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JACOB DANA '42 died June 4 while vacationing in Amsterdam. He served as a lieutenant in the navy during World War II and later made his career in commercial real estate. He was a past president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. He leaves his wife, Dolores (Ryan), and a daughter, Michele Thomure.
LOIS GREASER FOWLER '42, of Spring Hill, Fla., died May 28.
AARON LOUIS NELSON '42, Ph.D. '49, died July 8 in Sarasota, Fla. Professor emeritus of chemistry at Rutgers University, he taught earlier at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland and worked as a research chemist in the pigment department of DuPont in Newark. He served stateside and overseas as a meteorologist with the Army Air Forces during World War II. He leaves his wife, Sara (Ells), a daughter, Barbara Nelson-Eisenberg, two sons, Donald and William, and a brother, Richard.
STANLEY HUGH DURWOOD '43 died July 14 in Kansas City, Mo. As chief executive of American Multi-Cinema, now AMC Entertainment Inc., he invented the multiplex movie theater. After serving as a navigator in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he joined the family business, a small chain of movie theaters. In 1963 he built the first theater originally designed as a multiplex, in the Ward Parkway shopping center in south Kansas City. For his role in rescuing the motion picture industry from the predations of television and the videocassette, the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers honored him in 1993 with its Pioneer of the Year Award. (He also is credited with inventing the armrest cup holder.) He was a generous Harvard benefactor and active alumnus. He leaves his wife, Pamela (Yax), two daughters, Carol Journagan and Elissa Grodin, four sons, Edward '72, Thomas '75, Brian, and Peter, a sister, Marjorie Grant, and a brother, Richard.
ALVA GLIDDEN FULLUM '43, of Wakefield, Mass., died July 22. She leaves a daughter, Valerie, a son, James, and a sister, Elizabeth Lemoine; her husband, James, predeceased her.
ROBERT RAMSEY ALBERS '44, of Norristown, Pa., died October 16, 1998. He spent nearly 20 years in sales with Sears, Roebuck & Co. before embarking on a second career in personnel. He served in the navy during World War II, most of the time aboard the submarine U.S.S. Becuna in the southwest Pacific.
ALBERT CONRAD DEGE JR. '44, of Colorado Springs, died March 15, 1997. His career was in financial services.
EDWARD ATKINSON MCLEOD '44 died June 26 in Cleveland. He was retired legal counsel and secretary of Essef Corp., in Chardon, Pennsylvania Medical School and a former assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Hahnemann Medical College.
FRANCIS XAVIER MALLAHAN '45, of Cambridge, died June 30. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He leaves a twin brother, Joseph.
FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT JR. '45 died January 27, 1998, in Avon, Conn. He retired in 1985 after a 35-year career with Pan American Airways, where he was executive assistant to the president and chairman and director of passenger service. He leaves his wife, Eileen (O'Donnell), two daughters, Ellen Wright and Lisa Dupuy, and two sons, Steven and Michael.
LOUIS WILLARD BAKER '46, of Waterville Valley, N.Y., where he was former director of administrative and technical operations for Latin America. An avid skier, after retiring to Waterville Valley he was active in community affairs, serving as town moderator and as a member of the planning board. He also became a fitness instructor at a local athletic club and managed a program for skiers aged 55 and older at the Waterville Valley ski area.
CHARLES COREA CARSON '46 died February 21 in New York businessman and corporate financier, he was former chairman of several companies, including E.F. Craven Co., Alladin Plastics Inc., Treesdale Inc., and Bemiss Equipment Corp., and served as president of Webster Wilcox Corp. He was decorated for his service as a bombardier during World War II and was a lifelong devotee of physical health and fitness. He leaves a brother, Mitchell.
HARRY HORACE ECKSTEIN '46scl, Ph.D. '54, died June 22 in Newport Beach, Cal. He was Distinguished Research Professor of political science at the University of Washington law firm of Ivins, Phillips & Barker, where he was a mergers and acquisitions tax lawyer and litigator. He was also former chairman of the taxation committee of the American Bar Association. For his service as a fighter pilot in the Army Air Forces in Germany during World War II, he received six Air Medals. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Cox), five children, and two sisters.
EDWIN MARTIN OLSEN '46 died December 28, 1998, on Nantucket.
SUSAN HEIDER SOUTHWICK '46 died July 5 in Chevy Chase, Md. She was a volunteer on the comments line at the White House and a former vice president of the Women's National Democratic Club. She leaves her husband, Paul '43, a daughter, Linda Hedio, and two sons, Thomas '71 and Peter '73.
KENNETH ALFRED HOUSMAN '47cl died June 4 in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was retired vice president in charge of personnel at Amtrak, where he worked from its inception in 1974 until 1978 and oversaw the hiring of 25,000 employees. He spent 20 years as a labor specialist with Union Carbide Corp., including a sabbatical year doing governmental efficiency audits in Michigan, for many years.
ANNE FLETCHER NIXON '47, of Old Greenwich, Conn., died January 18.
ROBERT OGDEN DU BOIS JR. '48, of Mabou, Nova Scotia, died January 14. He was a farmer on Cape Breton Island all his adult life.
REGINALD SAYRE HUNT '48 died May 12 in Texas, died November 15, 1998.
