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ARTHUR IRVIN SARNEY '49 died April 24 in Sarasota, Fla. In recent years he volunteered as a mediator and arbitrator for the 12th Judicial Court of Sarasota. His survivors include his wife, Joan (Wright), a daughter, Laura, and two sons, David and Jerry.
JAMES VINCENT GRASSO '50cl died April 7 in Portsmouth, New York naval architect, in the family boat-design business, where they collaborated on plans for Weatherly, the 12-meter yacht that successfully defended the America's Cup in 1962. Later he became a founding partner in McCurdy & Rhodes, a naval architecture firm in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and continued to be active in community theater after moving to San Antonio in 1966. In 1973 he opened a bookshop, On Paper, which gave rise to a publishing concern, Corona Publishing Co. He taught history at St. Mary's University and was a frequent visitor to San Antonio classrooms, where he extolled the pleasures of books; he also helped to establish a library at the Bexar County Jail. He leaves a sister, Judith McElnea.
WILLIAM LOUIS STUCKEY JR. '51cl died March 7 in Ithaca, N.Y.
FLETCHER PETER TOMIC '51 died April 11 in Falmouth, Mass. He was a high-school mathematics teacher in Buffalo and Mineola, Jensen) '53, a daughter, Betsy '79, and two sons, William '83 and James.
CHRISTOPHER WADSWORTH BROOKS COE '52 died February 5 in Portland, Me. He leaves no immediate survivors.
FREDERICK PRIME DELAFIELD '52 died April 20 in Los Angeles. He was a physician. He leaves his wife, Rebecca, a son, Frederick, and a brother, Stephen '54.
OWEN EDMONDS '52, of Longwood, Fla., died January 29, 1997. He was former president of Edmonds Management Co., in Dallas. His survivors include his wife, Betty.
EDWARD GEORGE FAILE FREMD '52, of Wrentham, Mass., died April 23.
MARTIN CLARE REINSMITH '52, of Allentown, Pa., died February 11. After retiring from the federal civil service, he lived and worked for some years in Saudi Arabia.
MARY E. TOWLE '52cl died May 28 in Gilmanton, N.Y., died April 16. He was a retired managing director in investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co. and earlier worked for 20 years at Dillon Read & Co., where he developed some of the first international financing for Japanese corporations. He leaves two daughters, Emily and Ambika, two sons, Douglas and Mark, and a brother, Robert.
STEPHEN HOWARD ROBINSON '54scl, M.D. '58, died May 27 in Boston. He was chief of hematology and Reisman professor of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital for 30 years, and co-director of the oncology and hematology training program for postdoctoral students at Beth Israel. His research in hematology contributed to an understanding of how bile and blood cells are formed in the human body. He was the first master of the William B. Castle Society at Harvard Medical School. He leaves his wife, Carole (Latter) '56, two daughters, Lisa Swanson '80, J.D. '85, and Susan Scheer '82, a son, Michael, and a sister, Sheila Scher.
JOHN MADISON TAYLOR '55cl, A.M. '63, died February 13 in Easton, Md. He was a teacher, editor, and writer whose essays, articles, and reviews appeared in numerous publications, including the Sewanee Review, the American Scholar, the Nation, Harvard Magazine, the New England Quarterly, the Village Voice, and Exquisite Corpse. He leaves three sisters, Pamela Morton, Emily Cripps, and Mary Simeti '62.
CHARLES RASHLEIGH BALL JR. '56mcl, of Albuquerque, died January 15. He was an Albuquerque real-estate broker and developer who volunteered his services to the area's Indian tribes as a consultant on economic development.
JOHN EDWARD WATSON '57, of Olney, Md., died February 11, 1997. He retired in 1992 as assistant director in the International Trade and Finance Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office after 30 years in government service. He leaves his wife, Reva (Herod), two daughters, Audrey '86 and Lynn Linck, and a brother, Otto.
TOBIE ERNEST LANOU '58, of Alexandria, Va., died October 28, 1996. He was a writer, a former city-planning consultant, and a former fine-arts editor and publisher. He was a past president of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association.
WILLIAM BONNER MEADOR '58, of Kansas City, Mo., died March 31, 1997.
JAMES FRANCIS LYNCH JR. '64cl died March 26 in Shady Side, Md. He was a research ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, in Edgewater, for 24 years. An expert on birds and terrestrial vertebrates, he did pioneering work on the effects of shrinking natural habitats on migratory birds. He conducted research in Central America and contributed to conservation initiatives in North America, Australia, and Africa. He leaves his wife, Lindal McCann-Lynch, his mother, and two brothers.
WILLARD ARNOLD SULLIVAN JR. '64 died May 1 in Charleston, W.Va. A N.H. He was the owner of J.E. Jurek Contracting Co. Inc., of Boston, specializing in commercial renovation and construction. He loved boating and fishing, especially for tuna and lobster. He leaves his wife, Mary Ann (Pasquale), a daughter, Mary Elizabeth '92, a son, Joseph, his father, Joseph, and a sister, Justine Downer.
RICHARD CLARK LONGFELLOW JR. '65 died May 20, 1997, in Burlington, Vt. A private investor, he formerly taught English for 18 years in Vermont. After moving to Washington, D.C. She was an anthropologist who most recently served as an academic counselor to foreign students at American University. Earlier she did archaeological field research in Greece and also studied the pathology of Indian bones from Georgia, Mary, and Irene, a son, Georgios, a sister, Joan Kozar, and two brothers, L. Andrew Campbell and John Campbell.
BRUCE RICHARD STEVENSON '66 died December 12, 1997, in Portland, Ore. He was president of SDS Lumber Co., in Bingen, Wash., and an avid squash player. His survivors include his wife, Susan.
ROGER LEWIS COLEMAN '67cl died January 29 in Danbury, Conn. A psychiatrist, he was clinical director of Cedarcrest Hospital, a public psychiatric and substance-abuse hospital in Newington. Previously he served as director of the division of psychiatry at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Meriden. His survivors include his wife, Dalia, two daughters, Jenifer '95 and Claire, and a son, Jonathan.
HUGH DEVEREAUX LAWRENCE '71 died April 25 in Lopez Island, Wash. He was a family therapist. He leaves his wife, Lisa Geddes, a daughter, Elsa, a son, Emmett, his parents, Joan and G. Hugh '44, M.D. '46, a sister, Anna, and a brother, James.
