1916
Dorothy G. Niles
Amsterdam, N.Y.; March 28, 1999
1919
Elisabeth Luce Moore
New York, N.Y.; Feb. 9, 2002
Elizabeth Luce Moore, 98, died on Feb. 9 at her home in Manhattan.
She was born in Teng Chou, Shandong, China, of missionary parents,
and was the sister of the late publisher Henry R. Luce, co-founder
and editor-in-chief of Time magazine.
Active in many philanthropic and educational organizations, she retired
in 1999 after 63 years on the board of the Henry Luce Foundation,
which finances projects in Asian affairs and other fields. Early in
her career she was an editor at Time and Fortune magazines. She was
a trustee at her alma mater, Wellesley College, from 1948–1966,
and she was the first woman to serve as board chairman of the State
University of New York. She was chair of the National Council of the
U.S.O. during World War II and was a member of the Advisory Committee
to the Marshall Plan. She was a trustee of the China Institute in
America and the Asia Foundation and was on the China Advisory Committee
for Economic Cooperation. She was president of the United Board for
Christian Education in Asia and was board chairman and trustee of
the Institute of International Education. She served on the National
Board of the Y.W.C.A. Her awards included the Order of the Brilliant
Star from the Republic of China and a medal from the National Institute
of Social Sciences, and the Elizabeth Blackwell medal from Hobart
& William Smith Colleges. She held honorary degrees from several
colleges and universities, including Columbia, Duke, Princeton, Wellesley,
Adelphi, Western College for Women, and Hamilton. She did not support
the merger of Phillips and Abbot academies as she hated to see the
loss of the Abbot name, although she generously donated to the Abbot
Archives Room in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at the time of
the library’s renovation in 1988.
Her husband, Maurice T. Moore, died in 1986. She is survived by a
son, Michael Moore of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Her sister, Emmavail
Luce Severinghaus, who died in 1985, was a member of the Abbot Class
of 1918.
Martha E. Morse
Oberlin, Ohio; July 15, 1998
1920
Virginia Miller Smucker
Newark, Ohio; April 24, 1996
1921
Henry A. Willard II
Delray Beach, Fla.; March 3, 2002
1925
Howard G. Nichols
West Newbury, Mass.; Jan. 24, 2002
Dr. Howard G. Nichols, 94, died in his sleep on Jan. 24, 2002. A member
of Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth College, he graduated with distinction
in 1929 and earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in
1933. After completing hospital training in Boston, he returned to
his native Haverhill, Mass., to practice. He became head of the urology
service at Hale Hospital in Haverhill, where he also served for a
time as chief of staff.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and
was stationed in Temple, Texas, where he was promoted to the rank
of major and was awarded a citation and the Army Commendation Ribbon
in recognition of his work. After the war, he resumed private practice
in Haverhill, retiring in 1973.
Howard Nichols served as a member of the West Newbury Conservation
Commission and was a former member of the board of directors of the
Haverhill Found-ation, Inc. He had a lifelong love of horses and equestrian
pursuits and hunted with the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds of Exmoor,
England, on several occasions.
His wife, Margaret Merrill (O’Connor) Nichols, predeceased him
in 1988 after 55 years of happy life together. He is survived by a
sister, Helen L. Nichols George; sons Joel and Geoffrey and their
families, of Vermont; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Granddaughter Kit Nichols graduated from PA in 1989.
—Kit Nichols ’89
1927
Nancy Kimball Dunlap
Blue Hill, Maine; Dec. 5, 2001
R. Clarke Smith
Rutland, Vt.; Dec. 18, 2001
W. Davis Taylor
Boston, Mass.; Feb. 19, 2002
William Davis Taylor, retired publisher and chairman of the board
of The Boston Globe for more than half a century, died of heart failure
on Feb. 19, at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 93. He followed
in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as the Globe’s
publisher, beginning his tenure in 1955. He was also the first chairman
of Affiliated Publications Inc., the paper’s parent company,
from 1973 to 1981. The paper is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The
New York Times Company.
