1916
Dorothy G. Niles
Amsterdam, N.Y.; March 28, 1999
1921
Helen U. Baker
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Feb. 22, 2002
1924
Priscilla Draper Mansfield
Canton, Mass.; June 15, 1998
Edward P. Renouf
Washington Depot, Conn.; Nov. 30, 1999
Genevra C. Rumford
Chadds Ford, Pa.; Feb. 26, 2002
1925
Eunice E. Huntsman
Concord, Mass.; Nov. 15, 2001
1926
Frank O. Spinney
Medford, N.J.; June 4, 2002
John W. Watling Jr.
Santa Barbara, Calif.; May 18, 2002
Jack Watling, a native of Detroit, Mich., and a graduate of the Univ-ersity
of Michigan and its law school, began his law career at Smith, Beaumont
& Harris in Detroit. During World War II, he served in the U.S.
Air Force at Greenville Air Force Base in Greenville, S.C., as chief
legal officer of the base.
After the war, he relocated to California, living in Santa Barbara
and Beverly Hills. He practiced law for many years before turning
his energies to real estate development.
He was a championship bridge player and a skilled fisherman, but his
most enduring and passionate pastime was golf. Recently, his family
endowed the John W. Watling Jr. Fund to support the Andover golf program.
Watling valued his Andover education and continued over many years
to take an interest in the future of the school, which he supported
generously through eight decades. A stalwart of the Class of ’26,
he kept in touch with classmates and other Andover friends over the
years.
He is survived by Stuart “Doodie” Watling, his fourth wife;
seven children, including sons W. Wright Watling ’68 and Charles
P. Watling ’72; five stepchildren; 13 grandchildren; 12 stepgrandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.
1928
John E. Griffin
Charlottesville, Va.; March 29, 2002
1929
George B. D’Arcy
Dover, N.H.; April 28, 2002
Katherine Stewart Emigh
New Britain, Conn.; April 27, 2000
Roberta Kendall Kennedy
Charlotte, N.C.; Oct. 20, 2001
1930
Northrop Beach
Edina, Minn.; Feb. 10, 2002
Kathryn Dutton Leidy
Boyertown, Pa.; April 6, 2002
John U. Monro
Jackson, Miss.; March 29, 2002
John Usher Monro, trustee emeritus of PA, died in Laverne, Calif.
He was 89. In the last few years he had suffered from Alzheimer’s
disease. He was a scholarship student at Andover, where he worked
his way through school delivering groceries. In his senior year, he
tied for top academic honors. Also on scholarship he attended Harvard,
where he achieved distinctions that included serving as editorial
chairman of the Harvard Crimson. After graduation, he worked for Harvard,
writing news releases, and for the Boston Transcript, where he was
a reporter. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a first
lieutenant, leading damage control parties on the aircraft carrier
Enterprise, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star.
After the war he held several posts at Harvard. As the school’s
financial aid director, he conducted the first major re-evaluation
of the aid process in higher education. He was appointed Harvard’s
dean in 1958 and served until 1967, when he resigned to join the faculty
at Miles College, a small, mostly black school near Birmingham, Ala.
He later joined the faculty at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, another
small black school. When he left Harvard, Monro said, “The future
of education is not at highly selective colleges, but here at Miles,
where we admit everyone with a high school diploma. I’m 56, old
enough to know you can’t change the world, but you can give it
a heave.”
Monro’s biographical folder is thick with written observations
revealing the high esteem in which he was held. Fred L. Glimp, who
succeeded Monro as dean of Harvard College, said, “He was a Lincolnesque
person who cared enormously about the development of young people.”
In a 1971 profile of Monro in The New Yorker, Dr. Lucius H. Pitts,
former president of Miles College, remarked, “No other educator
of John’s stature, of any color, had … put his money where
his mouth was. For Monro to come to an unaccredited little place like
this, not as a missionary but because he saw something he could give
himself to and get much from—well, that made a whale of a difference.”
Educators at Andover spoke of Monro with deep respect. One was Donald
H. McLean Jr., former president of the Board of Trustees, who spoke,
upon Monro’s retirement in 1983, of his role in the difficult
period between the unexpected retirement of John Kemper and the appointment
of Ted Sizer. “[In a] tense period for us all,” he said
to Monro, “you remained cool throughout. … You have been
a kind of rudder in educational policy and institutional direction
which has kept the board on an even keel.”
Andover math instructor Frank Eccles, also in remarks made at the
time of Monro’s retirement, said, “In his career as an educator,
John has wrestled seriously with serious issues. But he has done so
without taking himself seriously, without preaching and without self-righteousness.
