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LLOYD RODWIN, M.P.A. '46, Ph.D. '49, co-founder of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, died December 7 in Boston. He was Ford International Professor emeritus at MIT and a global authority on urban studies and planning. Redefining the study of cities by placing emphasis on the residents rather than the buildings, he was known particularly for his studies of regional and urban dilemmas in the developing world. He was an adviser to the UN and served as chief planner of the Venezuelan port complex of Ciudad Guayana. He leaves his wife, Nadine (Posniak), a daughter, Julie, two sons, Victor and Marc, a sister, Claire Levy, and a brother, Ted Rosenbaum.

ELI BERMAN, S.B. '18, died January 17 in Newton, Mass. During the 1920s he began selling crystal radio kits out of a drugstore in Boston. This concession eventually led to the establishment of Berman Radio, one of Greater Boston's largest retailers of radio and television sets until the mid fifties. After closing that business, he worked as an electrical engineer on government projects for Raytheon, Honeywell, and Sylvania. He leaves two sons, George, M.B.A. '49, and Ralph.

DORIS HODGSON BULLOCK '19, formerly of Walnut Creek, Cal., died October 16, 1997.

SUMNER SCHEIN '19 died January 24 in Roslindale, Mass. He was the founder of Sumner Schein Architects and Engineers and a pioneer in the design of supermarkets and enclosed shopping malls. He designed many of the first National Stores in the 1930s and for much of the next two decades traveled from coast to coast designing urban department stores and specialty shops. He was a golfer, skier, and figure skater. He leaves his wife, Marion (Arenovski), a daughter, Janet, and a son, Stephen.

ROBERT NORTON GANZ '21, M.D. '24, died December 22 in Cambridge. He was a Boston pediatrician for more than 50 years, spending most of that time on the staff of California. He also served as West Coast chairman of the American Bar Association's Special Legal Advisory Committee on Television and Motion Pictures. He was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

KATHARINE HAYES DURAND '23 died October 31 in Tigard, Ore. A former longtime resident of Washington, D.C. He worked as an analyst with the Office of Strategic Services and as general counsel to the Marshall Plan before joining the CIA in the early 1950s. At his retirement he was an officer on the agency's National Board of Estimates. He was a volunteer with Common Cause and Reading for the Blind. He leaves two daughters, Margaret '62 and Susan, two sons, Alford '60, LL.B. '64, and James, and a dear companion, Grace Pannell; his wife, Ellen (Engelhard), died in 1991.

JAMES ADOLPH SINGER '27 died November 27 in St. Louis. He was a retired partner in the St. Louis law firm of Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, where he spent his entire career. Pursuing a lifelong interest in politics, he was elected to the first St. Louis County Council in 1950, and became its first chairman the following year. He also served as an officer and trustee of the Governmental Research Institute and the National Municipal League, which presented him with its Outstanding Citizen Award in 1958, and was instrumental in bringing educational television to St. Louis. He was a past president of the St. Louis Harvard Club and the Associated Harvard Clubs. He leaves two daughters, Joan Schiele and Barbara Demerath, and a son, Daniel '58; his wife, Carolyn (England), died in 1994.

SUSANNE RICKER BOLSTER '28, of Lenox, Mass., died February 2. She leaves no immediate survivors; her husband, Gardner '28, died in 1988.

ELSIE CLARK CARPENTER '28 died January 20 in Williamstown, Mass. A former longtime resident of Medford, she leaves a daughter, Cynthia McFadden, and a son, Russell; her husband, Russell, Ph.D. '28, died in 1991.

JOHN KINGSTON DEEKS '28, of Wallingford, Conn., died January 25. He was a retired executive with Aetna Life & Casualty Co., in Hartford, where he worked for 43 years. A former longtime resident of Wethersfield, he was a gardener, birder, and trout fisherman. He leaves three sons, Joslin, Peter, and John; his wife, Muriel (Fuller), died December 30.

ELIOT HOWARD DANIEL '29cl died December 6 in Placerville, Cal. He was a Hollywood composer and a fixture in the entertainment industry for many years. Preferring to be associated with films, and not expecting the show to last, he wrote the theme song for the TV sitcom I Love Lucy on condition his name not be used; later he sought credit and received royalties from syndicated reruns. As leader of the musicians' union local 47 in 1957-58, he presided over a dispute with national union officials on trust fund policies and led a strike against six motion picture studios.

FAY GOELL LONDON '29, of Tucson, died October 21, 1997.

WILLIAM ROBINSON REED '29, of Lewiston, Me., died December 7. He was retired publisher of his family's newspaper, the Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette and a former trustee and member of the investment board of the Bristol County Savings Bank. He loved boating and traveling around New England.

HERVEY LESLIE SOLAR '29cl, LL.B. '33, of Boca Raton, Fla., died December 20. He was a retired retail entrepreneur. After selling a discount store chain, J. M. Fields, to Food Fair Stores Inc. in 1961, he formed a real-estate holding company and built many apartment complexes in the Miami Beach area. He was former treasurer of The Window Shop, in Cambridge, and a life trustee of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. He leaves his wife, Alma (Nathanson Starr), three sons, Richard '61, Barry, and Robert, two stepdaughters, Ina Abrams and Martha Starr, and a sister, Gertrude White; his first wife, Mildred (Beckerman), and another son, Alan, predeceased him.

CAMERON BLAIKIE JR. '30, of Englewood, N.J., died November 15. He was a retired civil engineer for the Erie Railroad, a former Boy Scout troopmaster, and a founding member of the Englewood Historical Society. He leaves no immediate survivors.

JOEL LEE BRENNER '30cl, Ph.D. '36, of Palo Alto, Cal., died November 14.

CHARLES GREENOUGH CHASE '30 died January 28 in Brunswick, Me. He was a renowned wildlife sculptor who earlier worked as a mathematics teacher, boat designer, and pilot. He personally identified more than 3,000 species of birds in the wild, taking photographs and home movies, then carved all his works from single pieces of hardwood whose color and grain best represented the plumage of the bird he was sculpting, and using his math and engineering background to make the contours true to life. The Woodson Art Museum in Wasau, Wis., named him a Master Wildlife Artist in 1984; he was the first sculptor to receive that honor. He leaves a son, Charles, and a sister, Judith Churchill.

JANET STEINBERG GREENE '30cl died December 7 in New York City. She was a school psychologist, teacher, and psychotherapist in a pioneering career that spanned three decades. She leaves a daughter, Dorothy Alexis; her husband, Wilfred, predeceased her.

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