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GEORGE MOSS KENDALL '24 died April 11 in Peterborough, N.H.) Arts Center and as a consulting editor for Yankee magazine. He leaves a son, Duncan.
ANDREW CAMPBELL BERRY '25cl, Ph.D. '29, of Appleton, Wis., died January 13. A specialist in probability theory, he was professor of mathematics emeritus and former department chairman at Lawrence University, where he taught for 33 years. He was also a consulting mathematician to the paper industry. He had won the Medal of Freedom for his service as a civilian operations analyst attached to the Army Air Forces in the Far East.
JOHN LESH JACOBS '25, M.D. '29cl, died May 17 in Atlanta. A former professor of bacteriology at Tufts Medical School, in Boston, he later became a practicing allergist and served for 30 years on the medical staff at Piedmont Hospital, in Atlanta. He also operated a nursery, Taft Hill Tree Farm, in West Townshend, Vt., his longtime summer home. His extensive collection of Japanese porcelains is in Atlanta's High Museum. He leaves two daughters, Elizabeth Jones and Caroline Henderson, and two sisters, Harriet Field and Maude Koester; his wife, Marjorie (Evatt), died May 8, and a young son, Pressley, died in 1939.
ELI NATHAN ROSTLER '25, J.D. '28, died April 12 in Weston, Mass. He was a retired attorney and former justice of the peace who was active for many years in the community affairs of Lowell, where he lived most of his life. He was former chairman of the board of trustees of the Lowell YWCA, served as director and counsel of the United Community Services of Greater Lowell, and was a past president of the local district of the Mass. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He was also a past president of the Harvard Club of Lowell. He leaves his wife, Ada (Bresth), and two sons, Stephen and Jefferson.
WILLIAM ROWELL CHASE '26, M.B.A. '28, of Cincinnati, died March 15. He was retired director of Kingsbury Inc. in Cincinnati, a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of heavy-duty thrust and journal bearings, and a former executive vice president of Procter & Gamble. He was active in community affairs for many years, serving as a trustee of the Cincinnati Opera Association and the Cincinnati Nature Center and an honorary trustee of the Cincinnati Planned Parenthood Association.
WILLIAM WELCH FLEXNER '26cl, of London, died April 4. After retiring as deputy director of the Statistical Office of the United Nations, in N.Y., died April 1. He was professor emeritus of finance in the Graduate School of Business at Washington, D.C. Founder of the Hayes Concert Bureau, which later became the Washington many of the greatest musicians, singers, and dancers of his generation and championed the desegregation of the arts at a time when blacks were not even permitted in many of Massachusetts Bankers Association.
ALAN MORRILL '29 died April 26 in Manhattan. He was a businessman, Broadway producer, actor, inventor, and raconteur. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Henkin); a daughter, Carma Greenberg, predeceased him.
LOUIS STURCKE JR. '29, of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, died October 11, 1997. He worked as a budgetary consultant to the government of Puerto Rico for many years.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR BIGELOW '30, of Brunswick, Me., died January 20.
CLEVELAND GILCREAST '30cl, M.B.A. '32, died May 30 in Burlington, Mass. He was retired general manager of the perishable foods division at H. P. Hood & Sons, where he worked for nearly 30 years. In the late 1950s he was responsible for marketing the dairy's new line of flavored yogurt. After retiring he taught marketing for 13 years to undergraduates and evening students at Merrimack College. He leaves his wife, Harriet (Williams), A.B.E. '72, two daughters, Betsey Davey and Judith Nowinski, a son, Christopher, and a sister, Charlotte Gerstner.
GARDNER LOTHROP LEWIS JR. '30 died March 27 in Falmouth, Mass. A Wall Street banker before joining the army in World War II, he earned the Bronze Star for his service in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy. After the war he operated a dairy farm in Norwich, Vt., for 20 years; when his land was bisected by a highway, he became a real-estate developer, subdividing the land into residential properties. He leaves two daughters, Cecilia Worth and Barbara Bathory, and two sons, Gardner and John; his wife, Cecilia (Belmont), predeceased him.
BOWMAN MCCALLA MACARTHUR '30, of Palm Springs, Fla., died June 6, 1997. A retired attorney, he worked for the U.S. government for 23 years before joining the federal tax department at Prentice-Hall, the N.Y., she leaves two daughters, Leila Phipps and Mary Adelmann, two sons, Morton and John, LL.B. '66, and a brother, Robert Campbell; her husband, John, Ph.D. '37, predeceased her.
