obituary

Jerome Kowal, the Amasa B. Ford Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine, passed away Dec. 23. He was 84. After completing his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, Kowal, a native of New York City, came to Cleveland in 1970 as an associate professor of medicine and pharmacology. From there, he went…

No matter how bad his illness became, Donald Harris never gave up on his dream: to become a doctor who helped patients battling, just as he was. When the Case Western Reserve senior scored in the 97th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) last fall, his dream felt even closer to…

A Case Western Reserve University alumnus and Nobel Prize winner known as a pioneer in education and research passed away late last month. Alfred G. Gilman, MD, PhD (MED ’69; GRS ’69, pharmacology), a Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, died in Dallas at the age of 74. Gilman earned the…

Lajos Takács, professor emeritus of statistics and probability at Case Western Reserve University, died Dec. 4. He was 91. A private funeral service will be held, with interment at Lake View Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Schulte & Mahon-Murphy Funeral Home (5252 Mayfield…

Case Western Reserve University is mourning the sudden death last week of fourth-year medical student Hilary M. Rosenheim, a Wisconsin native who came to Cleveland to pursue her dream of becoming an emergency room physician or family medicine practitioner. She was 26. Rosenheim, who married…

A memorial service will be held Friday for alumnus and trustee Joseph B. “J.B.” Richey II, developer of the first commercially available full-body CAT scan and one of the first major donors to the university’s innovation hub, the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[ box ]. Richey, whose…

The year was 1967. Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here in Cleveland, Carl Stokes became the first African-American elected mayor U.S. city. And at Case Western Reserve, Jefferson J. Jones, Ohio’s first African-American endodontist,…

Arlicia Headd always offered the same response to anyone who asked how she was doing. She would smile and say, “Just peachy!” With those two words alone she would brighten your day. Headd, a contract and compliance manager in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), passed away…

An on-campus memorial service will be held this week in remembrance of Mohammad Jamal, a first-year student who died in a car accident last month. The Middle Eastern Cultural Association and Muslim Student Association—organizations in which Jamal was active during his two months on campus—along…

The Case Western Reserve community is mourning the death of Agnar “Ag” Pytte, who led the university from 1987 to 1999 and contributed enormously to the physical growth of the campus, the quality of the undergraduate experience, and the strength of its finances. Pytte died Friday, Nov. 6. He was…