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Tag: Obituary
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Campus & Community
HLS Professor Roger Fisher dies
Roger D. Fisher ’43, LL.B. ’ 48, co-author of the perennial best-selling book “Getting to Yes” and the Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard University, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He was 90 years old.
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Campus & Community
Harvard baseball coach dies
Joe Walsh, the Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, died suddenly at his Chester, N.H., home early this morning, the Department of Harvard Athletics announced July 31.
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Campus & Community
Horace Gray Lunt II
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Horace Gray Lunt II, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Lunt spearheaded a golden age of Slavic studies.
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Campus & Community
Oleg Grabar
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Grabar was one of Islamic art and architecture’s most influential and insightful scholars.
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Campus & Community
Memorial for Paul Doty
A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
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April 20 memorial to honor Jewett
A memorial service celebrating the life of L. Fred Jewett ’57, M.B.A. ’60, former dean of Harvard College and a longtime University administrator, will be held in the Memorial Church on April 20.
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Campus & Community
Oscar Handlin
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Handlin was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of…
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Campus & Community
Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
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Campus & Community
Ronold W. P. King
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ronold W. P. King, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor King, a dedicated teacher and scholar, was an expert on linear antennas.
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Campus & Community
Allan R. Robinson
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Allan R. Robinson, Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Robinson’s insights into the Gulf Stream, the evolution of ocean eddies, and the dynamics…
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Campus & Community
Michael Tinkham
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Michael Tinkham, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Emeritus, was placed upon the records.…
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Campus & Community
May 14 memorial for David Wheeler
A memorial service has been set for longtime A.R.T. resident director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 4.
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Campus & Community
Barbara Lindsay Norton, 20-year staffer, dies
Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.
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Campus & Community
Land-use law pioneer, Charles M. Haar, 91
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus Charles M. Haar ’48, a pioneer in land-use law whose scholarship focused on laws and institutions of city planning, urban development, and environmental issues, died on Jan. 10.
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Campus & Community
March memorial for Norman Ramsey
The Department of Physics will host a memorial ceremony for Nobel laureate and former physics professor Norman Ramsey.
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Campus & Community
Music scholar, John Milton Ward, 94
John Milton Ward, Harvard’s William Powell Mason Professor of Music from 1961 to 1985, died quietly at home in Cambridge on Dec. 12. He was 94 years old.
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Campus & Community
Former A.R.T. resident director dies
David Wheeler, longtime resident director and later associate artist of the American Repertory Theater, died Jan. 4.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service for Bernie Wolfman
Harvard Law School will host a memorial Service in honor of Bernie Wolfman on Feb. 3.
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Campus & Community
Paul Doty, 91, founder of Belfer Center
Paul Doty, the founder of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died Dec. 5 at the age of 91.
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Campus & Community
Abraham Zaleznik, HBS professor, 87
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, a renowned authority on leadership and social psychology, died in Boston on Nov. 28 at the age of 87.
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Campus & Community
Charles M. Williams dies at 94
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of M.B.A. students and executives around the world, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 17. He was 94.
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96
Norman Ramsey, Harvard physics professor since 1947 and Nobel laureate in 1989, died at age 96 on Nov. 4, 2011.
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Campus & Community
Yannatos memorial on Dec. 10
A memorial service for composer and conductor James Yannatos will be held on Dec. 10 in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
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HBS’s Paul. R. Lawrence, 89
Paul R. Lawrence, a renowned sociologist and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of Harvard Business School (HBS), died Nov. 1 in Bedford, Mass. He was 89. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Story Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
James Yannatos, conductor, 82
Composer and conductor James Yannatos, who as leader of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for more than 45 years worked with thousands of young musicians, died at his home in Cambridge on Oct. 19 from complications of cancer. He was 82.
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Campus & Community
Rosenbloom, HBS professor, 78
Richard S. Rosenbloom, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, died on Oct. 24 at the age of 78.
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Campus & Community
Norman Paul, family therapy pioneer, 85
Norman Paul, an innovator in the use of family therapy to treat mental illness, died on Oct. 14.
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Campus & Community
Jan Merrill-Oldham, preservation librarian, dies
Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard’s Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian from 1995 to 2010 and the driving force in developing the renowned preservation programs in the Harvard Library, died Oct. 5 at her home in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
Lee Davenport, radar physicist, 95
Lee L. Davenport, a pioneering radar physicist who has been credited for helping to bring an end to World War II, died on Sept. 30, of cancer in Greenwich, Conn.
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Campus & Community
Oscar Handlin, historian, 95
Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, died from a heart attack on Sept. 20 at his Cambridge home. He was 95.
