Obituaries

Tage Frid
Tage Frid, master woodworker and former RIT professor, passed away May 4.

A teacher and lecturer for more than 50 years, Frid was a faculty member of the School for American Crafts at RIT from 1948 to 1962. He was also woodworking and furniture design department head .

Examples of his woodworking have been showcased in many publications and added to the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Renwick Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. Frid also was the author of a three-volume set entitled Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, and had been a contributing editor, since 1975, to the bimonthly trade journal Fine Woodworking.

Robert Paine
Robert Paine, professor of chemistry, passed away May 14.

Paine joined RIT in 1989 as an adjunct faculty member following a long career at Eastman Kodak Co. and as a senior lecturer and chemistry coordinator at the University of Rochester. He became an associate professor at RIT in 1992 and a full professor in 2003, and he was instrumental in establishing RIT’s chemistry distance learning program.

“He was doing a lot of distance learning, a nontraditional way of teaching that requires a lot of one-on-one interaction, and he kept a very good pace going,” says Terence Morrill, chair of RIT’s chemistry department. “He was ‘Mr. Active.’ We have a lot of social events and he attended everything.”

Donations may be made to an endowment scholarship fund in Paine’s name at RIT c/o Robert H. Paine, 116 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, N.Y. 14623.

Raymond Santirocco
Raymond Santirocco, former RIT associate provost, passed away June 12.

Santirocco joined RIT in 1989 as a visiting assistant professor. He later served as interim dean of the College of Continuing Education. In 1996, Santirocco was named associate provost for outreach programs. Here, he oversaw the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies, the Division of Training and Professional Studies and the RIT Research Corp.

Outside of RIT, Santirocco had a long and distinguished career in government and politics, most recently serving as a County Legislator representing the Penfield area.

RIT will lower the flag to half staff on July 15 in his memory.