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Obituaries Emma L. Bressler, food preparer B in Housing and Food Services, from Sept. 6, 1973, until her retirement May 14, 1991; died Oct. 13, at the age of 70. Raymond I. Fetzer, poultry worker-general in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Sept. 1, 1942, until his retirement May 10, 1974; died Oct. 13. He was 90. Laurence G. Hettich, 50, a former Penn State employee, died Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was a University employee from October 1969 through February 1972. Among the survivors is his wife, Nancy M. Cline, dean emerita, University Libraries. Budugur Lakshminarayana, Evan Pugh professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, died Oct. 19, at the age of 66. In 1963, Lakshminarayana graduated from the University of Liverpool with a doctorate. He then joined the aerospace engineering department at Penn State, where his career spanned 37 years. During his career at Penn State, he was instrumental in developing the turbomachinery laboratory. He also developed a graduate and research program in computational fluid dynamics and directed the institute from 1981-87. In addition, he received numerous professional awards and co-authored more than 300 publications. At the time of his death, Lakshminarayana was in the process of building an orphanage in Bangalore, India. Diane L. Neidigh, staff assistant in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Oct. 13, 1980, until her retirement June 1, 1999; died Oct. 12, at the age of 54. Robert D. Shipman, professor emeritus of forest ecology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from July 1, 1963, until his retirement Oct. 1, 1990; died Oct. 19. He was 80. |