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11/15/09:
Francis J. Molloy, Jr., October 21, 2009
Robert W. Hicks, July 1, 1998

10/04/09:
Mary Anne Goldsmith Schwalbe, who had a distinguished career as an educator and an advocate for refugees, died of pancreatic cancer in New York city on September 14, 2009. After graduation from Radcliffe in 1955, Mary Anne studied at the London Academy of Music and Drama. Returning to New York, she worked in the theatre, then moved to Cambridge and a position in the Radcliffe Admissions Office. Later, she became the Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid for Harvard and Radcliffe and was the first woman to serve as the President of the Harvard Faculty Club.
In 1979 Mary Anne returned to New York City. She held administrative positions at the Dalton and Nightingale-Bamford schools. A 1989 trip to Thailand to work in a refugee camp began her commitment to the cause of refugees. She was a founder of The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children and The International Rescue Committee of The United Kingdom. Throughout the remaining years of her life, Mary Anne traveled extensively on behalf of refugees, often to war zones. In recognition of her work, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Marymount Manhattan. She is survived by her husband Douglas, children Douglas, Will and Nina, and five grandchildren. Classmates might want to read the blog which Will Schwalbe dedicated to his Mother's last year of life: look on the web for "Will's Mary Anne Schwalbe News."

09/10/09:
Frank Hallowell White, 77, an environmental educator and owner of Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset, died on Sunday after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in 1932 in Boston, Frank White grew up on the Holly Hill Farm, a property that had been in the family for five generations. Raised by a mother who loved animals, the quiet joys of walking in the woods, and community service and a father whose talents included sculpting bronze horses, inventing tractors, sawmilling, and farming, Frank learned early on to respect the value of hard work and to appreciate the resources of the land. As a young student, Frank attended Derby Academy in nearby Hingham. Following in his father's footsteps, his junior high and high school years were spent at Groton School, a small New England private school that stressed the importance of intellectual excellence along with a dedication to public service. At Groton, Frank distinguished himself as a three sport varsity athlete, a student leader who served as a senior prefect and an excellent student with an affinity for literature.
At Harvard University, Frank majored in English, graduated magna cum laude and continued to excel in athletics. As a wingback on the Harvard Varsity Football team he threw the winning half-back option touchdown pass to win the 1954 Harvard-Yale Game, for which he received the Boston Tobacco Table's "Unsung Hero" Award. In 1955, Frank graduated with honors and served as a class marshal. The following year he studied at Cambridge University in England after winning the prestigious Fiske scholarship.
In 1957, Frank married Jean Miner, a Radcliffe College graduate to whom he was married for 52 years. On his return from England, Frank became an Assistant Dean of Freshman at Harvard University until he was drafted into the US Army, eventually serving in the White House signal corps. Upon completing his army service, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he obtained a Master's degree. Realizing that he wanted to obtain experience beyond the ivory tower, Frank moved the following year to central Vermont where he taught for four years and served as Chairman of the English Department at Otter Valley Regional High School in Brandon. Returning to Groton School in 1963, Frank spent the next 10 years teaching English, coaching varsity football and basketball, and serving on the Groton Public School committee. Frank was especially proud of his establishment in 1965 of the Groton Lowell Upward Bound Program, an educational initiative designed to provide promising, low-income students with the study skills to attend college.
In 1968, Frank returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to better understand the ways that educational institutions could be more responsive to the needs of students from a broader range of backgrounds. In 1973, Frank became executive director of the Thompson Island Education Center. Under his leadership, the center began providing a variety of programs designed to support access to outdoor and environmental education while emphasizing diversity training for teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. Over the course of the next 15 years, Thompson Island Education Center served as an invaluable resource for the entire Boston Public School community, providing a safe haven for students and teachers of all races to come together in an environment that promoted trust, cooperation, and communication. Frank continued to serve in the field of education in subsequent positions at Boston Voyages in Learning and as executive director of the Cambridge Public School Volunteers.
In 1998, Frank returned to the family farm in Cohasset with the vision of making it an organic farm that could serve as a place to teach the value of sustainable farming and the natural environment. With the help of a series of dedicated farm managers, Holly Hill Farm began selling fresh organic produce from the historic 19th century barn in the farmyard and at the local farmer's market on Cohasset Common. Concomitantly, Frank established the Friends of Holly Hill Farm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the farm as a classroom for educational programs for students of all ages. Programming included a strong emphasis on creating respect for the natural environment, promoting sustainable agricultural practices, and collaborating with local schools. Despite living with the challenges of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia for many years, Frank worked tirelessly to promote the mission of the farm and to enable the Cohasset community to enjoy the beauty of the farm's fields, marshes, and woods. A watercolor artist, Frank sketched the drawings for a series of informational pamphlets about the natural habitat of the property.
In addition to his wife Jean, Frank leaves behind his son, Justin White of Bolton, MA, two daughters, Jennifer White of Belmont, MA and Emily Sullivan of Newbury, MA, four grandchildren, and two brothers, Richardson White, Jr. of Sperryville, VA and Donald White of Philadelphia, PA. A Memorial Service will be held in October. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Friends of the Holly Hill Farm c/o of the Frank White Memorial Scholarship Program. For an online guestbook, please visit www.mcnamara-sparrell.com McNamara-Sparrell Brighton-Cohasset-Norwell 781-383-0200 "Since 1820."
Donations to the Friends of the Holly Hill Farm c/o the Frank White Memorial Scholarship Program should be sent to 190 Jerusalem Road, Cohasset, MA 02025.

08/27/09:
Eugene Richard Blonsky, August 26, 2009

08/14/09:
Lawrence M. Bitner, May 29, 2005

07/22/09:
Fabia Frenning (Closson) Windle '55 died June 23, 2009 of a suddenly diagnosed and rapidly developing cancer.
After graduation from Radcliffe, where she was captain of the sailing and field hockey teams, she married Addison Closson, Harvard '55. Together they had three children, Addison W. Closson III, now of Portsmouth, RI, Lawrence F. Closson of Eliot, ME, and Fabia B. Closson of New York, NY.
While Fay lived in Cambridge, she was active in a number of community organizations, including one that she founded, the MotherPuckers, a women's ice hockey team. She was famous within her family and among her friends for her ability to do anything, from plumbing and porch roof repairs to last-minute mending of torn party dresses with the wearer still in them. Her son tells how she once wrenched the door of a moving car off its hinges to rescue the young children inside.
After Fay's first marriage ended, she met Bill Windle, a widower with three young daughters. She and Bill were married in 1979, and she readily became mother to Hope H. Windle, now of Rosendale, NY, Penny Windle Kline of Brooklyn Heights, NY, and Lilly F. D. Windle of Portland, OR. When their children were grown, Fay and Bill travelled extensively all over the world. At home in Chestnut Hill, they played competitive tennis, golf, and paddle tennis.In addition to her husband and six children, Fay is survived by her cherished grandchildren and her sister, Blanche F. Strater.

04/06/09
J. Max Bond Jr., died of cancer on February 18, 2009. He attended Harvard on a National Scholarship. While at Harvard Max lived in Lowell House and majored in Architectural Sciences, graduating with us in 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Union, the Society for Minority Rights and the United Nations Council.
Max’s boyhood curiosity about a staircase in a Tuskegee Institute dormitory and a trip to Tunisia opened his eyes to North African construction. He developed a love of architecture, but at Harvard, he was counseled by a faculty member to forego his architectural aspirations because of his race. He persevered, despite the barriers in what was an almost all-white profession, and received a master's degree in Architecture from Harvard in 1958. Long the most influential African-American architect in New York and one of a few black architects of national prominence, Max’s reputation did not rest solely or even principally on design. He was known as an educator at City College and Columbia University, an exemplar to younger minority architects, and a prickly voice of conscience within his profession on issues of racial and economic justice. "Architecture inevitably involves all the larger issues of society," he said in a 2003 interview. Gordon J. Davis, the founding chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center, said he had a "steel spine and rock-hard determination, qualities always masked by a handsome gentlemanly exterior, a gracious and extraordinarily collegial persona, and so many of the characteristics that are hallmarks of a great and wonderful teacher and mentor."
At his death, Max was the partner in charge of the museum portion of the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. His wife Jean Cary Bond survives him, as do his son, daughter and three grandchildren.

Peter D. Junger died on November 11, 2006. He attended Harvard on a National Scholarship, majoring in English and graduated with us in 1955.
Peter lived in Eliot House and was secretary of the Advocate and a member of the Debate Council. He received his L.L.D from the Harvard Law School in 1958. After practicing law for a number of years, he accepted a faculty position at Case Western Reserve University's School of Law where he was a computer law professor and Internet activist, for many years, teaching a course entitled "Computers and the Law." Peter is most famous for having fought against the U.S. government's regulations of, and export controls on encryption software. He also did significant legal theoretical work on the interplay between intellectual property, computer law, and the First Amendment. He defined himself as a "First Amendment absolutist."
Peter also developed an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Second Amendment: the right to bear arms is the right to display armorial bearings - coats of arms - and the original plain meaning of the Amendment is that the government shall not infringe upon one's right to be a lady or a gentleman. That interpretation was derived (loosely, to be sure) from a 1955 decision of the Court of Chivalry, an English court (known to Blackstone) that had been silent since 1737. Whether he was serious about this or not was unclear at the time of his death.
Peter retired from the University in 2001 and became a Professor of Law Emeritus. He was also a practicing Buddhist, president of his local Buddhist Temple from 2003 to 2006. Peter was survived by his mother, Genevieve Junger

03/29/09:
David Bruce Cole died peacefully on February 22, 2009 at Cape Cod Hospital after experiencing a brain hemorrhage. While at Harvard, he was the recipient of a Harvard College Scholarship and lived in Eliot House where he played house vollyball. He was a member of the Young Republican Club and the Conservative League. David majored in English Literature and graduated with us Magna Cum Laude in 1955, receiving an A.M. in 1956. From 1957 to 1960 he served as an officer in naval intelligence and then attended Harvard Law School receiving his L.L.B in 1963. After graduation from Law School David and his wife Phyllis moved to Osterville, MA, where he practiced law through out his life. He was active in the Bar Association and a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Estate Planning Council of Cape Cod, and chair of the first Barnstable Cable Advisory Committee from the middle 70’s until his death.
A highlight of David’s career was his work for the Enoch T. Cobb Trust. Under his guidance, the Trust grew into a significant charity and trust funds greatly benefitted Barnstable students. The Trust’s most visible achievement is the new Cobb Astro Park at Barnstable High School. In recognition of David’s work on behalf of the Cobb Trust, Barnstable High School named the park’s observatory “The David B. Cole Observatory.”
A lover of classical music and an accomplished pianist, David was a regular at the Monomoy Theater and the Dennis Playhouse and was active as a lay reader at St. James Episcopal Church. David and his wife were married for 47 years. Phyllis, two sons, and two grandchildren survive him. Donations in his memory may be made to the Enoch T. Cobb Trust,P.P. Box 1358 Hyannis, MA 02601, or the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra,712A Main St. Yarmouthport, MA 02675.

Phyllis Fitzpatrick Harris died on February 25, 2009. She graduated with her Radcliffe class in 1955 and then enjoyed 8 weeks in Europe. In December 1955 she was married to William Rush, who received his MD from Harvard in 1956. They lived in Cambridge while Phyllis served as a Brookline Elementary School Librarian. The Rushes had two daughters and eventually moved to Sacramento, CA. In 1967 they divorced and Phyllis returned to her “Yankee Soul” in New England and to Cambridge where, after three years of courtship, she married Charles Ward Harris in 1970 and had two sons. Classmates will long remember the wonderful 45th Reunion party that she and Chuck hosted at their Watertown Home.
Always a bit of a rebel, Phyllis appreciated diversity in culture and thought. She brought a special spark to all with whom she associated. She enjoyed and was equally comfortable with people of all walks of life and of all parts of the world. She loved the water from her youth throughout all stages of her life. Phyllis is survived by her husband Charles Ward Harris, her two daughters, two sons and six grandchildren. In an undated note she wrote “Dear Family, Remember me with smiles and laughter. For that is how I will remember you. If you only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.

03/26/09
Addison (Addie) W. Closson Jr. of Manchester MA passed away on March 12th 2009, after a year-long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While at Harvard he majored in Government and lived in Leverett House, serving on the House hockey team and competing on Harvard’s sailing team. He was also in the Ski Club, and a member of the Hasty Pudding, Porcellian and Varsity Clubs. After graduating with us in 1955, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant JG, and skippered a PT boat that served as the Eisenhower presidential launch in Newport RI. Addie subsequently joined the family firm of Beckwith Arden, which manufactured shoe and military components.
Throughout his business career, Addie was a prolific inventor and held a number of patents, including, most recently, one for ballistic protective fabrics for diplomatic and military vehicles and equipment.
Addie was known for his wit, charm, generosity and devotion to his many friends and family. Besides sailing, tennis, socializing, storytelling, and music (he was a talented jazz pianist), his greatest joys were his family, class reunions, and his beloved Labrador retriever, Hattie, the last dog to attend a Harvard football game.
Addie is survived by two sons and a daughter, three grandchildren, his former wife Fabia (Frenning) Windel, mother of his children, two sisters and Hattie.
A memorial service will be held on April 25th at 10 AM at the St. John’s Episcopal Church at 705 Hale Street in Beverly Farms, MA. Donations may be made in his honor to the Berkley School of Music of Boston.

