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PAUL JOSEPH MUNDIE '66cl, J.D. '70mcl, died September 2 in San Francisco. He was a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, where he had worked since 1970 and specialized in complex business transactions. A lover of the arts, he was a director and executive vice president of the San Francisco Opera Association. He leaves his wife, Lois (Levine), a daughter, Eleanor, two sisters, Mary Nelson and Judy Spreutels, and his former wife, Roberta (Mowry) '66, M.C.P. '70.
CAROL KAY '67mcl, Ph.D. '75, died September 12 in Pittsburgh. She was an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she had served on the faculty since 1989. Earlier she taught at Princeton, Amherst, New York University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the eighteenth century, she was the author of Political Constructions, a 1988 study of the political history, moral philosophy, and fiction of the period between the English Civil War and the French Revolution. She leaves her husband, Jonathan Arac '67, Jf '73, Ph.D. '74, and a brother, Jeffrey.
CHARLES NATHANIEL ALEXANDER '72mcl, Ph.D. '82, died May 21 in San Diego. Professor of psychology at Maharishi University of Management, where he had served on the faculty since 1984, he was department chairman and director of the university's doctoral program in psychology, founding director of its Institute for Research on Higher States of Consciousness, and codirector of its Center for Health and Aging Studies. The university has named a professorship in his honor. An authority on the effects of transcendental meditation on physical and psychological health, he wrote more than 70 research articles and coedited four books, including Higher States of Human Development and Self-Recovery. He leaves his wife, Victoria (Kurth), a son, Nathaniel, his parents, Esther and Frederick, and a brother, Jeffrey '69.
EDWARD BABCOCK HIRSHFELD '72cl died August 24 in Chicago. He was vice president of private-sector advocacy at the American Medical Association, where, as chief legal expert on health-law issues, he was designing a long-term program to protect patients and their relationships with physicians in the era of managed care. Before joining the AMA in 1988, he was a partner in the Chicago office of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, specializing in antitrust litigation and counseling, especially for the health-care industry. He had a lifelong love of wildlife and the outdoors. He leaves his wife, Susan, two daughters, Meredith and Margaret, a son, Alexander, his mother, Barbara Payne, two sisters, Lucy Griffin and Mary, and a brother, John.
RUTH VAN KOOY PAKALUK '79mcl, of Worcester, Mass., died September 23. She was former associate director of the Pro-Life Office of the Diocese of Worcester and a top official in the anti-abortion advocacy organization New York City. He was an associate director in the structured finance ratings division at Standard & Poor's. He leaves his wife, Teresa, his parents, Sang Joon and Young Hee, and two sisters, Michelle and Alice.
ELIZABETH THERESA MCNAMEE '95, of West Islip, Long Island, New York University. She leaves her parents, Maria and Frank, and a brother, William.
MAURICE NELLES, Ph.D. '34, died August 30 in La Jolla, Cal. A research chemist by training, he shifted his career to engineering after his wartime experiences working with Lockheed Aircraft and the War Production Board. After becoming a professor of aeronautical engineering at the University of Southern N.H. He was a business educator, accountant, author, and former state legislator. A certified public accountant in five states, he was Forbes professor of management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics of the University of New Hampshire General Court and for two terms as chairman of the budget committee of the town of Durham. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, two daughters, Ann Immel and Kathleen Day, and a son, J. Thomas.
ELISABETH CARR LAMBERT, A.M. '50, died July 7 in Ithaca, New York. He leaves his wife, Linda, a daughter, Meredith, a son, Aaron, his mother, Patricia, and a sister, Paige.
EDWARD TEED WILCOX, A.M. '49, a former longtime administrator in Harvard College, died October 28 in Cambridge. During his 38-year-tenure, he served as assistant dean of freshmen, acting director of admissions, director of general education, and director of the Core curriculum. He was a decorated veteran of World War II who had served as a staff sergeant with the Army Air Corps; in 1944 his B-24 was shot down over France and crash-landed in Switzerland, where he went on to do covert work for the Office of Strategic Services, smuggling American prisoners from Germany through Switzerland to France. He leaves his wife, Maud (Eckert), A.M. '45, a daughter, Karen '76, and two sons, Bruce '69 and Eric.
JOHN RHODES PARISH, M.D. '31, of Grinnell, Washington, D.C. He was Porter professor of fine arts emeritus at Harvard, where he taught for nearly three decades, and former chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington. An authority on the art of the Italian High Renaissance, he was the author of a monumental survey, Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, and Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence, as well as monographs on Parmigianino and Andrea del Sarto. A former student of art historian Bernard Berenson, he twice served as professor in residence in the Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Berenson's estate outside Florence, and remained a member of the I Tatti council until his death. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire, military division, for his espionage work with the British armed forces during World War II; he was also named to the rank of Grand Officer in the Order of the Star of Solidarity by the Italian government for his rescue work during the Florence flood of 1966 and is the only art historian ever to have received the National Medal of Arts. Professor Freedberg is survived by his third wife, Catherine, Ph.D. '81, a daughter, Kate, three sons, William '64, Nathaniel, and Sydney '95, and a brother, Charles.
