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Robert E. Hunt, longtime director of environmental health and safety, died in his Town of Tonawanda home Feb. 16 after a long illness. He was 86.
As UB’s director of environmental health and safety from 1966 until his retirement in 1991, Hunt’s responsibilities ranged from food service and fire safety to evacuation procedures, and air and water quality.
A native of Minden, Neb., Hunt enlisted in the Army during World War II and served as a technician third grade in the 3191st Signal Corps. He saw combat duty during several battles in the Philippines and served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the occupation of Japan.
After the war, he earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Nebraska and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Minnesota.
He worked for the Minnesota State Health Department in Minneapolis, where he was in charge of inspecting hotels, resorts and restaurants, before moving to Tonawanda and joining the UB staff.
He was active for many years as a volunteer at North Presbyterian Church in Amherst, where he was an elder and a deacon. An avid woodworker and carpenter, he built many bookshelves, chairs, toy boxes and other items for the church, and was a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
Known for his gentle wit and devotion to family, he enjoyed golf, music, camping, sailing and fishing.
In 1980, he was named an honorary U. S. Coast Guard captain after spending several months assisting the military with public health concerns at a camp for foreign refugees in Wisconsin.
Willard H. Clatworthy, a retired UB mathematics professor, died Feb. 15 under hospice care in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. He was 94.
Clatworthy was born in Auxier, Ky., and graduated from Berea College, the University of Kentucky and the University of North Carolina, where he earned a doctorate in mathematical statistics.
He joined the UB faculty in 1962 after working at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wayne State University, the University of North Carolina, Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Pittsburgh and with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.
He retired from UB in 1987.
Clatworthy established two scholarships to help deserving students attend college in Kentucky, one at Alice Lloyd College and the other at Berea.
A member of the American Mathematical Society and Sigma Xi, he also enjoyed square dancing, canoeing, camping and hiking, especially at Lewey Lake in the Adirondacks.
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