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Obituaries

Transportation Scholar Gayton Germane Remembered

Emeritus professor Gayton Germane, who in the 1950s founded one of the School’s first executive education programs and 30 years later pioneered an MBA course, The Commercial Development of Space, died January 17 of pneumonia. He was 88.

Philanthropist Claude Rosenberg Dies at 80

Claude Rosenberg, 80, MBA '52, died May 10. Rosenberg, along with his wife, Louise, formed a foundation that directed money to a variety of educational, artistic, social and environmental causes, including Stanford University and the Bay Area Jewish community. He was a generous supporter of of the Graduate School of Business, notably the Center for Social Innovation and Jackson Library.

Patty Miller Loses Battle with Lung Cancer

Memorial services are scheduled May 7 for Patty J. Miller who co-founded a women's health clinic in Sunnyvale and became a wildlife conservation advocate. She was the wife of William F. Miller, Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, emeritus, and a former provost of Stanford University.

Accounting Leader Robert Sprouse Dies at 85
Robert T. Sprouse, a Business School accounting faculty member from 1962-1973, and a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame, died on December 23.

Harold Leavitt, Pioneer in Organizational Behavior, Dies at 85
Harold J. Leavitt, a management professor who believed organizational success should be judged in human, not numerical terms, died Dec.8. The Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, emeritus, was a creator of the academic field of organizational behavior.

Economist John McMillan Dies: “He Could Make Economics Jump Off the Page”
John McMillan, the Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, died at his home on the Stanford campus March 13, of complications caused by cancer. He was 56. (March 2007)

Professor Emeritus Oscar Serbein Dies at 86
Oscar N. Serbein Jr., a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who specialized in risk management and insurance, passed away Jan. 21 at his home in Fullerton, Calif. He was 86. (January 2006)

Alan Manne, Professor Emeritus of Operations Research, Dies After Fall
Alan S. Manne, an emeritus faculty member whose economic models were applied to to world energy issues and most recently to global warming, died Sept. 27 of complications from injuries sustained after falling from his horse. (September 2005)

Former Acting Dean Pete Pond Dies at Age 90
A man who managed virtually every non academic function of the Business School and served as acting dean in 1968-69, Pete Pond died at Stanford Hospital. (October 2004)

Former Presidential Economic Advisor Ezra Solomon Dies at 82
Ezra Solomon, who played a major role in the current approach to teaching finance and served as an economic advisor to President Nixon, died Dec. 9 at his Stanford University campus home. Faculty Colleague James Van Horn noted that Solomon "helped move the field toward a more rigorous theory-based foundation-a more mathematical expression." (December 2002)

Renowned Social Reformer John Gardner Dies at 89
John Gardner, who played a central role in the creation of Medicare and coined the term "independent sector" to capture the idea of the latent potential within America's nonprofit institutions, died Feb. 16 at age 89. (March 2002)

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