Faculty members mourn deaths of colleagues

University professors remembered three colleagues who died in recent months during their faculty meeting yesterday.

Administrators and faculty members at the meeting observed a moment of silence for each of the late professors: Ricardo Krauel, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Walter Duane Lockard, professor of politics and Dudley Saville, professor of chemical engineering.

Professor Angel Loureiro remembered his former colleague Krauel, who died of cancer in November, as an "extremely hardworking, professional and committed," with a "natural positive attitude."

"He was, without a doubt, an emerging star in his field," Loureiro said. He added that his late colleague was, "in the best sense of the word, good."

Politics professor Fred Greenstein memorialized Lockard, who died in June after spending 20 years at Princeton.

Greenstein described Lockard's path to Princeton, which began in poverty in West Virginia. Lockard's final book, "Coal: A Memoir and Critique," published in 1998, focused on the coal industry in West Virginia.

Greenstein spoke of Lockard's experiences in World War II and mentioned that he used the GI Bill to attend Yale, where he earned his doctorate.

Professor Pablo Debenedetti from the department of chemical engineering spoke in memory of his colleague professor Saville, who passed away in October. Debenedetti remembered Saville's integrity, generosity and the "selfless manner in which he did his work."

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Saville, who spent 38 years at Princeton, was a "pillar" of the chemical engineering department, Debenedetti said. In 1997, he earned the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research from the American Institute of Chemical Engineering.

Among his noteworthy accomplishments, Saville ran a U.S. Air Force base in Tucson, Ariz., served in Korea and acted as an adviser to a NASA program, he added.

At Princeton, Saville had what Debenedetti called "a profound influence on the department's program."

After the faculty memorials, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and Dean of the Graduate School William Russel presented curriculum additions and changes. Faculty approved the addition of several courses to the undergraduate curriculum, including a number of classes in the art and archaeology department.

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The faculty also approved additional extramural research opportunities for graduate students, particularly in the departments of applied and computational mathematics and mechanical and aerospace engineering.