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Archives: July 2006

Monday, 31 July

Albert Mavrinac, 83

Professor at Colby College for more than 30 years; chairman of the government department at Colby from 1958 to 1982; government adviser in Cairo from 1965 to 1967 and in South Vietnam in the early 1970s; worked as an adviser in Togo, Jordan, and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; served in the Army during World War II and remained overseas to work for the postwar allied government.

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Monday, 31 July

Fred “Twig” Byers, 51

Partner in the corporate department at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.

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Sunday, 30 July

Victor Dawe, 85

Served as a pastor at numerous churches over 65 years.

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Sunday, 30 July

Franz Jevne, 93

Practiced law in partnership with his father for over thirty years; responsible for the property gift and legislative action to establish Franz Jevne State Park (named after his father) in Birchdale, Minnesota; served in the U.S. Army Infantry during World War II.

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Sunday, 30 July

Jeanne Coombs, 61

Member of the chancellor's staff at the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco; director of the Cal Tech Associates in Pasadena, Calif.

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Friday, 28 July

William Libby, 80

Professor of psychology at the University of Windsor from 1970 to 1991.

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Thursday, 27 July

Neil Twelker, 85

Founder of Neil Twelker and Associates, the third oldest geotechnical engineering firm in Seattle.

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Wednesday, 26 July

Rupert Pole, 87

Literary executor of his wife, feminist erotic writer Anais Nin, overseeing the publication of four unedited volumes of her writings; forest ranger in the San Gabriel Mountains; former actor; science teacher at Thomas Starr King Middle School in Silver Lake, Calif.

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Wednesday, 26 July

Robert Whisler, 84

Vice President and Corporate Controller at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in Racine, Wis.; served in the Quartermaster Corps in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Wednesday, 26 July

James Vandermade, 87

President of Sowerbutt Quarries; lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, serving from 1941 to 1946.

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Wednesday, 26 July

John Simpson, 84

Partner at law firm of Koteen and Burt, and at Kelley, Drye and Warren in Virginia; officer at Western Airlines in Calif. for almost fifteen years; managed a congressional district for President John F. Kennedy’s campaign in 1960; served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

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Wednesday, 26 July

Robert Peckham, 81

Judge, Pro Tem, Magistrate's Court in Clarke County, Georgia; Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Legal Aid and Defender Society at UGA until 1986; Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army and member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, retiring in 1968.

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Wednesday, 26 July

John King, 82

Founded the law firm of King and Navins in Wellesley, Mass.; trusts and estates attorney at Sherburne Powers and Needham in Boston, Mass.; Judge Advocate in the Air Force during the Korean War; served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

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Wednesday, 26 July

William Fenton, 93

Senior partner at Fenton, Chapman, Wheatley, and Kane; co-founder of the firm of Smith and Fenton, which closed in 1964; practiced law in New York City; served in the XIX Corps Artillery during World War II, landing in Normandy on D-Day plus 10.

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Tuesday, 25 July

Aubrey Good, 72

Founder, chairman, and C.E.O. of Cheddar’s restaurants.

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Sunday, 23 July

Bradford Simmons, 94

Surgeon at the Southern Pacific Hospital, Marin General Hospital, and San Quentin Prison; worked on the ship Hope in Brazil, at a Quaker Hospital in Kenya, an American Hospital in Samoa, and on the Navajo Indian Reservation at Ship Rock, New Mexico; flight surgeon on the U.S.S. Croaton during World War II.

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Sunday, 23 July

William Lee, 91

C.E.O. of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Department Stores; national merchandise manager for J.C. Penney’s; branch stores manager of Filene’s of Boston for 22 years.

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Saturday, 22 July

Ann Munro Kennedy, 63

Attorney with Reese, Pyle, Drake and Meyer in Newark, Ohio from 1981 to 2005.

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Saturday, 22 July

James Moore, 90

Partner and tax lawyer at Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz in Philadelphia; partner at the firm’s Washington office from 1969-1997; served in the navy during World War II.

