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SAMUEL STEARNS '36 died April 27 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. An internist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston for 35 years and former president of its medical staff, he also served as chief of the diabetes outpatient clinic. Later he joined the ambulatory-care staff at the Veterans Administration Clinical Center in Boston, retiring in 1985. He was also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He leaves his second wife, Agnes (Roman), a daughter, Ellen, a son, Robert, and two sisters, Bebe Limentani and Esther d'Utra e Silva; his first wife, Jeannette (Golden), died in 1980.
JAMES PETER BAKER '37 died March 27 in Worcester, Mass. He was retired president of the family manufacturing business, Baker Lead Manufacturing Co. A retired lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, during World War II he served in the Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Helm, the only ship fully manned and under way on December 7, 1941, and thus the first ship to leave Pearl Harbor after the attack. He was a longtime member of the Harvard Club. He leaves no immediate survivors.
GEORGE DAVID KELLER '37cl died April 6 in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1982 he became active in state Democratic politics and volunteered with the Upper Valley Service Corps of Retired Executives. He leaves his wife, Mary (Solis-Cohen), two daughters, Julie Kuhn and Polly, and a son, Adam '73.
ANTHONY JOSEPH DREXEL PAUL JR. '37 died April 8 in Stuart, Fla. He was a retired partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Hepburn Willcox Hamilton & Putnam, where he worked for more than 40 years. He was also a benefactor and trustee emeritus of Drexel University, founded by his great-grandfather. He established a Drexel alumni award in his father's name, and in 1965 founded the Anthony J. Drexel Society, to provide philanthropic leadership in furthering the university's academic goals. He was a commissioned naval officer during World War II, serving in the South Pacific and North Atlantic theaters. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Delano), two daughters, Wendy Paul and Linda Olney, and a son, Anthony.
ROBERT EDWARD KLINE '38cl, LL.B. '41, died April 12 in Pittsburgh. As an intelligence officer with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he received a Legion of Merit award for his work on designing a plan for the safe return of American planes at the war's end. He started his own law firm, Kline and Smith, in Pittsburgh in the late 1940s and practiced until his retirement in 1993, working with people from every economic background and rarely billing his poorer clients. As a county solicitor, he also worked to improve the area's vocational schools. He leaves his wife, Rae (Rabinowitz), a daughter, Pamela Smith '80, M.B.A. '84, and a son, Douglas; another daughter, Betsy, predeceased him.
DOROTHY DISSEL MAHONEY '38 died April 26 in Framingham, Mass. She was formerly executive director of the Greater Boston Council of Girl Scouts, a guidance counselor at Dedham Junior High School, and a senior interviewer and vocational counselor for the Washington in 1963, was a board member of the Plymouth Housing Partnership and the Plymouth Coalition for the Homeless, and also worked as a volunteer at the Providence Food Bank and Rosie's Place, a women's shelter. She leaves two sons, John and Thomas, two daughters, Brenda O'Brien and Marci, and her former husband, George '37, LL.B. '41.
ROBERT FRED MOZLEY '38cl died May 24 in Stanford, Cal. A professor of physics at Stanford University for 34 years, he did research in high-energy physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator using a streamer chamber, a particle-tracking device he pioneered. As a member of the Faculty Senate, he was among the first to sound the alarm over increasing academic reliance on Pentagon grants and about official efforts to designate unclassified research as secret. In retirement he worked on arms-control issues and nuclear nonproliferation as a staff physicist for the Federation of American Scientists. He was the author of Uranium Enrichment and Other Technical Problems Relating to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation. He leaves his wife, Anita (Ventura), a son, Peter, and a sister, Dorothy.
WALTER JACKSON BATE '39scl, Ph.D. '42, died July 26 in Boston. He was Porter University Professor emeritus at Harvard, where he taught from 1946 until 1986 and presided over two perennially popular courses, "The Age of Johnson" and "The Function and Criticism of Literature." He received the Pulitzer Prize for two of his books, the first in 1964 for his biography of John Keats and the second in 1978 for his biography of Samuel Johnson, which also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was a fellow of the British Academy, and a three-time winner of the Christian Gauss Prize for literary history and criticism. He leaves a sister, Jane Dear.
RICHARD STANWOOD BENNER '39 died March 15 in Holyoke, Mass. He was retired owner and operator of Electric Game Co., of Holyoke and later West Springfield. Earlier he worked for 20 years as treasurer of Crocker-McElwain Co. and Chemical Paper Co. He was a life master at duplicate bridge. He leaves his wife, Frances (Browne), and three daughters, Caroline Tompkins, Joanne Kelley, and Elizabeth Tomaswick.
ROBERT VINCENT BURWEN '39 died April 19 in Danvers, Mass. He served under General George S. Patton during World War II and later became president of his own architectural sheet-metal manufacturing firm. A former trumpet player in the Harvard Band, he later played in a big dance band in his spare time. His retirement hobby was the perfecting and producing of a specialized trumpeter's mouthpiece for dixieland jazz. He leaves his wife, June (Hutchings), a daughter, Gail, four sons, Robert, Eric '73, Ken, and Peter, and a brother, Richard '48, A.M. '50.
HAROLD FARQUHAR FURBER JR. '39 died April 25 in Exeter, Texas, he was the longtime director of its Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory and was instrumental in establishing a combined major in classics and archaeology. He was active in the Ohio. An investment broker for 35 years, he was a retired vice president of McDonald & Co., in Cleveland. He served as a forward observer at Anzio, attained the rank of captain, and earned the Purple Heart. He leaves his second wife, Marilyn, two daughters, Susan Stark and Nancy Dale, a son, Robert, and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Scheer and Sheperd Kahn; his first wife, Aileen (Kyman), died in 1988.
LESTER RINDLER '41mcl died April 7 in Silver Spring, Md. He was a labor economist who worked as an employment specialist and manpower analyst for the Labor Department for 20 years, retiring as chief of the program data division in the Office of Public Service Employment Programs. He also taught sociology courses at Montgomery College and served on the Montgomery County Employment Development Commission. In retirement he became a research associate for the National Academy of Sciences and the Bureau of Social Science Research. He leaves his wife, Alina (Braun), two sons, Michael and Donald '76, and two brothers, Sidney and Alfred.
JAMES BRICKLES TOBIAS '41mcl, M.D. '44, died March 18 in Gulfport, Fla. He was an internist and geriatrician for 43 years. In the mid 1960s he helped organize Medfield Corp., one of the first multifacility operations in the hospital field and at one time N.H. He leaves his wife, Alice (Daley), a daughter, Marilyn Henderson, two sons, Frederick and Steven, a stepdaughter, Sharon Nichols, and a sister, Eleanor Philpot; his first wife, Dorothy (Hanson), predeceased him.
DUDLEY PERKINS FRASIER '45mcl died May 2 in New York, where he joined Rinehart and later became an executive editor at Popular Library and New American Library. At his retirement he was editor-at-large at Pocket Books. He leaves no immediate survivors.
