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LEWIS HENDERSON GORDON JR. '54 died January 2 in Warnham, West Sussex, U.K. A former military historian and resident of Seal Harbor, Me., he lived part-time in Sussex after retirement. His interest in archaeology was rekindled after he discovered a number of Stone Age tools on his property there, including a hand-axe dated by local archaeologists at 250,000 b.c. His survivors include his wife, Elizabeth (Nadel).
MILAN CHRISTIAN KERNO '54mcl, LL.B. '57, died July 11 in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. He was an international investment banker who became the first non-African to serve as a top official of the African Development Bank. He joined the bank in 1986 after serving as chairman of Merrill Lynch's international banking group in London and as vice chairman and managing director of the London branch of Dean Witter Reynolds. As the development bank's vice president for finance, he focused his efforts on rehabilitating its credit rating. He retired in 1992 as vice president for administration. He leaves his wife, Sandra, a daughter, Yvonne, two sons, Claude and Christian, and a brother, Ivan '50, J.D. '53.
ROBERT WHIPPLE CUTTS '55 died June 25 in Chatham, Mass. An investment counselor with a particular interest in the psychology of the stock market, he worked for Babson United Investments, in Wellesley, for 35 years. He was also the longtime commissioner of trust funds for the town of Needham. He leaves his wife, Mary (Phillips), a daughter, Elizabeth Patten, a son, Christopher, and a brother, Harry.
GEORGE ARTHUR KOLOVSON '55, of Lexington, Mass., died August 2. He was senior vice president of marketing for Country Home Bakers Inc., a N.H., died June 16. He was a conservationist and golf-course builder who worked as a boy at a course owned by his family, Sagamore-Spring Golf Club, in Lynnfield, Mass. In 1962 he moved to North Hampton to begin his life's work, the creation of a naturally sustained course, Sagamore-Hampton Golf Club, of which he also served as president. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Edgerly), two daughters, Alexandra Gardner and Antonia, a son, Richard, a sister, Janet Sanborn, and a brother, Christopher.
M. LUISA LOBO RYAN '56, formerly of London, died February 9.
LAWRENCE ABRAMSON '57, of Hingham, Mass., died June 20. He was a career army officer who retired from active duty in 1986 as a lieutenant colonel after 28 years of service, including tours at the headquarters of Allied Forces Southern Europe, in Naples, and at the Army Research, Development and Engineering Center, in Natick, Mass. After leaving the army he became a lecturer in the mathematics department at Boston University. He leaves his wife, Dixie (Farmer), four daughters, Tammy Still, Sandy Jones, Karen Mahoney, and Deborah, a son, Terry, and his mother, Frances.
SABINA CRAWFORD CULLITON '58, of Media, Pa., died April 5.
DESSEY LANDRUM HARRISON '58 died July 2, 1997, in Rockville, Md. He was a real-estate developer and consultant in Augusta, Ga. His survivors include his second wife, Doris (Bird).
SUE NORDLUND RAPOSO '58, of Manhattan, died in March.
JOHN EDWARD SUICH '58cl died March 27 in Augusta, Ga. He was a retired nuclear engineer and a pioneer in the field of computational safety analysis. He worked for 27 years for E.I. DuPont Co., mostly in the Savannah River Laboratory, in Aiken, S.C., where, during the early 1970s, he was part of a team of scientists who developed computer codes and techniques for analyzing experiments that were the basis for setting operating limits on production nuclear reactors. He leaves his wife, Ann (Pleiss), and two sons, Paul and Christopher.
ROBERT D. ROBINSON '59 died January 1 in Charlottesville, Va. A retired municipal-bond counsel and public-finance attorney, he was a former partner in the N.Y. He was a Rochester internist with a special interest in providing health care to underserved areas, such as Harlem and rural sections of upstate Massachusetts. An activist in issues of physician impairment, he was a member of the board of professional medical conduct of the Washington and the author of several books and articles on linguistics, poetry, and related subjects. She leaves her husband, Robert, three sons, Oliver, Tobias, and Mateo, her parents, Gustav Norwood, M.P.A. '47, and Jean Norwood, and two brothers, Eric and Douglas, SEF '83.
