Faculty and Staff
Erastus Henry "Ras" Lee, PhD '40 (mechanical engineering), of Mill Valley, Calif., May 17, 2006, at 90. He was a graduate of Cambridge U. and a World War II veteran. He was a professor at Brown U. for 14 years before arriving at Stanford in 1962. He joined the University as a professor in the division of applied mechanics and the department of aeronautics and astronautics. He stayed at Stanford for 20 years before serving as the chairman of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. His wife, Shirley (Wilson, '43, MA '66), died in 2002. Survivors: two sons, Michael and Martin, '66; two daughters, Susan Greenleaf, '75, and Margaret; and four grandchildren.
B. Davie Napier, February 24, at 91. After receiving a bachelor of divinity and doctorate from Yale, he joined the Yale Divinity School's faculty in 1949. He eventually became the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation and master of Yale's Calhoun College before coming to Stanford, where he served as dean of the chapel and professor of religion from 1966 to 1972. He left the University to serve as president of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, although he returned in 1985 to lead the baccalaureate service over Commencement weekend. He was the author of 10 books and numerous articles and served as a visiting professor and guest lecturer around the country. His wife, Joy Robertson White, and son, John, predeceased him. Survivors: his daughter, Anne Caffery; three granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
William Ralph Rambo, '38 (general engineering), Engr. '41 (electrical engineering), of Morrison, Colo., February 22, at 90. He was a professor of electrical engineering from 1957 to 1972, associate dean for research in the School of Engineering from 1961 to 1972 and director of the Stanford Electronics Lab from 1960 to 1972. The holder of 11 patents, he served as an adviser to the Army, Navy, National Security Agency, CIA, Department of Defense, NATO and the president's science advisory committee. His wife of 57 years, Edith, died in 1998. Survivors: two daughters, Ann Dahle, '78, and Katherine; and two granddaughters.
Clayton Rich, of Kirkland, Wash., February 22, at 82. He arrived at Stanford in 1971 to serve as the dean of the Medical School and to oversee Stanford Hospital as the University's vice president for medical affairs. He stayed for seven years. He had been recruited from the U. of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he served as associate dean at the university and chief of staff at the Veterans Affairs Hospital. He attended Swarthmore College and earned his MD at Cornell. After serving in the Navy from 1951 to 1953, he joined the medical staff at Rockefeller U., where he became an assistant professor before leaving to join the faculty at the U. of Washington. Following his tenure at Stanford, he became provost of the Oklahoma U. Health Sciences Center and executive dean of the college of medicine. He retired in 1993 and devoted himself to environmental causes, writing and administering grants. Survivors: his wife, Rosalind; his previous wife, Mary Bell Rich; and one son, Clayton, '77.
Paul Watzlawick, of Palo Alto, March 31, at 85, of cardiac arrest. He joined the faculty in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford in 1967 and was a clinical professor emeritus at the time of his death. A family therapist and communications theorist, he trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and joined the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto in 1960. He was the author of 22 books, which have been translated into 80 languages. Survivors: his wife, Vera; two stepchildren; and one sister.
1920s
James Blackwell Taylor, '26 (electrical engineering), of San Marino, Calif., August 4, 2004, at 101. A member of El Campo, he worked in the oil industry in Southern California and served on the board of Signal Oil Co. Survivors: one daughter; and two grandchildren.
George Albert Broomell, '28 (geology), of Tustin, Calif., in March, at 100. He worked as a mining engineer in Chile, the Philippines and Africa before returning to Southern California at the start of World War II. He worked as a civilian engineer for the Army at Edwards Air Force Base, then as a public works engineer at the Lighter Than Air Base in Santa Ana. The rest of his career was devoted to raising citrus in Orange and San Diego counties and in Australia. He served as Tustin's first building inspector, a Tustin High School board member, a Tustin City Council member and a board member of Sunkist Growers. His wife of 61 years, Mary Elizabeth Dunstan, died in 1994. Survivors: three sons, Del, '54, MS '55, Gary and Jim; one daughter, Judy Kuykendall; 13 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.
1930s
Glenn Emmett Millar, '30 (bacteriology), of Rancho Murieta, Calif., February 12, at 98. A member of the Band, he earned a medical degree from Northwestern U. in 1935. Except for his service as a naval medical officer during World War II, he was in general practice in Sacramento from 1937 until his retirement in 1977. He then entered public practice as the medical director of the Plymouth and Pioneer Medical Clinics in Amador County until 1994. He was a member of the Sacramento County Medical Society and the California Medical Association. He received an award for 50 years of commitment to the American Academy of Family Physicians. He was predeceased by his two wives, Helen Scott and Beverlee Neal, his daughter Dorothy Harkins and one grandson. Survivors: two sons, Glenn Jr. and David; two daughters, Lisa Cozzens and Sue; 10 grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.
