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ERNEST CARLETON NICKERSON II '32, M.B.A. '34, died May 3 in Boston. He began his career as a longshoreman on the Boston waterfront during the Depression and later became a railroad executive. He was former general manager of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, vice president and assistant to the president of the New Haven Railroad, executive vice president of the Massachusetts Wing, in which he was active for 40 years and held the rank of commander. He leaves his wife, Cleora (Veach), a daughter, Julia Benton, and a son, Thomas; another son, Richard, predeceased him.
IRENE CONNORS BRENNAN '33, of Wakefield, Mass., died May 17 in Washington, D.C. He was a Keynesian economist and a retired senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in N.H. A teacher, botanist, and conservationist with a lifelong love of New Hampshire," and a popular guidebook he wrote for the Appalachian Mountain Club, At Timberline. In retirement he was active in the Audubon Society of New Hampshire Forests. He served overseas in the Army Signal Corps during World War II. He leaves his wife, Mary (Lloyd), three sons, Nathanial, Benjamin '74, and Edward, and a sister, Elizabeth.
ANGUS ELLIS TAYLOR '33scl died April 6 in Berkeley, Cal. He was a retired mathematics professor and university administrator. He taught mathematics at UCLA for 28 years, including six as department head. A specialist in functional analysis, he made pioneering contributions in the theory of Banach spaces of analytic functions. Later he served for a decade as an administrator in the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was the author of several texts, including Calculus (with G.E.F. Sherwood), Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Advanced Calculus, Introduction to Functional Analysis, and General Theory of Functions and Integration. He was also an avid mountaineer. He leaves a daughter, Kathleen Okamoto, and two sons, Gordon '60 and Kenneth '62, Ph.D. '68; his wife, Patsy (Lapham), died in 1982.
WILLIAM VAN ADRIAN HANSEN '34 died May 12 in Hawthorn Woods, Ill. He was a retired vice president of Central Standard Life Insurance Co., in Chicago. He chaired the township budget committee for 30 years. He also was codeveloper and co-operator of a 2,300-acre farm in the East Dismal Swamp in Georgiana Hoffmann, and Martha Lahti, and two sons, Robert and David Gardner; his wife, Washington University law school, where he taught corporate, bankruptcy, and antitrust law. Earlier he spent 23 years with the Justice Department, working primarily in the antitrust division; for a time he was the division's acting director, with the rank of assistant attorney general. His survivors include a brother.
HAROLD ERIC MAGNUSON '34mcl, LL.B. '38, died June 1 in Brewster, Mass. A founder of the Boston law firm of Martin, Magnuson, McCarthy & Kenney, he served for 25 years as special justice of the Washington after retiring in 1964. He leaves two daughters, Margaret Olds and Anne Lombardi, and two sons, Michael and John; his wife, Mary (Rankin) '37, died in 1994 and another daughter, Patricia Frantz, died in 1977.
ROBERT WILKINSON SKINNER III '34, of Lancaster, Pa., died March 17. He was a general surgeon in Lancaster for 37 years, a staff surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital, and a past president of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society. For his service as a battalion surgeon with the First Marine Raider Battalion, known as Edson's Raiders, in Tulagi-Guadalcanal in 1942, he received the Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Defense Medal with Clasp, and Presidential Citation with Star. He leaves a daughter, Judith Huyett, and two sons, Frederick and Robert '63; his wife, Edith (Parkhurst), died in 1986.
DEAN STANLEY TARBELL '34cl, Ph.D. '37, died May 26 in Bolingbrook, Ill. He was Distinguished Professor of chemistry emeritus at Vanderbilt University, where he served on the faculty from 1967 to 1981. Earlier he taught for many years and chaired the chemistry department at the University of Rochester. In retirement he and his wife, Ann (Tracy) '37, researched and wrote books on the history of chemistry in the U.S.; for his writings he received the American Chemical Society's Dexter Award in 1989. He was an avid reader and book collector, a linguist who taught himself Arabic, Russian, and classical Greek, and a lifelong baseball fan. He leaves a daughter, Linda Neumann, two sons, William and Theodore '71, and a sister, Elva Procopio; his wife, Ann (Tracy) '37, died last August.
RICHARD JOHN BRY '35cl, of Kentfield, Cal., died March 31. He was a decorated veteran of the Signal Corps on Okinawa during World War II, an author, chef, and textile-sales executive. He leaves his wife, Betty (Reiffel), a daughter, Ellen, and two sons, William '76 and John.
CHARLES FREDERICK MASSEY '35 died March 18 in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was a retired art and English teacher and guidance counselor at Claremont (Cal.) High School. After moving to St. Petersburg in 1971 he served as an associate editor of Valkyrie Press. He also wrote several stories that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times. He served for four years overseas in the army during World War II. He leaves a daughter, Margot Gwin, a sister, Marjorie Shuck, and a brother, Walter.
HENRY STUCKERT MILLER '35cl, J.D. '38, died April 2 in Philadelphia. He was a lawyer in the Jenkintown area for 60 years and a retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. As a fighter pilot during World War II he flew 90 missions in the Pacific, mostly in the Solomon Islands; on the second of two tours, he flew with the noted Black Sheep Squadron, which he later commanded. He also led a Marine attack squadron during the Korean War. Among his commendations was the Distinguished Flying Cross. A past president of the Montgomery County Bar Association, he was an advocate of free legal assistance and in the mid 1970s joined an effort to expand the New York City. He was a clinical psychologist in private practice in Manhattan for many years. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Weissman), and two sons, Jonathan and Paul.
RICHARD MCMAHON POWELL '35mcl, of Belleview, Fla., died February 28. He was retired from a 45-year career as a public school teacher and administrator. After retiring to N.Y. He owned and operated Stanley's of Geneva, a retailer of women's apparel, for 37 years. A longtime community leader, he was involved in the Geneva Community Chest and United Way campaigns and in the local YMCA, and had served as a trustee and regular volunteer at Geneva General Hospital and as president of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Merchants Association, and the Geneva Concerts. He was also active as an interviewer for the Harvard Club of Rochester's schools and scholarships committee. He was named Geneva's Citizen of the Year for 1978. He leaves his wife, Marjorie (Kahn), and two sons, Robert '68 and Richard '71.
THOMAS FRANCIS PIPER '36 died April 3 in Fort Myers, Fla. An aviator and businessman, he was retired vice president of the family firm, Piper Aircraft, in Lock Haven, Pa. After the company was sold to Bangor Punta, he became a partner in Piper Land Co., owners of acreage in Port Aransas, Texas. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Booth), and three sons, Thomas '63, John, and William.