Taylor attended Andover for just two years, 1922-24, leaving after
a bout of ill health. He graduated from Noble & Greenough School.
After graduating from Harvard College in 1931, he joined the family-owned
newspaper. He was awarded honorary degrees from Colby College, Framingham
State College, Suffolk University and Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
After his retirement in 1981, Taylor continued as a director and consultant
to the Globe. He was on the board of overseers at Harvard University;
a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association; a past
president of the board of Noble & Greenough School; and on the
executive board of the Boston Council of Boy Scouts of America. He
was also a director of the American Cancer Society and a member of
the corporations of Massachusetts General Hospital and Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute.
A former member of the Alumni Council, he was a generous contributor
to Phillips Academy, establishing the W. Davis Taylor Book Fund at
the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library and supporting generously the Bicentennial
Campaign fund and the library’s renovation in 1987.
He leaves his spouse, Ann Macy Taylor, his children, William O., Thomas
M., James M., Margaret Kane, Wendy Patriquin and Anna Caleb, as well
as a cousin, Stephen E. Taylor ’69.
1929
Andrew Y. Rogers
Scarborough, Maine; Jan. 27, 2002
David G. Smith
Camden, Maine; Dec. 2, 2001
Frank Townend
Dallas, Pa.; Nov. 24, 2001
1930
Barbara Lamson Cummings
Melrose, Mass.; Feb. 20, 2001
John U. Monro
LaVerne, Calif.; March 29, 2002
The news of the death of trustee emeritus John
U. Monro reached us at deadline time. His obituary will appear in
the Summer Bulletin.
Richard J. Stern
Kansas City, Mo.; Dec. 31, 2001
Richard J. Stern, principal officer of Stern Brothers & Co., an
investment firm founded by his father and uncle in 1917, died Dec.
31, 2001, at age 88. A leading Kansas City businessman and philanthropist,
he lived in Sondern House, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home he called
“the biggest piece of art in Kansas City.” And art was his
passion. He was a patron, trustee and board member of the Kansas City
Art Institute, the Kansas City Symphony and the Lyric Opera. A longtime
friend, Mike Sigler, said, “What differentiated him from some
other large donors is that he truly loved what he was giving money
to.”
He graduated with honors in 1934 from Yale University, where he was
on the fencing team, and he received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard
in 1936. In World War II he was an intelligence officer with the rank
of captain in the Army Air Corps. Stern took over as president and
chief executive officer of his father’s firm in 1956 and sold
it in 1986 after serving at its helm for 30 years. Under his guidance,
his firm provided services, advice and financing to institutions and
companies that gave Kansas City its identity. Stern Brothers has been
rated as the country’s eighth largest non-Wall Street investment
firm.
Beyond his support of Phillips Academy, Stern’s alumni activities
included membership in the Andover Development Board from 1989–1998
and chairmanship of the Andover Program for Kansas City. Among many
gifts to the academy was the R.J. Stern Teaching Instructorship, established
in 1990.
1931
Stuart T. Hotchkiss
Madison, Conn.; Feb. 25, 2001
1933
John H. Hewitt
Newton Highlands, Mass.; Oct. 16, 2001
Ellen Willard Langdell
Andover, Mass.; Feb. 16, 2002
1934
Morton H. Darman
Lincoln, Mass.; Feb. 10, 2002
G. Edwin Hadley
Boxford, Mass.; Jan. 17, 2002
Alexander P. Hixon
Pasadena, Calif.; Feb. 14, 2001
An obituary will appear in the summer issue.