He has worked with courage, compassion, intelligence, enthusiasm and
joy.”
One of my own special remembrances of Monro was his response to a
question at a meeting of the Andover trustees in the late 1950s. Speaking
metaphorically of the extra burden he felt minority students carried,
he said, “You must remember that when a black student at Andover
gets up in the morning and looks in the mirror, he is putting a 10-pound
pack on his back that he carries with him all day until he falls asleep
at night.”
Head of School Barbara Chase, in a letter to the daughters of John
Monro after their father’s death, said, “John Monro was
a man whose example we continue to cherish and honor. … It was
your father’s special gift to see in received truth new relevance
and to manifest that truth through his deeds.”
He leaves two daughters, Ann Monro and Janet Dreyer, and three grandchildren.
His wife, Dorothy Stevens Foster, died in 1984.
—Fred Stott ’36
Secretary of the Academy Emeritus
1931
John Chadwick
Bethesda, Md.; June 5, 2002
Mary Dix Goddard
Marstons Mills, Mass.; June 18, 2001
Douglas L. Ley
Belmont, Mass.; June 11, 2002
Charles S. Strauss
Larchmont, N.Y.; May 15, 2002
1932
A. Ballard Bradley Jr.
Melbourne, Fla.; April 22, 2002
Cyrus G. Shepard II
Pasadena, Calif.; June 1, 2001
William L. Taggart Jr.
Grand Rapids, Mich.; June 6, 2002
1934
Alexander P. Hixon
Pasadena, Calif.; Feb. 14, 2001
Alexander P. Hixon died in his home at age 85.
After attending Yale, where he received a B.A. degree in 1938, and
Stanford Business School, he entered U.S. military service and rose
to the rank of major in the Army. During World War II, he saw action
in the Pacific from 1941–45.
A principal stockholder in AMP, Inc., a leading producer of electrical
and electronic connection, switching and programming devices, Hixon
served AMP in various capacities over the years, as CEO, chairman
and member of the Board of Directors. He was also chairman of the
board of Hixon Properties, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, a real estate
and investment firm. He served as a director of the Allequash Foundation,
and as a trustee of Harvey Mudd College and the African-American Institute
in New York City. He was also a member of the Yale Development Board.
According to his family, he considered the diplomatic post he held
at the United Nations as regional representative for the Western Pacific
Development Program in Accra and Samoa in the 1960s his most meaningful
and fulfilling position. It furthered his great interests in international
and interracial relations and in the education of youth of color.
Hixon began secondary school at the Hotchkiss School and transferred
to Andover for his senior year. He held PA in high regard and was
especially interested in the school’s international and multicultural
programs. Before he died, Hixon and his wife, Adelaide, made arrangements
for a $1 million gift to Andover from their estate that will endow
the Alexander P. Hixon scholarship fund. He also established, in the
early ’90s, an endowed fund to promote programs relating to students
of color at Andover.
Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Anthony and Andrew. Another
son, Alexander P. Jr., predeceased him.
Carolyn Muzzy
Phillips, Maine; Oct. 21, 2001
Richard L. Phillips
Port Chester, N.Y.; Jan. 10, 2002
Walter S. Snell
Fort Pierce, Fla.; Feb. 19, 2002
1935
Franklin B. Jones
Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; April 24, 2002
Peter M. Soutter
Hilton Head Island, S.C.; March 22, 2002
1936
Philip H. Confer
Doylestown, Pa.; Jan. 7, 2002
Arthur H. Meyers Jr.
Old Lyme, Conn.; March 23, 2002
John W. Russ
Plaistow, N.H.; March 30, 2002
1937
S. Colvin Craft Jr.
Menomonee Falls, Wisc.; June 7, 2002
J.H. Cameron Peake
Essex, Conn.; Sept. 7, 2001
1938
H. Otis Bonnar Jr.
Rockland, Maine; May 7, 2002
Gardner A. Finley
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; March 24, 2002
Fred I. Kent II
Essex, Conn.; March 31, 2002
Fred I. Kent II died March 31 in Salisbury, Conn., at age 83.
The former owner, president and chairman of Bicron Electronics Co.
in Canaan, Conn., Kent was a graduate of Princeton and served in
the U.S. Army during World War II, attaining the rank of captain.
As a resident of Andover in the 1950s he was active in many service
organizations, as he was in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s.
A former trustee of the Hartford Rehabilitation Center; Sharon (Conn.)
