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SARAH HUNTINGTON FLETCHER '56, of Locust Valley, New York City. Earlier he worked at First National Bank and at C&S Bank, in Columbia, S.C. He leaves his wife, Theodora (Hill), two daughters, Karen Balliet and Louise Broach, his brother, Richard, and his beloved Newfoundland, Rick.
LAWRENCE MICHAEL CURTIN '57 died February 4 in Washington, D.C. He also served on the Priests Council of the archdiocese, a consultative body for the archbishop. Earlier he worked as a school chaplain in Potomac, Md., and Chicago. He leaves a brother, Thomas.
ROBERT ALAN KIEFFER '57, of Olean, Washington, D.C., and Bridgeport, Conn. He leaves his wife, Anne Robertson '67, a daughter, Abigail '98, and a son, William.
THOMAS ELDRIDGE HITCHINGS '67 died March 2 in Manhattan. He was the longtime publisher of Facts On File World News Digest and a pioneer in the field of electronic news reference. He was responsible for developing FACTS.com, the Internet version of Facts On File, as well as the Facts On File World News CD-ROM subscription service, which won several awards. His Landmark Documents in American History CD-ROM won the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Award in 1995. He leaves his wife, Katherine Bendo, a son, Andrew, and a sister, Laramie Brown.
ROBERT ANTHONY LEONE '67mcl died March 17 in Boston. He was a professor of operations management and chairman of the undergraduate faculty at the Boston University School of Management. Before moving to BU in 1988 he served on the Harvard faculty, spending nine years at the Business School and six at the Kennedy School of Government. He served as a senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Carter and Reagan. He was long active in Lexington town affairs, serving on several committees and as chairman of its board of assessors. He leaves his wife, Mary (Dowling), two daughters, Andrea Centerrino and Elisa, his mother, Rachel, and a sister, Patricia LeBoeuf.
EUGENE JOSEPH MCDONALD '67scl, M.D. '71, died January 14 in Birmingham, Ala. He was an interventional radiologist at the West Wisconsin Medical School. Former captain of Harvard's golf team, he was an avid golfer, hunter, and angler. He leaves his wife, Cheryl, two daughters, Brooke and Brie, a son, J.D., a sister, Nancy Mabson, and four brothers, Bill, Richard, Tom, and Pat; another daughter, Ali, predeceased him.
ROBERT ALAN DORWART '69cl, M.P.M. '83, of Sudbury, Mass., died March 8. He was a physician formerly associated with the Center for Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He leaves his wife, Nancy Langman-Dorwart, a daughter, Kirsten, a son, Stefan, his parents, Katherine and Walter, and a brother, Donald.
MICHAEL CARL BIX '70cl, of Highland Park, Ill., died July 31, 1998. While a resident of Potomac, Md., he worked as a systems engineer with MITRE Corp. in McLean, Va., and served as a Republican Party precinct chairman. His survivors include his wife, Mary.
CARL HELMUTH PENNDORF '70mcl, of Vienna, Va., has died. An economist with the State Department, he spent six years with the Agency for International Development in Nairobi. His survivors include his wife, Ellen (Shugarman).
NATHAN STORER CUTLER '72 died November 3, 1998, in Berkeley, Cal. He was a teacher of Tibetan religion and language in Berkeley. In 1987 he served as guest curator of an exhibition, "Enduring Traditions: Tibetan Folk Art," at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum. His survivors include his wife, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler.
MARGUERITE GRAY SHAW '72, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., died April 4, 1997.
JOHN KEVIN COSTELLO '74cl died January 31, 1998, in Manchester, Conn. He had worked as a labor-relations lawyer for Southern New England Telephone for many years and was also a lifelong lover of the theater. He leaves his parents, Patrick and Sheila, a sister, Patricia Selander, a brother, Thomas, and his former wife, Johanna Schaefer.
CHANG HYUN JO '00 took his own life on March 18 in Cambridge. The biochemistry concentrator and musician was a junior in Kirkland House. His survivors include his mother, Jong Geum Jo, father, Kuk Nam Jo, and a brother, Chang Bum Jo '94, J.D. '97.
PHILIPPE SIDNEY DE QUETT CABOT, Ph.D. '36, coach of the Harvard Rugby Fifteen in the 1930s and the last surviving "All-Black," has died in Totnes, Devonshire, England. His survivors include his wife, Isabel (Boyd) '26.
REGINALD WILSON HARRIS, Ph.D. '39, died March 22 in Norman, Okla. He was a retired professor of paleontology at the University of N.Y., died November 21, 1998. An Episcopalian priest, he was rector emeritus of Christ Church, Bayridge, Brooklyn. Earlier he served parishes in Mamaroneck, N.Y. He was professor emeritus of business administration and of statistics at the University of Rochester, where he taught for more than 30 years. He was the author of Green's Function Methods in Probability Theory and Markov Chain Models: Rarity and Exponentiality; he was founding editor of the journal Stochastic Processes and Their Applications and also served as associate editor of Advances in Applied Probability and Operations Research. He leaves his wife, Paula (Lyman), a daughter, Julia Craig, a son, David, a sister, Marcia Harrington, and a brother, Sidney.
ROBERT HASKELL CORY JR., Ph.D. '51, died March 24 in Washington, a Quaker seminar and hospitality center that became the focal point for hundreds of meetings for congressional staff, college students, and nongovernmental organizations, particularly during the Vietnam War. From 1961 to 1966 he served as a Quaker representative to the UN, of which he was a steadfast supporter. He also taught at Denison University, Ohio University, and Marlboro College. He was the author of Communicating Information and Ideas about the United Nations to the American People and a coauthor of A New China Policy, Some Quaker Proposals. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Lois Nashorn, and three sons, Eric, Lincoln, and Bart.
