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LEONA THOMPSON VAN ZANDT '50, of Shandaken, New York law firm of Hall, Dickler, Kent, Friedman & Wood, where he chaired the estate and tax department. He also helped establish the firm's offices in Los Angeles, White Plains, Ohio.
ROGER WENRICK NEWMAN '56, LL.M. '64, died October 7, 1996, in New York State Council of the Arts. In 1958, with Isaac Stern, he launched the Citizens Committee to Save Carnegie Hall and thereafter sat for many years on the hall's board; he also led the effort to preserve the old Metropolitan Opera House after the Met moved to Lincoln Center, but was unsuccessful. He was former editor-in-chief of Leeds Music Corp. and former CEO of the Concert Artists Guild. Most recently he served as director of the Maestro Foundation, presenting private concerts in N.H. He had practiced internal medicine in East Providence, R.I., for 22 years. He leaves his wife, Virginia (Doepke), two daughters, Ann Walters and Virginia Rademacher '87, and two brothers, John '54, LL.B. '59, and Stephen '60.
JOHN SAMUEL MAUTNER '58mcl died January 15 in New York Hospital. He leaves a brother, J. Jay.
JOHN JEREMY JOHNSTON '61cl died November 8 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a former television producer for a Dublin station, Radio Telefis Eireann, and the author of a children's book, The Plumber's Friend and Other Stories. His survivors include his wife, Anne (Smith).
DAVID BLAKE KOEPFLI '62mcl died February 21, 1995, in San Francisco.
MARILYN ROBINSON WALDMAN '64scl, of Columbus, Ohio State University and director of its Center for Comparative Studies in the Humanities. She was also vice president of the American Society for the Study of Religion. Her published works include Toward a Theory of Historical Narrative and The Islamic World, which she coedited.
PETER CHARLES DAVIS JR. '66 died January 2 in Framingham, Mass. He was sales manager for New England Tool Inc., in Natick. He leaves his wife, Carol (O'Hare), a daughter, Kristen, a son, Peter, a sister, Mary Ellen, a brother, Edward '68, and a dear friend, Charles Ayer.
JOHN KNOX HILL JR. '66 died December 17 in Lafayette, La. He was founder and senior partner of Hill and Beyer, Professional Law Corp., a Lafayette firm specializing in civil defense matters. In 1979 he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court a case concerning Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals and a former member of the Governor's Task Force on Tort and Insurance Reform. He was active in the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. As an undergraduate, he was principal clarinetist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and also received the Harvard Cadet of the Year award for his service in Army ROTC. While he was in law school, a paper he wrote on antidumping law was presented at the Pacific Trade Symposium in Bangkok, and his third-year paper, "The Emergence of the Rule of Law in United States Trade Policy," will be published in October in the Texas. She helped establish the Maternal Health Association, now Planned Parenthood, in Cleveland, and was long active in Republican politics. She leaves a daughter, Terry Rostamo; her husband, John '27, and a son, John, predeceased her.
NOYES LATHAM AVERY JR., M.D. '36, died December 8 in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a retired physician who practiced cardiology in Grand Rapids for some 40 years and also chaired the medical department at Blodgett Memorial Medical Center. He was one of the first doctors in West Michigan governor of the American College of Physicians. He leaves his wife, Ann, and a son, Noyes, Ph.D. '72.
AUSTIN McCRACKEN FOX, A.M. '48, died December 26 in Buffalo, Massachusetts Department of Public Health for 32 years. He leaves his wife, Ellen, a daughter, Susan, and a son, Gerald.
