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1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | In Memorium
During Fall 2019, receptions for GSO alumni, faculty, staff, students and colleagues were held at two scientific conferences and were enjoyed by all: the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference held in Mobile, Ala. in November, and the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, Calif. in December.
1970s
Daniel J. Sheehy (M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1977) is a Principal/Senior Scientist at Aquabio, Inc.in Arlington, MA
Marc S. Stuart (M.S. 1973) is an accomplished photographer of “landscapes, cityscapes, nature and people.” A very long panoramic photograph of the Narragansett working coast is displayed in the Narragansett (R.I.) Town Hall.
Allen C. Myers (Ph.D. 1974) notes, “Slowly retiring. Finished my pastorate on Isle au Haut; still co-pastor with my wife at West Brooksville Congregational; still restoring reed organs.”
Douglas (Lee) B. Cone (Ph.D. 1974) writes that he is a retired educator from the School District of Greenville County, living in Landrum, S.C. Last summer, he had an opportunity to coordinate a fossil collecting trip on behalf of the University of Florida. The citizen science event involved 35 amateur and avocational paleontologists united with professional paleontologists in the Belgrade Project, a comparative study of mid-Miocene terrestrial deposits from comparable age sites ranging from Panama to Nebraska.
Miles Furnas (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1982) is now known as a “Codger (retired Principal Research Scientist)” in Queensland, Australia and is enjoying life in the tropics. He’s growing tropical fruits, herbs and spices, doing tropical beekeeping, rowing and trying to keep up with kids and grandkids.
[Editor’s note: When Miles filled out the GSO Alumni information form, he entered “Bunker C” as his affiliation. Students with offices in the Bunkers always had good camaraderie.]
Arthur G. Gaines (Ph.D. 1975) writes, “We recently enjoyed celebrating Sheldon Pratt’s 80th birthday party, arranged by his wife Joan, at the Mettatuxet Yacht Club in Narragansett. Many attended who had shared experiences with Sheldon over the decades. In addition to a few of my contemporaries it was humbling to find so many younger than me.”
Neil B. Savage (Ph.D. 1975) writes “At the “Spirit of New Hampshire Awards” ceremony on 13 November 2019, I received a Volunteer Service Award in the Senior category for service with Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains. I have been a Girl Scout troop leader and trainer of adult Girl Scout volunteers for more than 33 years now.”
Gabriel Vargo (Ph.D. 1976) has gone from microscopic plants to macroscopic birds of prey. While in Florida he volunteers at a local park which cares for 19 birds of prey trained as teaching assistants. Gabe gives environmental programs to local schools and other venues. “Keeps me busy and it’s great fun. Here’s me working with Abiaka our Bald Eagle during a program.”
Douglas S. Vaughan (Ph.D. 1977) has been retired for over 8 years. He did some consulting for the
first 4 years but is now enjoying volunteering with the local Friends of the Library (including organizing their annual book sale) and the American Music Festival. He and his wife, Nancy Donovan Vaughan (M.S. 1977) reside in Beaufort, N.C. and enjoy travel.
Thierry G. Jacques (Ph.D. 1978) writes “I retired happily in 2010 as head of Section, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. I had an exciting career devoted to fighting marine pollution, assessing environmental impacts, drafting legislation and formulating permits for industrial developments at sea. I now enjoy reading, gardening with my wife Anne-Marie at our country house, being entertained by four granddaughters, and…writing a book (in French) on radical dualism!”
1980s
Karen Johnson-Young (M.S. 1982) and her husband relocated from Florida to Knoxville, TN in Sept. to be close to her elderly mother. She notes, “We are enjoying the mountains, trees and great people.”
Jerry L. Miller (M.S. 1982) is President of Science for Decisions LLC based in North Bethesda, Md.
Mary N. Worobec (Ph.D. 1982) has retired and returned to North Kingstown, R.I. along with her husband Peter Doering (M.S. 1976, Ph.D, 1981). They are enjoying reconnecting with old friends.
