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ALBERT CARL KOCH '34cl, M.Arch. '37, died July 3 in Cambridge. He was an architect and pioneer in the field of tech-built design and prefab. A champion of low-cost housing, he developed the Techcrete building system and helped to create the Acorn House, a prefabricated single-family dwelling. He was the designer of Conantum, in Concord, Mass., one of New England's first cluster housing developments. For his innovations, he received an Award of Honor from the Boston Society of Architects in 1995. An avid sailor, he spent two months each year sailing with his family in Europe and the Mediterranean and competed in the annual Bermuda Race. He leaves his wife, Bruni (Rauschmaier), two daughters, Molly Nudell and Elizabeth Corwin, five sons, Cyrus, Otto, Carl '70, David, and Samuel, and a sister, Elizabeth Darlington.
WILLIAM SIMPSON '34 of Locust Valley, Long Island, New York, which awarded him the Boys' Club Bronze Keystone with Appropriate Star in 1968. He leaves his wife, Hope (Curtis), a daughter, Gwendolyn Chabrier, and a son, James.
ELLIOTT HAMMOND TAYLOR '34cl, of Rancho Mirage, Cal., died August 6. He was a banker and investor. He retired as vice chairman of NCNB Corp. and chairman of the finance committee of Ohio Turnpike Commission.
JOHN CUTTS STOREY '35cl, LL.B. '38, died July 3 in Milton, Mass. He was retired senior vice president of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. Earlier he worked as an attorney with the Boston firm of Peabody, Brown, Rowley & Storey. He was a lifelong resident of Milton, where he served on the warrant committee and the board of appeals. He was also an officer and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston, and president of the N.Y. He was the retired associate editor of the Medical Tribune. In 1955, while working as a copy editor on the city desk at the New York law firm of Appleton, Rice & Perrin, a navy veteran of World War II, and an avid sportsman who excelled in polo and court tennis. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Lawrance), and a daughter, Dora.
BERNARD GERMAN '36scl, M.D. '40cl, died July 12 in Short Hills, N.J. He practiced psychiatry in Millburn, N.J., for 44 years and served as a collaborating psychoanalyst with the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He was an assistant professor of psychiatry at the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society. He leaves his wife, Charlotte (Kimburg), two daughters, Amy Levinsohn and Susan, a son, Steven '74, Ph.D. '81, and a sister, Pauline.
WINCHESTER DANA HARDWICK '36 died July 5 in Freeport, Me. A retired actor, he leaves no immediate survivors.
HENRY SHERMAN HOWES JR. '36 died July 22 in Weymouth, Mass. He was a navy veteran who received the Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars for his service in the Pacific theater during World War II, and later became a businessman. He was a retired vice president of Howes Leather Co., a family firm, and a past president of the Sole Leather Council. He leaves his wife, Patricia O'Neal-Howes, and a son, Randolph.
ROSS HAROLD SMITH '36, of Carmel, Cal., died May 9. He was a professor emeritus and former director of athletics at MIT. From 1946 to 1951 he was head coach of soccer and lacrosse at Cornell.
HAROLD PHELAN WELCH '36mcl died April 14 in Hamburg, Tennessee Ornithological Society. She leaves her husband, D. Stanley '34, Ph.D. '37, a daughter, Linda Neumann, two sons, William and Theodore '71, and two brothers, William Tracy and Robert Tracy, M.D. '42.
JOSEPH BERTRAM BARRON '38, D.M.D. '40cl, of Newton, Mass., died July 5. He was an oral surgeon and a pioneer in maxillo-facial prosthetics who served on the medical staff at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston for 50 years. He also taught at Boston University and at Harvard's medical and dental schools. He was a founder and two-time president of the American Academy of Maxillo-Facial Prosthetics. He began his career in clinical and laboratory research in 1946, after serving in the army in Europe in World War II; he saw his specialty--the use of synthetics to reconstruct damaged faces--as an expression of mercy. He leaves his wife, Beatrice (Homonoff), and three sons, James, Fred, and Thomas '71.
HOWARD HALL BRISTOL '38, of New Hartford, Conn., died March 19. He was a retired official in the U.S. State Department's Auxiliary Foreign Service who lived and worked in Haiti, France, and Israel. After retiring, he continued to reside for some years in the Middle East. He was an avid collector of American art.
CORWIN ROBERT CROPPER '38, of Lebanon, New York City for many years while living in Darien, Conn., where he was active in local Democratic party politics. An avid art collector, he operated an art gallery for a few years after retiring to Santa Fe in 1974. He leaves two daughters, Jessica and Abigail Allgood, two sons, Zachary and Talbot, and a brother, George, J.D. '31.
BRUCE GARDNER LEIGHTON JR. '38, of Stuart, Fla., died March 31. During World War II he served in the navy as a fighter director, providing liaison between the American and British fleets, and served on board the HMS Formidable as a lieutenant in 1945. Later he started his own practice as an income-tax consultant in Stuart, where he lived for 42 years and was active in community affairs as a board member of the Council on Aging and founding president of the Barn Theatre. His survivors include his wife, Augusta (Shifferstine), two daughters, Victoria Ryan and Sarah Davis, and a sister, Janet Maechling.
WINTHROP STRICKLAND JAMESON '39 died June 10 in Dennis, Mass. A member of the varsity football and hockey teams while at Harvard, he went on to fight with the army in Normandy and the Ardennes during World War II, receiving the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster. Later he had a career in sales with Gilman Paper Co., of Boston, where he worked for nearly 30 years. He was a former Belmont town meeting member and past chairman of the Belmont Conservation Commission. He leaves a daughter, Patricia Hoffner, and a sister, Barbara Winslow; his wife, Mary (Benton), predeceased him.
DOUGLAS H. ROBINSON '39mcl, M.D. '43, died July 2 in Trenton, N.J. He was a retired psychiatrist who maintained a private practice in Trenton and Hopewell Township for many years. He was former director of special therapies at Schmidt), three daughters, Barbara Barton, Carol Kanis, and Joan Shaub, two sons, Bruce and Douglas, and a sister, Margaret Olmsted, A.M. '42.
PHILIP ABRAHAM SILVERBERG '39, of Dallas, died in June. He was a retired captain in the air force and an attorney who practiced law in Dallas for more than 50 years. His survivors include his wife, Mildred (Bracker).
