Obituaries

Dana E. Pearson ’53 passed away on February 15, 2022. A complete obituary can be found here.

Edward Wrubel Lifset ’53 of Oceanside, California, passed away on October 22, 2021 at the age of 90. He was born on August 25, 1931 in Schenectady, New York. He was the son of the late Theodore and Dorothy (Wrubel) Lifset. Edward spent the majority of his childhood in Middletown, Connecticut. He graduated with a BA degree from Wesleyan University in 1953 where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Edward received an additional BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and a MS degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He served 27 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, primarily in the aviation, engineering, and intelligence fields, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1979. Before joining the Marines, he was CEO of three construction and land development corporations in Volusia County, Florida. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he spent another ten years as a senior staff engineer and general program manager in the aerospace industry with the Lockheed Corporation.

In his retirement, Ed was an avid world traveler, proudly visiting over 120 different countries. Some of the more exotic countries he visited were Albania, Afghanistan, Libya, Romania and Iran. He especially enjoyed visiting China, Hong Kong and Japan, revisiting them multiple times. Ed enjoyed fixing and tinkering with things. There was nothing he couldn’t repair with duct tape.

He is survived by his wife Patricia (Mathews) Lifset; four daughters, Deborah (McKee), Nancy (Linskey), Regina (Resnick) and Lauren; and one son, David. Ed is also survived by his beloved grandchildren; Rachel, Ella and Jude. Ed was predeceased by one daughter, Judith.

Following cremation, a private family service will be held. Internment will take place at Miramar National Cemetery, San Diego, California.

Memorial contributions may be made to the National Museum of the Marine Corps. (www.usmcmuseum.com).

Donald F. Dembert ’53 passed away on March 12, 2021. A full obituary can be found here.

Andrew Strouthes ’51, P’81 passed away peacefully at age 98 on February 15, 2022.

Andrew was born in Lefkara, Cyprus, and he immigrated from Cyprus to the United States in 1947. He graduated from Wesleyan University with honors in 1951. He went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Connecticut in 1952 and a PhD from Temple University in 1960.

Andrew was an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he specialized in animal behavior. He was devoted to his research in animal conditioning and to his students; he was renowned for learning all his students’ names within the first week of each semester, even in large lecture courses of more than 150 students. He was considered by many to be the best teacher they had at SUNY. His work in fear and reward conditioning in rats has been cited many times, and during the course of his research, he also found a correlation between saccharin consumption and mortality in rats.

Andrew was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Mary Joyce, and son Daniel Strouthes. He is survived by sons Peter of Austin, Texas, and Mark of Arnold, Maryland, and daughter Daphne of Dallas, Texas. Known as a raconteur and bon vivant, he was beloved in the Gardens of Annapolis, where he lived for the last years of his life.

 

 

Leonard “Len” Hippler ’50 passed away on December 31, 2021. A full obituary can be found here.

Robert J. Perdrizet ’47, P’77 passed away on December 31, 2021. A full obituary can be found here.

Edward J. Huth ’45 passed away on November 2, 2021. A full obituary can be found here.