03/07/09:
David B. Cole, February 22, 2009
Phyllis Fitzpatrick Harris, February 25, 2009
More information to follow.

02/27/09:
The Class extends its sympathy to Bill Lindemulder on the death of his wife Ann on February 23, 2009. The Lindemulders were married for 51 years.

02/19/09:
The February 19 issue of The New York Times published an obituary for Max Bond, who died of cancer on February 18, 2009.

Classmate Sheldon J. Nessell died in Delray Beach, Florida on November 7, 2008. A resident of Dudley House, he was active in house sports, editor of the Dudley Reporter and co-chair of the Social Committee. Sheldon majored in government and was a member of the Social Relations Society and Young Democratic Club while at Harvard.

01/28/09:
John Desmond and Roger Bulger are saddened to report the death of their roommate Dick Manning. John sent along the following obituary:

Richard J. Manning, ‘55, died on Thursday, November 20, 2008. He was born in Homestead, PA in 1934 and was the son of Michael and Hanna Conley Manning. While at Harvard Dick majored in American History and lived in Winthrop House. He was a member of the freshman and Varsity basketball teams. In his senior year he was chosen for the Lavietes MVP Award. After graduation he served in the U. S. Army in Korea. His business career was in human resources and he was a retired Vice President of Human Resources for the American Security Bank in Washington, D.C. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Margaret Buffett Manning, his daughters Carrie Manning and Beth Bryant, his son Michael Manning, his stepdaughters Rowena Buffet Timms and Patricia Smith, his stepson John Buffett, his sister, Margaret Mika and ten grandchildren. Donations may be made in Dick’s memory under the Memorial Program to the Harvard College Fund (Attn: Vicky Cabot) in Memory of Richard J. Manning and designated for Financial Aid/Scholarship.

01/14/09:
Dick Marson reported the death of Jerold B. Shocker on January 14, 2009, after a brief illness. Jerry was a member of Dudley House where he participated in house athletics. A history major, he was in the A.F.R.O.T.C. and spent three years in the Air Force upon graduating in 1955. Prior to moving to Palm Beach, Jerry's life centered in the Boston area where he was one of the "usual suspects" at fall football class gatherings.
A CPA with a masters degree in taxation, his small accounting practice specialized in professional corporations and tax planning and his clients were spread around the country This afforded him an opportunity to travel, combining business with pleasure.
In our 25th Reunion Report in 1980, Jerry expressed the hope that "'55 has in its ranks the scientist who will come up with the technological breakthrough to solve our energy problems or the politician who will get our country on a sound economical basis."
Jerry is survived by his son Rob, daughter Amy and grandson Ethan. A private service was held and the family requests that donations in his memory be made to the Harvard College Fund (Class of 1955) or to Hospice of Palm Beach County.

01/06/09:
Frank Duehay notes that Larry Fane died of prostate cancer at his home in Manhattan on November 28, 2008. A resident of Adams House, he majored in Psychology and was a member House Music Society, PBH and the Hillel Foundation, graduating with us in 1955.

Lawrence Smith Fane was born on Sept. 10, 1933, in Kansas City, Mo., and threw himself into painting as a youth. He continued his hobby during pre-med studies at Harvard. He abandoned medicine to follow his passion for art, and studied at the Boston Museum School and as an apprentice to George Demetrios, a classical sculptor. His assignments included working at a foundry in Florence, Italy, on the enlargement and casting of one of Demetrios's large sculptures.

Larry was awarded a Rome Prize, which allowed him to work at the American Academy in Rome for three years. He taught briefly at the Rhode Island School of Design before moving to New York in 1966, where he was on the art faculty of Queens College for many years.

Under disparate influences like ancient sculpture, Picasso and David Smith, Larry began making semiabstract figurative sculpture in bronze and a combination of steel and black marble concrete. In a 1976 review in The New York Times, Hilton Kramer noted ''the personal poetry'' of his small reliefs in plaster and metal.

But most of Larry's work was becoming much bigger, and The Wall Street Journal in 1985 published an article on the dangers of the welding jobs he was doing on his massive works in steel. He said in an interview, ``I burnt a small crater in my foot once.''

Larry used steel, bronze, concrete, wood and other materials to create Expressionistic forms. He was noted in particular for his work modeled on the drawings of the Italian Renaissance artist and engineer Taccola. Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola, who lived and worked in the 14th and 15th centuries, was known for two notebooks of drawings of inventions, including a suction pump and a paddleboat. Larry admired the drawings' ''animated theatricality'' and used them as inspiration to make surreal, nonobjective, organic sculpture.
In 2006, he published an imagined conversation between him and Taccola, titled M.T./L.F.: A Sculptor's Dialogue with Mariano Taccola, 15th-Century Italian Artist-Engineer.

Larry had many one-man shows, including one running at the Zabriskie Gallery in Manhattan until Jan. 17, 2009. He asked that it proceed, despite his illness.

He is survived by his wife, the former Diana Gilmore; his son, Dimitri, of Eton, England; and his daughter, Anthea Fane of Manhattan.

12/31/08:
John Lorenz reports that David Outerbridge died peacefully on Monday, December 22 after a long illness. While at Harvard, he resided in Leverett House where he played house squash. He also sang in the Glee Club and majored in Government. After graduating with us in 1955, David spent three years on a Navy destroyer in the North Atlantic.

David was open to new experiences and always seized opportunities to explore different occupations. An avid traveler, a connoisseur of food and wine, and an enthusiastic golfer, David was a regular contributor to many national magazines on all three topics.

He also wrote many books on diverse subjects including: The Last Shepherds, about the remaining traditional shepherds of Europe; Easing the Passage, about taking control of one’s own dying experience; Champion in a Man’s World, a biography of sportswoman and champion golfer Marion Hollins; and The Hangover Handbook, which includes many recipes from Belfast citizens and is translated into several languages, including Russian and Japanese.

After some time in the retail business, he worked for Tools for Freedom, a private foundation that provided tools and technical assistance to Third World countries. This job brought David and his young family to the Philippines for a year.

Later, David became the publisher at The Center for Urban Education, a private organization evaluating the NYC public school system. This job led him to establish his own publishing firm, Outerbridge & Lazard, which published many ground-breaking books, including Touch the Earth, on the American Indians; The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book; The Free People, about the 1960s cultural revolution; Towards a Visual Culture, on the impact of television on education; and The Elephant Man, later made into a major motion picture.

In the late 1970's David and his family moved to Maine. Following the death of his friend Dick Saltonstall, owner/publisher of The Republican Journal and The Bar Harbor Times, David became the publisher of these newspapers, a job he held for three years. He continued to write and edit to the end of his life.

Among his many accomplishments, one that he was proudest of was his award-winning documentary on the potters Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, which he produced for the BBC. Another was his professional association as editor and resulting friendships with three actresses: Liv Ullmann, whom he helped with her best-seller Changing; Ali MacGraw, whom he helped with her best-seller Moving Pictures, and Debra Winger, whose recently published Undiscovered was one of his last creative collaborations.

Each author-actress has spent time in Belfast and is a supporter of the Belfast Maskers, another of David’s loves. Close to his heart as well was the log cabin he built with his family on 700 Acre Island in the early 1970's where the family lived for two years and where David continued to go to write into his final years.

David leaves behind his wife of 50 years, Lilias; his sons, Benoni, Oliver, Thomas and Josh; seven grandchildren; and two sisters.
Instead of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to Belfast Maskers, PO Box 1017, Belfast, ME 04915.

12/15/08:
John Desmond and Roger Bulger are saddened to report that their roommate Richard J. Manning died on November 20, 2008.

Phyllis Yood Beineke notes that Elaine Paradise Muise died on November 24,2008.

10/30/08:
Allan Rosenfield passed away from ALS at his home on Sunday, October 12. After Allan's illness became widely known, tributes and awards flooded in to recognize his multi-layered leadership in public health and health care. Allan received a degree in biochemistry with us in 1955 before entering Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) to be a doctor, a career goal he put to paper at age 10. After graduating from P&S in 1959, he returned to Boston for an internship and one year of general surgical residency. After two years in the U.S. Air Force, he entered the obstetrics and gynecology residency program at what is now Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The path that led him to be called "doctor to millions" started when he was stationed with the Air Force in South Korea and an interest in underserved populations was sparked. He sought out work abroad and combined a teaching assignment in a new medical school in Nigeria with a honeymoon with Clare, his wife of more than 40 years. Assignments in Africa and Thailand laid the groundwork for his lifetime commitment to global public health. That commitment brought him back to Columbia in 1975, when he was recruited as a professor of public health to found a Center for Population and Family Health and to head ambulatory services in the medical school's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He served as acting chairman of obstetrics and gynecology for two years before becoming dean of the School of Public Health.

His assignment at Columbia spanned 33 years but his impact on public health spanned the globe. While addressing worldwide health needs, he identified gaps in local health care delivery that paralleled challenges in distant countries. He and colleagues created evening clinics for adolescent women and men and innovative school-based clinics in middle and high schools throughout Upper Manhattan.

Allan become dean at Columbia's School of Public Health in 1986. He led the school to new heights and was the longest serving dean of any school of public health in the nation. In 1998, the School was renamed the Mailman School of Public Health. Public health started as a program in the medical school, but Allan was integral to the program becoming a full-fledged school with a world-class reputation for educating public health professionals, providing access to care where it was needed, raising awareness of AIDS (including mother-to-child transmission of HIV) in the developing world, and promoting reproductive health and empowerment of women to control their own bodies.

Allan and colleagues used foundation support to launch the MTCT-Plus Initiative to extend AIDS treatment to mothers, their children, and families. A $125 million grant from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief enabled the creation of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs; more than 500,000 individuals in sub-Saharan Africa have benefited from treatment.

Allan's leadership also physically unified most of Columbia's public health programs under one roof when the school moved into the building formerly occupied by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In 2006, thanks to the generosity of many donors, the Columbia University Trustees named the Allan Rosenfield Building in tribute to him. He ushered in many academic initiatives and degree programs, strengthened the school's six departments, and recruited new faculty to broaden the scope of academic public health to include health care finance, environmental issues, epidemiological and biostatistical assessment of diseases, the impact of social and behavioral issues on health, disaster preparedness, and reproductive and maternal and child health care.

Many organizations outside Columbia also benefited from Allan's vision, including the Association of Schools of Public Health (he was former chair), the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of WHO's Human Reproductive Programme, the boards of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Guttmacher Institute, the New York State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council, and amfAR. He served on the boards of many other nonprofits, including the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Allan leaves his wife Clare, son Paul and daughter-in-law Rachel, daughter Jill and son-in-law Marc Baker, and five grandchildren. Condolences can be sent to the family c/o Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, Suite 1040G, New York, NY 10032. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Allan Rosenfield Fund at the Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168 Street, 14th Fl., New York, NY 10032.

10/04/08:
The Class extends its sympathy to Michael Moskow and his wife Donna on the recent tragic loss of their son Kenneth, '83, who died of a heart attack on the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

09/06/08:
Dick Marson notes that the Boston Globe published the notice of Carol Alexander Novak's death on September 3, 2008. Carol is survived by her daughter and son, three grandchildren and her domestic partner.
Gifts in her name may be made to either the Jewish-Arab community Neveh Shalom in Israel
( www.oasisofpeace.org) or Planned Parenthood (www.plannedparenthood.com).

7/19/08:
Carl Goldman and Dick Dolins (via Ilene) report that Burt Berson passed away on Sunday, July 13, 2008. Burt was active in Dunster House sports, the Pre-Med Society and PBH. A Dean's list student, he graduated with a degree in biology in 1955 and received an MD from the University of Rochester in 1959.
After time in the U.S. Army Medical Service, Burt did a three year orthopedic residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital and over time became the chief of sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery at the hospital, as well as associate clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In our 50th Report Burt listed his most important professional activity as establishing the position of Director in Chief of cerebral palsy and sports medicine clinics at Mount Sinai and associated hospitals for the treatment of indigent patients.
Burt had pancreatic cancer for 2 1/2 years and lived far beyond what they thought he would. The funeral was Tuesday, July 15th. Rabbi Harvey Tattlebaum officiated at a very special service. He leaves his special significant other - Joyce Hirsch (they have been together for 10 years), two children and two grandchildren.
Joyce lives at 1764 Bay Blvd. Atlantic Beach, NY. 11509.

06/26/08:
Malcom Davis reports that his Dunster House roommate John Buckler Parsons passed away peacefully on June 19, 2008 in Baltimore, Md.
While at Harvard "Bucky"participated on the House hockey and golf teams and was a member of the Dance Committee and the Harvard Outing Club. He graduated with us in 1955 with a degree in Economics.
Bucky's professional career spanned four decades of computer development as he worked for IBM, ITT, Honeywell, Unysis and other computer companies. He was an avid and expert golfer, and after retiring obtained his Master Teaching Certificate from the Professional Golf Teachers of America. Bucky taught golf both in Canada and the U.S. Other sports he loved were skiing, fishing, bird hunting, flying small planes and skeet and trap shooting.
He is survived by his wife, the former Gwen Hewey; sister, Marion; children, Gregory, Traci, Stuart, and Sharon and four stepchildren, 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Donations in memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or a charity of choice. Gwen lives at 1556 Lake Annis Road, R.R. 1 South Ohio. Nova Scotia BOW 3 EO Canada.

06/06/08:
The Class extends its sympathy to Al Rossow on the death of his wife Phyllis on June 5th. Phyllis was a loyal follower of Harvard football, who attended many a tailgate with fellow '55ers over the years. We will miss her.
The Rossows are planning a small funeral service next week to be followed by a Memorial service sometime in the Fall.

