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Archives: September 2006

Saturday, 30 September

Dagmar (Bistrup) Coquillette

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.

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Saturday, 30 September

Reginald H. Phelps, 97

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.

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Friday, 29 September

Edward H. Atkinson, 84

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.

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Friday, 29 September

Richard Conger Bryan, 82

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.

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Thursday, 28 September

Gary Midkiff, 68

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

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Thursday, 28 September

William H. M. Glazier, 92

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

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Wednesday, 27 September

Robert Treat Paine Storer, Jr., 83

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.

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Wednesday, 27 September

Eugene Greener, Jr., 85

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

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Tuesday, 26 September

Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr., 68

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.

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Tuesday, 26 September

Nancy Bower, 66

Research assistant at Harvard.

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Tuesday, 26 September

Elroy E. Anderson, 76

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.

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Monday, 25 September

Elizabeth S. Corson, 67

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.

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Monday, 25 September

Barbara Klemme, 76

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.

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Monday, 25 September

Fred N. Spiess, 86

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.

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Sunday, 24 September

Joseph Ebbett Jones, 89

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.

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Sunday, 24 September

Robert S. Carter, 91

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.

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Sunday, 24 September

Rogers V. Scudder, 93

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.

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Sunday, 24 September

James Lyall Stuart, Jr., 92

Attorney; U.S. WW II Veteran.

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Saturday, 23 September

John M. Cotton, Jr.

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.

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Saturday, 23 September

Frank Abbott, 85

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.

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Friday, 22 September

George Saslow, 99

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

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Friday, 22 September

Richard W. Ittelson, 90

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

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Friday, 22 September

Janice Sargent, 63

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

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Thursday, 21 September

Charles Benjamin Sears, 92

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.

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Thursday, 21 September

Thomas E. Moisan

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.

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Thursday, 21 September

Glenn R. Schultz, 79

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

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Thursday, 21 September

Chester K. Reichert, Jr., 79

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

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Wednesday, 20 September

Rodney B. Wolfard, 85

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.

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Tuesday, 19 September

James J. "Gus" Siragusa Jr., 80

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.

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Tuesday, 19 September

William Beverly Campbell, 72

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.

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Tuesday, 19 September

George W. Dana, 87

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

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Monday, 18 September

William Goodricke Donald, 89

September 19, 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.

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Sunday, 17 September

Carol Ann Conwell, 73

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

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Sunday, 17 September

Ruth Schecter Dreyfus, 76

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.

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Saturday, 16 September

Shepherd Brooks, 92

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.

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Friday, 15 September

Kevin Douglas Reynolds, 43

Officer and pilot, U.S. Navy.

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Thursday, 14 September

Robert W. Hartman, 68

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).

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Thursday, 14 September

Denning Schattman, 91

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.

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Wednesday, 13 September

Stanley Britton, 78

Chief financial officer of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority; served as a captain and KC-97 Stratotanker pilot with the Strategic Air Command in the Air Force.

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Wednesday, 13 September

William Ripley, 61

Author of the novel Prisoners, published in 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

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Wednesday, 13 September

Robert McDavid Smith, 85

Served as a captain in the Pacific Theatre in World War II; retired from the U.S. Reserves as a major in the 1960s; practiced law with the firm of Lange, Simpson, Robinson and Somerville; fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers; member of the Ford Foundation; member of the Board of The University of Alabama Law School Foundation; chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Legal Education; member of the Board of Trustees of The Farrah Law Society; argued cases before the United States Supreme Court; his practice included anti-trust, labor, utility regulation, estate planning, tax, commercial and personal injury litigation.

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Wednesday, 13 September

Gove Griffith Johnson, 94

Executive vice president and deputy to the president of the Motion Picture Association of America from 1971-83; executive vice president of the Motion Picture Export Association of America from 1965-71; assistant secretary of state for economic affairs in the John F. Kennedy administration; vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Motion Picture Export Association of America from 1953-62; administrator and economic advisor in the Office of Economic Stabilization from 1950-53; chief economist for the Bureau of Budget in 1948; assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt from 1939-40.

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Tuesday, 12 September

Philip Hankins, 75

Founder of Philip Hankins Incorporated, a computer consulting and services company which worked on programming the guidance system for the Apollo project, as well as on many other scientific and commercial projects; head of the computing department at the MIT instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Lab) where he worked in the development of MAC, an algebraic computer language that preceded FORTRAN, as well as writing programs to simulate missile trajectories; served in the U.S. Army in the NIKE missile division.

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Tuesday, 12 September

Bill Everson, 91

Worked in the Market Research Department at the The Dow Chemical Co.; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

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Monday, 11 September

Robert Williamson, 86

Dean of Kent State University's College of Fine and Professional Arts and Professor of Speech; practiced at the law firm of Spieth, Bell, McCurdy in Cleveland, Ohio; worked for his family business, The Lakewood Lumber Company, until it was sold in 1956.

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Monday, 11 September

Peter Greenough, 89

Financial columnist for the Boston Globe; reporter, copy editor, business editor, and associate editor at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio; lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

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Sunday, 10 September

Peter Matthews, 79

Started cable television franchises in Groton and Norwich, Conn.; treasurer and owner of Franklin Mushroom Farms; worked in domestic and international consulting at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Mass., serving as the manager at their location in Athens, Greece; worked at Allen Wood Steel Company; cryptographer and control tower operator in the Air Corps.

