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1. C. Peter McColough, 84

Tribe Posting : Lives : 12/16/2006

CEO of Xerox; served as chairman of United Way of America; served as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 1974 through 1976; served on the Board of Trustees at New York Stock Exchange, Citibank, Union Carbide Corporation and Knight Ridder; worked initially for Lehigh Navigation Coal Sales Company in the USA before making the switch in 1954 to Xerox; taking over the presidency of Xerox in 1966, significantly changed and altered the direction and goals of Xerox Corporation; by 1979, he had built up Xerox revenues to $7 billion a year and its annual earnings to $563 million.

2. Lawrence Thomas Hickey, 90

Tribe Posting : Lives : 12/06/2006

Businessman; president and CEO of Textron's Burkart/Randall division in St. Louis from 1968 to 1980; his career began with The A. O. Smith Corporation, first in their Milwaukee headquarters and then, from 1953 until 1964, as Vice President and General Manager of A. O. Smith's Glasscote Products Division in Cleveland, OH; in 1964, joined Textron, Inc. in Providence, RI where he served as a Group Vice President from 1964 until 1968; served in the Navy for the duration of World War II; his last assignment was as Naval Commander of Iwo Jima where he stayed until 1946; as Naval Commander, was present for the Japanese surrender at Chi Chi Jima; at retirement, had achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander with the courtesy rank of Commodore.

3. William Youngren, 75

Tribe Posting : Lives : 11/30/2006

Wrote music criticism for The Atlantic Monthly; taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1967, then at Smith College; in 1970, joined the faculty at Boston College, where he taught English literature and music; his dissertation on the songs of C.P.E. Bach became a book, published three years ago; published a book on semantics in the early 1970s after studying the work of Noam Chomsky.

4. Dean Brelis, 82

Tribe Posting : Lives : 11/22/2006

Foreign correspondent for NBC, CBS and Time magazine; wrote novels and nonfiction books; enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was soon assigned to work in military intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services; began his journalism career writing for the Boston Globe; worked as a correspondent for Time-Life from 1949 to 1954; in 1958 published his first novel, The Mission; two more novels followed: Shalom (1959) and My New-Found Land (1963); in the early 1960s, joined NBC, filing dispatches from the Middle East, North Africa, Cyprus and Vietnam; anchored the KNBC-TV Channel 4 nightly news in Los Angeles in 1967; collaborated with photojournalist Jill Krementz on "The Face of South Vietnam," a nonfiction work that examined the war's impact; next worked for CBS News; in 1974 returned to Time as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

5. S. Lane Faison Jr., 98

Tribe Posting : Lives : 11/13/2006

One of the nation's most influential teachers of art history; taught at Williams College from 1936 to 1976, serving as department chairman from 1940 to 1969; retired as Amos Lawrence professor of art; directed the Williams College Museum of Art from 1948 to 1976; from 1954 to 55, was executive secretary of Harvard's Committee on the Visual Arts; his books included Manet (1953), Guide to the Art Museums of New England (1958, greatly enlarged and republished in 1982 as The Art Museums of New England), Art Tours and Detours in New York State (1964), and Handbook to the Williams College Museum of Art; his essays appeared in the New York Times and Saturday Review, and in the early 1950s, regularly wrote art and book reviews for The Nation; served in the Naval Reserve during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander; was sent to the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in 1945 as a member of the Art Looting Investigation Unit; interrogated Nazi art personnel in Austria and Munich and wrote the official report on the formation of Adolf Hitler's art collection; from 1950 to 1951, the U.S. State Department employed him in Munich as director of the Central Collecting Point, supervising the return of art that had been plundered by Nazis.

6. Albert M. Chandler, 87

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/31/2006

Joined the Massachusetts National Guard, Yankee Division, in 1939; served as an intelligence officer in the 494th Field Artillery, 12th Armored Hellcat Division; was a liaison officer to the Free French Army; retired as a major; spent two years in army hospitals; established an independent insurance agency in Framingham, Mass.; founding partner of Chandler, Hoover and Giles Insurance Agency in Newton Centre, Mass.

