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enjoyed travel and golf. He leaves his wife, Gloria Chipman, 307 John Westley Rd., Greenville, NC 27858-1669; three daughters; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Frank was a member of the Choate Society, those alumni and alumnae who have left a bequest to the School.
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Huntly G. Mayo, 86, a retired executive of the Aluminum Company of America, died June 5, 2014 in Cambridge, N.Y. Born in Providence, Hunt came to Choate in 1942. He was on the Student Council and Honor Committee, was in the Cum Laude Society, and was Captain of Baseball, President of the sixth form, and President of the News. His classmates voted him “Most to be admired,” “Most influential,” and “Most respected,” and he was among those voted “Done most for Choate” and “Most likely to succeed.” After Choate, he graduated from Princeton, then began a long career with Alcoa. Hunt enjoyed reading military and political history, as well as the works of Mark Twain. He leaves five children, including Margaret H. Mayo, 23 Spring St., Cambridge, NY 12816; and seven grandchildren. A brother, the late Edmund Mayo ’42, also attended Choate.
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James T. Healey, 84, a retired attorney, died April 27, 2014. Born in New Haven, Jim came to Choate in 1944. He lettered in football, basketball, and golf; was in the Cum Laude Society and the Choral Club; was on the Student Council and the Honor Committee; and was Associate Editor of the News. After earning degrees from Yale and Yale Law School, he was in private practice in Hartford for 22 years, specializing in civil litigation. He later joined the legal department of United Technologies Corp. Always an enthusiastic golfer – he was captain of Yale’s 1951 team – he won many Connecticut and regional championships in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and was elected to the state Golf Hall of Fame in 2001. He was President of the New England Golf Association in the 1970s. He was also a corporator of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. He leaves his wife, Louise Healey, 60 Loeffler Rd., Apt. P-203, Bloomfield, CT 06002-4304; six children; 13 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
’48 RH Suzanne Gauthier, 84, died February 27, 2015. Suzanne came to Rosemary Hall in 1946. She was on the Kindly Club Council, was head of the Chapel Committee, was Assistant Day Fire Captain, and earned two bars on the Committee. She then graduated from Smith. Suzanne was in the Membership Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She leaves several cousins.
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Allen George Dartt, 84, a retired stockbroker, died January 30, 2015, in Sarasota, Fla. Born in New York City, George came to Choate in 1944; he lettered in soccer and tennis and was in the Choral Club. For many years he was in the securities business in New York and on Long Island. An enthusiastic tennis player, he was a past president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. He also sang in several choirs. He leaves his wife, Rebecca Dartt, 8340 Wingate Dr., #1025, Sarasota, FL 34238-5410; two children; three stepchildren; four grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren.
’49 RH Molly Backus Sziklas, 84, died February 2, 2015, in Nantucket, Mass. Born in Nantucket, Molly came to Rosemary Hall in 1946. She was in the Kindly Club, Choir, and Philomel, was assistant head marshal and captain of the basketball team, and was treasurer of the Athletic Association and on the Dance Committee. She then went to Pine Manor College. She was briefly a model for Bonwit Teller in New York, then married and moved back to Nantucket, where she owned and operated the Wauwinet House and Crow’s Nest Cottages. She enjoyed sailing, hunting, and fishing. She leaves her husband, Robert Sziklas, P.O. Box 719, Nantucket, MA 02554; two daughters; and two grandchildren. ’49 C
Willoughby C. “Bill” Blocker, 83, a retired head of an optical firm, died November 29, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. Born in Larchmont, N.Y., Bill came to Choate in 1944; he played saxophone in the Golden Blues, sang in the Choral Club, the Glee Club, and the Maiyeros, and was a lieutenant in the Campus Cops. After graduation from Lehigh, he joined the Navy and served in the Korean War. He then worked for Lugene Opticians of New York City, eventually
becoming its president, and was later president of Optical Corporation of America in Louisville. In later life he was a real estate appraiser. Bill enjoyed singing with choral groups and in the choir of his church. He was also a member of several optical societies. He leaves his wife, Eunice Blocker, 3717 Crocus Ln., Louisville, KY 40207; three children; and five grandchildren.
