Faculty and Staff
Norman Blank, of Los Altos Hills, August 22, at 73, of prostate cancer. He was professor emeritus of radiology. During World War II, he served in the Army and, after completing his medical training, held the post of assistant chief of radiology at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis. He joined the Stanford medical faculty in 1962, winning 11 awards for excellence in clinical teaching. A recognized expert in the radiology of the chest, he was the author of Chest Radiographic Analysis and a founder and president of the Fleischner Society, an international organization formed to promote the subspecialty of pulmonary radiology. During the last 12 years of his 36-year tenure, he was director of medical school admissions. The department of radiology is establishing a student award in his honor. Survivors: his wife, Donna, his son Lowell; four daughters, Roberta, Elizabeth ’80, Rebecca and Jeanette; three sisters; two brothers; and seven grandchildren.
Kao Liang Chow, of Palo Alto, August 29, at 80, of a heart attack. He was a member of the U. of Chicago faculty before coming to Stanford in 1961. Founder of the neuroscience doctoral program, he was a major figure in research and training at the school of medicine. His work dealt with the relationship between the brain and behavior, the processing of vision by the brain and the effect of epilepsy on brain development. He retired as professor emeritus in 1983. Survivors include his wife, Margaret.
Charles Albert Ferguson, of Menlo Park, September 2, at 77, of a heart attack and stroke. He was professor emeritus of linguistics. During the early years of his career, he worked for the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, where he taught courses in more than 20 languages. He established an Arabic language school in Beirut and later founded and served as the first director of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington. In 1967, he came to Stanford as the first full-time linguistics appointment and served as the first chair of the linguistics department. He was a member of the national committee on sociolinguistics of the Social Science Research Council and served on the editorial board of Language in Society from its inception in 1972 to 1992. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and, in 1979, received a Guggenheim fellowship. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he co-founded the nine-year Language Universals Project to broaden the range of theoretical perspectives for linguistic research. The findings were published in the four-volume Universals of Human Language. Survivors: his wife, Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford professor of English and linguistics; four children, Lisa Ferguson Arthur, ’77, Tina Toren, Shannon Heath and Brice Heath; and eight grandchildren.
Margaret Jewell Mullen, of Menlo Park, August 28, at 89, of cancer. A member of the dance division from 1937 to 1942 and founder of the University’s modern dance program, she created the dance major at Stanford. As chair of the program, she instituted a mandatory dance class for all physical education majors and, against the wishes of President Ray Lyman Wilbur, encouraged men as well as women to participate in the department’s courses. She later founded the career education program at Menlo-Atherton High School. During her retirement, she published several books, including An Arkansas Childhood -- Growing Up in the Athens of the Ozarks and several poetry collections. The dance division is designating a student summer fellowship in her name. Survivors: her daughter, Sally; her son, Michael, and two grandchildren.
1920s
Helen Hunt Daley Botley, ’21, MA ’47, of Pacific Grove, Calif., July 7, at 99. A teacher in San Luis Obispo for 17 years, she retired in the mid-1960s. She was a member of Pi Lambda Theta and Delta Kappa Gamma honorary teachers’ societies. Survivors: her daughter, Rosemary Niemann; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Stender J. Sweeney, ’22, of Pasadena, Calif., August 5, at 97. At Stanford, he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. In 1928, he joined Pan American Petroleum Co., which later became Richfield Oil Corp. He was named director of industrial relations in 1942 and vice president for personnel in 1953. He co-founded the Pacific Oil Institute in 1946. He served in 1956 and 1960 as a delegate to the International Labor Organization talks in Geneva sponsored by the League of Nations. Elected a Richfield board member in 1962, he became head of the company’s worldwide exploration and production department a year later, leading initial exploration and drilling efforts at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. After retirement in 1966, he managed a family-owned investment company. He was a former trustee of Stanford and served on the boards of Villa Esperanza and R.M. Pyle Boys Camp. Survivors: his wife, Josephine; two sons, Stender, ’61, and Joseph; three daughters, Patricia Bedford, Martha Schnieders, ’62, and Carol Spieker; 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Chester A. Thorp, ’22, of Port Hueneme, Calif., August 26, at 97. He was chief chemist at the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Co., moved on to a gas appliance testing lab in Cleveland, and then joined the Navy ordnance department, retiring as a captain in 1962. Survivors include his wife, Mary.