Thomas Fogg (Ph.D. 1983) retired in 2019 from his position as senior scientist at Noblis. He reports from his home on Cape Cod, “After getting my Ph.D. in chemical oceanography, I basically never did any oceanography. I taught environmental chemistry up at UMass Lowell for two years, and then jumped into groundwater contamination and remediation consulting for 35 years. When I was at URI I used to skate with the Bay Blades against WHOI, and then when we moved to the Cape I started skating for WHOI against URI and saw the likes of Greg Tracey, Rich Pruell, and Andy Hudson again. Oh yeah, we also had two sons, (neither of which went into the sciences) and now have two granddaughters.”
Barbara Nowicki (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1991) writes, “I am happily retired and living in the backwoods of Exeter, R.I. where I hike daily with my dogs. I spend time tending several acres of organic gardens, hosting quilting and sewing workshops in a specially designed workroom over my garage, and volunteering in the local community. My daughter Sarah (now 27) is an independent artist living nearby.”
Leslie Bulion (M.S. 1984) was in Newport, R.I. in October 2019 for a Harvest Moon Bike Ride with Bike Newport and she found it “Magical!” Her newest science poetry book published in March: Amphibian Acrobats features illustrator Robert Meganck’s fun cover art.
Harry (Chip) McCarty (Ph.D. 1984) reported on his experiences at MERL during the Blizzard of 1978. “In February 1978, I was working as a graduate research assistant at the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL). By mid-morning on February 6th, the snow was falling steadily. Paul, the facility manager, warned us that the snow was blowing horizontally and was likely to come through the louvered vents on the heating/cooling units mounted on the outside walls of the labs, so we covered all of the equipment along the outside walls with plastic to protect it from the snow. By early afternoon, the snow was deep, and driving up South Ferry Road from the lower parking lot at MERL was out of the question. I drove ‘the long way’ past the Aquarium Building, the Reactor, and out the upper entrance. I lived in the ‘student ghetto’ of four duplexes at the bottom of Tower Hill. Growing up in Buffalo and on the South Shore of Boston, I was OK driving in the snow, and made it home without incident. Jeff Frithsen (Ph.D. 1984) also worked at MERL, in the meiofauna lab, but lived in Cranston. By the time that I left, he realized that it was snowing too hard to ‘escape.’ I offered to let him stay at my house, but he opted to spend the night in the lab. I promised to call him every hour through the storm. I kept that promise through most of the night until the phones went out. Jeff later described how he watched the storm roll across the Bay, waves crashing against the dock, tearing apart the building where Brian Melzian had his lab, and ripping up the heavy planking. Fortunately, R/V Endeavor was not in port.
By the morning on February 7th, the snow was still coming down hard. Power was out all over the area, including in our all-electric apartments. John Hoenig (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1983) and his wife Nadine lived across the way in another of the duplexes. My housemates and I suited up and started digging a path to their place. By the time we dug a path to their back door, the start of the path had disappeared behind us. But by that afternoon, the snow had stopped and all of the residents got together and dug a lane out to Bridgetown Road. We all got through the second night, chilled, but dry and safe. On the morning of the 8th, I put on snowshoes and walked the mile to GSO. The roads were silent. Campus was beautiful, covered in snow. The Bay was rough, but the weather was clearing. MERL had not suffered any significant damage, but some of the lab benches were covered with snow. The plastic sheeting had saved the equipment, but we had to clean up that snow before the heat came back on. I took a meter stick out on the catwalk at MERL and measured the snow depth—over two feet on the flat. Drifts were much higher. Not as hard hit as Providence and the northwest portion of the state, South County residents took a few days off, but we were back to nearly normal relatively soon. GSO was open soon enough, despite the damage. Brian Melzian spent several days searching the beach for remnants of his lab and miraculously found the bulk of the only draft of his dissertation under an overturned boat.”
Nancy Reichley (M.S. 1984) is retired and living in Seattle, Wash.
James (Jaime) T. Maughan (Ph.D. 1986) reports, “I’ve retired, except for teaching one course a year alternating between UMass Lowell and Harvard Extension. I have recently been elected to the Board of Directors for Bread and Roses Soup Kitchen in Lawrence, Mass. and find it taking almost as much time as a job that pays. Still trying to ski, kayak and play tennis but the body shows more resistance each year. I try to get to GSO at least once a year and it would be great to have a reunion of past graduates.”
