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LANGDON SARGENT GODDARD '36, of Hyannis, Mass., died February 25, 1999. He was retired assistant to the president of Todd Shipyards Corp., a N.Y. An army veteran of World War II, he was professor of law emeritus at Cornell University Law School, where he taught for 35 years. After retiring from teaching he entered practice full-time in the areas of trusts, estates, and property. He was associate director of research on the N.Y. He was a senior associate in the Florida in 1976. Since 1983 he had worked as an attorney in private practice.
CHARLES MEANS HARRIS '38 died April 7, 1999, in Newburyport, Mass. A former employee of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, in Hartford, he was an ardent, active sailor and skier who enjoyed cruising the coast of New York Times Sunday Magazine and then director of the paper's book division (later Times Books). After the division was sold to Random House, he held a variety of positions in the Washington, D.C., she held the Meritorious Award of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for her 23 years of government service She was also the recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for her advancement of women in medicine. After retiring to Bradenton in 1984 she founded a soup kitchen, Our Daily Bread. As a child actress in the 1920s, she played the role of Baby Claire in the original Little Rascals movies.
CHARLES ELMO FEAZEL JR. '41cl, of Birmingham, Ala., died February 11, 1999. A retired research chemist and senior adviser at the Southern Research Institute, in Birmingham, he was a former officer of the American Institute of Chemists and the American Chemical Society. He leaves his wife, Frances (Tibbals), a daughter, Carolyn Neal, and a son, Charles.
LEWIS BRADLEY HARDER '41, of Katonah, Massachusetts, undersecretary of state, ambassador to Britain, and held cabinet posts as secretary of health, education and welfare, of defense, and of commerce, and as attorney general; his brief tenure in the last job ended October 20, 1973, when he refused orders from President Nixon to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald M. Cox, an incident known as the Saturday Night Massacre. He negotiated the worldwide treaty on the Law of the Sea and served as chief UN representative monitoring Nicaraguan elections in 1990. A member of the Lampoon while at Harvard, he left law school to enlist in the army during World War II; he landed in Normandy on D-Day and went on to earn the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. In 1998 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. He leaves a daughter, Nancy Carlson, two sons, Henry '77, J.D. '80, M.P.P. '81, Ph.D. '86, and Michael, and a brother, George '43, J.D. '46; his wife, Anne (Hazard) '51, died last July.
RICHARD DODGE WHITTEMORE '41, of Port N.Y., died November 11. After retiring from a 38-year career as a book editor at Doubleday & Co., he started his own small consulting and educational publishing business. He served as board president of the Port Washington Recollections. A theater buff, he was a pillar of the Port Minnesota Medical School and as an associate professor in the university's departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation and of psychiatry. A pioneer in the field of group psychotherapy, she was an officer of many professional organizations and the recipient of numerous professional honors, including Outstanding Woman in Medicine in Minnesota. She leaves two daughters, Lois Kugler '77 and Sandra '80, and a son, Carl; her husband, Murray '46, Ph.D. '52, M.D. '56, died in 1993.
RUTH WHITMAN '44mcl, BI '70, A.M. '76, died December 1 in Middletown, Conn. She was an award-winning poet whose many published volumes include Blood and Milk Poems, The Passion of Lizzie Borden, and Laughing Gas. She may have been best known for Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey, a book-length poem about the travails of a doomed pioneer woman that was adapted for modern dance, television, and theater. She also translated the work of Yiddish poets. She taught for many years in the Radcliffe Seminars and at MIT, and in 1974 launched Poets Who Teach, a program that sent poets to Massachusetts public schools. She also wrote two books on poetic education, Becoming a Poet and Poem Making. From 1980 to 1995 she was poetry editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly. She leaves her husband, Morton Sacks, and three children, Rachel, Lee Whitman-Raymond, and David Houghton.