Eugene Merton Elliott, '32 (political science), of Tacoma, Wash., March 3, at 96. He received a JD from Washburn U. in 1935 and practiced law in Tacoma until 1947. After moving to Kansas, he was elected the Haskell county attorney. He returned to Tacoma in 1955 and became a partner at Eisenhower Carlson, where he remained until his retirement in 1985. He served on the board of trustees of the U. of Puget Sound. He was predeceased by two wives, Marjorie Pierce and Jean Poe Wuerch, his sons Neal, '63, and Guy and one grandson. Survivors: his wife, Nancy; his son, Mark; three stepsons; six grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and one sister.
Eleanor Page McKee, '33 (economics), of Portola Valley, March 27, at 95. A member of Chi Omega, she was involved with regional and national organizations focused on reproductive rights, global overpopulation and the environment. In the 1960s, she served as director and treasurer of the San Mateo County affiliate of Planned Parenthood. Her husband of nearly 50 years, Norman, '23, died in 1987. Survivors: her daughter, Alice Rowland; one son, Allen; and one grandson.
Mar W. McGregor, '35 (preclinical medicine), MD '39, of Howard, Colo., March 30, at 94, of heart failure 17 days after a car accident. He was a plastic surgeon who practiced at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif., during World War II. His specialties were reconstructive surgery and treating burn victims. He served for seven years as a board member and then as president of the American Board of Plastic Surgeons. From 1973-74, he was president of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. He retired in 1978 after many years as chief surgeon at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco. His wife of 33 years, Patricia Smith, died in the accident that caused his injuries. Survivors: two sons, Robert, '64, and Bruce; one daughter, Kathy McEvoy; two stepsons; and two grandsons.
William Weber "Bill" Smith, '35 (preclinical medicine), MD '39, of Los Angeles, in February, at 92. A member of Phi Delta Theta, he served as a naval lieutenant before returning to his medical practice in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, Calif. He served as chairman of St. John's Health Center Foundation and was a lifetime member of the board of trustees. After retiring from the medical profession, he became involved with Thomas Aquinas College and chaired its board of governors for more than 10 years. Survivors: his wife of 66 years, Gertrude; three daughters, Diana Hall, Trudy and Hilary; three sons, Anthony, Gregory and Mark; and nine grandchildren.
Margaret Adams Loud Kennedy, '38 (journalism), of La Jolla, Calif., September 26, at 88, of brain cancer. A member of Delta Delta Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, she served as editor of the Stanford Daily and as an officer in the Women's Athletic Association. After graduation, she moved to Portland, Ore., and worked for the Oregon Journal. She was active in many philanthropic organizations including the Junior League of Los Angeles, the Canfield Foundation, and Florence Crittenton. Her first husband, Charles Samuel Jackson, '37, died in 1947. Her second husband, Edward Kennedy, '31, died in 1993. Survivors: her son, Peter Jackson, '63; and two grandchildren.
Guy Ridgeway Neely, '38 (economics), of Scottsdale, Ariz., December 29, at 90. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and Stanford Associates. He served in the Navy during World War II and then opened an accounting practice in Lake Oswego, Ore. In 1954, he moved his practice to Phoenix and later merged it with Price Waterhouse & Co. He served as the Price Waterhouse managing partner from 1962 until his retirement in 1976. He was the founding president of the Arizona Community Foundation, founding director of the Guaranty Bank of Arizona and co-founder of the Arizona chapter of the American Arbitration Association. He also served as president of the Phoenix Little Theater and as a director/trustee of the Osborn School District. Survivors: his wife, Eleanor; three daughters, Sally Hugdal, '67, Charlotte Hotson, '70, and Patty Flynn, '73; 10 grandchildren, including Andrew Hotson, '02; and four great-grandchildren.