05/16/08:
Your Class Secretary is sorry to send along notice of the deaths of
Melville G. MacKay, Jr., April 15, 2008
Richard L. Romonek, June 24, 2007

04/22/08:
Dick Marson reports that Martin Herbert Myers died on April 19, 2008. Marty was a member of Leverett House where he was in the Christmas show. He was a student teacher for PBH and participated in Drumbeats and Song. Marty received his AB in Social Relations with us in 1955. Upon graduation he served in the Army as a TI&E instructor. Later he trained in retail and worked for the Tandy Corporation for many years, before going into real estate. He is survived by his wife Linda, son Andrew and daughter Lauren.

04/04/08:
Your Class Secretary reports the following deaths received from a January 1st through March 26th, 2008 Necrology Report from the Harvard Alumni Association:
Patricia Nye Harding, October 23, 2007
George M. Notter, Jr., December 26, 2007
Eugene J. Ryan, February 25, 2008
Robert L. Shirley, March 8, 2008
No further information is available at this time.

11/15/2007:
Frank Duehay reports that Ted Vautrinot passed away quietly on Thursday, September 15, 2007 at the AVOW Hospice in Naples, Florida. He had been dealing with pancreatic cancer for five years. Ted was with us for two years before joining the Air Force for a tour of 24 years. He received his B.S. from the University of Wyoming in 1967 and an M.B.A. from USC in 1976. At the time of our 50th he listed as his most rewarding activity "Teaching economics (preaching capitalism) in Eastern Europe (Romania and Slovakia) for the International Executive Service Corps." Ted also sang in barbershop quartets for 36 years and enjoyed sailing, golf and flying.
Ted is survived by his wife Patricia, three daughters and four grandchildren. There will be a memorial Mass in Naples at St Peter the Apostle church on Sat. Nov. 24 at 10 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your local Hospice, to the church of your choosing or to the Barbershop Society to which you belong. There will be another memorial service at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Middle Granville, New York next spring.

Your Class Secretary also reports the following additional deaths received from a November Necrology Report from the Harvard Alumni Association:
Peter J. Belton, October 18, 2007
James B. Canning, February 6, 2007
Sherman S. Chang, May 22, 2005
Henriette Doll DeVity, June 2, 2007
Edwin V. Erbe, Jr., July 16, 2007
Marie Dumper Ferguson, May, 12, 2000
Stephen J. Sigler, November 1, 2006

11/06/07:
On October 31, 2007 Bernard R. Kafka passed away suddenly at the age of 76.
While at Harvard he was a resident of Adams House where he played on the house football, basketball and baseball teams. He was also a member of PBH and the Pi Eta. Bernie earned his A.B..with us in 1955 and his J.D. at Boston University School of Law in 1958. He was a practicing attorney for over 40 years with the law firm Kafka & Kaufman, P.C. in Sharon, MA where he lived most of his life. He had been admitted to practice in all the Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States District Courts for the District of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and the Courts of Appeal in both of those Federal Districts. Bernie was a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Norfolk County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Conveyancers Association.
Bernie was a devoted community member, supporting the Sharon Rotary Club for over 40 years and serving as governor of some 3,500 district members of Rotary International in 1988-'89. He was also an active member of the Sharon Historical Society, the Sharon Chamber of Commerce, the Friends of the Sharon Public Library and many other civic and social organizations in the town. When asked to provide his most rewarding professional/volunteer activity for his 50th Reunion Report, Bernie replied "helping those in need."
Over 500 people attended his Memorial Service held in Sharon..
Bernie is survived by Georgette, his wife of 52 years, his six children and eight grandchildren and many nieces and nephews..
Remembrances may be made to the Sharon Rotary Club, Gifts of Hope Program, P.O. Box 534, Sharon, MA 02067.

10/31/07:
Harvard Magazine reports that Charles Cummings Gifford, Jr. died on June 10, 2007 in West Hartford, CT. Bill Coughlin, a classmate of his at Roxbury Latin, reports that he lived at home in Cambridge while with us at Harvard and was "just a great guy." Charles served in the Army in Germany as a Russian Language Specialist and as an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution before spending most of his life as a mathematics and science teacher at various Connecticut private schools. He is survived by his wife Mildred, two daughters and a son.

10/18/07:
Carlota Shipman Smith died on May 24, 2007. She leaves her cherished husband John Robertson, a professor at the U. of Texas Law School, her children, Alison and husband Alan, and Joel and wife Rosemary and her grandchildren Sylvia and Ari. Carlota was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the U. of Texas. Her research included language acquisition, language and literature, and Navajo, Mandarin, and French linguistics. She was a strong advocate for women throughout the university.

10/08/07:
Peter Lee Shoup died of a heart attack on June 2, 2007. He is survived by his wife Harriet and two daughters. Peter lived at 3932 Via Reposo, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 92067-1885.

09/25/07:
Edward K. Moll, 74, of Bath ME died Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts. He was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, son of Edward H. Moll and Irene Kuhlman Moll. Ed grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and graduated from Springfield Technical High School in 1951. He attended Harvard and MIT simultaneously, receiving a degree in Applied Science from Harvard and in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from MIT. A resident of Dunster House, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with us in June, 1955.
On June 9, 1956 Ed married Gene Skewis and raised six children. In 1963 they moved to Bath, Maine where he went to work for BIW. Ed started there as Chief Hull Engineer and ended as Director of Production Design in a thirty-four year career. He received numerous citations for excellence in his work and retired in 1997.
Ed was community oriented and served two terms as president of the Bath YMCA and two terms as Senior Warden of Grace Episcopal Church, Bath. He was currently on the Board of Directors of the Bath Historical Society. His hobbies included fine furniture refinishing, sailing, golfing and choral singing. He sang tenor when First Parish Church, Brunswick, went to England and Scotland in 2003 and again when they went to Ireland and Wales in 2006. His local choir was Grace Church, Bath and he sang with the Calvary Church Choir in Santa Cruz, California when he was there.
When the Maine Maritime Museum started in Bath in 1963, in a storefront downtown, Ed was the first Director of Exhibits and built 20 glass and wood cases for shop models they had acquired.
He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Gene, four daughters and two sons and thirteen grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Grace Church Music Program, Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St., Bath, Maine, 04530. Services are at 12:30 on Saturday, September 29 at Grace Episcopal Church in Bath. Reception to follow at Maine Maritime Museum.

09/12/07:
The Boston Globe on September 12th noted the death of classmate Anthony Day on September 2, 2007. Tony's wife Lynn survives him. Her address is 135 Ridgecrest Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

05/22/07:
David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934 in New York City.His father was a surgeon in the military and his mother a teacher. The family moved around the country during his childhood, spending time in Texas, Minnesota and Connecticut.
While at Harvard Dave resided in Dunster House, and served as the Assistant Sports Editor and Managing Editor of the Crimson. He received his AB in History with us in June, 1955.
Upon graduating, Dave worked as a general assignment reporter in the south in Mississippi and then in Tennessee after six months in the Army in South Carolina. In 1960 he went to work as a reporter in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. The Times sent him to the Congo and eventually to Vietnam in 1962 where he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his international reporting which often rankled those in power within the government and military. He finished his book on "The Making of a Quagmire"in 1965. In 1967 Dave began a career as a free-lance writer. A gifted storyteller, he wrote 21 books, 15 of which were bestsellers.His 1972 book about US government leaders during the Vietnam era."The Best and the Brightest" established his reputation as a chronicler of power-- how it was accrued and used, whatever the arena and whoever the protagonists Other books included "America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era," "The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy," "The Powers That Be," and "The Breaks of the Game The best-seller, "War in a Time of Peace," about American involvement in the Persian Gulf was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
Dave wrote about subjects as diverse as Robert F. Kennedy, the American media, Michael Jordan, the Japanese auto industry, and a pair of local sports legends, Ted Williams and Bill Belichick, the latter dissected in the 2006 book "The Education of a Coach." His "The Summer of '49" detailed one of the greatest pennant races between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees and the central role baseball played in postwar America. We will remember him for "My Twenty Years" in our 20th Anniversary Report and for "Preface: The Frank Sinatra Generation" which prefaced our 50th Anniversary Report.
Dave had just finished correcting the galleys of what will be his 21st book, "The Coldest Winter," about battles in the Korean War in the winter of 1950 and 1951. The 700-plus page book, which he worked on for 10 years, is scheduled to be published by Hyperion in September.
Dave is survived by his wife, Jean and daughter Julia. Jean comments "Dave would like to be remembered as an historian and particularly remembered for his generosity to his peers and young people choosing the field of journalism,"
A Memorial Service will be held at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, June 12 in the Riverside Church, 121st and Riverside Drive, New York. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Dave's name to Teach for America, Mississippi Delta, 299 South 9th Street, Suite 212, Oxford, Mississippi 38655.
(Boston Globe Newspaper staff writers David Abel, Gordon Edes, and Don Aucoin contributed to this obituary. Material from the Associated Press was also used.)

04/24/07:
Renny Little is sorry to report that Dave Halberstam was killed in a car crash Monday, April 23, 2007 at 1:30 PM (EDT) while working on a book about the legendary 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants.
Dave was riding in a car that attempted to take a left hand turn and was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Although he was extricated before the car caught fire, he was pronounced dead at the scene, and the cause appeared to be internal injuries according to the San Mateo County Coroner.
At the time of the car accident, Dave was being driven to an interview with Hall of Fame quarterback Y.A. Tittle by a graduate journalism student from the University of California at Berkeley, where Dave had visited and spoke to journalism students over the weekend.
Menlo Park police are still investigating the accident. The driver of the car carrying Dave and the operator of the car that crashed into his were both injured, but not seriously.
Dave's wife Jean said Monday that she would remember Dave most for his "unending, bottomless generosity to young journalists."
We will all remember his deep base voice and his friendship with all our classmates. He is also survived by his daughter, Julia. The Class will await the family's decision as to how they wish to recognize Dave and will act at that time.

03/05/07:
Dick Marson reports that Peter William Kenney died on February 18, 2007 in Homewood, Alabama. Rosemary, his wife of forty years, informed me that Pete put up a valiant fight against prostate cancer. He majored in Government and was in Winthrop House while with us at Harvard. A freshman and JV football player, Pete also participated in track. He was a member of the Fly Club and the Hasty Pudding.
After receiving his AB in 1955, Pete served in the U.S. Army and embarked on an eleven year career in the reinsurance business and then over twenty years as a teacher and administrator in CT, ME, and AL. Along the way he earned an MA from Villanova and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Maine.
Pete retired in 1992 and then pursued his hobbies, being active in senior track and field at the local, state, regional and national levels, and winning awards in a number of events in the Alabama Senior Olympics and the National Senior Games. He also wrote magazine articles and book reviews, contributing biographical essays for library reference books published by Thomson Gale such as the Armchair Detective, Mystery Readers Journal and the Dictionary of Literary biography. The Kenneys discovered ballroom dancing in 2003.
Pete is survived by his wife, a brother, three nieces and five nephews. After a Mass of Resurrection Pete was buried in the Field of Honor at Currie-Jefferson Memorial Gardens. Rosemary lives at 606 Devon Drive, Birmingham AL 35209.

05/22/07:
On Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, while traveling in Bijapur, India, Roland Hok died of an apparent heart attack at age 74. While at Harvard, he was a Harvard Scholar residing in Lowell House where he was active in house soccer and squash and was a tenor in the Harvard Glee Club. Roland graduated with us in 1955 with an AB in biology and then went on to receive an MD at the McGill Medical School in 1959. A three year course in ophthalmology at the Ohio State University Hospitals followed. Roland interned at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, then worked in a mobile medical clinic for the African Research Foundation in Kenya. Roland practiced privately in Concord, New Hampshire for 34 years.
He loved working with his hands, and his broad curiosity led him to try many different projects. He held wide interests in farming, evolutionary biology and life sciences, music, woodworking, alternative energy, and politics. He experimented with pottery, carpentry, wood turning, milling lumber, brewing hard cider, raising cows and sheep, building wood-fired saunas and bread ovens, and growing shitake mushrooms on logs. He took as much satisfaction from learning how to do new things as from the results of his endeavors.
Roland took pleasure in hard work. With help from his wife Kitty and other farming friends, he cultivated an abundant organic garden. He grew beds of raspberries and blueberries, and found joy in picking and sharing them with neighbors and friends. He loved to dig potatoes and stack firewood with his grandchildren, Ben, Russell and Sam O'Donnell. His greatest pleasure was the enjoyment others took from his work.
Roland also took an active part in the greater Concord community. At the Unitarian Church, he enjoyed participating in monthly discussion groups, working on various committees, and taking part in the annual spring cleaning. Loving music, he was a charter member of the Concord Chorale, sang in the church choir, wrote songs for family occasions, and enjoyed playing his fiddle with the Strathspey and Reel Society. His term on the Concord City Council gave him respect for the work and difficulties involved in politics. He also played a large role in running Frontiers of Knowledge, a local lecture series.
While his family and the local community were the center of Roland's life, he had a global outlook that prompted his participation in politics, environmentalism and international service. Many people were hosted in the Hok household, from foreign exchange students to political campaign workers and SERVAS travelers. He was an early proponent of solar power, and installed a solar water heating system and solar porch in his home. During his retirement, Roland donated his medical services in Nepal and Guatemala.
Roland is survived by his wife Katharyn (Kitty) Saltonstall (R '56) and four children: Thomas, Jennifer, Timothy and Katharyn. Donations can be made to the Unitarian Church, at 274 Pleasant St., Concord, NH, or checks can be marked in his memory and sent to the Louis August Jonas Foundation, 9A West Market St., Rhinebeck, N.Y. 12572.( Excerpts from the Concord, NH Journal.)

