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ERNEST EVERETT GOODRICH '22, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., died May 16, 1998. A country lawyer and real-estate broker, he practiced law in St. Johnsbury for many years and served a term in the Vermont. He brought to his legal work an unusually broad knowledge of medicine, gleaned from 40 years of recreational reading of medical texts.
EDWARD ALBERT MORGAN '22, of North Hollywood, Cal., died May 13, 1997. A real-estate broker in N.Y. An attorney and Harvard benefactor, he practiced law for more than 46 years with the Texas, died January 21. He worked as a ground-water geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey before becoming a farmer and rancher. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
WILLIAM NORRIS TUTTLE '24, Ph.D. '29, died October 7 in Bedford, Mass. He was a retired electrical engineer. During World War II he served as a consultant to Harvard president James Bryant Conant and as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee; he received the Medal of Freedom in 1946 for his war work as an operations analyst with the air forces in Britain and the United States. Later he designed electronics equipment for General Radio Co., in Cambridge, for many years. A music lover, he played the violin in a string quartet and with the Concord Orchestra, of which he was a past president. He leaves a daughter, Susan; his wife, Gwenyth (Jones), and a son, Peter, predeceased him.
BERNHARD GOLDMAN BECHHOEFER '25mcl, J.D. '28, died October 25 in Washington, specializing in legal issues connected with nuclear energy. He was the author of a landmark 1961 book, Postwar Negotiations for Arms Control. He leaves his wife, Estelle, and three sons, Charles '55, LL.B. '58, Arthur, and William '63, M.Arch. '67.
RICHARD WARREN DWIGHT '25, M.D. '28, died November 20 in Walpole, Mass. He was a retired surgeon who served as assistant chief of the surgical service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jamaica Plain for many years. After retiring from the V.A. in 1972, he became an associate clinical professor of surgery at Boston University Medical School and also lectured in surgery at Tufts. A music lover, he played the flute with the Harvard Music Association Orchestra. He was a Harvard benefactor. He leaves no immediate survivors.
THEODORE SHERWOOD HOPE JR. '25 died October 9 in Asheville, N.C. He was a retired attorney who practiced corporate law in Manhattan for more than 50 years and served on the faculty of the Cornell Institute of Law. Long interested in forestry and conservation, he and his late wife, Emily (Blanchard), were benefactors of the Society for the Preservation of Ohio, died September 27. He was retired vice president of Champion Spark Plug Co., in Toledo.
BESSIE VALENTINE BURDOIN '27 died September 7 in Bradenton, Fla. She worked as a volunteer with the Red Cross and the Manatee County Council on Aging. She leaves her husband, Allen, a daughter, Nancy Furino, and a son, A. David '62; another daughter, Elizabeth Duggin, and son, Thomas, predeceased her.
NORMAN AMBROSE EVANS '27cl, of Atlantic Beach, Fla., died August 20. He was retired president of Pressed Steel Tank Co., of Milwaukee, and a past president of the Compressed Gas Association. He was the recipient of numerous industry awards, including the Ancient Gassers Recognition Award, and an active Harvard alumnus.
ROBERT FIENBERG '28cl, M.D. '32, died November 11 in Beverly, Mass. He was retired chief of pathology at Beverly Hospital and an authority on Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare and fatal disease affecting the lungs. In retirement he lectured at Harvard Medical School and served as a pathology consultant at Mass. General Hospital. He was a past president of the American Society of Biologists and Pathologists and of its N.H. She leaves a daughter, Gwyneth Seay, two sons, Donald and Robert, a sister, Joan Kracke '35, and a brother, Richard Hocking '28, A.M. '30; her husband, Donald, predeceased her.
PAUL HARRY FLINT '30, Ph.D. '47, died October 5 in Bedford, Mass. He was professor of English emeritus and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts, where he was a member of the faculty for 43 years. A naval veteran of World War II, he remained in the Naval Reserve until 1968. He leaves a son, Paul.
WALLACE FOWLIE '30cl, Ph.D. '36, died August 16 in Durham, N.C. A lifelong Francophile, he was a professor emeritus of French literature at Duke and the author of more than 20 books on the great French poets and other literary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; his 1994 book Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet, a bold crossover into popular culture, received national attention. He leaves no immediate survivors.
STEPHEN DOW FULLER '30 died October 6 in Roslyn, California City, California City Health Services Center and as director and board president of the East Kern hospital district.
GARRETT DAVID ROACH JR. '30 died May 11, 1998, in Norwell, Mass. He was a retired engineer. His survivors include his wife, Rita (McCarthy).
MARK AISNER '31cl died October 16 in Newton, Mass. A retired Boston internist and cardiologist, he formerly served on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and on the Massachusetts Internist of the Year by the state chapter of the American College of Physicians in 1991, and last year was honored by the New York University, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He also served on the Condon Commission on UFOs and contributed a chapter to its 1968 report. His financial support helped to fund the research of William Masters in human sexuality, Lawrence LeShan's work on the connection between cancer and emotional disturbance, research on corneal transplantation and on DNA, and the new Seattle Art Museum. He was an avid collector of orchids and a world traveler. He leaves his second wife, Rosa, three sons, James, Anthony, and Frederick, a stepdaughter, Carla White, and his former wife, Betty Richards.
WILLIAM HAMMOND BOWDEN '31cl died October 29 in Marblehead, Mass. A retired businessman and amateur historian, he had been a principal in Waltham Grinding Wheel Co., of Wayland, and former president of American Abrasive Co., in Philadelphia. An avid student of the early maritime history of Marblehead and Essex County, he was a past president of the Marblehead Historical Society and the Essex Institute and president and honorary trustee for life of the Lee Mansion in Marblehead. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Sutton), a son, John, and a sister, Catherine Barnes; another son, William, predeceased him.