Walter Parker Ward, '38 (economics), of Los Gatos, Calif., in July 2006, at 88. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he worked for John Leonard, a grower and packer in Cupertino. Survivors: his wife of 62 years; one son, Roger; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Barbara Adell Funderburgh Warren, '39 (social science/social thought), of Indianapolis, December 31, at 89. She spent two years at Smith College, where she was a member of the swim team, before transferring to Stanford, where she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and editor-in-chief of the Quad her senior year. She earned a master's degree in education from the U. of Wisconsin and took doctoral level classes. A gifted athlete in her youth and an avid sports spectator, she was a tennis player, golfer, bowler and Girl Scout troop leader. Survivors: her husband of 60 years, Henry Warren; two daughters, Barrie Russell and Sandra; two sons, Hugh and Russell; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
1940s
Roland Gale Medlicott, '40 (political science), of Jackson, Wyo., February 21, at 89. A member of Sigma Nu/Beta Chi, he built airplanes during World War II at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego. After the war, he started a lengthy career in commercial construction beginning at Trepte Construction and later at William Simpson Construction in Los Angeles, where he became president. Active in the San Diego community, he served as president of the La Mesa Rotary, San Diego Humane Society and the Associated General Contractors Association. His son Gerald predeceased him. Survivors: his wife of 66 years, Marian; one son, Michael; one daughter, Kathy; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Portia Dennis Smith Holmes, '41 (graphic arts), of Granite Bay, Calif., February 8, at 86. She spent two years at Pasadena Junior College before transferring to Stanford. After setting aside a career to raise her children, she returned to the University in 1965 when she was hired to work at Tresidder Union and became known as "The Information Lady." She stayed for 27 years. Following her retirement, she volunteered at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, Calif., for 10 years before moving to Granite Bay. Survivors: two daughters, Helen Duncan, '65, and Virginia, '72; one son, William III, '69; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one brother, Stephen Smith, '51, MS '52.
Marjorie Jane Beuttel Huston, '41 (mathematics), of Palo Alto, February 22, at 86. She sang in the Glee Club and was president of the Lagunita House. She worked as an accountant for several businesses and went back to school at 55 to study business accounting and computer science. She volunteered with the Allied Arts Guild of Palo Alto, served as president of the Peninsula Volunteers and was an active member of the American Association of University Women. Her husband, Paul, '39, died in 1974, and she was predeceased by her daughter, Lani. Survivors: one son, P. James Jr.; and two granddaughters.
Douglas Orville Howe, '42 (biological sciences), of Tacoma, Wash., February 4, at 86. A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. He worked in real estate before entering the oil business, becoming owner and president of City Fuel Co. He was a charter member and past president of Pierce County Oil Heating Association, served as an officer and director of the Oil Heat Institute of Washington and was on the executive committee of the Oil Heat Institute Regional Advisory Board. In addition, he was chairman of the Pierce County Heart Association and past director of United Good Neighbors. Survivors: his wife of 60 years, Marion "Ozzie"; three sons, Douglas, David and Robert; one daughter, Karen; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Benjamin Franklin "Bim" Morrison, '43 (political science), of Aberdeen, Wash., February 14, at 85. A member of the football team and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he served his country during World War II and was called back to active duty during the Korean War. He and his father founded the Morrison Logging Co. in 1946, and in later years, the company owned and operated the Clearwater Logging Co. He served on the Stanford Athletic Board and on the board of governors of the Washington Athletic Club. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Margery Thomas, '46; two daughters, Kathryn Braun, '68, and Kerry Myerson, '77; one son, Christopher, '71; three grandsons; one brother; and one sister.
Arlene Ethel Franke Coddington, '44 (humanities), of Atherton, February 20, at 84. She worked as an interior decorator and later as a real estate agent. Her husband of 51 years, Bert, '42, died in 2002. Survivors: one daughter, Dale, '78; one son, Kent; one stepson, Brent; and five grandchildren.
Robert B. Keast, '44, of Los Angeles, January 20, at 83, of cardiac arrest. He completed seven quarters at Stanford before transferring to UC-Berkeley, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1946. A member of Sigma Chi, he owned the Lord Bruce restaurant in St. Helena, Calif. His wife, Alyce, died in 2004. Survivors include one brother.
Ruthe Angela Rose Lundy, '44 (education), of Santa Rosa, Calif., January 20, at 84, of Alzheimer's disease. A member of the women's tennis team, she began her career in 1946 teaching children of migrant farm workers in San Jose. In 1953, she took a job at Fairmeadow Elementary in Palo Alto. Eight years later, she was hired by the Palo Alto Unified School District as the curriculum and instructional coordinator and the gifted program coordinator. She served on the board of directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and as president of the California Association for the Gifted. Her publications included Gifted Children: How to Identify and Teach Them and four children's books. In 1974 she was honored as the Distinguished Woman of the Mid-Peninsula. Continuing to work in retirement, she served as a board member of the City of Palo Alto's Neighbors Abroad program, as chair of the Friends of the Children's Theater and as a member of the Palo Alto Historical Society. Survivors: her son, Tom; one daughter, Jackelyn; and five grandchildren.
