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HELEN LEWIS KOFFMAN '33, of Brookline, Mass., died July 2. Her husband, Nathan, predeceased her; she leaves no immediate survivors.
GOLDIE APPLEBAUM RUBIN '33, of Andover, Mass., died July 15. A former resident of Lynn, she leaves a daughter, Marcia Druth, and a brother, Arnold Applebaum; her husband, Arthur, and a son, Leonard, predeceased her.
JOHN HERBERT DEAN '34 died July 18 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. A former captain of the Harvard football team and a member of the Harvard Hall of Fame for his attainments in track and field, he was a retired banker and commander in the Navy Reserves. He was also a former chairman of the Cohasset school committee. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Webster), a daughter, Emilie McBride, and two sons, Charles and John.
CHARLES LYDECKER DYER '34 died June 28, 1996, in Bend, Ore. He was retired director of the Central N.Y., died March 1. He was a partner in the Buffalo firm of Burke & Burke, Attorneys, and a longtime member of the Connecticut: The Saga of the Seymour Family, 1129-1746. He leaves his wife, Anne (Hall-Burr), a daughter, Mary Garfield, two sons, Richard and Malcolm, and a sister, Helen Coolidge; his first wife, Mary (Wilson), predeceased him.
LINCOLN BUNCE SPIESS '35, Ph.D. '48, died July 5 in St. Louis. He was professor emeritus of music at Missouri Historical Society on nineteenth-century American pioneer artists. He leaves a brother, Eliot '43, Ph.D. '49.
WARREN STURGIS '35, of Southbury, Conn., died in July. A film producer, he was best known for several award-winning medical-education documentaries. He was former chairman of the Biological Photographic Association and a former lecturer in the Yale School of Medicine. After retiring as president of Sturgis-Grant Productions Inc., he worked as an audiovisual consultant. He leaves no immediate survivors.
MARY SARGENT TAYLOR '35, of Medfield, Mass., died June 25. She leaves a daughter, Elizabeth diMarco; her husband, Dayton, predeceased her.
WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS '36 died August 2 in Lawrence, Kan. He was a novelist and an icon of the Beat Generation whose work exerted a strong influence on American literature, art, and music for three decades. His many books include Junkie, Naked Lunch, The Ticket that Exploded, Dead Fingers Talk, Exterminator!, Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Souls, Queer, and Interzone. In later years he devoted much of his time to painting, calligraphy, and photography. He is survived by his companion and manager, James Grauerholz.
WALTER LAURENCE CRAMPTON '36 died June 22 in Santa Cruz, Cal. He was a retired executive with Aramco Oil Co. who worked for 34 years in Saudi Arabia. He leaves two daughters, Jane Crampton and Barbara Gayler.
ALBERT HUGH MORGAN '36, of San Diego, died March 26.
EDWARD LITTLE ROGERS '36 died February 24 in Cozumel, Mexico, while on a cruise. He was a retired engineer who worked as a project manager in the automated production systems division of Ingersoll Rand Co., in Farmington, Mich. In retirement he worked as a consultant in Olney, Md. His survivors include a daughter, Janice Malony, and a son, E. Barry.
SUMNER IRWIN STRASHUN '36, of Wenatchee, Wash., died February 22. He was a chemist and food-research scientist who worked for a number of companies in the San Francisco Bay area and Ohio, died June 22. He was vice president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron for 36 years and after retiring became the first executive director of the Akron Regional Development Board. He was also president of the Knight Foundation, a philanthropic organization. In 1990 he received the Polsky Humanitarian Award of the Akron Community Foundation. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Eaton) '39, and two sons, William and John; another son, Charles, predeceased him.
DEAN NEVIN SHAFFNER '37 died May 7 in Durham, N.C. He was a director of sales planning at NBC-TV in New York City, for 20 years and later worked as a communications consultant specializing in commercial testing and research. He leaves his wife, Mary (Bull), and two daughters, Susan Baylies and Anne.
PRESTON RICHTER CLARK '38, of Wenham, Mass., died July 7. He was a retired navy commander who spent 42 months as a Japanese prisoner during World War II. Later he worked as logistics officer for a satellite-tracking program at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for 22 years, with a brief hiatus in the Apollo program at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory. He leaves a daughter, Judith, and a son, Preston; two wives, Phyllis (Rowe) and Lela (Moore), predeceased him.
