In Memoriam

March 6, 2025

Evelyn R. Benson (staff)
Marilyn A. Lambert, Ed.D. (staff)
Margaret D. Watson, Ph.D. (faculty)
Robert J. Carabasi, ’46
Emanuel M. Renzi, ’49
Lawrence J. Bur, Jr., ’51
Francis John Kushner, ’54
John J. Agneta, ’55
John P. Jungers, ’55
Albert C. Price, ’55
Charles W. Greenberg, Sr., ’56
George P. Altmeier, ’57
John F. Dowling, ’57
William J. Kelly, Esq., ’57
Richard A. King, ’57
John J. Amon, ’58
William F. McGonigal, ’58
Rodney J. Rivers, ’58
Vincent R. DiCicco, ’59
Irenaeus Isajiw, ’59
Eugene John Maruschak, ’59
Ronald R. DeMarco, Sr., ’60
Robert Diblasi, ’60
George F. Reading, Jr., ’60
Andrew P. Taylor, Jr., ’60
Anthony W. Donofrio, Esq., ’61
Richard Burdette Leach, ’61
Luke Maher, FSC, ’61
Howard E. Morgan, ’61
Francis X. Whalon, Jr., ’61
Richard J. Deasy, Ph.D., ’62
Anthony Joseph Fugaro, ’62
John L. McLaughlin, ’62
John J. Beck, ’63
Richard Bindie, ’63
Thomas J. Hallinan, ’63
Bernard J. Falk, ’63
Joseph M. Sklencar, Sr., ’63
Philip A. Sullivan, ’63
John F. Hickey-Williams, ’64
John J. McGroarty, ’64
Joseph A. Spencer, ’64
John F. Williams, ’64
Thomas V. Grady, ’65
Cyril J. Greenya, ’66
Paul M. Schugsta, Jr., ’66
Daniel J. McCaffrey, III, ’67
William J. DeAngelis, Esq., ’68
James G. Fitzgerald, ’68
Thomas J. Flynn, ’68
Thomas J. Kiefer, ’68
Edward C. Hughes, ’69

Joseph M. Marquart, ’69
Charles A. Miller, ’69
Thomas J. Cannataro, ’70
David M. Gillece, ’71
Michael H. McAdoo, ’71
Richard Michael Neely, ’71
Thomas Camasso, ’72
George P. Endrigian, ’72
Henry W. Goldberg, ’72
Paul M. McArdle, ’72
James P. McGough, Jr., ’72
Edward J. White, ’72
Philip J. Brennan, Jr., ’73
Michael R. Dempsey, ’73
Thomas E. Gore, Jr., ’73
James R. Lynch, ’73
James John Racz, ’73
Robert W. Braubitz, ’74
John V. Brennan, Sr., ’74
Thomas J. Christmann, Jr., ’74
Edward M. Goldhahn, ’74
Thomas J. Mudrick, ’74
Michael A. Pattanite, ’74
Charles Stamm, ’74
Robert G. Sked, ’74
Frank M. Thoma, ’74
Vincent D. Zeller, CPA, ’74
Dominic F. Mastantuono, ’75
Regina Cudemo Bogle, M.D., ’76
Herdie J. Collier, Jr., ’76
Thomas F. Jones, Jr., ’76
Margaret Mary Rodden, Esq., ’76
Cheryl Snyder McQuaide, ’78
James D. Wolkiewicz, ’78
Edward B. Pottichen, ’80
Florence M. Niewood, ’81
Christopher A. Lucca, ’82
Mark C. Healy, ’84
Charles C. Clunk, III, ’85
Thomas S. Mahedy, ’85
Judith Ann Algeo, ’89
Charles P. Cleary, Jr., ’89
Robert G. DellaPelle, ’91
Dennis Michael Bloh, M.A. ’93
Barbara A. Gallen, ’93
Patricia A. Stover, ’93
Phyllis N. McCabe, ’05
Maya Rashmi Contractor, ’06
Betty Lou Kishler, ’08
Joseph Francis Seklecki, ’08

Retired Professor Emeritus Leonid D. Rudnytzky, Ph.D., passed away on Dec. 9, 2024. Dr. Rudnytzky joined La Salle College in 1959 as a professor of German studies, expanding to Slavic studies and comparative literature. Two of his children, daughter Kateryna, ’87, and son Nick, ’90, are alumni. He also was a Ukrainian philologist, and co-editor of numerous American and Ukrainian encyclopedias, president of the World Council of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Rudnytzky left an invaluable scholarly, spiritual, and cultural legacy for generations of successors who continue his work.

Leonid D. Rudnytzky, Ph.D.