Joseph Michael Mardesich Jr., '44 (general engineering), of San Pedro, Calif., January 4, at 85, from a head injury following a fall. A member of the track team and Phi Kappa Psi, he served in the Navy during World War II. He took over the family cannery business started by his father in the early 1920s called Franco Italian Packing Co. It was the first cannery to import tuna on a major scale from Japan beginning in 1957, which opened up trade to the Orient in the postwar era. He served as president of the California Fish Canners Association and was appointed to the Marine Research Committee by Gov. Knight, '19, in 1956. Survivors: one son, Joseph III, '68; two daughters, Stephanie Milda and Deborah; and their mother, Lee.
John Marshall Thayer, '45 (preclinical medicine), MD '48, of San Mateo, March 17, at 82. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He studied at Stanford University Hospital in San Francisco as an internist and worked in private practice before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1953. He returned to private practice in Burlingame, where he worked until his retirement in 1984. He came out of retirement several years later to form and serve as chairman of the ethics committee of the Peninsula Hospital. His wife of 58 years, Jean, predeceased him. Survivors: two daughters, Patricia Feinberg and Marcia Nass; and two grandchildren.
Ellen Frances Ellery Smith, '46 (social science/social thought), of Newport Beach, Calif., December 29, at 83, of respiratory illness. She was married to M. Curtis Smith for 55 years. Survivors: her two sons, Craig and Ken; and one grandchild.
Harriet Ann Womack Viadro, '46 (undergraduate law), of Redwood City, March 20, at 83. She earned her law degree from San Francisco Law School and began her practice in 1974 at age 51. She worked at her family law practice in San Mateo County until illness forced her to retire at 82. She founded the nonprofit Family Legal Assistance Center. Survivors: two daughters, Claire and Claudia; one son, Christopher; six grandchildren; and her twin sister.
Howard H. Council, '47 (political science), of San Rafael, Calif., February 14, at 84, after suffering a stroke. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and the football team and served in World War II. He worked for Union Oil Co. for several years before joining his father in publishing Western Underwriter, an insurance trade magazine. He was a community leader in his Marinwood neighborhood, where he served for 20 years on the community services district board. He was instrumental in organizing a local fire department, building a recreation center and preserving open space. Survivors: his wife, Margaret; two sons, Bart and Bruce; one granddaughter; and one great-grandson.
James L. Sheehy, '47 (preclinical medicine), MD '51, of San Marino, Calif., March 22, 2006, at 79, after a neck injury due to a fall. Following his service in the U.S. Medical Corps, he became a founding member of the Otologic Medical Group in Los Angeles, which later became the House Ear Clinic. He taught surgical otology at the House Clinic, House Ear Institute and USC. He was a member and past president of the Pacific Coast Oto-Opthalmological Society and he received the Award of Merit from the American Otological Society. Survivors: his wife of 55 years, Vye; three sons, William, Theodore and Thomas; three grandchildren; and one brother.
Richard C. Greulich, '49 (biological sciences), of Ocean Pines, Md., January 27, at 78. An Army veteran, he earned a PhD from McGill U. and became a professor of anatomy at UCLA Medical School. Joining the National Institute of Health in 1966, he was named director of the National Institute of Aging and retired in 1988. He later served on the Maryland Attorney Grievance Committee. His first wife, Leonora Faye, died in 1993. Survivors: his wife, Bertha; one son, Jeffrey; one daughter, Hilary Barnes; three grandchildren; and one brother, James, '49, MA '53.
Gerald Charles Tobin, '49, MS '50 (electrical engineering), of Los Angeles, February 17, at 89, of Parkinson's disease. A World War II veteran, he was hired in 1950 by Hughes Aircraft Co., where he worked until his retirement in 1989. Survivors: his wife, Edna (Herrmann, '45); three sons, Gerald, Brian and Michael; and one brother.
John Robert Wood, '49 (electrical engineering), of Portland, Ore., January 9, at 83. He served in the Navy at the end of World War II and during the Korean War. He then worked as a civilian for the Department of Defense in Germany for many years. After returning to the United States, he worked as an engineer for Lockheed's space division until his retirement in 1992. Survivors include one sister.
1950s
Gay Palmer Frank, '51 (sociology), of Belvedere, Calif., December 13, at 77. She received a master's degree in social work from USC and worked in the field until her children were born. She served on the board of the State Parks Foundation and was active in the Terwillinger Nature Education Foundation. She also taught ornithology classes to nature guides in training. Survivors: her husband of 52 years, Anthony; her son, Randall; one daughter, Tracy Ingham; and five grandchildren.
