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EDWARD FRANK CLARK JR. '28cl, LL.B. '31, died December 13 in Cold Spring, New York law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn and after his retirement co-wrote a history of the firm. He was longtime director of Marineland of New York City. He was retired partner in the N.Y., died March 7, 1996. He was a retired teacher of English and geography at the Buckley School, in Tennessee Valley Authority, trying one of the first cases contesting its constitutionality. He also worked as counsel for the Price Stabilization Board and in the office of the U.S. Solicitor General. He leaves his wife, Jane (Dyckoff), a daughter, Ellen, and a brother, Bernard '39; his first wife, Caroline '29, predeceased him.
CLAIR ROBERT TIMPANY '29 died in November 1996 in Milford, Mass. He was a former arc welder for Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., in Worcester, Mass., and a member of the American Philatelic Society. His survivors include his wife, Dorothy (Grimes).
ALAN SIDNEY COHEN '30, of Longboat Key, Fla., died December 23. He was a teacher and counselor at Cambridge High and Latin School for more than 35 years. He leaves his wife, Minna (Askowith) '29, a son, Daniel, a sister, Betty Ginsburgh, and a brother, Nathan '27.
ELIOT WICKHAM REMICK '30, M.B.A.'32, died December 2, 1996, in Lowell, Mass. After working for U.S. Steel Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., he served in the diplomatic corps of the U.S. Information Service in Ankara, Turkey. Later he moved to Chelmsford, Mass., where he became a noted lecturer, appraiser, and dealer in the field of American and European antiques and fine art. He was a past president of the Chelmsford Historical Society and of the Harvard Club of Lowell. He leaves his second wife, Louis (Lyle), three daughters, Sally Alcorn, Lyn Churchill, and Katherine Taheri; his first wife, Margaret (Tucker) predeceased him.
EDITH KEPLER RIZZO '30, of Newton, Mass., died December 13. A former resident of Cambridge, she leaves a daughter, Cynthia, and a son, William.
MARY GERTRUDE GAHM SEERY '30cl, of Needham, Mass., died January 12. She leaves a daughter, Anne Harrington, and four sons, Francis, Paul, Peter, and Stephen; her husband, Francis, predeceased her.
CONRAD MAYNADIER ARENSBERG '31scl, Ph.D. '34, died February 10 in Hazlet, N.J. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at Columbia, a pioneering scholar who helped shift the focus of his field from the study of primitive peoples to the examination of complex modern societies. His doctoral dissertation, published in 1937 as The Irish Countryman, was a landmark study still used widely as a textbook; the method he innovated, in which he observed rural Irish culture from the inside, living alongside his subjects and taking meticulous notes on everything he saw and heard, became a model for later community studies. A cofounder of the Society of Applied Anthropology, in retirement he continued working at Columbia on the Joint Anthropology Program at Teachers College. He leaves his wife, Vivian (Garrison), two daughters, Emily Barton and Margaret Olson, a son, Cornelius, and a brother, Charles '34, LL.B. '38.
JAMES WILLIAM COUGHLIN '31 died December 25 in Lowell, Mass. He was retired vice president and treasurer of Lowell General Hospital. He leaves his wife, Theodate (Kimball), and two daughters, Theodate Cline and Ellen Hitchcock.
JAMES PRATT GRAY '31, of Fair Oaks, Cal., died September 14, 1996. He was a former regional sales manager for the Walter Baker Chocolate division of General Foods, the Merckens Chocolate division of Consolidated Foods, and Fritzsche-Dodge & Olcott, manufacturers of essential oils and aromatic chemicals. His survivors include his wife, Margaret (Jones).
THOMAS SEYMOUR MOFFETT '31, M.B.A. '33, died June 12, 1996, in Kansas City. A farmer and rancher with a passion for travel, he was a partner in Clay County Lumber Co. and served as president of the Birmingham Drainage District for 30 years. He leaves a daughter, Lida, and a son, James '63; his wife, Frances (Lee), died in 1986.
HOLLIS POOLE NICHOLS '31 died January 16 in Ayer, Mass. He was retired founder and chairman of Northeast Investors Trust, a mutual fund. He was a cofounder of the Beaver Brook Association, which holds 2,000 acres of conservation land used for environmental and educational programs. He was also a 23-year member and past president of the board of trustees of the Roxbury Latin School, which gave him its Souders Award for his part in building the school's athletic fields. He leaves his wife, Ellen (Baker), two daughters, Frances and Lucy Husk, and a sister, Miriam.
ROBERT WINSOR PEARSON '31, M.D. '36, died January 12 in Exeter, Ohio. He was retired president of Hospital Specialty Co., a hospital supply business. In retirement he devoted himself to world travel and the study of art history. He leaves his wife, Marcia (Maschke), and a daughter, Mary Anne O'Connor.
HARRY PATTERSON HALE JR. '32 died June 17, 1996, in Rowley, Mass. He had been assistant treasurer of Towle Manufacturing Co. and also served for many years as treasurer of the Newburyport Health Center. In retirement he volunteered with the Custom House Maritime Museum as restoration treasurer and chairman of the committee on endowments and special gifts.
ARTHUR SIEGFRIED MILINOWSKI JR. '32 died December 21 in Wilton, Conn. He was a retired optical engineer with Perkin-Elmer Corp., where he worked for many years. He leaves his wife, Alice (Wade), and three sons, Roger, Curtis, and Alan Ransom.
