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According to students and co-workers, Don Lifton was a dedicated and active member of the Ithaca College community. Lifton died Dec. 5 at 69 years old.

Ithaca College community remembers business professor

By Evan Popp, Staff Writer January 24, 2016
Colleagues and students alike remembered Lifton, who taught at the college for 29 years, as an energetic man who cared deeply about his students and who was a top-notch professor.
Junior Shannon Sakosits, an integrated marketing communications  major from Mahwah, New Jersey, died Nov. 11 after a brief illness.

Friends say happiness defined Ithaca College student’s life

By Evin Billington, Senior Writer November 18, 2015
Many of those closest to her sum her up in one way: Shannon was a sunflower. It was fitting, then, that sunflowers sat behind the podium during her candlelight vigil on Nov. 12 in Ithaca College’s Muller Chapel, and also dotted the service at her funeral Nov. 17 in Park Ridge, New Jersey.
Michael LaTour, professor of marketing and law, backpacks with his daughter Zoe in Colorado. LaTour died "peacefully" in his home Nov. 13.

Ithaca College community and family remember marketing professor

By Kristen Gowdy, Senior Writer November 18, 2015
“He didn’t have the opportunity to be here very long, but he was very proud to be there,” she said. “He really found a lot of camaraderie around campus, and he said it was the best place he ever worked.”
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