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PAUL DAVID MAGGIONI '55 died November 11 during a trip to Tuscany. An attorney in private practice for 20 years, he was longtime town counsel for his hometown, Dedham, Mass., where he had also served as executive administrator of the probate court, chairman of the housing authority, and as a school committeeman. He taught insurance law at New England School of Law. He leaves his wife, Cora (Ciriello), four daughters, Melise O'Sullivan, Suzanne Lenox, Cara, and Alexandra '92, and two sons, Paul and John.
MARTIN FOX ZETTELL '55, of Matawan, N.J., died December 13, 1998. He was printing production manager for Penn Office Supply Co. Inc., in Colo., died November 6. He was retired senior vice president, general counsel, and chief financial officer at Owens Corning, of Toledo, New York City. He was a Manhattan attorney and writer. For some years he was involved in the N.H. He was a clergyman and psychotherapist. He leaves his wife, Jacquelyn, four children, John, Lee, Bruce, and Caroline, his father, William, a sister, Anne, and a brother, Samuel.
JOHN CHARLES LIVINGSTON '56mcl died October 25, 1999, in Denver. He was the longtime chairman of the history department at the University of Denver, where he taught from 1963 until his retirement last September. In 1988 he received the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. He was the author of Clarence Darrow: Sentimental Rebel and coeditor of The Jews of the West. Long active in Colorado's Jewish community, he was a founding member and research director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, chairman of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, and president of the American Jewish Committee. He leaves his wife, Nancy (Melnick), a daughter, Julie, and two sisters, Barbara Carpenter and Carolyn Mohamed.
MAY WERTHAN SHAYNE '56mcl, of Nashville, died February 1, 1999.
MELISSA LEHMAN BUCHAN '57cl, of Portland, Ore., died December 20, 1998.
ROGER JAMES CORKE '57, of Concord, Mass., died November 21. He was retired from a 25-year career with the FBI in Boston, as a special agent and as the branch's chief legal adviser. He was a lifelong lover of ice hockey and summers on Cape Cod. He leaves his wife, Joan (Peterson), two daughters, Jenny and Susie, and a sister, Marilyn Shuckerow.
ROBERT BAUMGARNIER HILL '57 has died. He was a retired tax attorney who worked at one time for the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means.
LAMBROS JOHN LAMBROS '57mcl, J.D. '60, of Norfolk, Conn., died October 29, 1999. He was an investor affiliated with J.W. Childs Associates Ltd., in Boston. Earlier he was president and chief executive officer of Norfolk Holdings Inc., an independent oil and gas company in Houston. He leaves a daughter, Olivia, a son, John '87, and his mother, Niki.
CHARLES READ HAGER '59cl, LL.B. '62, died in October 1999 in New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and former vice president of the North Shore Committee against Thermal and Nuclear Pollution. He leaves his wife, Nancy (Mould), a daughter, Anne, five sons, Eric, Tim, Jonathan, Wayne, and Craig, and a brother, Bo.
SIGRID VALFELLS '60cl, Ph.D. '67, died November 11, 1998, in Reykjavik.
JOHN LAWRENCE RIKER '61, M.B.A. '66, of Rumson, N.J., died November 3, 1998. He was a securities analyst with the Manhattan investment management firm of Morse, Williams & Co. Earlier he worked for 10 years as vice president for corporate finance in the New York Society of Securities Analysts.
DANIEL HIGGINS KELLEHER '63mcl died October 31, 1999, in Needham, Mass. A lawyer, he was a member of Gaston, Snow, Ely, Bartlett and also practiced with his father and brother before opening his own office. He taught federal securities law at Boston College. He leaves his wife, Mary (Steele), three sons, Jameson, Edward, and Sean, a sister, Sarah, and two brothers, John and Peter.
RONALD PAUL THOMSON '63, M.B.A. '66, died July 25, 1999, in Pine River, Minn. He was a private futures and options trader at New York and London. He was former senior vice president in charge of the international commodities brokerage division at the Wall Street firm of Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes Inc. and former president of Olde Port Trading Corp., an international commodities trading firm. He leaves a daughter, Kristin, and his mother, Lucille.
ANDREW CHARLES LUTHER JR. '64, of Cincinnati, died June 11, 1998. He was former director of operations for the Williamson Co., a Cincinnati manufacturer of heating and cooling systems. Earlier he served as chairman of acquisitions and mergers at Casper Industries Inc. and as a consultant to Intelligence Direction, contractors to the U.S. Department of Defense.
CAROLYN RUTH FAWCETT '65cl died November 10 in Cambridge. She worked for nearly 30 years as a librarian at Widener, specializing in English-language book selection. She was a lover of music and literature. She leaves a sister, Brenda.
WILLIAM THOMAS O'DAY '66cl died November 26 in Los Angeles. He was a biologist who worked for 21 years as a cell culture specialist with the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. He leaves his wife, Lita (Parabot), a daughter, Allison, his mother, Margaret, six sisters, Margaret Sullivan, Mary Ann McGovern, Joanne, Christine Stack, Kathleen, and Maureen, and five brothers, John, Robert, Dennis, Paul, and Daniel.