’52 RH Anne Marshall d’Almeida Santos, 80, died November 5, 2014, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Born in Philadelphia, Anne came to Rosemary Hall in 1948. She was on the varsity field hockey and basketball teams, was manager of the Athletic Association, won both the athletic scarf and the athletic sweater in her senior year, and earned eight bars on the Committee. After Rosemary Hall, she attended Vassar, then married and moved to Italy. She leaves her husband, George d’Almeida Santos, in Italy; two daughters, including Julie Anne d’Almeida-Warrington; and a grandson. Two sisters, Julie Marshall Boegehold ’49 and Helene Marshall Hallett ’54, also attended Rosemary Hall; her brother, Harry Marshall Jr. ’61, and a cousin, John Dale ’66, attended Choate. ’52 C John Allison Michael “Mike” Morse, 79, a retired stock broker, died October 28, 2013. Born in New London, Conn., Mike came to Choate in 1948. He lettered in wrestling, was President of the Choral and Glee Clubs, sang bass in the Maiyeros, and was in St. Andrew’s Cabinet, the Ski Club, and the Press Club. After graduating from the University of Vermont, he was in the Air Force for three years. Mike then began a long investment career, first with Goodbody & Co. and then with Merrill Lynch, working in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, and California. He enjoyed golf, tennis, fly fishing, skiing, and especially sailing; in the 1970s he was in the Olympic trials for Tempest Class sailing. He leaves his wife, Hope Morse, 2310 Via Munera, La Jolla, CA 92037; two children; and three grandchildren. David C. Sortor, 79, a retired dentist and innkeeper, died January 13, 2015, in Sherborn, Mass. Born in New London, Conn., David came to Choate in 1949. He was business manager of the Press Club, on the board of the Brief, and in the Glee Club, the
Chess Club, and St. Andrew’s Cabinet. After graduating from Colby College, he served in the Navy, then earned a D.M.D. degree from Tufts. David was an oral surgeon until 1988, at which time he founded the Sherborn Inn in a house that had been built in 1762. He ran the inn until 2014. He leaves his wife, Rosemary Sortor, 33 Old Orchard Rd., Sherborn, MA 01770-1038; three children, including John Sortor ’77; nine grandchildren; and a sister.
’54 C James W. Sherwood III, a writer, died December 26, 2014. Born in Hollywood, Calif., Jim came to Choate in 1948; he was on the Board of the Literary Magazine and was in the Chess Club and the Western Club. After attending the University of Chicago, he became an actor in California. From 1960 to 1970, he lived in Paris where, says his daughter Roxanna Sherwood ’91, “he recalled being known as the American writer with a big sense of humor, a man who turned laughter into work as a painted clown-face mime he called Archy Archo.” Jim met his current wife, Karyn, the sister of Bob Lindig ’54, at his 35th Choate Reunion. Says daughter Roxanna, “Karyn offered him a new lease on life, opening his world to her two sons who soon took his name and called him Dad. For the next 25 years, they lived happily in Plandome, N.Y., where he wrote to live and lived to write, where he talked and laughed and made family memories. He passed away suddenly in his sleep after a beautiful Christmas day with family 2014. He died knowing that he was loved, that he worked hard and that his hard work paid off. He accomplished exactly what he hoped to, even recently stating that he no longer defined success as fame, but that he could declare his life successful because of the children he raised.” He leaves his wife, Karyn Lindig Sherwood, 14247 E. Dove Valley Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85262; six children, including Veronica Sherwood ’83, Roxanna Sherwood ’91, and Christopher Sherwood ’92; and seven grandchildren. ’55 RH Mary Elizabeth Weed Foulk, 77, a competitive horseback rider and sailor, died February 11, 2015, in Greenwich, Conn. Born in New York City, Betty came to Rosemary Hall in 1953. She was Riding Captain and in