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ALICE ADAMS '46 died May 27 in San Francisco. An acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, her 10 novels include Careless Love, Families and Survivors, Listening to Billie, and Superior Women, a bestseller about the odysseys of five Radcliffe women between 1943 and 1983; at her death she had completed work on a last novel, After the War, due out next year. She published more than 25 short stories in the N.Y., died May 15. He was professor of biology emeritus and Centennial Professor of life sciences at Adelphi University, where he taught for 43 years. He was also associated with the National Center for Disabilities Services as a consultant and vice president for development. He leaves his wife, Marilyn (Banks), two daughters, Peggy Larkin and Janet Beshlian, two sons, William and Robert, a stepdaughter, Jane Stanfield, and three stepsons, David, Stephen, and Lawrence Banks.
THOMAS SQUIRES WEARY '46cl, J.D. '50, died May 11 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. A partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul since 1967, he was earlier associated with Duane, Morris & Heckscher; two of his important cases involved taxation of schoolbooks in N.Y. A fellow at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a pioneer in the field of information physics, he played a major role in establishing the physics of information processing as a serious subject for scientific inquiry. He is best known for his postulation of the so-called Landauer principle, predicting an irreducible amount of energy loss when information is erased so that a computer can be reset for another computation. He believed it might be possible to design a reversible computer that could circumvent the principle, essentially by running a completed task backward to return the computer to its initial state without discarding information. He leaves his wife, Muriel (Jussim), a daughter, Karen Walsh, and two sons, Carl, J.D. '91, and Thomas.
NATHAN WESTON '47 died May 22 in New York City. He also served as program committee chairman for the Harvard Club of California State University in Fullerton. He leaves his wife, Shirley (Smith), two daughters, Lynn Gault and Susan Lachner, a son, Paul, and a brother, Daniel.
PETER GREEN HARWOOD '48, M.B.A. '50, died June 2 in Medford, Mass. He was retired chief financial officer of Loomis, Sayles & Co., in Boston, where he worked for 37 years, and former chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. He leaves his wife, Jean (Clarke), two daughters, Alison Bippart and Jennifer Petersen, three sons, Robert, Hugh, and David, and a brother, Charles '50, M.B.A. '52.
WILLIAM KENNETH LEVIN '48, LL.B. '51, of Nahant, Mass., died April 12. He quit the law early to become executive director of the Boston Chess Club; at his retirement, he was director of the Cavendish Club of Boston. His wife, Jane (Shaw), died in 1995; he leaves no immediate survivors.
ELEANOR MILLARD SEARLE '48mcl died April 6 in Pasadena. A fellow and past president of the Medieval Academy of America, she was Wasserman professor of history emerita at the Michigan City, Ind., died January 19. He was former national sales manager for the Ramset Division of Olin Corp., in Branford, Conn., a manufacturer of tools and fastening equipment. His survivors include his wife, Catherine (Nugent), a daughter, Elizabeth Fouts, and two sons, Peter and James.
RICHARD HAVEN '50mcl died May 4 in Amherst, Mass. Professor emeritus of English at UMass-Amherst, where he chaired the University Rhetoric board, he was the author of Patterns of Consciousness and coeditor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship. He was also an advisory editor of the Wordsworth Circle and former coeditor of Victorian Periodicals Newsletter. He earned the Purple Heart for his service in the infantry during World War II and later worked for world peace and humanitarian causes, most recently with the La Paz Centro Sister City Committee, which provides aid to impoverished residents of La Paz, Nicaragua. He leaves a daughter, Gillian Duda; his wife, Josephine (Corbishley), predeceased him.
JAMES MARTIN O'NEIL '50cl, of Texas at San Antonio and a retired commander in the navy. He leaves his wife, Lee (Newman), three daughters, Ames Sparks, Alison, and Anjanette Baker, and two sons, Roger and Charles.
ALDEN CARPENTER DAVIS '52, M.B.A. '56, of Summit, N.J., died May 5. He spent much of his career abroad, living and working in England for 28 years as a technical consultant to the optical fiber, wire, and cable industries. Stateside, he was managing director of Concentrics Ltd., of Madison, N.J., a supplier of optical-fiber cable manufacturing equipment. His survivors include his wife, Sandra (Hanford).
ROBERT ARTHUR WALLACE '53scl died April 9 in Cleveland. He was a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, where he had taught since 1965, as well as a publisher and a poet. His Bits Press, which he operated out of his basement, produced high-quality letterpress poetry books, including a semiannual magazine devoted to the small poem and an annual series of light verse entitled Light Year. Six volumes of his own poetry were released by various publishers. He was also the author of a textbook, Writing Poems, and coeditor of Poems on Poetry, a collection of poems on the subject of writing poetry. He leaves his wife, Christine (Seidler).
JOAN AVERY BEVINGTON-BROWN '54 died May 21 in Mayfield Village, California Postsecondary Education Commission. He was the author or coauthor of several books and monographs, including The Dynamics of Academic Reform, Information Services for Academic Administration, and The Integrity of New York, which he chaired, and the English-Speaking Union and other groups fostering close relations between the U.S. and England; for his efforts, he was made an officer in the Order of the British Empire in 1982. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Berlin, a daughter, Rachel, and a stepdaughter, Emily Fletcher.
THEODORE LOREN TILLOTSON '55 died June 8 in Boston. He was a conveyancing attorney and a pioneer in the crafting of documents for condominium and time-share ownership in New York and later at BBC/Lionheart as president for international acquisitions. She leaves two sons, Joseph and Nicholas '90.
CHARLES CLOSSON ADAMS III '60 died April 1 in New York office of R.W. Corby & Co. At his retirement he was senior vice president of Bull & Bear Group, where he managed two fixed-income mutual funds. He also served as treasurer of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Club Inc., a 75-year-old charity in Manhattan. He leaves his wife, Leith (McLean), two sons, Christopher and Charles, and his mother, Mrs. Walter Bowes.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS FIELDS '64 died June 6 in Fairfax, Cal. He was a journalist, poet, and leading authority on the history and development of Buddhism in the United States. An early instructor at the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, he later served as editor of Yoga Journal and the Vajradhatu Sun (later Shambhala Sun) and a contributing editor of New Age Journal and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a magazine he cofounded in 1991, he also wrote several books, including Code of the Warrior, The Turquoise Bee-Love: Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (with Brian Cutillo), and his best-known work, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. He leaves his wife, Marcia, his parents, Al and Reva, and two sisters, Laura Jawitz and Joanna Bogin.
WILLIAM WOODWARD III '66, M.B.A. '74, died May 2 in Manhattan. He was a private investor who specialized in international stock markets. He worked for three years as a reporter for the New York City, then a city agency, and as deputy superintendent of banks and bank regulator for the New York State senate in 1978. A Harvard benefactor, he and his late brother, James, established a loan fund in memory of their father to benefit undergraduate students. He leaves his wife, Lisa, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
ROBERT ANDREW CHAIKIN '68, of Atlanta, died April 19. A musician and psychologist, he was a cellist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and a contributing member of the International Psychohistorical Association. Besides articles on psychohistory and psychoanalysis, he wrote poetry, plays, experimental novels, electronic music, and music criticism. He leaves no immediate survivors.
