Because Hamilton Remembers

July 2020

1 Joel Bristol Associate PUBLISHED EACH SUMMER, Because Hamilton Remembers includes memorials of alumni who have died since the previous edition and whose biographies were completed as of this printing.

For a regularly updated and searchable database of all alumni memorial biographies published since 2008, please visit hamilton.edu/necrology.

The College honors those who have included Hamilton in an estate plan provision with membership in the Joel Bristol Associates. Throughout this book, these individuals are recognized with a quill accompanying their memorial biography. Please contact Ben Madonia ’74 at 315-859-4669 or [email protected] if you have included Hamilton in your estate plan or would like to know more about gift planning opportunities.

hamilton.edu/necrology 2 N 1893, EDWARD NORTH, CLASS OF 1841 — Hamilton’s beloved and Idistinguished professor of Greek language and literature — told a gathering of alumni, “In necrology we get our horoscope of the future.”

By that time, he was a quarter-century into his self-appointed role as composer of memorial biographies that paid tribute to deceased members of the Association of Hamilton Alumni. It is said that his pen never slept. North’s sketches of the “lives and services” of Hamilton’s stelligerents — a word he originated, meaning “star-bearers” — betrayed an intimacy of association between teacher and student that has defined the Hamilton experience since the College’s founding.

Hamilton’s personality is many-hued, a bold composite of the students who have given life to the College for more than 200 years. In presenting these memorial biographies, we recount the lives of yesterday so that we may open a window onto the wondrous possibilities of Hamilton tomorrow.

Professor North’s tradition, lovingly begun in the 19th century, is alive today in the annual publication of Because Hamilton Remembers. Here we hold up the lives of our alumni to stir memories, engender admiration, and, ultimately, bind the Hamilton community together in its enduring common purpose.

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long connections to the College as the English and joined Psi Upsilon fraternity, Thomas Anthony Evans ’43, a former granddaughter of Hermann C.G. Brandt, Larry and Becky married and moved to pilot, insurance company executive, and Class of 1872, professor of modern her family’s farm near Stockbridge, Mich. volunteer teacher of Clinton, N.Y., was languages, and great-granddaughter of They would call that their home for the born on Dec. 31, 1919, in Plainfield, N.J., Marcus Catlin, Class of 1827, professor of next 50 years with Lindemer completing a son of the former Violet Truell and Noel mathematics and astronomy. Following his under­graduate degree at the University Evans, a banker. He graduated from Margaret’s death, Evans married the of Michigan. . former Patricia Renfro in 1992. They lived Lindemer served for two years in the Evans attended Hamilton for several in Florida, Clinton, and Southport, Maine, U.S. Army Air Force before earning his years but left during World War II to train where Evans had summered since J.D. in 1948, also from the University of as a pilot and teach instrument flying for childhood. Michigan. He spent the next few years as two years. On the Hill he was a member He enjoyed sailing, renovating a boat an assistant prosecuting attorney in of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the Honor that took the couple along the Atlantic Ingham County, Mich., a member of the Court, and the College Choir. He eventually coast, and driving throughout the U.S. Michigan House of Representatives, and as received a B.A. in English from Utica and Canada in a camper they renovated, a staff member of the Hoover Commission College in 1969 and earned 20 credits according to a published obituary. He was in Washington, D.C., before settling in for toward a graduate degree in social work a jazz pianist and a skilled watercolorist two decades at the law firm which would at Syracuse University. known for his individually painted eventually become Foster, Lindemer, Swift After working for three years as a Christmas cards every year. & Collins. pilot for American Airlines, Evans moved Evans died on Oct. 23, 2019, at the Lindemer remained active in the to Clinton and joined Utica Mutual age of 99. He is survived by his wife; four Republican party political scene, serving as Insurance Co. as an underwriter. He sons, including Thomas Evans, Jr. ’78; 11 Michigan