System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!
JOHN PERRY MILLER '32mcl, Ph.D.'37, died February 9 in Hamden, Conn. He was Stout professor emeritus of social science at Yale, where he taught economics for more than 40 years and also served for eight years as dean of the graduate school, where he presided over important changes in the university's approach to graduate education, including establishment of a master of philosophy degree, the first of its kind in the nation, and institution of Yale's first combined-degree program, allowing students to receive a bachelor's and master's degree in the same course of study. He also served on the faculty committee that, in 1962, recommended admitting women as undergraduates. He was former director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and of the Campaign for Yale, a capital fund drive in the early 1970s that raised more than $370 million. He leaves a daughter, Ann Finicane '71, J.D. '80, M.B.A. '80, and a son, Perry '66.
HAROLD McGREGOR TUKESBURY '32, of Palm Desert, Cal., died November 19, 1996. He was a retired Wisconsin, Madison. He leaves his wife, Rosella (Senders) '33, a daughter, Rosemary Carnozzi, and three sons, David '64, Edward, and Henry.
EDITH THACHER HURD '33 died January 25 in Walnut Creek, Cal. A prolific writer of children's books, she collaborated for much of her career with her husband, artist and illustrator Clement Hurd. Among her 75-odd published works are The Man in the Manhole and the Fix-It Men, Five Little Firemen, The Little Fat Policeman, Hurry, Hurry, The Day the Sun Danced, Wilson's World, and several science books, including The Blue Heron Tree, Rain and the Valley, and The Mother Whale. The Hurds were also regular contributors to Harper's I Can Read series, with such entries as Johnny Lion's Book. She leaves a son, John, and a brother, Nicholas Thacher; her husband died in 1988.
RUTH MORISON JACKSON '33, of Derry, N.Y. Retired director of sales at Rochester Envelope Co., he earlier worked at American Tobacco Co., Scott Paper Co., and American Paper Goods Co. In retirement he volunteered as a consultant to small businesses and served two terms as chairman of the local chapter of Senior Corps of Retired Executives/Active Corps of Executives. He was an avid reader and a lover of the outdoors. He leaves his wife, Olva (Faust), and two sons, James and Jonathan '73.
JOSEPH SHACK '33cl, Ph.D. '39, of Bethesda, Md., died December 7. He was a retired research biochemist with the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda. He leaves a daughter, Linda, and a son, David; his wife, Edna (Rainville), predeceased him.
SIDNEY SPRAGUE COGGAN '34cl, LL.B. '37, of Tenafly, N.J., died January 12. He was retired assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of Colgate-Palmolive Co., in New York, and in the 27 years she held that post she had occasion to visit the University of Lebanon several times on research assignments. She leaves a sister, Lucille.
EDWARD FRANCIS PORTER JR. '34, of Rockville, Md., died November 4, 1996. He was a retired history teacher at Gaithersburg (Md.) High School.
HOBART AMES SPALDING '34 died January 7 in Washington, and a lecturer in Latin American political studies at Johns Hopkins. He was a past president of the Opera Society of Arizona Friends of Music, he was a composer and music teacher who also worked as a medical school administrator at Georgetown University and the University of Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana, as well as many other plays, to the stage in the course of a 60-year career. With Richard Barr he coproduced a number of Broadway shows, including All in One, Ruth Draper's one-woman show, Fallen Angels, Hotel Paradiso, and At Home with Ethel Waters. Earlier in his career he acted with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew; subsequently he worked with them for many years as actor, stage manager, and assistant director. At his death he was chairman of New Dramatists Inc., a group that helps young playwrights. He leaves his wife, Paula Lawrence.
PHILIP FANSHAWE CLAPP '35cl died January 5 in Annapolis, Md. He retired in 1972 after a long career as a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, formerly the National Weather Bureau. He was an expert on long-range weather forecasting based on synoptic, computer-assisted, and satellite technologies. A man of many interests, he was a longtime small-boat sailor and a champion of environmental causes. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Glendinning), a son, John '67, a sister, Anne, and a brother, James '31, M.Arch. '35; his first wife, Evelyn (McMahon), died in 1972.
SPENCER DANA OETTINGER '35, formerly of Stamford, Conn., died in July 1986. He was former executive vice president of Melville Shoe Corp., a New York City. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Heazel), two daughters, Keating and Ellen Malgieri, a son, John, and two sisters, Eleanora '31, Ed.M. '40, and Rosemary Flynn '40.
LEMUEL BOWDEN '36cl, M.D. '39, died February 2 in Virginia Beach. He was a retired oncology surgeon on the staffs of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Institute Center, Doctors Hospital, Beekman Downtown Hospital, and Lenox Hill Hospital, all in New York City. He leaves his wife, Charlotte (Griswold), four daughters, Margaret, Mary, Rebekah Brown, and Stella, a son, Howard, a sister, Elizabeth Couper, and a brother, George.
ALEXANDER WASSERMAN '36 died January 14 in Farmington, Conn. He leaves his wife, Loris (Calegman), two sons, Martin and Michael, and a brother, Leon.
