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HARCOURT WOOD '49, M.B.A. '51, died April 12 in Wellesley, Mass. He was an investment manager who was affiliated with State Street Bank, the Boston Fund, and Bank of America. Bitten by the political bug during the 1960s, he also served as a fundraiser and campaign official for several New York investment banking firm of Harris Upham & Co. and a stockbroker most recently associated with H.G. Wellington & Co. As a trustee, president, and chairman of the New-York Historical Society during the 1980s, he led the 196-year-old institution out of near-bankruptcy; today it is thriving, with a rising endowment and refurbished plant. He leaves his wife, Julia (Bowdoin), three sons, David, Albert, and Robert, a sister, Marjorie Andrews, and a brother, David '49.
HAMILTON FISH POTTER JR. '50, LL.B. '56, died March 21 while on vacation in Sun Valley, Idaho. He was a retired partner in the Washington, and a recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit. In retirement he served as an international security consultant. He leaves his wife, Elaine (Perry), a daughter, Katharine Barrand, and three sons, Edwin, Robert '78, M.B.A. '85, and William.
WILLIAM NORTHRUP CENTER '51mcl died February 9 in Bethesda, Md. He was a retired CIA intelligence officer whose postings included Japan, Vietnam, and Laos in the course of a 30-year career, for which he was awarded an Outstanding Service Medal. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Gleason) '51, three daughters, Claire, Ann Cooke, and Eve Stern, two sons, William and Daniel, and two sisters, Margaret Ohotnicky and Carolyn Browning.
SIRIUS CRAM COOK '51cl, LL.M. '53, died April 14, 1995, in New York law firm of Healy & Baillie, he worked for the last five years as a barrister in London. His survivors include Valentina (Azaroff), A.M. '53.
DARL EDWIN AULT '52, of Cleveland, died December 26. He was a retired business professor at Cuyahoga Community College, in Cleveland.
PASCAL COVICI JR. '52mcl, Ph.D. '57, died February 9 in Dallas. He was Lilly professor of American literature at Southern Methodist University, where he had taught since 1957. He was also faculty marshal at SMU and former chairman of the English department, which has established a prize in his name. A Mark Twain scholar, he was the author of two books, Mark Twain's Humor and Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection, and was president of the Mark Twain Circle. He leaves his wife, Joan (Fortescue), a daughter, Anna Propp, and a son, John.
PHILIP HAYES '52, formerly of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died November 6, 1993. He was formerly self-employed as a trainer and driver in the sport of harness racing.
NIELS OWEN YOUNG '52 died January 13 in Boise, Idaho. He was an engineer and inventor. He worked for Baird Atomic and Block Associates, in Cambridge, for Ericsson Telephones, in Nottingham, England, and for the National Physical Laboratory, outside London, before returning to his hometown of VanHornesville, Texas. A general surgeon, he was a former associate professor of surgery at Hahnemann Medical College and former chief of surgery at the Atlantic City Medical Center. His survivors include two daughters, Audrey Glaser and Charlene, and two sons, Russell and Robert.
EUGENE FRANCIS HIGGINS '54, Ed.M. '65, died February 28 in N.Y., St. Sebastian's School in Needham, Mass., and Miami-Dade Community College. He leaves a daughter, Amy, a son, Neal, and a brother, Robert.
MORTON SHELDON GLICKMAN '55 died January 29. He was a physician with the Permanent Medical Group, in Napa, Cal. His survivors include his wife.
JOHN PAUL LAUCUS '55, of Brookline, Mass., died February 25. He was former university librarian at Boston University and past president of the Boston Library Consortium. He leaves his wife, Carol (Des Roches) '58, and a sister, Suzanne Rhoda.
ELIZABETH STEINER SAXE '55mcl died October 16, 1996, in Minneapolis. A specialist in precious metals trading, she formerly worked for the Texas, Austin, where he had served on the faculty since 1968. A specialist in English syntax, he was the author of two books, Introduction to Generative-Transformational Syntax and English Syntax, and a coeditor of The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition. He also served on the editorial boards of several journals in the field of linguistics. He leaves his wife, Mary Jordan, Ph.D.'69, a daughter, Catherine, and a son, Andrew '94.
ALICE SMITH LANDY '63mcl, Ph.D. '75, of Newton Center, Mass., died February 20. She leaves her husband, Stephen, and a daughter, Deborah.
JERRY JOSEPH MRIZEK '64mcl died January 12, 1996, in Hinsdale, Ill. He was a partner in the law firm of Mrizek & Norris, in Hinsdale. His survivors include his wife, Joyce (Davis).
WILLIAM JOHN BILLICK III '65mcl died February 23 in Los Angeles, having shot himself after taking the lives of his 18-month-old twin son and daughter, Daniel and Alexandra. A prominent entertainment lawyer, he was general counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America and a former partner in the Santa Monica firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. He had also served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. His survivors include his second wife, Jacqueline Brand, and a daughter, Erika, and son, Christopher, from his first marriage.
ANDREW THOMAS TYMOCZKO '65mcl, Ph.D. '72, died August 8, 1996, in Northampton, Mass. He was a professor of philosophy at Smith College. His survivors include his wife, Marlene Wong, and a son, P. Dmitri '90.
WILBUR RICHARD KNORR JR. '66scl, Ph.D. '73, died March 18 in Palo Alto. He held a joint appointment as a full professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1979 and had helped develop a program in the history of science. An authority on the development of classical Greek mathematics, especially geometry in the period 400-200 b.c., he learned Arabic to enhance his understanding of the subject. His published works include The Evolution of Euclidean Elements, Ancient Sources of the Medieval Tradition of Mechanics, The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems, and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Geometry. He leaves his mother, Dorothy, and a sister, Valerie Maione.
PERCIVAL HARKNESS GRANGER III '67cl died March 10 in Manhattan. He was a New York playwright and screenwriter whose satires jabbed modern institutions from academia to advertising. His dramatic works include Eminent Domain, The Complete Works of Studs Edsel, and many short plays, including Vivien and The Dolphin Position. He wrote screenplays for My Brother's Wife and The Comeback, as well as scripts for the daytime soap operas Loving and As the World Turns. He also taught playwriting at the 52d Street Project, a theater program in Manhattan for disadvantaged youngsters. He leaves his wife, MariElena (Wright), and two sons, Andrew and James.
MARTIN IRA SLATE '67cl died February 23 in Bethesda, Md. He was executive director of the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which administers pension insurance programs covering 42 million workers nationwide. In the four years of his leadership, PBGC eliminated its deficit for the first time and began an enforcement effort that added $15 billion to the nation's underfunded pension plans. His agency received the Vice Presidential Hammer Award for Excellence in Reinventing Government three times, as well as the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Earlier he headed the Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act program at the Internal Revenue Service. He leaves his wife, Caroline Poplin, his parents, Albert, J.D. '40, and Selma, a sister, Emily, and a brother, Jerome.