Norman Cleaveland, ’23, of Santa Fe, N.M., June 8, 1997, at 96. He was a member of the 1924 U.S. Olympic rugby team, which won the gold medal in Paris. After starting a career in dredge mining in Southeast Asia, he served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he returned to Asia, working for the U.S. Reparation Commission in Korea and Manchuria. He later moved to Malaysia, where he played center on the rugby team for the state of Perok. He retired as president of Pacific Tin Corp. in 1966 and lived for many years in Somerset, England, before returning to New Mexico to oversee the family ranch. He was a member of the Santa Fe Rugby Football Club. Survivors: his former wife, Ann; three daughters; and two grandsons.
1930s
Max Wilfred Barton, ’30, of Pacific Grove, Calif., February 22, 1997, at 89. He was a realtor in Carmel, Calif. Survivors include his wife, Ruth.
John W. Solomon, ’30, JD ’33, of Laguna Beach, Calif., August 3, at 90. At Stanford, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. During World War II, he served in the Army as executive officer of a tank destroyer battalion. In 1938, he established his law practice in Laguna Beach, retiring in 1995. He was president of the Laguna Beach school board, chair of the Art Museum board, commander of his American Legion post, board member and treasurer of the Festival of Arts and chair of the Orange County Estate Planning Council. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Lois; three sons, John, Kenneth and Alan; his daughter, Lois E. Bermel; seven grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
Margaret “Peggy” Farmer Nye, ’31, of Santa Barbara, Calif., September 10, at 87, following a stroke. At Stanford, she was a Gamma Phi Beta. She was predeceased by her husband, H. Safford, ’30, MBA ’32. Survivors: three daughters, Chloe Barrett, ’54, Marjorie Rossi, ’57, and Elizabeth Carlquist; her son, Roger, ’56, MBA ’60; her sister, Jean Cline; 15 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Frank William Weymouth, ’31, MBA ’33, of Los Altos, in February 1998, at 87. He owned and operated a florist shop in Palo Alto for many years. After enrolling in a painting class upon his retirement 30 years ago, he began a second career as a full-time artist, painting California landscapes and florals, and teacher. His wife, Milada, ’39, predeceased him.
Norman G. Hansen, ’32, Engr. ’37, of Alexandria, Va., June 25, at 87, of progressive lung disease. Survivors include his nephew, David.
Sarah Howell East Nutt, ’32, of Staunton, Va., July 6, at 87. She served as a member of the Staunton City Council, board president of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, associate trustee for the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and board member for the Literacy Volunteers of America and the Staunton Beautification Commission. She was a founding member of the Augusta Mediation Center and a charter member of the Augusta Historical Society. She also was a past regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, president of the Augusta Garden Club and the Staunton Fine Arts Association, and board member of the Salvation Army. For her work with the Literacy Volunteers, she was named Point of Light No. 170 by President Bush. In 1993, the Kiwanis Club of Staunton honored her with its distinguished citizen award. Survivors: two sons, Joseph and Robert; three daughters, Janet Lembke, Sarah Hovsepian and Virginia Leonard; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
James W. Phillips, ’34, MD ’39, of Mercer Island, Wash., July 23, at 86. During World War II, he served as a doctor on a supply ship. After the war, he started a practice in Seattle, specializing in otolaryngology. He served as professor of medicine at the U. of Washington and organized the first ENT clinic. He also served the U.S. Public Health Department, working with Native American communities, and retired in the late 1970s. Survivors: his wife, Karen; two nieces; and a nephew.
Virginia Adams Marvin Tanzer, ’34, Gr. ’50, of San Francisco, July 1, at 85. During and after World War II, she served in the Navy on the staff of the WAVE Officers’ Training School in Northampton, Mass., as personnel officer on Treasure Island, Calif., from 1950 to 1951, and as editor of Island Breeze, a paper for servicemen on Maui, Hawaii. Later, while a newspaper columnist in Delaware, she published two books, including a dictionary of Sussex County speech. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Society and the National League of American Pen Women. She was predeceased in 1997 by her husband, Ward, ’31, MA ’50. Survivors: her daughter, Catherine Tanzer Rader; and her granddaughter, Dana Virginia Rader.
