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Ruth S. Goodwin

Word has been received of the April 15 death of Ruth S. Goodwin, 78, of San Diego. Ms. Goodwin, who came to MIT in 1939, was assistant to the registrar at the time of her retirement in 1976. She formerly lived in Cambridge.

Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis, 80, of Concord, NH, a retired engineering assistant at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, died on April 25. He worked at MIT from 1946 until his retirement in 1978. He is survived by his wife, Jeannette Lewis, and sons Thomas and Stanley Lewis.

A version of this article appeared in the May 12, 1993 issue of MIT Tech Talk (Volume 37, Number 32).

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