Abbot Academy, she attended Oberlin College and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. In 1943, she married John C. Brown, a dentist. They resided in Andover for more than 40 years before retiring in 1983 to their farm in Hill, NH. An avid naturalist and swimmer, Mary served with local garden clubs, libraries, historical societies, and preservation organizations and was an active member of several churches during her lifetime. Mary also served the Class of ’38 as head agent and class secretary. She leaves many friends and admirers, field notes of phoebes nesting at her back door, and a fine patch of asparagus. Mary is survived by daughters Margaret Coakley ’63, Helen Brown, and Jane Brown ’68; six grandchildren, including Anne Simeone ’99 and John Simeone ’02; five great-grandchildren; and siblings Nancy Stewart ’48 and Gordon Elliot ’42. —The Brown Family Don S. Friedkin
Rye, NY; Nov. 30, 2013
College. He is a former director of the American Ireland Fund, the Irish Georgian Society, New York Life Insurance Company, the New Yorker, and numerous other institutions. Honorary chair of the French American Foundation; chair emeritus of Sotheby’s International Advisory Board; trustee emeritus of the American Hospital in Paris and of the Frick Collection, and a member of the Council of American Ambassadors and the Council on Foreign Relations, he was the author of Vanishing Kingdoms, Monarchs in Waiting, Letters from the Pacific, and Almost a Century: An American Life East and West of Suez. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Mary; children Margaret Bacon and Walter J.P. Curley III; and seven grandchildren. R. Patricia Elliot Sullivan
Honolulu, HI; May 4, 2014 1941 Margery Martin Martin
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Briarcliff Manor, NY; March 22, 2014
Lew Averback
Homer J. Rose
Palm Beach Gardens, FL; July 1, 2012 Walter J.P. Curley Jr.
New York, NY; June 2, 2016 Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley attended Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Oslo, Norway, and received an honorary doctorate in law from Trinity College, Dublin. During WWII, he was a Marine Corps infantry combat officer, serving in Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and North China campaigns. He holds decorations from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Republic of China. Following his military service, Curley earned an MBA degree from Harvard and worked for Caltex Oil Co. in India and Italy. He later became a partner at J.H. Whitney & Co., a venture capital firm. In 1973, Mayor John Lindsay tapped him to serve as chief of protocol and commissioner of public events in New York City. President Gerald Ford appointed him ambassador to Ireland, where he served from 1975 to 1977; he then opened his own venture capital investment firm, W.J.P. Curley & Co. Under President George H.W. Bush ’42, Curley served as ambassador to France from 1989 to 1993, participating in negotiations relating to French-American relations during the German reunification, the dissolution of the USSR, and the Gulf War. He held bilateral and multilateral responsibilities as chief of mission in France and achieved the rank of commandeur in the French Légion d’honneur. Curley was a trustee of the New York Public Library, Miss Porter’s School, Brooks School, the Buckley School (president), and Barnard
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president of the Investment Bankers Association of America and named Investment Banker of the Year by Finance magazine. From 1963 to 1968, he served as mayor of Wayzata, MN. In retirement, Wheelock cofounded the Johnson Institute, served as chair of the National Council on Alcoholism, established the Minnesota Council on Health, and taught management at the University of Minnesota. The library at Minneapolis Community and Technical College is named in his honor. An avid sportsman, Whitney was pivotal in bringing professional sports to Minnesota. He served on the board of the Twins and was a coowner of the North Stars and Vikings. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Blatz; children Wheelock III ’67, Pennell, Joseph, and Ben; stepsons Hunter, Carter, and Max Berkelman; 11 grandchildren; two stepgrandsons; and three great-granddaughters. 1945
Latrobe, PA; Sept. 6, 2015 1942 Raymond P.S. Cuthbertson
Kilmarnock, VA; Jan. 16, 2015 Margaret Goodman Decker
St. Louis, MO; Nov. 29, 2015 Vernon E. Midgley
Phoenix, AZ; Nov. 17, 2015 Noel M. Seeburg Jr.
Dataw Island, SC; April 9, 2016 1943 Walter J. Cahners
Boston, MA; April 11, 2016 Kenneth N. Davis Jr.
Stamford, CT; May 17, 2016 Oswald S. Lowsley Jr.
Bonita Springs, FL; May 16, 2016 1944 James P. Christie
Keene, NH; April 16, 2016 Wheelock Whitney
Independence, MN; May 20, 2016 Wheelock Whitney died peacefully at age 89. After graduating from Andover, Whitney served in the U.S. Navy for two years, then attended Yale University, graduating in 1950. He was CEO of J.M. Dain & Company from 1963 to 1972. During his tenure, he was elected
Broughton H. Bishop
Portland, OR; Aug. 7, 2016 Trustee Emeritus Broughton H. “Brot” Bishop, who served Phillips Academy as a charter trustee from 1995 to 2002, died at his Portland, OR, home from Parkinson’s disease. “Brot’s voice at the board table always brought the discussion, no matter how difficult, back to the highest values of the Academy,” said former head of school Barbara Landis Chase. “He had a way of cutting through details to find the essential elements.” Along with serving as a trustee, Bishop contributed to the future of the Academy in a number of fundraising roles, including as a member of the Academy Resources Committee and Andover Development Board, as vice president of the executive committee of Campaign Andover’s leadership group, and as a class agent and chair of his 50th Reunion. Bishop joined the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday, after graduating from Phillips Academy. Following his discharge from the Marines, Bishop enrolled at Yale University and graduated with a BS degree in 1950. He attended