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TROWBRIDGE CALLAWAY JR. '36 died February 17 in Delray Beach, Fla. A former resident of Quogue, Long Island, he was retired vice president, treasurer, and longtime director of North American Sugar Co. Earlier he worked for the Arizona, Utah, and Texas, died September 29. He was retired from a long career in the plastics industry, most recently as president and owner of his own firm, Kuhn Plastics Co., in St. Clair, Mich. He was a member of Plastics Pioneers, whose annual meetings he much enjoyed. He leaves his wife, Kathleen (Davis), a daughter, Sandra Sharum, and three sons, H. Davis, Terence, and Jay.
HENRY ORLANDO MARCY III '37, Ph.D. '42, died February 21 in Hinsdale, Ill. He was retired president of Syntronic Instruments Inc., of Addison, manufacturer of components for specialized cathode ray tube displays. He was a past president of the Addison Industrial Association and served on the Oak Brook Village planning commission for 13 years. An avid sailor and sailboat racer, he windsurfed only last summer at Lake Placid, his summer home and favorite place since childhood. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Bellah), two daughters, Sherry and Heather Cooper, and three sons, Henry '60, Gardner, and Theodore.
OLIVER KENNARD SCOTT '37, M.D. '41, died October 26, 1996, in Casper, Wyo. He was a retired pediatrician and rancher. He was founder of the Casper Clinic, a former member of the Wyoming. In 1985 he was named citizen of the year by the Oregon, New York public relations consultant who spent the early part of his career with National Broadcasting Co. as publicist for such television stars as Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Dinah Shore, and Milton Berle. Later he started his own concern, Kalmus Corp., specializing in public relations for show business folk and in sports marketing. He leaves his wife, Ellin, a daughter, Susan Partier, a son, John, a stepdaughter, Barbara Keezell, and two stepsons, James and John Silberstein.
ROBERT WILLIAM SARNOFF '39 died February 22 in Manhattan. He was former president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of the family business, RCA, and former president of NBC. In 1953 he commissioned the first commercial program broadcast in color, Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, and three years later dedicated the first all-color television station, WNBC-TV in Chicago. In 1960 he invited Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy to take part in the first televised presidential debate. Under his stewardship RCA became a conglomerate, buying Random House, Hertz, and Banquet Foods. He also served as chairman of the N.H. He was a retired vice president of Northeast Electronics Corp. and a director of more than dozen companies, including Adams-Russell Corp. and Baird Atomic Inc. A torpedo bomber pilot aboard the carrier Yorktown during World War II, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Bronze Stars for his wartime exploits, which included the sinking of the battleship Nagato in Tokyo Harbor. He remained an avid pilot, and was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association and the Soaring Society of America. He leaves his wife, Nancy (Putnam), a daughter, Tamasin Wilson, three sons, Abbot '65, George, and Nathaniel '77, J.D.-M.B.A. '81, , a sister, Mrs. Wayne Jackson, and a brother, Edward.
JOHN GRANT '41 died February 18 in Brockton, Mass. He was a social worker for the Connecticut River Watershed Council. A diabetic since the age of three and one of the first patients to use insulin to control the formerly fatal disease, he also raised funds for the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, which awarded him a plaque in 1990 to honor his achievement in maintaining his health for 75 years on insulin. He leaves his wife, Mabel (Leland), a daughter, Elizabeth Baldwin, three sons, John, Mark, and Peter, two sisters, Anne Hollingsworth and Madeleine, M.A.T. '52, and two brothers, Patrick '45 and Christopher '51.
MAURICE FRANCIS HEALY JR. '41 died January 20 in Princeton, N.J. He retired in 1973 after a long career as a merchandising and marketing executive with Johnson & Johnson and with CPC International. He was a former member of the Princeton Township Committee. He leaves his wife, Sylvia (Taylor), three daughters, Beth, Sarah, and Anne Elbaqali, and a brother, Robert.
ABRAHAM SCHNEIDER '41mcl, Ph.D. '44, died March 24 in Philadelphia. He was a retired research chemist and scientific adviser at Sun Oil Co., in Marcus Hook, where he worked for more than 35 years and obtained more than 150 patents for the catalytic transformation of hydrocarbons. He developed the solid fuel used in the Tomahawk missile; he also worked on the processing of fuel from oil shale and on the development of polypropylene, a petroleum by-product now widely used in the manufacture of textiles and film. He leaves his wife, Edna (Kahn), a daughter, Margery, two sons, Edwin '70, Ph.D. '76, and Thomas '81, a sister, and a brother.
COLBY MERRILL AUSTIN '42, B.Arch. '50, died January 26 in Simsbury, Conn. He was a longtime resident of Simsbury and a partner in his own architecture firm, Austin Associates. After retirement he taught architectural design and engineering drawing for 18 years, first at Hartford State Technical College and later at Westminster School. He was a talented craftsman and inventor who enjoyed restoring old Corvairs. He leaves his wife, Martha (Daniells) '42, a daughter, Molly Toomey, two sons, Thomas and William, and a sister, Marjorie Francisco.