Peter Sampou (Ph.D. 1989) wrote in to say [Editor’s note: the following is in Pete’s distinctive voice] that he “fell out of the ‘high end’ science field back in 1999 to find himself ‘riding herd’ on young’uns while teachin’ ‘em science and math in public charter schools back on Cape Cod. He’s refined his place in the academic community as the sole teacher of Introductory Chemistry at Sturgis Charter School (East) and pursues his ‘save the earth’ passion as a teacher of ‘Environmental Systems and Societies,’ a course he shares with Cindy (Schram) Gallo (M.S. 1984) who teaches on alternate years with Pete. Dr. Pete, as he is called by his students, received the highest acknowledgement in his academic career this past spring when the graduating class of 2019 voted for him to give their commencement speech. He aspires to continue changing the world for the better, one student at a time, well into his 70’s. He and his wife, Rosalie (that undergraduate GSO gardener whom he met selling her lobster back in 1983) raised a pair of girls who’ve recently graduated from college and live on a small farm in West Barnstable along with their goat, two dogs (Pip is the best Brittany Spaniel he’s ever had–save Babe) and 11 chickens. BTW, he’s still a nut about huntin’ and fishin’ and would gladly guide old or new friends who want to come for a visit. Give him a ring on his rotary phone landline (he’s still resisting the cell phone leap into the uncertain future).”
Blades of Glory
In early 2019, GSO’s Bay Blades, a team of alumni, students, staff and faculty, shut out the Woods Hole High Stickers 10-0 at their home game in URI’s Boss Arena. Pictured left to right, back row: Ed Baker, Kevin Rosa, Dave Ullman, Whit Hill, Spike Stone (M.O. 2017), Scott Rutherford (Ph.D. 2000), John Pruell, Rich Pruell (Ph.D. 1984) and Chris Roman; front row, Jason Krumholz (Ph.D. 2012), Conn Kelly, Conor McManus (M.S. 2012, Ph.D. 2017), Jeff Mercer, Tom Barron. (This was Jason’s first shutout in 15 years of goaltending.)
1990s
Veronica M. Berounsky (Ph.D. 1990) not only carries out research in the Narrow River (Pettaquamscutt Estuary) but is the Vice-President of the Narrow River Preservation Association (NRPA) following in the footsteps of other alums such as Arthur Gaines and GSO faculty such as Paul Hargraves and John Sieburth. In 2020, NRPA is celebrating its 50th year of preserving, protecting and restoring the Narrow River and its watershed for all communities of life.
Melissa C. Swanson (M.S. 1997) began working at Edge Analytical in Burlington, Wash. in December 2018 and is now the Quality Assurance Officer. In her spare time, she paddles outrigger canoes, racing all along the west coast and in Hawaii. She also spends time with fellow alum Nancy A. Friday (Ph.D. 1997) and her family who live in Seattle, Wash.
Blaine S. Kopp (Ph.D. 1999) joined the faculty of Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H. in 2010 as the Louis Munro Chair of Environmental Studies and has happily continued there.
2000s
William (Bill) Woityra (M.S. 2005) was promoted to Captain in the Coast Guard and received orders to take command of CGC Polar Star, the nation’s only heavy Antarctic icebreaker in summer 2020. When not at sea, he calls Lake Forest Park, Wash. home.
Rebecca Asch (M.S. 2006) is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
Brooke Longval (Ph.D. 2009) is working at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as a Grants Specialist. She writes, “I manage about 100 grants primarily from NOAA and other local and state agencies. I live aboard full time on a 38’ Tartan sailboat called ‘Rocket Science’ here in St. Petersburg—lots of marine science in this area with FWC, NOAA, the Tampa Bay Estuary Program and the Florida Institute of Oceanography all surrounding the harbor. Any GSO alums who happen to find themselves in the St. Pete area are always welcome to come for a sail!”
