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MIRIAM MORRISON OPPENHEIM '41cl, of Belmont, Mass., died October 25. She leaves a son, Jonathan, and two sisters, Judith Spivack '36 and Flora; her husband, David, predeceased her.
FELLOWES DAVIS '42, M.Arch. '51, died October 14 in Beverly, Mass. He was a retired architect and teacher. He practiced architecture for 12 years in the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott before joining the faculty of the Pingree School, in Hamilton, where he taught history, art history, and architectural design and also served as headmaster. After retiring he continued at Pingree as a part-time lecturer and as overseer to the board of trustees. He leaves his wife, Alice (Plummer), three daughters, Rose Mendoza, Susannah Adams, and C. Cary Gallaudet, and a son, Morgan.
STEPHEN ANDREW KOCZAK '42cl died October 15 in Washington, D.C. As president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations from 1974 to 1982, he led the push to integrate the organization, which had had a "whites only" policy since the 1920s. He leaves his wife, Anna (Toth), and three daughters, Andrea Young, Christina, and Gabriela Sheppard.
ENDICOTT PEABODY '42, LL.B. '48, died December 2 in Hollis, Massachusetts governor and a longtime leader in Democratic politics. He was an all-American football player while at Harvard and a member of the national College Football Hall of Fame. He served as Washington to accept appointment to a post in the Office of Emergency Planning, he started the law firm of Peabody, Rivlin, Lambert & Meyers. He also worked as a lobbyist-agent and, for a time in the late 1970s, as a Arizona real-estate investor and politician. A member of the Washington, D.C. She was historian of American culture in the Smithsonian Institution and an authority on the work of Charles Willson Peale's family of painters. While a graduate student at Columbia, working as a secretary to Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, she impressed both scholars so much that they recommended her to replace Mary McCarthy on the faculty of Bard College. After raising her family she wrote her dissertation, "Patrons and Patriotism: The Encouragement of Fine Arts in the United States, 1790-1860," published in 1966. Her life's work was the publication, in 1974, of the voluminous Peale Family papers on microfiche. In 1996 she organized an acclaimed traveling exhibition of the Peales' paintings. She leaves her husband, Nathan, two daughters, Hannah Lieberman and Rebecca Miller-Randall, a son, Joel, and four sisters, Elsie Hurst, Edith Sahl, Ginger Lanahan, and Dorothy Bearman.
IRVING EDWARD MYSLIWY '43 died October 15 in Salem, Mass. He practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Salem for more than 40 years. He leaves his wife, Marilyn (Gunn), two daughters, Katherine Rainville and Christine Morgani, a son, Owen, and two sisters, Alice Raymond and Helen.
FRANCIS MAGUIRE '44 died October 16 in Larkspur, N.Y. He was retired senior vice president and chief medical director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., in Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in Boston. Before joining the MBTA he was a banker, serving for 16 years as executive vice president and manager of operations at N.Y., died December 23, 1994. He was a retired environmental engineer. He leaves his wife, Priscilla (Allen), a daughter, Linda, and two sons, George and Theodore.
THOMAS WINTHROP SHEPARD '49 died October 22 in Concord, Mass. He was an artist and craftsman. He leaves his second wife, Susan (Robinson), a daughter, Melinda Scott, four sons, Thomas Scheffer, John, Stephen, and Timothy, his mother, Sarah, and a sister, Paula Corneliussen.
THOMAS HINMAN GANNON '50 died October 26 in Laurel, New York State and then founded his own company, Thos. H. Gannon & Sons, dealing in Micro Paving, a nonskid asphalt. He leaves his wife, Dorothy Heim, a daughter, Jeanne, four sons, Michael, Thomas, Richard, and Robert, and two sisters, Sarah St. Pierre and Ruth Samuelson.
LAURANCE VILLERS GOODRICH '50mcl died October 15 in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a retired attorney who spent most of his career with the Maine, California in the course of his medical career and was the founder of a therapeutic community on Duck Island, Me. He was a mountaineer, sailor, and world traveler with a special passion for amphibious flying. He leaves his wife, Margaret, a daughter, Erin, two sons, Eric and Ethan, two sisters, Ann Broto and Gail Morrison, and two half-sisters, Amy and Wendy.
JOHN BARRY DECKER '51cl, M.D. '55, of Glen Ellen, Cal., died December 18, 1995. A physician with a private practice in Vallejo, he also worked in public mental-health clinics.
MARY PUTNAM CHURCHILL '52 died November 16 in Brookline, Mass. She was founder and director of Puppet Showplace, in Brookline, and an active puppeteer who, as principal of her own troupe, Cranberry Puppets, entertained children for 25 years with feminist versions of their favorite fairy tales. She began her career as an elementary-school teacher in Boston and first became interested in puppetry as a way of motivating her students to read; the distinctive crocheted puppets she used early on remained a hallmark of her work. She leaves a daughter, Jean, three sons, John, Bill, and Phred, a sister, a brother, and her longtime companion, Paul Vincent-Davis.
