Ilona C. Peterson ’74 AM

Ilona C. Peterson ’74 AM, of Manassas, Va.; Aug. 13, of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma cancer. She moved to Manassas in 1978 and started working as a foreign intelligence analyst with the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, where she supported the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (now the National Center for Medical Intelligence) with foreign medical capabilities research. She later became a European acquisition specialist with the Library of Congress. She headed a major project utilizing computer network technology to exploit foreign language periodical access with the Library of the University of Regensburg, Germany. She retired from the Library of Congress in 2012 after 34 years of public service. She is survived by husband Arthur Peterson.