2010s
Last November Hyewon Kim (M.S. 2012; Ph.D., Columbia University 2017) started as an assistant scientist, a tenure-track faculty appointment in Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Monique LaFrance-Bartley (M.S. 2012, Ph.D. 2018) has moved out to Fort Collins, Colo. for a position as a Marine Ecologist with the National Park Service.
M. Conor McManus (M.S. 2012, Ph.D. 2017) is Deputy Chief, working under fellow GSO alum Chief Jason McNamee (Ph.D. 2018), Division of Marine Fisheries, R.I. Department of Environmental Management based at Fort Wetherill in Jamestown.
Shifra R. Yonis (M.S. 2012) is a high school teacher for the Town of Hatfield, Mass.
Stefanie E. Zamorski (M.S. 2012) is a scientist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.
Elizabeth (Liz) Harvey (Ph.D. 2013) is now an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.
Lindsey Fields (Ph.D. 2013) followed her GSO degree with an engineering degree at the University of Georgia and is a Project Engineer at Carter & Sloope, Inc. in Watkinsville, Ga.
Anne Hartwell (M.S. 2013) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.
Justine F. Sauvage (M.S. 2013, Ph.D. 2018) is a post doc at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
Yackar L. Mauzole (M.S. 2014, Ph.D. 2019) is a Postdoctoral researcher at JPL/Caltech in Pasadena, Calif.
Michael (Mike) W. Fong (M.S. 2015) lives in Seattle, Wash. and is a Senior Marine Science Educator at the Seattle Aquarium.
Sarah A. Fuller (M.S. 2015) is the Research Vessel Science Coordinator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. Sarah recently married Ted Fleming, a Marine Engineer who is currently working for McAllister Towing. They met while working for Sea Education Association and became better acquainted while in a shipyard in Whangerai, New Zealand. Many GSO alumni were there to celebrate, including two members of the bridal party, Erin Markham (M.S. 2015) and Sarah Blackstock (M.S. 2014).
Mary K. Kane (M.S. 2015, Ph.D. 2019) notes, “I have obtained my first post-doc while overseas visiting researchers at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK. My project, which is funded by the Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund, is to model krill vertical movement behaviors and distributions to determine the connectivity between surface and deep-sea krill in the Southern Ocean, and to determine if krill vertical distributions have changed over time.”
Cathleen Turner (M.S. 2015) is a Senior Software Engineer in Cambridge, Mass.
Ashton F. Flinders (Ph.D. 2016) is a Research Geophysicist at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii.
Sean M Duffey (M.O. 2017) is a Coastal Habitat Specialist at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management in Boston, Mass.
Annie Foppert (Ph.D. 2017) is a postdoc at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research in Tasmania, Australia
Samuel Dimitri Giannakos (M.O. 2017) is a Staff Professional (Engineering) at Anchor QEA in Seattle, Wash.
Sylvia M. Kim (M.S. 2017) is an assistant specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and can be seen on a “Plumes and Blooms” (PnBs) cruise investigating the ecosystem of Santa Barbara Channel with monthly research cruises to collect the in-situ database. On the cruises, Sylvia collects and analyzes carbonate-chemistry samples and phytoplankton samples, in addition to doing other lab work such as research experiments and operating lab equipment.
Carrie A McDonough (Ph.D. 2017) is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island, N.Y.
Hailey Nicole Simpson (M.O. 2017) is a coastal engineer at RACE Coastal Engineering in Stratford, Conn.
Steven Tadros (M.O. 2017) is an Ocean Scientist with RPS (formerly ASA) in Wakefield, R.I.
Berta Berlian Borneo (M.O. 2018) writes, “Currently, I am working on reutilizing an abandoned oil platform for a rig-to-reef project as well as research on marine debris and microplastic monitoring in Jakarta Bay under the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia.”
Nicole M. Brennan (M.O. 2018) is a consultant for Ramboll in Boston, Mass.
Samuel P Gartzman (M.S. 2018) is a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago-Learning Sciences Research Institute. He is also working on his second master’s in science education, and is student teaching in the Chicago Public Schools teaching chemistry and environmental science.
