Alumni In Memoriam: Philip H. Debenham

Philip was born to Jack and Margaret (nee Biehl) Debenham in New London, CT. He graduated from Irondequoit HS in 1961, received his undergraduate degree in physics from Yale University in 1965, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1972. While attending IHS, he met his future wife, Kathleen Parker; they were wed in 1965, and went on to have two children, Andrew and Jane. After a long career in particle physics, he retired from the Department of Energy in 2010. He spent his newly found freedom with his wife, family, and three grandchildren. Phillip is survived by his wife Kathleen; his sister, Susan (Leonard); his brother, Jim; his two children; and his three grandchildren, Hannahlore, Maximilian, and Vincent.

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