IT Employee Alan Dupas Passes Away (04/22/26)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Alan Dupas '98, a user support technician for 16 years within Computing and Information Technology Services, passed away on April 18.

• After leaving the Navy where he proudly served as an electronics technician on the nuclear submarine USS Narwhal (SSN-671), Dupas enrolled at Winthrop and received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1998.

ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - The Winthrop University community mourns the loss of Alan Dupas '98, a user support technician for 16 years within Computing and Information Technology Services, who passed away on Saturday, April 18. He was 57 years old.

After leaving the Navy where he proudly served as an electronics technician on the nuclear submarine USS Narwhal (SSN-671), Dupas enrolled at Winthrop and received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1998. He then worked as an application analyst for Duke Energy for a few years and finally joined Winthrop's IT team in 2008.

In an April 22 campus-wide e-mail, Patrice Bruneau '89, assistant vice president for computing and technology, recalled that Dupas had a rather dry sense of humor, a quality often prized in the IT world. "He was always willing to share a good joke with coworkers," Bruneau said. "He was a wonderful behind-the-scenes kind of guy whose passion for helping our students was evident in the countless number of laptops and other personal machines that he fixed over the years."

Funeral arrangements are incomplete but will be available through Barron Funeral Home.

For more information, please contact the Office of University Communications and Marketing, at 803/323-2236.