Obituaries

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death October 30, 2003, of Patricia E. Thompson of Falmouth after a long illness with emphysema. She was 68.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death July 29, 2003, of Monika B. Grinnell after a long battle with cancer. Monika, a Senior Grants Administrator in Grant and Contract Services, died at her home in East Falmouth, MA, at age 61.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death July 1, 2003, of Frederick A. Brauneis of East Falmouth, MA at Falmouth Hospital. He was 79.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death June 20, 2003, of Honorary Member of the Corporation Walter N. “Bill” Rothschild, Jr. at Huntington Hospital on Long Island of complications from surgery. He was 83.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death June 22, 2003 of Honorary Trustee and Honorary Member Kenneth S. “Mike” Safe, Jr. of Duxbury, MA. He was 73.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death on May 22, 2003 of Carol Ann Alessi of Centerville after a long illness. She was 51. At the time of her death, she was an Information Systems Associate in the Physical Oceanography Department, working with Bob Beardsley and Amy Bower.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received word of the death February 15, 2003, of retiree John W. Stimpson of Falmouth. He died at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston at age 87.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received word of the death January 18, 2003, of retiree Phyllis B. Casile of Falmuth.