Wilbur Russell Johnson, '51 (international relations), JD '54, of Redwood City, March 14, at 79. An Army veteran and a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, he enjoyed a long career in law enforcement, beginning in the FBI in 1955. Two years later, he joined the San Mateo District Attorney's office, leaving as chief criminal deputy when he was appointed to the bench by Gov. Ronald Reagan. He served until his retirement in 1983, when he began sitting as a visiting judge in courts all over California. His middle son, Jeffrey, predeceased him. Survivors: his wife of 50 years, Marjorie; two sons, William and Timothy.
Max Cayley Yost, '51 (mechanical engineering), of Northridge, Calif., February 26, at 79. He worked in the aerospace industry for more than 40 years. Survivors include his wife, Jayleene.
Edwin Plank Brennan, '52 (psychology), MD '56, of Napa, Calif., February 9, at 75, of pulmonary fibrosis. He worked for the Stanford Daily and was editor of the Chaparral. He served in the Air Force in the late 1950s as a staff psychiatrist at two different hospitals. After completing his residency in psychiatry at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute (UCSF), he spent one year as staff psychiatrist at Napa State Hospital. From 1963 to 1976, he conducted a private practice in general psychiatry in Marin County. In 1978, he returned to Napa State Hospital, where he became medical staff president and then coordinator of continuing medical education, a position he held until retiring in 2000. Among his many faculty appointments: lecturer in psychiatry at Stanford Medical School and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UC-Davis. He was a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Survivors: his wife of 51 years, Nancy (Sterrett, '55); one son, Frederick; three daughters, Nancy, Jean and Susanne; three grandchildren; and one sister, Marion Brennan Meany, '55.
Jon W. McKittrick, '53 (psychology), of Portland, Ore., January 28, at 74. Survivors include a daughter.
Ruth Anne Binns, '55 (history), of Darien, Conn., March 8, at 72, of breast cancer. She was an accomplished writer, editor and historian and a talented landscape designer. After graduating in 1983 from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the U. of Connecticut, she started Ruth Anne's Garden and continued to consult until her death. She was a member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. Her husband, Paul Dohanos, predeceased her. Survivors: her daughter, Eve Duplessie; one son, Joseph Hall; and six grandchildren.
Samuel Copeland Palmer III, '56 (political science), of Fresno, Calif., February 7, at 72. A member of Delta Upsilon, he earned his JD from Loyola Law School. Before becoming a partner in Pollack and Palmer, he worked in the Los Angeles city prosecutor's office. In 1969, he founded the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles. He moved to Fresno in 1981 and joined Caswell, Bell and Sullivan and then Thomas Snell, from which he retired in 1999. He taught agricultural law at Cal State-Fresno and served on the board of the Poverello House. Survivors: two sons, Samuel IV and Bryan; one daughter, Sally Brown; and three grandchildren.
Ann Katherine Sussex Brown, '57 (history), of Bakersfield, Calif., March 15, at 71. She started teaching at Casa Loma School in Bakersfield in 1969. She taught art education for many years in Kern County and was instrumental in developing art curricula for many schools in the area. An artist herself, she had recently completed a showing of her work at the Jill Thayer Gallery. Active in the Junior League, she served as its president in 1973, and she was a board member for the Bakersfield Symphony. She began her association with the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 1981 and served as its last volunteer director. Survivors: her husband of 49 years, Mort, '57; three sons, Mark, Paul and Kent; five grandchildren; one sister; and one half-brother.
William Crawford "Bill" Gow, '57 (economics), of Key Largo, Fla., January 6, 2005. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War and enjoyed a long career as a mortgage banker. Survivors: his wife of 34 years, Joanne; four children, William, Melinda, Margaret and Marcie; four stepchildren; and 17 grandchildren.
Dean Alden Stewart, '57 (journalism), of Bakersfield, Calif., April 26, 2006, at 76. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and worked for the Stanford Daily. His studies were interrupted after junior year when he joined the Air Force; five years later he returned to complete his degree. He was predeceased by his first wife, Neldabeth, his son Jon and his daughter Jennifer Cornell. Survivors: his second wife, Marion Hoover-Stewart; one daughter, Cynthia Plourdes; two sons, Mitchell and Michael; two stepchildren; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Joan Marie Palma Thompson, '57 (social science/social thought), of Edgartown, Mass., February 12, at 71, of cancer. She served as president of the Junior League of Long Island in the early '70s and organized the first designers' show house held on the East Coast. She was a trustee of the Edgartown Library from 1990 to 2005. Survivors: her husband of 40 years, David; one daughter, Tracy Brown; one son, Ted Brown; and one brother.