MICHAEL LYNN HILTON '68 died June 13, 1999, in Decatur, Tex. He was a writer, librettist, and part-time roofer who regularly won awards for his architectural restoration work on the roofs and spires of Decatur's historic buildings, especially courthouses. A talented hobbyist as well, he spent two years on his masterpiece, a precision topographical map of the State of New York City. She leaves a brother, Richard.
EDMUND ALFRED WRIGHT '70cl died October 12, 1999, in Lebanon, Washington, D.C., firm of Nixon Peabody LLP, he was lead tax attorney for Gannett Co. Inc., the newspaper chain. He enjoyed sailing at his summer home near Rochester, California at Berkeley and a noted scholar of nineteenth-century American literature. As chairman of Berkeley's Academic Senate Committee on Admissions, Enrollment and Preparatory Education in 1995, she was instrumental in developing a new, more personalized admissions policy in response to N.Y., died August 21, 1995.
KATHARINE MONTGOMERY BIDDLE '93cl, of Charlottesville, Va., died on October 19, 1999. A former Crimson photo editor, she was an award-winning photographer and a talented natural athlete. She leaves her parents, Nicholas '63 and Joan, and two sisters, Barbara '93 and Virginia.
GEORGE E. FRASER, Special Student '26, died October 8, 1999, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a retired dentist and a veteran of World War I. He enjoyed raising Black Angus cattle and English bulldogs. He leaves a son, George; his wife, Grace (Aldred), predeceased him.
ROBERT DAVIS KING, A.M. '38, of North Easton, Mass., died December 2. For more than 50 years he was president of the Robert King Music Co., publisher of the seminal Music for Brass series. Generating scores in his own hand and printing the music himself on a press in his home, he edited works from earlier centuries and also published new music by both established and little-known composers. His Brass Players' Guide remains the primary source of information about brass sheet music in print. He was a benefactor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he served for 15 years on the board of overseers. He received the Bronze Star for his service in the Pacific theater during World War II as bandleader of the 81st Infantry Division. He leaves his wife, Sally, and two daughters, Judith and Nancy.
GUY HOWARD DODGE, Ph.D. '42, of Andover, Minn., died October 21, 1999. He was professor emeritus of political science and longtime department chairman at Brown University, where he taught for 35 years. He was a founding member of Brown's American Civilization Program and a past president of the New England Political Science Association. He was the author of two books, The Political Theory of the Huguenots of the Dispersion and Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism, and the editor of a third, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He leaves a daughter, Lynn Neuman; his wife, Dorothea, died in September.
NORTON BARR CROWELL, Ph.D. '46, died July 27, 1999, in Camarillo, Cal. He was a retired English professor who spent 22 years at the University of New Mexico and 15 years at New York City. He was a retired professor Romance languages at Brandeis University, where he taught for 40 years and also chaired the department of European languages and comparative literature and the School of Humanities. A leading authority on Portuguese colonial Africa, he wrote the first definitive book on the subject, Portuguese Africa. He served for many years as secretary of the African Studies Association and founded its publishing arm, Crossroads Press. He also wrote a number of children's books, including A Time of Troubles, which won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 1990. He leaves his second wife, Paula (Barker), four daughters, Amanda Cedrone, Priscilla, Sarah, and Anna, and a son, David.
SIGMUND DIAMOND, Ph.D. '53, died October 14, 1999, in Norwich, Conn. He was Giddings professor of sociology and professor of history emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught for 30 years. A lifelong defender of progressive ideals, he refused to cooperate when he was asked by the FBI to name names during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s; this caused Harvard to withdraw the offer of a teaching position, which in turn caused him to be turned down for teaching jobs at other American universities. His books include The Reputation of the American Businessman, The Nation Transformed: The Creation of an Industrial Society in the United States, and Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955. He leaves his wife, Shirley (Wilson), a daughter, Betty '69, M.D. '73, a son, Stephen, Ph.D. '76, J.D. '76, and two brothers.
JEANNE STERNLICHT CHALL, professor emerita of education and founder of the Harvard Reading Laboratory, died November 27 in Cambridge. A psychologist, she was a leading expert in reading research and instruction for more than 50 years and was the first to describe learning to read as a developmental process. She helped develop several diagnostic tools widely used by reading specialists, and advocated both the use of phonics and exposure to challenging literature as the best method of teaching young children to read. She was deeply involved in efforts to use television to help children learn to read and served as an adviser to the creators of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, on PBS. Her many books include Learning to Read: The Great Debate, Stages of Reading Development, and The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind; at her death she had completed a final book, "The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in Classrooms," to be published this year. At her retirement in 1991 she donated her personal library, comprising 9,500 textbooks, scholarly works on education and psychology, storybooks, novels, and readers and spellers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the Gutman Library. She leaves three sisters, Sylvia Rauch, Miriam Warmbrand, and Shirley Decker.
RONALD ROBERT GOURLEY, M.Arch. '48, a professor in the Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1970, died November 26 in Tucson. After leaving Harvard he served for 10 years as dean of the College of Architecture at the University of California at San Diego, where he assumed emeritus status in 1986. An impassioned critic of the arms race, he was former chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In 1962, he lost a run for the U.S. Senate to Edward M. Kennedy. He was the author of 12 books, including a 1990 memoir, Gentleman Rebel. In addition to his wife, he leaves a daughter, Sandra, J.D. '77, and two sons, Kenneth and David '70.
