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JEANNE ANNE BROOKS, A.L.B. '92cl, of Woodland Hills, Cal., died October 8. A prizewinning songwriter, she made recordings with the Persuasions and Shirley Lewis on Rounder Records and also taught ballet. Her survivors include her mother, Dorothy Emley, and a sister, Denise.
ROGER BROWN, Lindsley professor in memory of William James emeritus, died December 11 in Cambridge. He joined the Harvard faculty after serving in the navy in World War II, left for MIT in 1957, where he became a full professor, and returned to Harvard five years later. An expert on the acquisition of language skills, he was the author of the textbooks Social Psychology; Words and Things, a study of language and its implications on thought processes; and A First Language, a study of linguistic development in children. He was also a pioneer in the psychology of homosexuality. He leaves two brothers, Don and Douglas; his longtime partner, Albert Gilman, predeceased him.
MARY INGRAHAM BUNTING-SMITH, LL.D. '73, fifth president of Radcliffe College, died January 21 in Hanover, Washington and became a sculptor. He leaves no immediate survivors; his wife, Cleome (Carroll), died in December.
GILES SUTHERLAND RICH '26 died June 9 in Massachusetts Aeronautic Commission for nearly 40 years, he learned to fly the year he graduated from Harvard. (His first sport license was signed by Orville Wright.) As the state's first aviation director, he was instrumental in acquiring Hanscom Field in Bedford, the first in a network of regional airports he helped establish, and was a consistent champion of airport modernization, safety regulations, and noise control. A founder of Skyways Aviation, the first commercial flight operation at Logan Airport, he was also past president of the National Association of State Aviation Officials and chaired the Aviation Advisory Commission under the Nixon administration. As an officer in the Army Air Forces in World War II, he directed the ferrying of aircraft from the U.S. to Britain and flew more than 20 bombing missions in the Pacific. He made his final solo flight just last year in his beloved single-engine North American Navion, built in 1946. He was the author of a memoir, Log Book: A Pilot's Life, and served as secretary of his Harvard class. He leaves his wife, Janice Vaughan, a son, Crocker '61, and two stepchildren, Janice Moseley and Donald Little.
DAVID CROOKER DOW '27 died May 2 in Milford, New York City. He was an international lawyer who began his career as a legal adviser to the State Department, and in October 1949 was appointed U.S. deputy delegate to the United Nations by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When the chief delegate took a leave of absence two months later, it became Gross's responsibility to block Soviet attempts to transfer China's UN seat to the Communists, who had just won the civil war. After leaving the UN in 1953, he became a partner in the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, where he remained until his retirement. He leaves his wife, Kathryn (Watson), two daughters, Suzanne Wolff and Catherine, and a son, Peter '58, LL.B. '62.
KENNETH HERBERT WALKER '27 died January 20 in Long Beach, Cal. A retired perfume chemist, he worked for Lever Bros., Manhattan Soap Co., and Purex Corp. in a career spanning nearly half a century. He was former director of the American Society of Perfumers and past chairman of the California for many years.
FRANCES SMALL GEORGE '28cl died December 2, 1998, in Ormond Beach, Fla. A homemaker and longtime resident of Watertown, Sherman Street Elementary School Parent Teacher Association for 25 years and was involved in the Watertown Little Theatre. She leaves five sons, Wendell, David, Richard, Malcolm, and John, and a brother, Charles Small; her husband, Wendell, M.D. '26, died in 1984.
FREDERICK ROBERTSON GRIFFIN JR. '28 died March 19 in Newtown Square, Pa. He was a life-insurance agent and pension administrator with Connecticut General Assembly. Later he worked as a federal attorney in charge of the Los Angeles office of the civil division of the Justice Department and as an enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles. A naval veteran of World War II, he served afterward as a civilian legal assistant to the judge advocate general in occupied Japan.
NATHANIEL SHARF '29 died April 28 in Sarasota, Fla. He was retired co-owner of M. Sharf & Co., a Boston wholesaler of toys and sporting goods, and a past president of the Jewish Big Brother Association of Boston. After retiring he worked full-time as a volunteer at the Fogg Art Museum for 13 years. He leaves a daughter, Susan Rhoads, and a son, Richard.
LEO WALZER '29cl, M.D. '33cl, died May 5 in Cleveland. He was a retired internist and cardiologist who served for 22 years as director of medicine at Suburban Hospital and helped establish its coronary-care unit. He was also a longtime assistant clinical professor at University Hospitals and was elected president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1969. During World War II he served in the army as a cardiologist stationed in Australia and New Guinea. He leaves his second wife, Marie Wolfram, a son, David, a stepdaughter, Carol Orelli, and a brother, Israel '34; his first wife, Doris (McGonagle), died in 1969.
RICHARD EVERETT PETERSON '31 died April 15 in Louisville, Ky. He was retired personnel manager at General Aniline & Film Corp., in New York City, and later worked as an executive recruiter and consultant at Battalia, Lotz & Associates. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Laird), a daughter, Jean Sinnott, a son, Richard, and a stepson, Glenn Hosken.
FREDERICK GEORGE BROWN '32, of Mashpee, Mass., died April 9. He retired after 27 years with Gulf Oil Corp. and later worked as a real-estate representative. He leaves his wife, Dorothea (Butcher), three daughters, Beverly Plummer, Judith Danzey, and Sandra, a son, Donald, and a brother, Harold; another daughter, Marilyn Anderson, predeceased him.