Donald Robert Woodward, '57 (political science), of McLean, Va., July 17, 2005, at 69, of multiple myeloma. He was a member of El Tigre and earned a master's degree in international relations from George Washington U. in 1963. He served with the Peace Corps before joining the Foreign Service. He also served as an inspector for the State Department's Office of Inspector General and as director of the Office of Career Transition. He retired in 1990 but continued working as a State Department consultant for several years. After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1991, he became a patient's advocate at the National Cancer Institute and was elected to the board of directors of the International Myeloma Foundation. Survivors: his wife of 39 years, Annette; two sons, James and Donald Jr.; one daughter, Michelle Pringle; and five grandchildren.
Malcolm Clark Maddy, '58 (electrical engineering), of Beaverton, Ore., December 28, at 70, of Parkinson's disease. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for companies in California and Nevada involved in missile and bomb testing. He moved his family to Ohio, where he taught at the U. of Toledo Community and Technical College while earning a master's degree in engineering science. He then took a job with Libby Owens Ford in the research department as a process control engineer. After retiring, he continued to work as a substitute teacher in inner city schools. Survivors: his wife of 48 years, Eleanor; one daughter, Sarah Shaver; two sons, Michael and Daniel; and one brother.
John Walter Strohbehn, '58, MS '59, PhD '64 (electrical engineering), of Durham, N.C., February 22, at 70. He was a member of El Campo and the men's gymnastics team. In 1963, he began his teaching career at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of Engineering. He was the associate dean of the Thayer School from 1976 to 1981 and the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering from 1983 to 1990. He was appointed provost of Dartmouth and served in that role from 1987 to 1993. After moving to North Carolina, he became the provost of Duke U., where he was also appointed professor of biomedical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. He retired in 2003. He was a founding fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America. In 1991, he received the Eugene Robinson Award for outstanding contributions to hyperthermic oncology. Survivors: his wife, Barbara (Brungard, '58, MA '59); three daughters, Carolyn Sailer, Jo and Kris; five grandchildren; and one sister.
1960s
Mark Samuel Hammer, '60 (speech and drama), of Weehawken, N.J., February 15, at 69, of renal failure and diabetes. He was an actor who performed at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1991. He also taught drama at Catholic U. in D.C. from 1966 to 1989. He appeared on and off Broadway and appeared many times in New York Shakespeare Festival productions in Central Park. He was twice nominated for the Helen Hayes Award. In addition to his theater work, he appeared in a number of films and television shows and narrated recordings of more than 60 novels. At Stanford, he edited the Chapparal, and after Stanford, he earned a master's degree in fine arts from Catholic U. He was a co-founder of An Acting Workshop, an intensive summer program in Washington. Survivors: one son, David; one daughter, Kate; one granddaughter; one sister, Louise Hammer Ginsburg, '45, JD '68; and one brother, Philip, '58.
James Hugh Stanwood, '64 (English), of Riverside, Calif., February 19, at 64. He worked as the volunteer coordinator at the Riverside Community Access Center helping the handicapped. Survivors include his sister and two brothers.
Lawrence H. Mathers Jr., '66 (biological sciences), PhD '71 (cell biology), MD '82, of San Carlos, Calif., February 21, at 62. Except for two years at the U. of Wisconsin, he spent his entire career at Stanford. Both physician and educator, he was a professor of pediatrics and of surgery at the Medical School for 30 years. A beloved anatomy teacher, he served as chief of the Medical School's anatomy division and won 14 major teaching awards. He also worked at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital as the associate director of the intensive care unit. He helped create the Emerald Glen Homes in Hayward, Calif., a nonprofit organization that provides housing and support to developmentally disabled adults and seniors in Alameda County. His wife of 30 years, Mil, died in 2002. Survivors: his three stepchildren, Doug, Mark and Beth.
Peter Downey Middlekauff, '66 (history), of Aptos, Calif., October 10, at 62. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he played varsity football and baseball and was All American in 1965. He played baseball for the Minnesota Twins for several years and was inducted into Stanford's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993. At the time of his death, he was working as a broker for Smith Barney. He was predeceased by his son Jon.Survivors: his wife, Eve; and two sons, Craig and Geoff.