John Francis Belz, ’35, MD ’39, of Menlo Park, September 18, at 84. He was a member of El Capitan at Stanford. His medical career spanned five decades and multiple specialties. He was a clinical associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford and an expert in infantile autism, a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health Service and district medical officer for the Oregon state health board. He served as president of the Yuba-Sutter County, Calif., Medical Society during the 1950s and as consultant for Kaiser hospitals and California state mental hospitals in the 1960s. Survivors: his wife of 58 years, Helene, ’39, MA ’61, PhD ’71; three daughters, Virgina Chomat, ’63, Caroline Caloyeras, ’65, and Katherine Groves, ’67; his sister, Marie Warner; and four grandchildren.
Julius L. Jacobs, ’35, MA ’46, of Napa, Calif., June 9, at 84, of heart disease. At Stanford, he was an editor at the Daily. He worked for the Palo Alto Times, the Merced Sun Star and the Hanford Sentinel before serving in World War II as an intelligence officer in the Army Air Force. He later became a major in the Air Force Reserve and returned to the Hanford Sentinel as managing editor for nine years. In the mid-1950s, he returned to the Bay Area as news editor of the Hayward Daily Review and then worked in public relations until 1972. For the next 20 years, he was a freelance wine writer and public relations consultant. He was contributing editor of Wines and Vines, a writer and columnist for Wine and Spirits of London and other magazines and wine newsletters. He was a member of many oenophile organizations. The Julius Jacobs Stanford Daily Scholarship Fund has been established in his name. Survivors: his daughter, Kathryn Winter, MA ’72; his son, John; and three grandchildren.
Julia Elizabeth “Judy” Ray Hills, ’38, of Richland, Wash., June 25, at 82, of lung disease. While at Stanford, she was a member of Chi Omega. A member of the first Girl Scout troop formed in Salt Lake City, she served as a Girl Scout leader and headed the Mid-Columbia Girl Scout Council. She also was president of the Kadlec Hospital Auxiliary. A skilled fly-fisherwoman, she spent summers at the North Fork Club near Island Park, Idaho. Survivors: her husband of 58 years, John; two daughters, Marilyn Hills Riegel and Kate Hills Krafft; her son, Robert; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Mary Dorian Lissner Stuppy, ’38, of Los Angeles, July 15, of breast cancer. At Stanford, she was a member of the field hockey team. In 1996, she was awarded a Block S retroactively by the Athletic Department. Survivors: her husband of 57 years, Laurence; six children, including John, ’77; 16 grandchildren, including Kimarie Pike, ’95; and three great-grandchildren.
Jean Elizabeth Dodge Wilbur, ’39, MA ’41, of Menlo Park, September 10, at 79. She was an international travel consultant and an active member of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and the Junior League. She also served as president of a San Francisco-area Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Survivors: two sons, Charles Dole and James Wickett; her daughter Elizabeth Hughes; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
1940s
Samuel Bradley “Brad” Burson, ’40, of Silver Spring, Md., May 24, at 80, after a stroke. He worked as a research physicist in nuclear spectroscopy at Argonne National Laboratory and later as senior engineering physicist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. During his 55-year career, he wrote or co-authored more than 130 scientific research papers contributing to the knowledge of nuclear decay properties and the safety of nuclear power. He lost most of his vision in a shooting accident at age 15 and was a founder of the American Council of the Blind. He also was a lifelong fellow of the American Physical Society and member of the Illinois Bar Association. Survivors: his wife of 22 years, Phyllis; five children, Craig, Loren, Darrell, Linda and Jennifer; and four grandchildren.
Susan Mary Ruys Houtman, ’40, of Los Gatos, Calif., September 7, of kidney failure due to diabetes. She worked as a medical office manager before her retirement. Survivors: her son, Nicholas, ’72; two daughters; and seven grandchildren.
