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A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government, died December 14 in Boston. He was chief judge emeritus of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Before his appointment to the federal bench by President Carter, he served under President Kennedy on the Federal Trade Commission and under President Johnson as vice chairman of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, which produced the Kerner Report, an acclaimed study that warned of growing racial polarization in American society. As an author he was best known for the multivolume series Race and the American Legal Process. He was the recipient of many honors, including, in 1995, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He leaves his wife, Evelyn (Brooks), two daughters, Karen and Nia, and two sons, Stephen and Kenneth.
EARL KIM, Ditson professor of music emeritus at Harvard, where he taught for 23 years and served as a mentor to many young composers, died November 19 in Cambridge. As a composer himself, he valued economy, precision, and quietude; a modernist whose musical language included touches of the 12-tone idiom, he was especially admired for his vocal works, selecting texts of distinction by authors like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, Anne Sexton, and his favorite, Samuel Beckett. Active in political causes, he was a cofounder and former president of Musicans against Nuclear Arms, and in 1990 resigned as cochairman of a music panel of the National Endowment for the Arts to protest censorship. He leaves his second wife, Martha Potter, BI '75, two daughters, Shawna Kent and Eva, and a brother, Yin.
WILLIAM CURRY MOLONEY, a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former longtime chief of hematology at Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women's) Hospital, died November 2 in Boston. A leading authority on blood disorders, he helped to establish dozens of blood banks in the Boston area in the late 1940s. In 1948 he established the hematological laboratory at Boston City Hospital, and from 1952 to 1954 served as director of research for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima. He conducted some of the first studies connecting radiation and leukemia and pioneered the use of chemotherapy for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma. He leaves a daughter, Patricia, and two sons, Thomas and William.
ELISABETH ANN OWENS, Shattuck professor of law emerita and the first woman granted tenure at Harvard Law School, died November 15 in Falmouth, Mass. A professor at the law school from 1972 until her retirement in 1981, she had practiced law with the firm of Hill, Barlow, Goodale & Adams for several years before coming to Harvard in 1955 to take a job as research assistant to Professor Stanley Surrey, first director of the school's International Tax Program. An expert on international tax law, she was the author of a textbook, Foreign Tax Credit, and coauthor of a two-volume text, The Indirect Credit. She leaves two sisters, Margaret Harris and Mary Bemis, and two brothers, Cornelius and Graham Owens, and many nephews and nieces, including Mary Owens and Charlotte Harris, with whom she made her home.
VSEVOLOD SETCHKAREV, Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and literatures emeritus, died December 1 in Belmont, Mass. An authority on Russian fiction and poetry of the nineteenth century, he taught at the Universities of Bonn and Hamburg before coming to Harvard in 1956; he was appointed professor three years later and retired in 1984. His scholarly works in both German and English included books on Gogol, Leskov, Pushkin, Annensky, and Goncharov. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Dalton) '58, Ph.D. '64, and a daughter, Irene Bleiwas.
FRANCES MARY CONNOLLY '18cl, Ed.M. '28, of Chelsea, Mass., died December 22, 1998. She leaves no immediate survivors.
BASIL EGBERT BARTON '19, M.D. '22, died in February in Walpole, Mass. A physician in general practice in Boston for many years, he was former vice president of the Massachusetts Physician. He enjoyed oil painting and belonged to the Maine. He leaves two children, Charles and Harriot.
ARTHUR EMMONS RAYMOND '20cl died March 22 in Santa Monica, Cal. Formerly chief engineer at Douglas Aircraft Co., he led the team that designed the DC-3, the first commercial plane to turn a profit for airlines without carrying mail and one of the best-selling planes of all time. He also led development of the DC-4, DC-6, DC-7, and DC-8, Douglas's first plane equipped with jet engines. He played a key role in the Apollo and Gemini space missions as a consultant to NASA and was a cofounder of Rand Corp. In 1991 he received the National Air and Space Museum Trophy for lifetime achievement. He leaves no immediate survivors; two wives, Dorothy (Lee) and Mimi (Hunt), and a son, Stanley '44, predeceased him.
