Daniel J. Sandman Sr. *68

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Daniel Sandman, who had been a professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, died suddenly March 4, 2016, at the age of 74.

Sandman earned a bachelor’s degree from Drexel University in 1964 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton in 1968. He was then a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

He became a senior staff scientist in corporate research at the Xerox Corp., and worked at the GTE labs in Waltham, Mass., before becoming a professor of chemistry at University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 1993.

Sandman was predeceased in 2005 by his son, Daniel Jr. He is survived by his wife, Alma; two daughters (including Karen ’93); and six grandchildren.

Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.

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