Laurence Beresford James, ’40, of Folsom, Calif., June 8, at 81, of cancer. At Stanford, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and lettered in boxing. During World War II, he served as an engineering officer in the Navy. In 1976, he retired from the Naval Reserves with the rank of commander. He worked for the California Department of Water Resources for 30 years, retiring in 1976 as chief engineering geologist. He was a founding member of the Association of Engineering Geologists and served on the Governor’s Earthquake Council. Survivors: his daughter, Catherine James DeMauro; two sons, Stephen and Laurence; and two grandchildren.
Chrystel Wilkins Rickenberg Dooley, ’41, of Laguna Hills, Calif., August 16, at 79. She was a volunteer for the American Red Cross in Pasadena and Orange County, president of the Assistance League of Los Angeles, and a member of the Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary and the Cinderella Guild of Children’s Hospital of Orange County. A docent for the Norton Simon Art Museum, she also served as a volunteer for the Huntington Museum in San Marino. Survivors: two daughters, Karol Rickenberg and Marlene Ray; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Lois R. Feldheym, ’42, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., August 19, at 78, of a stroke. Following a civil service career she was recruited into a senior position in personnel administration with the California State University system. After retiring in the mid-1980s, she was active with the League of Women Voters in Los Angeles, most recently as membership outreach director. She also was a member of Mayor Tom Bradley’s Advisory Committee on Child Care and helped found the Working Party for Children. Survivors: her brother; and her sister, Jean Spencer Felton, ’31, MD ’35.
Joseph H. Young, ’42, MA ’51, PhD ’54, of San Jose, May 27, at 79, of cancer. During World War II, he served in the Army. He taught at Tulane U. and worked for the U.S. Wildlife Service before joining the faculty of San Jose State U. in 1959. He served as chair of the SJSU biological sciences department from 1966 to 1980. After retiring, he volunteered at the Hacienda Elementary Schools Outdoor Classroom and the San Jose Family Shelter. Survivors: his wife, Edith “Edy”; his daughter, Jane; his son, Rick; and a granddaughter.
Barbara M. Sutherland, ’43, of Bellevue, Wash., July 19, at 76. A mink farmer, she also was a fancier, breeder and judge of Cornish Rex cats, a champion bowler and a volunteer at a gift shop ministry of the Church of the Redeemer. Survivors include her nephew, Elsbery W. “Jerry” Reynolds.
Ferris F. Boothe, ’44, JD ’50, of Portland, Ore., September 15, at 75, of Parkinson’s disease. At Stanford, he was editor of the Daily, senior class president, and president and RA of the Delta Tau Delta house. A Block S recipient, he was a member of the track and field team and the boxing team, which he also coached while in law school. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps and was awarded the Soldiers Medal. In 1950, he moved to Portland, where he was a city attorney until he began a private practice that lasted for more than 45 years. He was a member of the Board of Visitors at Stanford law school, the alumni executive board and Stanford Associates. He served as an instructor at Northwestern School of Law, on Portland’s first Equal Rights Commission, as director of Portland Planned Parenthood, on the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, and also as director and president of Pacific Northwest Ski Association and director of the U.S. Ski Association. Survivors: his wife of 49 years, Dorothy, ’49; two sons, Tom, ’73, JD ’78, and Jeffrey, ’77; two daughters, Barbara Ellison, ’76, and Catherine Walther; and eight grandchildren.
Calvin R. Antrim, ’47, of Fresno, Calif., July 17, at 74. During World War II, he served as a naval officer. He had a 40-year career in real estate, retiring in 1989. He was president of the Fresno Art Museum board of trustees in 1983-84 and a member of the Arts and Humanities Board at California State U.-Fresno, Valley Children’s Hospital and the Fresno County Rail Committee. Survivors: his wife, Ines; his children, Brooke, Laurel and Michael; his sister Barbara Williams; and two grandchildren.
Lewis E. Ciannelli, ’47, of Rome, of cancer. At Stanford, he was a member of Kappa Sigma. He served as an Army officer during World War II.
David Patric Shannon, ’49, of Liberty, Mo., at 78, of cancer. During World War II, he served in the Navy. At Stanford, he was active in theater and choral groups. After earning a master’s degree in painting at UC-Berkeley, he taught art and theater at colleges in California and Texas and directed art museums in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Survivors: his wife, Ann Marie; his daughter; his sister; and his brother.