MAGNUS BELL LOWE '23, of Houston, died January 20, 1995. He was retired executive vice president and director of L.R. Ward Steel Products Co. Inc., of Dallas, a manufacturer's representative for electrical products and a distributor of specialty steel items. Earlier he spent 10 years in charge of finance at a Dallas casualty insurance company. He served for many years as secretary of the University Park board of adjustment and was a precinct election judge from FDR through LBJ.
GUIDO RINALDO PERERA '24cl, LL.B. '27, died March 25 in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A longtime partner in the Boston law firm of Hemenway & Barnes, he served as president and trustee of Eastern Utilities Associates for 23 years before becoming chairman and director in 1972, and also was president and director of Montaup Electric Co. A colonel in the Army Air Force during World War II, he received the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Army Commendation Ribbon for his work as deputy chairman of the Committee of Operations Analysts, a group organized to advise on strategic bombing objectives, and as assistant to the chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. He leaves three sons, Guido '53, M.B.A. '57, M.A.T. '61, Lawrence '57, L.L.B. '61, and Ronald '63, A.M. '67.
JOHN LANGDON SULLIVAN '24, of New York labor lawyer who served as the city's labor commissioner under Mayor Robert F. Wagner from 1957 to 1962. During his tenure as commissioner the city enacted the so-called Little Wagner Act, which gave collective-bargaining rights to municipal employees. After stepping down, he spent more than a decade on the bench as a family court judge. He leaves no immediate survivors.
ARCHIBALD GORDON GAULD '27, M.D. '31, died April 1 in Mill Valley, Cal. He was a retired obstetrician and gynecologist who served on the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and its predecessors, Boston Lying-In Hospital and Free Hospital for Women, for many years. He was also a longtime member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a past president of the Obstetrical Society of Boston, and a founding fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. On active duty in the Navy Reserve Medical Corps during World War II, he was senior medical officer on the escort carrier U.S.S. Chenango at the Battle of Rennell Island in the South Pacific. He leaves a daughter, Arlie, and two sons, Stuart '65, M.B.A. '72, and Alan '68, M.B.A. '76; his wife, Virginia (Furman), died in 1993.
EDWARD THOMAS SEXTON '27, of Long Beach, N.Y. He was a retired science teacher and department chairman at the Lenox School, in Lenox, Mass., and a World War II veteran of the Army Special Services Division. He leaves his wife, Lorraine, three daughters, Sandra, Sally Schuster, and Jean Cornish, two stepsons, Samuel and George Swayze, a sister, Kay Anderson, and a brother, Ray.
CHARLOTTE HICKEY PRINDAVILLE '28cl, of Vero Beach, Fla., died August 19, 1996.
EDWARD LOUIS STOCK ARKEMA '29, formerly of Chicago, died September 30, 1995. He was an attorney with a probate practice in Chicago for many years. His other passions were hunting in the West and training prizewinning dogs.
MORTON COLE '29, of Hingham, Mass., died January 31. He was a retired store manager for Paine Furniture Co., of Boston, where he worked for 23 years. Earlier he worked in the textile industry, first at Continental Mills, in Lewiston, Me., and later as an industrial engineer and lab supervisor at A.D. Juilliard, in N.Y. In recent years he enjoyed researching historic districts for the national register on behalf of the Hingham Historical Society. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Harrington), two daughters, Mary Anderson and Susan Gildersleeve, and a brother, George '38.
RAYMOND FINLEY COURTNEY '29mcl, M.B.A. '32, died March 8 in Chevy Chase, Md. He was a Foreign Service officer who retired in 1969 as consul general of Vancouver and whose earlier posts included Bulgaria, England, and Cyprus. He was a decorated naval veteran of World War II. He leaves his second wife, Claire (O'Donnell Donahue), a sister, and five stepchildren; his first wife, Mary (Sloan Corbett), died in 1981.
KARL MURRAY JOSEPHSON '29cl died January 16 in Gulfport, Fla. He was former assistant attorney general of the state of Maryland.
