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JOHN JOSEPH CAREY JR. '37, of Hopkinton, Mass., died March 14. A retired educator, he devoted 38 years to three generations of children in Hopkinton as a junior-senior high-school teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools. After retiring to Washington, D.C. He had a long career as a management analyst with the federal government, mainly as a logistics officer for the Army. He devoted much time in retirement to his lifelong interest in American urban history. He was also an avid birder who enjoyed the arts and world travel. He leaves his wife, Edith (Stone) '39, four daughters, Paula Goldberg, Harriet Horvitz, Louise, and Deborah Berger, and a sister, Frances Robinson.
WILLIAM CHANDLER HASKINS '37cl died March 28 in Concord, Mass. He was retired executive vice president with Simonds Saw & Steel Co., in Fitchburg, and a dedicated alumnus. He was an associate director of the Harvard College Fund for the past two decades and a former secretary of his class. He was also a former member of the finance committee of the Town of Concord. A varsity rower at Harvard, he was a member of the Riverside Boat Club, the group of Harvard oarsmen who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games. During World War II he served as a naval air combat intelligence officer in the Caribbean and the Pacific. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Ivins), two daughters, Chandler Woodland and Beverly Dammin, and two sons, William and Thompson.
ROBERT GLYNN HESKETT '37, M.D. '40, of Spokane, died April 9, 1997. He was a pediatrician in private practice in Spokane for many years.
PERCIVAL HALL LOMBARD JR. '37 died February 15 in La Jolla, Cal. During a varied career he worked as an industrial safety engineer, a chicken farmer, and a portrait photographer. He was a world traveler, avid sailor, and amateur genealogist. He leaves his wife, Sybil (Moss), three daughters, Eugenia, Natalie, and Mary, two sons, Langdon and Peter, a sister, Rosamond Vondermuhll '32, and a brother, George '33, M.B.A. '35, D.C.S. '42.
JOHN CHENEY ANDREWS '38, of Cazenovia, Michigan and Pittsburgh. He was an antinuclear activist whose research in retirement led N.H. He was Hall professor of mineralogy and geology emeritus at Dartmouth. One of New England's preeminent geologists, he conducted research on systematic chemical changes in metamorphic rocks and their relation to the origin of granite., and did pioneering work on the radioactivity of New York City. He was also a literacy volunteer and a board member of Friends of the Library in Chatham. He leaves his wife, Doris (Ekman), and two sons, Donald and Stephen.
RICHARD BARTON KENNEDY MCLANATHAN '38, JF '46, Ph.D. '51, died March 16 in Portland, Me. An art historian, writer, lecturer, and consultant, he worked at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for a number of years as assistant curator, secretary of the museum, and editor of publications. Later he became director of the museum of art and community arts programs at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, in Utica, and director of the American Association of Museums. He was a founding member of the Washington.
RICHARD MACY NOYES '39scl, of Eugene, Ore., died November 25, 1997. He was the former head of the chemistry department at the University of Florida in 1973 he served as president of the Harvard Club of Naples and volunteered at the Naples Community Hospital. During World War II he was a member of the Corps of Engineers battalion that was shoring up the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen when it collapsed. He leaves his wife, Sally (Stevens), twin daughters, Carol McKinley and Sue, a son, Russell, and two brothers, C. Burgess '42, A.M. '51, and Edward '50.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GILL '40, M.D. '43, died March 29 in Boston. A past president of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, he supervised psychiatric services at Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care. He and his family spent many summers in South Penobscot, Me. He leaves two daughters, Nancy and Lucia Case, Ed.M. '90, and two brothers, Jonathan '41 and Peter '42; his wife, Erna (Hoffner), predeceased him.
HAROLD CORNELIUS PALMER '40, of Indian Wells, Cal., died February 7. He was retired assistant secretary of the New York City Health Care and Hospital Corp. and chairman of the William F. Ryan Community Health Center, a federally funded city clinic. A longtime community activist, he was a board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which he represented at many international conferences, as well as treasurer of the Manhattan Valley Development Corp., a sponsor of low-income housing.
MAY BRYANT CHEEVER '41 died April 17 in Bedford, Mass. She was a former director of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association and the first female director of the Harvard Alumni Association. She served 20 years as president of the United Nations Association of Pittsburgh and was honored as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania for supporting the UN and world peace. Later, as a volunteer at the Schlesinger Library, she catalogued the correspondence of Radcliffe president LeBaron Russell Briggs. She leaves her husband, Daniel '39, Ph.D. '48, two stepdaughters, Olivia, Ed.D. '95, and Holly '71, a stepson, Daniel '64, Ed.D. '74, and a brother, John Bryant '36, LL.B.'39.
HOWARD CHARLES GOODMAN '41cl, of Key Colony Beach, Fla., died February 6. A professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins's School of Hygiene and Public Health and Medical School, he was a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service. He also served as chief of the clinical immunology section at the National Institutes of Health and director of tropical diseases research at the World Health Organization. He leaves his wife, Jane (Robins), two daughters, Trudy, Ed.M. '73, and Julie, a son, Jonathan, and two brothers, Lewis and James.
ARTHUR JACOB MESSNER '41cl died November 10, 1997, in Cromwell, Conn. His survivors include two sisters, Rosemary Kern and Mallory Semple.
CHARLES WINFIELD OLIPHANT '41cl, Ph.D. '48, of Tulsa, died January 19. A geologist, he had been chairman of the board of Ceja Corp., an oil and gas exploration and production company.
