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ALICE JOYCE LYDON '25mcl, A.M. '35, died September 28 in Kilkenny, Ireland. She was a former teacher, secretary, and newspaper correspondent. She leaves a daughter, Mary Fonseca, M.A.T. '63, and four sons, Peter, Christopher, Michael, and Patrick; her husband, Patrick, died in 1970.
MAYNARD PETKUN '25cl, LL.B. '28, of Newtonville, Mass., died September 15. He was retired president of Allen Furniture Co., of Roslindale, a retail business. He leaves his wife, Muriel (Billow), three sons, Robert, M.B.A. '73, David, and William '78, and a sister, Molly Rosenfelt.
LYMAN BRADFORD SMITH '25cl, Ph.D. '30, of Manhattan, Kan., died May 4, 1997. He was a retired botanist with the U.S. National Museum, in New York City. He leaves his wife, Ann (Sonnentheil), two daughters, Diane Greenberg and Sally, and a brother, William.
RALPH ISADORE DUCHIN '27, LL.B. '30, of Newton, Mass., died August 3. He retired after a 36-year career in the retail business, first with Enterprise Stores Inc., a Boston-based chain that later became J.M. Fields, and later with King's Department Stores. He was an avid squash and tennis player and a devoted fan of Harvard football. He had also served as treasurer of the Cape Cod Mental Health Association. He leaves his wife, Eunice (Bloom), a daughter, Linda Clark, and two sons, David and Abner Stein.
KIMBALL CONRO ELKINS '27cl, A.M. '33, died September 14 in Concord, N.H. He leaves a brother, Hervey '28, Ph.D. '33.
JOHN RANDOLPH HARRISON '27, of Hightstown, N.J., died September 8. He owned a cattle ranch in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, for 24 years. After retiring in 1970 he traveled for a while before resettling in Cuernavaca. He leaves two sons, Randolph '55 and Robert '59, LL.B. '64, and a daughter, Josephine Evarts.
MARY SEARS '27mcl, Ph.D. '33, died September 2 in Woods Hole, Mass. She was scientist emerita at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where during a 60-year career she founded and edited several publications that helped to establish the field of marine science. In 1980 the magazine Deep-Sea Research, of which she had been founding editor, dedicated an issue to her, noting that she had done more than any woman to advance to study of oceanography. She organized and chaired the First International Congress on Oceanography, held at the UN in 1959. A retired commander in the Naval Reserves, she was also active in the community life of Woods Hole, serving on the Falmouth school committee for 21 years. She leaves two sisters, Leila '43 and Elisabeth Laderoute, and a brother, John.
FRED MICHAEL STEIN JR. '27, of Harrison, New York City, and former president and director of Altro Health and Rehabilitation Service. He enjoyed world travel. He leaves two daughters, Barbara Scott and Virginia Greene; his wife, Margaret (Hellman), predeceased him.
PAUL VANDERBILT '27, of Madison, Wis., died September 21, 1992. He was a curator emeritus of graphics and photography at the State Historical Society of Massachusetts Teachers Association. In retirement he worked as a volunteer for the American Antiquarian Society.
ELI LESTER CRAMER '29cl died August 28 in Norwich, Conn. He was a retired New York City. A veteran of the Intelligence Service in World War II, he was a talented linguist who spoke several languages fluently, including French, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, and Japanese. He was also a seasoned traveler and gastronome. He leaves no immediate survivors; his wife, Helen (Carey), predeceased him.
ALBERT GAILORD HART II '30scl died September 19 in N.H., and during the 1950s and 1960s served as director of the Cambridge Art Center for Children. She leaves a son, Bradley; her husband, Sidney, predeceased her.
HERMAN FREDERICK ALBERT BEYER '31 died September 7 in Plymouth, Mass. He was a former Boston banking executive who earlier spent 20 years in the hotel business, mostly in Bermuda. He leaves his wife, Althea (Hames), two daughters, Diana Staples and Margaret Leary, and three sons, David, Jeffrey, and Stephen.
AUGUSTUS GEORGE BULLOCK II '31 died August 22 in Needham, Mass. He was retired treasurer and chief securities officer of State Mutual of America (now AllAmerica Financial), a Worcester insurance company, where he worked 42 years. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Carter), a daughter, Prim, a son, Augustus, a stepdaughter, Katrina Cameron, two stepsons, Lewis and John, and two sisters, Elizabeth Barton and Mary Johnson.
GEORGE SEARS GREENE '31, of Hopewell, N.J., died January 28, 1995. He was a prizewinning painter and sculptor whose work is represented in several public collections, including New York City, he most recently was an associate in the New York State Department of Labor, and from 1948 to 1963 served as an attorney in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He was a Harvard benefactor. He leaves a sister, Evelyn Chase, and a brother, Charles; his wife, Elizabeth (Hatfield), and daughter, Linda Neikirk, predeceased him.
CHARLES JOSEPH LIEBMAN JR. '31, of Manhattan, died September 24. He was a medieval literary scholar whose published works include a life of Simon de Tournai. His collection of rare maps of Paris had been exhibited at the Grolier Club, in Manhattan. He leaves a sister, Margaret Berger.
FRANCIS SARGENT CHEEVER '32cl, M.D. '36, died September 19 in Westwood, Mass. He was former dean of the medical school and vice chancellor of the schools of the health professions at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also served as president of the University Health Center. In retirement he became a trustee of Mass. General Hospital and a visiting professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School. He was a former member of Harvard's Board of Overseers and a former vice president of the Harvard Alumni Association, which honored him with its HAA Award this past fall. He leaves his second wife, Jane (Garfield), a daughter, Julia Altshuler '66, three sons, Francis '65, M.A.T. '71, George '69, and Henry '73, M.B.A. '75, a sister, Jane Lyman '43, and a brother, Daniel '39, Ph.D. '48; his first wife, Julia (Whitney), predeceased him.
JOHN MILTON COLE '32, of Kennebunk, Me., died July 27. A businessman and investor, he was former president of Garden Club Products, a mail-order company that he established in 1962. Previously he had worked in the oil industry. He was an avid golfer with a love of nature and the sea. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Gray), a daughter, Elizabeth Stephens, a son, John, a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Dock, and a stepson, George McNeil; another stepdaughter, June Spaulding, died in 1992.
HERBERT GUSTAFSON '32 died August 7 in North Attleboro, Mass. He was retired pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minn., where he served for 32 years. Earlier he was the founding pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Modesto, Cal. He leaves his wife, Adele (Carlson), two daughters, Ann Mallett and Marcia, a son, Dale, and a brother, G. Julius.
ALEXANDER LINCOLN JR. '32, A.M. '38, of Laconia, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, the Wilderness Society, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was a mountain climber with a particular taste for the Western outback. He leaves two daughters, Eleanor Buchanan and Margaret, two sons, Alexander and Robert, and a sister, Emily Sedgwick; his wife, Elizabeth (Kitchel), predeceased him.
EDWARD CARROLL MORGAN '32 died August 29 in Fairfield, Conn. He was a retired Episcopalian minister who served St. Paul's Church in Bridgeport for more than 30 years. For many years after his retirement he was active in the ministry of St. John's Episcopal Church, also in Bridgeport. He was a past president of the Bridgeport Historical Society and an eclectic collector who enjoyed owning and refinishing antiques. He enjoyed cross-country travel as well, making a total of 10 journeys through 49 states, Mexico, and all the provinces of Canada. He leaves his wife, Marcia (Childs), three daughters, Marcia Fish, Sarah Orefice, and Margaret Blanda, two sons, Edward and Kingsley, and a sister, Olive Turner.
