Francis L. Lambert,
professor of physiology and biophysics emeritus, died April 27 at Ellis
Hospital in Schenectady. He was seventy-seven.
Born in Staunton, Va., Professor Lambert graduated from George Washington University and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard. He joined the Union faculty in 1955 and taught courses ranging from marine biology to neurophysiology. He retired in
1989.
During his years at Union, he was chairman of the Biology Department, a member of the College's Academic
Affairs Committee, president of the College's chapter of the American
Association of University Professors, treasurer of the Union chapter of Sigma
Xi, and executive secretary of the premedical training committee. His
professional memberships included the American Society of Zoologists, the New
York Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and the American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 1960 he was
named a Jacques Loeb associate in marine biology at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and its Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.
Survivors include his wife, Sangvon “Tiu” (Wannavong) Lambert; a son, Peter K. Lambert, of Santa Cruz, Calif.; a brother, Peter B. Lambert, of Richmond, Va.; and a sister, Sue Winstead, of Weems, Va.
Raymond Eisenstadt, professor of mechanical engineering emeritus, died May 28 at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Home in Albany. He was eighty.
A native of Brooklyn, Professor Eisenstadt graduated from the City College of New York and earned his master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He joined the Union faculty in 1954 after teaching at Lehigh University, and he retired in 1988. He was a former chairman of the Hudson-Mohawk section of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the American Society for
Mechanical Engineers, a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow, and the author of more than two dozen technical papers. He taught courses in nearly every area of mechanical engineering, developed a series of short summer courses for the continuing education of local scientists and engineers, and was a consultant for the General Electric Co., NASA, and the U.S. Army.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly Stein Eisenstadt; two sons, Neil Eisenstadt, of Israel, and Lowell Eisenstadt, of Waukegan, Ill.; two daughters, Janice Cove, of Somerset, N.J., and Marcy Freeman, of Sharon, Mass.; a brother, Seymour Eisenstadt, of Scarsdale, N.Y.; and eight grandchildren.