state chairman (1957-61) and a retired after 35 years in the insurance grandchildren; and seven great-­ Republican candidate for attorney general business as a vice president. grandchildren. His daughter-in-law is (1966). He also served on the University of After retirement Evans began a Anne Priestly K’78. Michigan Board of Regents from 1969 to second career volunteering in day care 1975. The following year he became a centers in Clinton and Key Largo, Fla., justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. and as a teaching assistant in the Clinton Lawrence Boyd Lindemer then worked as a senior vice Elementary School. Lindemer ’43, an president and general counsel for Consum- Evans, who served his alma mater as a attorney active in ers Power Co. and later at the law firm of class agent and Career Center volunteer, Republican politics, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith. noted in class reunion yearbooks that was born on Aug. 21, Despite spending only a few years at living on College Hill Road so near 1921, in Syracuse, Hamilton, Lindemer noted in a reunion Hamilton allowed him to “[watch] N.Y., to the former yearbook, “The requirements of my first two the reunions come and go, [see] some of Altamae Reimers years at Hamilton — physical education, the guys I used to know.” As to the personal and George Lindemer. public speaking, English, a science, and influence of the College on his life, he He grew up in Upstate foreign language — gave a form to the remarked: “I have no philosophical words and relished time at the family education process which I needed. The of wisdom as to the value of my Hamilton camp on Skaneateles Lake where he would direction imposed at that time in my College education, but I’m glad I had it. meet his future bride, Rebecca Mead Gale. formative years has been a great help to me.” Don’t remember much, but it makes me Lindemer prepared for college at the Following his wife’s death in 1991, feel good.” . Lindemer married the former Jean Backus Evans married his first wife, the After two years on College Hill, where and spent the next chapter of his life in former Margaret Brandt, in 1943. She had he had focused his studies in history and Florida where the couple enjoyed making hamilton.edu/necrology 2 orange juice from fruit grown in a grove on Association, the Illinois State Medical as the East Peoria plant medical director their property. After Jean’s death he moved Society, and he was a diplomat of the for the Caterpillar Tractor Co. until his back to Michigan. American College of Surgeons. retirement in 1990. Lindemer, who served Hamilton as a Active in the community, Wolfe served Daniels was a fellow of the American class agent and reunion gift committee as a member and president of the Urbana Board of Medical Specialties in Preventive member, died on May 21, 2020, at the age Chamber of Commerce and the Urbana Medicine and Public Health, in addition of 98. He is survived by two sons, three Lions Club. He was a member of the First to Occupational Medicine. He was also a grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, Presbyterian Church in Urbana. After he member of the American Public Health and two great-great-grandchildren. retired in 1991, he loved to play bridge and Association, among other professional golf during winters in Florida. organizations. Survivors include four children, four During his retirement Daniels After a long life that grandchildren, three stepchildren, and worked on the medical staff of OSF included a successful step-grandchildren. His wife, the former St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria and career as a urologist Marion Bigelow, died in 2007; he was attended pediatric, internal medicine, and and service in the U.S. married two times previously. neurology grand rounds. He also served for Navy, Henry Ernest nine years as a board member of the OSF Wolfe, Jr. ’44 died St. Francis Medical Center College of on Oct. 21, 2019. Roswell “Ros” ­Nursing until 2015. Wolfe, of Champaign, George Daniels Daniels, who served Hamilton as a Ill., was 97. ’46, a doctor of class agent and reunion gift committee As noted in a occupational member, died on Nov. 10, 2019. He was 95. published obituary, he possessed a quick medicine of East Surviving are his wife, the former Jean wit and was always ready with a pun or a Peoria, Ill., and Aldag, and a son, daughter, stepson, and joke, remarks that came to be known as formerly of Morton, stepdaughter. His first wife, the former “Wolferisms.” A