a long battle with lymphoma. She spent her early years living in the country of Siam and Beacon, New York. She received degrees from Antioch and California State University, San Jose. In her professional life, she taught English as a Second Language to adults in various adult schools in central and northern California. Later she was a career counselor and/or job developer for the University of Santa Clara, Cabrillo College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Her interests and activities included political activity with the Democratic Party, safe boating education with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Consumers’ Cooperative Movement, and (ZPG) Population Connection. She was a published, freelance writer and amateur water colorist, and greatly loved the outdoors.

Joseph J. Murphy ’53 died December 14, 2002.

Raymond D. Chu ’54 of Boulder, Colorado died of natural causes on May 24, 2003.

Born October 10, 1924, in Shanghai, China, he was the son of Montchen Thomas Tchou and Jean Brown Tchou. He married Janet Pattee in 1959 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Mr. Chu was a B-52 pilot in the Chinese Nationalist Air Force and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He earned a BA in electrical engineering from Antioch. Mr. Chu worked at National Center for Atmospheric Research and Yellow Springs Instrument Company. He moved to Boulder in 1963.

He was a member of the Kiwanis Golden Nuggets and the Ming Hsien Alumni Association. He held multiple patents for medical respiratory appliances, was a translator from Chinese script to English for his high school alumni and a speaker on the China-Burma theater of World War II.

“Ray was charming and wise, committed to education, an avid reader and writing critic. He was caring of all peoples, animals, and the environment,” his family said.

George Kawai ’57 passed away July 31, 2003, at the age of 69. George was living in Tokyo, Japan and was the Managing Director of Teikoku Shigyo K.K. He also served as the Secretary General of the Rotary International Youth Exchange Liaison Office. In his free time, he enjoyed horseback riding, reading, gardening, dancing, and golf.

Dorothea West Hess ’60, who served as first lady of the national Press Club in 1985, when her husband, David Hess, a Knight-Ridder correspondent, was club president, died April 29 at her home. She had lung disease.

As first lady, Mrs. Hess helped preside over social functions at the club.

She was a native of Barrackville, West Virginia, and settled in the Washington area in 1971.

Her hobbies included collecting American art glass.

Bette Woody ’60 recently passed away.

Professor Bette Woody joined the University of Massachusetts, Boston, faculty in 1985 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1992. For a number of years, she taught in and directed the Human Services Graduate Program in the College of Public and Community Service. In recent years, she taught in Sociology and in the joint CPCS-CAS Criminal Justice Program, while continuing to direct Capstone Projects in the Human Services Graduate Program.

Active in University service, Professor Woody recently chaired the Faculty Council Budget and Long Range Planning Committee and served on a number of ad-hoc committees concerned with budget issues. In addition, she was active in numerous professional associations, recently working on the redraft of a new Code of Ethics for the American Sociological Association, and chairing the Awards Committee of the Association of Black Sociologists. In Cambridge, where she resided, she was a commissioner on the Cambridge Conservation Commission, a trustee for Youth Enrichment Services and on the Advisory Committee for Walden Woods.

Woody is described by colleagues as a brilliant scholar-practitioner, particularly focusing her work on the intersection of labor, race, gender and/or age. Through her research and scholarship in these areas she made major contributions to the Trotter and Gaston Institutes and to the Center for Women and Public Policy, here on campus. Externally, she served as a consultant to numerous governmental and community agencies, the most recent including the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission, and the Four Corners Action Coalition in Dorchester. In 2001, she was appointed as an editor of Race and Society and at the time of her death, she was working on two special issues, one devoted to “Women, Race and Social Theory,” and one devoted to “Women and Public Policy.”

Joel Aber ’64 passed away last month. Services were held in Baltimore, Maryland.

Joel was a science teacher in Prince Georges County, MD (suburban Wash. DC) public schools when he died of cancer in June 2003. He did graduate work in biology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after Antioch, where he earned a degree in biology.

Neal P. Baum ’64 died January 14, 2003.

Timothy James Wiles ’69 died on July 17, 2003. He had battled depression and bipolar disorder for over 30 years. He was an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. His passions were theater and dramatic literature.

He earned a BA in English from Antioch and a Ph.D in English from Stanford University in 1975. He joined the IU English and Comparative Literature Faculties in 1973.

