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ROBERT LANG MOREHOUSE '24 died September 4 in Moravian Falls, N.C. He spent his early childhood in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he knew Pancho Villa as the neighborhood butcher; his family was on the last train out of the city before it was taken over by Villa's revolutionaries in 1911. While at Harvard he worked as a chauffeur for an assistant secretary of the navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He taught Spanish and French at the Kent School, in North Carolina for many years. He was former chairman of the Wilkes County library board. He took a keen interest in the English language and spoke three foreign ones fluently. He leaves his wife, Kathleen (Moore), a daughter, Mary Barley, and a son, Peter '52.
JOHN WASSERMAN '24 died October 30 in California for 60 years. He leaves two brothers, Harvey and Arthur.
ISRAEL BAILEN ALPERT '27, of Newton, Mass., died October 30. He was a lawyer, businessman, and consumer advocate. He leaves two sons, Arthur '63 and Marc '66, M.B.A. '68, and a sister, Evelyn Greenman '32; his wife, Sara (Green), predeceased him.
LUCY JONES SEIBERLICH '27, of Lee, N.H. As head of the mathematics research center at Bell Labs, in Murray Hill, N.J., where he worked for more than 40 years, he pioneered electronic circuits that foreshadowed the integrated circuit and the modern computer. His discovery of ways to custom-design circuits using precise mathematical specifications, a field now called network synthesis theory, made him the leading authority on electronic circuits for decades. One weekend in the 1950s, while tinkering at home with a new gadget, the transistor, he found a way to combine two or more transistors in one chip; the Darlington Chip became a universal component until the era of the integrated circuit. A rocket guidance expert whose formulas helped launch rockets such as the Air Force Titan I some 300 times without error, he also played an integral role in Bell Labs' support of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. He was a recipient of the highest honor in his field, the Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He leaves his wife, Joan (Gilmer Raysor), two daughters, Ellen Kerr and Rebecca, and a sister, Celia Wakefield.
WILLIAM MULFORD '28 died September 17 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. A Philadelphia architect, he was the founder of Mulford Construction Co. He was involved in the reconstruction of Baron von Steuben's headquarters at Valley Forge State Park, earlier colonial buildings in White Horse, and the oldest house in Delaware County, part of the Haverford Township Park System. He also spearheaded the construction of, and designed, the Garden of the Blind in Ardmore. He was a past president of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce. He leaves his wife, Mary Jane (Wells), and a stepdaughter, Constance Watson; his first wife, Frances (Hayden), predeceased him.
SYDNEY ALLEN WARM '28cl, J.D. '31, died September 23 in Hyde Park, Maine for 59 years.
ARTEMAS JAMES STEWART '29cl, M.D. '33, died November 4 in Falmouth, Mass. He practiced surgery in Lowell for many years and was a member of the staff at Lowell General Hospital. An army veteran of World War II, he was chief of surgery in the 103d General Hospital during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He leaves his wife, Jean (Hayward), and three stepchildren, Kathryn, John, and C. Robert Aldinger.
THOMAS HUGH BYRD '30 died October 12 in Belleair, Fla. He was a retired partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm of Byrd Brothers, former commissioner and treasurer of Palisade Interstate Park, and commander of the Third District, U.S. Naval Reserve. A naval veteran of World War II, he took part in the sinking of U-Boat 613, which was on its way to destroy Mayport Naval Base and the surrounding Jacksonville area in July 1943; for his heroism the navy named its building for fleet training units after him. In 1969 he was made rear admiral of the New York venture capital firm, and founding director of the Mets baseball team. He was instrumental in establishing the Maine. He leaves his wife, Irene (Barnes), and two sons, John and Robert.
JOHN NEWLIN TRAINER '31, of Southbury, Conn., died November 30. He was retired president of Trainer Wortham and Co. Inc., the N.Y., he was a longtime board member of the Northern Westchester Hospital and the Boys Club of Mt. Kisco. He also had a lifelong interest in sailing and helped to found the Sea Education Association, which offers programs in seafaring and ocean science to young people. He leaves his wife, Alice (Stone), two sons, John '59 and Edward '61, and a brother, Robert '38, J.D. '41.
ROLAND JOHN DESROCHES '32 died October 27 in Ormand Beach, Fla. He worked in the textile industry throughout New England in a career that spanned more than 60 years. At his retirement he held a senior management position at Pacific Mills, in Sanford, Me. He leaves a daughter, Ann Nary, a sister, Mary, and two brothers, Grant and Clarence; his wife, Mary (Angier), died in 1996.
GEORGE KEITH MARTIN '32 died September 28 in Dallas. He worked as a portrait painter in New York City, and executive director of the Roberson Museum, in Binghamton, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. He leaves three sons, Keith, Harry, and Robert; two wives, Laura (Bishop) and Jeanne (Madden), predeceased him.
JUSTIN LAYRE REX '32 died November 17 in Concord, N.H. A naval veteran of World War II, he was a retired chemical salesman in the publishing industry and a longtime resident of Winthrop, Mass. He leaves a daughter, Suzanne Mello, and a sister, Eileen Gore; his wife, Kathleen (Cronin), died in 1993.
WARREN LEONARD CLAFF '33mcl, J.D. '36, AMP '60, of Hull, Mass., died October 16. He was retired chairman of the board of M.B. Claff & Sons Inc., a Brockton manufacturing firm dealing in packaging, printing, and machinery. He leaves two daughters, Linda and Ellen; his wife, Ada (Gilbert), predeceased him.
DANIEL R. DAVIES '33 died August 28, 1997, in Tucson. He was a retired educational consultant. As a high-school teacher, early in his career, he instituted the first driver education course in the United States. Later he co-founded the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration and served as its secretary for 10 years. He was also founding director of the University Council for Educational Administration. With Henry M. Brickell, in 1957, he developed the Davies-Brickell System for School Board Policy Making and Administrative Regulations. He became vice president of Croft Education Services, working with school districts to install his system, and later ran his own consulting firm, Davies-Brickell Associates Ltd. In retirement, he was active in community affairs. He leaves his wife, Nancy (Church Edwards), two daughters, Catherine and Wendy Watson, three stepchildren, Wiley, John, and Doreen Edwards, a sister, Catherine Miller, and his first wife, Winifred (Evans).
ROBERT COLEMAN PALMER '33cl, S.T.B. '51, died September 25, 1997, in Boston. He was a retired clergyman. He served as minister of Unitarian churches in Gardener, Mass., Nashville, and Cincinnati, and as interim minister in London and in Adelaide, Australia. He was also former director of deferred giving for the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston. After retiring from the ministry he was active in volunteer work, especially at Boston City Hospital, where he worked for 21 years in the accounting department. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Johnson), two daughters, Elizabeth Humphries and Martha Thigpen, and a sister, Marjorie Fitzgerald.
BEATRICE QUINT SCHLOSBERG '33, of Sarasota, Fla., died November 16. She was the former owner and director of Queen Lake Camp, in Athol, Mass. She leaves a daughter, Jane Winslow, and a sister, Judith Schreider; her husband, Richard, predeceased her.
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON SHREVE '33 died November 3 in Beverly, Mass. He was retired vice president of the family jewelry business, Shreve, Crump & Low, in Boston. He was a past master of the Salem Maritime Society and served as a docent at Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem. He leaves a daughter, Miriam Millar, and two sons, Benjamin and Warren.
