Faculty and Staff
John W. Fondahl, of Los Altos Hills, September 13, at 83, of cancer. He was professor emeritus of civil engineering who taught at Stanford from 1955 to 1990 and was known for developing methods used to efficiently schedule the complex logistics of large construction projects. His Critical Path Method led to innovations in the use of computers for construction scheduling, although he originally had set out to disprove the efficiency of computers to that end. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, fighting at Iwo Jima, and received a master’s in civil engineering from Dartmouth in 1947. He was an engineer in Pittsburgh and taught engineering at the U. of Hawaii from 1948 to 1951 before he joined a dam project in California. After Stanford professor Clark Oglesby brought his class to the dam’s work site, Fondahl was steered to Stanford. He and Oglesby founded the first graduate program in construction engineering and management. In 1960, he founded the Construction Institute, one of the University’s first industrial affiliation programs. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Doris; four daughters, Dorian Martinka, Lauren, ’76, MS ’77, Gail and Meredith, ’80; and three grandchildren.
Nathaniel L. Gage, of Stanford, August 17, at 91, of injuries sustained in a fall. He was a professor emeritus of education whose research and writings made him a leading authority on elements that make effective teachers. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1962, at which time he had nearly completed his 1,200-page Handbook on Research and Teaching, credited with affecting government funding of education research for the next 20 years. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the U. of Minnesota in 1938. He developed and refined tests for choosing and training navigators and radar observers while serving in the Army during World War II, earned a PhD in psychology from Purdue U. in 1947, and was on the faculty at the U. of Illinois from 1948 until he came to Stanford. In 1965, he co-founded the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching (now known as the Center for Educational Research at Stanford), funded with a $4 million federal grant. His subsequent roles at the center included co-director, chair of the executive board and program director of the Program on Teaching Effectiveness. He wrote The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching (1978) and Hard Gains in the Soft Sciences (1985). He completed his last book, A Conception of Teaching, shortly before his death. In the mid-1970s, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Education. He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 1979. He received the E. L. Thorndike Award for Career Achievement in Educational Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1986. His wife of 64 years, Margaret, died in 2006. Survivors: three daughters, Sarah, Annie and Elizabeth, ’68, MBA ’80; a son, Tom; and three grandchildren.
Regina T. “Reggie” Kriss, of San Francisco, September 22, at 82, of cancer. She became a research assistant, and later, co-therapist with professor Irvin Yalom in the Stanford School of Medicine department of psychiatry in 1975. She became assistant clinical professor in 1987. She was later supervisor of the Drug and Alcohol Clinic. After studying at Reed College in Portland, Ore., her hometown, she married and had three children. At age 30, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which inspired her passion as a therapist for issues of cancer survival and its challenges to self-image and sexuality. That led to her later research and development of new methods for treating terminally ill cancer patients. She also maintained a private counseling practice. She earned her PhD from the California Graduate School of Marital and Family Therapy in Berkeley. Her first husband, Joseph P. Kriss, Stanford’s chief of nuclear medicine, died in 1989. In 1996, she married Edwin Lennox. Survivors: her husband; three sons, Eric, Paul and Mark; and four grandsons.
John Lamb, of Pasadena, Calif., August 6, at 92. He is in the Men’s Tennis Hall of Fame, having coached the team to several division championships and to a national title in 1942. He left Stanford to serve in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After the war, he coached at numerous clubs and schools in Southern California. He was preceded in death by his wife, Helena. Survivors: three daughters, Libby, Melinda and Susie; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Ann E. Rafferty, of Los Altos, August 2, at 89, of chronic pulmonary occlusion. She worked 30 years as an undergraduate assistant in the department of political science, winning a Kenneth M. Cuthbertson Award in 1993 for her contributions toward the achievement of University goals. She was married to James Gerard Rafferty from 1948 until his death in 1996. Their son Jim died in 1999. Survivors: three sons, Chris, ’72, John, ’76, and Kevin, ’77; and one grandson.
1930s
Patricia Rhodes Stewart, ’30 (philosophy), of Berkeley, July 8, at 98. After graduating with honors, she married John Stewart, ’30, and they spent most of their 28-year marriage in San Francisco, where they raised two children. Beginning in 1940 and continuing throughout her life she was an active volunteer for the American Friends Service Committee. She earned a master’s in psychology from San Jose State U. in 1959 and a PhD from the U. of London in the early 1960s. Her thesis was the basis of her book, Children in Distress, American and English Perspectives (1976). She joined the Napa (Calif.) State Hospital as a clinical psychologist, retiring in 1977. After, she continued a private practice in Berkeley. Her former husband, John, predeceased her in 1988. Survivors: a son, John, ’56; a daughter, Nancy; and six grandchildren.
Preston H. Mulcahy, ’35 (general engineering), of Menlo Park, February 16, 2006, at 92. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor society and participated in Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity. He served in the Army, reaching the rank of colonel. He then worked in numerous managerial positions with firms in the Bay Area, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Utah. He was honored with a five-year volunteer service pin from the Stanford Alumni Association in 1989. Survivors: his wife of 64 years, Helen; two sons, Patrick and Michael, ’82; one daughter, Nancy Singer; one granddaughter; and one great-grandson.