7. Conrad Decius Nobili, 70

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/27/2006

Architect in hotel design, nationally and internationally; president of Jutras, Nobili, Dougenik of Duxbury, Mass.

8. Gherry Michael Hedin

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/27/2006

Taught a wide variety of college English courses at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, Portland OIC, Portland Community College, Mount Hood Community College, and most recently at the Kent campus of Green River Community College, where he received recognition for his outstanding teaching; had a series of articles on political analysis published in the Vancouver Columbian newspaper and served as the Department Secretary for the State Department of Rural Sociology; taught high school for two years.

9. Arthur Winn Banwell Jr., 83

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/26/2006

A.M. Harvard, 1953; A.B. Harvard, 1947.

10. Robert Donald Thornton, 89

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/25/2006

Emeritus Professor of English and State University of New York Exchange Scholar; international authority on Robert Burns and the cultural history of 18th century Scotland; taught at Harvard University, the University of Colorado, St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, TX), the University of South Carolina (Columbia), Kansas State University (Manhattan), and the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he chaired the department of English and World Literature; served overseas with U.S. Naval Intelligence as both a translator and interrogator.

11. Alan Herbert Foster, 80

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/25/2006

Adjunct professor of corporate strategy and international business at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan, 1983-2002; president, Financial Risk Management, Inc., 1983-2006; president, A.H. Foster & Co. (consultants in corporate finance), 1977-2006; worked for American Motors Corp., 1963-77, corporate director financial planning and analysis, 1963-67, treasurer, 1967-68; worked for Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., 1953-63.

12. Kenneth Herman Kates, 53

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/25/2006

Board-certified estate planner; lawyer specializing in real estate law; member of the State of Texas Bar College, the American Bar Association, and the Houston Bar Association.

13. Arnold W. C. Cawley, 81

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/24/2006

Owned and operated the Cawley Christmas Tree Farm with his wife Sarah for many years; taught high school English primarily in Middletown and West Hartford; served during World War II in the European Theatre.

14. John B. Haertlein, 86

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/24/2006

Business career capped as division president at Alcan Aluminum, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio; U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

15. Peter Seton Heller, 80

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/23/2006

Corporate lawyer and managing partner at Webster and Sheffield for 40 years; chamber music composer; philanthropist; director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1986 to 1990; overseer of Harvard College; president of the Harvard Club of New York; vice president of the Associated Harvard Alumni; vice president and trustee at the Brearley School; served the Public Education Association and Radcliffe College; vice president of the board and trustee of the New York Philharmonic; a director of the American Composers Orchestra; trustee and vice chairman of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center; former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Science; former Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Kathryn and Gilbert Miller Health Care Institute for Performing Artists.

16. Sue H. Ames, 70

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/21/2006

Taught second grade in the Scarsdale Public Schools for 25 years.

17. Ward McLaughlin Miller Jr., 73

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/20/2006

General counsel of Nabisco Brands and Avon Products; board member of Osco Industries; began his legal career at the law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn; in 1961, joined Standard Brands, later to become Nabisco Brands, where he rose to senior vice-president and general counsel; remained there through the RJR-Nabisco leveraged buyout in 1988-89, the largest buyout in history.

18. Austin Lawrence, 90

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/17/2006

Toured the country as the youngest member of the Benny Carter Band in the 1940s; authored the well-received and controversial biography of Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington and his World (2001); established a career in mental health; trained and taught at Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College; served as assistant to the commissioner of mental health for Massachusetts; was well known in and around greater Boston for his expertise on and devotion to civil rights and to the health and well being of urban black families.

19. Robert H. Manderson, 75

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/16/2006

Attorney, veteran of the Korean Conflict.

