Shirish K. Shah, a retired chemistry professor and former Homeland resident, died Sunday of complications from dementia in Winter Springs, Fla. He was 75. <\/p>\n
He was born and raised in Ahmedabad, India, and educated in Jesuit schools before moving to Ithaca, N.Y., in 1960, when he entered Cornell University. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1964 from Cornell in physics. <\/p>\n
He then studied at the University of Delaware where he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry, and began his teaching career at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills. <\/p>\n
It was during this time that Dr. Shah met and fell in love with Kathleen Long, who had been a nun. He converted to Catholicism, and they were married in 1972. <\/p>\n
He became a U.S. citizen in 1974, family members said. <\/p>\n
In 1979, the couple moved to Baltimore and later to a home on Purlington Way in Homeland. <\/p>\n
During the next 34 years until retiring in 2013, Dr. Shah taught chemistry at Baltimore City Community College, Coppin State University and Notre Dame of Maryland University. <\/p>\n
In addition to college students, he also taught nursing school students, law enforcement officers and firefighters. Additionally, he taught auto mechanics, drafting design and computer skills to prison inmates. <\/p>\n
At the time of his retirement, he was on the faculty of Morgan State University. He was a longtime active member of the Maryland Chapter of the American Chemical Society. <\/p>\n
Dr. Shah, who moved to Orlando, Fla., in 2014, was a cricket fan and enjoyed watching Bollywood films. <\/p>\n
Dr. Lawrence Shah of Winter Park, Fla., said his father sported typical professorial attire and favored ill-fitting pants, a corduroy blazer with elbow patches, and a \"pocket protector full of unusable pens.\" <\/p>\n
His wife died in 2007. <\/p>\n
Dr. Shah donated his body to the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and at his request, no services will be held. <\/p>\n
His only survivor is his son. <\/p>\n
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