Hospital; Holt-Elwell Foundation; Hartford Neighborhood Center;
and the Connecticut Society for Crippled Children, he also assisted
in the early development of the Outward Bound program in the United
States and was a trustee of that organization from 1972–76.
Kent served his class and his school with distinction—as class
agent, admission representative and member of the Alumni Council
and the Andover Development Board. Interested in the preservation
of the school’s beautiful campus, he made wide-ranging gifts
to the school, directing several to campus projects, including the
George Washington Hall and Oliver Wendell Holmes Library renovations.
He also nurtured the lifelong friendships he shared with classmates.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Blodget Kent; his children Fred I.
Kent III, Nancy Kent Henry and Peter Kent; and six grandchildren.
1939
John M. Eckle
Durham, N.C.; Dec. 30, 2001
Bernard Krones
Tucson, Ariz.; Dec. 16, 2001
1941
Miriam Calder Dunn
Liberal, Kan.; March 1, 2001
Anne Selden Lowe
Casper, Wyo.; Sept. 21, 2001
Lysander Richmond Jr.
Andover, Mass.; April 27, 2000
1942
John M.B. Carey
Austin, Texas; March 18, 2002
Nathaniel M. Cartmell Jr.
Williamsburg, Va.; March 16, 2002
Nathaniel “Nate” Cartmell began his business career in
1950 as a merchandiser with John Wanamaker department stores in
Philadelphia, then spent most of his career in the publishing business.
From 1955–1967 he filled successive marketing positions with
the advertising agency N.W. Ayer & Son; Chilton Co., a leading
publisher of business magazines; and McGraw-Hill Publishing. He
was vice-president of corporate development and administration for
the magazine division of the Times Mirror Company (Los Angeles),
the nation’s largest publishing complex. He received a B.S.
degree in economics from Yale University in 1948, and an M.B.A.
in marketing from Harvard Business School in 1950.
He joined Ketchum, Inc., a fund-raising counsel headquartered in
Pittsburgh, and in 1980 he was appointed vice president for resources
development at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, N.H.
A World War II veteran, he served in the active army reserves, attaining
the rank of colonel. He was a graduate of the U.S. Army Civil Affairs
School, the Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces.
A familiar presence on campus, he kept in close contact with many
of his classmates, and he set an example of volunteer leadership.
His PA affiliations included membership on the Alumni Council; the
presidency of the PA Alumni Association of New York City; and service
as a head agent; a regional association board member, and an admission
representative. In 2000 he received the academy’s Distinguished
Andover Volunteer Award. He was director of the national field organization
for Campaign for Yale in 1974; a member of the Yale Club of New
York; a past member of the American Yacht Club in Rye, N.Y., and
a licensed lay reader for the Episcopal Church.
His wife, Ruth (Davies) Cartmell, died in December 2001. His children,
Nathaniel ’69, Rachel Cartmell ’79, Leah Parton and Sara
Cartmell, survive him.
Lincoln D. Clark
Salt Lake City, Utah; March 10, 2002
Daniel A. Lo Presti
West Simsbury, Conn.; Oct. 31, 2001
Betty England Olsen
Santa Rosa, Calif.; Nov. 8, 2001
Joseph D. Park
New Vineyard, Maine; Feb. 13, 2002
Samuel S. Scott Jr.
Lyme, Conn.; May 9, 2002
1943
Henri B. Atkins
Weston, Mass.; April 14, 2002
1944
C.B. Francisco
Shawnee Mission, Kan.; May 8, 2002
1947
Samuel H. Cantwell
St. Paul, Minn.; Feb. 20, 2002
Shirley Sawyer Williams
Aurora, Colo.; Sept. 20, 2000
1948
Robert B. Brumbaugh
Merritt Island, Fla.; Sept. 24, 2001
1949
Zvi R. Cohen
Boston, Mass.; June 4, 2002
Neil Flanagin
Winnetka, Ill.; May 15, 2002
Neil Flanagin, age 71, a corporate lawyer in Chicago described by
colleagues as a giant of the securities bar, died of cancer. His
expertise in the law encompassed mergers, acquisitions and other
corporate transactions.
Flanagin practiced at the law firm of Sidley Austin Brown &
Wood and served that firm as senior counsel after retiring in 1995.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan School
of Law, he was drafted to serve the U.S. Army in the Judge Advocate
General Corps in Washington, D.C. He remained in Washington as an
attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he met
his future wife, Mary Mead, who worked in the Eisenhower White House
press office. After marrying in 1960, the couple returned to Chicago,
where Flanagin joined the law firm Leibman, Williams, Bennett, Baird
and Minow, becoming a partner in 1966.
