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CHARLES PEIRSON LYMAN '36, Ph.D. '42, died December 29 in Newton, Mass. Professor of biology emeritus at Harvard, he also taught anatomy at Harvard Medical School; served as curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Medical School; and founded Harvard's Concord Field Station. He was an ardent conservationist and a Harvard benefactor. In World War II he served in the Pacific theater as a major in the Army Air Forces. He leaves his wife, Jane (Cheever) '43, two daughters, Jane Bihldorff and Elizabeth, three sons, Charles '64, Theodore '73, and D. Russell, Ed.M. '78, and a brother, Henry '37.
FRED FRANCIS PLIMPTON '36cl, A.M. '39, died December 15 in Needham, Mass. As a navy lieutenant in World War II, he served first as a Middle East research analyst and later ran the military government of Olangapo, in the Philippines. Later he became an airline executive, working for Pan American Airways in Damascus, Beirut, and Buenos Aires and for TWA in Chicago, Atlanta, and New York philanthropist. Beneficiaries of his largesse included the city itself, for social work education and research, the Hunter College School of Social Work, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, whose business school bears his name. He was president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Illinois. During World War II he served in the army in Panama, reaching the rank of captain. He leaves a daughter, Katherine Mann, two sons, Nathaniel and John, and three sisters, Nancy Saltonstall, Sue Ames, and Molly Hartzell.
MILTON OSBOURNE COREY '37, of Walpole, Mass., died January 7. He was a retired equal-opportunity officer at John Hancock Cos., where he worked for 43 years. A longtime resident of Sharon, where he served on the board of selectman, he was also an avid tennis player and cultivated an interest in genealogy and New England colonial history as a member of the New England Genealogical Society. He was an army veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Martha (Clapp), two daughters, Joyce Gibson, D.Nu. '74, and Joanna Crutchley, and a brother, C. Edward.
MARIE HOWARD GLUECK '37, of Goshen, Conn., died July 24, 1999. She leaves a son, Charles '60; her husband, Bernard, M.D. '38, died three hours after she did.
EDITH GRUENBERG HARRIS '37 died December 19 in Manhattan. She leaves a daughter, Emily, and a son, Frederick; her husband, Stephen, predeceased her.
JEAN PORTER ROGERSON '37, of Milton, Mass., died February 7. She was a former board member of Family Service of Greater Boston and an active volunteer in the Milton community for many years. She leaves a daughter, Helen Haddad, and three sons, Henry '61, William '66, and Edward; her husband, John, predeceased her.
THAYER SOLOMON WARSHAW '37cl, M.A.T. '61, died January 28 in Roxbury, Mass. He was a former Teacher of the Year at Newton North High School, where he created two courses, "Philosophy" and "The Bible as Literature," and coauthor, with James S. Ackerman, Th.D. '66, of eight books, including The Bible as/in Literature. In Andover, where he lived for many years, he was an officer of Boy Scouts of America, a founding board member of the United Fund, and chairman of the board of public welfare. He also served as fundraising and architectural chairman, and later president, of the Jewish Community Center in Lawrence; he wrote and published the Lawrence Jewish News for many years. He leaves three daughters, Ellie Davidson, Shirley Roshannah, and Margaret Brill '69.
HAROLD TREDWAY WHITE '37mcl died January 29 in New Canaan, Conn. A retired Boston investment banker, he was managing partner at White, Weld & Co. until the firm was sold to Merrill Lynch in the 1970s. He served on the New Canaan board of finance and was a Harvard benefactor and former member of the visiting committees on engineering and applied sciences and on physics. During World War II, he served in the Coast Guard off New England. He was a competitive sailor and an avid downhill skier well into his seventies. He leaves his wife, Penelope (Weld), and five sons, Charles, Alexander, Harold, Christopher, and Francis.
SELMA LEVINE CREVOSHAY '38cl, of West Charleston, Vt., died January 15. She leaves two sons, Stephen and Ralph, a sister, Cecile Lake, and two brothers, Aaron and Solomon; her husband, Maurice, and a third son, George, predeceased her.
JOSEPH HENRY ELCOCK '38cl, LL.B. '41, died February 4 in Newton, Mass. He was a Boston attorney who formerly served as first assistant attorney general of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. As vice chairman of the New York for a number of years. In 1966 he left the ministry to join the business world, becoming vice president of civic affairs and personnel at Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago. In retirement he served as dean of the School of Business at Savannah State College. He leaves his wife, Dale (Johansen), a daughter, Susan, a son, Peter, Ph.D. '72, and a sister, Margaret Richards.
WALTER HUNNEWELL '39, M.B.A. '41, died December 30 in Wellesley, Mass. He worked for Gillette Co. for 36 years, retiring in 1982 as the executive vice president of Gillette International. A grower of orchids and conifers, he was a past president of the N.Y. He was Binenkorb professor emeritus of international studies at Cornell, where he taught for 37 years, and one of the foremost American scholars of Southeast Asia. He became interested in the region while serving in the army in World War II. Recruited by Cornell in 1951 as its first Asia specialist, he served as founding director of the Cornell South East Asia Program. He was the author of several books, including The United States in Vietnam, written with his Cornell colleague John W. Lewis, which influenced many people in the academic world to turn against American involvement in Vietnam in the late 1960s. He leaves his wife, Audrey (Richey), a daughter, Sharon, a son, Brian '69, J.D. '76, and a sister, Peggy Webb.
