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…
Allen B. Sanderson of Gloucester, a former Littleton resident who had been a reporter, teacher, and an avid sailor, died Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was 75. He was born Jan. 22, 1931, the son of Bennett and Caroline (Potter) Sanderson. He attended Littleton public schools, and graduated from The…
Phil Costello, Founder and Director of Project U.S.E. lost his year and half long battle with bone cancer on December 11, 2005. Phil was 64. A former marine, Phil became a teacher at Trenton NJ high school in the 1960’s, working with kids everyone else had given up on. During those early years he spend…
Bertram “Swoop” Goodwin, 93, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and later industrial engineer with the Post Office, died Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, at the Hunt Community in Nashua, NH. Col. Goodwin was born and lived in Marblehead, Mass., at Doaks Lane until going into the Army. He was the son of the…
William Hastings, Sr., 76, of Shelburne, NH, passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. He was born in Bethel, ME, on April 20, 1929, the son of William And Ruth (Cole) Hastings, and was raised in Bethel. After graduating from Gould Academy, he joined the US Marines…
Arthur ‘Skiwax’ MacGregor of Concord NH died August 26, 2005 in Concord at age 93. He got his nickname from Joe Dodge when he worked at Pinkham, then Lakes and Galehead in the early 1930s. He was a graduate of Dartmouth with a masters from Yale and advanced work at Harvard. His father was Red…
Ted Rooslund passed away in Connecticut in February 23, 2002. Ted was 66. He worked at Pinkham in 1957 and owned a ship modeling business in Cromwell, CT. During his stint at Pinkham, he was a member of a five-man rescue team which successfully rescued a Mount Holoke student from Mt. Washington in November 1957.
Leah Deni passed away on December 22, 2004 at the age of 25. Leah worked at Lakes in the fall of 2001. Most recently, she had been a program director at the Urban Ecology Institute in Boston. Ms. Deni, died from complications from a blood infection she had battled for several weeks.