The College this week mourned the loss of Shirley Holmes, an administrative assistant who worked in the College's admissions office for some 44 years before retiring in 1992.
She died on Oct. 10 at her home on Unadilla Street in Schenectady. She was 71.
She joined the College's admissions office in 1948 after graduating from high school. She worked with a number of deans of admissions.
Her husband, Donald, who died in 1976, had been employed as the College's bursar.
Survivors include her daughter, Cheryl Machold of Schenectady; a stepdaughter, Donna Sue Smith of South Portland, Maine; and a stepson, John Holmes of Eliot, Maine; three sisters; and a brother.