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RICHARD MARTIN KLEIN '39cl, J.D. '42, of N.H. He was a professor of education who taught at a number of institutions, including Columbia, Wheelock College, Harvard, and Wayne State University. He was former chairman of the elementary education department at Wayne State and co-director of a national project to train teachers for urban schools through a partnership between the university and Detroit public schools. He also enjoyed directing a U.K.-U.S. teacher-exchange program every summer. He was an editor and contributing writer in Partnership in Teacher Education: A New Order in Student Teaching. He leaves a son, Jonathan, a sister, Prudence Giffin, and two brothers, Benjamin and Cornelius.
WILLIAM HETHERINGTON DELONG '40, of Falmouth, Mass., died December 7. A retired insurance executive, he was retired vice president and secretary of NBA Insurance Agency Inc., in Norwell, and former director of National Businessmen's Association Inc., in Marshfield. He leaves a daughter, Elizabeth Goodman, a son, David, M.P.A. '84, a stepdaughter, Helen Lizak, and two stepsons, Mark and Benjamin Harrington.
DWIGHT DICKINSON '40 died September 24, 1997, in Newport, R.I. He was a retired Foreign Service officer who served in Mexico City, Curaçao, Beirut, Rabat, Paris, Washington, and Lomé, Republic of Togo, where he was ambassador for three years. He was an avid trout fisherman. His survivors include his wife, Eleanor (Hoge).
BARBARA KILBY AUERBACH '41cl, of Brookline, Mass., died January 2. A retired market researcher, she loved the cultural and intellectual life of New York City, died January 25. He was a counselor at law with the firm of Marans & Schindler, in Rockville Centre, New York City. He was a retired government psychiatrist who won three campaign medals and the World War II Victory Medal for serving with the Army Medical Corps as administrator of a large prisoner-of-war hospital in Germany. A U.S. Amateur Chess Champion at the age of 23, he was the author of a book, Predicament in Two Dimensions: The Thinking of a Chess Player, which had three printings. He leaves his wife, Aristea (Drivas), a daughter, Athena, and a son, Will.
JOHN DOUGLAS OLIVER '41 died December 16 in Reading, Mass. He was retired music director in the Reading public schools, where he taught for 33 years. After retiring he volunteered as a teacher's aide, helping students prepare musical performances for local nursing homes. He leaves his wife, Carol (Johnson), a daughter, Janet, a son, Geoffrey '79, and a sister, Jean DeBoe.
ROBERT BAKER PARTLOW JR. '41cl, M.A.T. '47, Ph.D. '55, of Carbondale, Ill., died January 17, 1997. A former English department chairman at Southern New York City, and in the early 1950s spent a year as a partner in research for UNESCO in North Africa, helping to set up an educational system in Liberia. He was also a free-lance writer on bridge, poker, and chess for Sports Illustrated. He leaves his wife, Sally (Chanil), a daughter, Jamie '90, two sons, Peter and John, and three sisters, Freida Rose, Ruth, and Eleanor.
THOMAS CYRIL QUIRK '42cl died December 11 in Salem, Mass. He worked as an underwriter for the government for many years and as a preparatory school teacher in Connecticut. He was also an accomplished novelist and poet. He leaves a sister, Virginia Hobble '46, and a brother, John.
HARRY H. WEISS JR. '42mcl, IA '43cl, M.B.A. '46, of Carlisle, Pa., died November 27. A retired mining executive, he was former vice president and secretary of Zemex Corp. and Pacific Tin Consolidated Corp., both in Illinois, Missouri, where he was also dean of the College of Business. He was a past president of the American Academy of Advertising and author or coauthor of six books, including Advertising: Its Role in Modern Marketing, a college text in its eighth printing, Advertising Copy and Communication, and International Marketing and Advertising
JOSÉ NICASIO RODRIGUEZ-FEO Y FERNANDEZ '43cl, of Havana, has died. He was former librarian and editor at the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, the Cuban writers' and artists' union, in Havana.
JOAN LUND BUTTER '45cl, of Locust Valley, New York University's French campus, where he also served as director. He was former co-director of the Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior at the University of New York City. He was a retired vice president and director of staff relations at the New York and became an actor. He leaves a daughter, Alison, two sons, Timothy and E. Patrick, and his mother, Harriet.
PHILIP EDWIN HECKMAN '47, of Duxbury, Mass., died January 19. He was an attorney in general practice in Quincy for many years. He leaves his wife, JoAnne (Ewer), a daughter, Lilly Cleveland, and a son, Philip.
