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Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (from which he later received an honorary doctorate) before joining the family business, Pendleton Woolen Mills, full time in 1951. Bishop was proud to continue the tradition established by his great-grandfather, Thomas Kay, who came to Oregon in 1863 to pioneer the local woolen-mill industry. (It was during one of Bishop’s father’s frequent trips East to the mills of Massachusetts’s Merrimack Valley that he heard about a topnotch high school called Phillips Academy; his sons were enrolled, sight unseen.) Bishop became chair and CEO of Pendleton. He took enormous pleasure from his work and his co-workers, and he always valued the importance of the greater community. He coached youth football and served on many boards, including those of the U.S. Bank, Pacific International Livestock Exposition, American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Portland Junior Symphony, and Friends of the Columbia Gorge. Although business was an important part of Bishop’s life, his family was always his primary focus. He and wife Mary had five children in seven years. Their family life was active and adventure filled, centering around team sports, skiing, hiking, and fishing. Bishop will be fondly remembered for his generous spirit, kindness, and humility as well as his great attention to detail. He had a wonderfully wry sense of humor that often emerged during difficult times to bolster those around him. He is survived by Mary, his wife of 60 years; their children, John ’75, Charlie, Broughton Jr. ’79, Harriet Bishop Bakken ’79, and Peter ’81; and 14 grandchildren, including Jon Bakken ’12, Thomas Bakken ’14, and Peder Bakken ’16. William F. O’Shea

Aix-en-Provence, France; March 26, 2016 William A. Prior

Raleigh, NC; May 4, 2016 Edward L. Wheeler

Southbury, CT; July 4, 2016 1946 Richard G. Knowland Jr.

Fayetteville, NY; Dec. 29, 2015 Thomas F. McCormick

Dresden, ME; Oct. 1, 2015 Merlin W. Packard

Washington, DC; Oct. 18, 2015 Carl E. Stenberg

Singer Island, FL; Feb. 9, 2016 Marjorie Sommer Tucker

Winter Park, FL; March 18, 2016

1947 Philip M. Currier Jr. Ballston Spa, NY; April 21, 2013

Charles A. Wood Jr.

Chauncey F. Lufkin Jr.

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Lakewood, WA; July 21, 2014 Richard B.C. Warren

May 23, 2016

1948 Philip S. Aronson Needham, MA; July 14, 2016 John W. Cooper

San Antonio, TX; Oct. 1, 2015 Richard Haenschen

Chatham, NJ; Jan. 6, 2016 N.K. Parker Jr.

Verona, PA; April 12, 2016 Clyde A. Selleck Jr.

Durham, NC; May 12, 2016 1949 R. Quintus Anderson

Lakewood, NY; June 26, 2016 Robert G. Brayton

New York, NY; March 8, 2016 Henry A. Into

Cromwell, CT; March 6, 2016 Harvey A. Zarem

Los Angeles, CA; Nov. 1, 2015 1950 Ralph H. Blum

Los Angeles, CA; March 27, 2016 A gifted writer and Class of 1950 poet, Ralph Blum declined radical surgery for his prostate cancer for more than two decades—and coauthored a book about his experience. He died following surgery for an unrelated condition. Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers, written with oncologist Mark Scholz, relates Ralph’s personal history with the disease and provides helpful facts and advice about treatment options. The coauthors also collaborated on a blog about the subject. Ralph graduated from Harvard with high honors. He became a cultural anthropologist and an author and spent time in Italy as a Fulbright scholar. Ralph wrote three novels; numerous magazine articles, among them a series on Soviet culture published in the New Yorker; and several nonfiction books, including one about UFOs. Beginning in 1983, he wrote a series of books popularizing the ancient practice of casting runes (ancient letters) for divination. Ralph is survived by his wife, Jeanne. —Eric Wentworth ’50

Baton Rouge, LA; March 12, 2016

Charles A. Bradley III

Briarcliff Manor, NY; May 23, 2016 Charles A. Bradley III, an attorney who devoted much of his career to public service in municipal and state governance, died at home following a long illness. He was 82. After graduating from Williams College in 1955 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1957, he worked at a law firm in Elmira, NY, and then became Chemung County assistant district attorney. In 1970, he was appointed to the staff of the attorney general of New York State to serve on the Organized Crime Task Force and was then assigned as a special assistant attorney general in the investigation of the Attica prison riot in 1971. He later joined the staff of the attorney general’s office in New York City. Bradley became corporation counsel for the city of White Plains, NY, in 1979; he returned to private practice in 1990. In retirement, he served for more than a decade as a docent at Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate, and as an archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center. He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Eileen; children Margaret Bradley Van Orman, Katherine Bradley Irwin, and Charles A. Bradley IV; stepdaughter Jennifer C. Earl; and siblings Susan Bradley Lee ’56 and Peter Bradley ’55. He was predeceased by his twin brother, William ’52. —The Bradley Family John F. Howard

Tyler, TX; May 12, 2016 Philip P. Maxwell Jr.

Twain Harte, CA; April 19, 2016 Albert G. Moe

Koloa, HI; June 6, 2016 1952 Eugene A. Bay

New York, NY; June 18, 2016 Myron J. Bromberg

The Sea Ranch, CA; April 30, 2016 Henry S.F. Cooper

New York, NY; Jan. 31, 2016 Robert B. Leete

Guilford, CT; March 7, 2016 William B. Stevens

Gerrardstown, WV; Jan. 30, 2016 1953 David Bowman New York, NY; May 5, 2016 Andover | Reunion 2016

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