Megan E Layman (M.O. 2018) is a GIS Specialist at AK Associates in Scituate, R.I.
Jason McNamee (Ph.D. 2018) is the Chief of the Division of Marine Fisheries, R.I. Dept of Environmental Management based at Fort Wetherill in Jamestown.
Donald W. Rudnickas Jr. (M.S. 2018) is the Ice Information Branch Chief for the International Ice Patrol for the U.S. Coast Guard, where he is a Lieutenant. He is based in New London, Conn.
Caroline M. Salvaneschi (M.O. 2018) is a Reliability Supervisor at DEKA Research and Development in Manchester N.H.
James D. Spilsbury (M.O. 2018, MBA 2018) is a Research Physical Scientist with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Noah L.Walcutt (M.S. 2018) is a Product Manager at ENGIE Impact in Seattle, Wash.
Joseph D Zottol (M.S. 2018) is a Fisheries Biologist at RPS (formerly ASA) in Wakefield, R.I.
Grace E. Medley (M.S. 2019) is a coastal scientist with the Woods Hole Group in Bourne, Mass.
Christopher Orphanides (Ph.D. 2019) is a research zoologist at NOAA Fisheries on Tarzwell Drive in Narraganset, R.I.. He was the co-PI on two R/V Endeavor student cruises researching North Atlantic right whales and their food.
Colleen A Peters (M.O. 2019) received a Blue MBA from URI last spring: a dual degree consisting of a Masters of Oceanography and Master of Business Administration, and also received a Certificate in GIS and Remote Sensing. She continues to work on the Bay Campus at the URI Inner Space Center.
Christine L. Gardiner (M.S. 2019) is living in Spring, Texas.
Sean P. Scannell (M.O. 2019) is a staff coastal scientist at Epsilon Associates, Inc. in Maynard, Mass.
In Memorium
Fred Boettger
Mr. Frederick William Boettger, a long-time machinist for the Narragansett Bay Campus community, passed away at the age of 83 on December 31, 2019 from esophageal cancer and complications. Fred worked at the GSO‘s Equipment Development Lab (EDL) for 20 years before retiring in 2002. Dean Bruce Corliss noted, “His shipfitting skills were used extensively to support R/V Endeavor. Fred’s work can also be seen at numerous locations around campus, including an aluminum sampling tower that he helped design and fabricate on the roof of the Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies. His enthusiasm, skills and creativity helped bring success to many research programs here at GSO and beyond.” In his spare time and in retirement, Fred enjoyed the Rhythm and Roots Festival, trains, going
to Mystic Seaport, seeing wooden boat and steam engine shows, and was a nurseryman. Donations may be made to his fund at Mass General Hospital: https://because.massgeneral.org/fundraiser/2545297
Al Hanson
Dr. Alfred K. Hanson, Jr. (Ph.D. 1982) of Jamestown, R.I. passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at age 69 from cancer. He was President and CEO of Sub Chem Sensor Systems, Inc. on the Narragansett Bay Campus for twenty-five years. Al was an enthusiastic and active Marine Research Scientist (MRS) at GSO for 35 years who worked on marine and atmospheric chemistry with a variety of collaborators. He carried out research in Narragansett Bay and Pettaquamscutt Estuary (Narrow River) and was always trying to improve autonomous samplers. He was an active participant in working to professionalize the MRS position. Al was very supportive
of undergraduate and graduate students and hired a number of GSO and Ocean Engineering students to work in his company. He was known for infectious enthusiasm for his field of chemical oceanography, for the design of clever in situ sampling devices, for playing Santa Claus at GSO holiday parties, and most of all for his dedication to his beloved son Nicholas J. Hanson of Jamestown.
