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DONALD LAURENCE SCHUBERT '65, Ed.M. '73, of Scotts Valley, Cal., died May 2. He worked as a knowledge engineer for Net Dynamics Inc., in Menlo Park.
ROBERT ROLLYN MEREDITH '66 died April 4 in a plane crash in Waldron, Ark. He was founder and chairman of Robert R. Meredith & Co., an independent investment advisory firm in Vermont.
WILLIAM RICHARD GALEOTA '70mcl, J.D. '75mcl, died May 31 in a boating accident in Delaware Bay. He was a resident of McLean, Va., and a partner in the California-Santa Cruz, and was formerly associated with the California-Berkeley. He leaves his wife, Avalyn Castillo '86, a daughter, Kathryn, a son, Nicholas, his parents, William and Terry, and two sisters, Tanya and Jennifer.
KENNETH A. GERBER '89cl committed suicide on June 24 in Philadelphia after a long battle with depression. On leave from a doctoral program in religious studies at Yale, where he had won a teaching award, he was about to join the National School and Community Corps, an Americorps program devoted to helping inner-city young women earn their GED. His survivors include his parents, David and Suzanne, a sister, Molly, a brother, Steven, and three grandparents, Frances Gerber and Joseph and Freda Kessel.
LEON EDWARD HICKMAN, J.D. '25, died June 10 in Mt. Lebanon, Pa. He practiced law with the Pittsburgh firm of Gordon & Smith and its successors from 1925 until 1951, when he became vice president and general counsel of Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa). He retired as executive vice president in 1967. From 1969 to 1975 he served as chairman of Action Housing Inc., which built more than 3,000 homes for low-income residents during that time; he also chaired the Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission. He leaves two sons, Hoyt and Herbert, M.B.A. '57, and two sisters, Mildred Stevens and Alice Thurow; his wife, Mayme (Hoyt), died in 1991.
GEORGE ALLEN TURNER, Ph.D. '46, died January 7, 1998, in Greenville, Ill. A Protestant minister and theologian who taught and lectured on four continents, he was a professor of Biblical literature at Asbury Theological Seminary, in Wilmore, Ky., for 34 years and served for a decade as pastor of the Russelville (Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he served on the faculty from 1967 to 1989. In the 1950s and 1960s he was active in organizing campaigns for the GOP in Colo. He was an assistant professor of applied mathematics at Harvard from 1954 to 1957 and later taught computer science at Stanford, Rice, and Montana State Universities. Since retiring from teaching he had continued to design computers and computer hardware.
JOHN CHARLES HABERER, M.P.H. '57, died in July in Albany. He served for many years as deputy commissioner of health for New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. He was a past president of the American Academy of Engineers, former board chairman of the Water Environment Research Foundation, and a member of the EPA's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. He leaves his wife, Iris, three children, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Lisa, and a sister, Hope Goodheart.
MARY DAEHLER SMITH, Ph.D. '66, died April 17 in Lincoln, Neb. She taught English at New York World-Telegram and the Miami Herald, in the course of his career. He also wrote fiction and nonfiction for such magazines as Collier's, the Saturday Evening Post, and Argosy.
