ROBERT H. LARSON, a retired consultant for Exxon Corporation, died May 6, 2010, at age 74. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he received a master’s degree from MIT.’s Sloan School of Management He is survived by his wife, Patricia Flynn Larson; two children, including Elisabeth J. Larson-Harsch ’84; and two grandchildren.
STEPHEN M. LEVIN, M.D., 70, who played a leading role in bringing attention to the medical needs of thousands of firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers who breathed in the caustic dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, and who was co-director of the Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, died Feb. 7, 2012.Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with honors and then received his medical degree from New York University. An advocate for workers and a specialist in occupational medicine, his research and advocacy led to the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which allocated money to provide medical care to responders. Among those who survive are his wife, Robin Levin; his mother, Sarah Schurr; three sons; his daughter; and his sister.
THOMAS K. LONGSTRETH, 52, the former U.S. undersecretary of defense for readiness and training, died April 28, 2009. After receiving a master’s degree in defense analysis and security policy studies at George Washington University, he worked successively for the U.S. Senate, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Defense Department, where he first worked on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later directed task forces for the secretary of defense on Iraq, Bosnia, and Somalia. He had also been associated with Teledyne Brown Engineering, the Rand Corporation, and the Center for Naval Analyses. In 1988 he received a MacArthur Foundation grant and in 1990 a Council of Foreign Relations fellowship. Survivors include his companion, Crystal Denunzio, his companion’s daughter, his mother and stepfather, a brother, and two sisters.
DORATHEA ANN LINDBECK, 54, an artist, bookbinder, and teacher, died Sept. 5, 2011. She received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Survivors include her husband, William D. Stempel, one son, and a brother and two sisters.
PETER J. LIPTON, 53, the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, died Nov. 25, 2007. After receiving his degree cum laude, he received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He taught at Williams College and then returned to England, where he joined the University of Cambridge. He lectured and published widely, and he was an extraordinarily popular teacher, supervising students at all levels. He was recognized as one of the leading epistemologists and philosophers of science in the world. His philosophical interests included the structures of explanation and inference in science, the nature of scientific progress, social epistemology, science and religion, and various topics in biomedical ethics. He was also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and chaired its working party on pharmacogenetics. He was the author ofInference to the Best Explanation and was the 2004 Medawar Prize Lecturer of the Royal Society. He is survived by his wife, Diana Lipton, two sons, and his mother.
An investment banker, died Feb. 17, 2013, at age 53. He received an MBA from New York University and embarked on an investment banking career that took him and his family around the world. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne Clark Langille, four children, three siblings, and a large extended family.
LAURIE A. LINTON, an attorney in the public sector, died Jan. 10, 2005. She was 46 and had received her law degree from Columbia University. She held positions with the New York State Attorney General’s office, several New York City agencies, and had been counsel to the New York State governor’s office. Her work encompassed campaign finance legislation, welfare reform, the state budget, and charities fraud. She was also an activist in the gay and lesbian community and was a founder of the Empire State Pride Agenda. She is survived by her brother; her longtime companion, Murphy; and many friends.
ROBERT B. PORTER, 72, died Feb. 23, 2002. A member of Eclectic and the brother of the late Alexander B. Porter ’49, he attended Dartmouth College and Wesleyan before receiving a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. He also attended the University of Virginia Law School. He is survived by two children, four grandchildren, a sister, and his former wife, Monica Ballard Porter.
FRANK A. KENDALL, who retired as the co-owner of Roos-Frick, Inc., a construction company in Minneapolis, died June 26, 2006 at age 76. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he received his degree with honors. After serving in the Korean War, he received a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University. Predeceased by his wife, Martha McIlhany Kendall, among those who survive are his close friend, Ethel Lewis; three children; eight grandchildren; two sisters; a brother-in-law, William H. Wubbenhorst Jr. ’50; and a nephew, Jeffrey K. Wubbenhorst ’78.
JOHN M. KEABLES, 81, a retired high school science teacher, died Oct. 5, 2011. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and his master’s from the University of Denver. Predeceased by his wife, Barbara Boettcher Keables, four children and nine grandchildren survive.
