Elizabeth Gignilliat Downs, CCAS BA ’58, passed away on Nov. 11 at the age of 75. Downs was born on Dec. 4, 1936 in Savannah, Georgia. She was a graduate of Savannah High School, Armstrong Junior College, and The George Washington University. She also received a master in arts at Emory University. Downs served as […]
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Henry Droll, CCAS BS ’52, MA ’53
Henry Droll, CCAS BS ’52, MA ’53, and his wife, Mary Droll, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on November 27, 2012. The couple met at the George Washington University Hospital, where they both worked. They later moved to Kansas City, MO, where Henry taught chemistry at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, until […]
Harry C. Geserick, CCAS AA ’52, BA ’54
Harry C. Geserick, CCAS AA ’52, BA ’54, who retired in 1974 as deputy director of administration for the federal Renegotiation Board, a now-defunct independent agency that had an oversight role with military contracts, died July 7. Mr. Geserick was an engineering design draftsman for the Defense Department from 1946 to 1962. He then joined […]
Nicholas M. Papadopoulos, CCAS MA ’53, PhD ’56
Nicholas M. Papadopoulos, CCAS MA ’53, PhD ’56, retired chief of clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health, died July 11. Papadopoulos retired in 1992 after 17 years on the NIH staff, where his research included chemistry pertaining to such conditions as systemic autoimmune disorders, autoimmune peripheral neuropathies, multiple sclerosis and AIDS. He was […]
Natalie Larioff Giusti, CCAS AA ’50, BA ’53
Natalie Larioff Giusti, CCAS AA ’50, BA ’53, a librarian in the Slavic section of the Library of Congress from the early 1970s until her retirement in 1986, died June 22 in Arlington. Natalie Larioff was born in Dalian, Manchuria. Her father, from Russia, and her mother, from Bulgaria, had fled to China after political […]
Harriet B. Presser, CCAS BS ’59
Harriet B. Presser, CCAS BS ’59, a University of Maryland sociology professor and founder of the university’s Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality, died May 1 in Bethesda at 75. In 1988, Presser founded the Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality (now the Maryland Population Research Center). Over the years, her research included fertility […]
Margaret Fisher, GSEHD MA ’51
Margaret Fisher, GSEHD MA ’51, an arts educator who taught at Northern Virginia Community College and the adult program of the Arlington County public schools, died June 7 at the age of 90. Fisher was a painter, and she taught art at Northern Virginia Community College and at senior centers in the 1970s and the […]
John F. “Jack” Donoghue, LAW LLB ’55
John F. “Jack” Donoghue, LAW LLB ’55, a retired Internal Revenue Service lawyer, died April 4 in Washington. From 1963 until he retired in 1986, Mr. Donoghue was a tax law specialist with the IRS. John Francis Donoghue was a native Washingtonian and a 1945 graduate of Gonzaga College High School. He served with the […]
Daniel J.B. Bierman, Law LLB ’56, GWSB MS ’71
Daniel J.B. Bierman, Law LLB ’56, GWSB MS ’71, an administrative law judge, died on Feb. 6 at the age of 84. He joined the Veteran’s Administration in the late 1950s and worked with the Board of Veterans’ Appeals from 1975 until his retirement. A native of D.C., Bierman served in the Navy during WWII […]
Wilhelmina T. Loomis, CCAS AA ’52, GWSB BA ’54
Wilhelmina T. Loomis, CCAS AA ’52, GWSB BA ’54, who had an accounting practice in Alexandria for many years, died Dec. 8. Wilhelmina Lucia Tortike was born in Amsterdam. She fled the Netherlands in 1940 after German forces overran the country early in World War II. She lived with her family in the Dutch East […]