02/15/07:
William Herring Chrisman, 74, of Paradise Valley, Arizona and Christmas Cove, Maine, died on January 29, 2007. He was born June 28, 1932 in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Winnetka, Illinois. Bill attended Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. While at Harvard he majored in Economics lived in Winthrop House and ran cross country, track and the Bostom Marathon three times. He was a member of the Freshman Union Committee, PBH, and the Hasty Pudding Club. A loyal supporter of the Class of 1955, he was a member of the Permanent Class Committee and, with Dan Donahoe, engineered a very successful mini-reunion for his classmates in Arizona, in 2000.
Upon graduating with us in 1955, Bill served as an artillery officer in the U. S Army in West Germany with the Second Armored Division. He started his career in advertising at Leo Burnett in Chicago. He moved to the Clairol Division of Bristol-Myers in NewYork, where he developed and marketed twelve hair products, among them the Frost and Tip Kit, which became the Cosmetics Fair magazine product of the year for 1968. Also for Clairol, he planned, designed, built, and operated Big Surf, the world's first authentic water surfing facility located in Tempe, Arizona, for which he won the Builders of Greater Arizona award in 1971. Bill took the first wave himself. He later developed a line of "Famous Iowa Foods," which won acclaim from the likes of Bon Appetite magazine. In 1987, he started Real Estate Valuation Consultants from which he recently retired.
Bill was an endurance athlete. He climbed the highest mountain on three continents and continued running marathons. Knee problems caused him to switch to Masters Open Water long distance swim races throughout the United States. He swam from Point Bonita, California to under the Golden Gate Bridge, around Alcatraz and into Aquatic Park in San Francisco, and also around Key West, Florida, and was contracted to be the oldest English Channel swimmer at age 70. His dream was aborted by a torn shoulder rotator cuff three months before the attempt.
Bill's love of Harvard was demonstrated by continuing involvement in the affairs of the College. Recently he sponsored the student-driven Living Wage Campaign at Harvard to raise salaries of service workers there. He felt that he had been born into fortunate circumstances and that he had advantages other youths, smarter than he, did not have. After college, Bill sought out high school students of excellent character and leadership ability from low-income neighborhoods in Chicago and New York and mentored them to achieve full scholarships from Harvard. Bill was a fourth-generation Western Iowa Hill Country farm operator. In recent years, he continued mentoring students, this time outstanding Iowa farmers' daughters, to obtain full scholarships from Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Notre Dame, among others. He taught Sunday school for 18 years at the Paradise Valley United Methodist Church, volunteered at the André House Hospitality Center for the Homeless in Phoenix, and at the Bath Area Soup Kitchen in Maine.
Bill enjoyed his summers boating on his beloved Midwester II, a modified wooden lobster boat. A kind and gentle man with grace, style, and good humor, He will be deeply missed by his family, classmates and friends.
Bill is survived by his wife, Margaret ("Maggie") Chrisman, his daughters Katherine Chrisman and Emily Stocking, his sons-in-law William Tucker and Randal Stocking, step-children Amelia Cramer, Janet Grossman, and Peter Craig, their spouses, Amy Cramer and Douglas Grossman and nine grandchildren. A memorial service was held on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at the Paradise Valley United Methodist Church, 4455 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley, at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Core Knowledge Foundation, 801 E. High Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902 or The Damariscotta River Association, P.O. Box 333, Damariscotta, ME 04543.

01/12/07:
Joseph M. Donald JR., M.D., 74, passed away Friday, December 29, 2006. Born and reared in Birmingham, Alabama, Joe lived in Hollis and Adams House while at Harvard, where he played house football, golf and softball. A pre-med student, he majored in biology and graduated with us in 1955. Joe was a member of the BAT Club and the Hasty Pudding Club. He was awarded his M.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed his internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
After completing his residency in surgery at the University of Alabama Medical Center, he began the private practice of surgery in Birmingham in 1964. Before his retirement, Joe was chief of surgery at South Highlands Hospital, predecessor of Health South Medical Center on Birmingham's South side. He was a past president of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Birmingham Surgical Society, and Southern Surgeons Club. He was also active in the Southern Surgical Association, Jefferson County Medical Society, and Birmingham Clinical Society. A lifelong resident of Birmingham, Joe was a member of The Country Club of Birmingham, The Redstone Club, Mountain Brook Club, and Matthews Marauders Dogfight.
He is survived by his wife, Forsyth Sellers Donald; his daughters, Virginia Donald Latham (Carl Richard) of Atlanta, George, and Kathryn Donald Shook of Birmingham; and his son, Joseph Marion Donald, III (Mary Carney) of Birmingham. Joe also is survived by a brother, Thomas Towey Donald, M.D. (Anna); a sister, Diane Donald; and six grandchildren: Elizabeth Sellers Shook, Henry Lindstrom Shook, Jr., Caroline Carney Donald, Elizabeth Harris Forsyth Donald, Joseph Marion Donald IV, and Virginia Forsyth Latham. Honorary pallbearers at his service and burial included his college roommate Michael Pizitz.
Memorials may be directed to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 14 Office Park Circle, Birmingham, AL 35223, or the Emmet O'Neal Library, 50 Oak Street, Birmingham, AL 35213.

12/14/06:
The Class extends it sympathy to Frank Molloy on the death of his wife Mary on December 12th.The Molloys were married for over 48 years. Mary was a retired Boston School Teacher.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Mary's memory to St. Mary's Life Teen Center, 420 High Street, Dedham, MA 02026.

10/20/06:
Wally Bregman reports that Mayer Hecht died on Wednesday, October 18th. Mayer had informed Wally recently that he had a terminal cancer. Wally and Robbie attended the funeral on Friday, October 20th.
Mayer is survived by his wife Joy, a daughter, son and four grandchildren.

09/01/06:
Dick Marson reports that Carl L. Coran has died.
A telephone call to Carl's son Mark (his wife Ursel is in Germany) informed me that he died either late night August 16, or early morning, August 17, 2006. Mark did not disclose the cause of death (and I forgot to ask!).
Carl was a Lowell House resident, serving on the House Social Committee. He was also a member of the Hillel Foundation and the A.F.R.O.T.C. After graduating with us he spent two years in the Air Force as an intelligence officer and shortly thereafter, entered federal service which he made his career.
Carl traveled extensively from 1961 to 1975 when he was reassigned to Washington where he was selected to attend the National Defense University and also received a Masters from George Washington University. At the time of our 25th in 1980 he was serving as an Administrative Officer for the Department of the Air Force. In Washington he was active with the Boy Scouts of America and a member of a number of charitable institutions.
I have little information from the last 26 years except to note that he lived in Fairfax, VA and his address at one time was the American Embassy. At the time of our 40th he was attached to the Office of Information Technology for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Carl is survived by his wife Ursel, son Mark and two sisters.

08/25/06:
Henry Scammell died of a heart attack on July 29, 2006 while undertaking one of his favorite passions - fishing near Monomoy Island off Chatham, MA. He would have been the first to proclaim that it was the way to go. For a history of his life leading up to his entrance to Harvard in 1951 and life thereafter, refer to the 50th Report. Suffice to say that he graduated magna cum laude in 1961, completing the requirements in two years.
At the time of our 25th Henry was a freelance writer and owned an advertising agency. His firm produced the logo used for our 25th Reunion, which was updated and used for the 50th Report. When the agency folded Henry moved to Orleans and turned to writing full time. He was a prolific writer. He wrote letters to the editor for newspapers; articles for magazines, and about a dozen books. He excelled in translating complicated medical and legal jargon into easy-to-understand prose. One of his earliest books "The Road Back," highlighted a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. Five years after its publication, a group of patients formed the Road Back Foundation which advocated research and education regarding the treatment and causes of the disease. Henry served on the Foundation's board of directors for many years, responding by mail, e-mail or telephone to anyone who contacted him after reading his book.
Contributions should be directed to the Foundation. (www.roadback.org).
Henry's last book, written in 2004, was entitled "Giant Killers: The Team and the Law that Help Whistle-Blowers Recover America's Stolen Billions". At the time of his death He was hoping his next book would expand upon the life of one of the deeply affected whistle-blowers.
Among their volunteer activities, Henry and Caroline went to South Africa where they helped to construct homes, clinics and day care centers. He could always be counted to help with class activities, writing the "Class Profile - 15 Years Out, Whatever Happened to the Class of 1955?, Nothing Personal of Course",which he wrote supposedly based on anonymous questionnaires received from classmates. This was also true for the "Class Profile Forty-Five years out - Hope for Extended Life Dimming". For the 50th Report, your Report editor sent him to Okefenokee Swamp to interview honorary classmate Pogo Possum. Henry was up to the task and Pogo's report reflects Henry's wonderful articulate sense of humor and knowledge of his subject and of U.S. history
Henry is survived by his wife Caroline and two daughters; a stepson and stepdaughter; four grandchildren and his former wife Lorna Hoover. A memorial service was held on Thursday, August 3, 2006. The Class was represented by our Treasurer, Dick Zwetsch.
(Exerpts taken from an obituary by Machael Naughton, Globe Correspondent
published in the Boston Globe on August 2, 2006.)

08/24/06:
James B. Palais died on Sunday, August 6th after a long illness. He lived in Straus, played freshman basketball and lived in Kirkland House, graduating with us in 1955. He then joined the Army as an EM and enrolled at the Army Language School in Monterey, California.,where he intended to study Russian, but the classes were full. Jim opted for Korean instead and upon matriculation, spent a year and a half in Korea. He then went on to receive a master's degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard in the subject.
This proved fortunate for students of Korean history, as Jim became one of the field's foremost scholars, mentoring a generation of academics and writing books still regarded as authoritative during his 33 year tenure at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Jim continued to teach part time after his retirement from the UW in 2001.TheJames B. Palais Professorship of Korean History was established in his honor at the UW. After his retirement, he served as dean for international studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea for three years.
Jim wrote books on Korea's history and human rights, most notably the 1,230-page "Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions", a work covering 500 years of Korean history. The book won the John Whitney Hall Book Prize as the best book on Japan or Korea in 1998 by the Association for Asian Studies. Some of his writings were controversial, such as his characterization of Korea as a slave society for part of its history. That was unpopular with some Korea-based scholars, but even they had respect for his meticulous research which led him to study texts written in Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
In addition to his wife, Jane Palais, son Mike Palais, and daughter-in-law Sandra Evans of Tacoma, Jim is survived by daughter Julie Schneider of California and one grandson.
There was no funeral at his request, but the UW is organizing a memorial. No date has been set. Donations in Jim's name can be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or the American Cancer Society.
(Excerpts taken from an obituary written by Jim Brunner, Seattle Times staff reporter, used with permission of the Seattle Times Company.)

Peter Elvins died on April 8, 2004 at Massachusetts General Hospital after a five-year remission from esophageal cancer. Equipped with a bass voice and an aura of confidence, Peter had a lifelong passion for opera. Passing for 18, he was hired as a chorister for the prestigious Chautauqua Opera Company in New York when he was 15, beginning a 55-year career as an opera singer and teacher that led him to perform all over the world.
Born in Cambridge, Peter grew up in St. Louis. He returned to study English at Harvard, graduating cum laude with us in 1955. He then joined the Army, where he became one of the original 12 members of the US Army Chorus.
In 1957 he married Anna Gabrieli, also a well-known opera singer and voice teacher. Moving to Milan with their young children in 1962, Peter and his wife studied voice and sang in various opera houses. Peter was also a writer and editor and worked as a correspondent at La Scala, the opera house in Milan, Italy, for The Metropolitan Opera Guild's magazine, "Opera News."
He wrote articles and interviews of important conductors, singers, set designers, and teachers, and reviews of all the operas during his tenure there in the '60's until his move to Germany to sing in 1971. After living in Milan for nine years, Peter moved to Germany where he sang for six years in the opera houses of Osnabrueck, Ulm, Heidelberg, and Coburg. He also had leading roles in Spain, Austria, and Belgium.
Returning to the United States in 1977, he performed in New York, San Francisco, Connecticut, and Boston, where he was a regular performer with the Boston Lyric Opera between 1980 and 1989.
Peter spent the last 25 years of his life teaching voice and courses in opera, the latter attended by many of his classmates.
In addition to his wife, Peter leaves three daughters, Elisabeth Culver of Yorba Linda, CA, Eleonora of Montclair, N.J., and Laura of Belmont; a brother, Mercer Van den Burg of St. Louis; two sisters; Elizabeth Millis of St. Louis and Theodora Woolfe of Ft. Lauderdale; and his stepfather, Herbert Van den Burg of St Louis. His wife Anna lives at 710 Pleasant Street in Belmont, MA 02478-1523.

08/07/06:
Frank Nahigian reports that Frank Yoffe died on April 29, 2006 after a long illness. No further information is available at this time.

