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ALBERT MOORE NUTTER '32, M.B.A. '34, died in September in Needham, Mass. He was retired director of E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co. and former president of Old Colony Foundry Co. He had recieved the gold medal of the Gray Iron Founders Society and was an honorary life member of the National Foundry Association. A longtime resident of Brockton, he was active in community affairs. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Bogart), a daughter, Nancy Nesbitt, and a son, John.
ALVARO ENRIQUE SANCHEZ JR. '32, of Belle Glade, Fla., died February 5, 1995. He was a former rancher and farmer.
GEORGE WHITE '32, of Newton, Mass., died September 28. He was a retired Boston radiologist. He leaves his wife, Harriet (Werner), a daughter, Susan Farber, a son, Robert, and two brothers, Edward and Maurice; his first wife, Helen (Simons), predeceased him.
ORLANDO VALENTINE WOOTTEN '32 died June 27, 1997, in Westminster, Md. He was a former ice-cream maker who later became a newspaper journalist and photographer. He spent 30 years as operator of Shore Maid Ice Cream Co., in Salisbury, Md., before joining the staff of the Salisbury Daily Times. He also ran a small commercial photographic business, Custom Photography. His survivors include his wife, Jean (Barber Callaway), and a daughter, Robin Tress.
EDWARD SOHIER BOSLEY '33 died October 3 in Gloucester, Mass. He operated the family farm in Piermont, New York City. After retiring to Rockport, Mass., he enjoyed making historically accurate model ships, meticulously researching the design, construction, and rigging of Gloucester's old fishing schooners at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, of which he was a member. He also played and taught the bagpipes. He leaves a sister, Elisabeth Brewster; his wife, Edna (Smith), predeceased him.
ROBERT WILLIAMS CHAPIN '33, of West Chester, Pa., died June 10, 1997. He was retired vice president of Commonwealth Services Inc., of Maine.
CHARLES WARBROOK STOKES '33 died July 8 in Kingston, New York. He was an ardent sailor who made several transatlantic voyages and in retirement enjoyed sailing off the Atlantic Coast. He leaves his wife, Katharine (Palmer), a daughter, Katharine, two sons, Charles and Robert '69, Ph.D. '85, and two brothers, Henry '36 and Vincent '40.
ZECHARIAH CHAFEE III '34cl, M.B.A. '36cl, died August 5 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was the retired director of freight traffic forecasting for the Penn Central Railroad, where he worked for 40 years, and a talented storyteller and ardent hymn-singer who summered all his life in Sorrento, New Hampshire and served as a consultant to the Small Business Administration on minority businesses and contractors. He had also worked as a jazz promoter and club owner. He was an avid tennis player and swimmer. He leaves two daughters, Joanne and Marjorie, three sons, Jeffrey, Stephen, and Richard, and a brother, Stanley '37, M.D. '41.
OWEN FRANKLIN MATTHEWS '34 died September 23 in Milford, Oklahoma in seismic oil exploration and later worked for Sperry and IBM. He was also a scientific translator from Russian to English. He leaves three sisters, Sidney Walker, Mary Schofield, and Jean Fowle.
THOMAS DICKINSON SPENCER '34, of Pennington, N.J., died March 20, 1995. He was a retired commander in the navy who served as assistant naval attaché in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, and Paris and naval attaché in Greece. Later he became an insurance broker and estate planner. He also toured with the musical N.Y., died August 10. A former resident of Newton, Mass., she leaves two daughters, Shoshana and Amy, two sons, Paul and Richard, and a sister, Alice Modiste; her husband, Bernard, predeceased her.
FLETCHER vAN NOSTRAND BOORAEM '35, of Beverly Farms, Mass., died September 20. A retired management consultant specializing in public relations and communications, he was former vice president of Olney Associates, in Boston. Earlier he worked with McCann-Erickson Inc. in Washington University and later was appointed head of the English department at the Whitfield School, in Creve Coeur. He leaves his wife, Winifred (Cox), a daughter, Ann Wilson '72, a son, William, and a brother, Jack; two other sons, James and Fred, predeceased him.
JOSEPH GEORGE KOLODNY '35, of South Carolina Federation of Older Americans, and president of the local chapter of the AARP. He leaves his third wife, Joey, and a daughter, Meredith Hyman.
FREDERIC CHAUNCEY PAFFARD JR. '37 died September 23 in Stonington, Conn. A longtime resident of Sewickley, Pa., he was a retired sales executive with P.P.G. Industries Inc., formerly Pittsburgh Plate Glass. He worked for the company for 43 years and in three cities, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh. He leaves his wife, Edith Wynne Rizer, and four daughters, Wynne Delmhorst, Jane Nichols, Heidi Simmons, and Helen Wertheimer.
WILLIAM AUSTIN WRIGHT '37 died July 22 in El Cajon, Cal. He was a retired naval officer who won the Legion of Merit with Combat "V" for his service with the amphibious forces in the Mediterranean during World War II. After retiring from the navy in 1965, he worked for many years for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Corp., in San Diego. His survivors include two sons, John and Charles, a sister, Phyllis King, and a brother, Benjamin '44; his wife, Jean (Stahlhut), predeceased him.
FREDERICK KEPPEL '38 died March 16, 1997, in Springfield, Ore. He was a retired mechanical and electrical engineer who was instrumental in developing mobile agricultural irrigation machines powered by their own water. He was an active participant in the early years of Planned Parenthood and a board member of the Lane County (Ore.) chapter. One of the country's most experienced fly-fisherman, he fished the rivers of California, and British Columbia for trout and traveled to the Bahamas, the Yucatán, and Christmas Island in pursuit of bonefish. He leaves a sister, Dorothy Fraser '36, A.M. '38, and a brother, John '40, IAF '62.
