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HAROLD MYER FONDREN '49 died July 2 in N.Y. He practiced ophthalmology in Bay Shore for 30 years and served as an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Florida Southern College and a former mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals for his service as an Army Air Forces pilot during World War II. He leaves his wife, Violet, a daughter, Karen Hunt, three sons, Larry, Randall, and Philipp, a sister, Mary Hulett, and a brother, Jean.
CHARLOTTE CHERRY NELSON '49, of Short Hills, N.J., died July 26, 1996.
FRANK WHITNEY CARVER JR. '50, of Norwood, Mass., died May 29. A naval veteran of World War II, he worked as a geologist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Phoenix. He leaves a sister, Elise Carver-Burton.
NATHANIEL THAYER DEXTER '50, LL.B. '54, died July 19 in Boston. He was a member of the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart for 40 years and a longtime resident of Lancaster, Mass., where he served as a selectman, a member of the planning board, and town moderator. He leaves two sisters, Constance White and Mary Ann Streeter '54, and a brother, Philip '51, J.D. '54.
RALPH EMIL LINDSTROM '50cl died May 7 in New York City office of Scudder, Stevens & Clark, the investment counsel firm. He also served as board president and treasurer of Fountain House, an international organization providing support services to the mentally ill. He leaves his wife, Linda Borden, a daughter, Cressida, a son, Jocko, a sister, Margarett Vernon, a brother, Henry '50, and four half-brothers, John '71, Thomas '72, Robert, and David '79.
NELSA MORRISSON BUCKINGHAM '51, of Fort Myers, Fla., died July 11.
LEROY JAMES BURLINGAME JR. '51, M.B.A. '56, of North Lake, Wis., died May 7. He worked for Twin Disc Inc., of Racine, for 37 years before becoming a management consultant and principal of Oliver Wight Cos. He was also former president of Duplex Truck Co., of New York City.
ANNE HAZARD RICHARDSON '51mcl died July 26 in Cheverly, Md. Married to Elliot L. Richardson '41, LL.B. '44, LL.D. '71, she relished the role of statesman's wife, believing it enabled her to accomplish much more than she could on her own. She was chairman of Reading Is Fundamental, the national literacy advocacy group, from 1981 to 1996; under her leadership the program's federal subsidy grew from $7.6 million to $13.2 million. She also chaired the advisory board of Second Genesis, a residential drug rehabilitation program in the New York Knickerbockers from 1951 to 1953 and later had a 30-year career with IBM. He leaves his wife, Mayme (Stackhouse), and two daughters, Julie Price and Debbie Slate; a third daughter, Susan, died in 1995.
ALDEN CARPENTER DAVIS '52, M.B.A. '56, died May 5 in Summit, N.J. He spent much of his career in England as a technical consultant to the optical fiber, wire, and cable industries. Stateside, he was managing director of Concentrics Ltd., of Madison, N.J., a supplier of optical-fiber cable manufacturing equipment. He leaves his wife, Sandra (Hanford), two daughters, Susan Minyev and Pamela Cook, three sons, John, J. Hamilton '85, and Nathaniel, and two brothers, Stephen '49 and Graham, M.B.A. '51.
JULIUS THEODORE CAGE JR. '53, of Arab, Ala., died January 13.
ANDREW JAMES CASNER Jr. '53, LL.B. '59, died June 16 in Weston, Mass. He was a partner in the Boston law firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould and vice president of Gloucester Engineering Co. before becoming a founding partner of Casner & Edwards, where he specialized in estate planning and probate law. He leaves his wife, S. Gaynor (Davol) '62, J.D. '81, a daughter, Andrea Stephens, four sons, Andrew, A. James, John, and David, and a brother, Truman, LL.B. '58.
DAVID MACRAE HOLMES '53cl, M.D. '57, died June 30 in Brookline, Mass. He worked for 38 years as a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Medical Care Center in Boston, serving as chief of psychiatry from 1965 to 1980 and most recently as chief of clinical psychiatry and liaison psychiatrist in medicine, surgery, and neurology services. An insulin-dependent diabetic from the age of 13, he also consulted with patients and physicians at the Joslin Diabetes Center and published many articles on the challenges of growing up with diabetes. He was a talented magician and helped pay for his education by performing in magic shows. He leaves his wife, Constance, a daughter, Priscilla, a son, David, and a sister, Priscilla, LL.B. '55; his first wife, Ann (Murphy), died in 1985.
PAUL TUCKER MCELROY '53mcl, Ph.D. '68, of Acton, Mass., died July 12. He was a physicist and consulting engineer who worked for many years as a division scientist for BBN Technologies (later GTE Internetworking), in Cambridge. His chief work in the company involved the design and development of stealth concepts for submarines. He leaves his wife, Linda (Sprague), a daughter, Heather, three sons, Duncan, Douglas, and Tucker, and two brothers, Lowell '58 and Neil, M.T.S. '74.
DONALD FELIX SCHNEIDERMAN '54cl died August 1 in Rochester, New York State Developmental Disabilities Service office in Perrysburg, Georgia. He leaves his wife, Rosalie (White), a daughter, Laurel Odom '84, a son, Daniel, and a sister, Ellen Runge '59.
JAMES ANGST GREENE '57 died November 19, 1998, in Pennsylvania.
CHARLES HENRY WEAVER '57mcl, M.B.A. '62cl, of Kennett Square, Pa., died February 11. A business executive, he was owner of Chico office Equipment Co., in Phoenixville. Earlier he was president of Bostonian Shoe Co., in Kennett Square, a wholesale footwear firm, and director of new products marketing at Pillsbury in Minneapolis. He leaves his wife, Nancy (Scott) '58, and four children, Scott, Katherine, Richard, and David.
SARAH MILLIS MCCOY '58mcl, of Wellesley, Mass., died in July. She leaves two daughters, Amanda and Jessica, a son, David, and a brother, Walter Millis III.
DANYLO HUSAR STRUK '63cl died June 19 in Munich. He was a professor of Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Toronto and editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Ukraine. He was one of the few foreign scholars elected to membership in the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Ukraine and was a past president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe. His survivors include his second wife, Oksana Pisetska.
ANDREW CHARLES LUTHER JR. '64, of Cincinnati, died June 11, 1998. He was former director of operations for The Williamson Co., a Cincinnati manufacturer of heating and cooling systems. Earlier he served as chairman of acquisitions and mergers at Casper Industries Inc. and as a consultant to Intelligence Direction, contractors to the Department of Defense.