Research mathematician at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory; served as an intelligence officer in the Army during the Second World War.

Author who wrote three biographies, classical music reviews for newspapers, and mystery stories for magazines; pianist and composer; volunteered in the oncology department of Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco.

Served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Helped develop diesel engines and the Scout Vehicle.

Stress engineer with Boeing; chief engineer of the electro-mechanical division of Lear; president and general manager of the power equipment division of L.S.I.; president and general manager of Hypro Inc. and Sherwood Brass; captain in the Air Force during WWII; chairman of the Boy Scouts of America.

FBI agent during World War II.

Henry James, Peter DeVries and Washington Irving all lived in the imagination of Edwin Turner Bowden, who taught in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin.

Former president of Lesley College, who greatly influenced the makeup of the school.

A Bombardier Navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II, taken prisoner of war and freed by General Patton.

Professor Emeritus at New York University, oversaw the doctoral program in Social Psychology.

A passionate scholar, Robert McIntyre studied at Brown University, Marquette University, and Harvard University. He received his degree in industrial administration from Harvard Business School in 1943.

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.

The Boston Globe reported the passing of Peter H. O. Claudy, a member of ICG’s Board of Directors, on May 18.

Stanley van den Heuvel postponed Harvard Law to serve in the South Pacific during World War II.

According to a death notice in the Boston Globe, Horace J. Hayman, the former budget director of Liberty Mutual, died on May 15 in Methuen, Mass. A native of England, he crossed the pond as a young man, served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and attended Harvard Business School afterward, graduating in 1947.

Syracuse’s respected professor of mathematics L. Gaunce Lewis, Jr. died at 56 from a brain tumor, reported the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Few of us have the means or the smarts to exact revenge on a shark that has nearly bitten us in two; John Perry, however, had just that.

Even after earning two degrees in organic chemistry, Richard Peterson decided it was not too late enroll in Georgetown Law.

A Harvard professor inspired James Walker so much that he decided to leave Harvard. Realizing he wanted to become a teacher, he abandoned Cambridge to pursue a bachelor's in education from the University of Washington.

William H. White was a community leader in both education and business.

The Boston Globe today expanded on last month’s brief notice for Christine Hobart, in a longer obituary that outlines the intellectual passions of this professor and former mill worker.

William “Bill” Smith loved teaching almost as much as he loved building and flying model airplanes.

The Boston Globe calls Stanley Kunitz “more beloved than honored,” though that’s not quite accurate.

“How is it on whole wheat toast?” Johnny Carson once joked on The Tonight Show about Harold Kaufman’s invention. He was speaking of nothing remotely Nutella-like but rather Naval Jelly, a household and industrial rust remover.

The young Scott Charles Borkowski died unexpectedly at his home in Kittery Point, Maine, reports the Boston Globe.

The Portland Press Herald of Maine reports the passing of Clay Corson Jordon, Harvard College Class of 1938. Jordon’s management and sales career included stints at Gillette and Lockheed Aircraft, spanning such exotic destinations as Calcutta, India and Burbank, California.

The Salt Lake Tribune contains a tender notice for Eldon Reuben Cox, a retired businessman. The Idaho native attended Brigham Young University and Harvard, where he received his MBA in 1952.

Joseph Costa, the son of Italian immigrants, embraced his adopted town of Germantown, Tennessee, with gusto.

Centegenarian Vivian Botuck made sure that her contributions to science would continue even beyond her expansive lifetime: she bequeathed her mortal remains to SUNY-Stony Brook University, according to a death notice in Newsday.

Whatever Frederick S. Kullman's obituary lacks in length, it makes up for in breadth. The Times-Picayune describes Mr. Kullman both as "one of the best lawyers in America" and also - in its parting comment - "a passable ballroom dancer."

Not every Harvard graduate can claim descent from a family that founded another college. But David R. Arnold's ancestors, social reformers and abolitionists, created Knox College in 1837 to provide an education for all, including women and blacks.

Daniel Boone might never have expected his descendants to grow up in the moneyed world of Greenwich, Connecticut. But he would not have been surprised to learn that privilege did not keep Daniel Boone Schirmer from a free-spirited struggle against freedom and injustice.

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.

Kenneth U. Flood hit the ground running and never stopped. He held five degrees and three professorships, wrote a college textbook, served in executive positions in three companies and owned and presided over three more.

Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch noted the passing of Grace Elizabeth Potter, originally of Westwood Mass., who died May 8 at Friendship Village of Dublin, Ohio.

For a moving tribute to lifelong love, read the Boston Globe obituary for Fred and Betty Temple. During their sixty-five year marriage they shared joy in nature, family, and music, and died only a week apart from eachother.

Austin L. Starrett, a retired professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, died on May 5, 2006.

After serving his country in World War II and Korea, Jesse Cleveland Meadows, Jr. - or Dr. Jake, to those who knew him - served for another half century as a well-loved community physician in Alabama.

The Boston Globe reports in a short notice that Nathaniel J. Young, an alumnus of both Harvard College and Harvard Law, died on May 6.

Lawrence Lader was a writer whose intellectual and political energies found their outlet in this country’s impassioned abortion debate. He resolutely promoted the idea of abortion as a civil right, and in the process became, according to his obituary in the New York Times, “a lightning rod for its critics as well as a beacon for its proponents.”

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.

Two years before he died, Dean Winn and an eighty-seven year old friend traveled to Antarctica to mingle with the penguins. Such was the adventurous soul described today in an obituary in the Mail Tribune of Jackson County, Oregon.

“Damn, Pete had quickest wit I ever saw!” The online condolence book for Peter J. Buckley Sr. is full of such testimonies to his kindness and sharp sense of humor.

Drexel A. Sprecher, who put his Harvard law degree to good use as a leading prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, died of a heart attack on March 18.