07/06/06:
Joe Schildkraut died on June 26, 2006, after an illness related to cancer which persisted over this last year. After looking forward to our 50th for some time Joe, leaving with an elevated temperature, was able to attend only the first day.
Joe, not surprising those of us who knew him in college, achieved great academic distinction early in his professional career. His hypothesis on the neuropsychopharmacology and biochemistry of affective disorders published in 1965, only two years after completing his residency in psychiatry, served to stimulate and advance the early emergence of the field of clinical neuropsychopharmacology. This work became the most frequently cited paper ever published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Joe's later work explored the interelatedness of depression, spirituality and artistic creativity.
Joe retired as Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in June, 2004. For his entire Harvard career, Joe maintained his office at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.
Many of us who sat near him at football games remember Joe's enthusiastic encouragement of the Harvard team.
Betsy and Joe were proudest of their two sons, Peter and Michael. Peter works as a telecommunications lawyer at Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C. Mike works in management for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis.
Memorial gifts may be made to The Joseph Schildkraut Massachusetts Mental Health Center Fund at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, c/o BIDMC Psychiatry, 185 Pilgrim Road, Boston, MA 02215.
There will be a memorial service on Sunday, September 17, at 2 pm in Memorial Church

05/24/06:
The Boston Globe published a notice on May 24, 2006 of the death of Richard H. Litner, MD, who died on May 22, 2006 from complications due to a back injury. Dick wrote in the 50th Report that his most rewarding professional activity was "having the opportunity to provide surgical care to thousands of children and adults from 1961 to 2004, and to experience the satisfaction of saving many precious lives".
Dick is survived by his wife Sandra, his children Meryl, Jill, Scott and five grandchildren.

03/04/06:
David Ingle died on January 14 due to complications from coronary artery disease and an autoimmune neurological illness. A member of Kirkland House, he was a member of the varsity cross country and track teams and PBH. Dave graduated with us in 1955 with a degree in the biochemical sciences. After work with a settlement house group in Washington, D.C. he earned a doctorate in biopsychology from the University of Chicago. Although torn between neuroscience and the realm of world theater, he pursued a career in the former, teaching and doing research at the Harvard Medical School, publishing dozens of articles and chapters on Animal behavior and brain functions, editing five books and organizing seven international conferences. David also served as a visiting professor at Boston College, Brandeis and Northeastern before retiring from full-time work in scientific research in 1992 for health reasons.
Upon retirement David focused on his historical and music interests, encouraged by the late Derek Lamb and upon bonding with actress-folklorist Libby Franck. He was known for his thorough research into Scottish, Irish and English drinking songs and ballads. David was a great storyteller, and he and Libby spent 14 adventuresome years producing shows for colleges, libraries, historical societies and even a pub or two. Our Class enjoyed his performances at our 45th Reunion, and at a 50th pre-reunion show a year ago this spring.
In addition to Libby, Dave leaves his mother and two sisters. A memorial service will be held in the spring.

12/23/05:
Bats Wheeler reports that Edward Tllton "Ted" Barrett II (no relation to Jim Barrett) died unexpectedly on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 after a year-long illness. He played freshman football but left Harvard, serving in the Army from 1952 to 1954 where he attained the rank of First Lieutenant. He then returned to Harvard and went on to earn a law degree from the Catholic University of America and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar.
Ted worked for the Esco Corp., a steel foundry equipment company, at its headquarters in Portland, Ore. He was also a sales representative of New England and upstate New York while living in Hingham. He was a 30-year member of the Economic Affairs Division of the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. where he researched information and helped create legislation during the administrations of every president from Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton. Occasionally he testified before both Senate and House committees addressing such subjects as price controls, tort reform and the petroleum and steel industries.
A longtime resident of Potomac, MD, Ted retired to Harwich Port, MA in 1994. He served on the Harwich Finance Committee since 1996, organized and ran the Harwich Cranberry Festival parade for five years and built houses for low-income Cape residents as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. He loved spending time with his dogs, especially his black labrador.
Ted is survived by his wife of 45 years Emily (Lynch) Barrett, a daughter; three sons, and 10 grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation, P.O. Box 370 Hyannis, MA 02601; or to Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation, P.O. Box 370, Hyannis, MA 02601.

11/05/05:
Jim Pates notes that Alfred E. Lo Presti, Jr. died on August 3, 2005.
No further information is available at this time.

10/23/05:
David Hardin Wells died on October 14, 2005 of an apparent heart attack. He graduated in 1957 with no career objectives. With nothing to do, he obtained a job on a racing yacht (Impala) as "steward in charge of food preparation, etc." and found a career.
Dave attended Cornell School of Hotel Administration in 1958 and 1959 as a special student and then embarked on a career in the restaurant business, learning his trade from some of the finest chefs in New England. In 1964 he created his first restaurant, Fiddlers Green, in Duxbury which he ran until he sold it in 1973. He then owned and operated Fiddlers at the Granary Restaurant in Hingham until the early 1980s. He also owned and operated the Winsor House in Duxbury and created the Wicker Tree in North Falmouth. After selling Fiddlers Green, Dave spent the next two years consulting in restaurants and clubs and taught Food and Classical Cuisine at Bunker Hill Community College, along with stints as manager of the Dedham Country & Polo Club, food and beverage director of the Ritz Carlton and as general manager of Lock-Ober's Restaurant in Boston. He described himself as a "turnaround artist" in the field..
In later years, Dave operated a catering business from the professional kitchen in the basement of his home in Duxbury. That is where he also taped a cooking show entitled "Home on the Range" broadcast on Adelphia Cable TV. "Wells done is well done," was his slogan. He also wrote a weekly cooking column for the Duxbury Clipper newspaper.
Dave's hobbies included his family, cooking, gardening, wine-collecting and travel. He also collected and maintained a library of hundreds of cookbooks. Dave served as coordinator of food and beverage for many of our reunions and who can forget his animated cooking demonstration at our 45th Reunion at the Equinox in Vermont.
A celebration of his life was attended by classmates Bill Breed, George Buehler, Bill Coughlin, Bill Lawrence, Rob Leeson, and Renny Little and a large turnout of devoted friends of a man with a great sense of humor who loved fine wine and a good time as much as he loved a well-prepared meal.
In addition to his wife Becky , Dave leaves sons Mason and Squire; a daughter, Selden Tearse, two step-sons, Paul R. Stahl and H. James Stahl; two stepdaughters, Melinda Stahl and Jennifer Whittington, and 11 grandchildren.

09/12/05:
Herbert Grossman died at home, on Monday, August 29th, 2005. He lived in Dunster House as an undergraduate where he participated in house sports and was a member of PBH and the Varsity Club. Herb graduated with us in 1955 and went on to receive an M.S. from Fordham and a Ph.D from Columbia. He felt that his Harvard education was a treasured gift and he never underestimated the power of this gift. Much of his professional life was driven by the knowledge that so many of the world's children do not receive a good education.
Herb taught at 17 universities in the U.S. and abroad and authored 10 books on education. Early in his career he was the founder and director of a unique school for severely emotionally disturbed and delinquent teenagers in New York City. Several of his teaching positions were in the developing world, where he trained teachers to work with children with special needs. One of his last jobs was as founder and director of the bilingual/bicultural special education programs at San Jose State University. He was committed, during all of his professional life, to serving the needs of students who were discriminated against because of their race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status or disability.
Herb loved life. He adored his family, had a great sense of humor, loved music, drumming and dancing, traveling and learning about different cultures, hiking and staying fit. His wife believes he was probably just as energetic and fun as when we all knew him as an undergraduate.
He is survived by his wife Suzanne, daughter Michele, son Billy, and sister Roberta. Suzanne's address is 903 Vista Heights Rd., El Cerrito, CA 94530.

08/20/05
Joseph D. Buckley died of cancer in his home on August 15th, 2005. Joe received his AB in economics with us in 1955. He lived in Dunster House and as an undergraduate he served as a research assistant to historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and as a manager of the crew and president of the Speakers Club. An NROTC graduate, Joe served as a communications officer on the destroyer USS Higbee. After his release from active duty he became a sales representative for the Gulf Oil Corp. before becoming an executive with the Norfolk Trust Co. and later BayBank where he was a vice president when he retired in 1991.
Joe's interest in history led him to research and write "Wings Over Cape Cod," a history of the Chatham Naval Air Station. In conducting his research, he corresponded with Guy Ciannavei, then president of the Walpole Historical Society.--at which time they discovered that they were classmates! At the time of his death he was working on the history of the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy.
In addition to his wife Eileen, Joe leaves three sons and three daughters. A funeral Mass was held on August 19th in Hingham and burial in the National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts. Donations in his memory can be made to the Arnold Hall Conference Center, Randall St., Pembroke, MA 02358.

06/28/05:
George Baum reports that John Voyantzis died recently while visiting his sister in Florida.

05/26/05:
Your Class Secretary is sorry to report the deaths of
Charles Richard Jobbins, November 2, 2004
Phillip Justin Rulon, Jr., December 4, 2004

05/17/05:
Dick Marson notes that Robert Richards Weiler died on August 2, 2003.
Bob lived in Dunster house where he participated in house sports. He graduated with us in 1955 and received an MS from West Virginia University and an MD from the Medical College in Virginia. After specialty training and time in the Navy, he began a career as an orthopedic surgeon practicing at the Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Bob was active in leadership positions with a number of medical and environmental organizations. He served as president of the West Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and as a National Trustee at the time of our 25th Reunion. A licensed pilot, Bob enjoyed stamp collecting and genealogy and found time to paint in oils, travel, play golf, and enjoy his family. He is survived by his wife Anita, two daughters, two sons and four grandchildren at the time of our 45th.

05/16/05:
Fred C. Shure died Monday, January 3, 2000 at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fred lived in Leverett House where he participated in house sports and the Harvard Glee Club. He graduated magna cum laude in theoretical physics with us in 1955.  Fred received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1962 and spent 19 years as a faculty member of the University of Michigan Department of Nuclear Engineering where he worked on problems of nuclear reactor theory and design.
Fred had a wide variety of interests, and a great business curiosity, which led to several entrepreneurial ventures. In 1967 he started the Ann Arbor firm of Edlund-Shure-Zweifel Associates which worked in the newly-developing field of computer consulting. In the mid 1970's, to pursue an interest in property management and development, he established Cross Street Investments which specialized in real estate. His major business began back in 1967 when Fred and his brother Ned (later joined by their brother-in-law, Jack Barenfanger) began their first college textbook store. By the time of its sale in 1999, their Michigan College Book Co. provided the textbooks for many campuses including Eastern Michigan, Michigan State, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Fred was an active member of both the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor communities, including serving on the boards of the Jewish Community Center and Temple Beth Emeth. His deep love of music led him from the Harvard Glee Club to the University of Michigan Choral Union and the Eastern Michigan Collegium Musicum.
He was respected and loved by many friends, who will remember his intelligence, humanity, and enthusiasm for life. In particular, his employees and business associates were his close friends. For Fred, work was fun, and employees were family. He also believed deeply in the value of education, and spent most of his life in support of university communities.
Fred is survived by Pat, his wife of 36 years; his sons Steven and Jason, his daughter Mallory, his daughters-in-law Ann and Nicole, and his grandchildren Theodora, Harrison, and Malcolm. He is also survived by his brother and lifelong partner Ned and Ned's wife, Jan Onder.

04/30/05:
Richard F. Eckert died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday, April 9, 2005. His wife Nancy reports that it was a blessing as he was a golf player and he would have been unhappy that he couldn't play this summer.

04/24/05:
Our classmate John Kennedy Marshall died on April 22, 2005 of cancer. John graduated with us in 1955 and then received a MA in Anthropology from Yale and an Honorary degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. He also studied at the Museum of Fine Arts School and Fontainbleu, France.
John was a world renowned ethnographic and documentary filmmaker whose career began in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia in Southern Africa in 1951 when he and his family met a small group of Ju/hoansi bushmen. His work with and for them became a life-long relationship which included the completion of a film series in 2003 entitled "A Kalahari Family" which remained the inspiration for his remarkable 50 year career as a filmmaker, anthropologist, educator and advocate. In collaboration with Timothy Asch, John founded Documentary Educational Resources (DER). Their work forms the core of DER's film archive as well as the basis for the creation of the Human Studies Film Archive at the Smithsonian Institution. John's films have been used worldwide for education and research and he has been honored by film retrospectives in New York, Washington, D.C., Mexico and Germany. In 2003 he received a life-time achievement award from the American Anthropological Association.
John is survived by his wife Alexandra Eliot Marshall (Classmate Christopher Eliot's widow) his daughter Sonya, two step sons Frederick and Christopher Eliot, and his sister Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
The Memorial Service for John is at 1:00 PM on Saturday, April 30, at the Memorial Church at Harvard. Reception at the Faculty Club 2:00-4:00 PM. Malcolm Davis, a classmate of John's in high school, will attend and represent our class.

04/05/05:
Richard M. "Dick" Hoffman passed away on March 22, 2005 after a courageous battle with leukemia. An excellent athlete during his undergraduate years, he played football and baseball, as well as house basketball for Kirkland House. Dick was a member of Pi Eta, PBH and the Varsity Club. A government major, and member of the Army R.O.T.C., he graduated with us in 1955 and then served two years as a lieutenant, playing two seasons of baseball for the Fort Gordon Ramblers in Augusta, Georgia. and processing and resettling Hungarian refugees at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey.
Upon discharge, Dick entered the family furniture business, remaining with it for 45 years until his retirement. He lived in Wellesley for over 30 years, coaching Babe Ruth baseball and enjoying his family and the game of golf. When Dick retired, he and Betsy, his wife for over 50 years, spent their winters in Palm Beach, Florida and their summers in Rye, New Hampshire. He leaves his wife, three daughters and their husbands and eight grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, MA Chapter, 495 Old Connecticut Path, Suite 220, Framingham, MA 01701, Hospice of Palm Beach Florida or the charity of your choice.
Betsy continues to live at 9089 Baybury Lane, West Palm Beach, FL 33411 and 17 Brackett Rd. Rye NH 03870. Dick was looking forward to the 50th. Betsy will attend.

