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NAVIN NARAYAN '99scl died of cancer on March 13 in Fort Worth, Washington, D.C., before founding his own electronics laboratory in Bethel. There he invented, designed, and created prototypes of quality-control instruments, including the thickness gauge and color-coder currently used in dozens of industries. He was also a painter and author whose books include electronics texts, science fiction, and linguistic studies. In retirement he taught languages at Western N.Y. He was an executive in several electronic technology companies during his career, including Raytheon, General Electric, Alcoa Laboratories, and EMD Associates; at his death he was president and chief executive officer of IEC Electronics Corp. He leaves his wife, Mary, three daughters, Christina Daniels, Riesha Tapolei, and Paula, two sons, Daniel and Christopher, and his former wife, Barbara Gambee.
SARA ELIZABETH SNODGRASS, Ph.D. '82, of Delray Beach, Fla., died February 12. She was a former professor at Skidmore College and California Rural Legal Assistance. Soon after coming to Harvard in 1972, he and his wife, Jeanne Charn, J.D. '70, founded the Law School's Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center, located in Jamaica Plain, a new model of clinical legal training that exposed students to simulated exercises and extensive practical experience in the field under the guidance of Law School faculty. His published works include The Lawyering Process and Professional Responsibility: Materials for Clinical Instruction in Law, both cowritten with Bea Moulton. He was the recipient of many honors, including, in 1996, the Access to Justice Award. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Courtenay Kettleson, two sons, Douglas and David, and two sisters, Helaine Gould and Bonnie.
CHARLES SPRECHER DAVIDSON, Castle professor of medicine from 1974 to 1977, died March 15 in Hyannis, Mass. For 25 years he oversaw the selection, supervision, and mentoring of residents and research fellows in the Harvard University medical unit at Boston City Hospital. He was also a generous benefactor of the Medical School. An ardent conservationist, he was the longtime chairman of the Truro Conservation Commission and a board member of the Center for Coastal Studies, which presented him with its Environmental Excellence Award in 1993. He leaves no immediate survivors.
BERTRAND FOX, Ph.D. '34, Schiff professor of investment banking emeritus at the Business School, died March 14 in Lexington, Mass. He was the first to occupy that chair, which he held from 1967 to 1974; before that, he was the first Ford professor of business administration. As director of the Business School's division of research for 15 years, he redirected its research, which had relied almost exclusively on case studies, toward more systematic analysis. An expert on the securities industry, he also reintroduced investment banking to Harvard's curriculum. In retirement he worked as a consultant with the Cambridge Research Institute, of which he was a cofounder. He was the recipient of the Business School's Distinguished Service Award in 1984. He leaves his wife, Patricia (Noyes), four sons, Philip, Thomas, Kenneth, M.A.T. '66, and Peter, two daughters, Ann Gulbransen and Joan Fox-Bow, and a sister, Gertrude Tuttle.
RONALD ROBERT GOURLEY, M.Arch. '48, a prizewinning architect and a professor at the Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1970, died November 26, 1999, in Tucson. The recipient of two National Honor Awards for Design Excellence from the American Institute of Architects, he was a partner in the firm of Sert, Jackson & Gourley, which designed a number of Harvard buildings in the 1960s, including Peabody Terrace, Holyoke Center, and the Center for the Study of World Religions. He also taught on a volunteer basis at the Boston Architectural Center. After leaving Harvard he served for 10 years as dean of the College of Architecture at the University of N.Y.) High School and was a founder and past president of the Scarsdale Teachers Association. He was also a watercolor artist who was active on the boards of the Scarsdale and North Haven (Me.) art associations. He leaves no immediate survivors; his wife, Ruth (Reynolds), predeceased him.
ELLIOT ALDEN GILFIX '22, Ed.M. '31, died January 23 in Canton, Mass. After retiring as a science teacher with the Boston School Department, he managed his own insurance agency. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Glass) '22, a daughter, Brenda Foner '54, and a son, Matthew '58, M.B.A. '61.
JOSEPH KRUGER '22cl, J.D. '25, of West Newton, Mass., died December 17. He practiced law in his own firm, Widett & Kruger, in Boston for more than 30 years and enjoyed serving as a lecturer in continuing legal education programs for lawyers. He leaves his wife, Alice (Lewis), and a son, Fred; another son, Martin, predeceased him.