20. William Newell Chandler, 87

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/15/2006

Worked for various Uniroyal branches, becoming First Vice President of the Sumitomo-Naugatuck joint venture company in Japan 75-83; pioneered the use of ABS type plastic in appliances, automotive parts, and plumbing; served over three years in Alaska in World War II, reaching the rank of Major and Adjutant of Fort Richardson.

21. Nathan VanMeter Hendricks

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/15/2006

Employed by The Exxon Corporation for 30 years, retiring as director of environmental sciences; held many board positions and professional positions including being a past president of the American Petroleum Institute and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, of which he was a diplomat; served as an adjunct associate professor at New York University and a guest lecturer at Harvard University.

22. Richard Theodore Titlebaum, 67

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/12/2006

Painter, diarist, professor; taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Haifa, and the University of Witwatersrand; his paintings have been exhibited in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, London, and Massachusetts, including at the Fogg Art Museum.

23. John Hale Holdsworth, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/11/2006

CPA in the Boston Area; held the office of treasurer for the United States Figure Skating Association, Oxfam America, and the Cathedral of the Pines where he also served on the Board of Trustees for many years; Lieutenant JG with the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict.

24. Roland William "Ron" Dunnem, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/11/2006

Accomplished the first railroad end-to-end merger in the United States, combining Chessie System and Seaboard Coastline railroads to form the present CSX Corporation, while acting as chief legal officer of Chessie System Railroads in Cleveland, Ohio where he served as senior vice president of law and casualty prevention; president, managing partner and general counsel of various real estate companies; vice president, secretary and general counsel of Standard Brands, Inc. (1971-76); director of policy planning at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-71); law clerk for the then-New York supreme court justice Charles Breitel (1963-64); worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City (1957-63, 64-69); chief legal officer aboard a heavy cruiser, The Baltimore, which represented the United States at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; later separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant.

25. Hui Wang, 22

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/10/2006

Biochemical student, resident of Eliot House.

26. David J. McKeon

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/10/2006

Vice-President of New England Life Insurance Company.

27. Peter S. Hyndman, 64

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/09/2006

Served as minister of consumer and corporate affairs in British Columbia from 1980-1982, but resigned from cabinet amid charges of fraud; was later cleared by the RCMP; founding partner in the firm of Fraser Hyndman; elected to the B.C. Legislature as Social Credit MLA for Vancouver South in 1979; in 1990 joined the Loewen Group Inc. as senior vice-president until 1998, when he became associate counsel with Martineau Dumoulin LLP.

28. Jerome Gee Hellings, 86

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/08/2006

President and chief executive officer of the Atlas Mutual Insurance Company, the Fidelity Underwriting Agency, Inc., and the Rankin Benedict Company; began his career in 1948 in the grain business in Kansas City; later moved to Dallas with The Travelers Insurance Company; in 1954, returned to KC to join the three insurance organizations of which he later became president; during World War II, served in the Army of the United States three and a half years, attaining the rank of captain; was stationed overseas two and a half years in the Southwest Pacific, including New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippine Islands.

29. Joseph Edwards, 86

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/08/2006

As a partner at the firm of Bingham, Dana and Gould, represented the First National Bank and the Red Sox; served with the 1st division and later commanded an artillery battery during the Battle of the Bulge.

30. Jerome Frederick Fried, 91

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/05/2006

Worked for State Department, where he had a distinguished career, serving on the Policy Planning Council during the Kennedy Administration; served for two tours in Iran, once for US AID and then with the Harvard Advisory Group; sergeant in the Signal corps during World War II, serving in the Aleutian Islands.

31. Kenneth Johnson English, 81

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/05/2006

Lecturer at HBS, Boston University and Radcliffe; in 1961, began working for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and later at the Cambridge Redevelopment Center; joined U.S. Army in 1944, attaining the position of Staff Sergeant; among the first group of soldiers to go into Japan in the occupation after the war.