James E. Ludlam, ’36 (economics), of Pasadena, Calif., August 12, at 93. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and the water polo team and participated in Stanford in Government. He obtained a JD from Harvard in 1939. He was hired by the Los Angeles law firm Musick, Peeler & Garrett, where he remained until retirement except for three years in the Navy during World War II. His first case involved health care, which set the tone for his career. He is credited with making health-care law a specialty. He became a leader in efforts to strengthen the tax-exempt status of nonprofit hospitals and was one of the principal authors of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975, which brought down malpractice insurance premiums in California and, among other things, set a limit of $250,000 on damages for pain and suffering. He served as general counsel to the California Hospital Association and was its advocate and spokesman on legislative and policy issues from 1954 to 1984. He also served as secretary and general counsel to Blue Cross of Southern California for 30 years and was general counsel to the Hospital Council of Southern California (now called the Healthcare Association of Southern California) for nearly 40 years. He became a member of the Stanford Associates in 1964. He was predeceased by his wife of 61 years, Jane. Survivors: two sons, Charles, ’67, and James II; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Shirley Jones Cady, ’38 (speech & drama), of Wilsonville, Ore., August 22, at 91, of Alzheimer’s disease. She was a singer who played leading roles in several Stanford musical productions and later sang with Freddie Nagle’s band (which originated at Stanford). She met actor Frank “Bud” Cady, ’38, at Stanford, and they were married in 1940. She later earned an education certificate at Stanford. She also taught high school in Fortuna, Calif., and was a legal secretary in Stockton, Calif., during World War II. Survivors: her husband of 68 years; a son, Steven; a daughter, Catherine Ellen Turk; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Henry Cairns Keenan (Henry Loble), ’38 (political science) of San Francisco, August 11, at 91. He was active in Sigma Chi fraternity and was a member of the soccer team. He returned to his native Montana after graduating from Stanford, earning a law degree from the U. of Montana in 1941. He briefly joined his father’s law practice in Helena, Mont., before serving as a pilot captain in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Returning to law practice, he developed a specialty in water rights and served three terms in the Montana legislature, from 1947 to 1953. He was president of the Montana State Bar Association and the Western States Bar Association and was a member of numerous civic and church organizations, presiding over several. He was a district judge from 1983 to 1989. He moved to San Francisco in 1993. He and his first wife, Grayce, were divorced in 1979 after 38 years of marriage. He was married to Doris McKeever in 1996. Survivors: his wife; two sons, Lester Loble II, ’63, and Bruce; two stepchildren; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Clarence Arthur Nisson Jr., ’38 (history), of Tustin, Calif., August 13, at 91. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and the track and field team. After earning a law degree from Loyola Marymount U. in 1942 and serving in the Army in Europe during World War II, attaining the rank of captain, he practiced law in Tustin and nearby Santa Ana, Calif., until two weeks before his death. He was one of the oldest practicing attorneys in Orange County. He was president of the Orange County Bar Association in 1971, was a charter member of the Tustin Historical Society and was a member of the Pioneer Council of Orange County. He worked as a wine judge at the Los Angeles County Fair for eight years and was the city attorney in Tustin for more than 10 years. He played and officiated in golf tournaments for more than 50 years. Survivors: his wife of 66 years, Alice; three sons, Clarence Arthur III, Robert and Peter; and six grandchildren.
Manny Farber, ’39, of Leucadia, Calif., August 18, at 91. He was a painter who became better known for moonlighting as a film critic. He studied at UC-Berkeley before his three quarters at Stanford and later studied art at what is now the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. As the film critic he became in the 1940s, he was more likely to praise a well-executed “B” movie than the pretensions of an art film. His reviews appeared primarily in magazines, including The New Republic and The Nation, and later Cavalier, an early competitor of Playboy. As an artist, he started as an abstract expressionist but evolved into a still-life painter with an idiosyncratic style. Retrospectives of his work were staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1985 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego in 2003. He taught film at UC-San Diego from 1970 to 1987. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Patterson; a daughter, Amanda Farber; and a grandson.
Franklin E. Shaw Jr., ’39 (psychology), of San Jose, December 3, 2007, at 91. He was a member of the track and field team and studied toward a master’s degree in civil engineering. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Gioia (Buttress, ’40). Survivors: his wife of 43 years, Antonia; five children; and 10 grandchildren.
Bernice Phipps Withrow, ’39 (nursing), of Paradise, Calif., August 9, at 92. In 1942 she married Gene Withrow, a plumber and labor union official, and they lived many years in the San Jose area. They moved to Paradise after he retired, and he died in 2002. Survivors: a son, Jim; four grandchildren; one great-grandson; and a sister.
