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JAMES PAGET WHITTALL JR. '56 died November 18 in Rowley, Mass. As director of archaeology for the Early Sites Research Society, he trained young children in the basics of archaeology in Salisbury for 15 years. He also participated in field work throughout New England, as well as in Portugal, Ireland, and Scotland, and conducted several trips to Colorado to study petroglyphs. He was the author of Myth Makers: Epigraphic Illusion in America. He was an army veteran of the Korean War. He leaves his wife, Constance (Farley), two daughters, Rean and Heather, a son, Bayard, his mother, Milicent Tuckerman, four sisters, Edgeworth Ginns, Milicent Thropp, Jane Tuckerman, and Susan Costello, and a brother, Arthur.
QUENTIN EDWARD DE STREEL '57, of Easton, Pa., died April 22, 1998. He was the longtime director of the Easton Area Public Library.
PAUL FRANKLIN VERDEN '57cl died August 8, 1998, in Oconomowoc, Wisc. He was retired from the faculty of the University of Santa Clara, where he taught sociology for 25 years. He was a lifelong musician who played jazz and Afro-Cuban percussion with many groups in the Minnesota.
THOMAS BRATTLE GANNETT JR. '59 died November 14 in Boston. He was the founder and president of Land/Vest Inc., a company that specializes in managing large properties in rural New England, and more recently of Enviro/Vest Inc., devoted to the development and preservation of land resources. He also served as president and general manager of Crotched Mountain Ski Area, in Francestown, New York. He leaves his wife, Clara (Shapiro), a daughter, Lauren, two sons, Eric and Kenneth, and two brothers, Joel '51, LL.B. '54, and Lee '54, LL.B. '57.
RICHARD JAMES WATSON '60cl, of Baltimore, died February 26, 1996. An architect and community activist, he was a former project architect and director of the interior-design department at Lapicki/Smith Associates, P.A., in Baltimore, and former president of the Mt. Vernon-Belvedere Improvement Association. His driving concern was the effect buildings have on the people who use them and the effect a city has on its residents and visitors.
WINSTON PERRY BULLARD '64 died October 15 in Canton Township, Mich. He was a former Vermont Medical School and a consultant on disability to the World Health Organization. He was poet laureate of the Katahdin Medical and Philosophical Society. He leaves his wife, Jeanne, a duaghter, Rebecca, a son, Jonathan, his parents, Rebecca and Michael, a sister, Elizabeth Wolf, and three brothers, Christopher '72, Jefferson, and Jonathan.
DAVID ASHLEY BRYAN '73cl, formerly of Albany, died March 4, 1998.
DOUGLAS C. GORDON '77mcl died in October in a kayaking accident in Tibet. A veteran white-water expeditionist and a member of the U.S. white-water slalom team from 1981 to 1987, he and three other paddlers were attempting a pioneering descent down the Tsangpo River, one of the last great uncharted rivers of the world. He was a doctoral student in chemistry at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and formerly served as a guide at the Nantehala Outdoor Center, in New York City. He was Kelley associate professor of neurology at the University of Washington, D.C., died October 20 from complications of lupus. Former executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, he was a correspondent in the Washington Monthly magazine. He leaves his parents, Mary and Jerry, and two sisters, Gigi Georges and Stephanie Comfort.
J. RICHARD WALKER '90cl, of Salt Lake City, died September 1, 1996. He was completing his medical residency at Johns Hopkins at the time of his death.
ANTON WINTHROP-SAKAI SEGAL '92cl died November 24 in San Francisco. After graduation he spent three years teaching English to Japanese high-school students as part of the JET Program, and had also worked as a scuba-diving instructor at Sharm El Sheikh, on Na'ama Bay, in South Sinai, Egypt. He was beginning a career as a travel writer; one of his articles appeared in the January issue of Travel and Leisure magazine. He leaves his parents, James '61, L '65, and Yasuyo, and two sisters, Erica and Laurie.
MATTHEW STEVEN ABRAMSON '96mcl died of cancer on November 9 in Pennsylvania Department of Education. After retiring he taught mathematics to prospective schoolteachers at Harrisburg Area Community College. He was the author of three college mathematics textbooks and a treatise on the Susquehanna River. He leaves two daughters, Romaine Macht and Dolores Parry, and a sister, Mary Anderson; his wife, Laura (Henninger), predeceased him.
ARTHUR FRANCIS SMULLYAN, Ph.D. '41, died October 22 in Tacoma. A philosopher and logician, he was Distinguished Professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of philosophy at Rutgers University. Earlier he chaired the philosophy department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He also served as president of the International Center of Medieval Art. He was a retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He leaves his wife, Patricia (Hoyle), and three daughters, Christine, Nancy, and Katharine.
RALPH LAMONT MOSHER, Ed.D. '64, died October 9 in Newton, Mass. He was professor emeritus of human development and counseling psychology at Boston University and a former associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught from 1960 to 1972. His theoretical work was translated into local educational reform with the establishment of the "school within a school" at Brookline High School, an innovative program that set the national standard for democratic secondary-school education. In 1987 he became the first recipient of the Massachusetts Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Teaching in Psychology. He played soccer semiprofessionally in Germany in his undergraduate days and had a lifelong interest in ornithology. He leaves his wife, Jessica, three daughters, Robyn, Pamela, and J. Suzanne '91, and a brother, Donald.
HOWARD WILSON EMMONS, S.D. '38, died November 20 in Boston. He was McKay professor of mechanical engineering emeritus and Lawrence professor of engineering emeritus at Harvard and was considered by many to be the father of fire science. His pioneering studies of house fires, in which he re-created entire furnished rooms in a laboratory, set them ablaze, and monitored the consequences, demonstrated how combustible materials interact and how fires grow by stages. That work led to the development of the first computer models for fire prediction and to the reform of the nation's building and fire codes. He won many prizes and medals in his field and chaired numerous boards, such as the National Bureau of Standards Fire Panel. He was a longtime resident of Sudbury, where he also formerly served as a selectman and as chairman of the school committee. He leaves a daughter, Beverly, and two sons, Scott '67 and Keith '70.
