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Lawrence (Larry) William Rosenfield August 11, 1938 - June 24, 2011, (age 72)

Lawrence was born August 11, 1938, in Binghamton, N.Y., to Sam and Nettie (Feinberg) Rosenfield and grew up in Hancock, N.Y., where his parents owned a general dry goods store.

He spent a long career in university teaching and scholarship, beginning in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin, continuing at Hunter College and Queens College of the City University of New York in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and a visiting appointment at Penn State University in the 1980s, and ending at the University of New Hampshire from 1998 to 2005. He lived in Lincoln Nebraska until his death.

He graduated from Hancock Central School in 1956 and then attended Cornell University on a National Merit Scholarship, participating in intercollegiate forensic debate as a member and vice president of the Cornell Debate Association and graduating in 1960 with high honors. He went on to complete a master's degree at the University of Illinois and then returned to Cornell, where he earned a Ph.D. in speech and drama in 1963. In 1999 the National Communication Association presented him with its Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award.

Preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Edna Rosenfield; and a brother, Jerry Rosenfield.He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Hermanson, of Lincoln; a brother, Arthur Rosenfield, of Randolph, N.J.; and numerous cousins around the country.

In December 2015, former student Jim Curtis ('99 University of New Hampshire) established the Dr. Lawrence Rosenfield Scholarship Fund, paying Rosenfield’s kindness and positivity forward to the next generation of UNH students. The first two recipients were Dana Gingras (2016) and Lindsay Kosel (2017).