In Memory

2025: Stanford remembers

Members of the Stanford community remember those who have passed away in 2025.

April

Donna Robertson, director of donor relations, emerita, in the Office of Development, who who helped host countless donors and dignitaries on campus throughout the course of four presidencies, died April 13.

Philip Sunshine, MD, professor emeritus of pediatrics at Stanford Medicine, a founding practitioner of neonatology who shaped how premature babies’ lives are saved, died April 5 in Cupertino.

Nancy Huddleston Packer, the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, and former director of the Creative Writing Program, died April 1.

March

Jean “Jeannie” Lythcott, former clinical professor of science education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, died March 1 in Palo Alto.

February

Andreas “Andy” Acrivos, professor of chemical engineering, emeritus, one of the foremost scientists in the field of fluid dynamics, died Feb. 17 at Stanford.

James “Jim” Ferguson, the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of anthropology whose research explored development and modernity in the lives of southern Africans, died Feb. 12.

James B. D. Mark, MD, the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, an innovative thoracic surgeon, died Feb. 7.

January

William P. “Bill” Mahrt, PhD ’69, associate professor emeritus of music, an expert in Gregorian chant and medieval performance, and longtime director of Stanford’s Early Music Singers, died Jan. 1.