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HANNAH FINEGOLD WEINER '50mcl, of Manhattan, died September 11. A former resident of Providence, R.I., she leaves a brother, Maurice Finegold '54, M.Arch. '58.
CHARLES CAMPBELL HUGHES '51mcl died August 25 in Salt Lake City. He was professor and chairman of the division of behavioral sciences in the department of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah Medical Center. An authority on the Asiatic Eskimo, he also held an appointment in the anthropology department. His published works include An Eskimo Village in the Modern World, The Culture-Bound Syndromes and the Cultural Context of Clinical Psychiatry, and Beyond the Germ Theory: Reflections in Relations between Medicine and the Behavioral Sciences. He leaves his wife, Leslie (Medert), a daughter, Calisse, and a son, John.
ISADORE TWERSKY '51mcl, Ph.D. '56, died October 12 in Boston. He was Littauer professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy at Harvard and founding director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies. An international authority on the twelfth-century Jewish philospher Maimonides, he was the author of a much-lauded introduction to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, a collection of laws governing all aspects of Jewish life, and A Maimonides Reader. He taught at Harvard for more than 30 years. A Hasidic rabbi like his father and generations of ancestors in Chernobyl, Ukraine, he served as spiritual leader of the Maimonides School, in Brookline. He leaves his wife, Atarah (Soloveitchik), a daughter, Tzipporah Rosenblatt '79, and two sons, Mosheh '78 and Mayer '81.
STANLEY NATHAN GARFINKEL '52cl died September 15 in Cleveland. He was an historian and documentary film producer who taught at Kent State University for more than 30 years. His best-known work was Completely Dior, a documentary on the designer based largely on oral histories by people, such as Olivia de Havilland, who knew him well. He also earned the gratitude of fashion historians by discovering, in the course of the Dior project, the "Théâtre de la Mode," a forgotten collection of 172 miniature mannequins that had been dressed in the 1940s by some of the foremost designers in the history of couture and later stashed in a small private museum in Goldendale, Wash. He leaves his companion, William Acree.
STANLEY RAYMOND PUTNAM JR.'52 died August 23 in Royal Oak, Mich. He was a newspaperman in Schenectady and Detroit before joining the faculty of Wayne State University, where he taught journalism for 25 years. In the late 1950s he served as assistant director of the American Red Cross, in Washington School of Business, he worked in retirement as a small-business consultant. In 1983 he was named National MS Father of the Year by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He leaves his wife, Jane (Allen), three daughters, Caroline Kiehle, Anne '86, and Janet, a son, Eric, a sister, Mary Louise, and two brothers, Frank and Rodger.
ALEXANDER HADDEN TOMES JR. '54, J.D. '59, died September 22 in Suffern, Alabama, in Montgomery, and former executive director of the Metropolitan Arts Council, in Birmingham. Earlier he worked for 35 years for South Central Bell Telephone Co., where he was district manager for the Birmingham area. He was an avid vegetable gardener. His survivors include his wife, Nancy (Weir).
JOHN COLEMAN LIEBESKIND '57cl died September 8 in Los Angeles. Professor of psychology and anesthesiology at UCLA, he was a leading researcher on pain and its relation to health. Early in his career he located the specific areas of the brain that are responsible for controlling pain and pinpointed the chemical means, now called endorphins. Later he pioneered the view that pain, rather than a harmless byproduct of injury and disease, is a suppressant of the immune system with a profound effect on a patient's recovery, and he called on physicians to be more aggressive in controlling it. He was a recipient of the Kerr Award for lifetime achievement of the American Pain Society, of which he was a past president, and at his death was president-elect of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He leaves his wife, Julia (Porter), three sons, Gabriel, Nicholas, and Benjamin, and a sister, Lois Levine.
ANN GUTHRIE FOLLANSBEE '62cl died July 27 in New York, for 15 years.
HELEN ZELLWEGER FREDERICK '65cl, of Ojai, Cal., died April 30, 1997.
RICHARD THORNDIKE HILDRETH '65 died August 26 in Marblehead, Mass. He was a former attorney with the Boston firm of Johnson, Clapp, Stone and Jones. He leaves a daughter, Nicole, two sons, Micah and John, a sister, Alice Goldman, and two brothers, David and Thomas '70.
THOMAS HENRY MATTHEW GATES '68 died February 2 in Portland, Me.
RODNEY WOOD MCKEE '70 died August 12 in Vero Beach, Fla., where he was undergoing treatment for cancer. He was head of the trust department at Evergreen Bank, in Albany, New York City. His survivors include his wife, Boriana.
GREGORY CHARLES BANUS '71mcl died August 28 in Amesbury, Mass. He was a real-estate developer and ardent conservationist. A partner in Essex Associates Inc., in Haverhill, he was co-founder of Citizens within a Ten-Mile Radius and the North Shore Coalition for a Safe Environment. He was also a life member of the Essex County Greenbelt Association and the Massachusetts Special Olympics and on the Governor's Committee on Sports and Fitness. He leaves two sisters, Constance White and Taylor Wilcox.
MICHAEL RENARD RUSSELL '76cl died May 1 in Centreville, Md. His survivors include his parents, Barbara and Rudolph.
MICHAEL DUANE SCAVELLA '76cl, J.D. '79, of Washington, D.C. After leaving the company in 1956 he served for 15 years as a consultant to the World Bank and the Agency for International Development, helping to design roads and public transit systems in Vietnam, Thailand, East Pakistan, and Ecuador. He leaves two daughters, Theodora Nelligan and Harriet McManus, and a sister, Emily Bradley.
ROBERT FORTE SMART, Ph.D. '35, died August 25 in Richmond, Va. He was a professor of biology at the University of Richmond for more than 40 years and also served as department chairman and dean of the university's Richmond College for male students. In 1967 he was named the university's first provost, a post he held until his retirement in 1972. He was a charter member of the Mycological Society of America. He served for 18 years on the Henrico County school board and and was a former commissioner of the Robert E. Lee Council of Boy Scouts of America. He leaves a daughter, Tucker Paxton, and a brother, C. Murray; his wife, Eleanor (Ferguson), and a son, Robert, predeceased him.
DANIEL JOSEPH HOLLAND, D.M.D. '37, died October 20 in Newton, Mass. A retired oral surgeon, he was a decorated army veteran who served in Italy during World War II as chief of a unit from New York area for some 20 years, he was also a pioneer in the field of ethnopsychiatry. He was the author of Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus and actively promoted international exchange of scholarship in his field. Last August he was honored at the 30th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics in Beijing, where he was to have presented a paper. He leaves his wife, Marilyn (Taylor), four daughters, Susan, Nancy, Anne, and Tiffany Steinmann, and a son, Wade.