A director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation for more than 20 years,
he was also a member of the American Bar Association Committee on
Federal Regulation of Securities, the Chicago Bar Association Securities
Law Committee and the International Bar Association Committees on
Business Organizations and Securities.
Besides his wife, he leaves a brother, Bill; a son, John ’79;
daughters Margot Kapsimalis ’81, Nancy Doyle and Jill Yavitt;
nephews Daniel Mead ’83 and E. Scott Mead ’73, a Phillips
Academy charter trustee; a niece, Hope Mead Wynn ’78; and a
brother-in-law, James M. Mead ’47. The family has requested
that donations in his memory be made to Phillips Academy, 180 Main
St., Andover, MA 01810.
1950
Robert C. Agee
Bronxville, N.Y.; Jan. 30, 2002
Frank P. Capra
Anchorage, Alaska; Feb. 6, 2002
1953
Carol Hardin Kimball
Lyme, Conn.; June 5, 2002
Carol Hardin Kimball, the first woman charter trustee of Phillips
Academy, a retired fund-raiser, naturalist and writer, died at her
home in Lyme, Conn., after a two-month battle with lung cancer.
She was 67.
Born in New York City, Kimball was raised in Darien, Conn., and
graduated from Smith College, cum laude, in 1957. As a fund-raiser,
she held positions at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Columbia Univer-sity,
the Metropolitan Opera, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Connecticut
Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Early in their married life,
she and former husband Geoffrey Kimball lived for four years in
Lagos, Nigeria, where she taught French. They returned to New York
in 1964 to raise their children.
Passionate in her commitment to the arts and the environment, Kimball
also loved to make solo expeditions by poke boat, exploring the
natural and undeveloped regions of the tidelands of the lower Connecticut
River, which she wrote about in Tidelands of the Connecticut River,
A Guide to Its Hidden Coves and Tributaries. An avid bird-watcher
and frequent contributor to local newspapers on environmental issues,
she also served as a docent at the Connecticut College Arboretum
and a director of the Lyme Land Conservation Trust.
She was instrumental in facilitating the merger between Abbot Academy
and Phillips Academy, and in 1974, the first year of the merged
school, she became the first woman and, at 38, the youngest person
a charter trustee. She had been a trustee emerita since 1991.
Responding to a student who in 1977 bemoaned the “invisibility”
of Phillips Academy trustees, Kimball invited the writer and some
of his friends to meet with her on her next visit to the school.
“Her action,” reported an Andover publication, “was
characteristic of her approach to her service as a trustee, for
she has sought to go beyond absorbing the voluminous reports and
memoranda which are the trustees’ standard bill of fare.”
Trying to surmount what she called, “the intangible barrier”
separating trustees from faculty and students, she made it a point
to eat with students each time she was at Andover, to spend an occasional
night in a dorm, and to visit classes and read books by faculty
members.
Head of School Barbara Landis Chase, in a letter to Kimball’s
daughter, wrote, “As Andover’s first female charter trustee,
she was a living bridge linking the two schools. A bridge across
sometimes turbulent waters! It took all her strength of character,
breadth of vision … institutional experience, grace and good
humor to coax and help sustain a sometimes-difficult interscholastic
union. … She was always supportive, always a great sounding
board, always great fun. I miss her terribly.” Her daughter,
Jennifer Kimball ’80, of Somerville, Mass., wrote of her mother’s
last days, “Her courage, graciousness and, most importantly,
remarkable sense of humor were in full force until the end.”
Besides her daughter, the alumna leaves a son, Andrew Kimball of
Brooklyn, N.Y.; two grandchildren; her brother, Adlai Harden Jr.;
and her companion, William Burt.
Conrad J. Wettergreen
Albany, N.Y.; April 27, 1996
1954
Robert E. Sigal
Jerusalem, Israel; April 16, 2002
1955
Kent L. Rickenbaugh
Denver, Colo.; March 24, 2002
Kent Rickenbaugh, his wife, Caroline, their son, Bart ’84 and
a family friend died when their Cessna aircraft crashed near the
Denver airport. They were returning home from a family gathering
at the home of their elder daughter, Anne Rickenbaugh ’83 in
Aspen, Colo. He was 64. Engine failure is suspected as the cause
of the crash.
Rickenbaugh was well-known and well-respected in Denver. He was
the president and owner of Rickenbaugh Cadillac/Volvo, a family-owned
dealership that had been in business at the same location since
1944. The Rickenbaughs also raised cattle on their ranch in Gunnison,
Colo.
