We note with regret the deaths of these members of our Cook community and extend condolences to their families, colleagues, and friends. For complete, university-wide listings, please visit the Office of the Secretary of the University's In Memoriam notices.
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2006
- Barbara M. Goff
Assistant Dean of Cook College
June 26, 2006
2007
- Stacy L. Hagan
Laboratory Researcher, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
December 20, 2007
- Madison E. Weidner
Professor and Associate Dean of Extension
December 2, 2007
- Andrew J. Forgash
Professor, Department of Entomology
November 29, 2007
- Francine T. Corley
Dean of Students, Cook College
September 29, 2007
- Philip Granett
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Entomology and Economic Zoology
August 24, 2007
- Stephen Bachelder
Agricultural Agent, Union County
July 27, 2007
- MacLean Babcock
Professor of Biochemistry
August 16, 2007
- Frederick W. Reynolds
Farm Supervisor
March 14, 2007
- Edmund W. Stiles
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
March 7, 2007
2008
- Karan Bhandari
Alumnus, Bioresource Engineering
September 15, 2008
- William Wilson, Jr.
Custodian, Busch and Cook Campuses
June 20, 2008
2009
- Donald J. Sutherland
Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology
August 24, 2009
- Peter W. Remsing
Staff, Facilities Maintenance, Cook Campus
August 13, 2009
- Leland G. Merrill
Professor Emeritus and Dean of the College of Agriculture
July 28, 2009
- Ida A. Leone
Professor, Departments of Plant Biology and Environmental Science
April 18, 2009
- Paul Griminger
Professor of Nutrition
March 1, 2009
2010
- George Luke
Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
November 1, 2010
- Richard D. Ilnicki
Research Professor of Weed Science
October 8, 2010
- Kevin J. O'Connor
Staff, Maintenance Department, Cook and Douglass Campuses
August 11, 2010
- Robert W. Duell
Professor, Department of Crops and Soils
May 21, 2010
- Jacqueline C. Ware
Staff, Neilson Dining Hall
April 23, 2010
- David A. Gant
Staff, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
April 3, 2010
- Norma E. Wanson
Accountant, Cook College
March 22, 2010
2011
- Richard L. Washer
Senior Agricultural Agent, Burlington County
December 10, 2011
- Richard Merritt
Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
October 31, 2011
- John Bezpa
Professor Emeritus and Specialist in Poultry Science
October 24, 2011
- George EB. Morren
Professor, Department of Human Ecology
September 29, 2011
- Dmitry V. Govorko
Research Associate, Department of Animal Science
September 24, 2011
- Dominic Durkin
Professor of Horticulture
July 25, 2011
- Joan G. Ehrenfeld
Professor of Ecology
June 25, 2011
- Norman F. Childers
Chair, Department of Horticulture
April 24, 2011
- Russell Smith
Publication Coordinator
April 20, 2011
2012
- Miriam C. Ward
County Home Economist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Camden County
December 23, 2012
- Dorothy Ancona
Bookkeeper, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
December 3, 2012
- David Fairbrothers
Professor of Botany, Curator of Chrysler Herbarium
December 3, 2012
Remembrance by Lena Struwe, Ph.D.
- Cecil C. Still
Professor of Plant Biology
November 26, 2012
Remembrance by Bruce Clarke, Ph. D.
- C. Reed Funk
George Hammell Cook Emeritus Professor
October 4, 2012
- Frank Wright
Professor of Dairy Nutrition
September 18, 2012
- David C. Wood
4-H Agent, Atlantic County
June 24, 2012
Remembrance by Diana Orban Brown
- Donald Riemer
Chair, Department of Plant Biology, Professor of Soils and Crops
June 13, 2012
Remembrance by Bruce Clarke, Ph. D.
