articles and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and the Modern Plastics Encyclopedia. He was president of the North Carolina Institute of Chemists, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, and a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Eleanor Gerhardt Cubberley; a son, Bruce; a daughter, Linda Pendleton; and a grandson.
’45 Norman H. Goodman, 83, died on January 24, 2006. After attending Bard, where he majored in studio arts, he went into military service and then into art school, before joining the family hosiery business. When stretch nylon was introduced to the United States, he played an instrumental role in the development of the first Danskin tights. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; two daughters; two brothers; and six grandchildren. Howard Miller Meunier, 83, died on March 23, 2006, in Milbridge, Maine. Raised in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, he was a longtime resident of Ellsworth and recently of Milbridge. He majored in psychology at Bard, taught in private schools, and lived in Europe for several years before returning to Maine. He is survived by several cousins, a nephew, two nieces, and many friends.
a Ph.D. from Yale University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Munich. His edited translation, An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist, was a New York Times 1982 Notable Book of the Year. Phyllis Carol Shieber, 72, died on February 6, 2006. Born on January 27, 1934, in New York City, she lived in New York, Massachusetts, Brazil, and Oklahoma before moving to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1964, where she lived for the remainder of her life, except for a few years spent in Tennessee. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, majored in studio art at Bard, and received an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. She was a professional artist whose work is in private and public collections across the United States. She is survived by her son, William Shieber of Austin, Texas; his wife, Rebecca; and two grandchildren, Alexander and Jennie.
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Carinne Newman Shaftel, 76, a drama major at Bard, died on December 16, 2005, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is survived by three daughters, three sons-in-law, four grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild.
James Evan Robinson died in Boston on March 25, 2006. A graduate of Salisbury School, he attended the College of the Holy Cross and earned his bachelor’s degree at Bard, where he majored in English. Following graduation, he and his friends from Holy Cross began painting houses in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. In the years just prior to the U.S. bicentennial they were known as the Patriot Painters; they later built a reputation for their skilled workmanship and painted some of the finest residences in Boston, its suburbs, and Nantucket. He was a devoted surfer for many years, and also loved ocean sailing around New England. He is survived by his father and stepmother, and a sister and a brother.
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Robert H. Townsend, 81, died on August 18, 2005. He attended Montclair Academy and served as a corporal with the U.S. Army’s 42d Armed Corps in the South Pacific during World War II. Postwar, he studied economics and music at Bard, where he learned to play the church organ, which became his lifelong passion. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; three sons, William, Alan, and Charles; and a grandson.
Mallory Gibbs Blimm Crosby Kean died on January 27, 2006, in a car accident in New Jersey. After attending Bard, she moved to New York City, where she became the showroom fit model for the then-rising designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka. She lived for five years in Southhampton, New York, working for Hamptons magazine. In the late 1990s, she moved back to New Jersey to work as a freelance writer and editor. She is survived by her husband, Robert W. Kean III, and three stepchildren.
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’52 Stephen Montgomery, 76, died on January 4, 2006. Born in New York City, he majored in studio arts at Bard and received a master’s degree in fine arts from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. A painter and sculptor, he lived in Roxbury, New York, for 20 years. He is survived by a brother, Christopher, and two nieces and a great-nephew.
’56 Philip B. Miller died on February 10, 2006. Remembered by his former colleagues and students as a “brilliant thinker, inspiring teacher, and charming human being,” he taught comparative literature and German at Princeton University before moving to City College, City University of New York, retiring in 1999. He earned
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’87 Ali Ghani died on May 10, 2004. Born in Tehran, Iran, he studied at Bard and at Boston University. During his business career he was involved with international sales in fiber optics. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Alison D. McEwen-Ghani; a stepdaughter, Kelly McEwen; and a sister and a brother-in-law, Vida G. and Touraj Touran.
’98 Jonathan P. Fontaine died on January 30, 2006, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Born in Holyoke, he attended Holyoke public schools and majored in film at Bard. In New York City he worked