In Memoriam

Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Abe M. Zarem, who made numerous contributions to the United States’ defense systems and space programs and had a decorated career in technology, business development, and management training, died in Los Angeles on March 8, 2023....

Samuel Robinson Phillips, age 87, a loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on March 8, 2023, in the company of his loved ones, who will continue to honor his memory. Sam was born on April 8, 1935, into a military family in Long Beach, CA. He was the only...

David was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Arthur and Norma Lolli Rennels. After graduating from Rose Hulman Institute, of Technology, summa cum laude(1964), he then moved to California, earning a master's degree at California Institute of...

Bud was a distinguished Techer.  Elected to NAE in 1989, he received the Hoover Medal 1994.  Regarding the Caltech Alumni Association, he was a director from 1972-1877, Vice President 1974-75 and President 1975-1976.  In 1996, he was awarded the Alumni distinguished...

In Memoriam: Engineering Professor Emeritus Eldon Knuth, Decorated World War II Veteran   Eldon Knuth, a UCLA professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering and World War II veteran honored with U.S. Army’s Bronze Star and France’s Medal of the Legion of...

Dr Rinker not only completed two graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering but also became an assistant professor until 1965 and went on to start the chemical engineering program at UCSB which went from dead last in the rankings to a consistent top 10 for the past...

Robert J. 'Bob' Huskey passed from this life on February 7, 2023. He was born on December 29, 1938, to William and Irene Huskey in San Antonio, TX. As a child he lived on U.S. Army Air Force bases, including Muroc (later Edwards), where he witnessed Chuck Yeager...

Professor Noel Frederick Smyth, has died aged sixty four in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 5th February 2023.    Noel was a Professor of Nonlinear Waves in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests included numerous aspects...

Duane Edwin Champion, PhD, passed away suddenly at home in Menlo Park, California, of natural causes on Jan. 11, age 73. His family, friends and colleagues miss him terribly, but even more, they are grateful for the time spent with him. Duane Champion was born on June...

October 9, 1933 – January 9, 2023 Colonel Floyd R. Stuart, USAF (Ret.), died peacefully on January 9, 2023, surrounded by love. A native San Franciscan, Floyd graduated from Saint Ignatius HS in 1951.  Floyd attended City College of San Francisco prior to graduating...

Jack Rocchio, BS ‘55 Ph-–Decorated Aviator, Sailor, Linguist, and Adventurer–-Dies in Mallorca at 89 Jack Wilbur Rocchio, a retired captain at Pan American World Airways and then at Delta Air Lines, died of cancer on December 16 at his winter home on the Spanish...

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Phillip Helman passed away peacefully on the 8th of November, 2022 in South Bend, IN. He was born November 2, 1936 in Grand Junction, Colorado, the son of John Phillip and Claire Goldsmith Helman. He had one sister, Jacqueline Beatrice Campbell who died in 2003....

Donald Guy Furst, 96, born April 8, 1926 to Guy and Erma Furst in Whittier, California.   He went into the arms of Jesus on October 21, 2022.He was a proud, patriotic American who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  He got his Masters Degree in Mechanical...

We are profoundly saddened by the death of Randall B. Griepp MD on September 8, 2022 at the age of 82. He was a greatly beloved husband and father, a highly-esteemed and innovative cardiovascular surgeon, an avid sailor and a skilled craftsman of small wooden boats...

Distinguished Caltech alumnus Juris Hartmanis (PhD ’55), founding chair of Cornell University’s Department of Computer Science, passed away on July 29, 2022. Hartmanis was widely recognized for establishing the field of computational complexity theory. He was 94 years...