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ROBERT JOHN TRAYHERN '34, A.M. '38, died October 30, 1999, in McLean, Va. He taught philosophy at the University of Rochester for 12 years before joining the newly formed CIA as an analyst. He stayed at the CIA for 20 years, retiring in 1971. In retirement he continued to cultivate his extensive azalea garden and, with his wife, helped found a community orchestra. He was a published writer of haiku poetry and a member of the Haiku Society of America. He leaves his wife, C. June (Bruce), two daughters, Charyl Singer and Laurie, and a sister, Katherine Willsey.
CHARLES WALTER YUNGBLUT '34, J.D. '37, died September 10, 1999, in Sarasota, Fla. He was a retired contract specialist with the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Ohio. He served as a major in the quartermaster corps in England during World War II. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Prince).
AUGUSTUS MAVERICK KELLEY '35 died November 16, 1999, in Little Compton, R.I. He ran his own publishing house, focusing on out-of-print economics classics, in N.Y. He worked as a literary agent in Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, where he worked for 30 years, he had received the hospital's distinguished Jacob Ehrenzeller Award. From 1947 to 1949 he served in the Army Medical Corps in Japan. He leaves three daughters, Anne Bloch, Stacy, and Regan; his wife, Patricia (Walsh), predeceased him.
GEORGE LOWELL EMERSON '38, formerly of Belfast, Me., died January 6. He was a retired thoracic surgeon and former clinical associate professor of surgery and radiology at the University of Rochester Medical School.
ALFRED JOHN JAKSTAS '38, of Sun City, Ariz., died March 28. After an undergraduate switch from pre-med to art history, he became a preeminent authority on art conservation. He was director of art conservation at the Gardner Museum, in Boston, from 1943 to 1961 and then chief conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was also a conservation consultant to many institutions, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, and Bowdoin College. He leaves his wife, Valerie (Jevaraus) '45, and two daughters, Janet Kulesh and Julianne Griffin.
BERNARD FRANCIS KAMINS '38 died September 28, 1999, in Malibu, Cal. A public relations pioneer, he worked for a number of Hollywood studios, including Paramount and RKO, and represented Fred Astaire, Robert Young, and Buddy Ebsen. He was a founder of the Public Relations Society of America and taught at UCLA and at Santa Monica College; he wrote the first textbook in his field, Basic Propaganda, and the screenplay for Forty Thieves. He was active in community and political affairs. He leaves a daughter, Wendie Olshan, a son, Bernard, and a sister, Florence Mann; his wife, Loretta (Cooper) '38, died in 1994.
GEORGE MORRIS KARP '38, of Hull, Mass., died February 3. He was a Boston dentist. He leaves his wife, Eleanor (Finkel), and two daughters, Donna Herbert and Beverly Cytto.
JANE NICKERSON STEINBERG '38cl died February 27 in White Sulphur Springs, Mont. She was a food editor of the Florida. Later she was food editor of the Ledger, in Lakeland,and wrote a cookbook, Jane Nickerson's Pennsylvania. Earlier he had a varied business career that included work in public relations at General Electric. During World War II he was a lieutenant commander in the navy. He leaves his wife, Janet (Davison), a daughter, Victoria, and three sons, Ranney '65, Robert, and Joseph.
LILLIAN BARENBERG HOFFMAN '39, of Belmont, Mass., died March 29. She leaves her husband, Joseph '34, a daughter, Susan McCarthy, two sons, Arthur and Morton, and a sister, Evelyn Cone, M.A.T. '43.
HOWARD MCCLUSKY PALMER '39, LL.B. '42, died June 28, 1999, in Montgomery, Ala. He was retired general counsel of Arabian-American Oil Co. (ARAMCO), where he spent most of his career, living and working in New York City, retiring as director of the symphony and concert division. He was a navy veteran of World War II and a recipient of the Croix de Guerre. He leaves a son, Gerald; his wife, Doris (Elmendorf), died in 1990.
AUGUST ROBERT MEYER '40, LL.B. '43, died March 14 in Belmont, Mass. He was retired senior partner in the Boston law firm of Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, where he worked for 42 years. Active in community and civic affairs, he was a trustee and member of the board of managers of N.Y. He had been corporate secretary and legal officer for the Buffalo News. A well-known community volunteer in retirement, he worked for the Better Business Bureau of Buffalo as legal counsel and administrator of its dispute settlement and arbitration programs. He was a past president of the Mental Health Association of Erie County and of the Harvard Club of Buffalo and a founding member of the Asmodeus Literary Society of Georgia.
