2024: Stanford remembers

Members of the Stanford community remember those who have passed away in 2024.

April

Donald E. Petersen, MBA ’49, former Ford Motor Co. CEO who spent 41 years with the automaker, died April 24 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

March

Elizabeth “Betsy” Mellins, MD, professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine who studied autoimmune disease, died March 24.

Marjorie Perloff, the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita, a leading scholar of contemporary poetry and champion of experimental poetry, died March 24 in Los Angeles.

Amy Jordana Ettinger, a Bay Area author and Stanford Continuing Studies writing instructor, died March 20 in Santa Cruz.

Charles “Chuck” Kwok Fai Chan, PhD, assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Medicine and stem cell researcher, died March 12 at Stanford.

George Mitchel “Bud” Homsy, professor emeritus of chemical engineering who performed pioneering research in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, died March 12.

David Korn, MD, professor emeritus of pathology, former dean of the School of Medicine and a former vice president for medical affairs at the university, died March 10 in Boston.

February

Susan Martin, a faculty affairs associate in the School of Humanities and Sciences dean’s office who worked at Stanford for almost 20 years, died Feb. 29.

Sarah Muller, visiting doctoral student researcher in the Department of Classics and a fellow at the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, died Feb. 19 in Palo Alto.

Clayton W. Bates Jr., professor emeritus of materials science and engineering and of electrical engineering, died Feb. 18 in Palo Alto.

Karen Weiss Mulder, BA ’94, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at the Hoover Institution, died Feb. 2 in Cooke County, Texas.

January

N. Scott Momaday, AM ’60, PhD ’63, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and member of the English faculty from 1972 to 1981, died Jan. 24 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Alistair Philip, MD, professor emeritus of pediatrics who made significant advances in understanding and treating infections in newborns, died Jan. 21.

Gordon Taylor, MD, adjunct clinical professor emeritus of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, died Jan. 14 in Wailuku, Hawaii.