William V. Lipton ’69 ScM

William V. Lipton ’69 ScM, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dec. 20, from ALS. After Brown, he served in the U.S. Army. Upon leaving the Army in 1970, he returned to school at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, where he earned degrees in environmental protection. He started his career as a radiation protection engineer at Argonne National Lab outside Chicago and earned an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1981, he was recruited by Detroit Edison to lead the radiation protection team at Fermi nuclear power plant in Michigan. He also taught classes in environmental science at Wayne State University and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He was a member of the American Nuclear Society and created and maintained a website on radiation protection. He retired in 2008. He and his wife were a team in all they were involved in including traveling to Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, China, India, South America, the Galapagos, and sailing through both the Suez and Panama canals. They were both active members of First United Methodist Church, where they served as coordinators for Alpha House outreach program and the Love Thy Neighbor program and organized the holiday giving tree. He is survived by his wife, Beth, and two daughters.