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GERALD AUSTIN KERRIGAN '44cl, M.D. '46, died March 12 in Boston. He was a professor emeritus of pediatrics and former dean at the Medical College of New York attorney in private practice for many years and former editor of Law Today magazine. He was vice chairman of the Conservative Party in N.H. He was retired senior vice president of Perini International Corp. In the course of his 47-year career with the firm he oversaw construction projects in the United States, the Arctic, and the Middle East, including, in 1979, the "fast-track" construction of an Israeli tactical air base required under the Camp David peace accord. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific during World War II. He leaves his wife, Marguerite (Langevin), three daughters, Candace Lister, Ann Perlman, and Margaret Dalpe, three sons, Richard, Winslow, and Warren, a sister, Elizabeth Bradley '40, and two stepchildren, Lisa Dodge and Richard Marcou.
RAYMOND GILBERT FORGAYS JR. '46, of Fort Myers, Fla., died December 8, 1998. He was a retired insurance executive and a navy combat veteran of World War II. He leaves five children, Rae Ann Selig-Suydam, Roberta, Cynthia, Brian, and Tiffany.
ROBERT WARREN BINGH MACPHERSON '46, of Cambridge, died February 12. He was president of Cambridge Rubber Co. for 36 years, retiring in 1986, and since 1960 had also served as chairman of the board of directors and treasurer of General Latex and Chemical Corp. He was the longtime vice president of the board of trustees of Belmont Hill School. He served in the field artillery during World War II. He leaves his wife, Joan (Wallace), a daughter, Katherine, two sons, Robert and Ben, and a sister, Mrs. James A. Carroll Jr.
PIERRE ERNEST DAVID MONTALETTE '46 died March 10 in New York. He leaves his wife, Susannah (Osborn), three children, Ralda Carrera, Bettina Samper, and Philippe, and two stepdaughters, Philippa and Isabelle Eschauzier; his older son, Paul, died in 1993.
ALEXANDER MOORE '46, of Cincinnati, died February 19. He was a highly decorated World War II pilot who earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and seven Air Medals for his service with the Army Air Forces in the China-Burma-India theater. Later he became a businessman with interests in the U.S. and abroad. He was a Harvard benefactor and a strong supporter of land conservation and arts organizations in Cincinnati and in Washington, D.C., which honored him with its Exceptional Civilian Service Award. He retired to Cape Cod in 1980. He was a former member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Cape Cod chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, the building committee of the Academy of Performing Arts, and the Orleans Conservation Commission. He leaves his wife, Janet (Hooker), a daughter, Anne-Marie Litchfield, a son, Andrew, three stepdaughters, Susan Sauter, Nancy Casey, and Julie Shea, and a stepson, Stephen Bishop.
LOUISE CONNELLY SULLIVAN '47 died January 11 in Newport, R.I. She was active in prison ministry and as an advocate for the elderly. She leaves her husband, Lawrence, a daughter, Laurie Sleeper, and two sons, Brian and Mark.
MARGARET HOWARD HASKELL '48cl died March 25 in Marblehead, Mass. She was a retired psychotherapist affiliated for nearly 20 years with the Veterans Administration Clinic in Lowell; from 1980 to 1982 she served as the VA's statewide coordinator for the Pennsylvania. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Pallante), a daughter, Willow Running Hawk, two sons, Douglas and Christopher, and a sister, Eleanor Brown.
SEWELL FORD FAULKNER '49, M.B.A. '51, died February 1 in Anchorage. He was retired president of Faulkner Real Estate, in Anchorage, where he had lived since 1955. He moved into his ski cabin at the base of Mount Alyeska in 1973; in the next two decades, using a pack dog and chainsaw, he cleared many miles of trails for hiking and cross-country skiing. He was also founder and chief pyrotechnician of the New Year's Eve fireworks display on the mountain. He served on Anchorage's city council, borough assembly, and charter commission, was a past president of the Alaska World Affairs Council, and in 1959 cochaired the Victory Alaska statehood celebration, featuring a bonfire fueled by 49 tons of wood. He served in the Army Air Forces as a B-17 navigator in World War II. He leaves seven children, Patricia Hamre, Bradford '80, Sandra Graham, Jonathan '83, Winthrop '85, Sarah Mattingley, and Elizabeth Hersh, a sister, Sue Scribner, a brother, John '44, M.B.A. '48, and two ex-wives, June Whire and Connie Durvin.
GEORGE RAE FULLERTON '49 died March 17 in Washington-area technology companies. He was the recipient of the Legion of Merit. He leaves his wife, Constance, three daughters, Linda Misener, Leslie, and Laura, three sons, Lawrence, Donald, and James, and two brothers.
JONATHAN SILVERSTONE '49cl died December 24, 1999, in New York. After his friend Andreas Brown bought the Gotham Book Mart, the shop presented exhibitions of his work and sold great quantities of his books, turning him into an international celebrity. A passionate balletomane, for many years he would leave Manhattan for his home on Cape Cod at the end of each Georgia Gillespie, and a brother, James '50.