32. John C. Voosen, 63

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/04/2006

Chicago architect who designed many area churches and church renovations; joined his father's firm after graduating Harvard in 1968; about seven years ago, joined Church Building Consultants in Wheaton as chief architect and started to split his time between Chicago and California; buildings included St. Bernard's Catholic Church in Homer Glen, renovations of Our Lady Mother of the Church in Chicago, and Sts. Mark's and Nicholas churches in Evanston; also designed elements within many area churches such as altars, prayer rooms and baptismal fonts; his last design was for Three Rivers Church in Plainfield, which has yet to be built.

33. Arthur Grafenberg, Jr., 56

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/04/2006

Owner/operator of Grafco Inc., Allentown (PA).

34. Laurence Paul Corbett, 85

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/04/2006

Senior partner of Corbett & Kane, a management labor law firm in Emeryville and San Francisco, from 1966 to 1991; neutral arbitrator and mediator for labor disputes; staff counsel for United Employers Association and in sole practice before joining the management labor law firm of St. Sure, Moore & Corbett in Oakland in 1954; assistant industrial relations director of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company in Connecticut; member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association, serving as its president in 1965; chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco; active in that organization and the Labor and Employment Section of the American Bar Association for many years.

35. Linda Ann Blackwood, 66

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/04/2006

Writer for Travel Weekly; illustrated stories with her own photographs; editor at Scholastic Publications.

36. James H. Gilman, Jr., 87

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/03/2006

Served in the US Navy as a Lt. Commander on patrol in the North Atlantic from 1942 to 1944.

37. Norma Moseley, 75

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/02/2006

Housing rights activist; made a career of ensuring that the elderly and disadvantaged kept their homes in difficult times; worked for the Ecumenical Social Action Committee agency in Jamaica Plain in Boston.

38. Anthony Hail, 81

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/02/2006

Elder statesman of the San Francisco interior design scene who influenced dozens of young designers with his classical approach; moved to San Francisco in the 1950s and started a design business with A-list members of society circles: the Gettys, the Thieriots, the de Guignes and celebrity clients in Southern California, including actor James Garner; his work was featured in countless magazines, including Architectural Digest; worked in London for Vogue magazine.

39. Joseph Sullivan, 73

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/02/2006

Businessman whose company, Vigoro, went public in 1991 with sales of nearly $600 million; committed philanthropist who donated millions of dollars and much of his time to human rights and the arts; worked at Swift & Co. and its successor, Esmark Inc., from the late 1950s until 1983, eventually running the company's Estech fertilizer division; soon put together the company that became Vigoro, a lawn and garden products business, with Jay Proops, who also had worked for Swift.

40. Edward B. Kostin, 66

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/02/2006

Taxation advisory specialist; partner in PriceWaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor companies; managing partner for PriceWaterhouseCoopers's office in Stamford; embarked on a second career as a professor of tax policy and law at the Wharton School of Finance (MBA program) of the University of Pennsylvania as well as the University of Pennsylvania Law School; taught an advanced seminar in tax strategy and planning; on active service with the United States Navy from 1962-1966 stationed in Adak, Alaska and Yokoshuka, Japan; lieutenant in the Navy Supply Corps.

41. Eliane C. Condon, 81

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/02/2006

Director of Ethnic Studies of Language Education at Rutgers University; appointed by several governors to the New Jersey Ethnic Advisory Council; world lecturer and author on bilingual and bicultural education; advocate for preventive health care and wellness.

42. James Strauch, 89

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/01/2006

Known for pioneering enlightened medical care for those afflicted with diseases previously thought to be untreatable, including leprosy; cofounder of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; first chairman of the Department of Dermatology; established practice in San Antonio, and served the community as a physician for over 50 years; served in the United States Navy, where he participated in Operation White Fleet in the Pacific following World War II.

43. Wilfred Steiner, 90

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/01/2006

Member of the Department of History at the University of Dayton; department chairman from 1949 to 1969; assistant to the president for institutional studies from 1969-1983; university secretary and director of Government Relations from 1980 to 1983; after retirement, continued part-time as director of government relations until 1991.