03/23/05:
Our classmate Robert A. Young died on February 14, 2005 in North Carolina. Bob lived in Dunster House, where he played on a number of house teams and is remembered by a number of classmates as having pulled them through their required math courses. He finished his math requirements by the end of his junior year and then took graduate math courses at M.I.T. Bob graduated with us in 1955 with an AB in Mathematics.
Shortly after graduation he joined IBM, remaining with the company for 33 years until he retired. Bob moved up the management ranks and eventually played a leading role in developing IBM's defense for their anti-management trials. He continued his career by becoming involved in every facet of competitive analysis leading to his becoming the Manager of Strategic Competitive Analysis in Corporate Strategy. In this capacity, his group was responsible for tracking strategic activities of all the major worldwide computer companies. A perceptive, intuitive and resourceful strategic thinker, Bob was recognized as one of the top computer industry analysts in the United States. His stated critical but honest appraisals and opinions led to the nick-name "Dr. Doom."
Bob married Barbara Parks in 1955. A former baseball player in the All American Girls' Baseball League, she was also an accomplished golfer. The Youngs had four children and four grandchildren. His wife resides at 5078 Edinboro Lane, in Wilmington, North Carolina 28409-8518.

01/15/05:
Henry Hunnewell Carlson of Hubbardston, MA died at his home on November 2, 2004. A Lowell House resident, Hank graduated with us in 1955 with an AB in History. After three years in the Army, he taught history at Friends Academy in North Dartmouth,taking time off to receive an Ed.M. from Harvard in 1962. Hank then taught at the Bancroft School in Worcester, and after working to gain some small business experience, took a job as comptroller at the Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge in 1981, where he remained until retiring in 1999. Hank found the job equal to his teaching, involving constant variety, challenge and personal satisfaction in learning about computers and telecommunications. Military history, birds, gardening and grandchildren were a great delight in his later years.
Hank is survived by his wife of 40 years Kitty, four children, James , Joanna, Peter and Sarah; four grandchildren, a sister Josephine Clark and a brother John E. Carlson '48.
A memorial service will be held in Harvard's Memorial Church on Saturday, March 19 at 11:00 AM. Attendees are invited to a reception at Hank's oldest son Jamie's house in Sudbury after the service (directions will be in the program). Those who wish to contact Kitty can reach her at 87 Ragged Hill Road in Hubbardston, MA 01452.

11/04/04:
Henry Lemuel Howell, October 18, 2004
An obituary will follow.

09/18/04:
William D. Coakley, 71, a former longtime Westford MA resident who had recently moved to Londonderry, NH (54 Sawgrass Circle, Londonderry, NH 03053) died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004 in Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He was the husband of Marian Anna Wilhelmina Coakley, to whom he was married for 44 years.
Bill was on the Freshman Union Committee and a Lowell House resident. He was president of the Crimson Key Society and graduated as an Ensign after completing the NROTC program. After active duty he went into banking, serving in a variety of leadership positions in a number of banks in Greater Boston and Massachusetts. Bill was an avid toy-soldier collector and attended many shows throughout the US and Europe when he retired. He was also active in community affairs, wherever he lived, promoting the construction of affordable housing when living in Westford.
Bill wrote in his 25th Reunion Report: "All my life I have worked hard, not to change the world, but to make life a little better for the people around me." Besides his wife Marian, he is survived by a son, Robert P. Coakley and his wife Rosemary of Newman Georgia; a daughter Susan A. Mitchell and her husband Alex of Vail, Colorado, and two grandchildren. A memorial service for Bill will be held at a later date.

07/31/04:
Charles Moizeau has noted that Dan Potter died in Pittsburgh on July 14th, 2004, from complications following what had been believed to have been a successful treatment for cancer eight years earlier. Charles attended Dan's funeral service and extended the sympathy of the Class to Dan's children.
Dan was born in Los Angeles, and graduated from Los Angeles High School. He entered Harvard as a sophomore, living one year in Claverly and two in Kirkland House. At college, he belonged to the Young Republican Club, Hasty Pudding and S.A.E. After graduation, he received his DDS degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and did his internship at Philadelphia General Hospital. Entering the U.S. Army as a captain, he served two years in Teheran. Later he attended graduate school at Georgetown University, and completed his residency in oral surgery at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver. As an oral-maxillofacial surgeon, Dan served in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and thereafter was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. He resigned from the regular army, spent two years in private practice in Colorado Springs, and then moved in 1973 to take a position with the Veteran's Administration in Pittsburgh. He also was an assistant professor of oral surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Dental School. Dan retained a U.S. Army reserve commission rising to the grade of colonel. He was recalled to active duty for the Gulf War in 1991. Dan's wife Joan died in 1994. Their three children, Daniel, Gail and Michael all live in western Pennsylvania. Dan had great affection for Harvard and was an enthusiastic attendee of our Class reunions. While in the company of his classmates, Dan showed a particular ability to enrich these occasions by his ability to draw upon a seemingly inexhaustible supply of jokes and stories, and the advent of the Internet greatly facilitated his spreading this wealth.

07/06/04:
John Connor Molloy died on July 1, 2004 after a three year battle with lung cancer. John graduated with us in 1955 and went on to receive his M.D. from Tufts University Medical School in 1959. After serving in the Air Force Reserves and practicing orthopedic surgery at Boston City Hospital and the Lahey Clinic, John's interest in "Sports Medicine" led him to serve as a consultant for athletic injuries in the Boston Public Schools and later with the Red Sox and the New England Patriots. He is perhaps best remembered for repairing Carlton Fisk's damaged knee in 1974 which allowed Fisk to come back and hit his famous game-winning home run for the Red Sox in Game 6 of the World Series in 1975.
John set up his own practice in 1976 in a Brighton, Mass. duplex and operated on patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and the former Hahnemann Hospital in Boston. He retired last April from his latest job as an orthopedic consultant for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jamaica Plain. John leaves three sons and a daughter, two grandchildren and his brother, our classmate Frank Molloy. In lieu of flowers donations in John's memory may be made to Caritas St. Elizabeth's Hematology/Oncology Research Fund, care of Sarah Francis Hematology/Oncology Clinic, 736 Cambridge St., Brighton, MA 02135.

04/14/04:
Wesley Bunnell Smith of Ridgewood, NJ formerly of Rutherford, NJ and Succasunna, NJ died on Thursday, February 5, 2004. A Kirkland House resident while at Harvard, he served as the varsity squash manager and graduated with us in 1955 with a magna cum laude degree in economics. After service in the Army in Germany, Wes graduated from The Harvard Law School in 1961. He first practiced at Dewey Ballantine, but soon left the firm to join his father's firm in order to help "ordinary people with their problems". He practiced law from 1964 to the present in Rutherford where his current firm, Smith & Ely is located. He dedicated his personal and professional life to his family and his clients and was known by all for his sense of humor. In his 25th Reunion Report Wes noted "If I had my life to live over again since 1955 I think I would have probably made many of the same choices and decisions that I have made, for better or for worse."
Wes is survived by his wife Elisabeth Mannschott, who lives at 17 Ames Avenue, P.O. Box 46, Rutherford, NJ 07070-0046; his son Benjamin Smith-Mannschott, his daughter Katrina Smith-Mannschott, his sisters Janet Ruth Smith, and Susan Davis, and several nieces and nephews. Memorial donations may be made to Doctors Without Borders, 333 7th Ave 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10001 or CAMP c/o Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, 113 Cottage Pl, Ridgewood, NJ 07450.

03/27/04:
Pete Kenney sent notice that Joseph Harrison Conzelman, Jr. died on Tuesday, February 3, 2004. A resident of Mountain Brook, Alabama, he was preceded in death by his wife of 45 years, Elsie Lupton Conzelman.
As an undergraduate, Joe lived in Eliot House and participated in House football, basketball and baseball, while also playing on the rugby team. He served in the Army and received his degree in 1957. Joe spent his life in the construction materials business, and was the Chairman of Southeast Materials Corporation which he started in 1978. He was a long-time member of Saint Mary's on the Highlands Church and active in many community services throughout his life. He served as director of the Crisis Center, devoted many years of service to the Downtown YMCA, United Way, and the Children's Harbor. He was a member of The Country Club of Birmingham, where he played golf in the Rollers and Gravy Train dogfights. He was also a member of Shoal Creek and Willow Point Country Clubs. Joe is survived by his four children, Elizabeth, Joseph,III, Virginia, Melissa and Thomas, nine grandchildren and a dear family friend, Virginia Mobley. The family requests that memorial > contributions be made to: Children's Harbor, 1 Our Children's Highway, Children's Harbor, Alabama 35010 or Saint Mary's on the Highlands, 1910 12th Avenue South 35205.

03/25/04:
Roger Masters reports that Charles Tuttle Wood, an authority on medieval Europe and a long-time faculty member at Dartmouth College, died Feb. 11 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.) at age 70. A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1964, Charlie was Professor of History and Dartmouth's Daniel Webster Professor of History, Emeritus.

Charlie served on the freshman Jubilee Committee and was a resident of Eliot House, where he participated in house sports and served on the House Committee. He also sang in the Glee Club, and graduated with us in 1955 magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, after which he worked as an investment banker for his father's firm, Harold E. Wood and Company, in St. Paul. He then returned to Harvard, where he received master's and Ph.D. degrees in history. He taught at Harvard from 1961-64, then joined the Dartmouth faculty.

At Dartmouth, Charlie taught history and comparative literature. He also chaired a number of committees whose recommendations led to important changes at the institution: establishment of Freshman Seminars as part of the permanent curriculum; the advent of coeducation at Dartmouth, in 1972, and the creation of the "Dartmouth Plan" of year-round education; and the Presidential Scholars Program. He had also served as chair of the Department of History and the Program in Comparative Literature.Charlie retired in 1996 but continued to teach part-time and lead alumni tours while continuing to write.

Charlie was a specialist on the Middle Ages, principally the histories of England, France, and the Catholic church in the 12th through 15th centuries. He wrote or edited five books, and authored numerous scholarly articles, reviews and translations, and for many years was a reviewer for the History Book Club.

A fellow and former treasurer of the Medieval Academy of America, Charlie had been scheduled to receive, in April, the academy's CARA (Centers and Regional Associations) Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies, honoring his lifetime achievement as a teacher. The academy now plans to confer the award posthumously. He was also a member of and at various times served as an officer of the American Historical Association and the New England Medieval Conference.

Charlie was also active in civic affairs in Hanover, N.H. He had chaired the Board of School Directors of the Dresden Independent School District, the first bi-state school district in the United States, serving the towns of Hanover and Norwich, Vt. He had also served as moderator of the Hanover School District's annual meetings, as vice president of the New Hampshire School Boards Association, and as a member of the New Hampshire Council for the Humanities. He also served as a volunteer coach for the Hanover swim team, timer and referee for Dartmouth swim meets, and as the master of ceremonies for shows presented by the Skating Club at Dartmouth during the College's annual Winter Carnival.

Charlie is survived by his wife, Susan, of 7 N. Balch St., Hanover, N.H. 03755; four children, and five grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to the Professor Charles T. Wood Memorial Fund, c/o Donor Relations, 6066 Development Office, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 03755.

03/17/04:
Michael Howe Patterson died Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at his home in Palatine, Illinois. A 1951 graduate of Belmont Hill, and a member of Dudley House, he received his AB from Harvard in 1959. Mike also attended graduate school at Northwestern University, Chicago where he was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity. Mike married Sabra Black on May 12, 1962, in Indianapolis. He worked for General Electric, Hotpoint Home Appliance Division of Chicago. During his career he had been a unit manager and industrial engineer for Range Dishwasher and Refrigeration. Mike retired in 1994 after 29 years of service. He was also an Army Specialist Four during the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, Sabra Patterson, who lives at 3501 N. Wilshire Dr., Palatine, Illinois, 60067; his daughter, Deborah Kay (Matthew J.) Ligda; his grandson, Michael Emery Ligda; and by his brother, John J. Patterson.

03/08/04:
Bob Watson reports that on February 28, 2004, Paul Shaw died peacefully in his sleep at his home at 2 Bertocchi Lane, Millbrae, California 94030. Paul resided in Kirkland House and played football, basketball and baseball during his years at Harvard, graduating with us cum laude in 1955. Paul served as a Product Manager for Cooperative Food Buyers which took him to Venezuela for a year, and then spent two years in the U.S. Army.
He established the Paul Shaw Coffee Company in 1969, which involved him not only in coffee but in all types of supermarket food and non-food programs under a private label. Paul's work was oriented towards both international trade and the food industry. His personal studies centered around international business interests and particularly international finance.
At the time of our 35th he had sold one of his businesses and was serving as a Coffee Consultant Commodity Advisor for Pandory Products, Inc. after deciding to work at his own tempo and enjoy his grandchildren.
Paul is remembered by his family for his generosity, humor, intelligence, selflessness, and opinions, which he wasn't hesitant to share. His legacy is what he created, the life he lived and what he taught: seek to understand what you don't; treasure your health; be generous when you are able; put your family first; and always do the best you can.
Paul is survived by his wife Nancy, daughter Dory, son-in-law Dan, and grandsons Michael and Brian. In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates donations to the Canine Companions, Box 446, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 or a charity of your choice.

