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BERNARD FEINS '33, of Alpes Maritimes, France, died July 5, 1994. He was a former Hollywood literary agent and story editor for Paramount Pictures Corp. who later became European vice president of Panavision.
HERMAN GROSS '33, of Providence, died February 13. He was retired president of Fairhope Fabrics Inc., a medical-textiles manufacturer in Fall River, Mass.
GUY CLIFFORD LARCOM JR. '33, of Ann Arbor, died December 2, 1997. He worked for 17 years as Ann Arbor's first city administrator. He also taught journalism as an adjunct lecturer at the University of New York chamber choir specializing in the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. He provided annotations for dozens of recordings on the Nonesuch label, wrote a column for Audio magazine for nearly 50 years, reviewed recordings for Harper's and Saturday Review, and for 20 years hosted a weekly classical-music program on WNYC. Early in his career he traveled to Appalachia with ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax '34 to record folk music. He leaves a brother, Courtlandt '36.
ALPHEUS RAYMOND EATON '34, formerly of Hempstead, N.Y., and at George Peabody College for Teachers, in Nashville. He began his career in 1943, when he helped set up two modern nursery schools for the children of women working in shipyards. Later, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, he played a major role in shaping the Head Start program. He was the author of many books and pamphlets, including A Pound of Prevention, How to Tell Your Child about Sex, A Health Personality for Your Child, Behavior and Misbehavior: A Teacher's Guide to Discipline, Teaching the Child under Six, and, most recently, Twenty Years in Review: A Look at Early Childhood Education, 1971-1990. He leaves his wife, Lucia (Manley), two daughters, Lucia Humphrey '61 and Jody, and a son, James.
PAUL LACHLAN MACKENDRICK '34scl, Ph.D. '38, died February 10 in Madison, Wisc. An internationally known classicist, he was Taylor professor of classics emeritus at the University of N.Y., died December 2, 1996. He was a retired high-school science teacher. His survivors include his wife, Doris (Cramer).
RODERICK PETER CAMPBELL CALDWELL '36, of Kingston, R.I., died September 8, 1997. He was a retired associate professor of mathematics at the University of Rhode Island. Forced as a freshman to quit Harvard to support his sisters after his parents died, he took a job with Weirton Steel Co.; he later returned under the GI Bill and received his degree in 1953. He joined the faculty at URI in 1962.
SYDNEY THOMAS DAWSON JR. '36, LL.B. '41, of Norwich, Conn., died June 17, 1994. A retired lawyer who had practiced in Fairfield and Bridgeport, he was also president of Chames Hotel Corp., in Norwich, and a past president of the California Department of Health. His survivors include his wife, Barbara (Allen).
RAYMOND JACOB LANGENBACH '36, of Spokane, died November 25, 1997. A retired Chicago internist, he had served on the faculty of Northwestern University Medical School and on the staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
SARKIS ALBERT SARKISIAN '36, D.M.D. '40, of Brockton, Mass., died January 21. He practiced general surgery in Brockton for many years. His survivors include his wife, Phyllis (Wychunas).
FREDERICK TAUSSIG '36 died May 25, 1997, in Washington, D.C., firm of Thomson McKinnon Securities Inc. and a partner in the firm of Auchincloss Parker & Redpath. He had also been a member of the Fairfax County Park Authority.
RICHARD BURSCH APPLETON '37mcl, of Devil's Lake, N.D., died March 7. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and afterward, as a civilian, helped rewrite the Japanese Constitution and criminal code. Later he worked as a lawyer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Greece, Italy, and Washington, D.C. His survivors include his wife, Lily Beth (Hanson).
PAUL WILLIAM BARENBERG '37, of St. Louis, died January 21. He was a real-estate developer. His survivors include his wife, Ann (Bernstein).
ROBERT MENDALL BRIGGS '37, LL.B. '40, died February 13 in Plymouth, Mass. He was a retired Plymouth lawyer and cranberry farmer. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Roberts), a daughter, Nancy Tooke, and two sons, Peter '65 and William.
