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Despite his demanding career and
several personal tragedies – including the
deaths of his first wife, his daughter, and
his son, and his own battle with cancer –
Mr. Stevens found time to give back to his
community in a variety of ways. He vol-
unteered with Habitat for Humanity in
Maine and Pennsylvania and with the
Jimmy Carter Work Project in California.
He enjoyed the outreach work of his church
and served on the board of directors of
several community nonprofits.
Mr. Stevens is survived by his wife of
31 years, Dorothy Mikelonis; his sons,
Mark and Edwin and their families; and
three grandsons. He was predeceased
by his first wife, Alix Moncheur Loree,
his son, Philip Lyman, and his daughter,
Alice Pendleton.
1953
Harmin Visscher Wood
who was admired
for his intellect
and his spirit of
adventure, died
on March 4, 2014,
at Princess Grace
Hospital in Mo-
naco after a brief
illness. He was 78
and left this world
knowing he was loved and cherished by
his family and friends.
Mr. Wood’s remains were committed to
the Mediterranean Sea, which connects
him for eternity to our shores and his
beloved Europe.
Born in New York City on December 5,
1935, Mr. Wood was raised in Bronxville,
N.Y., and Stonington, Conn. He entered
St. Paul’s School as a Second Former in
the fall of 1948. At St. Paul’s, he enjoyed
reading and playing chess. He competed
with Old Hundred and Halcyon and was
a member of the Missionary Society.
Mr. Wood went on to Cornell Univer-
sity, graduating with the Class of 1957.
He spent his career as a reinsurance
executive. He lived for many years with
his wife and children in Westfield, N.J.,
until his retirement to Europe.
Mr. Wood was intelligent, an enthusi-
astic student of the arts, and someone
who thrived on adventure. He is survived
by his former wife, Ann; his daughter,
Phyllis; his son, Tad; his brother, Franklin
Secor Wood Jr. ’51; his sister, Mary Visscher
Wood; and his five grandchildren, Katie,
Andrew, Alison, Ben, and Chris.
1955
Arturo Roberto
“Bobby” Quevedo
a prominent ophthalmologist, who prac-
ticed in Guatemala and started an eye
foundation to serve underprivileged
Central American citizens, died on March
8, 2014, of complications stemming from
a heart attack. He was 76.
Dr. Quevedo was born on December 14,
1937, in Guatemala City, where his father,
Arturo Quevedo, was a practicing oph-
thalmologist. He attended Instituto
Infantes in Guatemala until his father
sent him to St. Paul’s School as a Second
Former in 1950.
Although he came from a Spanish-
speaking environment, Bobby Quevedo
spoke English fluently and spent much of
his time skiing and skating like someone
who hailed from a more northern climate.
He played both football and lacrosse
for Delphian and was a member of the
SPS lacrosse team as a Sixth Former. Dr.
Quevedo also rowed for Shattuck and
served as president of the Spanish club,
La Junta, as a Sixth Former. He was also
a member of the SPS Ski Club and par-
ticipated with the gym team.
From a young age, Bobby Quevedo
aspired to follow in his father’s footsteps
by becoming an eye doctor in Guatemala.
He went on to join Harvard University’s
Class of 1959, where he earned a degree
in biochemistry, and then went on to
medical school at McGill University in
Montreal. Dr. Quevedo completed his
medical training at the Massachusetts
Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston.
He was married to Melita W. de Mar-
roquin and the couple had a son, Arturo
Roberto “Robert” Quevedo Jr. ’91. The
marriage ended in divorce.
Dr. Quevedo moved back to Guatemala
in 1968 because he wanted to make a
difference in his country. “If I’d stayed
in North America,” he said in an article
for a 2013 McGill University Faculty of
Medicine publication, “I figured I’d just
be another ophthalmologist, but if I went
back to Guatemala, I thought I could have
an impact.”
Dr. Quevedo worked alongside his father
for two years, until the elder Quevedo
died of a heart attack in 1970. Bobby
Quevedo continued practicing alone, even
as a civil war erupted in Guatemala. More
than once he opened a clinic, only to have
to close it because of fighting. This did
not deter him from continuing his work,
however. In 1969, Dr. Quevedo established
a small eye clinic, which, five years later,
became the Department of Ophthalmol-
ogy at Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala
City. According to the same McGill article,
he also created the Guatemalan Eye
Foundation, which became the financial
arm of the new hospital department. In
1999, by presidential decree, it became
the Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología de
Guatemala, receiving a subsidy from
Guatemala’s health ministry.
Thanks to Dr. Quevedo, where there
was once a dire shortage of ophthal-
mologists in the region, there are now
hundreds of eye doctors practicing across
Central America – more than 200 of them
trained at the eye unit under Dr. Quevedo
himself. His clinic now treats more than
1,000 people each day, predominantly
from the country’s underprivileged
population. Dr. Quevedo has had such
an effect on the poor in his country that
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