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EUGENE HARRISON HARLOW '35cl, S.M. '36, died January 7 in Houston. A retired civil engineer, he was former executive vice president of Fredric R. Harris Inc., in Washington, D.C., died December 16. He was awarded the Bronze Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Croix de Guerre for his service with the Office of Strategic Services in France during World War II, having twice parachuted behind Nazi lines to establish contact with the French underground. Later he had a financial career abroad for many years, in London with American Overseas and Pan American Airlines, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with Aramco, and in Geneva with Salomon Brothers. He returned to the United States in 1965 and joined New England Merchants National Bank, retiring as a vice president. He leaves his wife, Anne (Ebrard), and two daughters, Deborah Hastings-Black and Margot Osborne '72; a son, Christopher, predeceased him.
DUNBAR HOLMES '35, LL.B. '38, of Lincoln, Mass., died December 23. An expert on the law of real-estate titles, he had been associated with the law firm of Hill & Barlow. He was a former 40-year resident of Wayland, where he served on various town boards; he also helped found the Big Brother-Big Sister Association of Boston and served as counsel for the Civil Liberties Union of N.H., died January 25. A retired librarian, she had directed the Sprain Brook Library in Yonkers, Florida in 1974 he became active in community affairs, serving on the corporate board of Jupiter Hospital and working for many years as a volunteer with the Jupiter Medical Center Auxiliary. He also sponsored jazz concerts at Jupiter High School. He leaves his wife, Harriet (Gross), two sons, Christopher and Frederick, and a sister, Eleanor Cowling.
EUNICE CROCKER GILMORE '36mcl, Ph.D. '43, died December 20 in Needham, Mass. She was a musicologist and an authority on child-rearing. After studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, she taught at the Longy School of Music and at Radcliffe. Her dissertation was on canzona, and she later wrote the entry on canzona in the Harvard Dictionary of Music. With her husband, the late John V. Gilmore, Ed.D. '47, a Boston University psychologist, she founded the Gilmore Institute, where they developed and taught classes in child-rearing techniques. Together they wrote two books on the subject, including A More Productive Child and Give Your Child a Future, in which they held that the key to raising successful children was to build their self-esteem through affection and praise. She leaves two daughters, Margaret '68, J.D. '89, and Martha '76, a son, John, a sister, Martha Boyajian, and a brother, Seth '41, M.D. '44.
JOHN SPENCER HUXTABLE '36, of Exeter, New York and Ohio, died November 15, 1996. His survivors include his wife, Vera.
CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD '36 died January 1 in Boca Raton, Fla. He leaves his wife, Marguerite (Rogers), two daughters, Peggy and Ellen, and two sons, Christopher '54 and William.
JOHN BRADFORD BARNEY '37 died November 7 in Camden, Me. He was retired vice president and counsel of Key Trust Co. and former associate counsel and secretary of Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. He was a certified meteorologist who served in the air force during World War II as a weather-forecasting officer for bomb crews. He leaves his wife, Sally Regan, and two daughters, Mary and Ann.
GEORGE DAVID HARTSTONE '37, of Arcadia, Cal., died January 3. He was a trainer of thoroughbred racehorces and administrator of the Southern California. His survivors include his wife, Doris (Comey).
LEMUEL BURROWS HUNTER '37mcl died January 21 in Capitola, Cal. He leaves his wife, Miranda (Randall), a daughter, Lucy, two sons, John and Douglas, and a sister, Edith.
FRANCIS DETWILER MOORMAN '37 died January 1 in New York Athletic Club's water polo team to three national championships in the 1950s, and also covered Olympic water polo for the Associated Press and wrote for many years for Swimming World magazine. He was a member of the water polo committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee and served seven terms as first vice president of U.S. Water Polo Inc. In 1981 he was inducted into the U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame, and in 1990 was the first recipient of the U.S. Water Polo Award. He leaves his longtime companion, Thomas Cracovia.
EDWARD HOLLISTER RIDDLE '37cl died December 15 in Lansdale, Pa. He was retired manager of the textile and paper chemicals sales department of Rohm & Haas Co. He was a longtime dedicated volunteer for Associated Services for the Blind in Philadelphia, serving as its director from 1957 to 1984, and spent many hours tape-recording science books and periodicals; in 1995 the agency's recording studio was renamed in his honor. He leaves his wife, Berniece (Harper), two daughters, Nancy Schlegel and Janet Pierson, two sons, David and Lawrence, and a sister.
THEODOR TEIMER JR. '37 died January 4 in Tucson.
FRANCIS HENRY BROWN '38 died January 4 in Cambridge. He leaves a daughter, Diane Colebourn, a son, Richard, four sisters, Mary Diamond, Catherine Divver, Barbara Clougherty, and Lorraine Kibit, and a brother, William; his wife, Eleanor (Tron), predeceased him.
EUGENE EMERSON '38, M.B.A. '42, died February 4 in Cambridge. He was a retired attorney for New England Telephone Co. A specialist in tax law, he earlier worked for several years as counsel to the U.S. Bureau of Ordnance and in the office of the U.S. Attorney General, in Oregon at Eugene and the author of Theistic Faith for Our Times: An Introduction to the Process Philosophies of Royce and Whitehead. He earned a Bronze Star for his service overseas as an Army chaplain during World War II. Some years ago he also received an American Civil Liberties Union Award for protesting the emplacement of a Christian cross in a public place in Eugene. His survivors include his wife, Ruth (Riley).
EDWARD DAVID WHITING '38, of Tucson, died May 20, 1995. He was a retired account technician with the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security and a longtime volunteer in local community organization and the independent political movement. He was a member of Clergy and Laity for Central America, an action group.
JOAN PRENTICE CHARLTON '39, of Coatesville, Pa., died June 16, 1995.
MONCRIEFF MITCHELL COCHRAN '39, of South Orleans, Mass., died July 2, 1997. He headed the Sea Pines School on Cape Cod until it closed in 1971 and later worked as a guidance counselor at Sea Pines Abroad Private School, in Faistenau-bei-Salzburg, Austria. A sailor, he once spent a year circumnavigating the United States via inland waterways in his 21-foot wooden sloop.
STANLEY GEIST '39mcl, A.M. '47, formerly of Paris, died April 27, 1994. An industrial engineer, he was for many years overseas manager and resident engineer at Copperweld Steel International Co., in Paris. After retiring he worked as a consultant to Davidson & Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of industrial machines in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