staunch Chicago Cubs fan, Ill., was born on Sept. Beverly Radley, died in 1996. he was delighted to see his team win the 15, 1924, in Water- World Series in his lifetime. town, N.Y., a son of Wolfe was born on Aug. 17, 1922, in the former Amelia Schwing and George Robert Gray Binghamton, N.Y., the son of Henry Wolfe, Daniels. He graduated from Watertown Howard ’46, a Sr., a banker, and the former Bess Jones, a High School. securities executive homemaker. He graduated from Bingham- Daniels attended Hamilton for almost who served his alma ton Central High School before moving on two years, pursuing an accelerated mater as a trustee, to college where he took premed course- program, before joining the Army Special was born in Johnson work and was involved with the Squires. In Training Program to study medicine. On City, N.Y., the son of an alumni reunion yearbook, he cited as the Hill he was a member of Tau Kappa Frank and Nan his special Hamilton memories, “The days Epsilon fraternity and received the Howard. Raised in of the ‘weather men, 1942, 1943, the long Benjamin Walworth and the Fayerweather Binghamton, N.Y., he hike from Clinton.’” prize scholarships. came to Hamilton only to have his Wolfe attended Albany Medical Daniels once described his Hamilton education suspended when he enlisted in College, graduating in 1947. From that year years as “[a]n excellent basic education and the Navy V-5 program in 1943 and was until 1956, he was an active-duty physician a gateway to medicine.” Indeed, he went on called to active duty and preflight training in the U.S. Navy. He did his internship in to earn his M.D. from the Rochester (N.Y.) in June of that year. 1947-48 at St. Albans Naval Hospital in School of Medicine in 1947. He interned at After receiving his “wings of gold” in Queens, N.Y., then spent the next two years Bellevue Hospital in New York and March 1945 and, after carrier qualifica- in his urology residency at St. Albans and completed his residency at Internal tion, Howard was awaiting assignment New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Medicine at Brooklyn Hospital from 1947 when World War II came to an end. He was Center. In 1950, the Korean War inter- to 1950. In 1960, he received a doctor of discharged in November and returned to rupted his training, and he was deployed public health degree in occupational College Hill in January 1946 to resume his on the ship USS Thomas Jefferson. Wolfe, medicine from the University of Pittsburgh. undergraduate studies. who took part in the Inchon landing, Daniels would spend two decades in Howard majored in German and departed the Navy with the rank of the U.S. Army, first participating in the political science. A member of Delta Kappa lieutenant colonel. Korean Inchon landing and then serving Epsilon fraternity, he participated in The same year he left the service, as a group surgeon in Korea from 1950 to drama productions, on the swim team, and Wolfe went to work as a urologist and 1951. He also served posts in Maryland, with WHC radio. He also earned the urology surgeon at the Carle Clinic and , Okinawa, Washington, D.C., and McKinney Public Speaking Prize. Hospital in Urbana, Ill., where he would Heidelberg, Germany. He completed his In 1948, with his Hamilton degree in spend the remainder of his career and military career as a commanding officer hand and his new wife, the former Janet become chief of urology. He also served of the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Staley, by his side, he returned to Bing- as chief of staff for the Carle Hospital Agency and was honorably discharged as hamton and his family’s retail hardware Foundation. Wolfe is remembered as a a captain in 1971. business, A.L. Davis Son, Inc. After five passionate and dedicated doctor. Among As a civilian, Daniels served as years, the Howards moved to Rye, N.Y., his professional affiliations, he was a medical director of the Chesapeake and where he went to work for the brokerage member of the American Medical Potomac Telephone Co. in Washington, firm Reynolds and Co. During his 30 years Association, the American Urological D.C., from 1971 to 1978, and then worked with the firm, he contributed to its