A director of the South Colorado National Bank and a former director
of the Denver Country Club, Rickenbaugh was also a former trustee
of the Denver Zoological Foundation and former chairman on the Executive
Council of St. Joseph’s Hospital. He graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1959 and served in the U.S. Army Reserves as a first
lieutenant.
He showed his regard for Andover by his generous contributions to
various appeals and donations to scholarship funds.
Besides his daughter Anne, daughter Katherine Rickenbaugh survives
him.
1966
Philip S. Casella
Palo Alto, Calif.; May 15, 20021968
George Wolf
New Orleans, La.; April 19, 2002
More than 100 people, including my wife, Ann, and me, gathered in
May for a memorial service at the Wolf family farm near Bangor,
Pa., to remember George Wolf, who died of cancer at 51. It followed
a late-April service in New Orleans, where George lived with his
wife, Maggy, and their 10-year-old son, Tom. Tributes recalled George’s
self-effacing modesty, his extraordinary ability to empathize with
others and his wickedly delightful sense of humor.
George’s father, Dr. Stewart Wolf, spoke of his son’s
highly principled approach to life and of the pride he felt in George’s
character and accomplishments. His sister Angie sang “When
You Are Old,” a poem by William Butler Yeats that George set
to music many years earlier. George’s brother, Tom, spoke of
George as a role model. Several speakers described George’s
son as the embodiment of George’s finest qualities, hopes and
dreams.
George was someone who had remained remarkably consistent, focused
and true to himself throughout his life. His academic career as
a linguistics scholar and professor of French at the University
of New Orleans was both multifaceted and distinguished and held
great promise. But the true anchor of George’s life was his
family, most of all Maggy and their son, Tom.
George received a master’s degree in French from Columbia University
and a master’s degree and a doctorate in modern languages from
Oxford University. He had taught at the College of William and Mary
and served as an acting principal of St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s
School in New York. He was widely published, having edited or translated
several books, and he wrote numerous articles and reviews in scholarly
publications.
George was blessed by a rich life full of love and accomplishments,
and his sudden and inexplicable death came far too soon. There were
numerous references to George’s Andover years during the service,
and it was clear those years held great positive importance to George.
He was an individual characterized by selflessness, integrity, a
nearly boundless interest in people around him and his lifelong
pursuit of knowledge. He was also a wonderful and unforgettable
friend.
—Andy Spindler ’68
1984
Bart L. Rickenbaugh
Denver, Colo.; March 24, 2002
Bart Rickenbaugh ’84 of Bozeman, Mont., died in a twin-engine
plane crash in Colorado, along with his parents, Caroline and Kent
Rickenbaugh ’55. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the University
of Denver law school, he was an attorney with the firm Moore, O’Connell
& Refling and specialized in land and water rights cases.
Warm, funny, independent and intelligent, Bart made a significant
impression on people who came in contact with him. For those of
us who hadn’t ventured to the far reaches of Denver, he was
the embodiment of the West. At Bart’s memorial service a friend
said, “Bart was simple in all the best ways—what you saw
is what you got. No hidden agendas, no attitude, and plenty of humility.
Bart’s world was about people, and nobody drew people or made
them feel better and more welcome than Bart did.”
Bart’s childhood friend John Caulkins ’84 said, “Bart
had a knack for catching all the blame for everybody else’s
mischief. He felt a deep affinity for the rebels and nonconformists
… and try as he might to avoid it, he seemed to have more than
his share of tough luck, getting busted for this and that.”
A great outdoorsman, Bart loved hunting, skiing—almost anything
athletic. John adds, “Bart was, like me, never a great athlete
in the Olympic sense. Soccer, football, hockey, lacrosse—sure,
he was driven and determined, but was never the fastest or most
agile—but somehow he managed to achieve greatness. One area
where Bart truly excelled was skiing. Man, that boy could ski! …
When we were 16, we went heli-skiing in the Canadian Rockies. I
was the guest of Bart and his father and sister. Those days of pure
bliss, the finest skiing one could ever ask for, culminated on an
impossibly long, pristine, wide-open run above tree line called
Cadillac Descent, which had been named to honor Bart’s dad,
who owned a Cadillac car dealership.”
Bart is survived by his wife, Lisa, and their children, Sam, 5,
and Lila, 3, as well as two sisters, Anne ’83 and Katherine.
—Laurie Nash ’84
1993
Erin E. Kearn
Boston, Mass.; April 16, 2002
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