In Memoriam

Henry Thomas Lipman

Henry Thomas Lipman, who spent much of his life in the field of adult education, died on Sunday, June 22, 2003 in St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. He was 87.

Henry Lipman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 25, 1915 to Abraham and Mary Lipman. While working with his father as a presser in a men's custom clothing tailoring firm, he graduated from the Harvard Extension School in 1937. He then obtained a master's degree in labor relations at American University in Washington, DC, and subsequently became the director of the Teacher's Program of the Workers Project Administration in Washington, DC.

Henry Lipman served in North Africa and Italy as a first lieutenant infantry in the US Army from 1942–1945 earning five Battle Stars. From 1958–1978, he was Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU), providing leadership for minority groups to serve as paraprofessionals (teacher aides and social worker assistants) for Head Start and other community programs. He then transferred to the School of Continuing Education. While at NYU he spent two-and-a-half years in Nigeria on a USAID grant as Founder and Director of the University of Lagos Program of Continuing Education. He helped organize and train middle- and lower-level Nigerians to assume senior positions in expatriate firms, especially in shipping, accounting, and insurance.

Upon retiring from NYU, Lipman became Director of the Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) at the New School in New York City for ten years beginning in 1979. The Institute, founded in 1962 as the first campus-based program for older students, followed a peer learning model in which the students themselves developed the academic program and shared responsibility for the conduct of study groups. After his second retirement, he spent seven years as a member of the board of Elderhostel and chaired its committee on institutes for learning in retirement (the Elderhostel Institute Network) that helped organize more than 150 learning in retirement programs on American college campuses. Over the years he gave numerous talks to initiate programs at new universities. He co-edited Students of the Third Age: University/College Programs for Retired Adults, which won the 1993 Philip E. Frandson Award for literature in the field of continuing education. After his final retirement, Henry Lipman became a member at the New School IRP, the institution he had previously led.

Henry Lipman is survived by his brother, Maurice Lipman of Brookline, Massachusetts; two children, Tim Lipman of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Ruth Simon of Bethesda, Maryland; and five grandchildren, Jennifer Simon Tabak, Keith Simon, Scott Lipman, Ari Lipman, and Maura Anderson.

Paul Belkus, CSS '92, last living in Boxford Massachusetts, died on April 16, 2001. News of his death was reported on March 17, 2003.

Edward Patrick Casey, AAE '79, ABE '82, of Bartletts Island, Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, died on August 6, 2002.

S. Stella Chamian, ABE '62, of Watertown, Massachusetts, died on April 26, 2003, at the age of 97.

Nicholas Joseph Chimeno, GSA '77, ABE '80, whose last known address was Framingham, Massachusetts, died on March 28, 2003.

George Henry Coblyn, ALB '91, of Lexington, Massachusetts, died on July 31, 2002.

Christopher Kenneth Cowen, ALB '95, died on July 19, 2002. His last known address was Oakland, California.

Mary Anne Doherty, CPH '97, passed away. Her death was reported on November 15, 2002. Her last known address was Bedford, Massachusetts.

Hope Dunsmoor Freniere, ABE '70, died in Portland, Maine, on May 21, 2003. She last lived in Waterboro, Maine.

Helen A. Goldstein, CSS '90, last living in Greenwich, Connecticut, died in January 2002.

Ellsworth Trefry Johnson, AAE '72, ABE '73, whose death on February 26, 1998, was reported on March 18, 2003, last lived in Salem, Massachusetts.

Bessie (Yaffe) (Berman) Kopel, ADA '55, died at the age of 94, on April 16, 2001, in Cooley Dickison Hospital. At the time of her death, Kopel was residing in Amherst, Massachusetts.

David Vincent Mitten, ABE '69, of Milton, Massachusetts, died on September 14, 2002.

Florian Howard Moore, AAE '74, late of Springfield, Ohio, died on August 14, 2002.

Jean Mullen-Irzyk, ALM '85, passed away at Union Hospital on March 13, 2003. Her last known address was Lynn, Massachusetts.

Frank Eugene Nichols, ABE '65, of Lowell, Massachusetts, died on September 14, 2002.

John Severin Walker, ABE '72, died on November 11, 2002. His last known address was New York, New York.