1935
H. Daniel Brewster
Washington, D.C.; April 29, 2001
Barbara Symonds Day
Lexington, Mass.; Dec. 20, 2001
Robert P. Gammons
Milford, Ohio; July 24, 2001
Frank R. Hurlbutt
Lindsborg, Kan.; Oct. 23, 2001
Robert T. Nicoll
Chester, N.H.; Jan. 22, 2002
Charles K. Simon
Miami, Fla.; March 8, 1999
1936
Richard A. Jackson
Waterville Valley, N.H.; Jan. 16, 2002
1938
Margaret Comstock Bayldon
New York, N.Y.; Dec. 4, 2001
Margaret Comstock Bayldon, who died Dec. 4 after a short illness,
credited Abbot Academy for playing a vital role in “preparing
an unsophisticated, small-town girl for Smith College and then an
exciting career at the United Nations, here and abroad, as a diplomat’s
wife and career mother.” Her late husband, Roger Wood Bayldon,
was with the United Nations Secretariat, and Margaret Bayldon was
an information officer at the United Nations. A writer who had published
articles in Mademoiselle and the Guardian (England), she was also
a restaurant reviewer. She pursued graduate studies at Hunter College
and New York University.
Soon after graduating from Smith, she took a position with the MacMillan
Co. in New York and was later director of public information and
development at Helen Keller International in New York. She was an
elected member of Women Executives in Public Relations.
Margaret Bayldon was a career woman before her time, always successfully
managing both a challenging career and her family. Remaining active
and involved right up to the time of her death, she volunteered
to teach English to immigrants and helped with the InterSchool orchestra
in New York. To the end she fulfilled many roles as a devoted Abbot
alumna, including those of class fund-raiser, Alumni Council member,
Bicentennial Campaign volunteer, phonathon volunteer, class secretary
and donor.
Her survivors include two daughters, Sarah Bayldon Beaman ’73
and Barbara W. Bayldon, and five grandchildren.
R.L. “Tim” Ireland
Thomasville, Ga.; Feb. 4, 2002
Trustee emeritus Tim Ireland died of prostate cancer Feb. 4, 2002,
at his home in Thomasville, Ga. He was a retired partner of Brown
Bros. Harriman and Co. of New York, where he was employed for more
than 35 years.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1920, he grew up in Cleveland. He
graduated from Yale University in 1942 and served in the U.S. Army
Air Force as a second lieutenant, flying B-24 bombers during World
War II. After receiving a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1947,
he joined the New York Trust company and rose through the ranks.
After the company merged and became Chemical Bank New York Trust
Company, he was named vice president. In 1960, he began a career
at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the nation’s oldest and
largest private bank, and became general partner. He led Brown Brothers’
commercial banking business and was a member of the bank’s
steering committee until his retirement in 1985. At the time of
his death, he continued as a limited partner of the firm.
A director of numerous corporations and foundations, he was deeply
interested in education, serving Andover as a charter trustee from
1960-1990 and sitting on the boards of several schools in New York.
He was also a trustee of the Boys’ Club of New York, active
in their educational scholarship program. In addition, he was a
former member of the Yale Development Board and director of the
family’s Ireland Foundation, and he held many memberships in
social clubs and organizations, including the famed Bohemian Club
in San Francisco. He was an enthusiastic participant in that group’s
summer encampments up until last summer.
His affection for Phillips Academy ran deep, and he was an effective
leader and loyal benefactor over decades; through his leadership
many development efforts were successfully launched. He said in
a correspondence that he was always willing to “step up and
do anything that is helpful.” In 1974 he served on the PA Bicentennial
Steering Committee, which planned the academy’s successful
200th birthday celebration. He was instrumental in getting his close
friend President George H.W. Bush ’42 to visit the Andover
Campus in November 1989 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of
George Washington’s visit to Phillips Academy. Ireland was
a founding chairman of the Andover Development Board and served
on it from 1985–1990. A member of the Alumni Council, he was
also the national alumni chairman of the Andover Program Committee,
a fund-raising drive. He was a member of the Campaign Development
Committee from 1993 up until the time of his death.
His interests included travel, sailing on his yacht, Pastime, hunting
and fishing, golf and conservation of land and wildlife. He spent
the summer months at his home in Pemaquid Harbor, Maine, and winters
at his plantation Hibernia in Thomasville, where he had lived since
1985.
A memorial service was held in All Saints’ Episcopal Church
in Thomasville on Feb. 6.
