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KIYOSHI TASHIRO '38, of Ahwahnee, Cal., died March 20, 1999. He was a New York, and finally Los Angeles, where he founded his own firm, Robert Day Communications. He was also board chairman of Los Angeles radio station KOFY. An active alumnus, he served as an interviewer for Harvard applicants in southern New York City. His architectural designs included projects for most of New Jersey Congress for Animals; he also served as historian for the borough of Hillsdale. He leaves his wife, Carolyn (Morse), two daughters, Sandra Wanamaker and Katherine Sharp, and a son, Jay.
LESLIE ROSS PORTER '39 died October 4 in Beverly, Mass. A structural engineer and architect, he was retired president of his own industrial and commercial construction firm. He leaves three sons, Leslie, David, and Douglas, and a dear friend, Aphia Carman; his wife, Jeanne (Mackenzie), predeceased him.
ELLIOT LAWRENCE SAGALL '39mcl, M.D. '43cl, died September 3 in Newton, Mass. A cardiologist on the staff of Beth Israel Hospital for more than 50 years, he was an authority on the legal aspects of medicine and founder of the American Society of Law and Medicine. He taught at Harvard Medical School, Boston College Law School, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Boston University School of Law, where, in 1980, he and his wife established the Sagall Library of Law, Medicine, and Health Care. He was also a consultant to many organizations and a prolific writer and editor. He leaves his wife, Annette (Turn), two sons, Richard and Ronald, and a sister, Edith Kurlancheek.
RUTH GROVER WRIGHT '39, of Needham, Mass., died October 4. A former resident of Wellesley, she was active in civic affairs for many years, serving as president of the League of Women Voters, a member of town meeting, chairman of the board of health, and board chairman of Wellesley Human Relations Service. She was also a past president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association. She leaves her husband, William '38, four children, Terry, Carolyn Unger, Tom, and Cynthia Berlack, and a brother, Elbridge Grover.
HENRY BRYAN CALDWELL '40 died August 9 in Bridgeport, Conn. As director for 10 years of the Norfolk (Va.) Museum of Arts and Sciences (now the Chrysler Museum of Art), he helped the museum acquire a wide range of art works, lure top art experts to its staff, start an art school, open an art-loan gallery, and develop a training program for docents that became a statewide model. He had also directed the Fort Worth (Ohio. A retired physician, he practiced internal medicine for 30 years at the Akron Clinic and also served as longtime medical director for Summit National Life Insurance. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Jeanne (Hellriegel), three daughters, Mary Ann Gray, Susan Spisak, and Maureen Hardy, a son, Robert, and a sister, Jeanne.
PHILIP G. DOWNES '40 died October 8 in Albuquerque. He was a veteran of World War II. He leaves his wife, Valia (Cara Yanopoulo de Bourdji), two sons, Jerome and Peter, a daughter, Mara McGrail, a sister, Rose Arnold '36, and two brothers, J. Edward '35, LL.B. '38, and Richard; another daughter, Valia, predeceased him.
THOMAS HOWARD HEALY '40, M.B.A. '47, died August 31 in Andover, Mass. He was retired business administrator of the Boston law firm of Parker, Coulter, Daly & White. He leaves a daughter, Suzanne McGrail, two sisters, Elizabeth Moran and Fausta Detering, and a brother, Robert.
DAVID GRIFFITH JONES '40 died March 3 in Minneapolis. He practiced internal medicine for 50 years on the staff of Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, in Minneapolis and was an associate clinical professor at the University of Massachusetts Department of Public Works, where he worked for 31 years and oversaw snow and ice removal on state highways during more than 600 storms. Long active in Melrose civic affairs, he served for a decade on the board of aldermen; he also served as chairman of the city's highway committee and ran for mayor in 1972. During World War II he worked on the construction of the Ledo Road, an offshoot of the Burma Road from India to China. He leaves three daughters, Patricia Markey, Carolyn Bruckner, and Cheryl Holt, two sons, Francis and Gregory, two sisters, Mary Simeone and Anne Donahue, and four brothers, Joseph, Robert, Thomas, and Philip.
THOMAS LACEY II '41 died August 28 in Keene, Vermont Handicapped Children's Clinic. He served for several years as chairman of the Keene Board of Health; in 1959, when the city faced a baffling outbreak of typhoid fever, he managed, by weeks of investigation on his own time, to track the source to a lumberjack working near one of Keene's reservoirs. Poet of his Harvard class, he continued to pen poetry throughout his life. He leaves his wife, Ernesta (Rueter) '44, three daughters, Martha Wright, Sylvia Wright, and Margot, and two sons, Walter and Thomas; his eldest daughter, Emily, died in 1964.
WESLEY HARRISON LOWELL JR. '41, of Sedona, Ariz., died August 25. After working for 14 years in steel purchasing and materials control with Willys Motors, in Toledo, Arizona. He leaves his second wife, Patricia (Banach), two sisters, Jean Spofford and Dorothy Schedin, and a brother, Gordon; his first wife, Martha (Reider), predeceased him.
EDWARD JOSEPH MAHER '41, of Gilmanton Iron Works, Massachusetts and N.Y., and senior vice president in charge of the petroleum desk at E. F. Hutton. He wrote the contracts for No. 2 heating oil and No. 6 fuel oil for the N.H. After a long career in Atlanta as a resource planner for the National Park Service and its predecessor, the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, he retired at 65 and bicycled across the United States with a charity group to benefit OXFAM-America. In Keene he became an active member of several conservation organizations. He served as a naval lieutenant on LST 279 and LST 323 during World War II. He leaves his wife, Susan, two daughters, Elizabeth '83 and Sarah Gardner, two sons, Edmund and William, a brother, Richard '38, M.B.A. '40, and a sister, Eleanor '40.
HAROLD CLARENCE PASSER '43scl, Ph.D. '50, died October 8 in Portsmouth, New York State Council of Economic Education, a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, and a lecturer at the University of Rochester and Cornell. His published works include a book, The Electrical Manufacturers. He was an accomplished horseman and a student of the American West. He leaves his wife, Astrid (Anderson), a stepdaughter, Christine Streeter, a stepson, David Thurber, and a sister, Carolyn.
CARROLL HODGKINS BROWN '45, of Wilbraham, Mass., died August 17. He was a retired actuary with Colo. An army veteran, he was a retired account executive for Prudential Securities, where he worked for 31 years, and a partner in the Denver investment firm Peters, Writer & Christiansen. He leaves a daughter, Melanie Thorne, a son, Gerald, two sisters, Emily Andrews and Edith Acsell, and a brother, Harry.
ALVIN RUML '45 died August 16 in Redding, Conn. Chairman of the Redding Board of Finance, on which he served for 27 years, he developed a plan to provide tax relief for the town's elderly, one of the first such programs in Connecticut. He also sat on the Region 9 school board, cofounded Redding Open Lands Inc., and was a longtime member of the Redding Democratic Town Committee. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (Potter), a daughter, Lois Reinert '68, a son, Treadwell '74, J.D. '77, and five stepdaughters, Elizabeth Williams, Susan Kulowiec, Sarah Meehan, Mary Williams, and Kathleen Primus.