In 1971, Prof. Wiles spent a year in Poland researching contemporary Eastern European drama movements and he directed several plays at an international student theater festival in Wroclaw, Poland. The dissertation that resulted from that research was published as a book, The Theater Event: Modern Theories of Performance (University of Chicago Press) in 1980. He also edited a book entitled Poland Between the Wars (1989), and published numerous articles on European and American drama and performance theory.

At IU, Prof. Wiles taught drama, literary interpretation, literary criticism, performance theory, and cultural studies, as well as freshman lecture courses. He was the general editor of a series in Drama and Performance Studies published by IU Press. He was currently researching a book-length study of Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, and the impact of the Cold War on the American theater.

In 1975, he was sent by Indiana University to aid in the establishment of the American Studies Center at Warsaw University. The American Studies Center has been and continues to be a focal point for international academic exchanges at Warsaw University.

In 1980, Tim Wiles taught American Literature at the University of Hamburg. In 1981, he returned to Warsaw with his wife, Mary McGann, as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer for a two-year period; while there, the two of them coordinated the Indiana University exchanges with Warsaw University and witnessed the imposition of martial law in the last days of Solidarity.

Wiles directed the Polish Studies Center at IU from 1983 to 1986, and again from 1991 to 1999. During his long career promoting academic exchanges with Poland and Polish cultural and political studies, he was the recipient of a Distinguished Medal of Service from Warsaw University and the Amicus Poloniae award from the Polish Ambassador for outstanding achievement in promoting Polish culture.

In 1976, he married Mary McGann, whom he had met in Bloomington, in Newport, Rhode Island; they have a son, David Timothy Wiles. The arrival of their son, in 1989, was the highlight of his life. Tim greatly enjoyed taking David snowboarding and skiing, and they could often be seen at a local Bloomington Lake playing with their two dogs.

He never lost his love of the Yellow Springs campus and community, and often stopped for ice cream at Young’s Dairy on his trips from Indiana to the East coast.

Jane Freedman Davidson ’71 has passed away.

Daniel Kurlander ’75 died April 21, 2002, after a long battle with cancer. He always spoke highly of his time at Antioch.

Eric Gupton ’84, who lit up the stage as a member of the pioneering performance troupe Pomo Afro Homos, died in San Francisco on Wednesday from complications of AIDS. He was 43.

Born in Boston, Mr. Gupton attended Antioch. He moved to San Francisco in 1984 and worked for Mother Jones magazine and as a Human Resources Manager in several hotels to support his work as a singer, actor and dancer.

He also was active in AIDS support groups, according to Graham Cowley, his partner of 16 years. He first attracted public attention as a performer in Ken Vega’s popular Café Depresso, which opened in 1989.

Mr. Gupton co-founded Pomo Afro Homos – short for “Postmodern African-American homosexuals” – with former San Francisco Mime Troupe actor Brian Freeman and choreographer-dancer Djola Branner in 1990. The group opened its first show, Fierce Love, at Josie’s Cabaret and Juice Joint and enjoyed immediate success.

The group performed at Lincoln Center and at venues throughout the country. It ran into controversy in Alaska – where the mayor of Anchorage tried to prevent public service advertisements for it – and North Carolina, where the troupe was banned from the 1991 National Black Theatre Festival.

“Eric was the brassy one,” Freeman says. “He was so out there in his personality, it was hard to take your eyes off him when he was onstage. He loved an audience, and it loved him. He was the one people always got crushes on. They’d send him flowers backstage.”

After the group dissolved in the mid-1990s, Mr. Gupton did voice-over work in commercials for dance performances and appeared in a few shows, including one with Branner in Minneapolis. His voice can be heard as the narrator on the Kronos Quartet album All the Rage. His most recent appearance was in the television film Positive TV, about gay men living with AIDS.

David Boyd ’85 recently passed away.

Sofia Gobena ’90 died in 2003.

Alyssa Robbins ’98 died January 2, 2003. She had a recently diagnosed kidney disease, and was on dialysis, planning for a transplant, when she died. She was a contemporary folk singer/songwriter and artist, and taught at an Upper West Side Manhattan private school (pre-K and Kindergarten).

She was loved by many friends and relations. Her spirit, her zest, her enthusiasm, and her caring ways will live on in her music, her artwork, her writings, and in our hearts and minds. She will never be forgotten, and her life will be celebrated and be a source of strength and inspiration.