Susan Rose Obee Southwick, '66 (English), of Arlington, Va., February 23, at 62, of a heart attack. She worked for a division of AIG SunAmerica as a financial services representative from 1998 to 2001. She also worked briefly for the Social Security Administration as a claims representative. She and her husband, a Foreign Service officer, lived in many places around the world, including Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Switzerland and Kenya. She established libraries at various embassies, started an art gallery in Nepal, created an international school in Niger and co-wrote a guidebook for visitors on safari in Kenya. Survivors: her husband of 40 years, E. Michael, '66; two sons, Edward and Andrew; one daughter, Katherine; and three grandchildren.
David Paul Wisemiller, '68 (mathematics), of Sunnyvale, February 14, at 60. After Stanford, he worked as an engineer for IBM and later worked for Lockheed Martin. Survivors: his wife, Elisabeth; one sister; and one brother.
1970s
James Edward Dunlap, '75, of Seattle, at 54. After Stanford, he earned a master's in history at Princeton and a JD at the University of California. He practiced law in Seattle and had completed a novel that had been accepted for publication.
Timothy Christopher Rutherford, '75 (economics), JD '78, of San Diego, February 21, at 53. During law school, he was the director of the Stanford Legal Aid Society. He began his legal career in criminal defense work with Defenders Inc. After earning an LLM at the U. of San Diego School of Law in 1985, he joined a firm with a more general practice, Barwick, Rutherford and Scott, where he specialized in personal injury, product defects and employment law. From 2002 to 2006, he served as vice president and general counsel for Episcopal Community Services while maintaining a private practice, The Rutherford Law Firm. He also served as a judge pro tempore, a superior court arbitrator and an adjunct professor at the U. of San Diego School of Law. He served for many years on The Bishop's School board of trustees and helped establish the Center for Urban Ministry. Survivors: his wife, Bertha; four children, Christopher, Abigail, Austin and Baylor; two stepchildren; his father, Bill Williams, '48, JD '50; one brother, George, '74, MA '75; and two sisters, including Amanda May, '72.
Andrew "Andy" Davidson, '77 (communication), of Sebastopol, Calif., February 22, at 51, of cancer. He graduated from Tufts Medical School, completed his residency at Brown U. and received further training at UCLA Medical School in acupuncture and at other holistic healing and meditation centers. As a physician, he integrated family practice with holistic, Eastern and alternative approaches to healing at Gordon Medical Associates in Santa Rosa, Calif., and Hill Park Medical Center in Petaluma, Calif. As a volunteer, he worked in free medical clinics in Guatemala and on the Hopi Reservation, and he served on the board of the California Lyme Disease Association. Survivors: his wife, Amrita; two sons, Theo and Gabe; his mother; his father, Ralph, '50, and stepmother; two brothers, including William, '75; and two sisters.
2000s
Gladys Sharon Ayora, '08, of Huntington Beach, Calif., March 20, at 20, in a car accident. In high school, she was a Quest Scholar and mentored promising low-income students. At Stanford, she tutored for the Habla La Noche program, volunteered as an English-Spanish medical interpreter with the Arbor Free Clinic and served as co-director of Student Clinical Opportunities for Premedical Experiences. Survivors include her parents and fiancè, Victor Espinoza.
Education
Alice Tyson Stewart, MA '59, of Menlo Park, March 30, at 97, of cancer. She received a nursing degree from San Jose State College and served as a public health nurse and school nurse in Redwood City. Survivors: one daughter, Elizabeth; one son, Jim; four grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren.
Violet H. Ban Robinson, EdD '70, of Millbrae, February 18, at 85, of complications from neurological illnesses. A graduate of Polytechnic High and San Francisco State College, she started teaching second grade in Millbrae in 1953. The next year, she returned to San Francisco State to teach at the Frederic Burk Laboratory School, a college-run elementary school. She spent 38 years at San Francisco State, where she earned a master's in education before getting her doctorate at Stanford. She published a multivolume book on language, as well as Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten in 2001, and she founded the scholarly journal Kindergarten Education: Theory, Research and Practice. She helped found the California Kindergarten Association, the first statewide professional organization for kindergarten teachers, and helped create the National Kindergarten Alliance, which promotes scholarly research on early education. In 2003, the San Francisco State U. Alumni Association gave her its first Emeritus Faculty Award. Her husband, John, EdD '56, died in 1970.
Engineering
Harold K. Graves, MS '59 (industrial engineering), of Lake Worth, Fla., February 18, at 85, of a heart attack and pneumonia. An Army lieutenant colonel and World War II veteran, he retired from active duty in 1964 and spent another 20 years as an Army department civilian. During the war, he helped train instructors in the assembly and testing of newly developed nuclear weapons. Later, he served as an assistant professor of military science at MIT and as a research analyst with a combat development command service support group. He retired in 1984 after working as an operations research analyst and study director at the Army's Concepts Analysis Agency. He received the Army Department's Commander's Award for Civilian Service. His wife of 56 years, Virginia "Ginger," died in 2000. Survivors: two daughters, Catherine Oechsler and Marion Perch; one son, John; seven grandchildren; and two sisters.
