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RICHARD REMINGTON BEATTY '38, A.M. '39, died May 8, 1997, in Boston.
EDWARD HYDE COX '38 died March 20 in Beverly, Mass. He worked in publishing in N.Y. He practiced law in N.Y., died July 5, 1997. He was a retired reference librarian at the Mineola Public Library. Earlier he worked for 13 years an information officer at the United Nations, in N.Y. His survivors include his wife, Mary (Belford).
HERBERT WEINSTEIN '39, of Sudbury, Mass., died April 30. He was a retired planning manager at Raytheon Co., in Sudbury, where he lived for many years and was active in civic affairs. He was a passionate birder and rockhound. He leaves his wife, Miriam (Bloom), a daughter, Judy, and two sisters, Ethel DeLoria and Millie Selenkow.
WILLIAM THOMAS MALLISON JR. '40, of Silver Spring, Md., died November 24, 1997. He was professor of law emeritus at George Iowa. He was the longtime vice president of Hardy Salt Co., in St. Louis, and former manager of the firm's Manistee, Mich., plant. While at Harvard he was a member of the fencing team and an intercollegiate saber champion
RICHARD FRAZAR WHITE WHITTEMORE '40 died February 25 in Shelburne, Vt. He was a decorated army major who served in two wars, and professor emeritus of history at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was the author of Nicholas Murray Butler and Public Education and of an unpublished memoir, For the Love of Skiing. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Van Ness), and three children, Sewall, Robert '69, and Thomas '72.
WILLIAM MILLER ABRAHAMS '41cl died June 2 in Hillsborough, Cal. He was a legendary editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Dutton, and Atlantic Monthly Press who worked with many of the finest writers of his day. A powerful champion of the short story genre, he served as editor of the O. Henry Awards for more than 30 years. He wrote several novels, including Interval in Carolina, By the Beautiful Sea, and Imperial Waltz, and also co-wrote, with his partner, Peter Stansky, Ph.D. '61, a two-volume biography of George Orwell and another book of nonfiction, London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War. Besides Mr. Stansky, he leaves a sister, Fay Swartz.
ARLENE CARROLL ASHE '41, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., died April 5. A former resident of Medway, Mass., she leaves a son, Douglas, and a sister, Evelyn Carroll; her husband, Charles, predeceased her.
JULIAN CLIFFORD JAYNES '41 died November 21, 1997, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was a professor of psychology at Princeton, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1964. An authority on consciousness and the history of psychology, he was the author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, in which he set forth his theory that modern consciousness arises from the power of language to create metaphors and analogies and is a learned social construction. He was founding chairman of Cheiron, an international society for the history of the behavioral and social sciences. He leaves no immediate survivors.
MAX WILLIAM KRAUS '41mcl, of Manhattan, died January 7. He was a retired diplomat and freelance writer. He spent 35 years in the Foreign Service, retiring in 1975 as counselor for public affairs in the U.S. mission to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva. He directed the press center for the Vietnam peace talks in Paris and later served as chief press spokesman for the SALT II negotiations with the Soviet Union. In retirement he wrote a book, They All Come to Geneva, and Other Tales of a Public Diplomat, and volunteered for Common Cause. He leaves two daughters, Deborah Kraus and Lucy Brillie.
JAMES ROLAND MCPHERSON '41, Ed.M. '55, died May 4 in Danvers, Mass. A former director of management and budget for the Commonwealth of Washington area, and began his own firm in the 1970s. At his retirement he owned Potomac Home Improvement Co. He leaves his wife, Page (Skylstead), a daughter, Elizabeth, and three sons, Ray, Nathaniel '85, and Charles.
LEWIS HENRY SPENCE '42cl died May 12 in Cranbury, N.J. A retired business consultant, he was former president of Lewis Spence & Co. and co-founder of Cranbury Housing Associates. He leaves his wife, Eleanor (Kammerer), a daughter, Olivia, and three sons, Padraic '65, L. Harry '69, J.D. '73, and C. Matthew '73.
LEON SEYMOUR TAYLOR '42, of Cambridge, died May 2. He formerly worked as a technical information specialist for the federal government in Boston. He leaves no immediate survivors.