3 Joel Bristol Associate expansion and success until his retirement service gave rise to a lifelong love of ships Richard James in 1984 as executive vice president of what and things maritime. Carmer ’48, a vice had become Dean Witter Reynolds. Staring, who completed his degree president of the Throughout the years, Howard requirements in 1947, majored in mathe- Harden Furniture remained active in the life of the College. matics, trouped with the Charlatans, and Co., in McConnells- He served as a class agent and reunion was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha ville, N.Y., was born committee member, and in 1972 estab- fraternity. He remained on College Hill for on June 27, 1923, in lished an endowed scholarship awarded a year after graduation to work as a public Larchmont, N.Y., to each year to students with financial need. speaking instructor. the former Alma Three years later he joined the Board of Determined to relocate to warmer Sayles and Kenneth Trustees. As regional chair­man of the climes, Staring obtained a J.D. from the Carmer, a plumbing fixtures representa- Campaign for the ’90s, he attended 60 of University of California at Berkeley in 1951. tive. He graduated from Mamaroneck 66 events held throughout the country. In It was there where he met his future wife, (N.Y.) High School before enlisting in the 1994, he chaired the Crazy Mixed-Up Years the former Joyce Allum-Poon, a student U.S. Army, serving with the 10th Mountain Project that brought together Hamilton from Trinidad. They were married in 1949, Division from 1942 to 1944. men of the Greatest Generation who, like less than a year after the California Following his service, Carmer made him, had had their educations interrupted Supreme Court struck down the state’s his way to Hamilton where he was by service to their country. anti-miscegenation law, which would have a member of Student Council, Was Los, In 1996, on the occasion of his 50th prohibited their union, the obituary noted. the baseball team, and Alpha Delta Phi reunion, Howard was presented with an Staring worked for the Justice Depart- fraternity. A standout on skates, he also honorary degree for his lifetime service to ment for eight years and then joined the played for the Continentals hockey team the College, and in 1998 he gave the address San Francisco law firm of Lillick, McHose and professionally with the Clinton Comets. at Class & Charter Day appropriately titled & Charles (now Nixon Peabody LLP), Carmer noted in his 50th reunion “Straddling the War at Hamilton.” The where he mentored young lawyers and yearbook that because of his experiences diner in the Beinecke Student Activities developed an international reputation in on the Hill he “urged and successfully sent Village is named in his honor. maritime law and marine insurance. He all my children to liberal arts colleges, Once when asked what Hamilton has served as president of the Maritime Law Hamilton and similar schools.” meant to him, he responded, “A fine Association of the , was a Following his graduation, he accepted tradition and, lately, a chance to give back fellow of the American College of Trial a sales position with Harden Furniture, something in return for what the College Lawyers, and argued appeals, including owned by the family of his fellow Hamilton has given me.” before the U.S. Supreme Court. classmate David Harden. Carmer remained Howard also gave back to his local Active in his community, Staring with the company for 43 years until his community. He was a member of the Rye ­completed a term as president and later retirement as vice president of sales. Presbyterian Church and on community director of the Legal Aid Society of San During his Army service he became boards, including the local Republican Francisco, served on the city’s lawyers a skier and also enjoyed golf and tennis. Committee, the zoning board of appeals, committee for urban affairs, and repre- Carmer was an avid reader and a teacher the United Fund, and a hospital. He sented the mayor on the San Francisco-­ of history. He remained in the McConnells- enjoyed travel, skiing, golf, and following Shanghai friendship committee. ville community after his retirement and his grandchildren’s athletic events. Long passionate about writing, was involved with the nonprofit Cluster 13 Howard died on March 12, 2020, at Staring served as editor of American Ministries and the McConnellsville his home in Delray Beach, Fla., at the age Maritime Cases, authored a treatise on Community Church, among other of 95. In addition to his wife of 72 years, he reinsurance, and published many articles, activities. He also served Hamilton as class is survived by two daughters, two grand- including some while he was in his 90s. gift chair and reunion chair, and volun- children, and five great-grandchildren. His His love of words and books began at a teered for the Career Center. brother, Norman Howard, was a member young age; in retirement he took up Carmer died on Aug. 5, 2019. He was of the Class of 1936. bookbinding and collecting books, most 96 years old and is survived by his wife of for donation to libraries. 