ROGER DEARBORN LAPHAM JR. '40, of San Francisco, died January 2. He was retired from a career in investment management and insurance brokerage and was a longtime leader in San Francisco community affairs. He served on the board of directors of BART during the 1960s, and on those of the Museum of Modern Art and the University of San Francisco, and was a past president of the city's planning commission and former director of the County Republican Central Committee. A lifelong sports fan, he was a founding partner in the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco Seals hockey team. He leaves his wife, Phyllis (Kyrides), two daughters, Nora Wendel and Antoinette Wheeler, two sons Jerd and Nicholas, and a sister, Carol Valentine.
ALICE HOWE MACCREADY '40 died January 17 in Jaffrey, New York City, Richmond, Massachusetts General Hospital; the founding director of the New England Organ Bank; and a member of the faculties of Harvard and Tufts medical schools and of the Center for the Analysis of Health Practices at the Harvard School of Public Health. A World War II veteran, he served in the Army Medical Corps during the occupation of Germany. He was an ardent and rugged outdoorsman. He leaves his wife, Pamela Thayer, four daughters, Robin, Phoebe '71, Mary, and Faith, and two sons, Benjamin '68 and Christopher.
MARY HINCHMAN BOWDITCH '41, of Foxboro, Mass., died January 16. She leaves her husband Hoel, a daughter, Wendy Best, three sons, Henry, John, and Peter, and two sisters, Hildegarde Schaefer '37 and Margaret Slawson '47.
HARRY KENNARD MANSFIELD '41mcl, LL.B. '43cl, died January 9 in Natick, Mass. A tax attorney, he was a retired partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, where he practiced for more than 40 years. A former resident of Wellesley, where he served on the town improvements coordinating committee, he was also a Harvard benefactor and a former director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He leaves his wife, Helen (Pikul) '42, two daughters, Linda Pointer and Shirley DeBartolo, and a son, Douglas '68.
EUGENE SMITH AUSTIN '42cl, M.D. '45, died November 16, 1999, in Owosso, Mich. He was a retired internist who maintained a practice in Owosso for 41 years. He also served as longtime physician for the Shiawassee County Medical Care Facility, in Pleasant View. He leaves his wife, Doris (Scriven), two daughters, Dianne and Lorraine, and a son, Richard.
CHARLES BURGESS AYRES '42, A.M. '51, died February 12 in Bedford, Mass. He was a retired educator who served as headmaster of the Gunnery School, in Colo. He was a retired petroleum geologist for AMOCO who later worked as a consultant, helping developing nations to discover their own energy resources. A decade into retirement he was ordained an Episcopal priest and served as associate rector of St. John's Church in Boulder. He leaves a wife, Dorothy (Nuttall), two daughters, Anne Greene '71, Ed.M. '73, and Lucy Flanigan '77, three sons, John '73, David, and Nicholas, two sisters, Carolyn MacLeish '40 and Eleanor, a brother, Guy Boyce, and his former wife, Edith (Bronson) '45.
LEAH HELPERN OTTENSTEIN '43 died December 26 in Cambridge. She was a social worker associated with Mount Sinai Hospital and Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was an influential liberal lawyer, educator, and activist who helped shape public policy under three presidents. As special assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from 1961 to 1964 he brought modern management systems to the Pentagon and led the effort to integrate military housing. In 1964 he was named deputy director of President Lyndon B. Johnson's task force on the War on Poverty. From 1977 to 1979 he served as a counselor to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Jimmy Carter. He taught at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School before joining the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was a professor, provost, and vice president of academic affairs. He leaves his wife, Sarah Ellis '46, a daughter, Sally, three sons, Tobias, Matthew, and Benjamin '76, a brother, Michael '50, and his former wife, Harriet.
MARY SMITH DENISON '45 died December 30 in Hanover, N.Y. He also served as associate director of the Harvard College Fund. He leaves his wife, Agnes (Crocker) '47, a daughter, Katharine '71, and three sons, Douglas '76, William, and Andrew '83.
RICHARD WAYNE HOMANS '46, M.B.A. '53, of Darien, Conn., died December 14. He was a retired investment manager and a World War II veteran of the Naval Reserve. He was active for many years in Republican politics and community affairs. He loved the ocean. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Powning), three children, Edith, Helenty Hagen, and Richard, a sister, Frances Berges '44, Ed.M. '52, and a brother, James '50, LL.B. '53.
HARISH CHANDRA MAHINDRA '46 died December 4 in Mumbai, India. Chairman of Mahindra Ugine Steel Co. Ltd. and Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. and a longtime leader of the Indian business community, he was past president of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and former chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India. Active in politics, he was former treasurer of the Bombay Pradesh Congress Committee and ran for a parliamentary seat himself in 1967. During the crisis in Bangladesh in the 1970s he set up the committee that became the Society for Assistance, Rehabilitation, Relief and Aid, of which he was founding president. He was also cofounder of the Mahindra United World College in Pune. He leaves his wife, Indira, two daughters, Radhika and Anuja, and a son, Anand '77, M.B.A. '81.
MALCOLM MOLEY '46 died January 12 in New York physician for more than 50 years, he was an attending surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital, Harlem Hospital, and Columbia University. He leaves his wife, Janis (Walton), a daughter, Janis McCarthy, and two sons, Jeffrey '76 and Roger.