1940s
Joan Nelson Coffin, ’40 (graphic arts), of Carmel, Calif., August 3, at 88, of cancer. She met and married Robert E. Coffin, ’39, in Carmel in 1940 and made a home for their family at various military posts in the United States (including several stays in Washington, D.C.) and Europe before he retired in 1974 as a lieutenant general and they moved to Carmel. She was a docent at three prominent Washington art museums and later was a volunteer and commissioner with several organizations in the Carmel-Monterey area. She was also active in religious organizations. Survivors: her husband of 68 years; a son, James; two daughters, Lynne Johnston and Barbara Kittle, ’63; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Annabelle Clark Kixmiller Ruch, ’40 (English), of Naples, Fla., December 21, 2007, at 89, of complications from lymphoma. She was president of the Women’s Student Association and participated in Cap & Gown. She was a member of Cardinal Society. After remaining at Stanford for three quarters to pursue a master’s degree in education, she married Bruce Kixmiller, ’41, in 1941. They raised three children in Washington, D.C., before moving to Florida in 1968. He died in 1988, and she was married to Stewart E. Ruch from 1990 until his death in 2003. She was a community organizer and active in her local Presbyterian church as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, Stephen minister and hospital volunteer. For many years she taught arts and crafts to those recovering from mental illness. Survivors: her two daughters, Margaret Vickers and Susan diMartino; one son, David Kixmiller, MBA ’77; three stepchildren; 16 grandchildren and stepgrandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
Kenneth L. Allen, ’41 (preclinical medical sciences), MD ’44, of Hillsborough, Calif., August 24, at 88. He transferred to Stanford after three years at UC-Berkeley, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After his surgical residency at San Francisco General Hospital (where he became the youngest chief resident in the history of the hospital), two years in the Naval Medical Service as a surgeon in Long Beach, Calif., and two years at the Cleveland Clinic, he maintained a surgical practice in San Mateo from 1950 to 1993. Aside from his reputation for dexterity, he pioneered the use of routine intra-operative cholangiograms, helped establish the utility of mechanical retractors in the operating room, and introduced surgical stapling devices. He enjoyed hiking and fishing in the Sierra, was a 50-year member of Peninsula Golf and Country Club and was a founding member of Spyglass Hill in Monterey. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Mary Jean (Haynes, ’42); three sons, Robert, MS ’71, MD ’72, Bruce, MD ’74, and Christopher, ’82; a brother; and a sister.
Claire Clements Stock, ’41 (chemistry), of Walnut Creek, Calif., June 17, at 88. After graduating she spent more than a year as an editorial assistant on campus for chemistry professor J. Murray Luck and then worked at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley as a chemist. While her husband, Bernard Stock, MBA ’48, was studying at Stanford, she worked at Food Machinery Corp. in San Jose. She and her husband, a pharmacist, opened a pharmacy in Antioch, Calif., where she was the accountant until her husband retired. They lived in Lafayette, Calif., during the 1950s and moved to Walnut Creek in 1960. Survivors: her husband; four sons, Riley, Douglas, David and Bruce; five grandchildren; and a sister.
John M. Wilson, ’41 (economics), MBA ’46, of Santa Barbara, Calif., July 16, at 89. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and was a Golden Gloves champion lightweight boxer. He served in the Navy during World War II and studied briefly at Harvard before completing his MBA at Stanford. He then spent his career with National Cash Register, as his father and three uncles had done. During several periods of living in California, he became an avid sailor, and he sailed in the 1967 Trans-Pacific race from Newport, Calif., to Hawaii. He moved to Santa Barbara that year. He was a member of several golf clubs. Survivors include his second wife, Martha Collins; a daughter, Janet; and three granddaughters.
Jeane Chambers Bulotti, ’42 (English), of San Mateo, September 30, at 87. She was a member of Alpha Phi sorority and Cap & Gown. She worked at the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board in San Francisco before her 1943 marriage to Charles F. Bulotti Jr., ’40, MBA ’42. They moved to San Francisco after World War II and to San Mateo in 1953, where she was an early president of the Little Children’s Aid Junior Auxiliary, editor of the Junior League’s Piper magazine, a founding member of Coyote Point Museum and a member of several other Peninsula organizations. She was predeceased by her husband. Survivors: two daughters, Suzanne Sutherland and Carla Newbre; one son, Richard; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Eric Watson Searle Jr., ’43 (economics), of Carefree, Ariz., June 11. He was a pilot during World War II and spent his career as a bank executive, primarily in San Francisco for First Interstate Bank (which later merged with Wells Fargo). Survivors: his partner of 18 years, Alice Stanley; and a sister.
Esther Grace Belew Ayers, ’45, MA ’45 (history), of Tucson, Ariz., September 5, at 84. She studied toward a PhD in history. She was managing editor of the Daily, participated in Cap & Gown, was president of Theta Sigma Phi, was active in Pi Lambda Theta and was vice president of the International Club. She and her husband, Donald Murray Ayers, ’43, MA ’47, moved to Tucson in 1951. She worked as an administrative assistant at the U. of Arizona from 1969 to 1989 and later at that university’s Cooperative Fishery Research Unit. She served as president of the Faculty Women’s Club, was a competitive bridge player for more than 50 years and was active at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. Her husband predeceased her. Survivors: one son, Thomas; one daughter, Barbara; and two granddaughters.