68 years, the former Jane Kies; four Staring once remarked on the children, including Richard Carmer, Jr. Graydon Shaw College’s influence on his life for his 50th ’73; six grandchildren; and two Staring ’46, an reunion yearbook, “Schools may brainwash great-grandchildren. attorney of Oakland, students in favor of their own ways of life Calif., was born on and learning. If so, I have been happily and April 9, 1923, in permanently brainwashed to revere the Robert Curtis Deansboro, N.Y., a son demands and gifts of the liberal arts, the Gross, Sr. ’48, of the former Eleanor civility of our student life, and the intimacy an attorney and oil Shaw and William of students and faculty, all of which still business executive of Staring. He graduated prevail on the Hill.” Portsmouth, R.I., was from Waterville (N.Y.) Staring, who long served his alma born on Oct. 22, 1926, High School. mater by hosting events and taking in Nyack, N.Y., a son Like so many alumni of his era, leadership roles in fundraising campaigns of the former Jean Staring’s education was interrupted by the by serving as class gift chair and reunion Michaud and Charles Second World War. He served as an officer gift chair, died on July 25, 2019. He was 96 Gross. He attended in the U.S. Navy and remained in the and is survived by his wife, a daughter, Nyack High School. Reserves, retiring as a commander. His a son, and eight grandchildren. hamilton.edu/necrology 4 On the Hill, Gross served as assistant Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa., Gent was former Marilyn Adams to whom he was manager of the baseball team, on the staff licensed as a physician and surgeon, married in 1949, he is survived by three of WHC radio, and was a member of practicing for 10 years. Following a sons and a daughter. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He was specialized residency in psychiatry, and awarded the Hawley Prize in Latin. eventual board certification, he practiced For Gross, the College’s name alone as a psychiatrist in Illinois, New York, Richard McGhee ’49, a retired special paved the way for success in life. “It’s New Jersey, and . education teacher, was born on March 5, amazing what a sheepskin can do for Gent was on the staff at Hanover 1925, in Queens, N.Y., a son of Anna you when it bears the words Collegii Hospital for many years, and after his Kueffner and William McGhee, a clerical Hamiltonensis,” he remarked in his retirement in 1993, he continued as a worker, and brother of William Charles 50th reunion yearbook. He noted that his staff member with the Adams-Hanover McGhee ’42. After graduating from degree led to graduation from a prestigious Counseling Center. During his long Jamaica High School, he followed in his law school and a career with a world-­ career he received numerous awards and brother’s footsteps to Hamilton. renowned oil company. lifetime achievements, according to a Dick McGhee remained on College Gross earned a J.D. in 1950 from published obituary. Hill for a year, after which he was gently Cornell School of Law and practiced law A lover of music, fishing, and studying asked to leave. He joined the U.S. Army privately for two years. In 1952, he began Scripture, Gent was a member or on the and served for three years during World a 30-year career with Texaco, Inc., retiring board of numerous community and War II. He earned a Bronze Star for valor as an officer of the corporation, heading international organizations. He and his in combat. After discharge, McGhee the shareholder relations division, and wife, Myrtle, also relished traveling to the returned to Hamilton, ready this time, and serving in the executive department. Not island of Bonaire, Israel, Hungary, Poland, completed his degree. On campus he was a one to remain idle, he then served as a the Czech Republic, and England. member of the Squires Club and the swim docent at the Newport Car Museum in Gent died on Oct., 7, 2019. He was 92 team. Named to the honorary Doers & Rhode Island. and is survived by two sons, two daughters, Thinkers, he focused his studies in history, Gross died on Aug. 1, 2019. He was 92 and several grandchildren and political science, and art. years old and is survived by his wife of 32 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased With no immediate career goals after years, the former Elizabeth “Lolly” Felter, by his wife and their eldest daughter. graduation, McGhee tried several things, three children, eight grandchildren, and including banking, which he hated, and six great-grandchildren. An earlier working for the American Automobile marriage to the former Roberta Stewart in Charles Roscoe Association (AAA). 