- Annie P. Thomas
Staff, Cook Campus
April 7, 2012
- Peter Parks
Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics
April 2, 2012
- Carol Kaiser
FCHS Educator, Middlesex County
March 30, 2012
- Joe Buchel
4-H Agent, Hunterdon County
March 5, 2012
- Alan A. Meredith
Professor of Agriculture and Marketing
February 28, 2012
- Charles Olszewski
Staff, Office of Special Programs
February 12, 2012
- Melvin S. Finstein
Emeritus Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
January 26, 2012
- Roy L. Flannery
Emeritus Professor of Soils
January 16, 2012
2013
- Richard Emmons
Business Manager, Office of Continuing Professional Education
December 30, 2013
- Arthur W. Edwards
Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
November 30, 2013
- Charles L. Lang
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of 4-H Youth Development
November 7, 2013
- A. Joel Kaplovsky
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Environmental Science
May 29, 2013
- John A. Meade
Extension Specialist in Weed Science
April 17, 2013
- Francis L. Lawrence
President, Rutgers University
April 16, 2013
- Vernon C. Harris
Research Farm Supervisor
January 16, 2013
2014
- Cheryl L. Burdick
Administrative Assistant, Water Resources Program
December 6, 2014
- Jane M. Ferguson
Instructor, Department of Home Economics and Director, Home Economics Nursery School (now the Nutritional Sciences Preschool)
November 17, 2014
- John C. F. Tedrow
Professor Emeritus of Soil Science
October 2, 2014
- Noel W. Hinners
Alumnus, College of Agriculture and Chief Scientist, NASA
September 5, 2014
- Floyd H. Bragg
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
August 22, 2014
- Ronald F. Myers
Professor of Plant Pathology
July 24, 2014
- Bernard L. Pollack
Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding and Genetics
July 14, 2014
- Eugene H. Varney
Professor of Plant Pathology
June 26, 2014
- Philip M. Halisky
Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
May 29, 2014
- Irving Blatt
4-H Urban Youth Development Specialist
May 19, 2014
- Brevoort C. Conover
4-H Agent, Warren County and Chair, Department of 4-H Youth Development
April 13, 2014
- Roy H. DeBoer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Landscape Architecture
March 17, 2014
- Madgeline Z. Quince
Agriculture Secretary, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County
February 20, 2014
- Peter Rona
Professor of Marine Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences
February 19, 2014
- Stephen E. Hart
Extension Specialist in Turf and Ornamental Weed Science, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
February 18, 2014
- Miriam K. Brush
Professor Emerita of Nutrition
February 12, 2014
2015
- Calvin G. Wettstein
Hunterdon County Agricultural Agent
December 13, 2015
- Mary Jane Willis
Associate Director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
December 5, 2015
- Hubert Lechevalier
Professor Emeritus, Waksman Institute of Microbiology
March 1, 2015
- Janice S. Meyer
Plant Curator, Chrysler Herbarium
March 1, 2015
2016
- Ann Marie Tauber
Administrative Assistant, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
November 10, 2016
- Carl Price
Professor, Department of Plant Physiology
September 25, 2016
- Dianne Lennon
Family and Community Health Sciences Educator, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County
August 26, 2016
- Glenn Tappen
Research Farm Supervisor (Hort Farm III), Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
August 26, 2016
- Raymond A. Cappellini
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Plant Pathology
July 19, 2016
- George J. Wulster
Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
June 14, 2016
- Karl Maramorosch
Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology
May 9, 2016
- Gail Alexander
Senior Associate for External Affairs
January 3, 2016
2017
- Seymour G. Gilbert
Professor Emeritus of Food Packaging
December 23, 2017
- Daymon W. Thatch
Chair of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
December 16, 2017
- Susan E. Ford
Professor Emeritus at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory
December 5, 2017
- Daniel Kluchinski
Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and Chair of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
October 16, 2017
- Marilyn Kluberspies
Administrative Assistant, SEBS and NJAES Office of Financial and Business Administration
October 9, 2017
- Audrey Burkart
Chair, Department of Family and Community Health Sciences and Department of 4-H Youth Development
October 9, 2017
- James W. Paterson
Soil and Crops Specialist, Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center
September 15, 2017
- Stephen A. Decter
Senior Associate Director of the Ecopolicy Center and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
September 5, 2017
- Diane K. Adams
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and the Institute for Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
June 22, 2017
- Stuart R. Race
Professor Emeritus and Extension Specialist in Entomology
May 31, 2017
- Jon Stephen "Steve" Carnahan
Member of the NJAES Board of Managers and Agricultural Program Associate, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Salem County
April 4, 2017
- David A. Meirs
Chair, Rutgers University Board for Equine Advancement
March 27, 2017
- Paul A. Lachance
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Food Science
January 21, 2017
- H. Boyd Woodruff
Graduate Student of Selman Waksman and Discoverer of Actinomycin, the first Actinomycete Antibiotic
January 19, 2017
- Jacquelyn "Jackie" Hlavsa
SEBS and NJAES Grants and Contracts Accounting Manager
January 4, 2017
2018
- Maureen Mangee
Secretary, Department of 4-H Youth Development
November 21, 2018
- J. Frederick Grassle
Founding Director of the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
July 6, 2018
- Sylvia Griffin
Home Economist of Monmouth County Cooperative Extension
June 30, 2018
- Barbara Lapinski Tangel
Assistant Teaching Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics
January 21, 2018
2019
- Douglas E. Eveleigh
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
December 30, 2019
- Patricia Pogers Pogroszewski
Secetary, Department of Plant Pathology
November 20, 2019
- Nancy Crutchfield
County Home Economist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County
November 5, 2019
- Joachim W. Messing
Selman A. Waksman Professor of Molecular Genetics, University Professor, and Director, Waksman Institute of Microbiology
September 13, 2019
- Marcus "Marc" G. Karel
Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Science
July 25, 2019
- Peter F. Martens, Jr.
