Author: Cynthia Rockwell

DAVID H. GREEN, a banker who became chairman of the board of the L.G. Balfour Company, died Aug. 30, 2011. He was 90. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and received an MBA degree from Harvard University. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army. A commercial banker for 28 years, he joined L.G. Balfour in 1973. He was a trustee of several educational institutions and was an avid horseback rider. Among those who survive are his former wife, Betty Jeppson Green; five children, including Susan Dietrich Swanstrom ’76; eight grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and numerous nieces and nephews.

ERNEST C. GOODRICH, who retired as a vice president of Aetna Life and Casualty Company, died Dec. 13, 2006, at age 86. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he joined Aetna Life and Casualty after serving in World War II. He remained with Aetna for his entire career. A tireless volunteer for Wesleyan, he served as class agent for many years. He was predeceased by his wife, Virginia Okerfelt Goodrich. Survivors include his son, Ernest C. Goodrich Jr. ’72, three grandchildren, and two sisters.

ROBERT L.J. GILLISPIE, 89, a retired manufacturing executive, died June 9, 2009. A member of Psi Upsilon, he was the son of Raymond L. Gillispie of the class of 1910 and the cousin of the late David L. Gillispie ’39. Among those who survive are his wife, Cynthia Naylor Gillispie, and his brother, Charles C. Gillispie ’40.

ANDERSON FOX, a retired management consultant and bank executive, died Jan. 11, 2010, at 88. He was a member of Eclectic. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in English. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he received an MBA degree from Harvard University. He was predeceased by his brother, Philip C. Fox ’50, and by a grandson. He is survived by his wife, Madeline Sullivan Fox, three children, and three grandchildren. His cousin, William Morrill ’52, and his son–in–law, John Parkin ’57, MA’65, also survive.

DONOSON E. FITZGERALD, a retired sales engineer with the Engelhard Corporation, died Dec. 15, 2008, at age 90. A member of Psi Upsilon, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as executive officer of a PT boat. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Parke FitzGerald, five children, four grandchildren, and a sister.

JESS EDWARD, M.D., former chief of anesthesiology at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., died Feb. 3, 2010. He was 88. A member of the John Wesley Club, he received his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Predeceased by a son, he is survived by his wife, Joyce Levy Edward, two sons, a daughter, and nine grandchildren.

ROBERT HENDERSON CROSS, 87, an oil geologist and geology professor, died April 14, 2007. A veteran of World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps in the Pacific. He earned a master’s degree at Louisiana State University and worked as an oil geologist in Venezuela, Montana, and New Mexico; he then taught geology at San Jacinto Junior College in Pasadena. In 1989, at the age of 70, he resumed his graduate work on a grant from Baylor University to study plate tectonics. After retirement in 1994, he served as a docent at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. He is survived by his two daughters in Houston and several nieces and nephews.

ARTHUR L. CONE JR, a retired advertising executive and copywriter who specialized in fund-raising materials, died Mar. 15, 2008, at age 87. He received an MBA from New York University. A lifelong fishing and hunting enthusiast, he was the author of Fishing Made Easy andThe Complete Guide to Hunting. His wife, Joan Nusbaum Cone, died six weeks before him. He is survived by four children, three grandchildren, and two brothers.

DAVID R. CLARK, 89, professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Massachusetts and an internationally renowned Yeats scholar, died Jan. 11, 2010. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in English. He received master’s and PhD degrees from Yale University. In addition to teaching, he helped to found the University of Massachusetts Press, was one of the founders of The Massachusetts Review, served as chair of the English Department, and helped to organize the Five College Irish Studies Program. An advocate for social justice and a pacifist, he and his family attended civil rights marches during the 1960s, and during the Vietnam War he helped to found the Quaker Action Committee, which collected funds for medical supplies for both South and North Vietnam. He published numerous books and articles, including a book of his own poetry. The brother of the late Leonard H. Clark ’37, he is survived by his wife, Mary Matthieu Clark, four children, and two grandchildren.

JAMES F. BARRETT, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who taught high school history for 25 years after his retirement, died Sept. 14, 2008, at age 88. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and was a highly decorated veteran of World War II. He received an MAT degree from Duke University in 1964. Survivors include his wife, Marian Collins Barrett, a daughter, and a granddaughter.