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Hameed Hindi, professor of aerospace technology at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, died Feb. 1. He was 43.
Mr. Hindi had been with the University for 18 years. He was a 1986 graduate of Parks College.
Mr. Hindi was an active member of a number of professional organizations and adviser for student organizations on campus. In 1995 he received the Outstanding Adviser Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers.
"Hameed had that unique ability, so sought after in the academic arena, to have a real and profound effect on students," said a Parks College colleague, Terrence Kelly. "He was able to reach out and touch the hearts as well as the minds of those people he came into contact with."
Mr. Hindi is survived by his wife, Brenda, and two children, Wesley, 8, and Lika, 7.
Contributions in Mr. Hindi's honor can be made to the Hameed Hindi Memorial Fund. Please send checks to the Parks College dean's office in McDonnell Douglas Hall, Room 1002.
Dr. Robert W. Dorner, professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology and internal medicine, died Feb. 3. He was 74.
Dr. Dorner was a native of Switzerland, where he was educated at the University of Lausanne. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1953 from the University of California at Berkeley. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Dorner began teaching at the School of Medicine in 1962. Except for a one-year leave during the 1960s to teach at the University of Lund in Sweden, Dr. Dorner spent the remainder of his teaching career at the University. He retired in 1990.
His main research interests were in the immunology of rheumatoid arthritis and the role of mucopolysaccarides in connective tissue growth. He was a member of a number of professional societies and published more than 50 scholarly papers.
Dr. Dorner is survived by two children, Samuel and Jessica Dorner.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Arthritis Foundation of St. Louis or to the Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Condolences also are extended to Donald B. King, professor emeritus of law, on the death of his mother, Mrs. Marian B. King, on Dec. 29.
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