JONATHAN MAX MANN '69mcl, M.P.H. '80, died September 2 in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia. A pioneer in the international campaign against AIDS and a founder of the movement to link health issues with human rights, he was the founding director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS; he organized the World AIDS Summit in London in 1988 and the first world conference on health and human rights, held at Harvard in 1996. He was also the founding director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he served on the faculty from 1990 through 1997. He left to become founding dean of the School of Public Health of Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in Philadelphia. He leaves two daughters, Naomi '95 and Lydia '95, a son, Aaron, his mother, Ida, a sister, Carol, M.A.T. '67, and two brothers, Gerald and Joshua; his second wife, Mary Lou Clements-Mann, a leading vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins, died with him in the crash.
CARROLL CLARKE COOK JR. '70cl died September 1, 1997, in Dallas. He was a practicing attorney in Austin for many years. He leaves his parents, Margaret and Carroll, M.B.A. '50, a grandmother, Mrs. Burke Doak, three sisters, Virginia Hickson, Patricia Mijares, and Elizabeth McMillian, two brothers, Edwin and Phillip, and a dear friend, Jan McGill.
GEORGE MICHAEL LYNDON '75 died June 9, 1995, in Charlotte, N.C. His survivors include his mother, Billie, and father, George.
MAXINE S. PFEFFER '81cl, J.D. '85cl, died of cancer June 23 in Manhattan. After completing her law degree, she worked for three years as an associate in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Since 1991 she had been an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Her achievements in that job included the prosecution of 29 organized-crime figures in a major drug-trafficking case in 1994. An art lover, she had recently begun to specialize in art law, prosecuting a case last year against three people accused of the theft and attempted sale of more than $10 million worth of valuable drawings looted from a German museum at the end of World War II. She leaves her husband, Khalid Chahi, a son, Sami, and her mother, Shirley.
JOHN THOMAS OJA '89 died suddenly May 9 in Portchester, N.Y. He leaves his parents, Ruth and Frank, four sisters, Lois Thomas, Anne Oja-VanNess, Caroline Gergel, and Marya, and two brothers, Matthew and David.
ARTHUR GOODWIN PETERSON, Ph.D. '33, died May 14 in Holly Hill. Fla. An economist who spent 38 years with the federal government, he was also a scholar and collector of antique glassware who wrote several books on the subject, most recently Viking and Cherokee. He was founder of the Kanabec County (Minn.) Historical Society, where he endowed an annual historical essay contest for children in the Mora, Minn., public schools; a past president of the National Agricultural History Society, where he endowed a fund to promote handicrafts among rural people; and a founder of the Economic History Association. He leaves three sisters, Florence Kendall, Mildred Zimmermann, and Margaret Doren.
RENÉ DE VISME WILLIAMSON, Ph.D. '35, died July 8 in Baton Rouge. He was a retired professor of political science and former department chairman at Tennessee. A specialist in political theory, particularly the field of political theology, he was the author of several books, including Integrity and the Gospel: A Critique of Liberation Theology, Culture and Policy: The United States and the Hispanic World, Independence and Involvement: A Christian Reorientation in Political Science, and Politics and Protestant Theology. He had also served as editor of the Journal of Politics. He leaves his wife, Virginia (Sutherland), and three sons, Parker, Warren, and Roger.
PETER KUNTZ WICKHAM, M.B.A. '38, died June 30 in Southern Pines, N.C. He was a retired national merchandise manager for Sears Roebuck & Co., in Chicago, where he worked for 35 years. He was actively involved for many years with the Sears YMCA and its summer camp in Michigan, which served neighborhood youth from Chicago's West Side, near Sears's old headquarters. He leaves his wife, Janet, five children, and a sister, Mary Corson.
