In Memoriam

CETA notes with sadness the passing of Thomas Skipwith “Skip” Lewis, a former dean of the College of Engineering here at the University. Dr. Lewis died on October 10 in Virginia at the age of 72.

He was dean of the College for 15 years in the 1970s and early 1980s, during which time he organized and oversaw the capital campaign that led to the building of United Technologies Hall, where CETA is now located. He was eventually recruited by the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company to become executive vice president of the Engineering Department and retired from that company in 1996.

Dr. Lewis graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1958 and, in 1967, earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia after serving in the U.S. army.

CETA faculty and staff extend their sympathies to Dr. Lewis’s family.