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WALTON WETTEN '33 died October 14 in Tucson. An Arizona Planners Association. He was a longtime member of the Patagonia High School governing board and of the Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo Association. He leaves his wife, Joyce (Harker), two daughters, Louise Hudson and Sarah Doyle, and two sons, Mark and Bruce.
BERTRAND GOLDBERG '34 died October 8 in Chicago. He was the architect who altered the Chicago skyline in the 1960s with a pair of cylindrical apartment towers known as Marina City, the tallest reinforced concrete structure in the world for some years and one of the first mixed-use projects to be built in an American downtown. Besides Marina City, he also designed the 24-story Astor Tower Hotel and the 700-unit Hilliard Center housing project, both in Chicago, as well as health-care buildings around the country, including the Health Sciences Center at SUNY-Stony Brook. He leaves two daughters, Nan and Lisa, and a son, Geoffrey.
MALCOLM SHEPHERD KNOWLES '34cl died November 27 in Fayetteville, Ark. He was widely acknowledged as a founder of adult education as a separate discipline. He first developed a comprehensive education program for adults at the central YMCA in Chicago, where he worked from 1946 to 1951, and later became founding executive secretary of the Adult Education Association of the United States, precursor of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, based in North Carolina Universities. His books, which include The Modern Theory of Adult Education: From Pedagogy to Andragogy, The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species, and The History of the Adult Education Movement in the United States, are used as texts in adult education programs around the world. He leaves his wife, Hulda (Fornell), a daughter, Barbara Hartl, a son, Eric, and a sister, Margaret Sterling.
RICHARD EDWARD METZ '34cl died October 26 in Manhattan. A retired New York Exchange for Women's Work. He leaves his wife, Gurdon (Howells), and a brother, Eugene.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER POLK '34cl died October 7 in Hershey, Pa. He was a retired federal civil servant and an army veteran of World War II. He leaves no immediate survivors.
JOSEPH BALLISTER RUSSELL '34 died June 24, 1997, in Portland, Me. He was a retired dealer in wholesale appliances. A registered N.H. He worked as a research chemist, first for the B.F. Goodrich Co. in Akron, Tennessee Williams, Dylan Thomas, Nathanael West, Herman Hesse, Delmore Schwartz, John Hawkes, Pablo Neruda, Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Nabokov, and Yukio Mishima. He became close friends with many of them. In 1992 he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Huston), a daughter, Leila Savitch '65, and two sons, Henry '83 and Paul '65.
DONALD WILLIAMS MCKEE '36, of Everett, Mass., died November 17. He was a retired teacher at Everett Vocational High School. He leaves his wife, Mildred (Barker), a daughter, Cheryl Lee, and a son, Donald.
GEORGE WILLIAM OETTLE '36mcl died January 22, 1997, in Woodbridge, N.J. A chemical engineer, he worked for 30 years for Gulton Industries, in Metuchen. At his retirement he was the president of the company's Piezoelectric Products Division, which manufactured ceramic products for sonar and other military and civilian applications. He leaves his wife, Sylvia (Silverman), a daughter, Barbara Hatola, and a son, Kenneth, J.D. '69.
HENRY BAILEY LITTLE II '37 died October 29 in Aptos, Cal. He was a former San Francisco businessman and banker who served in the Navy Combat Aircraft Unit during World War II and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander. A sportsman and mariner, he introduced Downeast Maine lobster boat, Sourdough, as a support boat for the yacht USA in the America's Cup Competition. He was a patron of the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, the Maritime Museum of Newburyport, and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory. He leaves his wife, Josephine (Farny Roche), a daughter, Barbara Larson, a son, Edward, and two stepchildren, Peter and Maude Pervere; his first wife, Barbara (Taylor), died in 1977.
EDWARD BRIGGS HUBBARD '38, of Carmel, Cal., died November 19. He was retired secretary of Greener 'n' Ever Tree Farm, in Carmel, and former superintendent of buildings at Wellesley College. His survivors include his wife, Elinor (Bennett).
WELLS MORSS '38 died November 6 in Boothbay Harbor, Me. He worked as treasurer and controller for his family's Boston-based cable and wire company, Simplex, before retiring to pursue his great love, yachting. A sailor since the age of five, he competed in races all over the world and won several, including some transatlantic races. He leaves his wife, Nancy Rice, a daughter, Leslie Kane, a son, John Addel, and two sisters, Eleanor English and Virginia Galpin.
CROCKER WIGHT '38 died November 26 in Brookline, Mass. He worked as an investment adviser for Tucker Anthony Inc., in Boston, for nearly 50 years. A naval aviator during World War II, he continued to enjoy flying planes and helicopters for many years and formerly served as director of the Aero Club of New England. He was also a collector of rare books, particularly first editions of works by British poet John Masefield. He was president of the Home for Aged Women in Boston and a trustee of the North Bennett Street Industrial School. He leaves his wife, Frederica (Sargent), and a sister, Anne Phillips.
ROBERT GAINER WOLFE '38mcl, LL.B. '41, died September 17 in Miami. He practiced law in Terre Haute, Ind., for 35 years as a partner in the firm of Rosenfeld & Wolfe, now known as Hunt, Hassler & Lorenz. In 1982 he retired to Perry, Me., and later to South Washington University. He was a member of Telephone Pioneers of America and volunteered over the years for the U.S. Park Service and in the public elementary schools of Montgomery County. He leaves his wife, Martha (Moore), two daughters, Katharyn Rayner and Martha Szczur, and a sister, Patricia McFarland.
JOSEPH JEFFERS DODGE '40cl died March 6, 1997, in Jacksonville, Fla. A painter and arts patron, he served 10 years as director of the Cummer Gallery of Art, in Jacksonville. During his tenure as director of the young museum, he tripled its holdings; his acquisitions included the Wark Meissen Collection, considered one of the most important porcelain collections in the world. In 1996 he donated dozens of his own paintings and works from his personal collection to the Cummer, and also established an endowment to purchase drawings for the museum's permanent collection. He leaves two daughters, Julie and Lisa, and two sons, Joseph '63, LL.B. '67, and Jeffers.
LAWRENCE HARVEY WATERMAN '40 died October 23 in Lawrence, Mass. He was a retired Boston attorney. An army veteran of World War II who served in the South Pacific, he was marooned in the New Hebrides for several months after the transport ship Coolidge was sunk by a mine en route to Guadalcanal. He was an amateur photographer and an avid reader. He leaves his wife, Doris (McCarthy), and four daughters, Linda, Leslie, Lisa, and Lauren Ricks.
JERE JOHN NELSON '41mcl, M.D. '44, died September 18 in La Mesa, Cal. He practiced medicine for 36 years, most of them as a geriatric internist in San Diego. A member of the Army Medical Corps during World War II, he served for 30 years as an army reservist, attaining the rank of colonel, and became a master shooter on the 6th Army pistol team. In 1989 he accepted a medical post with the army in Germany and spent the last three years of his career there. He leaves his wife, Margaretha (Erny), two daughters, Tara Robledo and Holly, three sons, Laird, Scott, and Mark, three stepchildren, Monica Schlicht and Gerhard and Daniel Wamser, and a sister, Gene Gray.
