Class Notes Category: In Memoriam
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Norman E. Friedmann ’50, M.S. ’52, Ph.D. ’57
Visionary engineer and executive Norman E. Friedmann ’50, M.S. ’52, Ph.D. ’57, passed away July 24 at age 89. A lifelong UCLA supporter, Friedmann was a UCLA Foundation Trustee (1987-2006), endowed the Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences (1987), was the School of Engineering Alumnus of the Year (1973) and received the UCLA Distinguished…
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Harriette F. Williams ’52, Ed.D. ’73
Harriette F. Williams ’52, Ed.D. ’73, educator, member of the pioneer Flowers family of Los Angeles and the first African American president of UCLA’s Gold Shield Alumnae, passed away at her home on July 28. She was 88. The eldest daughter of Virginia Carter Flowers and Orlando Flowers, Harriette was born on July 18, 1930,…
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Billy Knight ’02
Former Bruin basketball player Billy Knight was found dead on July 10 in Phoenix. He was 39. A sociology major, Knight played for UCLA between 1997 and 2002, averaging 14.1 points per game as a fifth-year senior and posting a 40.3 percent three-point shooting percentage over his college career. Read the Daily Bruin article.
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Tyler Honeycutt (’09-’11)
Former Bruin basketball standout Tyler Honeycutt died on July 7 in Sherman Oaks. He was 27. Honeycutt played two years for UCLA. He was named to the Pac-10 all-freshman team in 2010 and earned first-team all-conference honors as a sophomore the following year. After leaving UCLA, Honeycutt played for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA…
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Jonathan Gold ’82
Jonathan Gold ’82, the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, passed away July 21 of pancreatic cancer. He was 57. A beloved figure in his native Los Angeles, Gold was a music major at UCLA and a music critic for LA Weekly before starting a food column for the paper, often…
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Penn R. Post ’56
Penn R. Post ’56 passed away on July 4 at age 85. The son of Charles and Kathleen Post, he grew up in Hermosa Beach, where, at age 10, he became one of the “early adopters” of surfing on wooden long boards. Post graduated from Harvard School (now Harvard-Westlake), in Los Angeles, earned his bachelor’s…
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Perry Edward Treadwell ’55, Ph.D. ’58
Perry Edward Treadwell ’55, Ph.D. ’58, passed away June 25 at age 86. Raised in Wausau, WI, the only child of Wilma and Paul Treadwell, he graduated from Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, MI, before attending UCLA, where he received his B.A. in medicine and earned a Ph.D. in microbiology. Treadwell was a postdoctoral fellow…
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Lisa Manning Pratt ’92
Lisa Manning Pratt ’92, a driving in force in growing the Rose Bowl Bruins Alumni Network, has passed away at age 50. A double major in history and political science, Pratt was an alumna of UCLA’s Professional Development Program and was formerly director of Events and marketing at the UCLA School Management Program, a nonprofit…
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Shoshana Shoubin Cardin ’46
Shoshana Cardin ’46, an internationally known philanthropist and leader of Jewish organizations, passed away in Maryland on May 18. She was 91. Born Shoshana Shoubin in Tel Aviv, in what was then Palestine, on October 10, 1926, her family moved to Baltimore the following year. She planned to become an attorney and attended Johns Hopkins…
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Mark Economeu ’76
Mark Economeu ’76 passed away on May 16. He was an avid Dodger fan who could quote baseball statistics at will; an enthusiastic supporter of UCLA sports, especially football; and a music lover with eclectic tastes and an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of recorded sound, spanning the genres from rock to folk. He had…