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ROBERT HENRY IRRMANN, M.A. '40, of Madison, Wis., died July 16. He was professor emeritus of history at Beloit College, where he taught for many years and was famous for his engaging and thought-provoking lectures. He leaves no immediate survivors.
LAURENCE ARTHUR PION, D.M.D. '43, of Shelburne, Mass., died May 17. He served as a medic and dental surgeon overseas in World War II and later practiced dentistry in Greenfield for 47 years. An artist who painted in oils, he had also served as Bette Davis's personal photographer. He leaves his wife, Pamela, two daughters, Laurie Gelfand and Barbara Sartin, and a brother, William.
JAMES ALOYSIUS MORRIS, Ph.D. '51, died June 26 in Columbia, S.C. He was an economist and educator at the University of South Carolina and served as an economic adviser to seven California. He also had an international career as a consultant, working for the U.S. State Department in Vietnam and Cameroon and for the World Bank in Malaysia, the Philippines, Sudan, Morocco, and Turkey. He leaves his second wife, Marie (Johnson), and two sons, James and David; his first wife, Ragnhild (Johnson), died in 1959.
BRUCE BUSSER HANSHAW, Ph.D. '62, died July 18 in an off-road-vehicle accident near Telluride, Washington, D.C., in July 1989, and as an adviser and consultant on hydrology and geochemistry to many national and international committees. He received the Department of the Interior's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, in 1989. An avid outdoorsman, he was a member of the National Ski Patrol. He leaves his wife, Penelope, and two sons, Douglas and Gregory.
MICHAEL DEMETRIUS PAPAGIANNIS, Ph.D. '64, died July 2 in Naples, Fla. He was professor emeritus of astronomy, former department chairman, and past president of the Faculty Senate at Boston University, where he taught for 30 years before his retirement in 1994. A pioneer in the field of bioastronomy, he was the author of Space Physics and Space Astronomy and Strategies for the Search for Life in the Universe and the editor of The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments. Boston University named its astronomy library in his honor in 1994. An elected fellow of the National Academy of Greece, he was awarded the Cross of the Phoenix by the Greek government in 1997. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Haines-Papagiannis, a daughter, Christina McCauley, a son, Dimitrios, and his former wife, Mary Hutton.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS PALM, A.M. '75, died August 7 in Telluride, New York City, has given millions of dollars to benefit the arts, gay rights, and AIDS treatment. He leaves his mother, Irma, and a sister, Melissa Jamula.
PETER LOUIS HORNBECK, M.L.A. '59, died June 3 in North Andover, Mass. He was a professor of landscape architecture at Harvard from 1963 to 1980 and subsequently owned and operated a landscape design firm in North Andover. His projects included restoration of the Olmsted Brothers' landscape for "Oldfields," the Ely Lilly estate, now the Massachusetts division of the Polish-American Congress. He leaves his wife, Kathleen Lestition '68, M.A.T. '70, and a son, Igor.
RALPH EMERSON ALLEN '20, of Des Moines, died May 19. A World War I naval veteran, he was retired treasurer of Hydraulic Supply Manufacturing, of Seattle. His wife, Dorothy (Roberts), predeceased him; he leaves no immediate survivors.
DOROTHEA DRESSER REEVES '24cl, of Marshfield Hills, Mass., died March 1. She leaves a daughter, Dorcas Rohn, and a son, Philip; her husband, Charles, predeceased her.
PHILIP ROMAN HEPBURN '25 died December 17, 1998, in Newtown Square, Pa. He was a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Hepburn, Willcox, Hamilton & Putnam for many years and continued to be of counsel in retirement. He served in the naval reserves during World War II. He leaves a daughter, Lorraine Barse, and a son, Philip; his wife, Lucylle (Austin), died in 1988.
CHARLES JARVIS HILL '26cl, A.M. '27, of Newtown, Pa., died October 17, 1999. He was professor emeritus of English and a former assistant to the president at Smith College. A Shakespearean scholar, he was the author of The Literary Career of Richard Graves and coeditor, with William Allan Neilson, of The Complete Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare. He leaves no immediate survivors.
LEOPOLD URIEL SHERRY '26mcl died August 10, 1999, in Solana Beach, Cal. A clinical psychologist, he taught psychology at UCLA for many years. He had a passion for classical music, art, and cathedrals, which he enjoyed painting in oils wherever he traveled, and was an avid bridge player. He leaves his wife, Bernice (Padorr).
WILLIAM HUMPHREY DOHERTY '27cl, S.M. '28, of Rye, New Jersey. He leaves two daughters, Mary-Anne Westley and Alice Shaber; his wife, Alice-Marie (Roux), predeceased him.
WILLIAM MELVIN GOODHUE '28cl, S.M. '29, of Freeport, New York. He worked for 17 years for American Bosch Arma, in Garden City, where he designed the standards laboratory, as well as the caution and warning system for the Apollo 11 mission. He leaves his wife, Lyna (Gray), a daughter, Beth Assadourian, and two sons, William and Steven.
DONALD BILLINGS HOWARD '28 died December 31 in Utica, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and eastern N.Y., he also taught school at the Coxsackie Correctional Institute. He was a longtime member and treasurer of the Catskill Men's Glee Club. He leaves a daughter, Carolyn Potter, two sons, Demorest and Hollis, a sister, Violet French, and a brother, W. Hersey.
