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Archives: August 2006

Wednesday, 30 August

Robert McDermott, 86

Deputy group operations officer of the 474th Fighter Bomber Group in World War II, flying sixty-one combat missions; remained in Europe on General Eisenhower's staff after the war; served in the Pentagon; taught economics at West Point for four years; assigned as vice dean and professor of economics at the Air Force Academy in 1954; appointed dean of faculty at the Air Force Academy in 1956; appointed the first permanent dean of faculty and promoted to brigadier general by President Eisenhower in 1959; chairman and chief executive officer of the United Services Automobile Association.

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Tuesday, 29 August

Harrison Gass, 91

Vice president of manufacturing for Morse Shoe’s nine factories; opened Jonell Shoe in Lawrence, Mass., which manufactured inexpensive women's shoes, in the 1950’s; taught English to newly arrived Russian immigrants at the Hebrew College; intelligence officer in the Army Air Force during World War II.

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Tuesday, 29 August

Henry Lyons, 82

Vice President and Shareholder of Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Vice President of UBS/Paine Webber; served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

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Tuesday, 29 August

Russell Bennett, 69

Pastor of Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1968 to 2004.

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Tuesday, 29 August

Sidney Sherman, 95

Administrative Law Judge with the National Labor Relations Board.

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Monday, 28 August

James Reed, 89

Assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President John F. Kennedy, leading efforts to reorganize the Customs Service and overseeing several divisions, including the U.S. Customs, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Bureau of Narcotics.

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Sunday, 27 August

John Mebane, 91

Practiced internal medicine and cardiology at the Norris Biggs Clinic in Rutherfordton, North Carolina; Captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War II.

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Sunday, 27 August

Sherwood Francisco Gordon, 82

Decorated World War II pilot who had a thirty-year career at the Boeing Company.

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Saturday, 26 August

Morton Greenblatt, 89

Practiced at the law firm of Pomerantz, Drayton and Stabnick for ten years; served with the State of Connecticut Attorney General’s Office for four years, specializing in workers’ compensation; head of the City of Meriden Law Department in Meriden, Connecticut, for sixteen years.

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Saturday, 26 August

Robert Corpening, 86

Practiced law privately in Los Angeles, Calif.; co-author of the California Condemnation Practice; Judge Pro-Tem in the Los Angeles Municipal Court; practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966.

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Friday, 25 August

Karen Andrews, 60

Taught at the Middlebury College School of Languages.

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Friday, 25 August

Walter Brookings, 91

Founded the Carrier Taxi Service in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1963; founded Brookings Real Estate in Annandale, Virginia in 1957; taught at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and Blue Ridge School in St. George, Virginia; served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during WWII, receiving the American Theater Ribbon, Philippine Liberation 1 Star, WWII Victory Medal, and Asiatic-Pacific Theater 4 Stars.

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Thursday, 24 August

Zane Thompson, 72

Trust counselor at Fiduciary Trust Co. in Boston, Mass. from 1963 to 1982, serving as a vice president at the time of his retirement.

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Thursday, 24 August

Charles Andrews, 90

Attorney and partner at the Mackenzie Hughes Law Firm in Syracuse, New York for 41 years, retiring in 1990; served in the Army Air Corps Judge Advocate General's Dept. during World War II.

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Wednesday, 23 August

Joseph William Schmitt, 73

Independent management information systems consultant; member of the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the New York Academy of Science, and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE); served in the Army from 1956 to 1958.

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Wednesday, 23 August

Joseph Handros, 74

Practiced at the law firm of Arnold and Porter from 1990 to 2002; attorney for General Electric, presiding over their major acquisitions, including Utah International and RCA, and the growth of General Electric's financial services, and retiring as vice president, deputy general counsel in 1990.

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Wednesday, 23 August

Allen Dragone, 80

President and CEO of Akzo America from 1983 to 1990; president and COO at Celanese Corporation, where he had worked since 1966, from 1980 to 1983.

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Tuesday, 22 August

Marvin Barrett, 86

Author of numerous books on broadcasting; lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1968 to 1984; director of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism; longtime contributing editor for Parabola magazine; managing editor of Show magazine from 1961 to 1964; contributing editor for Time magazine from 1948 to 1952, and for Newsweek from 1955 to 1959; served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946.

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Tuesday, 22 August

Bill Howe, 76

Real estate investor; co-chair of the Save Tomales Bay Committee and board member off the Tomales Bay Association.

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Monday, 21 August

Robert Hoffman, 59

Co-founder and former managing editor of the National Lampoon; head of Coca Cola Bottling Group/Southwest, which grew to be the fifth largest enterprise of its kind in the country during his tenure.

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Monday, 21 August

Alexander Cushing, 92

Founder and chairman of Squaw Valley U.S.A. ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California; expanded the sport in the United States by bringing the 1960 Winter Olympic Games to Squaw Valley U.S.A.