1953 had ended in divorce. Lewis II ’49, an McGhee met his future wife, Mary environmental Louise Baker, on a blind date on Feb. 12, geologist, was born on 1955, set up by mutual friends Lois and Donald Herbert July 1, 1926, in Ilion, David Simonson ’47. Lois was a fellow Gent ’49, a psychia- N.Y., a son of Floyd teacher with Baker, and David was trist and surgeon of Lewis, a contractor, McGhee’s roommate at Hamilton. Hanover, Pa., was and the former Unbeknownst to the friends who intro- born on Dec. 8, 1926, Minnie Gamsby. He duced them, the couple continued dating in Endicott, N.Y., the prepared for Hamil- and were married five months later. second son of the ton at Mohawk Central School. An experience at a youth summer former Cora Trippe Active on campus in the College Choir, camp pointed McGhee to his eventual and Thomas Gent, an the Charlatans, and WHC radio, he was a career, and in 1957, he attended CW Post electrician. He member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The College to earn his teaching credentials. graduated from Endicott Union High 1949 Hamiltonian yearbook noted, For most of his career, he taught special School in 1944. “Chuck’s sincerity, all-around ability, and needs students in middle and high school. Gent entered Hamilton that year, but Gay Nineties renditions will make his McGhee recalled some great stories from his studies were interrupted by World War name long remembered.” that experience, including how he taught II. He returned to campus in the fall of After graduating with a major in his students to play checkers on the tiles of 1946 and graduated with the Class of 1949, geology and Phi Beta Kappa honors, Lewis the classroom floor using books as pieces although he is also listed with the Class of went on to do graduate work at Harvard when it was storming outside and recess ’50. Gent noted years later that he felt and the University of Colorado in geology. was canceled. There was also the tale of “betwixt and between.” On the Hill, he He eventually joined Dames and Moore, an how a very large, very angry high school majored in biology and physics. environmental specialist, and became a boy was going after one of his peers. Gent credited his experience on partner in that firm based in Washington. McGhee stepped in between the two boys College Hill with bolstering his future In his retirement, he moved to New to restore order when the angry student success. “I used to think all schools were Woodstock, N.Y. just picked him up and said, “Excuse me, roughly equal, but Hamilton is tougher, Lewis’ long list of volunteer activities Mr. McGhee” and put him to one side. more comprehensive than other schools, for Hamilton included service as class In 1969, the McGhees moved to Fort and gave me an advantage,” he wrote for president and class agent. He was also Lauderdale, Fla., where they both contin- his 50th reunion yearbook. proud that his father-in-law, Samuel ued their teaching careers. Dick retired in After earning an M.D. from Columbia Adams, was a graduate of the College, 1991, becoming a househusband and University in 1952 and pursuing an Class of 1916. kindergarten helper until Mary Lou retired internship and residency in internal Lewis died on Oct. 26, 2019, at the in 2003. They liked to travel and, by medicine at Robert Packer Hospital and age of 93. Predeceased by his wife, the happenstance, developed a special relation-

5 Joel Bristol Associate ship with a family that ran a small hotel in Washington in 1963 where he joined the Hays and Grant Curry, an attorney. He Appleby, England. For many years they throngs to hear Rev. Martin Luther King, prepared for college at spent every Christmas season at the hotel, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. School in Connecticut. where they were treated like family. Known to carry a worn copy of the Curry served in the U.S. Army in When reflecting on his years at Constitution in his back pocket wherever World War II in Europe from 1943 to 1946. Hamilton for his 50th reunion yearbook, he went, Parrott loved opera, films, and After arriving on College Hill, he majored