In Memory

2026: Stanford remembers

Members of the Stanford community remember those who have passed away in 2026.

June

Mutsuko Davis, who worked in the catalog department of Stanford University Libraries from 1967 to 2009, died June 30 in Mountain View.

Charles A. “Chuck” Holloway, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Management, Emeritus, who revolutionized management education by changing how entrepreneurship is taught, died June 14.

Peter S. Bing, BA ’55, a longtime trustee who advanced opportunities for students and faculty through six decades of volunteer service and philanthropy to the university, died June 10.

F. Frank Zboralske, MD, former director of diagnostic radiology at Stanford Medicine, a leader in gastrointestinal radiology and dedicated educator, died June 3 in Carmichael, California.

May

Renato Rosaldo, the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, a pioneering cultural anthropologist and a poet who founded the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, died May 26 in New York City.

Denis C. Phillips, professor emeritus of education, an influential voice in the philosophy of education, died May 23.

Clarence B. Jones, an adviser and speechwriter to Martin Luther King Jr. and former scholar in residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford, died May 22 in Cupertino.

David G. Luenberger, MS ’61, PhD ’63, professor emeritus of management science and engineering, died May 19 at Stanford. 

Michael M. May, research professor emeritus in the School of Engineering and eminent nuclear physicist and nuclear policy specialist who was a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a former co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, died May 17 in San Francisco.

Doris Fisher, BA ’53, dedicated Stanford benefactor and co-founder of the Gap, died May 2 in San Francisco.

Pengli Wang, fourth-year PhD student in chemical engineering, died May 1.

April

Steven A. Denning, MBA ’78, a highly regarded Stanford leader, volunteer, and philanthropist, died April 27.

Ronald A. Castellino, MD, former chair of diagnostic radiology at the School of Medicine and a pioneering figure in oncologic radiology, died April 22 in Atherton.

Giovanni Tempesta, highly popular and beloved lecturer in Italian at the Stanford Language Center for nearly 40 years, died April 2 at Stanford.

March

Charlotte Derksen, head of the Stanford Earth Sciences library from 1980 until 2004, died March 22 in Seattle.

Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus, and professor emeritus of biology, an eminent evolutionary and population biologist and environmentalist, widely known for his best-selling book The Population Bomb, died March 13 in Palo Alto.

Dagfinn Føllesdal, the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a wide-ranging philosopher known for bridging traditions, died March 1.

February

Takeshi Amemiya, the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics, Emeritus, one of the most influential econometricians of the last century, died Feb. 25 at Stanford.

Iris Cantor, collector and philanthropist who with her husband, B. Gerald Cantor, enabled Stanford’s Rodin collection and museum renovation, died Feb. 22 in Palm Beach, Florida.

Dwight Delong Clark, BA ’56, MA ’58, PhD ’70, former dean of freshman men and thereafter assistant dean of men, founder of cultural exchange organizations Volunteers in Asia and Learning Across Borders, died Feb. 22 in Palo Alto.

Robert J. Herfkens, MD, professor emeritus of radiology who modernized imaging at Stanford Medicine and helped establish MRI as a cardiac diagnostic tool, died Feb. 22.

Joan Fletcher Lane, special assistant to three Stanford presidents, a generous volunteer and benefactor, died Feb. 19.

Jorge Ruffinelli, professor emeritus of Iberian and Latin American cultures and a leading authority on Latin American cinema, died Feb. 4.

January

David Abernethy, professor emeritus of political science, a specialist in sub-Saharan Africa who received many awards for excellence in teaching and extensive university service, died Jan. 30.

Mark Marquess, BA ’69, one of college baseball’s legendary head coaches and a man whose name is synonymous with Stanford baseball, died Jan. 30.

Bowen Hadley “Buzz” McCoy, BA ’58, investment banker and business ethicist who made the founding gift for the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, died Jan. 25 in Los Angeles.

Donald John Roberts, the John H. Scully Professor of Economics, Strategic Management and International Business, Emeritus, whose work brought game theory to management practices in firms around the world, died Jan. 23.

José Cuéllar, aka Dr. Loco of Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, professor emeritus of Chicano studies at San Francisco State University, who in the 1980s taught Chicano studies at Stanford and served as senior ethnogerontologist at the School of Medicine, died Jan. 21 in San Francisco.

Barbara Jean Celone, who retired in 2006 as head of the Cubberley Education Library after 25 years at Stanford, died Jan. 17.

Joseph “Joe” Leggette Jr., a media technician at Green Library for over 40 years before he retired, died Jan. 13.

Allen Steward Hammond IV, professor of law at Santa Clara University and husband of Linda Darling-Hammond, professor emerita at Stanford Graduate School of Education, died Jan. 11.

Frederick S. Hillier, professor emeritus of operations research in Stanford Engineering’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, whose textbooks introduced the field to generations of learners worldwide, died Jan. 9.

Charles Erwin “Charlie” Clark, MS ’72, PhD ’80, passionate follower of Stanford Baseball and a former volunteer at the Cantor Arts Center who helped found Decision Focus Inc. and later worked with Electric Power Research Inc., died Jan. 8 in Madison, Wisconsin.