Spring 11 MASTER.indd - Thunderbird Magazine

in memoriam
class notes
Robert Ernest Anderson ’47
died Sept. 5, 2010, at his home
in Fountain Hills, Arizona. He
served in the U.S. Navy from
1943 to 1945 and was a
member of the fi rst graduating
class of Thunderbird. …
James N. Leaken ’49, a retired
Foreign Service Offi cer with the
U.S. Department of State, died
Aug. 4, 2010, in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. During his Foreign Service
career, he was assigned to
U.S. embassies in Costa Rica, El
Salvador and Spain. … Charles
Myers ’50, a retired U.S. Army
captain, died July 28, 2010, in
Dallas, Texas. He was 93. Myers
and his late wife, Mary, were
among the founding members
of St. Pius X Catholic Church. …
Lyle Bricker ’51 of Oakland,
Nebraska, died July 16, 2010.
Bricker was born in Corvallis,
Oregon, and joined the U.S. Army
Air Corps in 1942. He worked for
CitiBank around the world, then
for Goodyear until he retired in
1986. … George Wheelwright
IV ’58 died in early 2011. He
was a political scientist who
started his career in South
America. He later lectured at
the University of South Carolina,
studied at Tufts University in
Massachusetts, and opened
Name Brand Store of Stowe,
Vermont. … Carl Ludvick ’60,
a retired fi nancial manager at the
World Bank, died Nov. 30, 2010,
at Washington Hospital Center.
Ludvik moved to Washington,
D.C., in 1975 after participating
in a yearlong executive
exchange program with the U.S.
Treasury Department. He served
four years as a U.S. Navy pilot.
… Dennis Davies ’66 died in
October 2010 at his Southern
California home. … Thomas
“Tom” Arthur Dreis ’72, a
retired banker and mail carrier,
died Nov. 20, 2010. Following
his military service at Fort Hood,
Texas, Dreis attended Thunderbird
and then launched a 25-year
career in banking. He later delivered
mail in rural North Carolina.
… John Dale Martens ’72 of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, died Jan. 13,
2011. Martens served in the U.S.
Air Force Strategic Air Command.
He worked at Ford Motor Co.
and was later CEO and president
of Sterling Oil in Tulsa. Most recently,
Martens was principal of
the Corporate Development Co.
in Tulsa. … Lawrence Driskell
’72 has died. Thunderbird Alumni
Relations has been unable to
locate an obituary. Anyone with
information should e-mail alumni@thunderbird.edu.
… John
“Jack” Wolff ’74 died Sept.
1, 2010. During his career he
lived in Mexico, the Philippines,
India, Guatemala, the Dominican
Republic, Panama, Peru, Kenya
and the United States. … Terri
Neufeldt Race ’75 died Dec.
12, 2010. Her career began in
1976 as a bank examiner for the
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency,
and she frequently received
overseas assignments examining
foreign exchange operations of
U.S. bank branches. As her family
began to grow, Race retired in
1986 to become a homemaker.
… Sanford “Sandy” Roth ’77
died Dec. 11, 2010, in Lexington,
Kentucky. He was born in Brooklyn,
New York, and worked in
automotive plastics. … Gregson
Taylor Sliff ’78 of San Diego,
California, died Oct. 5, 2010. He
had a 29-year career in fi nance
at Northrop Grumman. … Keith
Joseph Kuhn ’84 died Nov. 15,
2010, in Seattle, Washington. …
Patrick Clarke Avis ’85 died
Jan. 10, 2011, in Berwyn, Illinois.
He was born in Cloquet, Minnesota,
and was previously married
to Diane K. Julian. … Ardith
Dentzer ’87 died Nov. 30, 2010,
after battling lung cancer. She
was 52. Dentzer worked in retail
and fi nance before becoming a
community activist. … Derek
Belter ’09 of Madison, Wisconsin,
died Dec. 7, 2010. He was
37. Belter was born in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, and studied
biology, chemistry and German
aureen Jones,
an information
technology
professional who
worked at Thunderbird for
more than 20 years, died
Feb. 4, 2011. She was 61.
Jones was born in
Doncaster, England, and
started at Thunderbird as a
programmer in the administrative
systems group of
the Information Technology
Department. Several years
later, and after a brief hiatus,
she returned as the group’s
manager. In recent years,
she led the IT applications
team as director of administrative
systems support.
“In her many roles within
Thunderbird, Maureen
at the University of Wisconsin-
LaCrosse. He later worked as a
software engineer in Germany
and an English teacher in Japan.
After graduation from Thunderbird,
Belter found work with a
subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
as a research and development
chemist in Madison.
Friends and family participated with Maureen Jones, top left, at the
Cancer Connections Walk on Dec. 5, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona.
T-bird IT manager dies at 61
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worked with and touched
the lives of nearly all
members of our community,”
Thunderbird Human
Resources Director and
General Counsel Kathy
Krecke wrote in a message
to faculty and staff.
Jones shared a bit of her
passion in her My Thunderbird
(MTB) profile: “I
am a working manager and
still greatly enjoy the fact
that I can dig into code and
troubleshoot problems,”
she wrote. “My job has an
ideal mix of interacting with
the user community and
solving technical problems.”
A memorial service in
her honor was held Feb. 12,
2011, in Peoria, Arizona.
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