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Saturday, 22 July

Bert Kaplan, 87

Professor of psychology and member of the founding faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz; helped found the university’s graduate program in the history of consciousness; stationed in Okinawa to treat soldiers for battle fatigue during World War II.

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Friday, 21 July

Gerald Ludwig, 76

Physicist at General Electric Research and Development Center for almost 40 years, with 40 publications and two patents.

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Friday, 21 July

Stanley Kellogg, 94

Independent consultant and sales distributor of metal windows under the name of Kellogg Assoc.; founder of Bailey & Kellogg Window Co. in Boston, Mass.; worked at Capital Products of New England in Dover, New Hampshire; sales manager at the Buckley & Scott Heating Co. in Boston, Mass.; served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Friday, 21 July

Nathan Hale, 75

Trusts and estates lawyer who practiced for 40 years at Shearman & Sterling; Kelly, Drye & Warren; Casey, Lane & Mittendorf; and Haythe & Curley, all in New York.

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Thursday, 20 July

Henry Hewes, 89

Theater critic for The Saturday Review since 1951, chief critic from 1955 to 1973; founder of the American Theater Critics Association; former president of the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Drama Desk; editor of Best Plays anthologies from 1960 to 1964; elected to the Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.

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Tuesday, 18 July

Andy Sudduth, 44

Olympic silver medalist in rowing; computer programmer who developed the server technology now used by many Internet providers.

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Tuesday, 18 July

Robert Guilford, 73

Practiced law at Baum Hedlund firm in Santa Monica, Calif., after several years of private practice, specializing in aviation accident cases; skilled pilot who spent more than 4,000 hours in the air and was authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to train pilots to fly vintage warplanes; participated in roughly ten air shows every year; co-founder of Warbirds of America, which promotes preservation and safe use of vintage warplanes.

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Tuesday, 18 July

Allan Friedlich, 89

Co-founder of the International Cardiology Foundation; cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1947 to 1997.

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Tuesday, 18 July

Vera Ferguson, 87

Worked in the physical anthropology department at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.; editor and publisher of numerous medical and specialty journals in Lexington, Mass.

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Tuesday, 18 July

John Price, 85

Colorado district court judge; county judge; practiced law in Walden, Colo.; served in the Battle of the Bulge and the occupation of Berlin in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Sunday, 16 July

William Jens Farden, 80

Owner of Outdoor Empire Publishing and Fishing & Hunting News; co-founder of Bilingual Books, Inc.; co-founder of Outdoor Emporium, a specialty store for fishing and hunting enthusiasts based in Seattle; owner and manager of Bodidris Hall, a hotel and restaurant in North Wales, from 1995 to 2002; taught English at Rogers High School in Spokane, Wash.; served in the Pacific during World War II.

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Sunday, 16 July

Arthur Ivey, 83

Founding partner of Ivey, Barnum and O’Mara, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Sunday, 16 July

William Davis, 86

Practiced and taught medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. for over 33 years, holding positions such as chief of hematology and oncology, chief of medicine, and chairman of the departments of medicine.

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Sunday, 16 July

Richard Garrett, 90

Had a family-owned dentistry practice in Glens Falls, New York; practiced with his father at the beginning of his career and with his son at the end.

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Sunday, 16 July

Thomas Bartlett, 87

Founder of Thomas F. Bartlett & Associates International Management Consultants in New York City, which boasts clients including the United Nations.

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Saturday, 15 July

Harold Morgan, 81

Vice president of Allendale Mutual Insurance Corp., an international commercial reinsurance corporation; decorated World War II veteran.

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Saturday, 15 July

Avard Brinton, 73

Buyer manager and secretary treasurer on the board of directors at the Brinton family business in Carmel, Calif.; employed at the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. State Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C.

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Friday, 14 July

Hartley James Chazen, 74

Founding partner of Chazen & Fox, specializing in securities, tax, and transactional law; professor at New York University School of Law; captain in U.S. Army reserves during World War II.