Middlesex County 4-H Agent
July 5, 2019
- Charles "Charley" Hess
Founding Dean, Rutgers Cook College
April 13, 2019
- Denise Bartone
Marketing Specialist, Food Innovation Center South
February 4, 2019
2020
- William H. Butchko
Alumnus, AG'68 (B.S. Environmental Science)
December 20, 2020
- William Robert "Bob" Maple
Alumnus, AG'49 (B.S. Agriculture)
December 14, 2020
- Romualdas J. "Rom" Botyrius
Alumnus, AG'60 (B.S. Agriculture and Forestry)
December 10, 2020
- Kathy Ann Sylvester (Spielman)
Alumnus, CC'81 (B.A. Anthropology)
December 5, 2020
- Thomas J. Weiner
Alumnus, CC'74 (B.S. Veterinary Medicine Specialties)
December 1, 2020
- Walter E. Ballinger
Alumnus, AG'52 (B.S. Horticulture)
November 30, 2020
- Herbert W. Dunham, Jr.
Alumnus, AG'53 (B.S. Veterinary Medicine Specialties)
November 29, 2020
- Robert E. Benoit
Alumnus, GSNB'61, '65 (M.S. Soils & Crops, Ph.D. Microbiology)
November 18, 2020
- Jean D. Natereli
Secretary, Department of Food Science
November 15, 2020
- William (Bill) Ward
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
November 3, 2020
- Albert Joseph Clericuzio
Horticulturalist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County
October 9, 2020
- Helen (Januszewski) Kupcho
Administrative Assistant, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
October 9, 2020
- John F. Stephenson Jr.
Alumnus AG'52 (B.S. Animal Science)
October 4, 2020
- Robert N. (Bob) Dangremond
Alumnus, AG'68 (B.S. Agricultural Economics)
August 28, 2020
- Donna Woody
State 4-H Program Coordinator and Hunterdon County 4-H Program Associate
August 23, 2020
- Betty Jane Hurlbert
Master Gardener, Monmouth County
August 15, 2020
- Dennis R. Cole
Alumnus, AG'70 (B.S. Agriculture and Environmental Sciences)
July 16, 2020
- Christopher B. Moncrief
Alumnus, Cook '08 (B.S. Exercise Science and Sports Studies)
June 22, 2020
- William J. (Bill) Roberts
Extension Specialist, Bioresource Engineering
May 21, 2020
- John J. (Jack) Kupcho
Essex County Agricultural Agent and Chair of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
May 11, 2020
- Frederick Kroesen
Alumnus AG'44 (B.S. Agriculture)
April 30, 2020
- John L. Gerwig
Director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension
April 24, 2020
- Joseph D. Rosen
Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Science
April 9, 2020
- Marilyn Mozenter-Speigel
Cumberland County 4-H Agent
January 29, 2020
2021
- William J. Love
Alumnus, CC'80 (B.S. Environmental Science)
December 23, 2021
- Jeannette Rea-Keywood
Statewide 4-H Agent
December 13, 2021
- Daniel Rosenfield
Alumnus, GSNB'55, '59 (MS, PhD, Food Science)
December 12, 2021
- Roger M. Barr
Bergen County 4-H Agent
November 22, 2021
- Anthony J. Juestrich
Alumnus, AG'55 (BS, Veterinary Medicine Specialties)
November 6, 2021
- Ivan Samuel Jenkins
Senior Lab Technician, AgBiotech Center
October 23, 2021
- Patrick Joseph Hlubik
Alumnus, Ag '65 (BS, Agricultural Economics)
September 21, 2021
- Fred C. Swift
Professor, Dept. of Entomology and Alumnus GSNB'58 (Entomology)
September 7, 2021
- Bruce "Doc" Hamilton
Director Emeritus, Rutgers Gardens
August 31, 2021
