Death notices published in this issue were received and processed as of April 30, 2013. Information is gleaned from published obituaries, newspaper stories, and information found in the alumni database. Full obituaries are limited to those alumni who have died within three years of this publication.
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Passings in Review the White Pine in northern Minnesota. In 1985, he received the Nature Conservancy Oakleaf Award and, in 1987, the Chevron Award for service in the cause of conservation. He was a life trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where he served as a Board Chairman and on the Accessions Committee. Surviving are three daughters, a brother, and seven grandchildren. George F. Schreiber Jr. ’30 (Troop) died Nov. 7, 2011, in Kent, Wash. A. Chapman Isham Jr. ’31 (Co. E) died Jan. 15, 2012, in Bedford, Texas. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati Medical School, Dr. Isham practiced psychiatry in Lubbock and the DallasFort Worth area. He painted as a hobby and pursued it full time upon his retirement in the 1970s. He won numerous awards for his watercolors and was Artist of the Year in Grand Prairie (1995). A son, daughter, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren survive. Willis J. Oliver ’31 (Troop) died Aug. 16, 2010, in Jamestown, N.Y. For most of his career Mr. Oliver had been a selfemployed mechanical engineer. He is survived by a daughter, a son, a granddaughter, and his companion, Sue Rollman of Mayville, N.Y.
John E. Andrus III ’28 (Co. F) of Wayzata, Minn., died Dec. 27, 2012 at the age of 103. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Mr. Andrus attended the University of Minnesota Law School and practiced law in Florida until World War II. He served in the South Pacific as an artillery and staff officer. Following the war, he established the Deep Draw Corporation in Minneapolis, a metal fabricating plant that he headed for 30 years. He was a
Director and Chairman Emeritus of the New York based Surdna Foundation, Inc.; a Director of the Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial in Yonkers, New York and the John E. Andrus Memorial in Hastingson-the-Hudson, New York. He was a member and chairman for two years of the Board of Governors of the Nature Conservancy, a trustee of the Minnesota Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and led a program for their establishment of
Samuel H. Williams Jr. W’35 of Lynchburg, Va., died April 5, 2012. Mr. Williams graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with a degree in classical languages and from Rutgers University’s Trust Banking School. He served in the Navy during World War II aboard the USS New Mexico and the USS Canberra in the Pacific, obtaining the rank of lieutenant. He began his banking career with Wells Fargo in San Francisco, returning to Lynchburg in 1947 to spend the next 40 years serving as a trust officer and vice president with The First National Bank of Lynchburg (currently SunTrust). There are no immediate survivors.
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