03/02/04:
The Boston Globe noted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 the death of Albert Sauveur Eaton who died on February 19, 2004 of complications of Parkinson's disease at Merriman House in North Conway, N.H., a retirement home he helped to found.
Al graduated with us in 1955 and then served as a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps. He was very proud of his service, and threw a party each November 10th to celebrate the Corps' birthday even while in the nursing home. A graduate of the Harvard Business School in 1967, Al worked in engineering management for United Shoe from 1962 to 1969 and then moved his family to Fryeburg, Maine where he became vice president in charge of manufacturing at Yield House in North Conway, N.H. In the mid-70s Al went into business for himself, starting his own made-by-hand toy company which he called "My Uncle," so that children could boast, "My uncle made this." He applied engineering principles to building toys with movable parts such as his 2 1/2-foot Noah's Ark and his museum quality doll houses in Victorian, Cape, townhouse and saltbox styles, some of which are on display at the Washington D.C. Dolls' House and Toy Museum. His contribution to the Class of 1955 was the manufacture of wooden HC '55 desk ornaments which he made in 1980 at the time of our 25th Reunion and which your Class Secretary continues to award to classmates who have contributed to the welfare of the Class.
Al started writing poetry in the 1990's after his illness was diagnosed. Some of his verse was inspired by other people's misuse of the English language, particularly on television or in the press, prompting grammar columnist Richard Lederer to dub him "the mighty verbivore" and "Fryeburg's master of light verse." Classmates will remember "The Cambridge Connection" and "Forty More Years" which Al wrote for the introduction to our 40th Reunion Report in 1995.
Al's daughter characterized him as a "very quiet man. He was very brilliant but humble. Nobody really knew how bright he was. His mind was always reconfiguring the way something was done in order to figure out how to do something better." In addition to his daughter, Al leaves his wife of 43 years, Carla; another daughter and a son. Carla's address is 138 Main Street, Fryeburg, Maine 04037.
Al collected steam whistles and cannons. As a final tribute his family plans to fire off one of his cannons at his committal at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, R.I. at a later date.

02/24/04:
The March-April issue of Harvard magazine notes the death of Edward Raymond Kupperstein on December 4, 2003 in Tuscon, Arizona. A trained musician, he was general manager of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra before joining the University of Arizona's public radio station, KUAT-FM, as a classical music announcer in 1975; he became station manager in 1990. Bucking the broadcasting trend away from classical music, he established a 24-hour classical format, pushed to install a translator system to extend transmission to rural communities, and published an orchestra guide for schoolchildren that won an award from the National Education Association. He wrote on the arts for the Arizona Daily Star and consulted for the Arizona Commission on the Arts. He leaves his wife, Mohur Sidhwa, and two brothers, Donald and Robert.

01/29/04:
Addie Closson visited John Livens in Florida recently, and John reported that Bill Roosevelt died on December 1, 2003. His obituary follows:

William Donner Roosevelt, investment banker and philanthropist, died in the early morning of Monday, December 1, 2003, following a seven-year struggle with prostate cancer. He was 72 years old. He was the grandson of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and of William H. Donner, a major figure in the growth of America's steel industry. Bill Roosevelt was an investment banker. He began his professional career as vice president of Electronics Communications, Inc., first in Denver, Colorado, and later in Wichita, Kansas. He joined the investment firm of Laird and Company, a Wilmington firm, based in New York, in 1962. He would become a founder of the firm of Auerbach, Pollack and Richardson in 1966. He moved to McKinley Alsop, where he served as managing partner. He would serve as senior vice president and head of the institutional office of Buckingham Research's Palm Beach office.

He joined Ryan Beck and Company of Palm Beach, FL where he served as senior vice president and headed their institutional effort. He was an advisor to several large institutional money managers, including Essex Management of Boston, Peter Cannell and Co. of New York, and several others.

Roosevelt was an active philanthropist. An airplane pilot since the age of 15, he served on the Board of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Foundation where his extensive flying experience enabled him to contribute to the development of many safety procedures commonly used in aviation today. His interests in sport fishing and diving would lead to his becoming the Chairman of the Perry Institute for Marine Science of West Palm Beach, Florida and the Bahamas. He was an active board member of the William Donner Science Foundation of New York and of the Donner Canadian Foundation of Toronto, Canada.

Bill Roosevelt was born in New York City. His father was Elliott Roosevelt, 2nd son of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. His mother was Elizabeth Donner of Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at St. Marks School of Southboro, MA, and at Harvard University in the tradition of the Roosevelt family. He studied law and graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 1958.

He resided in Palm Beach, FL. He was a founding member of the Doubles Club of New York, and a member of the Weeburn Country Club of Darien, CT. He belonged to the Camp Fire Club of Chappaqua, New York, and the Sailfish Club and Beach Club of Palm Beach, FL.

He is survived by his wife, Ava, and his two sons, Christopher Kyle Roosevelt of Portsmouth, RI, Nicholas Roosevelt of Wellington, FL, and a granddaughter, Alexa. His surviving brothers include Curt Winsor of McLean, VA, David Roosevelt of New York City and Tony Roosevelt of Dallas, TX, and his sister, Chandler Roosevelt Lindsley of Dallas, TX. A Memorial Service will be held in Palm Beach, Florida at a future date.

01/26/04:
Mickey Hammerman reports that Jerry Marsh died on January 19, 2003 after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Marietta, a son and two daughters. The family asks that flowers not be sent and that Jerry be remembered in memorials to The Friends of Harvard Football, Murr Center 65 North Harvard Street Boston, MA 02163.

Jerry grew up in Austin, Minnesota. While at Harvard, he lived in Stoughton and Lowell House. He played four years of football and was a member of the Freshman Union Committee, PBHA, the Student Council, the Varsity Club and Pi Eta, graduating with us in 1955. In 1956 he married Marietta Cashen and attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1958.

Jerry came to Chicago after law school and joined the firm of Hackbant, Rooks, and Pitt as a young litigator specializing in railway law. When Ted Kennedy became Massachusetts Senator in 1962, Jerry went to Washington, becoming Kennedy's Legislative Assistant.

Subsequently, he returned to Chicago to practice law, but was drawn into the governmental reform efforts of former federal prosecutor and then Sheriff Ogilvie. After a term as Cook County Board President, Oglivie became Governor of Illinois and appointed Jerry as his General Counsel with numerous special assignments in substantive areas of government.

Jerry oversaw the drafting of the Illinois income tax and was Ogilvie's liaison to the Illinois Constitution Convention of 1970. The adoption of that constitution created the modern framework of government in the state with changes that included the Executive budget, the line item and reduction veto powers, the amendatory veto, intergovernmental agreements, gubernatorial agency reorganization powers, and the abolition of the personal property tax in Illinois. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller expressed admiration that any Governor could persuade a constitutional convention to so thoroughly modernize executive powers, and Ogilvie credited Jerry with the accomplishment.

Ogilvie was not reelected in 1972 and Jerry returned to the private practice of law in Chicago, joining Hopkins and Sutler, a respected tax and corporate law firm, subsequently becoming Chairman; During the next 27 years he served as advisor to every Republican Governor, initiated broad new practices for the law firm, participated in the national development of business law, and was involved in legal initiatives that changed the face of Chicago and Illinois.

Until his death Jerry was a member of the National Commission on Uniform State Laws, a fifty state group that promotes uniform business laws for the purpose of facilitating a national market system. After the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement, he served as a member of the task force that sought the same objective with Mexico and Canada.

In establishing what became the nation's leading airport finance practice, Jerry pioneered the financing documents for the expansion of O'Hare Airport in the early '80s, He initiated the legislation creating the Chicago International Banking Zone that permitted substantial growth in international trade and finance for the city and served as General Counsel for Regional Transportation Authority.

Jerry played a leading role at Governor James Thompson's direction, facilitating the agreements with Mayor Byme that de-authorized the Crosstown Expressway permitting billions of federal transportation dollars to go into projects like the Columbus Street Bridge. That project opened the Chicago Dock and Illinois Central yard properties to downtown development. Later, on behalf of the United Center joint venture he directed the legal team that drafted the legislation permitting the construction and finance of that property. Noted William Wirtz, "When you retained Jerry Marsh, you could rely on having Judgment and prudence,"

In 1998 Governor-Elect George Ryan asked Jerry to Chair the Transition Task Force on Technology. It was an important subject area for Ryan who used the Committee recommendations to move Illinois ratings from 48 to 3 in government technology.

Numerous young lawyers and public officials looked to Jerry as their mentor. Rich Mathias, Illinois Insurance Director under Governor Thompson, said "Jerry Marsh was always constructive. He could always find a way to turn a difficult problem into a positive outcome." Said Governor Jim Edgar, "You went back to Marsh for advice because on reflection you recognized the extraordinary quality of thought he put into a problem."

In 2000 Jerry and six other attorneys moved their public law practice to Ungaretti and Harris. Tom Fahey, firm Chairman, said, " Jerry was the youngest 69 year old attorney I've ever encountered. He cared about people and loved new ideas." At Ungaretti and Harris Jerry directed the advocacy team that accomplished the financing and construction of the CTA tube at Illinois Institute of Technology and the Collections Resource center under construction at the Field Museum.

Jerry credited Harvard football coach Lloyd Jordan with changing his life, noting that in football and wrestling young men learned that character meant never giving up. Typically, on the day prior to the onset of his illness in 2002 Marsh filed the brief with the Illinois Supreme Court that ultimately sustained the financing and construction of the new football stadium at Soldier Field based in part on the intergovernmental agreement provisions of the 1970 Illinois Constitution he had worked so hard on.

Jerry is survived by Marietta, son Howard, daughters Courtney and Kim and three grandchildren. Marietta's address is 456 Elder Lane, Winnetka, Illinois 60093.

12/31/03:
Stephen Howard Labins of 177 Brewster Road, West Hartford, CT, 06117 died September 12. A longtime buyer for a retail chain, he found his true calling later in life as a librarian, math teacher, and prison counselor. He was a marathoner, dog lover, and nationally ranked bridge player. He leaves his wife, Lois (Winer), five sons, Barry Spaulding, Michael, Robert, Charles, and Donald, and a sister, Barbara Werblin.

12/14/03:
Herb Neuwalder reports that David Halperin died on December 3, 2003 in New York City.
"Terry and I attended a truly unique (wonderful) funeral service, and also paid a shiva visit to his wife Gayle, three daughters and friends at their home. David and I had both attended Stuyvesant HS in NYC but really didn't know each other very well until Terry, who is Voluntary Faculty at Mount Sinai Hospital discovered that he was a colleague there. He specialized in 'Cults' and published quite extensively. He also wrote poetry and was quite prolific in that area."

11/23/03:
The Class extends its deep sympathy to the Stern family on the death of Peter A. Stern on November 21, 2003. Pete was a member of our freshman football team and he and his wife Lisa were regular followers of Harvard football for many years, joining the Arena Club on Saturday afternoons at the Stadium. He was also responsible for producing a fine pair of sox for members of the Class of 1955. We will miss him.
Lisa can be reached at 55 Dunvegan Woods, Hampton, NH 03842. (603-926-6011). Condolences to his family may also be made at www.farmerfuneralhomes.com.

11/18/03:
Our classmate John Jacob Wiebenson, Jr. died in an accident on September 28, 2003. His wife Abigail resides at 1916 S. St., NW, Washington, D.C. John helped form the San Francisco firm of Agora Architects before moving to Washington in 1967 to become a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland School of Architecture. Later he started his own firm, Wiebenson & Dorman. He was a designer and community advocate for many Washington projects, including Bread for the City, Martha's Table, and Emmeus House. He enjoyed helping community-based organizations create cheerful environments at reasonable cost and, in many articles and editorials over the years, championed the city as a place for people, not just politicians.

11/07/03:
The Class extends its sympathy to the family of Lewis P. Freitas, who died on October 4, 2003. A Professor Emeritus of Finance at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, he is survived by his wife Aidi, daughter Roslyn and son John. They can be reached at 5438 Opihi Street, Honolulu, HI 96821.

11/03/03:
Carl Goldman reports the death of our classmate Richard A. Densmore on February 4, 2003. Carl received the information from Dick's brother Robert Densmore, who can be reached at Dick's address 15 Maple Heights, Clarement, NH 03743.

10/13/03:
The Class extends it sympathy to Jane Carey and her family on the death of Edward John Carey, Jr. on October 11. Ed worked for the Harvard Alumni Association in the early 60s.In the late 1960s he served as director of placement and student personnel at MIT. He then returned to Harvard's development office for 16 years before becoming manager of the athletics department ticket office. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Ed's memory to the Island Food Pantry, PO Box 1117 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 or to the charity of your choice. Those wishing to write Jane may do so at 24 MacArthur Road Natick, MA 01760.

09/09/03:
The Class extends its sympathy to Jim Pates on the death of his wife Marilyn on Saturday, September 6th, 2003.
A memorial service was held on Saturday, September 13th at 11:00 AM at the First Parish Church on the Green, 7 Harrington Road in Lexington. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Steeple Renovation Fund, First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Rd. Lexington, MA 02421.

