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ROBERT LAIDLAW ADAMS '49, of Austin, Tex., died March 20, 1996. He was an attorney.
WILFRED VENANCE CASGRAIN JR. '49, of Palm Springs, Cal., died October 9, 1996.
JOSEPH FRANCIS XAVIER GREANEY '49, of Duxbury, Mass., died March 10. A leading Boston-area psychiatrist for many years, he was former director of clinical psychiatry at Boston State Hospital, former superintendent of Gardner State Hospital, and former medical director of Counseling and Family Services of Brockton. For 28 years he was also senior psychiatrist at the Brockton Veterans Administration Hospital. He enlisted in the Army on his eighteenth birthday, in 1943, and went on to receive a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for his service in Germany. He leaves his wife, Mary (Callahan), three daughters, Constance, Mary, and Julia, and four sons, Joseph, Michael, Anthony, and Daniel '86, J.D. '92.
NICHOLAS JAMES KAGDIS '49, of Plainfield, N.J., died April 23, 1998.
COLBERT SEWALL '49 died March 2 in Boulder, New York City. After returning to Boston, in 1960, he started the municipal bond department at National Shawmut Bank. A naval air force veteran of the Korean War, he enjoyed mountain climbing, yachting, and fly-fishing in his spare time. He leaves his wife, Faith (Gowen) '52, four sons, Francis, John '78, Alexander, and Benjamin, two sisters, Margaret Rothrauff and Jean Farnsworth, and a brother, William '50.
GORDON JUSTUS MCKINLEY '50 died February 12 in Winston-Salem, N.C. He taught English at Tufts University and at the Westminster School, in Simsbury, Conn., and was a veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Helen (Anderson), a daughter, Wendy, and a son, Peter.
ALOYS ARTHUR MICHEL '50mcl died February 9 in Wakefield, R.I. He was retired professor of geography and regional planning and dean of the graduate school at the University of Rhode Island. His published works include The Indus River: A Study of the Effects of Partition and The Kabul, Kunduz and Helmand Rivers and the National Economy of Afghanistan. In retirement he worked as a volunteer for Literacy in America in Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bay Marine Studies Consortium. For many years he also wrote and edited Compass Rose, a quarterly newsletter for the marine industry. He served on the battleship N.H. After retiring from the army in 1965, having attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, he worked as manager of purchasing for Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., in Livingston, N.J. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Piper), two daughters, Jane Kelley and Susan Coven, three sons, Stephen, William, and Andrew, two sisters, Claire O'Brien and Ruth Goggin, and a brother, Robert.
MORGAN JEFFERSON DAVIS JR. '51, of Houston, died November 15, 1997. A petroleum geologist, he was a former senior explorationist at Pennzoil International Co., in Houston and a past vice president of the N.Y., where he worked for 35 years, and a past president of the Harvard Club of Buffalo.
SAMUEL ELMORE NYLEN '51 died March 11 in Westport, Conn. He was a retired architect who had worked for the N.H., died February 3.
ROBERT BERNARD ARONSON '52 died May 26, 1998, on Long Island, New York publishing world in 1978 to write his own books. They include four novels, Billy in Love, Learning about God, Miss Rhode Island, and Herzl the King, and five volumes of history, including The Earthly Jerusalem and New England Past. He leaves his wife, Zane (Hickcox), a daughter, Ariel, a son, David, his mother, Betty, and a sister, Cynthia Goff.
FRANCIS ANTHONY NUNAN JR. '53, of Loudonville, N.H. A Providence, R.I., attorney for nearly 40 years, he was a founding partner in the law firm of Powers, Kinder & Keeney, specializing in labor and employment law. Earlier he practiced with the firm of Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons. He leaves his wife, Sarah, three daughters, Sarah, Janet, and Rebecca, and three sons, Christopher '78, William, and Donald, M.Arch. '92.
WILLIAM ALONSO '54mcl, M.C.P. '56, died February 11 in Boston. He was Saltonstall professor of population studies emeritus and also headed the Center for Population Studies. Before coming to Harvard in 1976 he spent 10 years as a professor of regional planning at the University of Massachusetts Department of Revenue and as director of hearings for the Division of Employment Security. Earlier he served as associate commissioner for educational research and development and as program officer for student financial aid at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in Pennsylvania. He leaves his wife, Greta (Goldston), four children, Wendy Preston, Lori Frechtman, Mark, and Lee '84, and two brothers, Norbert and Jonathan.