William F. Baxter, ’45 (preclinical medical sciences), MD ’48, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., August 22, at 84. He participated in Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was an ear, nose and throat surgeon who served as a physician in the Army and then built a practice in Los Altos. He also was an educator, primarily at Stanford, serving as acting director of the division of otolaryngology in the department of surgery at Stanford School of Medicine from 1960 to 1966, as clinical associate professor from 1960 to 1980 and clinical professor from 1980 until his retirement in 1998 at Stanford University Medical Center and the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. He was chief of medical staff from 1967 to 1968 and chief of surgery from 1977 to 1978 at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. He retired to Laguna Niguel and spent much time as a volunteer for Sports Gift, a charity that provides sports activities for impoverished children. Survivors: his wife, Mary Lou; five children, Sue Davis, Jill, Jane, Kris and Keven; and 10 grandchildren.
Frank Douglas “Doug” Marshall, ’45, of Hemet, Calif., August 25, at 85. He completed six quarters at Stanford before receiving a commission from the U.S. Naval Academy during World War II. He served on several ships and later was an instructor at the Naval Academy. In 1954, he returned home to Hemet to run the family citrus ranch. In 1971, he earned a master’s in education from Redlands U., and he taught in Hemet until retiring in 1984. He was active in numerous civic and church organizations. Survivors: his wife of 59 years, Joann; a son, Doug; three daughters, Kathy Walter, Lois Cook and Carolyn Robinson; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Everett Conger Ross, ’47 (electrical engineering), of Coronado, Calif., July 31, at 85, of heart failure. He served in the Navy during World War II. After graduating, he became a sales engineer in Los Angeles with Allis Chalmers, selling industrial machinery to Southern California utility companies. That led to his career in the public utilities department in Riverside, Calif., where he was the director from 1958 to 1983. He retired that year, although he remained a consultant. He was an avid sailor and an accomplished yacht racer who won the Thistle Fleet Pacific Coast Championship in 1968 with his two daughters as crew. The family moved to the Orange County, Calif., coast and then to Coronado. He was active in the Kiwanis Club and received the Masons’ Golden Veterans Award for 50 years of service. Survivors: his wife of 64 years, Imogene; his daughters, Patricia Schwellenbach and Barbara; one son, Howard; and three grandchildren.
Mary Loewe Ritter, ’48 (psychology), of Atherton, August 10, at 81. Although she worked in publishing in New York after she married Henry Ritter Jr. (a urologist who later taught at Stanford) in 1949, she became a noted interior designer after they moved to Atherton in 1955. Her designs over 50 years included model homes for Joseph Eichler and collaboration with William Wurster and Thomas Church on the design of her home in Atherton. There she frequently hosted events, some to honor international dignitaries via a connection with the Consular Corps. She taught History of Furniture and History of Art and Architecture at several local colleges. Her charity work specialized in adoptions of foreign children by Americans and adoptions of rescued pets. Her husband died in 2004. Survivors: a daughter, Caroline; a son, Mark; two grandchildren; and a sister.
Sterling K. Hight, ’49, MS ’50 (mechanical engineering), of Greenfield, Wis., August 11, at 87. He served 32 years in the Air Force, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served during World War II and in Vietnam. He received a Distinguished Flying Cross. He was also an aeronautical engineer. After retiring from the military, he worked several years in risk management. Survivors: his wife, Marie; three children, Carl, Timothy, MS ’73, PhD ’78, and Cameron; three stepchildren, Lorrelle Radder and Bob and Jerry Mitzenheim; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
1950s
George Oliver Harbaugh, ’51 (communication), of Pleasant Hill, Calif., July 28, at 80. He served in the Navy near the end of World War II and attended the U. of Wisconsin before transferring to Stanford. He was an advertising executive more than 30 years, producing radio and television commercials for several national accounts and eventually becoming vice president of a Chicago agency. He retired in 1984 and moved to the Bay Area. His interest in U.S. history and geography was the impetus for many family travels in his retirement years, and he supported several conservation organizations. Survivors: his daughter, Lisa, and son, George; five grandchildren; and his former wife, Diana.
Francine Foreman Stauffer, ’51 (psychology), of Ashland, Ore., September 8, at 79, of leukemia. After marrying Ted Reynolds, ’51, and starting a family in Southern California, she earned a master’s degree in sociology at USC and practiced marriage and family counseling in San Diego for several years. After a divorce and retirement, she and her second husband, Don Stauffer, moved to Carmel Valley, Calif., and later Ashland. Survivors: her husband of 22 years; two sons, David and James Reynolds; and her former husband.
Douglas C. White, ’51 (political science), JD ’57, of San Francisco, June 23, at 79, of pneumonia. He participated in Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and Law Review. At the age of 8, he predicted he would attend Stanford, earn a law degree on the Farm, practice in San Francisco and live in a blue and white Victorian, all of which came to pass. He served three years in the Navy during the Korean War and won several medals of honor. He served for one year as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court before joining Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where he was an associate from 1959 to 1965 and a partner from 1965 to 1983. Survivors include a sister.
Saralee Canfield Millslagle, ’52, of Santa Cruz, Calif., July 5, at 77. She married Albert Rice, ’48, MBA ’50, in 1950, and raised four children, assisting several youth groups and the PTA. After a divorce, she married Robert Millslagle, ’54, in 1979. She spent much time entertaining family and friends at their homes in Santa Cruz and at Lake Tahoe. Survivors: her husband; a son, Jeffrey Rice; three daughters, Janet Carnahan, Julie Kadavy, ’79, and Nancy Bradley; three stepchildren, Bob, Todd and Jane; 12 grandchildren; a brother; and her former husband.