44. William L. Shannon, 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 10/01/2006

Civil engineer, businessman, and leader in the geotechnical engineering profession; in 1954, with Stan Wilson, a Harvard colleague, formed Shannon and Wilson Inc., a Seattle engineering firm which focused on designing building foundations and earthen dams, geotechnical consulting, and earthquake engineering; worked on projects all over the world, including Alaska, Korea, Borneo, Portugal, Australia, and Vietnam; in 1969, became the founding president of the Associated Soil and Foundation Engineers, a professional group dedicated to the control and reduction of liability claims; was a founding member of Terra Insurance, a group formed to provide professional liability insurance for the engineering community; worked for the Army Corps of Engineers at various locations; during WWII, worked on projects to enhance national security including designing military runways in the Azores and gun emplacements on the Eastern seaboard; taught at Harvard for one year.

45. Dagmar (Bistrup) Coquillette

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/30/2006

Volunteer with the Red Cross; driver for Meals on Wheels; volunteer at the Viscardi School for Severely Handicapped Children in Albertson, Long Island; volunteer at the soup kitchen run by Market Ministries of New Bedford.

46. Reginald H. Phelps, 97

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/30/2006

Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard from 1950 until retirement in 1976, as well as Commissioner of Extension and lecturer in German history; served with the OSS during World War II.

47. Edward H. Atkinson, 84

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/29/2006

Secretary-Treasurer of Neiss Chemical until he retired in 1985; worked for Rohm and Haas for over 22 years in various locations in Pa., Ala., and Europe; World War II Naval Lieutenant serving on the troop transport USS Anderson as the navigation officer.

48. Richard Conger Bryan, 82

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/29/2006

President of the Whiten Machine Works in Central Massachusetts; president of the AMF Baking Machinery Division in Richmond, Virginia; held executive positions with The White Motor Company and Harris Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950's and 1960's; served as an officer on the USS Dentuda in World War II and participated in three war patrols and the atomic bomb tests on Bikini Atoll.

49. Gary Midkiff, 68

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/28/2006

Social worker for the State of Oklahoma; taught at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma; clinical administrator for Carlos Albizu University in Miami.

50. William H. M. Glazier, 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/28/2006

Blueberry grower and researcher; founder and three-term president of the New Hampshire Low Bush Blueberry Growers Association.

51. Robert Treat Paine Storer, Jr., 83

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/27/2006

Cofounded the Friends of the Vision Rehabilitation Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, where patients who could no longer benefit from surgery or medicine could get help coping with daily life; trustee at the infirmary for 33 years; became a champion fund-raiser for the Friends, tapping friends, relatives, foundations, former Harvard classmates, and the many contacts he had made during his more than 50 years as an insurance salesman; chairman of the New England Eye Bank; trustee of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; associate general insurance agent for John Hancock; served in World War II.

52. Eugene Greener, Jr., 85

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/27/2006

Practiced law in Memphis and in Marco Island, FL, and Naples, FL; served in the U. S. Navy during WWII and the Korean conflict.

53. Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr., 68

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/26/2006

One of the nation's top China scholars; UC Berkeley professor of Chinese history; helped open scholarly exchanges between the United States and China in the 1970s; served as educational adviser of the U.S. Inter-Agency Negotiating Team on Chinese-American International Exchanges; his books described topics as diverse as the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, the decay of its successor dynasty in the 19th century, unrest in China's Canton region after the Opium War, the philosophical influences on Mao Zedong and the role of the police in the extension of republican authority in the 20th century Chinese republican state; was fellow of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served terms as president of the American Historical Association and the Social Science Research Council.

54. Nancy Bower, 66

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/26/2006

Research assistant at Harvard.

55. Elroy E. Anderson, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/26/2006

First pediatrician on Cape Cod; founded the Bass River Pediatrics in 1961; Barnstable School Physician; Chief of Staff at Cape Cod Hospital; veteran of Korean War.