Thomas Paul Tissot Jr., ’49, of Cherry Hill, N.J., August 14, at 78, of Parkinson’s disease. He was a descendant of the founders of San Francisco. At Stanford, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. During World War II, he taught at the Navy electronics school. He worked as an electronics engineer designing high-power transmitters for the first radars built to track objects in outer space. As part of the Instrumentation Radar Support Program, he worked on the first solid-state designs for radar systems in the United States and worldwide. He retired in 1987. He was a 52-year member of the American Radio Relay League. Survivors: his wife of 14 years, Natalie; two sons, Stephen and Anthony; two daughters, Janice Esposito and Jean-Marie McLaughlin; his sister, Yvonne Brooke; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Margaret Charlton Davis Wolff, ’49, of Palo Alto, September 23, at 69. She taught elementary school in the Los Altos and Cupertino school districts for more than 30 years. After retiring, she joined the NASA Ames Research Center and volunteered at the Stanford Museum. Survivors: three daughters, Gretchen Reynolds, Kathy and Betsy; her sisters, Millicent Froehlich, ’51, and Eleanor “Nona” Bortner, ’55; and two grandchildren.
1950s
Carol duBois Thayer Cole, ’51, of Portland, Ore., July 13, at 68, of a heart attack. After receiving a master’s degree from the U. of Minnesota, she taught grade school in Lake Oswego, Ore., and Minnetonka, Minn., and high school English in Klamath Falls, Ore. She married John Cole in 1952 and moved to New York and then to Minneapolis, where she lived until her divorce in 1973. She then moved to Portland and worked as a secretary and office manager. Survivors: three sons, Christopher, George, ’78, MS ’87, and Charles; two sisters, Betsy Gunther, ’55, and Mary Melissa Simpson; and two grandchildren.
Robert James Matteson, ’55, of Placentia, Calif., July 24, at 69, of cancer. During the Korean War, he served as an intelligence agent. He was a retired architect and teacher of construction technology at Fullerton College. Survivors: his wife; two children; his mother; his brother, Frederick, MS ’48, PhD ’78; and three grandchildren.
Sven Ole Groennings, ’56, PhD ’62, of McLean, Va., August 1, at 63, of leukemia. A former State Department official, political science professor, administrator and Capitol Hill staff chief, he was board vice chairman of the International Partnership for Service-Learning and the editor of four books. He also was the Washington representative of the Civil-Military Alliance to Combat HIV and AIDS. Survivors: his wife, Suzanne; his son, Kai; his daughter, Kristina; his mother, Mary Grace; and his brother, Arne.
Marilyn Stein Lawrence, ’56, of Pollock Pines, Calif., August 28, of complications following cancer treatment. She lived in San Diego and Annapolis while her husband served in the Navy. A Los Altos resident for 30 years, she was active in planning many Stanford reunions and moved to Pollock Pines in the Sierra Nevada foothills in 1991. Survivors: her husband, Robert, ’56; two daughters, Pamela and Andrea; her son, Michael; and her sister, Eleanore Stein Goldfinger, ’50.
Raymond Mohr Waggoner, ’56, of Charlotte, N.C., June 21, at 63. An engineer, he was a teacher, consultant and owner of ENTEG Systems Inc. He served as a teacher and elder of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church for 31 years. Survivors: his wife of 40 years, Angie; three daughters, Bunny Waggoner Eubank, Susan Waggoner Schuchman and Ann Francis; his son, John; his sister, Barbara Waggoner Williamson; and 10 grandchildren.
Nancy Ann Owens Singh, ’57, of Yuba City, Calif., May 10, at 68. She received her master’s degree in nursing from UC-Davis and worked as a family nurse practitioner for the Sutter County Health Department for 41 years. Survivors: her husband, Gary Bayless; two sons, Reginald and Daniel Singh; her half-sister, Sally Moulder; and two grandchildren.
Loriann Mishkind Belton, ’59, of Tiburon, Calif., March 16, after an asthma attack. At Stanford, she was on the tennis team. A longtime resident of Tiburon, she volunteered at the local library, was a docent for the Audubon Society, served as a board member of the Landmarks Society and earned certification as a master gardener from the U. of California. Survivors: her husband of 35 years, Tom; two children, Katy and Lauren; her mother, Connie Mishkind; and a grandson.
