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Mr. Lewis is survived by Ms. Jones; his
daughter and son-in-law, Alexandra and
George Deutsch; his son and daughter-
in-law, Wilmott “Bill” Lewis III and Meg;
his son and daughter-in-law, Brett
Noyes Lewis ’77 and Cappy ’76; nine
grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchild-
ren. Mr. Lewis was predeceased by his
former wife, Suzanne Alexander.
1945
Donald P. Welles Jr.
of Lake Bluff, Ill.,
passed away on
April 5, 2012, just
three days shy of
his 85th birthday.
At St. Paul’s,
Mr. Welles repre-
sented Isthmian
in football and
hockey and was
a member of the Radio Club. His father,
Donald P. Welles, was a member of the
Form of 1917.
After enlisting in the Army and serving
in the European Theater from 1945 to
1947, Mr. Welles entered Yale University,
graduating with the Class of 1951. After
college, he was associated with Besly-
Welles Corporation in South Beloit, Ill.,
and later founded Welles Products, Inc. in
Roscoe, Ill. After moving from Rockford
to Lake Forest, he founded Hydrocyclon-
ics Corporation (HYCOR), a liquid-solid
separation water purification company
located in Lake Bluff.
He was predeceased by his first wife,
Gerry Snow Welles, and is survived by
his second wife, Anne Bolling Welles, as
well as his four daughters and seven
grandchildren.
1946
Frank “Monty” Fremont
Reed II
of Santa Barbara,
Calif., a lawyer
with passions for
genealogy, music,
and travel, died
peacefully at his
home with his
beloved wife by
his side on Sep-
tember 26, 2012.
He was 84 years old and passed away
with renal failure after a valiant battle
to recover from injuries sustained in a
car crash.
Born in Chicago, Ill., on June 15, 1928,
he was the son of Allen Martin Reed and
Frances de Ferriere Faurot Reed. Mr. Reed
attended the Latin School of Chicago prior
to entering St. Paul’s as a Fourth Former
in 1943. During his three years at the
School, he participated in the Missionary
Society, played football and ran track as a
Delphian, and rowed with Shattuck.
Mr. Reed went on to earn his A.B. in
French from the University of Michigan
in February 1952. At Michigan, he served
as president of Le Cercle Fran çais, sec-
retary of the Pre-Law Association and
the Council of the International Students’
Association, director of the International
Pageant, and fleet captain of the Sailing
Club.
Mr. Reed’s graduate studies at Michi-
gan Law School were interrupted after
one month, when he was drafted by the
U.S. Army in the summer of 1952 during
the Korean War. After basic training with
the 101st Airborne Division at Camp
Breckinridge, Ky., he was rejected for
Officer Candidate School due to his eye-
sight and reassigned to the Adjutant
General’s School at Fort Benjamin Harrison
in Indianapolis, Ind. He later transferred
to the Office of the Post Judge Advocate,
where he served for two years, moving
up from private to corporal as an assist-
ant chief legal clerk until the fall of 1954.
Upon completion of his military service,
Mr. Reed returned to Ann Arbor, earning
his J.D. in 1957. In law school, he served
on the Council of the Law Students’
Association, as the editor of The 1957
Quad, the law school yearbook, and
joined Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity.
Shortly after his graduation from law
school, Mr. Reed was admitted to the
Illinois bar and the Federal bar. He began
his career in the U.S. Patent Office. He
spent 20 years practicing law in Chicago.
In 1959, he incorporated the Chicago
Foundation for Theater Arts for Bereniki
Robbins, serving for five years as its
secretary and director and successfully
arguing before the Internal Revenue
Service for its tax-exempt status as a
library for literary works, an argument
later copied by the Chicago Symphony
and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
In 1963, Mr. Reed married his child-
hood sweetheart, Jaquelin Silverthorne
Matthiessen Cox. Years later, when asked
by St. Paul’s in an alumni survey to name
the “high spot in his life’s journey” he
wrote, “my marriage to Jaque with her
four children as my ‘instant family.’” He
embraced his step-children, Elizabeth,
Laura, Mark ’73, and Jeffrey as his own,
and the Reeds also added two daugh-
ters, Nancy ’82 and Sarah, to their family.
Active in his community, Mr. Reed
served as chairman of the Usher’s Guild
and vestryman at St. Chrysostom’s Epis-
copal Church in Chicago, and was cub
master of Pack 3014 and chairman of
Troop 14 of the Boy Scouts of America
for the Latin School of Chicago. Addition-
ally, he served as a Republican precinct
captain and director and president of
the North State, Astor, Lake Shore Drive
Association.
In 1978, Mr. and Mrs. Reed retired to
Santa Barbara, Calif., where he pursued
his passions for genealogy, music, and
travel. He published several volumes of
family history. He was also a member
of the Wausaukee Club and the Birnam
Wood Club and served as treasurer of
the Community Arts Music Association.
Known for his honor, optimism, and
generosity, Mr. Reed will be missed by
friends and family, most especially his
true love, Jaquelin, who survives him. He
also leaves his children, Libby Mason,
Laura Stern, Mark Matthiessen ’73, Jeffrey
Reed, Nancy Reed Watson ’82, and Sarah
Reed Farmer; and three grandchildren.
1947
Richard Levering Hilliard
a screenwriter
known for penn-
ing the “first
horror-monster
musical,” died on
August 7, 2012, in
Henderson, Nev.,
at the age of 83.
A native of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., he was
the youngest of three sons born to Henry
(Form of 1910) and Elizabeth W. Hilliard.
He was the youngest Hilliard in a long
succession of family members to attend
DECEASED