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Mountain Day Memorial Service Recap

Elmira, NY (09/28/2018) — On Mountain Day, September 24, students, faculty and administrators took a moment to honor and remember more than 80 loyal alumni and staff who passed away this past year.

The annual Service of Remembrance, hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations, featured photos and memories of each alumni along with a poem read by Brittany Francis '19, and piano accompaniment by Dallas Winchell '18. The ceremony concluded with attendees linking arms and singing the alma mater.

Immediately following the Service of Remembrance, iris bulbs were planted around the Cowles Hall portico, in memory of each alumni.

  • Gloria Berman Baker '47
  • Marylee Johns '67
  • Margaret Coman Swain '47
  • Carole Chalk Becker '69
  • Ruth Thevenet Miller '47
  • Gerald Eaton '71
  • Janet Fiske Langguth '48
  • Bonnie Chabot Seeley '71
  • Marguerite Warren Pyhtila '48
  • David Olszowy '72
  • Carolyn Byrne Wheeler '48
  • Michael Balok '74
  • Judy O'Neil Cowan '49
  • Miles Barnes '74
  • Jane Carpenter Pitcher '49
  • Michael Commins '74
  • Margaret Garman Todd '49
  • Beatrice Jean Zyga '74
  • Angeline Schimizzi Viladas '49
  • Nicholas Chalk '75
  • Ellen Williams Bacigalupa '50
  • Mark Schneider '75
  • Ann McCullough Cook '50
  • Sarah Parker Cave '76
  • Alice Northup Saar '50
  • H. Gregory Tetor '76
  • Josephine Pastirik Roemmelt '51
  • Peter Barton '77
  • Rita-Ann Roessel Comfort '52
  • Richard Kankus '78
  • Gwendolyn Robinson Fredo '52
  • Jeffery Gauer '78
  • Ellen Huey '52
  • John Bolton '82
  • Cynthia Hamilton Jones '52
  • Norma Mallette Wood '82
  • Mary Hall Aarons '53
  • Susan Brill '83
  • Joanne Parker Perry '53
  • David Conklin '83
  • Edna Mae Jones Wood '54
  • Leslie Fowler Halsted '84
  • Dolores DiPipi Muyskens '55
  • James Schiefen '84
  • Susan House Plantz '55
  • Mary Sobus '84
  • Diana Downes Wallace '55
  • Daniel Hudock '85
  • Doris Ehrenfried Freudenberg '56
  • Anne Marie Stephens Lewis '87
  • Mary Cesari Mann '56
  • Joseph Sears '98
  • Carol Cusick Fenton '57
  • Christine Ferrara Macauley '99
  • Margaret Good Updyke '57
  • Meghan Beeney '01
  • Nancy Gunderman Burns '58
  • Dr. Malcolm Marsden
  • Harriet Stone Heller '58
  • Joseph McGinnis
  • Chantal King Morris '59

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On Mountain Day, September 24, students, faculty and administrators took a moment to honor and remember more than 80 loyal alumni and staff who passed away this past year. Immediately following the Service of Remembrance, iris bulbs were planted around the Cowles Hall portico, in memory of each alumni.


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Sarah
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Brittany
Francis
  • Biology
  • Class of 2019
  • Albion, NY

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Jennifer L. Swain, 607-735-1894, jswain@elmira.edu

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