Peter M. Nelson, ’52 (business), of Oakmont, Calif., July 16, at 77, of emphysema. He entered Stanford Law School but was drafted and served in the Army in Korea as a cryptographer. He then joined Bank of America Corporation as its first management trainee and moved to San Francisco with his first wife, Carol (Nielson, ’53), and spent his entire career with Bank of America. His last project for the bank was to start the first bank trading company in China. He spent his final years in California’s Sonoma County with his second wife, Kay (Fairchild, ’57). Survivors: his wife; his children, Kathryn Dupont, Cynthia Armacost, Kipp and Andrew; five grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren.
Patricia Dresser Hanson, ’53 (Spanish), of Carmel, Calif., July 27, at 77. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and worked for Standard Oil until 1959. She married Courtney Hanson in 1957 in Carmel. Survivors: a son, Christopher; and a sister, Joan Dresser Du Long, ’48.
Arthur H. Schroeder Jr., ’53 (economics), of Menlo Park, August 25, at 77. He was captain of the 1953 NCAA championship golf team and won the conference individual championship that year. He was noted for his short game—chipping and putting. He was active in Kappa Sigma fraternity. After serving in the Army, he worked with his father at AH Schroeder Co. in the fur industry. He continued to frequent the Stanford Golf Course, winning club and senior championships. Survivors: his wife of 54 years, Adrienne; two daughters, Karen Schlenker and Judi; three sons, Ken, Kurt and Craig; and eight grandchildren.
Alyce Wiley “Cookie” Simmonds, ’53 (French), of Fairfax, Calif., June 17, 2006, at 74, of cancer. She worked on the Daily and in politics and journalism along the West Coast before marrying Harris Simmonds in 1967 and spending her final 36 years in California’s Marin County. Her interests included international relations, the Commonwealth Club, the Mill Valley Film Festival and children’s theater. Survivors: her children, Gail and Raymond; and a sister, Gail Oppenheimer, ’60.
Charles H. Falkner, ’56, PhD ’67 (industrial engineering), of Naples, Fla., July 9, at 74, of emphysema. He earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering from UC-Berkeley in 1959. After earning his PhD at Stanford he spent 22 years on the faculty at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison and later headed the industrial engineering program at Marquette U. in Milwaukee. He was recognized for his expertise in robotics. He concluded his career in 1997 after eight years on the faculty at Bilkent U. in Ankara, Turkey. Survivors: his wife, Marta; a daughter, Kristin; two sons, Frank and Bradley; and his former wife, Karen (Peterson, ’58, MA ’65).
Robert C. Stetson, ’56 (undergraduate law), JD ’58, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., July 30, at 73, of injuries suffered in a fall July 10. He was active in Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and worked on the Daily. After completing the advanced management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, he worked 30 years for Consolidated Freightways, serving as vice president and general counsel during most of that period. He wrote several articles for legal publications and, after retiring in 1991, also wrote a book about Pajaro Dunes near Watsonville, Calif., where he had a second home. He was an avid tournament bridge player, earning a Bronze Life Master ranking from the American Contract Bridge League. He received a five-year service pin from the Alumni Association in 1991. Survivors: his second wife, Mary; two sons, Christopher and Sean; and two grandchildren.
1960s
Daniel G. Rider, ’60 (mathematics), of Madison, Wis., July 11, at 69. He earned a PhD in mathematics from the U. of Wisconsin-Madison in 1964. He taught at MIT and Yale but spent most of his career at Wisconsin-Madison, where he retired as professor emeritus in 2003. Survivors: his wife of 44 years, Claire; two daughters, Catherine and Barbara; a son, Charles; and eight grandchildren.
Leonard V. Breschini, ’62 (political science), of Salinas, Calif., September 23, at 68, of cancer. He was known as “Lightning Len,” on the track team, and he was active in Kappa Alpha fraternity. After receiving a business degree in 1964 from Thunderbird Graduate School in Arizona, he returned to his hometown, Salinas, where his career comprised 30 years at Breschini Insurance Agency, five at the Association of California Healthcare Districts, and seven as program director of Cypress Risk Management Services, LLC. He was a member of several civic organizations, including 43 years in the Salinas Elks Club, where he was exalted ruler in 1977-78, and 18 years on the board of directors for the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, including two terms as president. Survivors: his wife of 45 years, Dale; two daughters, Lisa and Michelle; one son, Brian; and three grandchildren.
John C. Fahs, ’62 (political science), of Orange County, Calif., July 12, at 67. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was president of a building materials company, California Panel & Veneer. Survivors: his wife, Ella; one daughter, Leslie; and a sister.
John Neylan “Jock” McBaine, ’62 (history), of San Francisco, August 27, at 67, of cancer. He was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and worked on the Daily. He took time off in 1960 to work full time toward the presidential election of John F. Kennedy. He was in the Army reserve from 1963 to 1969. He received a JD from the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC-Berkeley in 1967; was an associate at the firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.; and served as law clerk to Gerhard Gesell of the U.S. District Court in Washington. From 1970 to 1974 he was an associate at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, and in 1975 he became a general partner at Lord, Day & Lord in New York, where he worked as a federal case litigator. In 1986 he moved to the international firm of Coudert Brothers. He was married to Alison Denny Harris, ’62, in the 1960s and to Metropolitan Opera singer Ariel Bybee from 1972 to 1998. He retired in 1999 and moved to San Francisco, where he was a member of several athletic clubs. He was active in opera societies in New York and San Francisco. Survivors: two daughters, Diana and Neylan; six grandchildren; and his former wives.
