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Retirement

Katy Wilcox retired from being the full-time chaplain at UConn Health and the John Dempsey Hospital in December 2019. Rev. Daniel D. Warriner is now the full-time chaplain and began his duties in June.

“As I have come to know Katy better over these past six months, I appreciate her care and work in this hospital,” says Warriner. “From her years of service, she developed a heart for the work and a heart for the people of UConn Health. I am thankful that in my first few months of employment, she has been a support to me as I continue to feel at home in the hospital. She created a detailed orientation plan for logically acquainting me with the hospital and the staff. She continues to spend time thinking out details and talking through new processes for this new world of precautions and changes in procedures.

“In the ministry of chaplaincy, we use words like ‘vocation’ to describe the work that we do. And the roots of that word are linked to the words for a ‘calling.’ Katy demonstrates this calling into the work of chaplaincy.”

In Memoriam

Eric Engel, 56, of Newington, Conn., an employee in the maintenance department at UConn Health, on October 24.

John Herr, 90, of Bonita Springs, Fla., a retired professor in the department of dramatic arts, on October 25.

Juris Ozols, 85, of Avon, Conn., a retired professor at UConn Health and a founding member of the Department of Biochemistry, on May 10.

Chuck Vinsonhaler, 78, of Mansfield Center, Conn., a retired professor and former head of the actuarial program, on Oct. 24.