While William H. Smith could count himself among the alumni of Harvard Law School, law was only one part of his rich and varied life.

Music, tennis, golf, traveling, and hiking in the Great Smokies. These were just a few of the passions of Thomas Lee Ross, Jr. A graduate of Davidson College and Harvard Business School, he worked in banking for 35 years and was executive regional vice president of Northwestern Bank before he retired, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Not many people can say they’ve served as a judge, liberated a concentration camp, been named Lincoln, Nebraska’s “Most Eligible Bachelor,” danced with Jackie Kennedy, and addressed the American Bar Association on civil rights in 1963. John R. Baylor could.

WWII veteran, native of Oconomowoc, WI, Andrew James Zafis was memorialized in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and will receive military honors at his inurnment later this month. The Law School graduate sailed, led songs, and dabbled in the visual arts. He relocated to the San Diego area, whose Union-Tribune ran the notice of his son John's death two years ago; the son's ashes were scattered at sea.

Twenty-three years after announcing his son's engagement, the New York Times printed a notice marking the death of William L. Weiss, a graduate of Syracuse University and Harvard Law School. Weiss was the chairman and CEO of Helena Rubenstein, Inc., the cosmetics concern.

An architect, a selectman, and an army sergeant: Richard W. Cote was all three. Cote, of Framingham, Massachusetts, served as a sergeant and squad leader in the U.S. Army in World War II before attending Harvard, where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, according to the MetroWest Daily News.

What’s in a name? Victor Lee Cary was named for Robert E. Lee, the famed general by whose side his grandfather fought. According to the Washington Post, Cary himself went on to become a brigadier general in the United States Army.

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.

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.

Car mechanic and photographer, milkman and Harvard graduate, avid hiker and lover of nature, William S. Campbell was many things in his long life.

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.

A student leader among Harvard College Native Americans who hoped to put his training in economics to good use developing his home community was instead fatally shot there on May 3.

Alexis Bespaloff, a Romanian-born wine critic, received warm, admiring tributes from Wine Enthusiast, decanter.com, and the New York Times.

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.

A little town in Alabama mourns its native son. Walter A. Parrent studied at the likes of HBS and LSU School of Banking, according to a notice in the Opelika-Auburn News, but it was in his hometown of Opelika that he was able to conduct a 41-year banking career, culminating in a presidency and CEOship of a locally-based holding company.

Gilbert “Gib” Taylor dedicated the bulk of his career to teaching design and woodworking at Marlboro College, while maintaining an active creative and musical life himself, said an obituary in Vermont’s Brattleboro Reformer.

A spartan little notice in the Chicago Tribune commemorates Thomas Heenan, graduate of HLS (class of 1960) and a college in New Haven, CT. He contributed to the Republican cause, and his son speaks French.

John W. Harris spent most of his life around blood. Fresh out of Harvard Medical School, he served as a captain of the U.S. Army Medical Corps on the battlefields of the European theater during World War II.

A notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News marked the death of John L. Jenkins, a 1969 graduate of Harvard Law School.

A career of more than 40 years with the Coca-Cola Company took Italian-born Sergio Dolfi to cities around the world, and allowed him to collect the exotic woods that fed his passion for sculpting.

Born in Santa Barbara, California to poor Italian immigrants, Julio Bortolazzo was acutely aware of the value of education, and over the course of his career, he dedicated himself to expanding higher education opportunities for San Mateo County’s youth, said an obituary in the San Mateo County Times.

A 1951 graduate of the Harvard Business School, Thomas Francis died April 22 at his part-time residence on Maui, after a long struggle with emphysema and several forms of cancer, said a notice from the Denver Newspaper Agency.

There’s no such thing as an ex-Marine, Nelson Briggs used to say, according to a notice in the Boston Globe. Briggs was many things: a nationally recognized technical writer, a 1953 graduate of Harvard College who went on to Harvard Graduate School, and a teacher of English at Beijing University. But after his service in the Pacific theatre of WWII, he considered himself a Marine first and foremost. Briggs was born in Medford, Mass. raised in Boston’s South End, worked for a Bedford Corporation, and after retiring entered New Hampshire’s 100 Acres Monastery.

On May 2, the number of people on Earth who have personally met Benito Mussolini dwindled by one. A notice in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us that Julian Shakespeare Carr accompanied his stepfather, AJC publisher Clark Howell, on a 1935 goodwill visit to the Duce.

Elizabeth Jackson's obituary in the Boston Globe throws in the characterization of "scrappy" amidst stories of near misses with German fighter pilots during World War II and a "serious suitor" whose identity remains a mystery.

They don’t make 'em like they used to. Detroit-born Virgil Byerly joined the ranks of Ford Motor Company after earning his M.B.A. in 1955, and he stayed with the company for the rest of his career. A notice in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution commemorates him and his commitment to local charities and educational institutions. Some things don’t change, though, like the kind of drive he showed before he even got to Harvard: “He was Valedictorian of his high school class, student body president, star quarterback of the football team, outstanding first team all-state basketball player and state champion in the half-mile.”

An aviation, literary and probate lawyer and pioneer of educational television, Joseph Iseman died of cardiac arrest at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on April 25, reported the New York Times.

Multitudes of major national and international dailies featured full-length obituaries for John Kenneth Galbraith, an economics philosopher, political adviser, ambassador, prolific best-selling author and, after his retirement, TV host.

Canadian-born and educated at the University of California-Berkeley, Galbraith maintained a ubiquitous presence through multiple U.S. administrations, according to the New York Times. Among those subject to his political influence were Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Roosevelt and Clinton, and Senator Eugene McCarthy. However Galbraith may be best remembered for his unabashedly liberal economic arguments that favored intervention by the government to rein in corporate power and distribute more tax money to public services.