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STEPHEN ALBERT FREEMAN '19scl, Ph.D. '23, died July 10 in Salisbury, Vt. He was a French professor and administrator at Middlebury College for 45 years. Passionate about the teaching of foreign languages, he founded or cofounded the Italian, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese schools in Middlebury's Summer Language Program and also established the college's first graduate schools abroad. In 1993, Middlebury celebrated the opening of an international center in his name, for the interdisciplinary study of languages through history, literature, and culture. He leaves three children, Hope, Caroline, and Harvey.
HORACE BANCROFT DAVIS '20mcl died June 28 in Chicago. He was a progressive activist and labor historian. A conscientious objector during World War I, he interrupted his studies at Harvard to serve instead as a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee. Later he taught at Simmons College, the University of Kansas City, Shaw University, and the University of Guyana. He was the author of several books, including Labor and Steel, Shoes: The Workers and the Industry, Nationalism and Socialism, Towards a Marxist Theory of Nationalism, and a memoir, Liberalism Is Not Enough. He also edited The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, the first English edition of the socialist leader's essays on nationalism. He was a lifelong Red Sox fan with an encyclopedic memory. He leaves five children, H. Chandler '46, Ph.D. '50, Terry, Barbara, Wilhelmina Caulfield, and Quentin Brown; his wife, Marian (Rubins), died in 1960.
ALBERT HAYDEN CHATFIELD JR. '22, of Rockport, Me., died June 14. He was a retired investment counselor and businessman. He worked for U.S. Playing Card Co., in Cincinnati, until 1931, when he entered the investment field, first with the firm of Haydock, Lamson & Co. and then with Brundage, Story & Rose. He was vice president of Chatfield & Woods Co., paper merchants, and secretary to Chatfield Manufacturing Co. After retiring to California at San Francisco, where a chair in hematology is named in his honor. He leaves a daughter, Susan '60, a son, Jared '58, and a sister, Sally Taft; his wife, Flora (Kaplan), died last year.
BOYD HIGGINS DUNBAR '25cl died July 21 in Tryon, N.C. He worked for more than three decades for the Bell System, retiring in 1965 as assistant treasurer of New England Telephone in Boston. An avid bridge player, he and a partner once retired the Bell System bridge trophy; he was also an expert amateur stonemason who enjoyed crafting landscaping walls at his family's homes over the years. He leaves a daughter, Meredith Carlson, and a son, Ronald; his wife, Elizabeth (Chase), died in 1997.
JOSEPH MANDELL '25, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., died October 9, 1996. He was the retired owner of Joseph Mandell & Co. Inc., a Boston wholesale floor coverings and importing firm. He earned his way through Harvard working as a professional musician, playing the trumpet in Rudy Vallee's orchestra. He leaves a daughter, Merle Shapiro, and a son, Stephen; his wife, Pearl (Bornstein), died in 1992.
LAWRENCE HANSCOM POWNALL '25, of Colorado Springs, died July 19. He was retired from a 45-year career as a rayon manufacturer with the American Viscose Division of FMC Corp. He was a past chairman of the Virginia Blue Ridge section of the American Chemical Society. In retirement he joined the Historical Society of California San Francisco Medical Center. He was a founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a past president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He leaves his wife, Jane (Hollister), a daughter, Lynda Connecticut General Assembly. Later he worked as a federal attorney in charge of the Los Angeles office of the Civil Division of the Justice Department and as an enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles. A naval veteran of World War II, he served afterward as a civilian legal assistant to the judge advocate general in occupied Japan. He was an avid lifelong sportsman and a competitive tennis player well into his eighties. He leaves two sons, John and James.
ANNA HARRIS CLARDY '29, formerly of Coral Springs, Fla., died October 28, 1998.
SAUL JOSEPH JAFFE '29mcl, J.D. '32, died June 11 in Albuquerque. He was an associate solicitor with the National Labor Relations Board in Arizona. His area of scholarly research was medieval French and Old Proven¨al literature, especially poetry. Before joining the Indianapolis, died February 12.
JOHN HARRY SELVIDGE '31, of Seattle, died October 15, 1998. He worked for many years as an industrial engineer in the aerospace division of Boeing Co.
LOUIS ROBERT WASSERMAN '31 died June 21 in Danbury, Conn. He was a world-renowned hematologist and List professor of medicine emeritus at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York. His affiliation with Mount Sinai Medical Center spanned 60 years. Director of its hematology division from 1953 to 1972, he wrote or collaborated on some 200 papers on red blood cells, iron metabolism, and the remediation of blood disorders; one of his most important contributions was his research into polycythemias, a class of disorders characterized by an oversupply of red blood cells. He was a past president of the American Society of Hematology. He leaves his wife, Julia (Wheeler), and a sister, Natalie Wolf.
THOMAS JOHN WHITE '31, of Moraga, Cal., died June 13. He worked for 40 years as a mechanical engineer in the industrial division of American Standard, in San Mateo, Cal., where he was involved in the selection and testing of large equipment for the fossil fuel industry and auxiliary equipment for nuclear power plants. He was a former regional chairman, director, and committee chairman of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, which established an award for research excellence in his name in 1980. He leaves two daughters, Kathleen O'Rourke and Jennifer Offringa, and four sons, William, Robert, John, and Richard; his wife, Adele (Kane), died in 1997.
