Prof. Emeritus Richard “Dick” Leed, Russian, Ph.D. ’58 died at the age of 82 from lung cancer in December in his Ithaca home. A memorial service was held on Dec. 9 at the Unitarian Church near the Commons.

A day after Steve Jobs’ death at 56, Cornell students and faculty took time to recall the Apple co-founder’s legacy.

Former Cornell baseball coach Ted Thoren passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89.

Bill Vanneman ’31 died Tuesday, just months before the first 80th reunion ever held at Cornell. He was 102.

Prof. Emeritus Michael C. Latham died on April 1.

Wolff was the oldest living bobsled driver. He died Thursday.

Anthony Geiss ’46, a writer for the beloved children’s characters Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Elmo and others on Sesame Street, died on Jan. 21 in Valhalla, NY.

Avery bans Jack from talking to Liz; Tracy gets his first submarine DUI.

Prof. Karl Berkelman ’59, physics, who was the Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Physics and a leader in the design and construction of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, died Feb. 26. He was 79.

Berkelman received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1959 and joined the faculty two years later, where he remained for his entire career. Apart from the CESR, he was also actively involved in building many complex detectors that are collectively known as CLEO, according to an obituary published in The Ithaca Journal. The first track finding program for CLEO was also attributed to Berkelman. The program helped future researchers to reconstruct the path and momentum of charged particles following a collision, according to the University.

At a school where the faces across campus change at a rapid pace, one would be hard pressed to find an institution that has more consistently or significantly played a role in Cornell student life during the past several decades than the Hot Truck.

It’s no surprise then that current Cornell students and alumni are mourning the loss of the founder and longtime operator of the Hot Truck, Robert C. Petrillose Sr., who was known around campus as “Hot Truck Bob.” Petrillose died on Dec. 8 in Elmira, N.Y. after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 77 years old.

Petrillose started his career at the family-owned Johnny’s Big Red Grill in Collegetown. While working as the chef and manager of Johnny’s, Petrillose started his pizza truck business in 1960.