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LESLIE HAMILTON BEER-TOBEY '55, of Marblehead, Mass., died January 14. She leaves her husband, A. Guilford, a daughter, Wendy Burden, two sons, William and Edward Burden, two stepdaughters, Barbara Tobey and Suzanne Miller, and a stepson, Guilford.
JUDITH A. KEIG '55, formerly of Greenwich, Conn., died August 18, 1997.
ARTHUR WILLIAM PRIDHAM JR. '55, of Buffalo, Wyo., died September 28, 1997. He was a former longtime resident of Hull, Mass.
JACKSON MAURICE RICE JR. '56, of Bethlehem, Pa., died October 20, 1997. A former resident of Hyannis, Mass., he leaves his wife, Virginia (Pearson), a daughter, Lydia Cobb, and three sons, Jackson, David, and Stephen.
DONALD POWELL BLAKESLEE '57, of Bronxville, California's most prestigious small wineries, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Chalone Wine Group. He revived the moribund vineyard, originally planted by a Frenchman in 1919; his first vintage, 1966, was several small lots of chardonnay and pinot noir, the wines that would later make the vineyard's reputation. In 1981, with Julia Child and Robert Mondavi, he founded the American Institute of Wine and Food, an organization devoted to raising the level of the study of food and wine in this country. He leaves a sister, Maggie, two brothers, David and John, and a half-brother, Peter Watson-Graff.
JOE WILLWERTH SHEPARD '58cl died January 31 in Minneapolis. He was a professor of Russian at Carleton College, Northfield.
ROBERT COIT II '61, of Buckhannon, W.Va., died July 23, 1997. A local government official in Buckhannon, he was executive director of the Region VII Planning and Development Council, an arm of the Seven County Council of Government. His survivors include his wife, Karen (Hemdahl).
ALAN BURSLEY SHAW '61, M.Div. '91, died November 30 in Athol, Mass. He was a banker in N.H. A member of the first Peace Corps team to go to Turkey, he maintained a keen interest in the Middle East and in the 1970s founded the Center for Middle East Business, to facilitate the establishment of business contacts between the U.S. and that part of the world. He leaves his third wife, Rosemary (Heer), a daughter, Emily, two sons, Nathan and Elijah, three sisters, Barbara Weickert, Sylvia Brandhorst, and Molly Beard, and a brother, Gordon.
HAYES CORLISS LAMONT '63, Ph.D. '68, of Newton, Mass., died February 3. He was database coordinator with the N.H. A real-estate lawyer, he was senior counsel at Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., in Boston, and earlier headed the commercial real-estate department in the Portland (Me.) firm Drummond, Woodsum, Plimpton & MacMahon. A pole vaulter, he was a member of the Harvard track team for four years. He also enjoyed creative writing. He leaves two daughters, Jennifer Tuohy and Lauren, a son, Christopher, his mother, Mrs. William Mahaney, two brothers, William and Evan, and his fiancée, Mary Thompson.
DUANE CANNON ALDRICH '65mcl, LL.B. '68, died December 27 in Atlanta. He was a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton L.L.P., formerly Kilpatrick & Cody, where he chaired the labor section for more than 20 years. He was a member of the American Bar Association's Committee for Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act and formerly served as director of the Southeastern Labor Law Institute. He leaves his wife, Rebecca (Day), three daughters, Jessamine, Abigail, and Elizabeth, his mother, Elizabeth Cannon Aldrich '41, four sisters, Elizabeth Kaspar '67, Ann Hechtman, Amy Geogan '78, and Sarah Murray, and four brothers, Peter '66, M.B.A. '70, John, Stephen '78, and Mark.
CAMERON CLARK '66 died January 15 in New York bar association task force to increase the number of minority associates in the city's law firms. He leaves his wife, Sheila (Watson), a daughter, Elizabeth '92, A.M. '97, a son, Simon '95, his father, Blair '40, a brother, Timothy '63, and a half-brother, Ian '95.
DONALD ROY KAPLAN '66cl, of N.Y. He was a former partner in the Riverhead (Illinois Supreme Court. He leaves a daughter, Molly, a brother, David, and a dear friend, Jackie Worth.
JOHN JOSEPH MANLEY '76cl, of Lake Milton, Kentucky, both in Cincinnati. Earlier he served as director of the social work department at Cincinnati's Christ Hospital.
EMORY EUGENE CLARK '77, of Cambridge, died of a heart attack on April 26, 1997.
HAL BRUCE RUTHIZER '80 died December 6 in Portland, Ore. He was a vice president and portfolio manager at Morley Capital Management, in Portland. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Keever, his mother, Karen Moro, and a sister, Brenda.
CARLOS MANUEL NARVAEZ JR. '81cl, of Yonkers, California during his lifetime. He leaves his wife, June, two daughters, Lynn and Holly Woodford, three sisters, Harriett Church, Louise Cunningham, and Betty Blanchard, and a brother, John.
ROLAND KREZDORN BLUMBERG, Ph.D. '48, of Seguin, Tex., died October 1. An expert on underground geophysical exploration, he worked in the Underwater Sound Laboratory at Harvard during World War II and later joined the staff of Humble Oil Co. After leaving Humble Oil, he founded his own business.
WALTER M. KEITH, M.L.A. '49, died November 28 in Savoy, Ill. He was professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Calloway).