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Thursday, 13 July

Joseph Schildkraut, 72

Psychiatrist and renowned expert on the biochemical root of depression; professor of psychiatry at Harvard from 1967 to 2004; researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health throughout the 1960’s.

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Thursday, 13 July

Irving Kaplansky, 89

Mathematician, renowned for his groundbreaking work on commutative groups; Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, 1945 to 1984; director of the Mathematics Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, Calif., 1984 to 1992; member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; elected member of the National Academy of Sciences; president of the American Mathematical Society; author of "Infinite Abelian Groups," "Commutative Rings," and "Lie Algebras and Locally Compact Groups."

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Thursday, 13 July

Janice Sargent, 63

Policy and planning officer on the Ottawa-Carleton Board of Education; freelance translator; professor of French at Queen’s University.

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Thursday, 13 July

Lee Roy Martin, 90

Professor of Economics at North Carolina State College (1948-58), the University of Arkansas (1958-63), the University of Michigan (1963-66), and the University of Minnesota (1966-1981); advisor to the Planning Board of the Government of Pakistan, aiding in producing their First Five Year Plan of Economic Development; communications officer during World War II.

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Thursday, 13 July

Marvin Wise, 80

Practiced law at private partnership in Dallas, Texas for 31 years, specializing in wills, real estate, and probate and trusts; counsel to law firm of Baskin & Novakov; chairman of the Dallas Bar Association Section on Wills, Trusts and Probate and member of the Texas Bar Foundation; practiced briefly at the firm Thompson and Knight; taught English to officers as a member of the Air Corps during World War II.

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Thursday, 13 July

Edward Oakley Provost Jr., 83

Architect at Anderson-Nichols Co. and Childs, Bertinan, Tseckares, & Casendino; in the Army Air & Airways communication service from 1945 to 1947.

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Thursday, 13 July

Douglas McCallum, 76

Had a private law practice in Burlington, Conn.; practiced law at Gillespie and McCallum in Unionville, Conn.; served in the Korean War.

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Wednesday, 12 July

Malcolm “Mac” Mackinnon, 71

Chairman of the board and president at United Gilsonite Laboratories, a leading corporation in the paint and coatings business.

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Tuesday, 11 July

John William Money, 84

Psychologist at Johns Hopkins University pioneered theories on gender identity and sexual confusion; co-editor of Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, which led to more acceptance of the idea of sex reassignment surgery for gender-identity-confused individuals.

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Tuesday, 11 July

Peter G. Crone, 67

History teacher at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine, Trinity Preparatory School in Orlando, Fla., Bancroft School in Worcester, Mass., and St. John's School in Houston, Texas; counselor and swimming director at Camp Wampanoag in Buzzards Bay, Mass. and Camp Snipatuit in Rochester, Mass.

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Sunday, 09 July

David Titus, 71

Professor of East Asian studies and comparative politics at Wesleyan University; resident director of the Associated Kyoto Program with Soshisha, an exchange program for college students interested in Japan; author of Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan and numerous other publications.

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Sunday, 09 July

John Veblen, 86

Practiced law for 35 years in Seattle; served in the Air Force in World War II and the Korean War.

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Sunday, 09 July

Robert Forsberg, 87

Co-founder of Computer Control Co.; engineering designer at Keymatch Computer and Memory Technology.

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Sunday, 09 July

Robert Straetz, 85

C.E.O. of Textron Corp; president of Homelite, a manufacturer of chain saws and portable construction equipment; worked for the Manhattan Project during World War II.

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Sunday, 09 July

Jay Kaplan, 78

Supervisor and Chief of Psychological Services at the Rhode Island Juvenile Diagnostic Center; previously worked under Mental Health Services for Children and the Department for Children, Youth and Families; on the Executive Board of the East Bay Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; chairman of the Rhode Island Juvenile Justice Project ACLU from 1972 to 1973.

