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March 29, 2016, Volume 62, No. 28 |
William Victor Chalupa, Penn Vet
Philip S. Littman, Radiation Therapy
Charles R. Perry, Management
William Victor Chalupa, Penn Vet
William (“Bill”) Victor Chalupa, professor emeritus of nutrition at Penn Vet, died at Paoli Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania on January 25. He was 78 years old.
Dr. Chalupa was born in New York City and graduated from Frenchtown High School in New Jersey. He earned his BS, MS and PhD in ruminant nutrition from the College of Agriculture at Rutgers University.
His first faculty position was in the dairy science department at Clemson University in South Carolina. He took a sabbatical leave to perform research at the USDA Ruminant Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, then joined Smith-Kline Pharmaceutical as manager of rumen metabolic research at the Applebrook facility in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He also taught briefly at the University of Maryland.
In 1976, Dr. Chalupa came to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine as an adjunct associate professor in the Section of Nutrition, where he researched animal health and production and delivery of current nutritional concepts to nutritionists and producers through development of ration formulation software. He conducted research at New Bolton Center and taught in Philadelphia.
In 1981, he was promoted to professor of nutrition. He retired from Penn in 2005 after 30 years of service.
Dr. Chalupa made important contributions in ruminant nutrition in the areas of nitrogen metabolism, the influence of ionophores on rumen fermentation, use of by-pass fats in ruminant diets, and production responses to bovine somatotropin. He was an early proponent of the application of more dynamic ration formulation programs to account for rumen fermentation of feedstuffs. He was instrumental in taking concepts in the Cornell Net Carbohydrate Protein System and developing a usable ration formulation program for use in the field, CPMDairy. With his collaborators, he moved ration formulation programs from static models to more dynamic models.
He devoted time and energy to training nutritionists worldwide in these concepts. One of his major contributions is the growth of dynamic ration models that are used today in the field.
In May 2003, he received the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award of Rutgers University. In July 2007, he was recognized by the Dairy Nutritionists of Mexico for his outstanding contribution to dairy nutrition. He was a founding board member of the Nature Center of Charlestown, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Chalupa is survived by his wife, Barbara Fritsche Chalupa; his brother, James (Sheri Bowlby Chalupa); his daughter, Judy Chalupa Rossetti (Michael Rossetti); his son, Chip (Sondra Swisher Chalupa); and five grandchildren, Angela Rossetti, Christopher Rossetti, Samantha, Kirstin and Matthew Chalupa.
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Philip S. Littman, Radiation Therapy
Philip Littman, a former associate professor of radiation therapy at Penn, died at home on March 16 from complications related to ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He was 75 years old.
Dr. Littman was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended high school at Baltimore City College, then graduated from Stanford University in 1962. He was in one of the first classes of Peace Corps volunteers, serving as a science and English teacher from 1962-1964 in Ethiopia/Eritrea. Upon returning to the US, he attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine, and graduated in 1968. He also served in the US Public Health Service from 1968-1971.
Dr. Littman did his postgraduate radiation oncology training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiology.
In 1978, he became an assistant professor of radiation therapy at HUP. In 1980, he was promoted to associate professor of radiation therapy.
After leaving Penn in 1984, Dr. Littman served on the faculty at Brown University’s School of Medicine as a professor of radiation therapy. In 1987, he opened the Southern Wisconsin Radiotherapy Center in Madison, where he served as the primary physician.
He retired in 2003 and moved to Stuart, Florida, then he worked as a locum tenens radiation oncology physician in various states. He and his wife, Trish, spent several years sailing around the Bahamas and Caribbean. Dr. Littman also sailed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
At the age of 70, he re-trained himself to be a general practitioner so he could volunteer as a physician at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic in Stuart, Florida, where he worked regularly until ALS-related symptoms forced him physically to retire. He remained engaged in medical literature until his final days.
Dr. Littman is survived by his wife, Trish; his daughter, Rachel (Doug Davis); his son, Josh (Natalia); and four grandchildren, Adam Littman Davis, Amanda Littman Davis, Levi Orion Littman and Savannah Arial Littman.
Donations may be made to the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic (http://vimclinic.net/), MJHS Hospice Foundation (https://mjhsfoundation.org/donate/hospice-and-palliative-care-fund/) or the ALS Association, Greater New York Chapter (http://www.als-ny.org/).
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Charles R. Perry, Management
Charles R. Perry, associate professor emeritus of management at the Wharton School, died at home in Chelsea, Michigan, on March 15. He was 77 years old.
Dr. Perry completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, then earned his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Perry joined the Penn faculty in 1966 as an assistant professor of industry. In 1972, he was promoted to associate professor of management with tenure. He received a secondary appointment in the Public Management Unit in 1979.
While at Penn, he served on the University Council’s Committee on Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid. He also served as a representative of Penn’s I Can Quit smoking cessation program (Almanac November 19, 1985).
In the 1970s, he took a leave from the Wharton School to act as executive assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Throughout his career, he researched labor relations, with a particular focus on women and minorities, especially in urban areas. His publications include The Negro in the Department Store Industry (1971, Penn Press) and The Labor Relations Climate and Management Rights in Urban School Systems: The Case of Philadelphia (1974, Penn Press).
He also co-authored The Impact of Negotiations in Public Education: The Evidence From the Schools (with Wesley A. Wildman, 1970, Charles A. Jones Publishing Co.); Negro Employment in Retail Trade: A Study of Racial Policies in the Department Store, Drugstore and Supermarket Industries (with Gordon F. Bloom and F. Marion Fletcher, 1972, Penn Press); The Impact of Government Manpower Programs in General and on Minorities and Women (with Richard L. Rowan, Bernard E. Anderson, Herbert R. Northrup and others, 1975, Penn Press); and Disintegration and Change: Labor Relations in the Meat Packing Industry (with Delwyn H. Kegley, 1989, Penn Press).
Dr. Perry retired from Penn and took emeritus status in 1999.
He is survived by his wife, Karen; two daughters, Diane Perry and Linda Mazzoni; one stepson, Brian Tyler; one stepdaughter, Erika Tyler; one granddaughter, Kaiya Firor; and four step-grandchildren, Jeremy, Andrew, Jamie and Gwendolyn Tyler.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the University of Michigan Medical Center Research Fund, University of Michigan Health System, Office of Medical Development, 1000 Oakwood Drive, Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6815, RE: Charles Perry, Donation; or online at http://victors.us/charlesrperry |
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