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Sunday, 10 September

Charles Enright, 76

Worked in project management and management information systems, particularly in the aerospace industry, serving at Martin-Marietta in Orlando, Florida and the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Mass.; appointed assistant director for applied systems in the Office of Management Consulting in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. in 1976, receiving an award for meritorious service from then-Secretary of the Interior, Cecil Andrus; served in the Air Force during the Korean War.

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Sunday, 10 September

Louis Tobian, 86

Faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School, served as professor of medicine and chief of the Hypertension Division from 1964-94 and chief of the Division of Renal Diseases from 1964-76; clinician; served as President of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and of the American Society of Hypertension.

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Sunday, 10 September

Francis Sleeper, 79

Maine correspondent for Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines from 1958-2005, famously covering the May, 1965 heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston and interviewing Ali while they jogged along the Maine turnpike together; reporter for the Portland Press Herald, the Portland Evening Express and what was then the Portland Sunday Telegram, remaining a reporter to the newspaper, and its affiliates, for almost four decades and becoming the newspaper's Business Editor in 1961.

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Saturday, 09 September

Jack Kirkland, 79

Practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Wilson, North Carolina from 1959-97.

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Friday, 08 September

Richard Blinder, 71

Founding partner of the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, playing a leading role in projects like the Rubin Museum of Art, the former Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan, and the renovation of Grand Central Terminal and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

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Friday, 08 September

Rogers Scudder, 93

Taught Latin at Groton School in Groton, Mass. from 1968-2005, and at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass. from 1936-66; collaborated on a four-volume series of textbooks, which became the most widely used Latin textbooks in the United States for nearly two decades; director of the library at the American Academy in Rome from 1976-83; served in the British Eighth Army for two years in Syria, North Africa and Italy; ambulance driver in the American Field Service during World War II.

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Thursday, 07 September

William Darnall, 69

Staff member in the Biology department at Southern Methodist University; served as County Manager of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Assistant City Manager of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Assistant Director of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation for the City of Dallas, Texas, and Executive Director of the Dallas Housing Authority.

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Thursday, 07 September

Edward Press, 93

Chief state public health officer in Oregon from 1967-79; emeritus professor of public health and preventive medicine and emeritus clinical professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the Oregon Health Sciences University; started the first poison control center in the United States, in Chicago in 1953; served as a Major in the Air Force during World War II.

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Wednesday, 06 September

Sylvia McGrath, 69

Regents professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas for 38 years; servd as department chairwoman for the past six.

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Tuesday, 05 September

Peter Labe, 76

Had a forty-five year career as a Wall Street analyst, at Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan; Smith Barney & Co; Drexel Burnham Lambert Buckingham Research and Nutmeg Securities; founded Labe Simpson & Co (acquired two years later by Credit Lyonnaise); and routinely received the highest rankings in the prestigious Institutional Investor annual Wall Street surveys; served for three years in the U.S. Navy as a Second Lieutenant.

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Tuesday, 05 September

M. Clay Vaughan, 65

Orthopedic surgeon at the Waltham Hospital in Waltham, Mass. and Mercy Hospital in Williston, North Dakota; served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army.

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Tuesday, 05 September

Guy Colburn, 85

Staff Attorney at the California State Supreme Court; worked as a research attorney in Berkeley and San Francisco for almost fifty years; served in the Army Signal Corps during World War II.

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Tuesday, 05 September

Lynda Hendrix, 56

President of the Spruce Creek Preserve Board of Directors.

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Monday, 04 September

John Stewart “Stew” Barney, 92

Treasurer and stores clerk at the Rye Neck School District; treasurer and comptroller at Picker X-Ray Corp; served two terms on the Rye Neck Board of Education; Captain AUS in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Sunday, 03 September

Paul Fried

Member of the history department at Hope College since 1953, becoming chairman in 1959, and the first director of international education in 1964; director of the Vienna Summer School for 19 years, receiving the Gold Medal of Merit from the Austrian Government in 1968; head of translation during the Nuremberg war trials and civilian investigator for the U.S. Air Force in Germany; served two years in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Sunday, 03 September

Lotte Feinberg, 62

Executive Director of Contemporary Systems, Inc., consultants specializing in education and urban action; Professor of Public Management at John Jay College for over thirty years; coordinated programs for the Massachusetts Migrant Education Project; publisher of the American Society for Public Administration’s journal, “The Key”; served on the editorial boards of Criminal Justice Ethics, Criminal Justice Review, Public Administration Review and the Journal of Drug Issues; former President of New York State Political Science Association.

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Saturday, 02 September

Almarin Phillips, 81

Consulted on major antitrust cases involving AT&T, I.B.M., Alcoa, P.P.G. Industries, Dow Chemical Co., CitiCorp, Nintendo, Netscape, Litton Industries, Johnson & Johnson, and Northwest Airlines; consulted for the Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Technology Assessment; co-director of the President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation; taught at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 1991; served in the Army during World War II.

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