OBITUARIES
George Duncan Heisey III, 69, of Willimansett, MA for the past 25 years, died at home on September 25, 2004.
Mr. Heisey was born in Newark and graduated from Newark Senior High School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Denison Univ. in Granville, OH, and his master’s degree (1958) in history from the School of Graduate Studies at Western Reserve Univ.
He served in the army during the late 1950s, working at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. He was an educator, and worked at various institutions of higher learning for 21 years. He was a professor of history and director of student activities at Holyoke Community College.
Mr. Heisey is survived by two brothers, two nieces, and a nephew.
Elizabeth “Libby” Walker, 86, dean emerita of Western Reserve College and assistant professor emerita of classics, died October 10, 2004. She had been ill for more than a year, and had been in a nursing home.
Known universally as “Libby,” she began her relationship with undergraduate education and student life on this campus 69 years ago, when she arrived as a member of the fall 1935 entering class at Flora Stone Mather at Western Reserve Univ. She came to college with a full scholarship after graduating with honors from high school in Hudson, OH, her lifelong home. She graduated four years later with a degree in classics. Her entering class was part of an experiment at Mather in which students received no information about their grades during their four undergraduate years, although she said she knew she must be doing well when she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior.
After graduation, she earned the M.A. in classics from Radcliffe College and took a position teaching at Derby Academy in Hingham, MA. In 1943, however, she was appointed director of admissions and later dean of freshmen at Mather College, where she built a stellar career as a mentor, innovator, and leader. She was named dean of women at Mather College and assistant professor of classics in 1951, associate dean in 1959, and later dean for freshman affairs and dean for academic standing at Western Reserve College. She also served on an interim basis as dean of undergraduate admissions for the university.
She retired in 1983 as dean emerita in Western Reserve College and assistant professor emerita of classics.
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