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I am saddened to report the  passing of NFCC member Dennis Dorogi of 
Brocton,  NY. 
Dennis was a long time member of  the NFCC, and a restorer of top rate 
Corvairs including the Carl Sagan Spyder  (Link below to article) 
Below is the obituary, a memorial  is being planned for a later date. 
…………………Gary 
Dennis David Dorogi, 82 years old of  Brocton, New York passed away 
peacefully at his home Tuesday afternoon  May 16,  2017 surrounded by  his loving 
family. Dennis was born in Cleveland Ohio on February 27, 1935 to the late 
Joseph and Anna Fecek Dorogi and has  lived in the Brocton area since 1963. He 
served in the Army National Guard and  attended Ohio University, graduating 
with a Bachelors and a Masters of Fine  Arts Degrees . He was a respected 
teacher of fine arts at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois and at 
SUNY Fredonia in New York. For his master's thesis Dennis built a concrete play 
 sculpture in an elementary school playground and wrote on the importance 
of  play in children's lives. His polychrome wooden sculptures are owned in  
private collections and museums. Retired from teaching, he built his studio, 
 opened a business in Brocton and became widely known as a master craftsman 
and  luthier, building and selling hundreds of finely handcrafted mountain 
and  hammered dulcimers and psalteries throughout the United States. As he 
gradually lessened this business  he continued a demanding hobby of long 
interest, the art of restoring  automobiles, especially Chevrolet Corvairs. Most 
recently he worked on a  historic auto, a Spyder Corvair once owned by New 
York scientist Carl Sagan. Dennis was a founding member of  the Chautauqua 
Crafts Alliance. He was recognized for outstanding achievement  as an 
individual artist in Chautauqua County in 2009. He was also a member of the Niagara 
Frontier  Corvair Club. He was well known at area classic car events and 
won Corvair  Society of America concours senior division status and the 
prestigious  Van Bortel Cup Award. The Smithsonian Air Museum owns his model of 
the 1900 Wright brothers rope-towed  glider. This model was used in the 
exhibit ”The History of Human  Flight”. 
Dennis is survived by his wife Ruth whom he met and  married in Athens Ohio 
in May of 1961. They were married for 56 years and  lived in Brocton for 
most of those years. He is also survived by sons Mark  Dorogi (Kathy Sommers), 
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, parents of Zoe and Ariel  Dorogi, Andrew (Florence) 
Tsang-Dorogi of Lancaster and Queens New York, Mike  ( DeAnn) Dorogi of 
Newark, Ohio, parents of Owen Dorogi; Matt Dorogi (Irina  Hentea )of 
Marlborough, Massachusetts, parents of Natalia and Kaya Dorogi; and  daughter Sara 
Dorogi of Dunkirk, New York, he is also survived by brother  Joseph Dorogi and 
sister Kathleen Neumann, both of  Cleveland. 
A Memorial Service will be planned for a later date  and at the convenience 
of Dennis's family. Funeral arrangements were provided  by the Morse 
Funeral Home of Brocton, New York. 
http://themorsefuneralhome.com/obituaries 
Restoration of the Sagan  Spyder 
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2014/07/11/cosmic-provenance-the-resurrection-
of-carl-sagans-corvair-spyder/ 


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