-
1.
Allison Rogers, A.B. ’04
-
Tribe
Posting :
Spotlight
:
06/16/2006
Purple is usually the color of royalty. But Rogers is the ultimate green queen: She entered the Miss Rhode Island contest to promote sustainable living. Rogers will champion “Protecting our Environment for Generations to Come” at the Miss America pageant in January 2007.
-
2.
Sarah J. Gregory, 52; Historian and Educator
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/19/2006
Sarah Gregory's passion for learning was evident in her work at the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service in Washington D.C., and at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, where she contributed to the museum's education programming.
-
3.
Herbert Lord, 88; Maritime Lawyer
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/12/2006
Maritime law will now have to soldier on without one of its foremost experts, Herbert Lord, whose death was announced today in the New York Times.
-
4.
Loyd Starrett, 72; Lawyer, Baptist, Town Moderator
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/10/2006
Loyd Starret, an active member of the Baptist church, offered no Christian charity to people who failed to make good on their promises to the small town of Rockport, Massachusetts, where the Boston Globe reports he served as town moderator for over 30 years.
-
5.
Nicholas Savage, 86; Businessman and Marine Veteran
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/07/2006
Nicholas Savage, educated though he may have been in the hallowed halls of Exeter and Harvard, was no sissy of a prep school boy, a death notice placed in the San Francisco Chronicle makes clear. This Minnesota native, who graduated with an SB from Harvard in 1942, fought as a Marine for Guam’s liberation during World War II, joining the national reserve upon his return home.
-
6.
Gustav Anthony Norwood, 90; Public Power Administrator, Historian
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/06/2006
Gustav Norwood, a public power administrator who was a “staunch believer that electricity is a public service, not a commodity,’” stayed a multitasking optimist to the end. When placed on oxygen tanks a few years before his death, Norwood quipped, “The immediate effect of these tanks is more oxygen to my brain, and my productivity doubled,” an obituary in the Columbian reports.
-
7.
Frederick C. Tarbox, 93; Traffic Engineer
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/05/2006
The gods of asphalt, red lights, and double yellow lines smiled today at they welcomed Fred Tarbox, Ohio traffic engineer and Boy Scout leader, into their well-paved kingdom.
-
8.
Henry Robert Weinstein, 90; Mathematics Professor and Furniture Manufacturer
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
05/05/2006
Henry Weinstein grew up knowing how to handle fruit. As one of seven children working in his parents’ produce business in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, the budding entrepreneur later became the owner of Waynline Furniture of Georgia, a death notice in the St. Augustine Record reports.
-
9.
Robert G. Stone, Jr., 83; Senior Fellow of Harvard Corporation
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
04/21/2006
Robert G. Stone, a man who helped shape the modern Harvard, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke, the Harvard Crimson reports. Once deemed “Harvard’s kingmaker,” this world-record breaking rower and World War II veteran chaired the presidential search committee that selected Larry Summers and headed Harvard’s biggest-ever capital campaign.
Stone, a frequent contributor to the university’s financial aid initiatives, was known for inviting students on financial aid to the Faculty Club to share breakfast. And as his hometown Greenwich Time reminds us, in between his Harvard duties, Stone was also an accomplished seaman who served as the commodore of the New York Yacht Club.
-
10.
Charles Veysey, 89; Businessman
-
Tribe
Posting :
Lives
:
04/19/2006
Charles Veysey, who reigned in an era when department stores were the kings of retail, died April 19, the New York Times reports. Veysey, who earned his Harvard M.B.A. in 1939, served as president of FAO Schwartz and later Frederick Atkins, a firm that handled the marketing and merchandising for dozens of major department stores.