JOHN JOSEPH MCCARTHY '28, A.M. '36, died September 27, 1999, in Waterford, Conn. In 56 years as organist at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, in New London, he missed only two Sundays (both for medical treatment). He also taught privately and served for many years as director of choral and orchestral music at New London High School. He was one of the first deans of the American Guild of Organists. He leaves three daughters, Eileen, Mary Hammani, and Patricia, and two sons, John and Brian; his wife, Frances (Swasey), died in 1996.
ADOLF FRANK REEL '28, J.D. '31, died April 3 in Norfolk, Va. He was a labor lawyer in Boston before enlisting in the army in 1942. As a captain in the claims division in the Pacific, he was assigned to defend Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya and the Philippines, before a military commission on charges of failing to prevent atrocities by his troops; the general was found guilty and hanged. Reel later served as executive secretary of the American Federation of Radio Artists and as an executive at Ziv Television Programs and Metromedia Productions before returning to the practice of law. He was the author of two controversial books, The Case of General Yamashita, which claims the trial was a sham scripted by General Douglas MacArthur and that the real criminal went free, and The Networks: How They Stole the Show. He leaves a daughter, Judy, three sons, Tom, Christopher, and Jeffrey, and a brother, Frederick; his wife, Virginia (Wentworth), died last year.
WILLIAM FRANCIS FITZGERALD '29, formerly of Juno Beach, Fla., died December 13. A retired banker, he was a past chairman of the mortgage committee of the N.Y.
HARRY S. GANTZ '29 died January 31 in Tucson. He was retired president of his family's Cincinnati firm, Joseph M. Gantz Agency of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. Under his leadership the agency led Pacific Mutual in sales for 33 consecutive years. After his retirement he managed Auburn Insurance, in Avondale, for 14 more years. As a naval communications officer during World War II, he set up radio systems for Allied aircraft in Okinawa; amateur radio remained a hobby, and he also loved to sail during his many summers on McGregor Bay, Ontario. He leaves a son, David '64, and two daughters, Emily McKay and Katherine Morse.
ROBERT REINHART '29 died December 17 in Walker Valley, N.H. His career, about equally divided between international and domestic urban affairs, included stints as director of field operations for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Germany after World War II; secretary general of the U.S. mission to the UN in Washington, D.C. He founded and served for 32 years as chairman of the Longview Foundation, which issued grants to teachers for educational programs fostering understanding of other nations and cultures. Earlier he worked for the State Department as a member of the UNESCO staff in Paris and Vienna. He was an accomplished tennis player who won the Irish championship and played at Wimbledon during the 1930s. During World War II he served with the Army Air Forces in Brazil and Ukraine. He leaves two daughters, Belinda Bull and Penelope, and a son, Peter, M.B.A. '73; his wife, Nora (Magee), died in 1980.
DESMOND BERNARD DONNELLY '31, of Mesa, Ariz., died February 2. After graduation he joined his father's architectural sculpture firm, John Donnelly Co.; their best-known work was on the U.S. Supreme Court building in Massachusetts General and Mount Auburn Hospitals, a consulting physician at Mass. Eye and Ear, and an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. For many years he also was involved in the Douglas A. Thom Clinic, the Dedham Visiting Nurses Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adoption. He was a Harvard benefactor. He leaves his wife, Alice (Rosenbaum), a daughter, Alice Coda, two sons, David '65 and Frederic, and two sisters, Ruth Rosenbaum and Eleanor Simon.
ALICE C. FREEMAN '32cl, A.M. '35, of Belmont, Mass., died March 19. She was a retired music teacher in the Brookline public schools. She leaves no immediate survivors.
CHRISTOPHER HUNTINGTON '32cl, A.M. '36, died March 10 in Hanover, N.Y. He was former dean of the college division of St. Pius X Seminary and taught at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston. During World War II he served as a lieutenant commander in naval intelligence. He leaves no immediate survivors.
JOHN BLOUNT MILLER '32cl, of Aiken, S.C., died November 23, 1999. He was a securities analyst who retired as secretary of the investment department at Continental Insurance Cos., in California and had received the Special Award of Merit of the Society of Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriters, Los Angeles chapter. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Edwards), a daughter, Diane Lewy, a son, Charles, and two sisters, Betsy Berry and Pauline Bulley; another son, Hamilton, died in 1952.
THOMAS JOSEPH CURTIN '34, Ed.M. '39, died March 8 in Concord, Mass. As Massachusetts. He leaves a daughter, Kathleen Morella, a son, Thomas '66, and a sister, Helen McDonnell.
EDWARD MELLEN DICKSON '34 died April 10 in Boston. He tried his hand at teaching and business before entering public service. As Republican state representative from Weston, his lifelong home, from 1965 to 1978, he supported the Racial Imbalance Act and establishment of the Metco program, which transports inner-city children to suburban schools. He was Weston's town clerk for 26 years and a selectman for 15. A strong supporter of affordable housing in Weston, he and his wife recently donated a parcel of farmland to The Community Builders, a nonprofit development group. He leaves his wife, Priscilla (Nye), a daughter, Carol, three sons, Edward, Carl, and John, two sisters, Anna Ela and Ruth Orcutt, and a brother, William '36.
WINIFRED WITTMANN LUNNING '34 died January 23 in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Massachusetts. He leaves his wife, Betty (Poutot), two daughters, Renee Reid and Nancy Ross, and two sons, Richard and Craig.
GILBERT RADLO '34cl, A.M. '36, of Reading, Mass., died March 15. He was a retired employee of the Internal Revenue Service, a nuclear disarmament activist, and a student of radical philosophy. He leaves his wife, Reiko (Maeyama), A.B.E. '80, two sisters, Lucille Chernack '39 and Shirley, and two brothers, Milton and Justin.