56. Elizabeth S. Corson, 67

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/25/2006

Taught history in Waltham, Mass., and at Wissahickon High School in Montgomery County; taught special education at Springfield Middle School in Montgomery County; volunteered at the McCall School in Philadelphia and in the environmental-education program in Robbins Park in Upper Dublin; taught English as a Second Language for the Willow Grove Literacy Council.

57. Barbara Klemme, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/25/2006

While continuing education at the University of London and the University of Minnesota, directed pre-medical advising, the Martin Luther King Program, and a program to increase the number of persons of color in all medical programs at the College of Liberal Arts; in a fellowship year, consulted with colleagues and universities, state agencies and non-profit boards; served as a trustee of Macalester College, Metropolitan Medical Center (later merged into Allina), Shattuck-St. Mary's School, Northwestern Bank of Stillwater (Wells-Fargo) and Seabury-Western Seminary in Evanston, Illinois; was elected to the Board for Theological Education of the Episcopal Church where she chaired the Committee on the Future and directed research that led to the publication of "The Care of Learning"; served on the Board for the Center for Sexuality and Religion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; was involved in other consultancies including Clare Housing, Hope House, and the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus.

58. Fred N. Spiess, 86

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/25/2006

Oceanographer and marine explorer who helped create an unusual floating laboratory that has yielded a bounty of information about underwater acoustics and sea currents; joined the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps in 1952; director of the laboratory from 1958 to 1980; director of the Scripps Institution from 1964 to 1965; named a distinguished professor emeritus of oceanography in 1990; began his career as a naval submarine officer.

59. Joseph Ebbett Jones, 89

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/24/2006

Had a distinguished career as a stock market analyst, management consultant, and certified public accountant on Wall Street and in Boston, MA; served in the Navy during WWII.

60. Robert S. Carter, 91

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/24/2006

Discovered the ruins of a substantial ancient seaport, by then partly submerged; based on this and other archaeological finds, became deeply involved both with the American Institute of Archaeology and the history department at the University of Washington; described his sailing adventures in his book Sail Far Away (1978); in the summer of 2005, completed and published an English translation of a World War I diary, Tagebuch Im Kriege, by the German physician and poet Hans Carossa; General of America Insurance (now Safeco) brought him to Seattle in 1951 to set up and head its then-new marine insurance division; worked in New York and Chicago as a marine insurance underwriter with The Atlantic Mutual.

61. Rogers V. Scudder, 93

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/24/2006

A classics teacher who coauthored the popular Jenney series of Latin textbooks; taught at Brooks School in Andover for 30 years; taught classes at Groton for more than three decades and tutored students until last year; in the late 1970s and early '80s, commuted to and from Rome, where he was director of the library at the American Academy; drove ambulances in North Africa and Italy during World War II.

62. James Lyall Stuart, Jr., 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/24/2006

Attorney; U.S. WW II Veteran.

63. John M. Cotton, Jr.

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/23/2006

World-class expert in millimeter-wave technology; worked for Alpha TRG, Georgia Tech, and the Air Force; served in the U.S. Air Force as a transport pilot during the Korean War.

64. Frank Abbott, 85

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/23/2006

Instrumental in forming the Colorado Community College system; worked for the American Council on Education; worked as director of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education; worked for the Regents of the State of New York; returned to Colorado to work for the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education; coordinated a program that recruited and trained minorities to get advanced degrees and then teach in colleges; was a supply officer in World War II.

65. George Saslow, 99

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/22/2006

Professor of psychiatry at the University of Oregon Medical School; taught for 60 years; served on the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board.

66. Richard W. Ittelson, 90

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/22/2006

Civilian engineer at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

67. Janice Sargent, 63

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/22/2006

Policy and planning officer with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board; worked as a freelance translator; taught French briefly at Queen's University.

68. Charles Benjamin Sears, 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/21/2006

Contract negotiator at California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.; cranberry grower; officer in the Navy in WWII from 1942 to 1946.

