WE REMEMBER
Remembrances of alumni, faculty, and staff
50s
Frederick Augusta ’58
December 2022
Robert Forsyth ’58
October 2022
Robert Hestand ’57
November 2022
Norma Mantyla ’59
September 2022
60s
Andrea Abbate ’69
November 2022
Brent Barnhart ’65
January 2023
Bennie Brist ’60
November 2022
Nancy Curtis ’68, M.A. ’70
November 2022
Richard Fanning ’66
December 2022
Mary Gaffey ’68
February 2023
William Hein ’64
September 2022
VerLyn Jensen ’61
October 2022
George Mineah ’62
October 2022
Gary Norum ’65
January 2023
Dorothy Oelrich ’60
September 2022
Allan Quist ’60
November 2022
Wilfrid Roberge ’61
December 2022
70s
Donna Bentley ’79
January 2023
Kirby Gordon ’71
October 2022
Virginia Howell ’74
November 2022
Howard Lee ’72
December 2022
Susan Nielsen-LeBlanc ’71
November 2022
Sharon Raines ’71, M.A. ’75
November 2022
Candace Young ’70
November 2022
80s
Miles Gullingsrud ’86
October 2022
Terry Hancox, M.A. ’82
December 2022
Steven Thomas ’86
November 2022
90s
Darin Chong ’93
October 2022
00s
Joseph Rodriguez ’05
October 2022
Kenneth David Barkin
(1939-2022)
Barkin, a leading scholar of German and central European history, taught at UCR for four decades and twice served as chair of the history department. The first in his family to attend college, Barkin earned a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and a doctorate in history from Brown University. Barkin’s specialty was in German history, and he published extensively in leading journals in the field. His dissertation on German economic history, “The Controversy over German Industrialization, 1890-1902,” was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1970, earning him a national reputation. Barkin served as editor of the Central European History journal for 13 years. An avid collector of antiques, he became one of the world’s leading experts on European pewter, organizing numerous exhibitions and talks, and traveling frequently to Europe. Barkin died Dec. 23 and is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Lord; sister; three sons; and four grandchildren.
Michael “Mike” Ryan Davis
(1946-2022)
Davis, a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian, was born in Fontana and authored more than a dozen books. Influenced by Karl Marx’s theories and philosophies and drawing from his own history as an activist for labor, the environment, and social justice, Davis is best known for his investigations of power and social class. His best-selling social history “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” tracked the development of Los Angeles from pre-history to post-Hollywood and became a literary sensation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. He joined UCR’s Department of Creative Writing in July 2008 and remained a distinguished professor emeritus after retiring eight years later. In 2020, Davis was among three recipients of the Cultural Freedom Prize by the Lannan Foundation, along with political activist and author Angela Davis and prison abolitionist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore. He died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25 and is survived by his partner, Alessandra Moctezuma, and four children.
Amnon Rapoport
(1936-2022)
Rapoport, a leader in the experimental studies of interactive decision-making, was a faculty member in UCR’s School of Business from 2009 to 2017. He retired as a distinguished professor of management after a six-decade career. He also held faculty positions at the University of Arizona; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Haifa University, Israel; and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Rapoport earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy from the Hebrew University and went on to earn a master’s and doctorate in quantitative psychology at UNC Chapel Hill. He published four books and more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers. His most influential work was on experimental studies of interactive decision-making in subjects including conflict and cooperation, coalition formation, and economic behavior. Rapoport died Dec. 6 and is survived by his wife, daughter, and grandchildren.
Stewart Shankel
(1931-2022)
Shankel, a physician and instructor for about 60 years, was a community-based faculty member at UCR’s School of Medicine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Walla Walla College and a medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1958. He specialized in nephrology and was an instructor at medical schools at Loma Linda University and University of Nevada. He taught at UCR before the founding of the School of Medicine through the UCR/UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program, later called the Thomas Haider Program. A beloved instructor, he was considered a cornerstone in shaping the medical school’s growth, of which he and his wife, Joy, were big supporters. Shankel died Sept. 29 and is survived by his wife, two sons, daughter, brother, six grandchildren, and two great-grandsons.
Stephen Wimpenny
(1956-2022)
Wimpenny, an expert in the field of experimental high energy physics, taught at UCR for 35 years. Born in the United Kingdom, Wimpenny attended the University of Sheffield for both undergraduate and graduate studies, earning a doctorate in high energy physics in 1980. In 1987, he joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCR, teaching undergraduate physics classes and mentoring graduate students. Wimpenny was an active member of the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS, experiment, one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. He played a leading role in the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles, in 1995 by the DZero and CDF Collaborations and studies of its properties by the CMS experiment. He died Nov. 21 and is survived by his wife Judy and two sons.
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