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DECEASED
The section was updated January 30, 2013. Please note that deaths are reported
as we receive notice of them. Therefore, alumni dates of death are not always
reported chronologically.
1932— Oscar Solomon Straus II
January 11, 2013
1933— Robert Hallowell Shaw
December 6, 2012
1936— Charles Denston Dickey Jr.
December 9, 2012
1936—Samuel Bradford Legg II
October 2, 2012
1937—Colton Packer Wagner
January 4, 2013
1938—Romeyn Everdell
January 3, 2013
1941—Donald Davidson “Dave”
Dodge Jr.
October 17, 2012
1 943—John Battice Ford III
December 31, 2012
1943—John Baker “Jack” Hollister Jr.
November 22, 2012
1943—William Schoellkopf Jr.
July 12, 2011
1945—Simon Pleydell Bouverie
September 3, 2012
1945—Dawson Callery Heron
December 2, 2012
1945—Richard Havelock Soule
December 22, 2012
1946—Miles Eliot Herter
December 3, 2012
1946—Arter Fisher Hughes
January 11, 2013
1946—Stephen Joy Packard
January 10, 2013
1946—Wilmot Whitney Jr.
January 18, 2013
1947—Philip Schuyler de Gozzaldi
January 15, 2012
1931
Bruce Howe
a noted archae-
ologist, fine art
enthusiast, and
accomplished
amateur artist,
died on Febru-
ary 29, 2012,
at Blenheim-
Newport, an
assisted living
community in Middletown, R.I., at the
age of 99.
He was born on November 20, 1912, in
Washington, D.C., to Walter Bruce Howe,
an international lawyer, and Mary Howe,
a popular American composer. Mr. Howe
entered St. Paul’s School in 1926 and was
an active, bright, and well-liked student.
He was a member of the Acolyte Guild
and the Cadmean/Concordian Literary
Society and participated in crew, cross
country, football, and squash. The Rector
described him as a “receptive and delight-
ful boy” and, later, as a “thoroughly able,
reliable, and refined young man.”
Mr. Howe went on to Yale University,
earning his degree with the Class of 1935.
He served in the United States Army during
World War II, and in 1952 he received his
Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard.
Between 1947 and 1975, he conducted
fieldwork and excavations in prehistoric
archaeology in North Africa for the Amer-
ican School of Prehistoric Research at
Harvard University, the Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Howard
University. He also worked in Iraqi Kurdi-
stan and Turkey for the Oriental Institute
of the University of Chicago and for sev-
eral years was a member of the Prehistory
Department of the University of Istanbul.
The results of his work in anthropology
have been published by the Peabody
Museum and the Oriental Institute.
While pursuing his archaeology career,
Mr. Howe was also an avid art collector
and amateur artist. He served as presi-
dent of the Newport Art Association for
1948—Joseph Denny Sargent
November 7, 2012
1950—John Welsh Stokes II
December 31, 2012
1951—William Coolidge Smith
January 7, 2012
1953—George “Gordon” Bellis
January 24, 2013
1954—Peter Place Cook Jr.
October 29, 2012
1957—Alexander Alexandrovich
“Sandy” Zvegintzov
October 14, 2012
1958—Paul “Taylor” Lonsdale
July 29, 2012
1960—George Lee Sargent Jr.
January 25, 2013
1961—Peter Richard Lord Sexton
December 8, 2012
1963—Lawrence Howard Billingsley
December 5, 2012
1966—Eric Charles Stull
April 28, 2011
1968—Merle David Newberg
November 5, 2011
1973—Hugh Campbell Ward III
January 16, 2013
1978—Elizabeth Wallace Alexander
October 23, 2012
1984—Henry Clark Whittlesey
December 21, 2012
1987—Raymond George Letourneau Jr.
January 27, 2013
1992—Francesca di Paolo Drew
September 26, 2012
Former Staff
Louise Wilhelmine (Grass) Schade
November 1, 2012