Doug George, 57, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at his home in Dover, while in the company of his loving and devoted family. Doug succumbed after a challenging three-year battle with cancer. Doug was born in Concord, the first child of Morton Minot George and Norma (Badger) George. He attended local schools, graduating from Concord…
Vincent A. Lamanna, age 83, died on Oct. 18, 2010, at the Maples Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Wrentham, MA surrounded by the comfort of his loving family. He was the son of the late Phillip and Rose (Sassone) Lamanna. Known as Vinnie to all his OH friends, he was born in Lynn on June…
Agustas Peterle, 93, died Friday, June 23,2010. Gus had returned to Stonington in 2008 from his longtime home in West Wardsboro, Vt. He was born Gustav Peterla Jr. on Nov. 28, 1916 in Amesbury, where he grew up and graduated high school. He worked in the CCC’s in Vermont and the Amesbury Hat Factory. During…
Polly McLane Lit, 92, died peacefully with family members at her side on April 30, 2010 at RiverMead Retirement Community in Peterborough, NH. Polly was born Mary Andrews Smith in Braintree, MA on October 25, 1917, the daughter of Ralph and Margaret Smith. She graduated from Thayer Academy in 1934 and Phi Beta Kappa from…
Dr. Ricardo Presnell, 51, died in a Utah avalanche on Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010. Ricardo’s loving wife of 21 years, Caroline Kroko, brother Craig, and his family of friends from around the world know that he was living life big and doing what he loved. Ricardo was a man who brought people together: a man…
Edward ‘Moose’ Damp was born July 21, 1921, in Pittsburgh, PA, and passed away on March 3, 2009 in Sarasota, FL. The second son of Albert and Elizabeth (O’Grady) Damp, he had two sisters and two brothers. Ed graduated from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, PA in 1939 and soon after set off on adventure…
Alan Rimm-Kaufman, died from leukemia on Saturday July 18, 2009 at age 41. He is survived by his wife, and two children. Alan worked for the AMC for 4 years, at Pinkham, Galehead, Camp Dodge and Trail Crew. Alan was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Essie and Norman Kaufman. After growing up in…
Carolyn “Cary” Girod, a 31-year-old Cambridge Mass resident and math teacher at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, died July 6, 2009 from injuries after being struck by a van while riding her bicycle down State Route 105 in Washington state. Prior to teaching at Buckingham Browne and Nichols, Girod taught mathematics and environmental science for two…
Henry “Pete” Harris, age 79 of Needham passed away on May 3, 2009 after a life long struggle with COPD, in his home in his sleep. He was employed by the US Postal service for thirty years and retired in 1992. Mr. Harris was born and raised in Winchester, MA and was a graduate of…
Charles Henry Rowan, of Boulder Colorado, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009. Originaly from Fitchburh MA, he was 83. He is survived by his son, Mark Rowan, his daughter, Lori Hansen, both residing in Colorado, and three sisters. Chuck spent time in the White Mountains in the late 40s and then again in the early…
William S. Ashbrook Jr. ‘El Wacko’, 87, died March 31, 2009 at his retirement community in Denver. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, January 28,1922 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University with degrees in English literature. He worked at Pinkham in 1939, Lonesome in 1940, Carter in 1941, and Zealand in…
M. Brooke Halsey died November 17, 2009 in Vermont at the age of 26. He worked at Madison hut in 2003. Halsey started college at Princeton in fall of 2000 and studied for a semester at the Center for Northern Studies in Vermont. He transferred to Harvard in the fall of 2004, finishing college in…
Dr. Herbert “Hub” Sise died peacefully on April 18, 2008 in the company of his children and his beloved care-giver. Born in Medford Mass in 1912, his mother was Eleanor Stanwood Sise and his father, Dr. Lincoln Fleetford Sise, was the Anesthesiologist for Dr. Frank Lahey, founder of the Lahey Clinic. Hub schooled at Phillips…
Malcolm McLane, 83, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at his home at Kendal retirement community in Hanover, NH. Born Oct. 3, 1924, in Manchester, McLane served on the Concord City Council for 20 years and as mayor of Concord NH from 1970 to 1976. He ran for governor in 1972 as an independent in the…
Arthur “Art” Harris died January 6, 2008 in Vermont. He worked at Pinkham in the late ’30s and early ’40s and was a life member of the AMC.
Bob Trumbull (Greenleaf ’44, Lakes ’45) died in New Haven on September 21, 2007. Bob was a Harvard graduate (’52), salesman for Taylor Instrument Co. and, at his retirement, business manager in Yale’s department of Comparative Medicine. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and a son, John.
Frederick H. Greene died May 8, 2007.
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (June 7, 1910 – January 10, 2007) was an explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer extraordinaire. He was the director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939-1980, and was its Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment) from 1985 until his death. He was an Honorary Member of the OHA and owned the…
Fred Stott died Friday 12/1/2006 at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He was 89. After retiring from a 31-year career as the secretary of Phillips Academy in Andover, Frederic A. Stott had new business cards printed. They were simple, bearing only his name, phone number, and one word: advocate. “Toward the end of his career…
Sam Goodhue, of Bartlett, died peacefully in his sleep at his home on August 17, 2006. He was 84. He died early in the morning and that day the morning weather show on WMWV, which Sam always listened to, rated the day a “50 center.” Sam would have gotten a kick out of that. A…
