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LAMORA GLEASON MICKELSON '24 died August 9 in Needham, Mass. She was an early resident of Hollywood, Fla., where she went in 1925 to work for Hollywood Land & Water Co., owned by J.W. Young, the city's founder; she met her husband, Anton, when he rescued her after she was injured in the 1926 hurricane. Later she opened a private school in Hollywood, the Outdoor Private School, where she served as headmistress and taught French for many years. An avid amateur archaeologist, she visited sites in England and Italy and edited a book on Egypt's Great Pyramid. She was also the author of an elementary-level French textbook, Action dans la salle de classe. She leaves a daughter, Joan Lukach '56, Ph.D. '76; her husband predeceased her.
GEORGE MILTON SMITH JR. '24 died June 24 in Farmington, Conn. He was a professor emeritus of psychology at the City College of New Hampshire best of all. A former member of the Harvard Glee Club, he continued to sing throughout his life, including more than 20 years with the St. Cecilia Society of New York City. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Driver), a daughter, Ruth Arnold, and a son, Edward '53, J.D. '56.
THEODORE BENEDICT MASSELL '26mcl, A.M. '34, M.D. '31, died May 4 in Los Angeles. He was a retired surgeon who served as a medical officer with air forces in the China-India-Burma Theater during World War II. Later he was chief of vascular surgery at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles and served on the surgical staff at many other area hospitals. A pioneer in carotid artery surgery, he was a charter member of the International Cardiovascular Society. He leaves his second wife, Margaret; his first wife, Helen, predeceased him.
EDWARD HOPKINS BAILEY '27 died June 27 in Bedford, Mass. He was a retired Boston investment counselor. He was active for many years in the civic affairs of Wellesley, where he served as a town meeting member and as chairman of the Elementary Schools Accommodation Committee; he also spent many years as secretary of his College class. He leaves a daughter, Joyce Strzetelski, two sons, James '57, M.B.A. '61 and Edward '62, and two stepdaughters, Barbara Roberts and Sarah Runey; his second wife, Barbara (Peck), predeceased him.
ALBERT SAMPSON GROSS '28cl, J.D. '31, of Hillsdale, N.J., died April 7. Retired from his longtime private law practice in Hackensack, he enjoyed abstract painting.
LOUIS HARAP '28cl, Ph.D. '32, died May 12 in Rutland, Vt. He was a librarian, editor, and literary scholar. From 1934 to 1939 he was librarian of Harvard's Library of Philosophy and Psychology. Later he became managing editor of the progressive monthly Jewish Life, now called Jewish Currents, on whose editorial board he continued to serve until recent years. In 1969, after 10 years as librarian at the Lincoln School in Massachusetts Savings Bank Life Insurance Council, where he worked for 39 years. In retirement he worked as a banking consultant. He was a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He leaves his wife, Violet (Bears), a daughter, Susan Congdon, two sons, Peter and Ralph, a sister, Bessie, and a brother, Stanley; another son, M. David, predeceased him.
ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS '29cl, A.M. '30, died July 12 in Cambridge. He was a noted literary critic and a professor emeritus of English at Columbia University. From 1933 to 1943 he taught at Harvard; one of his students there was Norman Mailer, whom he encouraged to submit his first short story to Story Magazine; it won the magazine's annual college prize. He wrote regularly for the New York. In 1932 he joined the firm of John P. Chase Inc. and remained there until 1953; during the war years he served in the Army Air Corps. He served the Fifth Middlesex District as a state representative from 1947 to 1953 and then served for six years as mayor of the city of Newton. After running unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in 1964, he became commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commission. He leaves his wife, Henrietta (Marr), a daughter, Nancy Ridge, and a brother, Holmes.
CHARLES THEODORE RUSSELL JR. '30 died July 5 in Chatham, Mass. He was a principal in a Boston brokerage business for many years. During World War II, he served in the navy as an air combat intelligence officer in the Pacific theater. He leaves his wife, Catharine (Olney), a daughter, Anne Wild, two sons, Charles and Otis, and a sister, Louise Farmer.
THEODORE KELLOGG EMERY '31 died June 27 in Saint Simons Island, Ga.
DAVID ELIOT GOLDMAN '31, of Falmouth, Mass., died July 22. A biophysicist, he was a professor emeritus at the Medical College of Ohio. He was professor emeritus of history at Denison University, where he taught for nearly 30 years. He was former chairman of the history department and longtime chair of "History of Western Civilization," a general education course he organized that is required of all Denison freshmen. A specialist in medieval English and Tudor-Stuart history, he was the author of John Jewel and the Problem of Doctrinal Authority. He leaves a sister, Frances Gibson; his wife, Joan (Rudisill), died in 1983.
ROBERT LAWRENCE SPEAR '31, of Pittsburgh, died January 30. He was a retired Pittsburgh investment banker who enjoyed collecting first editions of the works of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
GEORGE ROBERTS CLARK '32, M.B.A. '34, died June 15 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was a Philadelphia banker who began his career at Corn Exchange National Bank & Trust Co. and retired as vice chairman of Girard Trust Co. He was also an accomplished horticulturist whose garden, famous for its lilies and clematis, was a stop on many garden tours. He served for two terms as president of the N.Y., died December 15, 1997. He was a retired librarian who worked for many years as director of the Sojourner Truth Library of the college of SUNY-New Paltz.
MICHAEL ANTHONY CANGIANO '33, of Medford, Mass., died June 12. A retired educator, he was formerly assistant headmaster of Medford High School and head of the science department in the Medford public schools. He also chaired the freshman mathematics department at Lincoln College, Northeastern University's evening division. He leaves his wife, M. Louise (Barosseau), two daughters, Margaret Haseltine and Lorraine McSweeney, three sisters, Florence Carpenito, Phyllis Carpenella, and Helen Alpers, and three brothers, Albert, Francis, and Thomas.
LAURENCE ALEXANDER LOVETT '33 died January 30 in Houston. He was a retired Houston attorney who had maintained a private practice for many years in association with Lawyers Surety Corp. He leaves his wife, Madeline (Dickson).
HARRY BOONE SLADE '33 mcl, S.M. '34, of Framingham, Mass., died March 29. A retired electrical engineer and consultant, he was former executive vice president of Hendrix Wire & Cable Co., in Milford, N.Y. She was an artist, author, and noted art teacher. She began painting while at Radcliffe and later studied at the Art Students League of N.Y.) Artists Guild. She was the coauthor, with her husband, Samm Sinclair Baker, of A Family Introduction to Art. She leaves a daughter, Wendy Cammer '62, and a son, Jeffrey; her husband predeceased her.
CLARENCE FLASHMAN '34, of Los Angeles, died June 2, 1994. He was a partner in a Los Angeles packaging business, Pacific Crate Co., for many years.
BERNICE ISENBERG MANN KAPLOVSKY '34, of Marblehead, Mass., died July 13. She leaves her husband, A. Joel, three daughters, Marjorie Mann, Nancy Coffey, and Lynn Hazen, a son, Franklin Mann, and a sister, Shirley Soman; her first husband, Archibald Mann, predeceased her.
WILLIAM ARTHUR KNOX '34, of Sarasota, Fla., died August 6, 1994. He had his own insurance brokerage business in Billerica, Mass., before joining Raytheon Co., where he worked for many years.
