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HARRY MATTHEW HARTNETT '30, of Belmont, Mass., died January 27. He was retired from a 43-year career in the chemical business, mostly in sales and marketing. He enjoyed skeet shooting and duckhunting on Cape Cod and in New Brunswick. He leaves a daughter, Anne, a son, Harry, and a sister, Patricia Booth; his wife, Katherine (Lynch), and another daughter, Mary, predeceased him.
THOMAS CRAWFORD MAYERS '30 died December 20 in Stamford, Conn. He was a retired Bloomingdale's executive and a former Republican mayor of Stamford. During his two terms, from 1963 to 1967, he marshaled support for a revitalization plan and was credited with laying the groundwork for the city's corporate boom in the next decade; he also tried to improve housing conditions for low-income families. Later he worked with a real-estate firm. He leaves six daughters, Mary Young, Marjorie Wolf, Ruth Schofield, Eileen Zebroski, Rosemary Collyer, and Brenda Danielson, and three sons, Thomas, Lawrence, and Paul; his wife, Alice (Henry), died in 1995.
JOSEPH JESIUL-AVICUS JESSEL '31, S.D. '34, formerly of Arlington, Va., died August 16, 1996. An electrical engineer, he was retired from the Federal Power Commission, in Ohio, died August 31, 1997. A retired management consultant, he was a former partner in the Chicago consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick & Paget and a former director of several small manufacturing concerns in the Chicago area.
JOSEPH AARON MARCUS '31scl, M.B.A. '33mcl, died December 27 in Kansas City. He was retired executive vice president and general manager of GEM Inc., a chain of membership department stores in the New York. Active in community affairs, he was former treasurer of Save the Children Federation and former director of the Westport YMCA. He leaves two sons, Gardiner '64 and Bruce; his wife, Dorothy (Voltz), predeceased him.
ARNOLD ARONSON '32cl died February 17 in Wheaton, Md. He was an important figure in the civil-rights movement in this country for six decades. He was a founder, in 1961, of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an early proponent of affirmative action and eventually the umbrella organization for more than 185 activist groups nationwide. He served the conference as director for its first 30 years, and at his death was president of its Education Fund, which he created to work with the Advertising Council to promote racial amity. He was a planner of the 1963 March on New York City. Earlier he was a former assistant general counsel and chief rate counsel for the Federal Communications Commission. He was also an award-winning artist and a lover of opera. His survivors include his wife, Rena (Alpert).
ADOLPH HERRMANN '32cl, of Winchester, Mass., died February 2. Retired from an automobile dealership in Medford, he was a devoted participant in church and Masonic activities for five decades. He leaves his wife, Audrey (Smith), two daughters, Florence Heinmiller and Janet, and four sons, C. Russell, George, Robert, and Scott.
PEYTON LESHURE HINKLE '32 died September 10 in Doylestown, Pa. He was a retired food distributor. In 1939, after several years on Wall Street, he moved to Bucks County, Pa., to start a poultry operation, Hinkle Farms. He added crop farming in 1949; after giving that up, he began manufacturing wild bird feed, and later distributing canned foods, under the Wyoming for most of his life, he was a retired partner and officer at C. Loth, a firm selling office furniture and restaurant supply fixtures. He was a decorated veteran of World War II who served in the 10th Mountain Division and a member of the National Guard. An expert skier, he was prevented by war injuries from skiing in snow but continued to water-ski, racing in his final slalom at the age of 77. He leaves two daughters, Ellen and Nina, three sons, Thomas '71, David, and John, and a sister, Trese Miller.
ROBERT ENDICOTT EATON '33, of Wellesley, Mass., died January 25. He was a retired elementary schoolteacher at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols and the Cambridge Friends School. He loved sailing, and also worked as a volunteer in the Wellesley Public Library. He leaves his second wife, Mary (von Auw), a daughter, Sandra Lentz, two sons, Jonathan and Robert, and a brother, Sidney '27; his first wife, Frijs-Anne (Bruns), and two children, David and Karen, predeceased him.
DAVID RAWLE '33 died January 19 in Berwyn, Pa. He was the founder and retired president of Clinch-Tite Corp., a designer and manufacturer of materials-handling equipment for industry. Earlier he spent 18 years with Diamond Match Co. An intramural sculler at Harvard, he continued rowing well into his eighties. He leaves his wife, Cynthia (Woodward), a daughter, Molly, and a son, Jonathan.
KING UPTON '33cl, of Cambridge, died December 24. He was retired executive vice president in the real-estate division at First National Bank of Boston. In retirement he worked as a real-estate consultant. He was a past president of Boston's Robert B. Brigham Hospital and former president and treasurer of the Buckingham School. He leaves his wife, Letitia (Brown), a daughter, Letitia, a sister, Anne Miller, and a brother, Graydon; a son, King, predeceased him.
GRATIAN MICHAEL YATSEVITCH '33cl, A.M. '34, of Camden, Me., died September 26, 1997. He was a retired diplomat and engineer and a decorated army colonel. Before World War II he managed a small gold mine in Yugoslavia and was the engineer in charge of prospecting for a group of British mining companies. Later he served as a senior staff officer of the CIA in Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. He was honorary chairman of Star Trading & Marine Inc., in Pennsylvania, his published works include Prospects for Indian Development, Modern India's Economy, World Demand for Raw Materials in 1985 and 2000, Modern Economic Growth in India and China, and The Power of Health.
HARRY MORRIS PLOTKIN '34mcl, LL.B. '37mcl, died January 30 in Washington law firm of Arent Fox Kinter Plotkin & Kahn and an active alumnus who served on the steering committee for his class. He leaves a daughter, Judith Wilkenfeld, a son, Ira, a sister, Lena Gordon, and two brothers, Melvin and Norman; his wife, Esther (Lipsez), predeceased him.
JOHN COOK SHAW III '34 died December 6 in West Yarmouth, Mass. He was a retired marine consultant for General Drafting Co. Inc., where he designed and edited cruising guides for Esso Touring Service, mostly in N.H., died October 11, 1997. He formerly worked as an estimator with Richard D. Brew & Co., in Concord, a manufacturer of electronic components for computer and missile guidance systems. His survivors include his wife, Dorothy (Leach).
GEORGE EDWIN ZOPF '34, LL.B. '37, died January 15 in Lebanon, New Hampshire state representative. A former city councilman in Claremont, where he lived for more than 50 years, from 1952 to 1964 he also served as Sullivan County attorney. He was a past president of the Sullivan County Bar Association and of the local chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He leaves his wife, Marjorie (Ryan).
HOWARD ELIOT BINDELL '35, of Laguna Hills, Cal., died June 8, 1997. He was a retired research chemist who formerly worked for the pharmaceutical firm Hoffman-La Roche Inc., in Nutley, N.J.
ANGELO JOHN BOUTSELIS '35, of Warner Robins, Ga., died October 21, 1997. He was a retired air force colonel who served throughout the world during his long career in the military.
EDWARD MARKS COOK '35cl died January 13 in Needham, Mass. He was a professor emeritus of mathematics at Northeastern University, where he taught from 1938 until 1975. After retiring to his summer home in Ossipee, N.H., he served as president and treasurer of the historical society and, in 1989, with his son Ted, published a history of the town. A singer all his life, he belonged to several local choruses over the years and performed in many productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. He leaves his wife, Doris (Drescher), a daughter, V. Elizabeth Bergquist, two sons, Edward '65 and David, and a brother, Merrill; his first wife, Della (Edison), predeceased him.
