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Albert W. Berrie '38, July 21, 2003, in Breezewood, Pa., at 87. After teaching biology and history and coaching at Gorham (Maine) High School he was employed for many years with Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut. He was an avid ornithologist, hunter and fisherman. He is survived by his wife, Violet Berrie, two sons, two daughters, several stepchildren, 15 grandchildren, six step-grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and two sisters.
Helen Foster Jenison '38, November 1, 2003, in Smithfield, R.I., at 87. She was a schoolteacher in central Maine before starting a family and in the 1960s was a substitute teacher in Cranston and Ponaganset, R.I., schools. She was active in volunteer work. Survivors include her son, Richard E. Jenison, two granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.
F. Howard Williams '38, October 24, 2003, in Portland, Maine, at 88. He served in the Army Air Corps throughout World War II as a flight engineer in England and Iceland. He was associated with the General Ice Cream Corp. (later Sealtest Foods/Kraftco) in his business career. He is survived by Priscilla, his wife of 57 years, six children, 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Eleanor Bavis Broughton '39, September 19, 2003, in Winter Park, Fla., at 86. She was a cellist, active in several string quartets and trios, community orchestras and many programs and concerts. She is survived by five sons, Irving, John, James, Robert and William Broughton, her twin sister, Elizabeth Bavis Decker '39, five grandchildren and one grandson.
Vincent R. Chupas '40, July 20, 2002, at 86. He joined Waterville, Maine's Keyes Fibre Company in 1945. In 1965 he moved to New York to conduct the company's consumer, trade and industrial advertising.
M. Elizabeth Perkins Stanley '40, July 29, 2003, in Darnestown, Md., at 84. A daughter of Edward H. Perkins of Colby's Geology Department, she received a library science degree from Pratt Institute, and from 1941 to 1952 she worked at the New York City Library and the libraries of Wells College, Bates College and Brown University, where she was biological sciences librarian. Later she volunteered as a teacher's aide at Gaithersburg (Md.) High School. Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Walter C. Stanley, three daughters, two sons, a sister and two grandchildren.
Thomas Savage '40, July 25, 2003, in Virgina Beach, Va., at 88. A former wrangler and ranch hand and teacher of creative writing at Suffolk University and Brandeis University, he devoted himself full-time in 1955 to writing novels about the American west. The Hudson Review called The Power of the Dog "the finest single book I know about the modern West." Predeceased by his wife, the novelist Elizabeth Fitzgerald Savage '40, he is survived by a son, Russell Y. Savage, and a daughter, Elizabeth S. Main, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Charles E. Huff '41, September 30, 2003, in Sebring, Fla., at 85. He served in the Navy at the end of World War II. His 35-year career in personnel work included service at Saco-Lowell Shops in Biddeford, Maine, and Maine Medical Center, where he was personnel director for 20 years. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Alice Weston Huff '40, a son, a daughter, two granddaughters, two great-granddaughters, a half-brother and half-sister and many nieces and nephews.
Philip S. Ames '41, May 15, 2003, in Philadelphia, Pa., at 84. He fought in the Pacific during World War II, then earned a degree at Ricker College. He and his wife, Adeline, worked the family farm in Fort Fairfield, Maine, before purchasing the local IGA, which he and his son, Stephen, owned until his retirement. He is survived by his son and three daughters, a sister and six grandchildren.
Richard L. "Nick" Nickerson '42, October 4, 2003, in Bellevue, Wash., at 84. He flew naval transport aircraft in the South Pacific and the Korean War and was a test pilot during his 22 years in the Marine Corps. After retiring he flew for Chesapeake Airways until 1972, then worked as a real estate broker. Survivors include his daughters, Sharon Rizzo, Pamela Nickerson and Lee Kwaczek, his sons Thomas, Patrick and Michael Nickerson, 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren
Dora-Jean Coffin Bates '42, October 6, 2003, in Cary, N.C., at 83. For many years she was a teacher in Barrington, Lawrence and Reading, Mass. She also taught piano and volunteered for Meals on Wheels. She leaves two sons, Roger and Donald Bates, a sister, three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