Allen Gregory Minker, ’66 (philosophy), of Los Osos, Calif., September 25, at 63, of lung cancer. He worked on the Daily. After military service, he earned a law degree at the U. of San Diego in 1973. He became a public defender in Tucson, Ariz., arguing on behalf of 32 death-row inmates in federal district court before becoming a superior court judge and also filling in as an Arizona Supreme Court justice and acting as tribal judge for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. He was also active in historical preservation in Greenlee County, Ariz. After moving to California’s central coast in 1998, he practiced part time, and the San Luis Obispo County Bar Association honored him for “outstanding service and work in poverty law.” He also wrote several novels, short stories and plays. His practice of meditation was facilitated by membership in the White Heron Sangha group in San Luis Obispo, where he delivered a notable talk in 2006 titled, “Facing Illness and Death.” Survivors: his wife of 20 years, Susan; two stepdaughters, Lisa and Nina Wishnok; his mother, Dorothy; and a brother.
Pamela Chambers Champe, ’67 (biological sciences), of Montgomery, W.Va., June 22, at 62. She participated in the Stanford Overseas Studies program in Beutelsbach, Germany. She earned a master’s in microbiology from Purdue U. in 1969 and a PhD in microbiology from Rutgers U. in 1974 and was a non-research faculty member at Rutgers’s medical school for 22 years, earning tenure as an associate professor. She won numerous awards at Rutgers and in 1992 received the school’s first Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching, created for her by the student body. Her direction of the Minority Students Program at the medical school became a model for similar programs throughout the country and led to her recruitment as a guest lecturer in Kuwait and Grenada. In 1987, the first of her Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews collaborations with Richard Harvey, PhD, was published. That book, on biochemistry, soon became a staple for medical students, as did two subsequent books on pharmacology and microbiology. Shortly before her death, the publisher notified her that the books had passed the one-million mark in sales. A fourth book, on physiology, was scheduled for publication after her death. She was awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society’s 1995 Distinguished Teacher Award for Senior Faculty in the Basic Sciences and was the first non-MD and first woman to win the award. She married microbiologist Sewell Preston Champe in 1969, and they moved from New Jersey to his native West Virginia in 1996. He died in 1999. Survivors: two stepsons, Mark and Peter; three grandchildren; a sister, Penelope Chambers Percy, ’70; and a brother.
Jonathan Ball, ’69 (mathematics), of Toronto, March 3, at 60, of a heart attack. He worked on the Daily and participated in the Symphony Orchestra. He earned a master’s in math in 1970 from the U. of Toronto. After teaching math in Toronto, volunteering in Ghana for two years, and working at a rural Indian school in Ontario for two years, he earned a law degree from the U. of Toronto in 1991 and became a Crown attorney, ultimately specializing in child abuse cases. His musical interest had recently led him to take up the bagpipes, and he and his wife, Lynne, retired to Cobourg, Ontario, where he resumed teaching. Survivors: his wife of 35 years; a brother; and a sister.
1970s
Joshua Lloyd Ewing, ’73 (anthropology), of San Francisco, May 8, at 62, of cancer. After serving in the Army during the Vietnam War and attending Stanford, he worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art until 1977. He then traveled to more than 100 countries, working at numerous jobs in the interim, often at restaurants, to help finance his wanderlust. He lived in New York from 1997 to 2004, working for Barnes & Noble. Survivors include his wife, Laura Hamilton-Ewing; his mother, Mabel; his stepmother, Di-Ann; and three half-brothers.
David Joseph Yob, ’76 (history, literature and modern thought), of Burlingame, February 1, 2008, at 52. He was a member of a Quiz Bowl team that won a state championship and reached the finals of a national competition. After earning his individually structured degree in 1983, he attended the Naval Postgraduate Language Lab in Monterey, Calif., and served in the Air Force. He later worked for financial institutions in Oakland and Palo Alto. Survivors: his mother, Theresa; four sisters; and three brothers.
Steven Wesley Burbidge, ’79 (economics), of Escondido, Calif., September 13, at 52. He worked at the Primate Facility and was head of tour guides. He ran a nursing agency in San Diego and owned a gym and a remodeling contracting business in the area, as well as a software development company for which he wrote a program adopted by United Parcel Service for its worldwide shipping operation. Survivors: two sons, Philip and Douglas; two sisters; and two former wives, Sally Schroeder and Barbara Janszen.
1980s
Pamela Sue Sanchez, ’80 (human biology), of Denver, July 26, at 50, of multiple sclerosis. She participated in the Overseas Studies Program in Florence, Italy. She was continuing her medical studies at Tufts U. when she was struck with M.S. Survivors: her parents, Anthony and Sally; and a sister.
