Raleigh Hansl Jr. ’39

Butts died Oct. 2, 2001, at a nursing home in Denver, a victim of Alzheimer's disease. A longtime resident of Potomac, Md., Butts gave up his home there shortly after his wife, Janet, died in 1992. He later married Montine Brown and they moved to Vail.

Butts was an energetic, self-starting entrepreneur. After WWII service in landings at Anzio and southern France for which he was awarded two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star for pulling a wounded man away from enemy fire, he began his own company in 1947. In the late '70s he and a team of scientists designed and marketed the multiple inoculation trays now standard in hospitals and medical research. His firm Micro Media was sold to Smith-Kline Corp. in the late '80s. Butts found time to serve as our class treasurer, and took a leading role as producer of the retrospective show performed by our classmates at our 50th reunion.

To Montine and his sister, Barbara, we offer our sympathy.

The Class of 1939