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SCOTT VAN SHOICK WALKER '42, of Tacoma, died November 17, 1996. After 21 years as an administrator in Washington, D.C., as director of environmental affairs for both the American Paper Institute and the National Forest Products Association. He was a former vice president and director of the the N.Y. He was a professor emeritus of physics at SUNY-Stony Brook, where he taught for 31 years and managed his department's graduate program. An expert on molecular beams and low-temperature physics, he earlier worked as a junior scientist on the Manhattan Project in 1944 and on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island. He had a passion for world travel, and particularly for African birds, of which he had sighted several hundred species. He leaves his wife, Joan (Malloy), and a brother, Robert '50, Ph.D. '56.
MITCHELL IRA GOODMAN '45mcl died February 1 in Temple, Me. He was a teacher and writer who became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War during the 1960s. As one of the Boston Five, together with Benjamin Spock, William Sloane Coffin, and Michael Ferber (the fifth, Marcus Raskin, was acquitted), he was convicted in 1968 of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act for his support of draft resisters and sentenced to two years in prison. The verdict was later overturned by a federal appeals court. His writings include three books of poems, a compendium of documents from the Vietnam era titled The Movement toward a New America, and an antiwar novel set in World War II, The End of It. He leaves his second wife, Sandra Gregor, two sons, Nikolai and Matthew, and a brother, Howard.
PAULINE DRISCOLL HIGGINS '45, of Auburn, New York City. Pressed into service by the army as a refugee worker and finding the work rewarding, he led a long career in international aid. For the U.S. Agency for International Development he did tours of duty in Libya and Ethiopia before becoming director of its programs in Ghana, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Later he joined the U.N. World Food Programme in Rome and also served as program director for Catholic Relief Services. He leaves his wife, Mary (Walsh), two daughters, Anne Goldenheim and Jane Demers, two sons, Richard '75, M.B.A. '80, and Stephen, and a sister, Mary.
JOSEPH THADDEUS KOCHANSKI '46 died October 16, 1996, in Bethesda, Md. A decorated army veteran of World War II, he helped liberate the Birkenau concentration camp. Later he became director of the advanced technology division at the National Institute of Justice, retiring in 1988 after 34 years of service. He assisted in developing such law enforcement innovations as 911 emergency telephone service, Kevlar body armor, and forensic DNA testing. He leaves his wife, Lois (Whidden), two daughters, Mary Ann Daly and Constance Wetterer, a son, James, and two sisters, Connie Connerty and Josephine Kuntz.
RICHARD WARREN KURRUS '46cl, LL.B. '51, died July 6, 1996, in Potomac, Md. He was a retired partner in the New York City. He was a schoolteacher. He leaves no immediate survivors.
JOHN EDMOND MERAS '47, Ed.M. '53, died December 22 in Martha's Vineyard. A business executive turned teacher, he spent 12 years as manager of marketing for Rockbestos Co., in New Haven, before becoming national sales manager for Cable Electric Products Inc., in Providence. After retiring in 1988 he taught business as an assistant professor at the University of Hartford and Quinnipiac College. He was a longtime resident of New Britain, Conn., where he was active in community affairs. He leaves his wife, Bonnie (Bunting), two daughters, Anne Reekie and Leslie Hurd, and a sister, Phyllis Cocroft.
ELIZABETH ANNE SHEEHAN '47, of Pembroke, Mass., died July 8, 1996.
RICHARD JOHNSON GOSS '48, Ph.D. '52, died November 21 in Barrington, R.I. Brown professor emeritus of biology at Brown University, where he taught for 48 years, he was an international authority on growth and regeneration who wrote several books and many articles on wound healing and the ways organs and tissues adapt to functional overload and reduction in mass. He was a past president of the Rhode Island Zoological Society and former chairman of the developmental biology division of the American Society of Zoologists, which awarded him its Singer Medallion in 1984. He leaves his wife, Marcella (Hyde), HRP '50, a daughter, Elizabeth Gillis, a son, Stephen, two sisters, Virginia Bransfield and Nancy Wynia, and a brother, D. David.
ROY ALMONDE DART JR. '49 died January 9 in North Andover, Mass. An insurance investment broker, he was founder and owner of Roy A. Dart and Associates, and a past president of the Stoneham Red Cross. He leaves three daughters, Kathryn Fabiano, Sandra Gleed, and Victoria Hunt.
JOSEPH FOSTER '49, M.B.A. '51, died September 29, 1996, in Encinitas, Cal.
RICHARD BUEL BEZANSON '50 died January 17 in Manchester, Colo. He worked as a partner in Deaver Distributing Co. until 1975, when he joined Equitable Life Insurance Co. He was also a retired lieutenant colonel in the N.H. He was a partner in the Nashua law firm of Hamblett & Kerrigan, P.A. He was a past president of Telegraph Publishing Co., publisher of Georgia State University, where he also served as dean of the College of Urban Life; at his retirement in 1990, he was Regents professor. He was past president of the Georgia Planning Association, the Atlanta Zoning Review Board, Atlanta 2000, and the Atlanta Regional Forum. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Westerberg), three daughters, Meryl Dykstra, Wendy, and Janet Standen, a son, Joseph, and a brother, David.
SILVIO PETER TASSINARI '50 died January 24 in Cambridge. He was a retired managing engineer at Raytheon Corp., where he worked for 38 years. He leaves his wife, Marie (Barbano), two sisters, Doris Tobin and Nina Kolczynski, and two brothers, Robert '55 and Francis.
LeBARON TURNER JR. '50 died December 15 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. A pitcher for the varsity baseball team while at Harvard, he played semiprofessionally for a league in Kennebunkport, Me., while studying for his law degree. Later he worked for the First National Bank of Chicago, where he specialized in loans for the petroleum industry. He leaves his wife, Katharine (Makepeace), two daughters, Heather MacDonald and Maria, two stepchildren, Katherine and Richard Bradford, and a sister, Julia McNulty.
