Jerry Dobrovolny died Oct. 27 at his home in Naples, Florida. He was the most influential force behind the building of the general engineering department, now the department of industrial and enterprise systems engineering, in the College of Engineering. In 1948, he began working for the university in general engineering drawing, overseeing its transition to the department of general engineering in 1953, and serving as its department head from 1959 to 1987. The Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Chair in Systems Engineering and Design was established in his honor in 2016. A service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at the Mount Hope Cemetery Mausoleum, with the Rev. Eric Corbin officiating. A reception will follow at 3 p.m. at the Champaign Country Club. Memorials: University of Illinois Foundation, in care of The Jerry S. Dobrovolny Scholarship Fund, ISE Department, 104 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801.
Marisa Lu Rubenking Meador, 62, died Nov. 3 in Tucson, Arizona. She worked for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences for 34 years as a graphic designer and webmaster. Memorials: Marisa Rubenking Meador Scholarship Fund, Fisher Community Foundation, P.O. Box 636, Fisher, IL 61843.
David L. Shipley, 76, of Tolono, Illinois, died Nov. 5 at Presence Covenant Medical Center in Urbana. He retired from the university after working in the veterinary medicine and chemistry departments. Memorials: Tolono Volunteer Fire Department or Lokoda Indian Children School in South Dakota.
