In Memoriam

Appleby, an emerita professor of history, was a nationally renowned historian who wrote prolifically about America’s founding fathers.

John Russell Cauble, 83, a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television who headed the multimillion-dollar renovation of Royce Hall auditorium in 1998 four years after the Northridge earthquake, died Wednesday, Dec. 7.

A Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Schuh died Nov. 8 after an illness of several months. He was an outstanding member of the department in teaching, research and service.

A UCLA alumna and staff member for 28 years, Loh died on Nov. 5. She was 58.

Bill Zaima, UCLA's first women's tennis coach who served the team in different roles for 40 years, died Thursday, Nov. 17, in Los Angeles due to illness. He was 69.

Donald Findley, who transformed a financially ailing student organization, ASUCLA, into a thriving enterprise at UCLA , with his business acumen and vision for the campus, died Sunday, Nov. 13.

Richard Maxwell, UCLA School of Law dean emeritus and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, died Oct. 7 in Austin, Texas, on his 97th birthday.

Widely admired for her excellent teaching and extraordinary student mentorship, Donald died on Oct. 16 at the age of 43.

Mellinkoff, who transformed the fledgling UCLA School of Medicine into a nationally recognized academic institution, died on July 17 at age 96.

Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure.

Ren Mao, director of application development, died July 4 in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 37 years old. 

Richard Wain Young, 86, professor emeritus of anatomy, died May 18 surrounded by family members at his home in Hollywood. For more than 55 years, he worked at the medical school at UCLA and published his last book, “Human Origins and Evolution,” in 2014.

Jimmie D. White, 68, who served as a counselor, administrator and attorney advisor in UCLA Student Affairs for 35 years, died in Los Angeles on May 27 of cancer.  

A staff scientist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biochemistry, Amirsakis passed away on May 24.

Klug, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, died June 1 in a shooting in his office.

A memorial will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute.

A highly respected scholar with expertise in space plasma physics, Ashour-Abdalla also had a passion for teaching.

A physical chemist who joined the faculty in 1948, Scott died on May 1. He was 94.

Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition for establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service and public discourse, died March 21. He was 66.

Jura played a major role in advancing scholarship in his field and in shaping UCLA’s Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics over the course of four decades.

The professor emeritus of the UCLA Department of History died on Jan. 16.

Terasaki, who earned three degrees from UCLA, developed the test that became the international standard method for tissue typing and was a generous benefactor to his alma mater.

Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Leavitt passed away on Nov. 27 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.

Jack Share, who in the 1970s served as an assistant professor in UCLA’s Special Education Division and the Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 4 at Kaiser Hospital in Woodland Hills.