We do not have a published obituary.
Dear friends,” reads Oscar Romero's card, “it saddens me to report that Peter Komanecky died in Washington, D.C., of AIDS–related complications on August 30, 1992. He is survived by his lover Radames Lozada of Alexandria, VA, his parents, Paul and Eve Komanecky of Binghamton, N.Y., and brothers.”
A photo of his gravestone in the Mount Comfort Cemetery in Alexandria, VA is included below.
Michael N. Olschan died December 5 as a result of an aneurysm in the carotid artery. At Dartmouth Mike was an active member of Zeta Psi. Although a premed biology major, Mike entered the family business after graduation and eventually formed his own company, Retail Service Associates, distributors of non-food items to stores in New England and along the East Coast. Mike was active in the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport. He is survived by his parents, his wife, Marjorie, and five children.
David James Norden died on November 8, 1991, at his home in Hampden Sydney, Va., following a short illness. At the time of his death, Dave was the director of the Eggleston Library and Fuqua International Communications center at Hampden Sydney College, where he was also a lecturer in Russian.
After graduation, Dave did post-graduate work in Russian at Yale and received his master's degree in library science from Long Island University.
He is survived by his parents, his wife, Gail, and a son.
No published obituary is available at this time.
Richard H. Jordan, an internationally known Arctic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, died of a heart attack at his home in Fairbanks on January 19, 1991. Alaska was Dick's birthplace and spiritual home. He graduated from high school near Scranton, Penn., and joined us after a year as an exchange student in Holland.
Gifford Foley died Sunday, July 1, 1990, while performing an airplane stunt over the Niagara River in Buffalo.
An experienced pilot with thousands of hours in the air, Foley was also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and received a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts.
A resident of South Salem, he was recently appointed to the position of chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
No obituary is available. Please contact us if you have access to one or would like to write one for the Class.
On January 4, 1990, RICHARD JAMES FELMEISTER died at home in Houston, Texas. Richard was single, and the cause of death is not known. His father, Ralph Felmeister, lives at 2311 Coles Avenue, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076.
PETER WESLEY KITSON died on November 22, 1989, in Hartford Hospital, near his home in Glastonbury, Connecticut, after a short illness. He leaves his wife, Cheryl, and children Nicole and Jeffrey (105 Stanley Drive, Glastonbury 06033, (203) 659-8859).
Anthony Serge Beliajeff passed away on May 25, 1989. Anthony majored in history at Dartmouth and received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, in 1975. He was employed by the Library of Congress as a researcher/analyst in Soviet area studies. His previous employment was as a contract interpreter. He also wrote for the Russian émigré press and for the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. He is survived by his mother.