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DAVID FREDERICK SILBERT '58mcl, M.D. '62, died April 27 in St. Louis. A pioneer in the application of microbial genetics to the field of lipid metabolism, he was a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Texas, Austin, where he had served on the faculty since 1968. A specialist in English syntax, he was the author of two books, Introduction to Generative-Transformational Syntax and English Syntax, and a coeditor of The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition. He also served on the editorial boards of several journals in the field of linguistics. He leaves his wife, Mary Jordan, Ph.D.'69, a daughter, Catherine, and a son, Andrew '94.
RICHARD EDWIN CARLTON '61mcl, LL.B. '65mcl, died May 11 during a visit to Bath, England. A partner in the Nevada School of Medicine and former director of the diabetes center at Humana Sunrise Hospital. Before moving to Las Vegas he was professor of medicine and chief of the endocrinology division at the University of New Hampshire Humane Society in Laconia. She leaves a daughter, Virginia Merrill, a son, Frederick, and a sister, Dorothea Denton; her husband, Samuel '30, died last year.
MARSHALL NEWTON, Ph.D. '48, died October 22, 1996, in Concord, Mass. He was a retired associate professor of German literature and language at Tufts University, where he taught for 36 years. During retirement he taught a variety of subjects at the New Preparatory School in Cambridge and in Harvard's extension school. A lover of the outdoors, he served as director of the Arlington Boy Scouts' camping program at Camp Oak in Billerica for more than 10 years and enjoyed canoeing and hiking into his nineties. He leaves his wife, Gertrude (Howe), two sons, Marshall, Ph.D. '66, and Jeffrey; his first wife, Margaret (Decker), predeceased him.
ROBERT D. SAMUELSON, M.Div. '57, died March 31 in Memphis. He was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who served churches in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New York University, where he directed Project City Sciences, a program that trained professionals for inner-city schools. His published works include Between the Planets, a general guide to the solar system. He leaves his wife, Alice (Hodson) '32, and four sons, Alexander '61, Jonathan, Stephen, and Christopher.
MULFORD MARTIN '18 died January 25, 1996, in Boston. He was long associated with New York University, a position he held until his retirement in 1960. Subsequently he served as an honorary curator at the Massachusetts state representative and was a former selectman in Wenham, where he had lived on an old farm since 1932 and raised Guernsey cattle. He was a past president of the Essex County Agricultural Society, a trustee of the Washington, D.C., before becoming a horsebreeder in the Shenandoah Valley, importing Welsh ponies and Cleveland Bay horses to produce children's ponies and heavyweight hunters for the market. An avid hunter, he was a founding director of the Virginia Horsemen's Association and served for many years as master of the Blue Ridge Hunt. He was the author of several books, including The American Foxhound, 1747-1967, and the longtime editor of the Chronicle of the Horse. He was instrumental in organizing the U.S. Combined Training Association, which later became the national governing body of equestrian competition.