CHARLES BURGESS AYRES '42, A.M. '51, died February 12 in Bedford, Mass. He leaves his wife, Katharine (George), two daughters, Margo Smith and Susan Noble, two sons, Burgess and Robert, and a brother, Edward '50.
JOHN ANDREW NAIRN FEA '42 died January 11, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was retired from the trust department at Rutland Bank in St. Petersburg. He leaves no immediate survivors.
ROBERT WILLIAM KOMER '42mcl, M.B.A. '47, of Arlington, Va., died April 9. After army service in World War II he joined the newly formed CIA, where he spent 15 years as an intelligence analyst. In 1966 he became President Johnson's special assistant for Vietnam, in charge of the political side of the war. He arrived in Saigon the following year with the rank of ambassador. As chief of the pacification program, he led a village-by-village propaganda campaign to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese; this program intensified into Operation Phoenix, which sought to expose Vietcong agents working in South Vietnam. In 1969 he went to work as a consultant to Rand Corp. and later served as undersecretary of defense for policy under President Carter. He leaves three children, Doug, Dick, and Anne.
MARABELLE STEBBINS '42cl died February 22 in Brookline, Mass. She was a music teacher before beginning a 40-year career with the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Christian Science Publishing Society. She leaves a sister, Elizabeth, and a brother, Richard '33, Ph.D. '40.
JOSEPH SMITH BIGELOW III '43 died January 26 in Boston. A military systems analyst and planner, he began his career in the radar unit at Raytheon and later worked for MITRE Corp. in Bedford and for NATO in Brussels. He was a navy lieutenant in World War II. He leaves his wife, Mary Ellen (Brown), and a daughter, Anne MacFarland.
ABRAM JOSEPH CHAYES '43mcl, LL.B. '49mcl, died April 16 in Boston. The Frankfurter professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1955 to 1993, he was a leading authority on international law. He served in the field artillery during World War II. Later he served as legal adviser to the State Department under President Kennedy in the early 1960s, as chairman of George McGovern's foreign policy panel in 1972, and as foreign policy and defense task-force adviser to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign in 1976; during the 1980s he represented Nicaragua in its World Court case seeking redress against the Reagan Administration for supporting the Contras. Just last year he represented two Kosovo Albanian refugees in their suit accusing Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and a dozen others of war crimes. He was the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Cuban Missile Crisis, The International Legal Process, and The New Sovereignty, written with his wife, Antonia Handler '50, IAF '85. His many honors include last year's Harvard Law School Association Award. Besides his wife, he leaves four daughters, Eve Lyman, Gail Lyman, Sarah '84, and Angelica Swenson, a son, Lincoln, and a sister, Judith Neiman.
JOHN DANIEL COTMAN JR. '43cl, Ph.D. '50, died March 29 in Plainfield, N.J. He was a retired research chemist with Mobil Chemical Co., in Edison, N.J. Previously he spent 20 years at Monsanto Chemical Co., in Springfield, Mass., where he was the first chemist of color to be hired and to earn the titles of group leader and scientist. He leaves his wife, Hanne, two daughters, Carol Hogan and Cathrine, two sons, John and Roger, and a sister, Virginia Coleman; his first wife, Barbara (Walton), predeceased him.
ROBERT EDWARD DOBBYN '43 died February 24 in Weymouth, Mass. He was retired senior vice president of Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., where he spent his entire career, and former president of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. He was a navy veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Doris (Crocker) Lang-Dobbyn, three daughters, Kathleen Bouchard, Karen, and Eileen Ackles, a foster daughter, Yvette Rattenbury, a sister, Barbara Egan, and a brother, Edward '39, M.B.A. '52; his first wife, Shirley (Campbell), predeceased him.
WILLIAM ALBERT ALLEN '44 died June 20, 1999, in Longmont, Colo. He worked for many years as a land surveyor for Drexel-Barrell & Co., in Boulder. He enjoyed skiing and kayaking well into his seventies. He leaves his second wife, Edith (Decker), two daughters, Cynthia Johnson and Regina Cleveland, a son, Jim Allen-Morley, two stepchildren, Jeanette Petrica and Michael Decker, M.B.A. '76, and a brother, George.
