Obituary

Walter MacNeil Macintyre, 67, computing center director

Funeral services were held Nov. 5 in Boulder, Colo., for Walter MacNeil Macintyre, 67, who had served as director of computing services at UB. Macintyre died Nov. 2 in Boulder Community Hospital.

Macintyre received his bachelor's degree and his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, then began his career as a faculty member at Brown University and the University of Colorado, where he specialized in crystallography.

Before coming to UB, he developed the computing center at the University of Colorado in Boulder and became chairman of the center. He also directed the computing center at the National Institute of Medical Research in London, England. In 1976, he became director of UB computing services. While at UB, he also participated in a committee that began the campus network and was involved in setting up computer instruction in Buffalo public schools.

He returned to Boulder in 1980 to direct the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Scientific Computing Division. While there, he took a leave of absence to attend the New College Theological Seminary in Edinburgh, Scotland, completing requirements to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

He returned to work at NCAR until 1987, when he began serving as a minister on the islands of Sanday and North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. Macintyre also served as a minister in Northern Colorado and was pastor of churches in Holyoke, Mass., and Wood River, Neb. He retired in 1995.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a physician who had served as a clinical faculty member in the UB medical school.

Matthew Grappone, 30, installation services manager for CIT
A memorial service was held yesterday in the Newman Center Chapel, 490 Frontier Road, for Matthew R. Grappone, 30, manager of installation services for communications systems engineering in the Department of Computing and Information Technology (CIT). Grappone died Nov. 15.

A 1992 graduate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Grappone went to work for CIT that same year. He handled numerous projects providing communications services to the university. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Frances Cecere and Roy Carter of Syracuse; his father, William Grappone; a special friend, Anna Stave of Oneonta; a sister, Rachele Jawan of Virginia; three stepsisters: Kim, Pam and Wendy Carter, and an aunt, Maria Zabko.

Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Goddard-Crandall-Shepardson Funeral Home, 3111 James St., Syracuse, and at 9 a.m. in Transfiguration Church, 740 Teall Ave., Syracuse. Burial will be in Assumption Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Transfiguration Church, 740 Teall Ave., Syracuse, N.Y. 13206.