McGhee noted, “The two most important the L.A. Dodgers. He was legendary for his in art and anthropology and participated things Hamilton gave me were the buttermilk pancakes, dry wit, sharp mind, in the College Choir, Glee Club, and the self-confidence to face new situations and compassionate spirit, the obituary staff of the humor magazineRoyal Gaboon. without panicking and to keep an open noted. He credited his alma mater with A lacrosse player, he was a member of Chi mind about persons, places, and things. opening up new worlds. “Hamilton was Psi fraternity. Both gifts have stood me in good stead like experiencing the Enlightenment all Curry, who later served Hamilton as a over the years.” over again. It’s not that everything that class agent, reflected on his College Hill McGhee died on May 25, 2019, at the had gone on before was darkness, but it years as providing a discipline for his life age of 94. In addition to his wife, he is all seemed constrained by past ways of and career. He noted in his 40th reunion survived by a niece and nephew, and a looking at things, whether it was at school yearbook, “Oddly, I have felt well-prepared grand-niece and grand-nephew. His niece or home or church,” he wrote for his 50th for life and creativity even though the Art contributed her memories for this obituary. reunion yearbook. Department of the ’40s must have been one Parrott died on Aug.17, 2019. He was of the school’s least developed programs.” 92 and is survived by his wife of 31 years, After graduation, he earned an M.F.A. Douglas Morris the former Christine Petzar; a son; a at The Ohio State University in Columbus Parrott ’49, a daughter; a stepdaughter; nine grandchil- and taught art at Miami University in Presbyterian minister dren; and seven great-grand­children. He Oxford from 1960 until his retirement in and professor was predeceased in 1983 by his first wife, 1995. In 1994, the university established emeritus of religious the former Anne Elder. an endowment in his name for an annual studies of Riverside, award to recognize a distinguished Calif., was born on educator in the College of Creative Arts. July 16, 1927, in Utica, David Robert Bannatyne ’50, an An activist, Curry was interested in N.Y., a son of the insurance agent of Stratford, Conn., was historic preservation, animal rights, former Helen Morris born on Aug. 5, 1926, in New York City and wildlife, and the environment. He and William Parrott, a manufacturer. adopted by the former Mary Freethy and maintained 20 acres with a menagerie He was raised in Stamford, Conn., and Rodney Bannatyne. He entered Hamilton of donkeys, goats, exotic fowl, and dogs. graduated from Stamford High School. with the Class of ’48, but his studies were Curry died on June 26, 2019, at the Parrott focused his studies in English interrupted when he left to serve as age of 94. In 1954, he married the former literature and philosophy at the College. a sergeant in the U.S. Army during Lucy Sebald; he is survived by a son and a He was a member of Squires, the Charla- World War II. daughter, five grandchildren, and 12 tans, College Choir, and the Student Bannatyne returned to the College great-grandchildren. Two cousins, Charles Christian Association, for which he served after his discharge and completed his Estabrook, Jr. and Henry Estabrook, were two years as president. Elected to Phi Beta degree requirements with the Class of ’50. members of the Class of ’33 and ’37, Kappa, he received the Babcock Philosophy On the Hill he was active on the soccer respectively. Prize before earning a master’s of divinity and skiing teams and with the Outing in 1952 and a master’s of sacred theology Club. A member and captain of the in 1965 from Union Theological Seminary Cheerleading Club, he was also a member Robert Bigelow in New York City. of Psi Upsilon fraternity. DeMaine ’50, whose Parrott served as a Presbyterian He was co-owner of the Town Hall career trifecta minister in Cold Spring, N.Y., and Ring- Insurance Agency in Stratford and was included teacher, city wood, N.J., before pursuing an academic a Mason who served as president of the planner, and land- career. In 1965, he moved to California, Stratford YMCA. In his free time, he scape designer, was where he earned a Ph.D. in 1970 from the enjoyed gardening, tennis, and bridge born on Oct. 20, 1929, Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. during retirement, according to an earlier and raised in New From 1968 to 1971, he was part of an inter­ class notes entry in the Hamilton York City, a son of national team of scholars who translated Alumni Review. Harry DeMaine, an fourth-century Gnostic writings found in Bannatyne died on Aug. 4, 2019, a day artist, and the former Lucy MacDonald, a a jar in 1945 near Nag Hammadi in Upper before his 93rd birthday. He is survived secretary to the American Field Service Egypt. The impact of Gnosticism on early by two children and three grandchildren.