Kawika Benjamin Chetron, MS '03 (electrical engineering), of San Francisco, March 17, at 32. He was presumed drowned after a diving trip off Cape Mendocino. He earned a degree from Harvard before coming to Stanford. He worked for Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley as a software engineer but his passion was diving off the Pacific Coast and underwater photography. Survivors include his parents.
Humanities & Sciences
Albert Vinicio Baez, PhD '50 (physics), of Greenbrae, Calif., March 20, at 94. He earned his bachelor's degree at Drew U. and a master's in math from Syracuse U. While at Stanford, he focused on the newly developing science of X-ray imaging and he helped create the first X-ray reflection microscope. In 1951, as part of his work for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, he moved to Iraq to direct the UNESCO mission there and to serve as a professor of physics at Baghdad U. He was devoted to the cause of science education and made films aimed at improving the teaching of high school physics. In 1961, UNESCO named him the first director of their science-teaching division. In retirement, he served as president of Vivamos Mejor, dedicated to improving the quality of life through science-based education and community development projects in Latin America. His daughter Margarita Farina died in 2001.Survivors: his wife, Joan; two daughters, Pauline Bryan and Joan; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
Richard C. "Dick" Singleton, MBA '52, MS '59, PhD '60 (statistics), of Morgan Hill, Calif., April 8, at 79. Before coming to Stanford, he earned BS and MS degrees at MIT. He was a mathematical statistician and computer scientist, devoting decades of research to artificial intelligence, quantitative legal analysis, and mathematical and computer data sorting algorithms. He worked for SRI International for 39 years, during which time he worked on a project considered to be the first successful attempt at reading the human mind by a computer. Survivors: his wife, Sibyl; three daughters, Pamela Martin, Nancy Hachisu and Lisa Quijano; three sons, Peter, Gordon and Martin; two stepsons, 10 grandchildren; one great-grandson; two sisters; and one brother.
Jay Douglas Haley, MA '54 (communication), of La Jolla, Calif., February 13, at 83, cardiopulmonary failure. After serving in the Army during World War II, he graduated from UCLA and received a degree in library science from UC-Berkeley in 1951. His work at Stanford led him to explore communication in families, and as a psychologist, he became a pioneer of family therapy. He was director of the family experiment project at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto before becoming director of family therapy research at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. In 1974, he co-founded the Family Therapy Institute in Chevy Chase, Md. He also taught at the U. of Maryland, Howard U. and the U. of Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he was a research professor in marital and family therapy at Alliant International U. He was a filmmaker and the author of 21 books. Survivors: his wife of 12 years, Madeleine Richeport-Haley; one daughter, Kathleen; two sons, Andrew and Gregory; four grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
Theodore F. Brunner, MA '63, PhD '65 (classics), of Laguna Beach, Calif., March 7, at 72, of lung cancer. He started the classics department at UC-Irvine in 1966, when the campus was just a year old, and became its first chairman. Six years later, he embarked on a project to create a computerized database of Greek literature. The digital library, the largest of its kind in the world, has grown to 12,000 works and 95 million words. After retiring in 1998, he became a reserve officer for the Laguna Beach Police Department. Before his tenure at Irvine, he taught at Ohio State U. He served in the Marine Corps in the mid-1950s and earned his undergraduate degree at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Survivors: his wife, Luci Berkowitz; two daughters, Catherine Drever and Christine; three grandchildren; and one brother.
Inger Johanne Sagatun-Edwards, MA '70, PhD '72 (sociology), of Los Altos Hills, April 2, at 62, of pancreatic cancer. A national expert on domestic violence, she had served, since 2005, as the dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at San Jose State U. She first joined the university as a professor and then chaired the department of justice studies. She received San Jose State's 2004-05 President's Scholar Award. Survivors: her husband, Leonard Edwards; one son, Erik; one grandson; two sisters; and one brother.
Correction
The obituary of Richard C. Greulich, ’49, incorrectly named his former wife, Leonora Faye, as his first wife. His first wife was Betty Mitchell Ames. His survivors also include two sons, Rex Probe (formerly Christopher Brent Greulich) and Robert Brighten Skye (formerly Robert Curtice Greulich and Robert Mitchell Smith); four additional grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