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Sunday, 20 August

George Kandzie, 77

Staff pathologist from 1962 to 1984 at St. Vincent's in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Sunday, 20 August

Joseph Hamilton, 86

Active in various businesses in Costa Rica, including an airline operation in Central America; founded Texfi Industries; personal secretary for J. Spencer Love, founder of Burlington Industries; fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise during World War II.

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Saturday, 19 August

Virginia Lavender, 91

Taught elementary school at St. Christopher’s School, The Gill School and St. Thomas School, all in Richmond, Virginia, and at the Randolph School in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Saturday, 19 August

Wade Carden, 96

Distinguished career in the credit-card division of American Express and the grocery-store business; served in the office of the Quartermaster General in World War II, supplying American troops, receiving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and the Legion of Merit.

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Friday, 18 August

Delba Winthrop Mansfield, 60

Taught political philosophy at the Harvard Extension School and directed Harvard’s Program on Constitutional Government, inviting many distinguished visitors to Harvard; authored a translation of de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

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Friday, 18 August

Lynton Keith Caldwell, 92

Helped to write the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; professor emeritus at Indiana University; taught at Syracuse University, the University of California at Berkeley and Indiana University.

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Thursday, 17 August

James Powell, 88

Practiced ophthalmology for over 30 years; instrumental in the formation and development of the California Medical Society; captain and chief medical officer to General Patton's 3rd Army during World War II.

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Wednesday, 16 August

Arthur Pier, 93

Doctor known for his personal attention to patients and often making up to 14 house calls in one day.

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Wednesday, 16 August

Ronald Stanley Woodland, 65

Member of the English and theater arts department faculty of Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania from 1968 to 2002, where he directed numerous plays; co-founder of the Edinboro Theatre Company and artistic director from 1981 to 1998.

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Wednesday, 16 August

William Lewis, 79

Brigadier general in the U.S. Army for 28 years, receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit Award and the Bronze Star.

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Wednesday, 16 August

Michelle Knapp, 23

A.B. from Harvard, 2004; Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, in Mammalogy.

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Tuesday, 15 August

Russell Houghton, 88

Headmaster at Peacham Academy in Vermont; English department chairman at Schoharie Central School, Schoharie, New York; English department head at Beaver River Central School, Beaver Falls, New York; teacher, part-time coach, head of summer sessions for five years at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville, Maine; acting headmaster for one year at Coburn; served in the Army during World War II.

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Tuesday, 15 August

Frank Giese, 89

Professor at Portland State University; founder of the Red Rose School, where he also taught social and political science courses; navy lieutenant in North Africa during World War II.

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Sunday, 13 August

Norma Jean Calderwood, 84

Art history lecturer at Boston College, 1983-96; amassed a vast collection of Islamic art and donated it to Harvard University Art Museums.

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Sunday, 13 August

A. Paul Jones, 80

Vice president of the First Wisconsin Bank of Milwaukee; trustee, and acting president of Carroll College; director and president of Music for Youth.

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Sunday, 13 August

Edith Erlenmeyer, 97

Teacher and chair of the Foreign Language Department at the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, where she worked for 36 years and was honored by Wheeler’s establishment of the Erlenmeyer Scholarship for Excellence in Foreign Languages.

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Sunday, 13 August

Philip Levine, 91

Research fellow in the department of orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and in molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; professor of dental medicine and associate sean for student affairs at the University of Connecticut Dental School; practiced dentistry for 16 years in Boston.

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Saturday, 12 August

Jack Lesher, 72

President of Jack Lesher and Associates in Greenwich, Conn.; President of Mars. And Co., Inc. in Greenwich, Conn. from 1985 to 1987; President of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. from 1976 to 1985; V.P. at Home Group Financial Services in New York City from 1987 to 1988, and at Cresap, McCormick and Paget in New York City from 1988 to 1989; managing director at Korn/Ferry International in New York City from 1989 to 1993; Executive Chairman at REL Consultancy Group in London from 1994 to 1999.

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Friday, 11 August

Jane Pike Marx, 86

Women’s rights, civil rights, and social justice activist; psychiatric social worker.

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Thursday, 10 August

Daniel Bartlett, 25

A.B. from Harvard, 2003; Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona Department of Mathematics.

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Thursday, 10 August

Warren Iliff, 69

President emeritus and founding executive director of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif.; former executive director at The Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona, the Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon, and the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas.

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Thursday, 10 August

Gordon Lavenson Furth, 85

Executive with Marcona Corporation, with Cyprus Mines and with Amoco.

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Wednesday, 09 August

Paul Joseph Catinella, 94

Practiced dermatology and veterinary medicine; former physician-in-chief and president of medical staff at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; taught at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Wednesday, 09 August

John Weinberg, 81

Senior partner at Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990; served in the Marines during World War II and the Korean War, earning a promotion to Captain.

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Wednesday, 09 August

Isabel Bittinger, 97

Orthopedic surgeon at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; instrumental in the development of the North Carolina Zoological Society; started the Forsyth American Kennel Club in Winston-Salem.

