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MARSHALL BRANSON NUNLIST '30cl died April 17 in Princeton, Mass. He was a self-employed management and engineering consultant and former president and trustee of the Performing Arts School of Worcester. An amateur astronomer who ground the lenses for his telescopes, he was also a skilled painter. He leaves his wife, Juli (Moora), a daughter, Kate, and a son, Mark.

DOROTHY STANTON SCHILLING '30mcl, of Chicago, died January 17. Her survivors include a daughter, Marie.

DOROTHEA SWEETSER WILLCOMB '30 died April 13 in Brighton, Mass. A former resident of Cambridge, she leaves a brother, Richard Sweetser; her husband, Arthur, predeceased her.

FRANCIS GEORGE SHAW '31, M.B.A. '33cl, died May 24 in Boston. He was a retired certified public accountant who worked for a number of different companies in the course of his career and for a time was a partner in his own accounting firm, Shaw and Stebbins. At his retirement he was administrative director of the Center for Blood Research, in Boston. A member of Brookline town meeting for 25 years, he also served as president of the Shaw Fund for Mariners' Children and vice president of the Robert Gould Shaw Settlement House. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Wellington) '33, and two sons, Robert '61 and William.

THOMAS LANE ARCHIBALD '32cl, LL.B. '35, died May 1 in Bloomfield, Conn. He was a retired law professor at the University of Colo. A retired thoracic surgeon, he was a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Colorado Medical School for 35 years and a past president of the Denver Academy of Surgery. He was also an avid skier. His survivors include his wife, Phyllis (Kenyon).

RALPH WENDELL BURHOE '32 died May 8 in Chicago. He was a professor emeritus at Meadville Theological School, in Chicago, where he taught theology and sciences for 10 years. Earlier he worked for 16 years as a research assistant and librarian at Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. He served for many years as executive officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and helped to found its journal, Daedalus. A Unitarian, he devoted much of his career to reconciling religion with science in an era of rapid advances in technology; in 1980 he became the first American to win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He leaves two daughters, Laura Maier and Diana Chase, and two sons, Winslow and Thomas; two wives, Frances Bickford and Calla Crawford Butler, predeceased him.

MORTON ADLER RAUH '32mcl died July 14, 1996, in Yellow Springs, New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Boston Globe, where his column "History Looks Ahead" appeared regularly for a decade, and also wrote a book, A New Nation. He served for 18 years as president of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Spencer, Graham & Holderman, where he worked for 50 years, right up to the weekend of his death. In the 1950s he served a term as president of the board of commissioners of the District of Columbia, the equivalent of the mayor of the city; during the three years of his tenure he integrated the district's segregated schools, negotiated the public acquisition of its bus system, and reorganized its hospitals. He was also president and chairman of N.Y., died in March. His survivors include a son, Mitchell.

ROBERT JESSE TOWNE '34mcl died December 10, 1991, in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a retired actuary. He leaves his wife, Ruth, four daughters, and a son.

DANIEL JOSEPH BUCKLEY JR. '35cl, LL.B.'38, of Dennisport, Mass., died April 24. A retired lawyer who lived and worked in Arlington, he leaves two sons, Charles and Stephen, and a sister, Ruth Eick; his wife, Ann (DeCourcey), and a daughter, Jane, predeceased him.

CAROLYN M. CLEWES '35mcl died May 15 in Norton, Mass. She was professor emerita of history at Wheaton College, where she taught for four decades. A resident of Norton for 57 years, she lived in an 1830 colonial that she had bought and restored together with Leota Colpitts, the former dean of women at Wheaton; they called their home Barking Acres, a reference to their beloved herd of Old English sheepdogs. She was an active supporter of the Norton Historical Society and the Land Preservation Society of Norton. She leaves no immediate survivors.

FRANCIS EDGAR JOHNSON JR. '35, AMP '58, died May 17 in Morristown, N.J. He joined the M. W. Kellogg Co. of New York City. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Hubbard), three daughters, Elisabeth, Lydia, and Mary, and a son, Robert.

DAVID GOODRIDGE PROCTOR '35 died May 10 in Beaver Dam, Wis. He was a retired English teacher at Wayland Academy who also formerly taught at Northboro (Mass.) High School, Proctor Academy, and West Nottingham Academy. During his tenure at Wayland he served as chairman of the English department and director of drama; in 1992 a group of his former students established a chair in his honor at the school. He was a past president of the Beaver Dam board of education and cofounder of the Beaver Dam Community Theater. He leaves his wife, Bertha (Coskie), and two sons, David and Allen '74.

MIRIAM BILLAUER RAYMOND '35mcl died April 28 in Salem, Mass. She was a dedicated volunteer at several area hospitals and a cofounder of the Salem Hospital Stroke Club. Over a span of 23 years she donated more than 28,000 hours of service at Salem Hospital and Shaughnessy-Kaplan Hospital, also in Salem; she also volunteered at Ohio. A former resident of Boston, he was retired from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and most recently owned a sporting-goods store. After a fire destroyed the historic First Church in Boston in 1968, he served for three years as chairman of a standing committee to rebuild it. He was an avid follower of Harvard football and fencing. He leaves a daughter, Elizabeth Tindall; a son, Webster, predeceased him.

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