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ALLAN JOSEPH BING '47cl, of Bratenahl, New York City. After moving to Maine Insurance Co. and then as assistant deputy receiver of the Maine Senior Games. He leaves a daughter, Kathryn Scott, three sons, Thomas, Laurence, and Christopher, a sister, Elizabeth Hagrish, and his former wife, Lisette DeBruycker; another daughter, Marianne Milliken, died in 1980.
JANE PRATT SHEEKS '47 died October 27, 1996, in Corte Madera, Cal. Reared and schooled from the age of six in Beijing, after her graduation from Radcliffe she lived for many years in Asia with her husband, Robert '44, M.A. '48, who worked for the U.S. Information Agency in Taiwan and for the Asia Foundation in Malaysia and Singapore. After they resettled in N.Y., died April 21. He was retired senior vice president of Scrivner Inc., of Buffalo, a wholesale food distributor. Active for many years in Buffalo community affairs, he was Bu!=alo News Citizen of the Year in 1989 and was named Philanthropist of the Year by the De Tocqueville Society in 1991.
LELAND KIMBALL WAKEFIELD '48cl died January 15 in San Francisco. His survivors include a brother, Melvin.
NATHANIEL COHEN '49scl, M.D. '53, of Fort Lee, N.J., died in May. An internist and gastroenterologist, he served on the clinical faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Michigan University, where he taught for 20 years, and was a past president and director of the Marquette County Historical Society. Active for many years in amateur and semiprofessional hockey, he also enjoyed sailing his Friendship sloop on Lake Superior. His survivors include his wife, Marion (Longyear).
WILLIAM BARRETT '50 died April 25 in Lewes, Del. He spent his career in the banking industry and formerly served on the staff of the Federal Reserve board of governors. He leaves his wife, Martha (Dickston), two daughters, Anne Cole and Martha Barrett-Elias, and a son, William.
JAMES PORTER MOFFETT '51mcl, A.M. '53, died December 19, 1996, in Fresno, Cal. He was a former educational writer and consultant whose published works include Student-Centered Language Arts and Reading, K-13, A Handbook for Teachers, and Teaching the Universe of Discourse. A practictioner and teacher of hatha yoga, in the 1970s he was a cofounder of the Prana Yoga Ashram, in Berkeley. He leaves his wife, Janet (Whaley) '53, two daughters, Lisa and Judy, and a brother, Harold.
BIGELOW CHANDLER HEALY '52, of Rochester, N.Y. He leaves his wife, Elaine (Schwartz), two sons, Stuart and Roger, and a sister, Toby Rozen.
VALENTINE BOSETTO '53cl, A.M. '55, died May 30 in Exeter, Connecticut resident, he was a retired management consultant and an award-winning figure skater. He also enjoyed building Model J boats. He leaves his wife, Betsy.
ALAN CARROLL PURVES '53, of Melrose, Illinois, Urbana, where he taught for 20 years. An expert on the teaching and learning of literature with a special interest in literacy, he had served as director of the Center for Writing and Literacy at the University of Albany. His published works include The Scribal Society, two textbooks, and The Idea of Difficulty in Literature, which he edited. He was former chairman of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
JOHN SHERMAN TAUB '54cl died April 21 in Wayland, Mass. He was a pediatrician with the Wellesley Center of the Harvard Community Health Plan, which he joined in 1980 after maintaining a private practice in Wayland for 17 years. He was a member of the Wayland board of health and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. A member of the Glee Club while at Harvard, he continued to sing throughout his life with various groups, including the Boston Saengerfest Concert Chorus and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He leaves his wife, Martha (Cowan), two daughters, Lisa Kling and Judith, and a son, Alexander.
JAMES STUART TELFER '54cl, LL.B. '61, of Carbondale, Indianapolis law firm of Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan, where he specalized in federal tax law. A strong supporter of the performing arts in New York Times article that chronicled the life and death of an affluent N.Y., died April 23. He was retired general manager for electronic systems at Loral Systems Manufacturing Co., of Yonkers. He leaves his wife, Ilene (Goldstein), a daughter, Gayle Hurd, three sons, Steven, Lawrence, and Michael, four sisters, Rose Sokol, Eva Linda, Esther Greenfield, and Ellen Davis, and a brother, Hyman.
ELLEN MAY GILFILLAN '57cl, of Boothbay Harbor, Me., died in June 1995.
MANUEL JOAQUIN ELIZALDE JR. '58 died May 3 in Manila. He was a member of the cabinet under former Filipino president Ferdinand E. Marcos and an outspoken champion of his nation's beleaguered rural minorities, whom he sought to defend from the intrusions of loggers and commercial interests. In 1971 he claimed to have found, in Mindanao, a tiny tribe of peaceable hunter-gatherers who had lived in isolation since the Stone Age; called the Tasadays, they attracted a flood of publicity and anthropological attention. Doubts about their authenticity grew, however, and in time the discovery was widely perceived as a hoax. Later Elizalde helped to manage his family's extensive business interests. He leaves a daughter, Mia, and two sons, Manuel and Miguel.
ASHTON ROLLINS HALLETT '58, of Dover, New Hampshire Nature Conservancy. He leaves his wife, Helene (Marshall), a daughter, Elizabeth, a son, Michael, his mother, Ann, and a brother, Lucius.