1960s
Eben S. Tisdale, ’64, of Alexandria, Va., October 18, at 55, of a heart attack. At Stanford, he was a member of Kappa Sigma. He was director of Hewlett-Packard’s government affairs office in Washington , D.C., since 1984. Known as the dean of the high-tech lobby movement, he served as co-chair of the Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports, helped organize the first high-tech trade mission to Moscow, and created the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Electronics Association of California. Survivors: his wife of 20 years, Ann; two children, Anthony and Jessica; his parents, Eben and Polly; and his brother, James.
James Whitehead Oates, ’65, MBA ’67, of Los Angeles, June 13, at 55, of an acute asthma attack. He worked in the real estate and building industry. Survivors: his wife, Debra; four children; and a granddaughter.
1970s
Leslie Shao-Ming Suen Sun, ’74, of Atherton, September 13, at 45, of cancer. Before moving to California, she worked for the David Baltimore Laboratories at MIT and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center. She was an active supporter of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, a member of Stanford Associates and a volunteer docent at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Survivors: her husband, Anthony; her sons, Christopher and Timothy; her parents, Francis and Annie; her brother, Mickey Suen, ’72; and her sisters, Rita Hsu and Dora Long.
Earth Sciences
Jose Henrique Pantin, MA ’47, of Caracas, Venezuela, April 28. He worked for Creole Petroleum Corp. and ESSO until his retirement. Survivors include his wife, Marila.
Richard Lionel “Dick” Slavin, MS ’50, of Calgary, Alberta, August 2. He was an oil explorationist with Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. and became their chief geologist in 1966, retiring as geological consultant in 1985. He was elected president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in 1972 and awarded honorary life membership in 1991. He served as president of the Canadian Geoscience Council in 1975. He was a member of the Glencoe Club and Earl Grey Golf Club. Survivors: his wife, Eileen; four daughters, Pamela Reynolds, Ellen Borak, Mary Jane Appleton and Monica; his sister, Norma Montpetit; four brothers, John, Jim, Pat and Bernie; and two grandchildren.
Henry J. “Hank” Moore, MS ’59, PhD ’65, of Palo Alto, September 21, at 78, of a heart attack. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey in the astrogeology program. An adviser to NASA who helped train Apollo astronauts in crater geology prior to the moon landings of the 1960s, he participated in the analysis of the moon rocks and photographs of the moon’s surface from those expeditions. He helped select landing sites and interpret the data from the Mars Viking project in 1976 and the Mars Pathfinder in 1997. He retired in 1994 but continued to work as scientist emeritus. He also served as consultant to the Jet Propulsion Lab of the California Institute of Technology. Author of many scientific publications, he received a Department of the Interior meritorious service award and the NASA award for public service. Survivors: his wife, Patsy Ann, MS ’59; two sons, Donald and Daniel; his daughter, Laura; his sister, Elizabeth Jean Eliason; and his twin sister, Cynthia Fehr.
Education
Karl George Peterson, EdD ’49, of Olympia, Wash., May 28, at 90. During World War II, he served in the Air Force as an intelligence officer and earned several medals. A high school English teacher and assistant football coach in Klamath Falls, Ore., he also taught at Oregon State, Stanford, San Francisco State and the U. of Hawaii. Survivors: his wife of 63 years, Jean; two daughters, Cathy Swan and Karen; and two grandchildren.
Melvin Willard Gipe, MA ’51, EdD ’55, of Calistoga, Calif., May 31, at 82, after a long illness. During World War II, he served in the Pacific and retired from the Reserves as a captain. He taught in California schools in Auberry, San Jose and Vallejo, then worked for the state Department of Education for 18 years, retiring in 1976. He was a member of the Sierra Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. Survivors: his daughter, Kathy Harper; his son, George; and three grandchildren.
Curtis William Bolton, MA ’63, of Placerville, Calif., June 15, at 62, of prostate cancer. He was a retired community college chemistry instructor and avid bicyclist who regularly completed 100-mile “century” rides. During the 1960s, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Survivors: his wife, Carol; two sons, Curtis “Rusty” and Ronald; his daughter, Kristi Bigsby; his brother, William; and 12 grandchildren.
