Barrie Shore, who “followed the family tradition of entrepreneurship throughout his life,” owned and operated White City and White City East in Shrewsbury, Mass., for more than 40 years, according to an obituary. Read the full tribute…

Richard Gilman was the second-longest-serving president in the history of Occidental College. According to the college's website, "By the time Gilman retired in 1988 after 23 years of distinguished service he had signed more than half of the diplomas the College awarded during its first century." Read the full obituary...

Alexandra Greathouse earned a BA at the College of Communication and became an account executive at Conventures Inc., an events, communications, and marketing firm. "There was so much more to Alex than her great sense of style, cool friends, and awesome job," her tribute reads. "She was our very own super-charged, super-sweet, supernova." Read the South Boston Online obituary...

Linda Tischler was a writer and an editor for such publications as the Boston Herald, Boston magazine, Sidewalk.com, MyWay.com, and Fast Company. Read the Boston Globe obituary...

Jordan Kurland joined the professional staff of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C., in 1965. Throughout his 50-year career there, "he focused passionately on defending academic freedom, which he did with rare insight and vigor..." Read more...

"Bud Collins not only broke down barriers in making tennis a major sport, and pioneered the procession of journalists becoming television commentators, but Collins was an even more important figure in the world of journalism than that," writes Ed Siegel (CAS'71) on WBUR's The Artery. "He broke down barriers between writing about sports, and writing about the world. Billie Jean King admired him, and so did Howard Zinn." Collins had finished all of his College of Communication classes in 1955 but never completed a thesis because he had a full-time job at the Boston Herald. In 2009, Thomas Fiedler (COM’71), dean of COM, presented him with an official degree, a master of science in public relations. (Fiedler accepted Collins’ book, The Bud Collins History of Tennis, in lieu of a thesis.) Read Siegel's tribute...

Donald York had a long career in business, retiring from Polaroid Corp. after 28 years. He went on to teach undergraduate and graduate business courses at Boston University, Elmira University, Bermuda College, and Portland State University. Read the Wayland Patch obituary...

Shepley Ross taught mathematics at the University of New Hampshire from 1955 until he retired in 1989. Read the Foster's Daily Democrat obituary...

In 1984, Richard Lakin, a retired Massachusetts elementary school principal, moved with his family to Israel, where he was a teacher. He died October 27 following an attack on a Jerusalem bus. The grandfather of eight was described as a "deeply hopeful and optimistic person." Read the New York Times obituary...

Alice Barreca was a renaissance woman who was committed to her family, to her community, and to Boston University. She served on the BU Alumni Association's executive board. At the University, a laboratory classroom, rock-climbing wall, and crew boat bear her name. Read the Hartford Courant obituary...