69. Thomas E. Moisan

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/21/2006

Chairman of the English department, St. Louis University; taught at Middlebury College in Vermont, Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA; Shakespearean scholar who published essays on "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Othello," "The Merchant of Venice," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Taming of the Shrew," as well as co-editing a collection, "In the Company of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of G. Blakemore Evans"; editor of Allegorica, a journal of medieval and renaissance scholarship.

70. Glenn R. Schultz, 79

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/21/2006

Investment banker; enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War; member of the Merchant Marines in World War II.

71. Chester K. Reichert, Jr., 79

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/21/2006

Vice President and Treasurer of Erie Press Systems; served in the U.S. Navy with the Merchant Marine.

72. Rodney B. Wolfard, 85

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/20/2006

Appointed by the International Mission Board as missionary to Brazil; pastored 3 churches in Texas, including the First Baptist Church in Jewett; taught at Duke University; served in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II.

73. James J. "Gus" Siragusa Jr., 80

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/19/2006

Served as a flight surgeon for the Navy in the Korean War; OB-GYN specialist in North Adams, Mass. and Springfield, Mass., from 1956-88; president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, 1987-88; president of the Hampden District Medical Society, 1963-84.

74. William Beverly Campbell, 72

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/19/2006

Taught and coached at Gilman School, Baltimore, MD, became assistant principal; taught and coached in Portland, OR, beginning in 1974; founded Campbell House antiques, Kendall Square, PA; ran bed and breakfast, Kendall Square; chairman of Nottingham Properties, Inc.; taught literacy in inner-city Baltimore and in Sunriver, OR.

75. George W. Dana, 87

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/19/2006

Joined Portland Clinic in 1951; taught pediatrics at OHSU; Medical Director of Reed College until retirement in 1987.

76. William Goodricke Donald, 89

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/18/2006

U. S. Navy Medical Officer for Destroyer Escort Division 8 in the Pacific, 1943-1947; physician for the Berkeley Police Department for 40 years; associate research physician, Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics, University of California, 1947-67; associate physician, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1967-2000; member of Alameda County, Calif., Grand Jury, 1994-95, foreman in 1995-96; docent, Shorebird Nature Center, Berkeley; founding member of the Board of Overseers, An Episcopal Mission to Convalescent Hospitals, 1981-2001, chairman, 1981-1996.

77. Carol Ann Conwell, 73

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/17/2006

Proprietress and part-owner of Chatham's Place restaurant.

78. Ruth Schecter Dreyfus, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/17/2006

Solo practitioner of law in Stamford, Connecticut for 40 years; member of the Connecticut Bar Association; member of the ethical review committees of Greenwich Hospital and Downstate Hospital; served on the Directory of the Lotus Club.

79. Shepherd Brooks, 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/16/2006

Tapped in the early 1960s by the Kennedy administration to help establish the Indian Institute of Technology in India. Dean of university development during the nascent years of Brandeis University; in 1950 became European director of The Salzburg Seminar in Austria, a nongovernmental organization that brings together people from different countries and cultures in an educational setting; editor at a newspaper in New York's Hudson River Valley for a brief time; lawyer in Chicago. Served in the South Pacific during World War II and left the Army several years later as a major.

80. Kevin Douglas Reynolds, 43

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/15/2006

Officer and pilot, U.S. Navy.

81. Robert W. Hartman, 68

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/14/2006

Assistant director of the Special Studies Division at the Congressional Budget Office, 1991-96; acting deputy director, 1987-91; senior analyst, 1982-87; senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, 1971-82; research associate, 1969-71; taught economics at Brandeis University, 1963-68. Numerous publications including Pay and Pensions for Federal Workers (1983).

82. Denning Schattman, 91

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Served in U.S. Army in Trinidad, 1942-45; admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1946; practiced law in Fort Worth for almost 50 years; founding member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association; represented injured railroad workers and laid the foundation for products liability law in Texas in a landmark case against the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.