Don Horton
Donald B. Horton (Ph.D. 1965) of Saco. Maine died unexpectedly on April 23, 2018, as a result of a fall. He had recently celebrated his 88th birthday on April 14 with family and friends. Don earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island. Although he had the same major professor for both degrees, Dr. Saul Saila, Don’s M.S. is in zoology because he completed it in 1958 when the facilities at the Bay Campus were the Narragansett Marine Laboratory. His first position upon graduation was to establish and become the director of the marine research institute for the University of North Carolina, in Aurora, N.C. Five years later, he moved his family to Portland, Maine where he became the director of The Research Institute of the Gulf of Maine (TRIGOM), a consortium of universities. His efforts to build an aquarium on Portland’s waterfront later resulted in the present Gulf of Maine Research Institute. With his second wife, Don founded and operated Horton’s Smoked Seafoods. He also created the popular 100-acre Horton Woods hiking paths. Donations in his memory can be made to Saco Bay Trails (P.O. Box 720, Saco, ME 04072) which maintains Horton Woods.
Doug Huizenga
Dr. Douglas Lee Huizenga (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1982) passed away on May 27, 2018 in Vashon, Wash., from pancreatic cancer. Until the last weeks of his life, he was active in the organization he co-founded with his wife Rita Schenck (Ph.D. 1984), the Institute for Environmental Research and Education, a non-profit with a mission to undertake and disseminate comprehensive, fact-based research for use in the development of environmental policy, programs and decisions. Doug and Rita worked together on a wide range of environmental topics including energy independence, heavy metal pollution, environmental impacts of farming and others. As always, Doug made sure all the numbers were crunched properly and everything worked right. The work Doug and Rita enjoyed most was in the new science of environmental life cycle assessment, which covers all environmental impacts relevant to a product or service. The couple founded the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment. Doug is survived by his wife of 38 years, three children, and two grandchildren, all of whom live in the Seattle area.
Paul Perkins
One of the first oceanographers at the newly designated Graduate School of Oceanography, and whose work was crucial to expanding our knowledge of underwater marine sounds, Paul James Perkins, 96, of South Kingstown, R.I. passed away August 14, 2019. He was the beloved husband of Eileen (Gray) Perkins for 75 years. After his retirement from the Navy in 1961, Paul worked with Marie Fish, William Mowbray and others using his Navy expertise for bioacoustics research. They had 3-week research cruises in waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast and near Bimini, British West Indies for the U.S. Office of Naval Research to record underwater sounds. They would collect fish of various species, place them in special tanks that had hydrophones to pick up sounds, and conduct experiments. In 1965, they traveled the east coast for 3 weeks in a mobile sound laboratory, a specially outfitted Chevrolet Greenbrier van, with an aluminum boat on its roof to reach offshore locations. They drove during the day and worked at night when the underwater sounds were the loudest. They also placed automated recorders at key places along the coast, part of a network for continuous monitoring of marine life sounds that encompasses both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Paul was the acoustic technician on the first research cruise of GSO’s new vessel, the R/V Trident, working with Charlie Fish on studying the deep scattered layer in the Sargasso Sea. Paul later worked with Howard Winn on whale sounds. Howard, Paul and T.C. Poulter were the first people to record whale songs, in 1970, of the humpback whale (Megapera novaeangliae). Later Paul and Howard published other articles on sounds of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), the killer whale (Orcinus orca) and the oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau). Paul retired from GSO in 1982. Memorial donations may be made to: St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
Janice Sieburth
Ms. Janice Sieburth, former Pell Marine Science Head Librarian, died October 15th 2019 in West Kingston, R.I. at the age of 92. She was the widow of the late Graduate School of Oceanography Professor John M. Sieburth. Jan attended Washington State College where she majored in Home Economics, because women were not allowed to major in chemistry, her main academic interest. There she continued in the Food and Nutrition graduate program (M.S. 1951), met graduate student John Sieburth, “the only boy who would talk science” with her, and they married in 1950. They and their five children eventually settled in Rhode Island where she earned a Master of Library Science degree at URI in 1972. Jan became the head librarian at the Pell Library in 1987, was very knowledgeable about the library holdings and always had a kind and helpful word for a graduate student looking for books or a world-class researcher tracking down background studies. Jan retired in 1996. Contributions may be made to the Janice and John Sieburth GSO Pell Library Endowment at the University of Rhode Island Foundation.