In Memoriam: March 2025
Jean Bardonner (IAC/NMC 46) of New Palestine, Indiana passed away on Feb. 15, 2025.
Dr. James Barber (IAC/NMC 50-51, UNIV 52) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away on Jan. 8, 2025.
Ann Sherman Bernstein (IAC/NMC 51-53) of Mendham, New Jersey, passed away on May 21, 2024.
Sarah Richards (IAC/NMC 58, IAC St 62-64) of Honolulu, Hawaii, passed away on Jan. 26, 2025.
Douglas Sturdevant (AS 64, IAC/NMC 65, IAA 65-66, UNIV 66-67) of Ottawa, Canada, passed away on Jan. 14, 2025.
Harry Pevos (IAC/NMC 66-72) of West Bloomfield, Michigan, passed away on Oct. 9, 2024.
Lawrence Starr (IAA Fac 67-77; IAC St 68, 71-72, 74-75; ICA St 99-00, 01-04) of South Bend, Indiana, passed away on Feb. 27, 2025. Starr thoroughly enjoyed teaching mathematics at Interlochen Arts Academy and often reminisced about the wonderful students he met there. While teaching at Interlochen, he co-authored a series of high school mathematics textbooks for Random House and served as President of the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1977. Starr family members enjoyed living in the Interlochen area and are grateful for the many opportunities to experience the arts in their backyard.
Daniel Brosier (IAC St 70-73, 77-79, 82-84; IAA St 76-81, 82-84) of Elgin, Illinois, passed away on Feb. 16, 2025.
Debra Johnson (IAC/NMC 72) of Livonia, Michigan, passed away on March 8, 2025.
Dawn Yanok (AS 84-85) of Shelby Township, Michigan, passed away on June 30, 2024.
Susan (DeFreitas) Timmons (IAA 94-95, IAC Fac 18-21) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, passed away on Feb. 26, 2025. Timmons is the author of the award-winning novel, Hot Season, and the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin. Her short stories and poems were published widely, and her writing classes were celebrated. She is the creator of Workshops Against Empire, an alternative M.F.A. program for writers who want to change the world.
Elfriede “Elfie” Steigerwald (Volunteer 95-22) of Interlochen, Michigan, passed away on Feb. 13, 2025. Steigerwald, who volunteered in Interlochen’s Costume Shop and ushered at concerts, was named the 2014-15 Volunteer of the Year and received the President’s Distinguished Service Award in 2014—becoming the third volunteer to receive the honor since the award’s inception.
Robert Mueller (IAC Fac 03, 05-14) of Fayetteville, Arkansas, passed away on March 6, 2025.
Mary Felix (IAC St 04) of Traverse City, Michigan, passed away on Feb. 9, 2025.
Katie Baumgarten (IAC 06) of Norcross, Georgia, passed away on Feb. 22, 2024.
