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in memoriam
class notes
John Milne ’48 died Oct. 8,
2011, in Sarasota, Florida. He
was 87. … James Thomas
’48 of Austin, Texas, died Sept.
14, 2012. He was 88. … John
B. McSweeney ’55 died Aug.
2, 2012. He was 82. … Joseph
Gatti ’57 died Sept. 18, 2012.
He was 92. … Richard LeRoy
Cummings ’59 died Sept. 25,
2012, in Shorewood, Wisconsin.
… Howard Shaw ’61 died July
29, 2011, in El Paso, Texas. He
was 82. … David M. Sullivan
’63 died June 17, 2012, in Port
Charlotte, Florida. … Arthur
B. Edwards ’65 died Nov. 11,
2012. … George A. Bolton ’65
died Oct. 24, 2012. He was 71.
… Robert Leroy Kisner ’67
died Oct. 7, 2012. … John Pope
’68 died March 31, 2012, in
Chesterton, Indiana. He was 70.
… Douglas Bernard ’68 died
Oct. 24, 2012, in Coconut Grove,
Florida. … Dierk Hagemann
’71 died Oct. 20, 2011. …
James W. Skiff ’79 of Mattoon,
Illinois, died Dec. 5, 2012. …
Maureen C. McPhillips ’83
died Sept. 17, 2012, in Cincinnati,
Ohio. She was 69. … Wolfgang
Doettinger ’86 died recently in
Germany. … Chetan Shah ’87
died Nov. 12, 2012, in a scuba
diving accident in Maldives.
He was among the pioneers of
bringing an international fashion
brand into India. … Larry Lokka
’93 died Oct. 20, 2012. He was 47.
Thunderbird Trustee Gary Brukardt dies at 66
Gary Brukardt ’72
Thunderbird alumnus
and longtime
supporter Gary
Brukardt ’72
died Aug. 21, 2012, in
Nashville, Tennessee. He
was 66.
Brukardt served as a
Thunderbird trustee from
2008 until his death. Previously
he was a member
of the Thunderbird Global
Council for three years.
As an entrepreneur, he
founded Tennessee-based
SpecialtyCare in 2006
and led the company to
become the largest U.S.
provider of outsourced
clinical services. Prior to
launching SpecialtyCare,
he served as chief operating
officer and then CEO
of Renal Care Group until
the company’s acquisition
by Fresenius Medical Care.
Brukardt started his
career in 1972 at St. Luke’s
Medical Center in Phoenix,
Arizona.
at Humana Phoenix in Arizona.
… Mike Lundgren ’12 is a
senior analyst and Nissan Rotational
Development program
member for Nissan in Franklin,
Tennessee. … Eric Boone
’12 has joined Holman Capital
Corporation, a California-based
public sector fi nancial solutions
provider, as Vice President,
Southwestern Region. …
Kinjal Gandhi ’12 is a project
manager in Mumbai, India, for
Kompress India. … Pragya
Uprety ’12 has joined the
Henkel cosmetics division as a
business analyst. She is based
in Sydney, Australia. … Anirrban
Mukherjii ’13 converted
a 2012 summer internship with
L’Oreal into a full-time job offer
after graduation. He will work
in New York for one year as an
assistant brand manager and
then transfer to Mumbai, India,
as a senior project manager. …
Kyle Wu ’14 is documenting
his business school experience
in an MBA blog for Financial
Times. To read the blog, visit
http://blogs.ft.com/mba-blog/
author/kylewu.
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