JOSEPH BARKER KITTREDGE '51, M.B.A. '53, died February 22 in New Haven. He was retired president and chief operating officer of Tilcon Inc. (formerly New Haven Trap Rock), a construction company specializing in road projects and materials, where he worked for 41 years. He was former chairman of the board of trustees of Quinnipiac College. He leaves his wife, Linda Mason Briggs, two daughters, Mary Groezinger and Sarah Campbell, two sons, Joseph '76, J.D. '79, and Edward '81, and two sisters, Mary Minot and Rebecca Johns.
EDWARD DAVID STEARNS '51 died October 18, 1999, in Portland, Me. He was retired longtime owner and president of an automobile dealership, Rockland Ford-Mercury Inc., and past president of the chambers of commerce of Rockland and Thomaston. He was an avid fisherman with a particular love for the East Grand Lake region of Pennsylvania and Brown and later served as pathologist-in-chief at Miriam Hospital in Providence. His research interests and published work centered on neuromuscular disease. An art lover, he was a collector of Japanese prints and of paintings from the school of Whistler. He leaves his wife, Marilyn (Garfinkel), Ed.M. '52, two daughters, Nancy Zacks and Susan Post, a son, Charles, and a sister, Adrienne Garr.
JOSEPH LAWRENCE HEANEY '52 died September 21, 1999, in Mahwah, N.J. He retired in 1992 after 36 years with IBM in White Plains, N.Y., died February 6. He was a partner in the Mineola law firm Bernstein, Hurley & Shank. He was an active member of the Harvard Club of Long Island as well as an avid bridge player, world traveler, and devoted fan of Crimson football: "The Game" in November would have been his fifty-ninth in a row. He leaves his wife, Lorraine, five daughters, Bridget, Anne, Margaret, Paula '85, Ed.M. '89, and Constance; and a son, Eugene; his first wife, Nance (Megley) '54, and two children, Ellen and James, predeceased him.
MICHAEL CARCHIA JR. '54, of Belmont, Mass., died January 20. An attorney, he chaired the Belmont Democratic Committee from 1960 to 1967 and was also a longtime member of Belmont town meeting. He leaves no immediate survivors.
ROBERT MILLER COLLINS '55 died February 6 in Framingham, Mass. A retired advertising executive, he was former associate creative director and senior vice president at Benton & Bowles, the North Carolina's twelfth congressional district. He leaves his second wife, Nancy, a daughter, and two sons.
EVA AUGENBLICK NEER '59 died February 20 in Cambridge. She was a professor of biochemistry at Harvard Medical School and a pioneering heart researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her major field of interest was the so-called G protein, a molecule found in every living cell, and the means by which it passes on signals from hormones and neurotransmitters outside the cell. In 1998 she became only the second Brigham and Women's heart researcher to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She kept her 11-year struggle with cancer private, partly to protect the young scientists in her laboratory against the loss of grant funding, and was working on a half-dozen scientific papers at the time of her death. She leaves her husband, Robert '57, and two sons, Robert '86 and Richard '91.
DONALD RALPH DIBONA '60 died February 21 in Charleston, S.C. He was a biologist who formerly served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor of anatomy and instructor of medicine and as a research fellow in medicine in the Laboratory of Renal Biophysics at South Carolina at Charleston. He leaves his wife, Randi (Innes), a daughter, Amy, two sons, Jesse and Alexander, his parents, Pompeo and Olga, and two sisters, Geraldine DiBona and Linda Brassel.
DANIEL ROBERT EFROYMSON '63 died November 30, 1999, in Indianapolis. His family's gift, in 1998, of $90 million to the Central Indiana chapter and was the architect of pioneering legislation in the early 1980s that established a public-private partnership to protect Indiana Heritage Trust, which he helped to create in 1992, some 27,600 acres throughout the state have been purchased for the purpose of preservation. The Nature Conservancy presented him with its highest tribute, the Oak Award, in 1987. He served in the navy as a pilot in the Vietnam War. He leaves his wife, Lori (Lincoln), and two children, Jeremy and Lisa.
PHILIP THOMPSON ARANOW '69scl, A.M. '76, Ed.D. '88, died February 18 in a car accident in Naples, Fla. He was a Cambridge psychologist and cofounder and president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Active in the student protest movement at Harvard as an undergraduate, he was a student of Buddhist meditation for 25 years and wrote and lectured extensively on Buddhist concepts and their application in psycho therapy. He served on the faculty of the Nevada Governor's Cup singles championship and twice, with his brother, Edward, the Washington, D.C., in 1991. There she served as program scientist for the Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars 2001 Orbiter and Lander missions, and was responsible for technical and management oversight of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, in Houston. Since 1998 she had been a distinguished visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. She leaves her husband, Bruce, her mother and stepfather, Marie and Joseph Capestany, her father, Peter Grizzaffi, and three sisters, Ann Marie Maynard, Lauralee Grizzaffi, and Tina Marie Murray.