Peter Marc Guerrero, MA ’75, of Hayward, Calif., September 19, at 47, of cancer. He taught at the U. of San Francisco and Cal State-Hayward. At the time of his death, he was principal of Cesar Chavez Middle School in Hayward. A bilingual educator, he taught summer seminars in Oaxaca, Mexico, and translated Spanish books into English. In his Hayward community, he served as affirmative action commissioner. Survivors include his three children.
Engineering
Don Leroy Scidmore, MS ’54, of Seattle, July 22, at 74. During World War II, he served in the Army. He worked for the Boeing Co. and, later, at Honeywell for 25 years. After retirement, he opened a picture-frame business with his wife and daughter. He was a volunteer for the National Association of Investors and a docent at the Museum of Flight. Survivors: his wife of 52 years, Adeline; his son, Scott; his daughter, Terry Ann; his brother, Allan; and his sister, Darliss Jimenez.
Fred Walter Matting, MS ’58, PhD ’64, of Menlo Park, May 20, at 82. Survivors include his sister, Corine Matting Bradt.
Horst Walter Kriebel, PhD ’66, of La Jolla, Calif., August 13, at 66, of a heart attack. Born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1958. He worked as an engineering consultant, starting his own company, Tesser Inc. Survivors: his wife, Christa; his daughter, Sabine; and his son, Norbert.
Vincent James Grande, Engr. ’69, of Palo Alto, October 10, at 70. He was an electrical engineer with Hewlett-Packard and the holder of several patents. Survivors: his wife, Patricia; two daughters, Mary Beltrami and Jean Marie McIntosh; his son, Vincent; his sister, Eleanor Homeyer; and four grandchildren.
Humanities and Sciences
Katherine Fatjo Harrington, MA ’35 (French), of San Francisco, July 27, at 86, after a long illness. A seventh generation Californian, she received her bachelor’s degree from Dominican College. She was predeceased by her husband, Gerald. Survivors: two daughters, Kathie, ’62, and Candace, ’72.
Martha Curfman Stojanovich, MA ’39 (psychology), of Los Gatos, Calif., January 24, 1998. Survivors include her daughter, Susan. James Otis Wheaton, MA ’49, PhD ’64 (history), of Menlo Park, September 4, at 77. He taught Western Civilization at Stanford from 1958 to 1960 and then became professor of history at East Texas State U. After retirement in the mid-1970s, he returned to Menlo Park. A member of the Stanford Alumni Singles Club, he was an award-winning artist whose oil, pastel and watercolor paintings were often displayed at the Palo Alto Artists’ Cooperative. Survivors: his sister, Elizabeth Sullivan; and his brother, John. Evan Faller Linick, MS ’60 (statistics), of Woodland Hills, Calif., September 9, at 63. He was a lieutenant in the Army Air Force from 1956 to 1959. He worked for Sterling Software. Survivors: his wife, Rochelle; his children, Karen, Michael and Jody; his sister, Sharon Shepard; and four grandchildren.
Law
Paul H. Kocher, JD ’29, PhD ’35 (English), of San Luis Obispo, Calif., July 17, at 91. He was professor emeritus at Stanford. After two postdoctoral years as an instructor in the department of English at Stanford, he served on the faculties of the universities of Washington and Nebraska, and of the Claremont Graduate School. A specialist in Renaissance thought and literature and a pioneer interpreter of the fictional works of J.R.R. Tolkien, he returned to Stanford in 1960 as professor of English and humanities, retiring in 1972. Survivors: his wife, Ann, ’37, MA ’59; two sons, Dana and Carl; his brother, Eric; his sister, Mildred Crowley; and four grandchildren.
Howard P. Allen, JD ’51, of Claremont, Calif., July 19, at 72, of a heart attack. After three years on the Stanford law faculty, he joined Southern California Edison Co. in 1954. He became president of the utility and its parent company, Edison International, in 1980 and chairman and CEO of both in 1984. He retired in 1990 but remained on both boards until last year. He amassed more than 70 awards, club memberships and corporate directorships. He was a founding board member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and instrumental in bringing the 1984 Olympics to the city. He was past president and chair of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and an officer of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Survivors: his wife, Dixie; and his daughter, Alisa.