Ireland’s first wife, Jacqueline Mayhew Ireland, died in 1989.
A landscape garden and wall located near George Washington Hall
was given in her name by the Ireland family. His father, R. Livingston
Ireland, was also an alumnus of Andover, Class of 1915, as was his
late brother Melville H. Ireland ’41.
He leaves his wife, Anne Sweetser Gray Ireland; his children, Robert
L., Thomas E., Julia Ireland Spence and Nancy Ireland Stahl; and
four grandchildren.
Laurence W.M. Viney
Berkhampsted, Herts, England; Nov. 22, 2001
Laurence “Larry” Viney came to Andover in fall 1937 with
fellow British exchange student Michael Garnett, and each took particular
pains to quickly become integrated into the Class of 1938. A popular
student, Larry was a member of the soccer team, choir, Glee Club
and Dramatic Club. After graduation, his involvement in PA continued
back home in England, where he began recruiting prospective exchange
students, entertaining and housing Andover officials and, especially,
his classmates. At his 25th reunion, the first he had attended,
he was the principal speaker at the alumni gathering in Cochran
Chapel. Thereafter, he missed only his 30th reunion.
The imminence of World War II affected Larry soon after his return
to England. Forgoing college, he entered service as a lieutenant,
was wounded, and was evacuated from France in 1940, just ahead of
the onrushing Germans. He rose to the rank of major, but injuries
sustained in a glider accident in 1942 ultimately led to his discharge
in 1944. In civil life he became well known in the book-printing
business, and in 1983 he was made master and court member of the
Printers Guild, and the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper
Makers, chartered in London in 1557 by King Edward VI.
Larry Viney’s library includes one of the leading collections
on golf, which was one of his abiding interests and a sport he played
all over the British Isles.
He leaves his widow, Erilys (Morris) Viney; two sons, Mark and Paul;
and a daughter, Erilys. The loss of this outgoing personality, quick
mind and ready wit will be deeply felt by the Andover community
and his classmates.
—J. Read Murphy ’38
1940
R. Carl Dick Jr.
Dec. 6, 2001
Louis C. Gillette
Southfield, Mich.; June 2, 2001
Peter Hatch
New York, N.Y.; March 3, 2002
James B. Redus Jr.
Harrisburg, Pa.; Jan. 22, 2002
1941
William M. Reed II
Dallas, Texas; April 11, 2002
1942
Charles S. Bissell Jr.
Suffield, Conn.; Jan. 7, 2002
Nathaniel M. Cartmell Jr.
Williamsburg, Va.; March 16, 2002
An obituary will appear in the summer issue.
Nicholas P. Gal
Bethesda, Md.; Nov. 3, 2001
Margaret R. McFarlin
Mashpee, Mass.; Jan. 1, 2002
1943
John J. Bonn
South Portland, Maine; Dec. 27, 2001
1944
Samuel G. Waugh
Southport, Conn.; Oct. 31, 2001
1946
Donald M. Lazo
Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dec. 23, 2001
Oren C. McCleary
Charlestown, Mass.; Dec. 24, 2001
William F. Williams Jr.
Jersey Shore, Pa.; Dec. 16, 2001
1948
Thomas B. Henderson Jr.
Corpus Christi, Texas; Aug. 4, 2001
1949
Gordon A. Berkstresser III
Wake Forest, N.C.; Nov. 21, 2001
William M. Fletcher
Cohasset, Mass.; Jan. 3, 2002
1957
Cecily Kemper Shea
Brighton, Mass.; Jan. 15, 2002
1959
Philip G. Bailey
Louisville, Ky.; Jan. 29, 2002
1968
Anne Fellows Thayer
Lebanon, N.H.; Nov. 2, 2001
1973
Joseph W. Flounders
East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Sept. 11, 2001
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1975
Louis S. Patkin
Needham, Mass.; March 8, 2002
1989
Melissa Brown Hurlock-Hobson
Raleigh, N.C.; Dec. 26, 2001
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