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Wednesday, 09 August

Clarence Hewlett, 85

Master chess player; electrical engineer and computer circuit designer for General Electric, holding over twenty patents for mechanical and electric circuit designs; instrumentation designer on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

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Tuesday, 08 August

Diana Reeve, 90

Poet who traveled extensively in Europe in her early years. Her work and life were inspired by nature, particularly the rolling hills, fields, woods, and wildlife surrounding her Pennsylvania home.

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Monday, 07 August

Eliot Robinson, 88

Co-founder of the architectural practice of Frederick Stickel and Associates; designer of the State Police Training Academy in Lansing, Mich. and dormitories at the University of Michigan, which received a national AIA award for design excellence.

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Sunday, 06 August

John Cort, 92

First director of the nation’s first state-sponsored service corps, the so-called “Baby Peace Corps”; director of the Model Cities program for neighborhood improvements in Lynn, Mass.; helped run a Peace Corps division in the Philippines in the 1960s; business agent for the Newspaper Guild of Greater Boston; editor of Commonweal, a Catholic journal; managing editor of the Labor Leader in 1938.

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Sunday, 06 August

Frederick Kilgour, 92

Founded Online Computer Library Center, or OCLC, a vast computerized database comprising the catalogs of some 10,000 libraries around the world and available to all library patrons, in 1967.

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Sunday, 06 August

Edward Baczewski, 84

Senior Vice President at Cunningham and Walsh advertising agency; councilman and mayor of Harrington Park, New Jersey; served as a U.S. Army medic during World War II.

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Sunday, 06 August

James Tyson, 90

Author of “Target America” and two other books on public diplomacy and Soviet propaganda; market research director for Time-Life International; market research manager for IBM Americas/Far East Corp.; member of the Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Asia; U.S. Navy lieutenant with the Office of Strategic Services.

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Saturday, 05 August

George Babcock, 82

Practiced law in California for over 35 years; served in World War II.

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Saturday, 05 August

Frederick Aldridge, 89

Chairman of the social sciences division at Jacksonville University; colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Friday, 04 August

Irwin Markowitz, 78

Practiced law in Bergen County, New Jersey for fifty years; served in the U.S. Army, Judge Advocate's Corps in Germany.

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Thursday, 03 August

James Jandl, 80

Emeritus professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; author of the 1,500-page Blood: Textbook of Hematology, a book famous for its vast overview of the blood’s functions and diseases; also published Blood: Pathophysiology and Blood: Atlas and Sourcebook of Hematology.

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Thursday, 03 August

Vincent Dole, 93

Conducted the studies proving that methadone blocks heroin addicts’ cravings, at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1964; recipient of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award for his work.

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Thursday, 03 August

Dean Warner, 86

Stock broker at Robert W. Baird and Company in Wisconsin; served in World War II.

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Thursday, 03 August

Stephen Madey, 87

Practiced pediatrics and pediatric allergy at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge General Medical Center, and Woman's Hospital of Baton Rouge, all in Baton Rouge, La.; emeritus professor of clinical pediatrics at the Tulane Medical School; former president of the Louisiana Allergy Society; major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

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Thursday, 03 August

William Henderson, 94

Practiced law at the firm of Henderson, Brennan and Reder in Pittsfield, Mass., retiring in 1978; served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Wednesday, 02 August

Harold Scott, 70

Actor, producer, director, and the first black artistic director of a major American regional theater.

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Wednesday, 02 August

Henry Scammell, 72

Co-author of The Road Back, which detailed a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis ignored by mainstream medicine and inspired the formation of the Road Back Foundation for research and education about rheumatoid arthritis.

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Wednesday, 02 August

Roger Wilcox, 83

Cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgeon in private practice in Paradise Valley, Ariz.; organized and operated a surgical residency program at the Miner’s Memorial Hospital in Beckley, W. Va., where his studies of lung disease in coal miners helped lead to the first "Black Lung" laws; served in the Army in 1951, as a surgeon at the 8063 M.A.S.H. in Korea (with some of his exploits immortalized in the book, movie, and TV series “MASH”).

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Tuesday, 01 August

Norman Green, 85

Publisher who formed a trade magazine firm, Intercontinental Publications; assemblage artist.

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Tuesday, 01 August

Douglas Jordan, 80

Taught and curated archaeological collections at the University of Connecticut for over twenty-five years.

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Tuesday, 01 August

Morton Elsner, 93

Practiced law in partnership with his father, and with attorneys Aaron Nassau and Gerald Fields; World War II veteran and retired lieutenant colonel; instructor in the Judge Advocate branch department of the 1050th USAR School; voting precinct monitor in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Tuesday, 01 August

Elizabeth “Kippy” Archibald, 84

Director of adult education at Valley Community Presbyterian Church in Raleigh Hills, Oregon; secretary to the dean of the University of Oregon Business School; taught typing at the University of Oregon.

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Tuesday, 01 August

Henry Wheeler, 81

Practiced law at Hutchins and Wheeler in Boston for 40 years; Marine Corps aviator during World War II.

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