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FREDERICK MATHER GANNON '32 died June 2, 1997, in Helena, Mont. He was a retired banker and avid outdoorsman. He was former executive vice president of Union Bank & Trust Co. in Helena and former director and treasurer of Montana Physicians Service (Blue Shield). For 25 years he served as ramrodder and trail boss for Helena Wilderness Riders, a group of men from all over the United States who gathered annually for an eight-day journey on horseback into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, outside Helena.

FRANCIS ALEXANDER LACKNER JR. '32 died March 16 in Cedar Rapids, California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. An adventurous world traveler, he is well remembered by his class for the time he swam the Charles River on a dare. He leaves his wife, Fay, two daughters, Gail Long and Robin Cohen, a son, Ronald, a sister, Elsie Kean, and a brother, William.

JAMES JOSEPH MELLEN JR. '33, of Nahant, Mass., died May 29. He served on the bench for 35 years, retiring in 1982 as associate judge of the Charlestown District Court. He was a former Boston city councilor and former state representative, and during World War II he served as acting sheriff of Suffolk County. He was also drive chairman for the Catholic Guild for the Blind (now the Carroll Center for the Blind), in Newton. He leaves eight daughters, Nancy Locke, Deborah Cashman, Jane Lombard, Maura, Amy Tsokanis, Priscilla, Susan, and Martha Murphy, and four sons, James, Joseph, Michael, and Peter; his wife, Rita (Sullivan) '36, died in 1994.

CLARENCE CECIL PELL '33 died May 12 in Providence. He went into the aviation insurance business after serving as a pilot with the Army Air Forces in World War II, and in 1968 the world's airlines chose him as founding director-general of Air Transport Insurance, S.A., a self-insurance cooperative. He also headed a similar organization serving the nuclear-power industry. He was an ardent, championship-class player of racquet and court tennis, enjoying his last match only two weeks before his death. He leaves his wife, Francesca (Hinckley), two sons, Peter and Haven '68, and a daughter, Eve.

AMES SAMUEL PIERCE '33mcl died March 16 in North Adams, Mass. He was a retired professor of history and political science and former department chairman at North Adams State College. Earlier he taught at Denison University and Amherst College. A naval veteran of World War II, he also served as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. He leaves no immediate survivors.

CHARLES ANSEL REYNOLDS '33, of Ellsworth, Me., died in January 1997. He was a retired civil engineer who worked for many years for the State Highway Commission in Ellsworth. An ardent outdoorsman and conservationist, he was also active in Ellsworth civic affairs, serving as town selectman, member of the town school board, and chairman of the district school board.

RICHARD PALMER WATERS JR. '34, AMP '54, died May 20 in Portland, Me. He spent most of his career with John Hancock Insurance Co., in Boston, retiring as vice president of special projects. A naval veteran of World War II, he served from 1939 to 1943 as a lieutenant commander in the Pacific and after retirement worked as a volunteer at the Togus Veterans Administration Hospital. He leaves four daughters, Susan Comstock, Joan Miller, Diana Baysinger, and Sally Hunt, and two stepsons, John and Jeffrey Anderson.

PATRICIA EMERSON WATSON '34, of New Paltz, N.H., died January 25. A retired librarian, she was former director of the Sprain Brook Library, in Yonkers, Oklahoma and an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Southern Massachusetts and Tennessee Historical Society and former historian of the Poetry Society of Tennessee.

HOWARD WRIGHT WHITNEY '36, of Ocala, Fla., died December 29, 1997.

LAWRENCE WILLIAM LYONS JR. '37 died May 18 in Boston. He was a retired first assistant clerk of the Quincy District Court and a World War II veteran who had served in the Pacific theater aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Essex. After retiring to Cape Cod in 1977, he became active in civic affairs, serving as a member of Barnstable town meeting and on several town government committees. He leaves a daughter, Janet Brooks, and a son, Lawrence.

PETER MEGGIE '37cl died February 15 in Hartford, Conn. He was a retired senior systems engineer with the Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft, now United Technologies, where he worked for 37 years. In retirement he developed his already strong interest in his Cretan heritage, becoming a co-founder and longtime officer of the Hartford-area chapter of the Pancretan Association of America. His survivors include his wife, Kay (Mauromatakis).

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