Carolyn Ruddell Samuels, ’83 (art), of Santa Barbara, Calif., August 30, at 66, in a traffic accident. Her marathon running over the past 15 years had raised thousands of dollars for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and she was training for an event when she was struck and killed by a van that veered into a bicycle lane. She had moved to Santa Barbara from Menlo Park two years ago. She married Robert Samuels in 1960 and was raising their three children in Woodside when she earned an associate of arts degree from Cañada Community College and transferred to Stanford. She later completed a master’s in historic preservation from the U. of Pennsylvania. She was 51 when she began running to raise money for leukemia research and patient support, completing more than a dozen marathons and many half-marathons. She taught English as a second language for Language Pacifica in Menlo Park. She was a longtime volunteer with the Children’s Health Council of Palo Alto and served as its auxiliary president in 2004-05. She was a docent for tours of the Santa Barbara Courthouse, a National Historic Landmark, and she had completed training as a volunteer with AmeriCorps, a national work-service organization, two days before her death. Her business, Caravan Imports, sold art and textiles from her international travels. Survivors: two daughters, Jane and Jill; a son, Jeff; three grandchildren; and a half-brother.
Andrew McAfee Fischer, ’86 (history), of Winnetka, Ill., September 1, at 44, of cancer. He was a walk-on member of the men’s basketball team who became a starter, a muscular defensive specialist who fouled out of 23 games—still a school record. He was active in Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He earned a law degree from Northwestern U. in 1989 and practiced law for two years before joining a real estate company and then co-founding Mansion Partners, which rehabilitated homes and buildings on Chicago’s North Side and the North Shore suburbs, where he had grown up. He was on the board of Daubert Industries, founded by his maternal grandfather. He coached youth sports and was on the board of a school for disadvantaged children. He received a five-year service pin from the Alumni Association in 1994. Survivors: his wife, Gabrielle (Gould, ’87); one daughter, Meredith; two sons, Andrew Jr. and Teddy; his mother, Kathleen; and two brothers, Peter, ’79, JD ’82, and Fritz, ’84, MA ’85.
Business
Jules M. Barsotti, MBA ’45, of Belvedere, Calif., August 25, at 87. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the U. of San Francisco. He founded San Francisco’s first Mercedes-Benz dealership in 1963 and was president of that enterprise and a second dealership in Oakland for more than 45 years. He was a long-standing member of the San Francisco Yacht Club and Saint Francis Yacht Club. He received a 10-year volunteer service pin from the Alumni Association in 1996. Survivors: his wife of 44 years, Geri; his children, David and Laura; and five grandchildren.
Robert C. McGlinchey, MBA ’58, of Los Altos, October 5, at 75. He earned an undergraduate degree at Santa Clara U. and was part of the Army’s intelligence operations in Korea in 1954-56 before attending Stanford. He worked in the banking industry in New York and California before retiring to Los Altos, where he not only was an avid follower of Stanford women’s tennis, basketball and volleyball but also funded full four-year scholarships. He played tennis and supported the arts in the Bay Area. Survivors include many cousins.
Christopher Michael Sahm, Gr. ’09, of Long Island, N.Y., October 10, at 29, in an automobile accident with two fellow GSB students. After majoring in sociology at Harvard U., he worked for American Express in New York and Brazil and then became a financial manager for Saks Fifth Avenue, where he launched a co-branded credit card program. He planned to return to product management after receiving his MBA. He also participated in community outreach programs to at-risk youths and campaigned for gay rights.
Viet Quoc Nguyen, Gr. ’10, of Raleigh, N.C., October 10, at 28, in an automobile accident with two fellow GSB students. After studying political science and French at Duke U. and earning a master’s in French from Columbia U., he worked in marketing for Baume & Mercier, Louis Vuitton and Chanel, specializing in watches and other jewelry. He planned to “transform underdeveloped brands into creative powerhouses.” He was the first member of his family to attend college. Survivors: his parents, Kim Nguyen and Nga Cao; and his grandparents.
Micah Osei Springer, Gr. ’10, of Columbus, Ohio, October 10, at 23, in an automobile accident with two fellow GSB students. After surviving cancer as a child, he received a degree in aerospace engineering from Ohio State U., graduating magna cum laude. He also interned at NASA. He intended to develop biomedical applications for nanomaterials “to bridge the disconnect between scientific technology and the real world” in the fight against cancer. He helped build a church in Belize during mission trips there. He enjoyed surfing, flying, hiking and biking, He was simultaneously a graduate student in materials science and engineering. Survivors: his parents, Terrance and Trevorline; his grandmothers, Ivy Mangal and Cornelia Springer; and two brothers.
Education
Arthur R. Garrison, MA ’51, of Makawao, Hawaii, July 5, at 81, of Parkinson’s disease. He served in the Army during World War II and earned a bachelor’s in psychology from Pepperdine in 1949. He met his wife, Janet (Peters, ’55), at Stanford, and later studied toward a doctorate at the University. He taught seventh grade for several years before becoming a tutoring specialist. He moved to Maui in 1986. He was a prolific photographer. Survivors: his wife of 55 years; two daughters, Gail and Heather; two sons, James and David; and five grandchildren.
Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Meltzer, MA ’61, of Palo Alto, September 29, at 69, of cancer. She earned an undergraduate degree from Smith College in 1960, earned her master’s at Stanford and then settled in Palo Alto, where she had grown up. She taught in the Palo Alto school district for five years, taught reading to blind people and tutored elementary school students with learning disabilities. She became a community organizer, spearheading a Dream of a Thousand Trees project in Palo Alto and a similar project in Menlo Park. She was a co-founder of Palo Alto Tomorrow, which sought to control development downtown, and she took part in numerous community leadership programs and civic organizations. Survivors: her husband of 44 years, Bob; two daughters, Lauren Richardson and Didi Engel; three grandchildren; and two sisters, including Jane McCoy, MA ’67.
Stanley Hewitt Holm, MA ’67 (teaching of mathematics), of Gresham, Ore., August 14, at 76. He held undergraduate degrees from Graceland College in Kansas and the U. of Kansas. After Stanford, he taught in several school systems in Oregon, settling in the Portland suburb of Gresham in 1963 and teaching high school there. Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Martha; two sons, Ronald and James; a daughter, Beverly; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Engineering
John A.H. “Kim” Bailie, MS ’60 (applied mechanics), PhD ’69 (aeronautics and astronautics), of Palo Alto, August 29, at 79. An employee of Lockheed, he was considered a leading authority on the structural dynamics of submarine-launched ballistic rockets, notably involving the structures of the Polaris and Trident strategic nuclear missiles. He edited and largely wrote Design Guide for Fleet Ballistic Missile Composites (1978-81), and lectured at Santa Clara U. on the theory of elasticity and composite structures and at UC-Berkeley on that subject and others. He was a native of South Africa but moved to England in 1947 for a four-year apprenticeship at the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School. He met his wife, Georgina Gardner, while they were training as aeronautical engineers. After their 1956 marriage, they moved to Los Angeles to join Lockheed, and they moved to Palo Alto in 1958. He completed his career at Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles. In retirement, he helped to restore vintage aircraft and built houses with Habitat for Humanity. Survivors: his wife; and two daughters.
Christopher A. Gardner, MS ’60, of Belmont, Calif., August 19, at 77. He served in the Navy and earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Tufts U. (where he was a star high jumper on the track and field team) before studying hydraulic engineering at Stanford. He worked 35 years with Bechtel Corp., mostly as a project manager on dam and tunnel projects in the Pacific Northwest and abroad. Survivors: his wife of 47 years, Mary Ann (Clinton, ’59); four daughters, Julie Savage, Jennifer Fields, Amy Wooliever and Christine; one son, Robert, ’96; six grandchildren; and a sister.
James Bachman, MS ’61, of Las Vegas, December 20, 2007, at 78. The native of Switzerland worked on construction projects there in the 1940s and as a cost analyst in Canada in the 1950s. After studying industrial engineering at Stanford, he returned to Switzerland in 1962 to manage the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH. He then opened and ran European branches of several North American corporations before moving to the United States permanently and becoming a U.S. citizen in 1989. He was a business broker and a substitute teacher after retiring from his engineering career. He received a pin from the Alumni Association in 2002 for six years of volunteer service. Survivors: his wife, Jennifer; one daughter, Judith; one son, Jimmy; one grandson; and his former wife, Lony.
Law
Colin MacLean Peters, JD ’47, of Los Altos Hills, September 2, at 89. He grew up in Santa Clara County and received a bachelor’s in philosophy from San Jose State U. in 1940. He served in the Navy during World War II. At Stanford he was named to the Order of the Coif. After practicing briefly with the McCutchen law firm in San Francisco, he became a partner and lead trial attorney, specializing in litigation, with Crist, Peters, Donegan and Brenner in Palo Alto. In 1968, he started his own practice in Palo Alto, where he rose to prominence as a family law specialist (his son Stephen later became a partner), and he continued to go into the office until a few weeks before his death. He was active in the Save the Whales movement and other whale-associated activities, and he was an adviser to former congressman Paul “Pete” McCloskey, ’50, JD ’53. He was recognized in 2001 for 18 years of service to the Alumni Association. Survivors: his wife, Carol (Stearns, ’47); two sons, Geoffrey, JD ’74, and Stephen, JD ’76; one daughter, Anne Battle, ’75, MA ’76; and five grandchildren.
Harmon G. “Bud” Scoville, JD ’50, of Irvine, Calif., September 19, at 85. He was a judge from 1967 to 1990. After earning a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and serving in the Army during World War II, he practiced law for 17 years and was a judge for the next 23, based primarily in Orange County, Calif. The county’s bar association issues an annual award in his name to someone exemplifying the highest standards of the legal profession. He was active in numerous leadership roles with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Boy Scouts and civic organizations. Survivors: his wife, Lura; six children, Douglas, Craig, Karen, Brent, Kristine and Scott; 40 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and a sister.
Stephen John Heiser, MBA ’71, JD ’72, of Sacramento, April 8, at 63. He earned a degree in economics from Dartmouth College before earning his two degrees at Stanford, where he participated in Stanford in Government. He was a trial attorney before he joined an electronic security firm, HMW Consulting, where he designed and patented a bracelet embedded with a computer chip to monitor the location of paroled felons. Survivors: two daughters, Lauren, ’02, and Julia.
