Service Will Honor Claremont Professor
The public is invited to a memorial service for Claremont McKenna College professor Ross Eckert, 53, who died last month from complications from HIV infection.
Eckert, a hemophiliac who contracted the disease from a tainted blood transfusion, was a nationally known economist and expert on the safety of the U.S. blood supply. He was among the first to warn Americans about the dangers of contracting AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases from the blood supply.
The memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Mary Pickford Auditorium, located in Bauer Center at 500 E. Ninth Street in Claremont. A reception at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum will follow.
In lieu of flowers, Eckert’s family has requested that donations be made to the Ross D. Eckert Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. Carol K. Kasper, Hemophilia Center at Orthopedic Hospital, 2400 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles 90007.
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