Her years at Antioch helped shape the caring, wonderful person she had become and had continued developing into.

Phillips Ruopp, who helped to found the University of the Virgin Islands and the International Peace Academy, died in June 2003 in Tucson, Arizona. He was 77. He retired in 1988 from the Kettering Foundation, where he served as Director of International Affairs and as Vice President. At the foundation, one of his chief responsibilities was the management of the Dartmouth Conference, a U.S.–Soviet leadership dialogue initiated in 1960 with the support of President Eisenhower. The Kettering Foundation’s national offices are located in Dayton, Ohio.

The cause of Mr. Ruopp’s death was advanced heart disease. Following a heart attack and bypass surgery in 1988, his health was a source of continuing difficulties. Nevertheless, his family said he retained his zest for life and was actively involved in literary interests and volunteer work with children.

Before joining the Kettering Foundation in 1972, Mr. Ruopp took part in organizing two institutions. In 1963, he was appointed first head of the College of the Virgin Islands, located on a former Marine air base in St. Thomas. Its original graduating class in 1965 consisted of 13 students. Since that time, the college has grown into a small university, with programs ranging from two-year technical degrees to postgraduate degree programs.

In 1967 Mr. Ruopp went to Washington, D.C., as Director of Institution Relations for the U.S. Peace Corps. During this period, he played a key role in the design of the International Peace Academy. He left the Peace Corps to devote himself full time to the academy’s formation. Mr. Ruopp coordinated its first training projects for diplomats, military officers, and others at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy in Vienna during the summer of 1970 and again the next summer in Helsinki, Finland.

The International Peace Academy focuses on third-party roles in peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and mediation. It works closely with the United Nations, governments, and nongovernmental organizations around the world. It is headquartered in New York City.

From 1956 to 1963, Mr. Ruopp was a faculty member at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and an assistant dean of students. He was also active in local government, serving on the Village’s planning commission. Prior to his seven years at Antioch, Mr. Ruopp taught sociology at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and was associate director of the school’s Community Development program.

His interest in community development and the economic and social needs of developing countries was prompted by his experience immediately following the Second World War. Mr. Ruopp was active in the World Federalist Movement after his discharge from the army. At the age of 21, he was appointed an associate editor of Common Cause, a monthly journal of international politics and world order issues published by the University of Chicago. He later returned to college, completing his studies in economics, politics, and anthropology at the University of Oxford. During this period, he came to the conclusion that economic disparities between rich and poor countries would have profound consequences for post-war international relations.

In addition to his early articles for Common Cause, Mr. Ruopp’s publications include a widely read book he edited, Approaches to Community Development (1953), and articles, pamphlets, and monographs on international relations, development, cross-cultural experience, and higher education. In 2002 he published a volume of largely autobiographical poems, Notes for an Obit.

Eleanor Miller David, an administrative officer at the Smithsonian Institution’s office of museum programs, died April 19, 2003 at Washington Hospital Center. She was 59 and suffered from lung cancer.

She was a native of Washington who lived in the District. She was a graduate of Eastern High School and the University of the District of Columbia. She received a MA in legal studies at Antioch.

Dr. Ronald G. Weber passed away May 20, 2003 at Lima Memorial Hospital. Dr. Weber was 87 years of age.

Dr. Weber served 60 years in Ohio higher education. He is a life trustee of the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, past vice chairman and member of the executive committee of this organization. He also served as chairman of the Ohio Five Colleges Commission and past vice chairman of the Commission on Higher Education of the United Methodist Church. He was a member of the Union Avenue United Methodist Church of Alliance, Ohio, and the Alliance Country Club.

As a founder of the organization, Independent College Advancement Associates (ICAA), Dr. Weber and staff officers of seven private colleges met in the fall of 1958 to discuss a joint venture in alumni relations and fund raising. From this meeting – two years later – was born the Independent College Alumni Associates of Ohio. In recent years, the scope of the organization has broadened to include the varied college advancement professionals working on behalf of today’s private institutions. And, over the years, several institutions outside of Ohio have also become members, leading to the name being officially changed in 1981 to Independent College Advancement Associates.

The mission of ICAA is to enhance the professional development of its members and their understanding of issues facing private higher education and institutional advancement.

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