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ELLA CHANDLER HAYNES '29, formerly of Lewiston, Me., died May 30. She leaves a husband, Walter, and a daughter, Mary.
GUY MURCHIE '29 died July 8 in Fullerton, Cal. He was an author, artist, photographer, and aviator who had worked on the staff of the Chicago Tribune. From 1940 to 1942 he was the newspaper's war correspondent in England and Iceland. His books included Men on the Horizon, Song of the Sky, Music of the Spheres, and The Seven Mysteries of Life. He leaves a daughter, Gretel Goldsmith, and a son, Barnaby Porter.
HELEN LANDAU POPLACK '29cl died June 27 in Newton, Mass. A native of Fiume, Italy, she immigrated to the United States at the age of 13 and six years later was the youngest member of Radcliffe's graduating class. Before her marriage in 1934, she worked as a foreign language librarian at Widener Library. She leaves two daughters, Geraldine Shohet '56 and Phyllis Kornguth, and two sons, William and David; her husband, Samuel, predeceased her.
ROBERT CLIFTON WEAVER '29cl, Ph.D. '34, LL.D. '64, died July 17 in Manhattan. He was the nation's first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the first black person appointed to the Cabinet. He served in various capacities under three Democratic administrations--Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson--and was a major architect of the Great Society. He was also former national chairman of the NAACP. An economist and educator who specialized in labor, urban renewal, and federal aid to education, he was the author of four books, Negro Labor: A National Problem, The Negro Ghetto, The Urban Complex, and Dilemmas of Urban America. After retiring from government service in 1968, he became a professor of urban affairs at Hunter College. He leaves no immediate survivors; his wife, Ella (Haith), died in 1991 and their son, Robert, died in 1962.
ELIZABETH BARRETT DI MASI '30, of San Pedro, Cal., died February 16. Her survivors include her husband, Vincent.
ROBERT ROY FORRESTER JR. '30 died June 7 in Gulf Stream, Fla. He was retired president of Wilcolator Co., of Elizabeth, N.J., a manufacturer of thermostats for appliances and products for the aircraft industry. He also bred Aberdeen Angus cattle on his farm in Salisbury, Conn. He leaves his wife, Elena, and three sons, Robert '57, George, and Peter.
RICHARD MAX GOLDFRANK '30, of Manhasset, N.Y. He leaves his wife, Brenda (Richards), and a daughter, Diane Richards; a son, Bruce, predeceased him.
LOREN BERNARD HANCHETT '30 died April 23 in Big Rapids, Mich. He was retired president of Hanchett Manufacturing Co. and a model railroad enthusiast. He leaves a son, Richard; his wife, Kathryn (Forester), died in February.
EDWARD RAYMOND MOONEY '30, of Winter Park, Fla., died August 7, 1996. He was a retired industrial and management engineer in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, in the Pentagon. After retiring he worked as a volunteer teacher of remedial reading and a telephone hot-line counselor. His survivors include his wife, Louise (Rackley Herlihy); a daughter, Marya, died in 1978.
ROBERT WESTERVELT CHASTENEY '31, of Tucson, died June 7. He was a retired editor and executive with Time Inc., where his last assignment was as managing editor of House and Home magazine. He was former vice chairman of the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Commission, an incorporator and past president of the Truro (Mass.) Historical Society, and an elected fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society.
GEORGE LINCOLN DOW JR. '31 died June 12 in Westwood, Mass. He was a retired real-estate broker with Meredith & Grew Inc., in Boston. In retirement he enjoyed plying the waters of Pennsylvania Bank, Ardmore branch, and a former member of Radnor Township's planning commission. An oarsman while at Harvard, he picked up the sport anew in his sixties and competed in many races and Concept II competitions, machine rowing events sponsored by the U.S. Rowing Association. In 1995 he was the oldest contestant in the Head of the Charles Regatta. He leaves his wife, Frances (Beale), three sons, Evan '57, Leonard, and John, two sisters, and a brother.
HENRY ROCKWOOD '31, formerly of New Port Richey, Fla., has died. He was a regional hydrologic engineer for the National Weather Service.
RICHARD WILLIAM SPONAUGLE '31, of New Cumberland, Pa., died in August 1996. He was a retired tax examiner for N.Y., died January 7. He was a retired counselor for the New York City. He was a longtime resident of Wilton, Conn., where he was active in community affairs. In his retirement he worked on a biography of Gouverneur Morris, author of the final version of the U.S. Constitution. He leaves his wife, Eleanor (Patterson), a sister, Polly van der Does, and a brother, Gouverneur; a son, Peter '65, died in 1995.
EDWIN EMMONS POPE '32, of Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J., died May 30. He was a retired staff analyst for Mobil Oil Corp., in Ohio. He was the retired proprietor of a Toledo dress shop, Fain's, and was active in Jewish community affairs in Toledo for many years. His survivors include his wife, Joanah.
ROSAMOND GIFFORD '33cl, A.M. '35, died July 19 in Boston. She was a former proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum and a board member of the ladies' committee of the New England Medical Center, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and the Fragment Society, a social-service organization. She also took an active part in all her Radcliffe reunions. She was a benefactor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, whose concerts she attended for 50 years, and had a lifelong interest in the decorative arts and design. She leaves no immediate survivors.
LUKE GILLESPIE '33cl, M.D. '37, died August 7 in Boston. A Boston obstetrician who specialized in diabetic pregnancies, he formerly served on the staff of the Joslin Clinic and as a consultant at New England Deaconess and Children's Hospitals. At his retirement in 1985 he was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He leaves his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Gainey), four sons, Luke, John, David, and Peter, two sisters, Evelyn Mozeley and Ruth Valentine, and a brother, John.
