Alan Pasch *55

Alan Pasch, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland,  died June 9, 2011, of heart disease. He was 85.

After Army service in World War II, Pasch graduated from Michigan in 1949. He then received a master’s from the New School for Social Research in 1952 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton in 1955.

He was on the faculty at Maryland from 1960 to 1997, where he taught logic, epistemology, and metaphysics, as well as a popular undergraduate course on the philosophy of human sexuality. He also taught composition courses to improve students’ writing and analytical skills.

Pasch was the executive secretary of the American Philosophical Association from 1969 to 1972. In 1986 he founded the Faculty Voice, a newspaper written by and for the Maryland faculty, and chaired its editorial board until 1991.

Pasch was predeceased in 2006 by Eleanor, his wife of 56 years. He is survived by his daughter, Rachel Pasch Grossman *82, and two grandchildren.

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