­ Ambulance Corps during the World Wars. Christianity became a research interest, He was predeceased by his first wife, Janet At Hamilton, he focused his studies according to a published obituary. Young Richardson, and his second wife, on art and history while finding time to In 1971, Parrott joined the religious the former Joan Palmer. participate on the track and cross country studies department at the University of teams, the Charlatans, the Outing Club, California at Riverside, where he taught Intramural Council, and Squires Club. courses on the Hebrew Bible and New Crossan Hays Curry ’50, an artist After earning a degree at Harvard Testament, and the history of Christianity and art professor of Oxford, Ohio, was Graduate School of Education and two and Islam. He was committed to social born on Sept. 16, 1924, in Pittsburgh, one years in the U.S. Army (1951-53), he used justice and participated in the March on of eight children of the former Carolyn the G.I. Bill for another year at Teacher’s hamilton.edu/necrology 6 College, Columbia University. He then from the early 1950s until the company American Society of International Law, taught art at West Orange (N.J.) High was sold in 1968. He then served as a and the Texas Association of Bank Counsel. School for nine years. circulation director for the Elmira Blanchard balanced his legal acumen In 1963, a different career called, Star-Gazette and Sunday Telegram. with a flair for the arts. He pursued classes and he landed at the University of North In 1969, Gow and his wife, the former at El Centro College and Southern Method- Carolina Graduate School of City and Helen Hudda, purchased and operated a ist University. His works, which he created Regional Planning. With his new master’s ski lodge, the Christmas Tree Inn in in many media — from oil paintings and degree in hand, he became the first Warren, which was sold in 1993. charcoal-and-ink drawings, to sculptures full-time planner for the town of Chapel Gow played golf for 80 years and was and woodcuttings — were occasionally on Hill (1966-78). Later he became a regional known for his short game, according to a exhibit and featured in the book Art in planner at the Triangle J Council of published obituary. He was an avid reader, Church. He left behind numerous Christ- Governments. believing there was always much to learn mas cards created for family and friends, Although he had a talent for city about the world. Most years, he visited the as well as hundreds of paintings, according planning, DeMaine felt as if his creativity Gatineau Club, a hunting and fishing venue to a published obituary. was not being tapped to its full potential. in Quebec purchased by his father in 1937, Blanchard died on Aug. 16, 2019, at In 1979, he entered a two-year program in where he enjoyed those pursuits. the age of 92. He is survived by his wife of landscape design at North Carolina State Gow died on Nov. 1, 2019. He was 92 70 years, the former Louise Develin, three University. He was mostly self-employed in years old and is survived by one daughter children, and four grandsons. He was that field for several years beginning in and two granddaughters. He was prede- predeceased by his oldest daughter in 1976. 1981. In 1992, he eased into his final career, ceased by his wife. volunteering several days a week at Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet Elementary Peter Torrey School in Durham, an activity he enjoyed W. Arthur Blanchard, Jr. ’51, an Cameron ’51, whose for 28 years until late 2019. attorney and artist of Dallas, was born on passion for music DeMaine remained active throughout Oct. 24, 1926, in Haskell, Okla., a son of followed him through- his life. In 1965, he discovered the Chapel the former Susan Fanning, a schoolteacher, out his life, was born Hill International Folk Dance Club, which and Arthur Blanchard, Sr., a postmaster. on June 13, 1929, in he had been an active part of through its He graduated in 1944 from Cherryvale Wilmington, Del., a 55th anniversary in 2019. A runner since High School in Kansas and received a son of the former his Hamilton days, h