[Important Information for Employees] The Death of Ronald Hobson

[Gerianne Downs]

Dear Members of Our Campus Community,

We have learned of the passing of Ronald Hobson, former assistant dean in
the School of Business and Economics and later technical assistant and
lecturer in the former Center for Lifelong Learning, Wednesday, Dec. 11,
2024, at his Plattsburgh home. He was 91.

Mr. Hobson joined the faculty as an instructor in business and economics
September 1976. Promoted to lecturer in 1982, he was named assistant dean
March 1987. He retired from the faculty in 1995, returning in July that
year to serve as senior staff assistant for SBE and the Center for Lifelong
Learning. He served as the center’s interim director from August 1995
through December 1996 and then as a technical assistant, adjunct lecturer
and instructor there from January 1997 through December 1998.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at Columbia
University and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. While he worked
in business at various companies throughout his career, teaching was his
passion and moved his family, including Ann, his wife of 70 years, from New
Jersey to Mooers in 1975.

Mr. Hobson served as a consultant for the International Joint Venture
Consultants, conducting various business strategy workshops in Russia. He
also traveled to Budapest, Hungary, where he trained, taught and advised
students, faculty and businesses in total quality management.

A memorial service will be celebrated Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, from 1 to 3
p.m. at the R.W. Walker Funeral Home, 69 Court St., Plattsburgh,
518-563-1760. A full obituary can be found at
https://www.rwwalkerfh.com/obituary/ronald-hobson.

Our condolences to all who knew and loved him.

Be well and have a safe New Year’s.

Gerianne



*GERIANNE DOWNS*

(She/her/hers)

Associate Director of Communications

Office of the President

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101 Broad Street

Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901

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(f) 518-564-2094

Vice President for Professionals

United University Professions

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