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Sunday, 09 July

Arthur Barrett, 88

Chairman of the English department at Middletown High School in Middletown, NY; taught English and speech at Altoona Center of Penn State University; chairman of the English department at the Central School in Newark Valley, New York; adjudicator of claims for G.I. benefits in the War Department during World War II.

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Sunday, 09 July

David Magoon, 24

Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia; was in his third year at Harvard Medical School at the time of his death.

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Saturday, 08 July

Maria Antonia Niven, 90

Founding member of the "Cares" Woman's Auxiliary of County USC Medical Center; member of the Junior League of Pasadena; served on the boards of Advanced Gifts for the United Crusade and PARAID.

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Saturday, 08 July

Joseph Snow, 80

Founded a surgical practice at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis; maintained a private surgical practice from 1959 to 1978; served for two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

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Saturday, 08 July

Donald Pocock, 82

Founder of Medfact Patient Education Films; Medical Director of Hospice of Stark County; Medical Director, Quality Assurance, and Director for the Emergency Department at Masillion Community Hospital; Medical Director of Rose Lane and Gaslight Nursing Homes; private practice in Internal Medicine; professor of military science and tactics at Vanderbilt University; battalion surgeon in the Korean War.

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Friday, 07 July

Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr., 94

Architect for over 60 years; designed the Berlin Congress Hall (1958), City Corps Center (New York, 1978), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1983), and the Landmark Tower in Yokohama, Japan (1993); chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s department of architecture; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and academician of the National Academy of Design.

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Friday, 07 July

Andrzej Pinno, 79

Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for over 30 years; worked in architectural offices in Poland, France, and the U.S.; former professor of architecture and urban design at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Universite de Montreal, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University, University of Toronto, and the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute.

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Thursday, 06 July

Michael P. Shanahan, 57

Lieutenant colonel in charge of all field operations of the Massachusetts State Police; senior corporate security manager and senior investigator at Bank of America; served for four years in the Vietnam War with the Marine Corps and was awarded many medals.

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Thursday, 06 July

Joseph C. Bothwell Jr., 83

Senior vice president at M/A-Com, Inc., a high technology company; lieutenant in military intelligence during World War II.

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Thursday, 06 July

Paul A. Lamothe, 86

Chief of medicine at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.; practiced internal medicine for 25 years in Natick; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Heart Association.

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Wednesday, 05 July

Theodore James Gordon, 58

Senior deputy director of Environmental Health Science in Washington, D.C., for 32 years.

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Wednesday, 05 July

Edward Benjamin Gardner, 86

Psychiatric director at the Berkshire Mental Health Center in Pittsfield, Mass.

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Tuesday, 04 July

Joseph Dodson, 96

Rear admiral and naval aviator in the U.S. Navy; held flag rank for over seven years; recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three stars, the Commendation Ribbon, the American Campaign Medal, the Victory Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal.

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Sunday, 02 July

Frank V. Snyder, 83

Chairman of Moore and Munger, a firm marketing waxes, clays, and petrochemicals; lawyer at the firm of Root, Ballentine in New York; chairman of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; founder, president, and chairman of the Stratton Mountain ski area; president of the National Ski Area Association; officer in the submarine service during World War II.

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Sunday, 02 July

Calvin Walter Schwabe, 79

Professor emeritus of epidemiology at University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Francisco; member of the Secretariat of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the World Health Organization; founding chairman of the Department of Tropical Health at the American Univeristy of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Sunday, 02 July

Jas Murray Howe IV, 81

Partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP for 30 years; served in artillery during World War II; member of the reserves; retired as colonel.

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Saturday, 01 July

Joseph L. Popp, 56

Evolutionary anthropologist and owner of Man and Nature Press; spent fifteen years living in eastern Africa, where he studied hamadryas baboons, wrote, published, and met his wife.

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Saturday, 01 July

Jon Riggs Fowler, 68

Furniture industry executive; former naval officer.

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