06/30/03:
James J. Murray III died on May 8, 2003 after a lengthy illness. He was born in Boston and graduated from St. Clements High School in Somerville. During his undergraduate years he participated in varsity hockey and baseball and in intramural sports for Dudley House. Jim was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps upon graduation in 1955, served as a company commander, and was discharged as a captain. He had a lengthy career in educational publishing, including 23 years with Prentice Hall, Inc. In 1990 Jim joined the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C. retiring in 2002 as Vice President. An avid sportsman, he was a life-long Red Sox fan. He leaves his wife Judith, a daughter and three sons.

06/17/03:
David Wise reports with sadness the death of Michael Levinson on June 7, 2003. Michael is survived by his wife Akiko who resides at 1807 W.14th Ave. Vancouver, BC V6J 2J8 and six children.
Michael had served as a director of Gold Canyon Resources, Inc. in Vancouver, BC, since April, 1990, and as Chairman of the Board and President of Gold Canyon since April, 1997, and June, 1999, respectively. Gold Canyon is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral and precious metals on properties and currently owns and operates the Springpole Gold Project in the Red Lake Mining District of Ontario, Canada and its Cordero Gallium Project in Humbolt County, Nevada, U.S.A.

06/09/03:
Alan Jack Roth died on April 27, 2003. A resident of Kirkland House, Alan graduated in 1955 cum laude and received a L.L.B. in 1958. He spent 20 years in energy regulation at the Federal Power Commission, at the New York State Public Service Commission and up until his death at the law firm of Spiegal & McDiarmid in Washington, D.C. which represents governmentally-owned electric systems, certain state regulatory agencies and similiar clients. Alan is survived by his wife Susan of 9308 Arnon Chapel Rd.,Great Falls, VA 22066 and children Julia and Daniel.

05/26/03:
Obituary of Charles H. Nicholson, Jr., Harvard College '55

Charles Hathaway (Chuck) Nicholson. Jr., HC '55 passed away suddenly at his home in West Melbourne, FL on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002 at the age of 69.

Born in Boston MA, he was the eldest son of Charles and Mary Nicholson, the senior Mr. Nicholson an attorney and alumnus of the Littauer School at Harvard. Chuck grew up in West Quincy and attended St. Mary School. He was also an altar boy at St. Mary Parish. As a boy he enjoyed the outdoor life as a Boy Scout in Troop 30, where he was a First Class Scout, and at the family's summer residence at Rexhame Beach in Marshfield, MA. He went to Scout Camp in Bourne as Jr. Assistant Scout Master of Troop 30. His other major sport was swimming, and he was credited with saving several lives during tidal surges following a Northeast storm. In high school he was a varsity tackle on the Miramar football team and played intra-mural softball and basketball, sometime against his brother Paul's teams. He continued swimming in college.

Chuck Nicholson attended Boston College High School and St. Francis Seminary (Miramar), maintaining honor roll status throughout. He graduated from Harvard College in 1955 with a BA in English and American Literature and later attended the New England School of Law.

Charles Hathaway Richard Nicholson, Jr. felt a deep commitment to family, community, his church, alma maters, and the nation. His hallmarks were intelligence, humor, an upbeat attitude even in troubled times, generosity and sociability. He contributed to many charities, including the Society of the Divine Word, where he and his wife Gloria established a Scholarship in his parents' memory for the education of young seminarians. He also gave generously to Harvard College.

Chuck and his brothers attended the same elementary and high schools (Boston College High) . In college, while he attended Harvard, the four brothers attended two separate universities in Cambridge and Boston. Following his lead they helped each other in subjects where one had particular strengths and the others had a few weak spots. Memorable events were the afternoon chess game, open to all comers. Chuck also belonged to the Harvard Club of Palm Beach. In recent years he attended his high school 50th and college 45th reunions. He also participated in a family reunion in Boston honoring his father, Charles H. Nicholson, Sr. with a memorial tablet at Northeastern University Law School contributed by brother James E. Nicholson.

Chuck raised and educated four children from his first marriage: Charles H. III, MD, Robert James, Gary F., and Catherine A. McGee. He also leaves two step children, Carolyn and Tommy Nicholson and three grandchildren.

In the 1980s he moved to Palm Beach Gardens with his second wife Gloria Peters Nicholson and carried on a career as Computer Consultant throughout the Southeast. After Gloria's passing two years ago he moved to Melborne, FL to be near the ocean and his son Bobby's Florida home. He was looking forward to spending the holidays with his family and to his 70th birthday in March.

On his visit to Boston in March 2002 he enjoyed a birthday lunch at Cheers and in June attended his grandniece Kim's graduation from Boston College. He followed with keen interest the entrepreneurial pursuits of his brothers and raised important business and legal issues, offering advice when asked. Education and career development of the younger family members was a continuing concern and priority.

In addition to his children he leaves three brothers: Paul J. Nicholson of Boston, James E. Nicholson of Lincoln, and Dr. David W. Nicholson of Maitland. FL as well as an aunt, Lilllian Cashman of W.Roxbury, one granddaughter, Ashley McGee, 11 nieces and nephews, nine grandnieces and grandnephews and a large number of cousins. Through his grandmother Elizabeth Hathaway Chuck was a Descendant of Mayflower passenger and Mayflower Compact signer Degory Priest and was a great-great nephew of Isaac Allerton, also of the Mayflower. He is also a descendant of Revolutionary War Soldier Daniel Hathaway who was present at the siege of Boston. Other distinguished kinsmen include Chuck's Uncle, FBI Agent James H. Nicholson., as well as decorated veterans of every major conflict in US history. Contributions in memory of Chuck may be made to the American Heart Association 1301 South Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach. FL 33401, to the Society of the Divine Word, 184 Beacon St., Boston, or to the Alumni Fund of Harvard College. A memorial scholarship fund in Chuck's name will be established at Harvard at a later date. The family wishes to thank Chuck's many college friends who were a joy to him during his college years and throughout his life, especially Joe Sweeney, Bob Flaherty, and William L. (Bill) Sullivan.

Respectfully Submitted, Paul James Hathaway Nicholson, Part-time Graduate Student in Liberal Arts, Harvard Extension School, P.O. Box 6161, Boston, MA 02114.

04/10/03:
John Charles Arey, died on February 16, 2003. He is survived by his wife Bette and a stepdaughter Anne Stacy Hunt. His home address for years has been 11509 Parkview Lane, Hales Corners, Wisconsin 53130. At the time of our 25th Reunion he was the Wisconsin Regional Director of the National Conference of Christian and Jews, and held leadership positions in a number of organizations and societies in Wisconsin.

04/07/03:
The Class extends its sympathy to James Peale on the loss of his wife, Jean Darling Peale (R '59).

01/15/03:
John Geenty wishes to thank classmates who sent kind notes of sympathy after
the recent sudden and unexpected loss of his wife Nancy. "She was recovering
from knee replacement surgery when everything went wrong and her heart
stopped."

01/10/03:
Renny reports:
I have just received notice of the death of Charles Hathaway Nicholson, Jr. of 8 Dorchester Circle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418, on November 17, 2002. He was a marketing consultant, and is survived by his wife Gloria, two sons, a daughter and 3 grandchildren.

01/09/03:
Charles ("Chick") Kuhn III passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2002. A memorial service was held in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 8, 2003. Representing the class and speaking at the service were Fred Churchill, Ed Ginsburg and Bud Helfant. After college Chick attended Washington University at St. Louis Medical School and graduated in 1959. An interest in diseases of the lungs led him to become an internationally esteemed pulmonary pathologist He waa professor emeritus of pathology at Brown University and retired chief of pathology at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket. He published over one hundred thirty papers in his career, and served on the editorial boards of several professional journals. He was also a member of a number of advisory committees at the National Institutes of Health.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that contributions be sent to the Charles Kuhn Award, given annually for the outstanding graduate student presentation on the pathogenesis of disease. Such donations should be addressed to Brown University - Pathobiology Graduate Program, Charles Kuhn Award, and sent to Dr. Agnes Kane, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Box G, Providence, RI 02912.
Classmates who wish to extend their sympathy to his wife Nobuko Kuhn and the family can write her at 500 Angel Street, Apt. 612, Providence, RI 02906.

11/25/02:
Renny reports the following two deaths:

G. Bruce Thurmond died on November 23, 2002.

"Bob Flaherty reports that his best friend at Harvard College, Charlie Nicholson, passed away in mid November in West Palm Beach, Florida from a heart problem. Bob recalls there was a time when they were closer than he thought."

11/20/02:
Robert D. Hall, a resident of Harwichport, MA died on November 11, 2002. Bob graduated with us in 1955, served in the Army, and received a JD degree from Suffolk University. A life-long resident of Harwich, he was a member of the Harwich School Committee and the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School's district school committee. Bob also served on the Harwich Finance Committee and coached Pony and Little League baseball teams. He was also an interviewer of applicants from the Cape for Harvard.
Thanks to Bob Donahue for sending along the information.

11/11/02:
Alexander ("Sandy") Moss White died Nov. 5, 2002, at his home, Pachelbel Farm in Old Chatham, NY, surrounded by loving family. He will always be cherished by his wife Amy, children Alison Pena, Tim White, Chris White, Annie Plumer, Elsie White and three grandsons. His son Alec died in 1985. Born in 1933 in Glen Cove, NY, Sandy graduated with us in 1955 and from Harvard Business School in 1959. He was partner at White Weld & Co., Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Sr. investment banker at James D. Wolfensohn & Co. Upon retirement in 1989 he moved to Old Chatham where he created a beautiful farm, learning to grow and cut great quality hay. Continuing to work as a financial consultant, for the past decade Sandy was on the board of AMVESCAP. Devoted to the betterment of education, for 26 years he was a trustee and head of the finance committee of the Cooper Union. On the board of Nightingale Bamford School, from 1970 to 1979 and its president for four years, he was also treasurer of the Collegiate School, 1981-85. In Chatham, he was elected to the Public School's board in 1996 and served as President from 1999-2001. Thereafter he headed the Chatham Education Foundation, seeking to enhance arts and humanities in the Chatham schools. A man of clear-sighted action rather than words, Sandy pursued with tireless and quiet passion what he most loved - family and friends, the natural world, sport and music, and devotion to his financial and educational work. While a gentle person he was possessed of a steely sense of integrity, rationality and responsibility. Services will be held this Sunday at St. Peter's Church in Spencertown, NY at 3:30PM. Donations may be sent to the Chatham Education Foundation, c/o Chatham Central School District, Chatham NY 12037.
(Originally Published in the New York Times on 11/8/2002.)

11/11/02:
Renny regrets to report the death of Paul Duane Lejune on October 13, 2002.

10/18/02:
Evan Dawson writes:
Our 1955 classmate William Henry (Bill) Williamson died on Thursday, October 10, 2002, at his home, PO Box 491, Kennebunkport, Maine 04046 after a long illness (cancer). He was survived by his wife, Laury Williamson, and three children, Barry Carson Williamson, Joshua (Josh) Williamson and Joanne Williamson Duggan and three grandchildren by Joanne. Another son, Matthew, predeceased him. We had kept up with Bill and his family over the years. For the last five years or more until 3 weeks ago, he wrote a weekly newspaper column of liberal opinion published in many Maine newspapers. He was an astute political and social observer. Prior to that time he had been for 20 years a child welfare specialist for the State of Maine and before that a newspaper reporter in Portland, Maine. His acute grasp of reality, his ability to organize his facts and his thoughts, his wit and lack of bullshit were greatly appreciated by his friends. We will miss him.
Evan R. Dawson

10/13/02:
Renny is sorry to report the death of Marvin H. Taichert, AB '55, on June 20, 2002.

08/05/02:
It is with great sadness that Frank Nelson reported the passing of our classmate, Robert H. Zuege, A.B. '55, MD University of Washington,'62. Bob lived in Matthews his freshman year, and in Kirkland House until graduation and commissioning as Ensign, USNR.
After completion of flight training he was a command pilot in advanced naval patrol planes stationed at Whidbey Island, WA. He graduated from University of Washington Medical School in 1962, completed internship at Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA, and took his residency in anesthesiology at the University of Washington. He practiced his specialty in Seattle until he became increasingly incapacitated by multiple sclerosis which took his life on 14 January, 2002.
Shortly after his Harvard graduation, Bob wed Margery Halderman who passed away after 23 years of marriage. In 1991 he married Dorothy Anna Studley. There were no children. Bob took great pride in his military service. His funeral and interment services were with full military honors.

07/30/02:
Leonard Miller of Miami Beach, passed away at his home in Miami, Florida on Sunday morning, July 28, 2003, leaving his wife Susan and his children Stuart, Leslie, and Jeffrey, and ten grandchildren.
Lenny moved to South Florida shortly after he graduated with us in 1955, where he co-founded the Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's largest homebuilders. Lenny led the company as President and CEO until 1997, remained actively involved in the Company's leadership as the Chairman of the Board. He also served as chairman of a number of companies and banks in Florida as well as being deeply involved in numerous professional and community service organizations. In February 2002, Lenny and his wife, Sue were honored by the Miami Chamber of Commerce with the "Sand In My Shoes" award.
A loyal Harvard alum, Lenny was a tireless fund raiser for our Class as well as serving on the Committee on University Resources, the Visiting Committee of the College, and the Policy Advisory Board for the Joint Center for Housing Studies. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to Council For Educational Change, c/o The Annenberg Challenge, 150 SE 2nd Ave Suite 404, Miami, Fl 33131 or UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1475 NW 12th Avenue, Room C002 Miami, FL 33136.
Classmates who wish to extend their sympathy to his wife Susan and the family can write her at 23 Star Island, Miami Beach, Florida 33139.

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