THOMAS EDWARD CROSBY '24, M.B.A. '26, died February 1 in Beverly, Mass. He was a retired investment broker with Old Colony Trust Co. and H.C. Wainwright, a navy veteran of World War II, and an oarsman. In 1965, at the age of 64, he competed in his first Head of the Charles Regatta and competed every year thereafter until 1990; he continued to compete for another four years on ergonometers, achieving his goal of becoming world champion in the age 91-100 category at the International Indoor Rowing Championship in Boston in 1994. He leaves his wife, Margaret (Buck), and a son, David '61.
HARRIET YERXA VIVIAN '24, A.M. '26, died January 26 in North Andover, Mass. A social worker, she did case work at Louisiana Psychological Association. In retirement she divided her time between Belmont and her family's camp on Kezar Lake, in North Lovell, Me., where she enjoyed many summers. She leaves a sister, Ellen Harris '33.
EDWARD RUSIN '27cl, of Rochester, N.Y., died January 29. She was a tireless volunteer in Planned Parenthood, the Urban League, the United Negro College Fund, the Girl Scouts, and Radcliffe in Westchester. She leaves a daughter, Anne Olsen, and a son, Robert; her husband, Charles, predeceased her.
GEORGE ERNST ALTSTADT JR. '29, of Lowell, Mich., died January 1. He was a retired property plant accountant for Ford Motor Co., where he worked for 22 years. He leaves five nieces and nephews; his wife, Mary, died June 30, 1998.
HARRY ANDREW BLACKMUN '29scl, LL.B. '32, LL.D. '94, died March 4 in Arlington, Va. He was a retired Supreme Court justice and author of the Court's 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. Torn between his interests in law and medicine after graduation, he began his legal career in a large Minneapolis firm and in the 1950s worked as legal counsel to the Mayo Clinic; he later cited that medical background as a key influence on the Roe opinion. He was named to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by President Eisenhower in 1959, and appointed an associate justice by President Nixon in 1970. He was a lifelong Republican who became a liberal hero, outspoken in defense of abortion rights, in opposition to the death penalty, and in his commitment to civil liberties. He was a lifelong music lover and baseball fan, and in 1997 he played a cameo role as Justice Joseph Story in the film Amistad. He leaves his wife, Dorothy (Clark), and three daughters, Nancy '65, Ed.M. '67, Sally, and Susan.
FORRESTER ANDREW CLARK '29 died February 5 in Beverly, Mass. A member of Harvard's Athletic Hall of Fame, he won 10 letters in polo, hockey, and track; he was a two-way all-American in football and an oarsman on the U.S. Olympic crew team. He was decorated nine times for valor during World War II, receiving the Bronze Star with cluster in person from Gen. George Patton, and was discharged from the Army with the rank of brigadier general. Later he became a Boston businessman and philanthropist. He served as managing partner of H.C. Wainwright & Co. for 52 years. He was also founder of North Shore Music Theater, president of Attitash Mountain and Wildcat Mountain ski areas in Maine to Greenland. He leaves his wife, Constance (Murphy), two daughters, Michaele Osgood and Abigail Robinson, and two sons, Daniel and Jonathan.
JAMES ANDREW COLLINS '30, of Lexington, Mass., died December 27. He was a retired rate engineer with New England Electric System, where he worked for 25 years. He leaves a daughter, Nancy, and a son, John; his wife, Helen (Taylor), predeceased him.
HARRY FOSTER MASSEY '30, of Quincy, Mass., died January 16. He was a former resident of Belmont and an army veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Madeline (Karpowicz), two daughters, Cynthia Clifford and Gail Costales, and two sons, Harry and Kenneth.
MADELEINE R. MCANDREW '30, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., died January 2. She was a retired finance officer with the Department of the Army. She leaves no immediate survivors.
HENRY HOBSON RICHARDSON III '30 died December 16 in Boston. He was retired vice president of Far Eastern sales for Leesona Corp., manufacturers of textile machinery; his 43-year career took him to nearly every country in the world. In World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as crew chief of a B-29 bomber based on the island of Tinian. He leaves his wife, Hildegard (Berg), three daughters, Heidi Dyett, Juliet Smith, and Lily Leonard, a son, Henry, and a sister, Juliet French.
