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Glenn T. Connell
Glenn T. Connell ’79, July 18, 2013, in Sabattus, Maine, at 63. He built radios and telescopes in his teens and won a National Science Foundation grant at 16 to study space science. He earned a master’s at Brandeis and worked as a professor, a research scientist, a physicist, and an engineer, most recently in nuclear engineering at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He enjoyed playing the guitar, gardening, reading, and woodworking, and he was a master in the Masons. He is survived by his parents, a son, a daughter, and a granddaughter.
Maureen Young Kissack
Maureen Young Kissack ’83, Aug. 14, 2013, in Dover, N.H., at 52. She taught French in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire and worked as a real estate agent. She enjoyed old movies and spending summers at the beach. She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Bruno, a daughter, a son, and her father.
Suzanna Seymour Gaeddert
Suzanna Seymour Gaeddert ’85, Sept. 17, 2013, in Surrey, England, at 50. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in California. She and her husband, Barry, were pastors at the Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Mo., for 16 years and lived in London for the past six years. She died after a three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer. She is survived by her husband, her parents, and two sons.
Michael E. Vosburg-Casey
Michael E. Vosburg-Casey ’96, July 31, 2013, in Atlanta, Ga., at 39. He was an activist and volunteer who never worked for a salary and who protested the death penalty and the U.S. Army’s former School of the Americas at Fort Benning. After being arrested there and sentenced to 100 days in federal prison, he said he was proud to be “a prisoner of conscience.” He worked with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Central Presbyterian’s Central Outreach and Advocacy Center, and the Georgia Justice Project. He died of complications from colon cancer. He is survived by his wife, Amy, a daughter, and his parents.
David C. Brenneman
David C. Brenneman ’98, Aug. 31, 2013, in Chappaqua, N.Y., at 37. After graduating from Colby summa cum laude, he earned his master’s from Yale and J.D. from Harvard. He worked at Morgan Stanley for six years, most recently as an executive director in equity risk management. He helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Sarcoma Foundation of America, and in April 2013 the organization honored him with its Courage Award. He battled a rare and aggressive form of the disease for 16 months. He is survived by his wife of 11 years, Mina, and three children.
Robert R. Spencer
Robert R. Spencer ’63, Aug. 3, 2013, in Jackson, Wyo., at 73. He attended Colby and graduated from the University of Hartford. He was a special agent for Lloyds of London in Liberia before settling in the West. He earned his pilot’s license at 19 and remained a lifelong aviator. An entrepreneur, he founded and/or owned a half dozen companies, several related to water resources. He is survived by his wife, Margy, two stepsons, and four grandsons.
Dabney T. Martin III
Dabney T. Martin III ’54, Dec. 19, 2012, in Jeannette, Pa., at 81. He served in the Navy in the Korean War before attending college, and he earned his degree at Merrimack College. He led human resources departments at a hospital and a rehabilitation center in Pennsylvania and maintained an interest in theater, antique automobiles, and antiques. Predeceased by a daughter, he is survived by three daughters, a son, four grandsons, and a great-grandson.
Edith Carpenter Sweeney
Edith Carpenter Sweeney ’52, Aug. 26, 2013, in Freeport, Maine, at 83. She married six months after graduation and moved to Freeport, Maine, where she lived for the next 61 years. She sang in choirs throughout her life and was a member of Freeport Community Services, the Freeport Women’s Club, and the Maine Ostomy Society. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Arthur, three daughters, four grandchildren, and her sister, Carol Carpenter Bisbee ’49.
Nancy Jane Webber Thompson
Nancy Jane Webber Thompson ’51, Jan. 25, 2013, in Orlando, Fla., at 83. She taught elementary school in Massachusetts. Predeceased by her husband, L. Richard Thompson ’51, she is survived by daughter Laurice Thompson Lee ’74 and son Peter L. Thompson ’76.
John “Jack” Keough
John “Jack” Keough ’51, July 28, 2013, in Bothell, Wash., at 85. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1953, moved to Washington State, and worked with several law firms in Seattle and Kirkland, Wash., before founding Keough and Mallett in the late 1970s. In his retirement he enjoyed cruises, the theater, and writing science fiction. Predeceased by his wife of 30 years, Bess, and his former spouse, Joy Delong ’51, he is survived by a daughter, two sons, six grandchildren, and a great-grandson.