- Martin Decker
Alumnus, CC'80 (BS, Forestry & Wildlife Biology)
August 24, 2021
- Robert Clemens "Bob" Miller
Advisor, Rutgers Center for Advanced Food Technology
July 16, 2021
- Rich Obal
Monmouth County Agricultural Agent and Alumnus GSNB'77 (Horticulture)
June 30, 2021
- Walter J. Canzonier
Zoology Graduate Student '57 to '64; Associate, Haskin Shellfish Research Lab
June 21, 2021
- Thomas Matro
Professor and Chair, Cook Department of Humanities and Communication
June 6, 2021
- Christopher "Chi" Modu
Alumnus, CC89 (Environmental and Business Economics)
May 19, 2021
- John F. Dumschat
Sussex County Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent and Alumnus AG'68, GSED'75 (Agricultural Education)
March 22, 2021
- Beatrice (Kerico) Devine
Coordinator of Extension Information Services, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
February 26, 2021
- Raymond J. "Ray" Samulis
Burlington County Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent
February 24, 2021
- Robert Alan Norton
Alumnus, AG'50, GSNB'51 (Horticulture)
February 3, 2021
- Jules G. Kollar
Alumnus, CC'76 (B.A.)
January 21, 2021
- Herbert Streu
Professor Emeritus of Entomology; Alumnus, AG'51 (Horticulture), GSNB'59, '60 (Entomology)
January 16, 2021
- Albert Cheng
Alumnus, CC'82 (B.S. Animal Science and Physiology)
January 14, 2021
- Walter E. Burr
Alumnus, AG'45 (B.S. Agricultural Education)
January 10, 2021
- W. Wallace "Wally" Kaenzig, Sr.
Alumnus, AG'42 (B.S. Agriculture)
January 8, 2021
2022
- Eric F. Vowinkel
Alumnus, CC'75 (Geology), GSNB '78, '97 (Environmental Science)
October 25, 2022
- Marie D. Dettmer
Administrative Assistant, Department of Food Science
October 21, 2022
- Charlene H. Costaris
Atlantic County Agricultural Agent and Alumnus, GSED'70 (Education), GSNB'78 (Horticulture)
October 14, 2022
- Michael W. Augustyniak
Alumnus, CC'80 (Landscape Architecture)
September 24, 2022
- Chaim Frenkel
Research Professor, Department of Plant Biology
August 12, 2022
- James E. Wohlt
Professor, Department of Animal Sciences
July 16, 2022
- H. Douglass Gross
Alumnus, AG'48 (Horticulture), GSNB'52 (Foods and Nutrition)
June 11, 2022
- Philip F. Teresi
Alumnus, CC'89 (Professional Occupational Education)
May 8, 2022
- Joseph J. Soporowski, Jr.
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Cook College Parents' Association; Alumnus, RC'51 (BA), RBSG'56 (MBA), GSE'78 (Ed.D.)
May 4, 2022
- Peter F. Buell
Alumnus, AG'60 (Agricultural Education)
April 22, 2022
- James Macmillan
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
April 5, 2022
- Gary Taghon
Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
April 5, 2022
- Scott Hubbard
Alumnus, CC'91 (Environmental Sciences)
March 24, 2022
- Robert L. Irwine
Alumnus, AG'56 (B.S. Veterinary Medicine Specialties)
February 1, 2022
- Andrew P. Vayda
Department Founder and Distinguished Professor, Department of Human Ecology
January 15, 2022
- Charles Meirs Holmes
Mercer County Agricultural Agent and Alumnus, AG'51 (BS, Agriculture), GSNB'65 (MS, Horticulture)
January 14, 2022
- Henryk Daun
Professor, Department of Food Science
January 1, 2022