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August 29, 2002

OBITUARY: Ruthann Adams Mangelsdorf

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in Heinz Chapel for former University staff member Ruthann Adams Mangelsdorf. Mangelsdorf, who retired from the University in 1999 after 40 years of service, died Aug. 23, 2002. She was 62.

Mangelsdorf joined the University in 1959 as a research technician in the Graduate of Public Health School's (GSPH) maternal and child health section. In 1969 she became an administrative assistant, later administrative specialist, in the Departments of Radiation Health and Industrial Environmental Health Sciences in GSPH.

In 1977, Mangelsdorf transferred to the Office of Research as assistant coordinator, later grants and contracts officer, for the Sponsored Project Administration. From 1988 to 1999, she first was a grants and contracts consultant, later interim director of the grants office in the medical school's Department of Psychiatry.

In addition, Mangelsdorf owned and managed Renaissance Woman, a plus-size women's boutique on the South Side, from 1990 to 2002.

She is survived by her husband, Clark Mangelsdorf, a faculty member in the School of Engineering's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and two sisters, Mary Ann Garcia of Jefferson Borough and Carole Smith of Perrysville.

In addition to the campus memorial service, there will be a memorial service at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31, in Latrobe United Methodist Church, 440 Main Street, Latrobe.

Memorial donations may be made to the University of Pittsburgh, c/o the Ruthann Adams Mangelsdorf Memorial Fund, 511 Craig Hall.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 35 Issue 1

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