Obituaries | 1940-1949

GARRY deN. HOUGH III, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, died Aug. 17, 2007. He was 81. A member of Sigma Nu, he was the son of Garry deN. Hough of the class of 1918. He served in the US Army during the Korean War. Active in many civic groups and also as a volunteer teaching surgeon overseas, in 1991 he received the Humanitarian Award of Orthopedics Overseas. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Greer Hough, five children, three grandchildren, and a brother and sister. (For more information, see The Vineyard Gazzette of August 21, 2007.)

HERBERT E. GERNERT, 86, a retired investment adviser, died April 16, 2012. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he received his degree from Princeton University and an MBA from New York University. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He had a long career as an investment manager at Brown Brothers Harriman, Cyrus J. Lawrence, Inc., and Vilas-Fischer Associates prior to founding his own management and consulting firm. Survivors include his wife, Sally Hanson Gernert, two children, and five grandchildren.

WILLIAM L. EARLE, a journalist and community service director, died Sept. 4, 2011, at age 87. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, after which he received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. Survivors include his wife, Andrea Byron Earle, and two daughters. Another daughter predeceased him.

ARTHUR CLEMETT, who died in November 2003 at the age of 77, had retired in 1995 as chairman of the department of radiology at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan, as clinical professor of radiology at New York University School of Medicine, and as professor of radiology at New York Medical College, posts he had held for 21, 25, and 15 years, respectively.

Arthur came to Wesleyan in March 1944 in the Navy V-12 program and promptly distinguished himself by winning the Ayres Prize as the freshman with the best first semester record. A member of Eclectic, he later won the Graham Prize in the Natural Sciences and the Rice Prize in Mathematics. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1945 and graduated with honors.

In 1950 he received his M.D. with honors from the University of Rochester, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society. After interning at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Arthur served as a naval medical officer at St. Alban’s Naval Hospital in New York, in Japan and Korea, and at the U.S. Naval Base in Bainbridge, Md. He was honorably discharged in 1956.

Following his residency in radiology at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and a brief period of private practice in Portland, Maine, Dr. Clemett spent the rest of his career in academic medicine. His area of special interest was gastrointestinal radiology; he trained several generations of radiologists at Yale-New Haven and several other hospitals before beginning his 25-year career in New York. He was a visiting professor at more than sixty medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Clemett co-authored Radiology of The Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts in 1977 with Dr. R.N. Berk and contributed 14 chapters to others texts on gastrointestinal radiology. He published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and completed numerous grant supported research projects. He was a visiting professor at more than 60 medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He was a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American College of Radiology and received numerous physician recognition awards from the American Medical Association. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and was listed in The Best Doctors in the United States in 1981.

An avid off-shore sailor throughout his life, he also enjoyed diving, flying, and traveling. He supported environmental causes.

He is survived by his wife of 15 years, Marianne Clemett-Jaillet; five children from a previous marriage, including John Clemett ’79 M.D., also a radiologist; two sisters; and four grandchildren.

The class joins me in sending sympathy and condolences to Arthur’s family.

CHARLES B. CLAYMAN, 79, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Medical School whose research warned about the side effects of certain drugs, died June 22, 2005. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II he received a medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Survivors include two sons, two daughters, and 13 grandchildren.

MacALISTER BROWN, 82, the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor of political science, emeritus, at Williams College, died Nov. 21, 2006. He was member of Eclectic and attended the V-12 program at Wesleyan during World War II. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with honors. He received a doctoral degree from Harvard and joined the Williams College faculty in 1956. Before retiring in 1994, he served as chair of the political economy program and the political science department, as well as director of the summer program in American Studies for Executives. He also served as administrative assistant to Williams President John Sawyer. He specialized in American foreign policy and international relations in Southeast Asia, and had received several Fulbright Scholarships. Active in Williamstown, Mass., civic affairs, he was also a nationally-ranked master’s-level squash player. Among those who survive are his wife, Adriana Millenaar Brown, three children, and four grandchildren.

THOMAS K. BEGG, the founder and president of Begg Company, Inc., and of Kirk Products Company, Inc., manufacturers of fire and safety products, died Jan. 26, 2003. at age 78. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Survivors include his wife, Joan Farist Penfield Begg, two sons, five grandchildren, and a brother.

A. JOHN BARTIS, 87, , a professional singer, vocal coach, and theater arts instructor, died Aug. 24, 2011. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he was a U.S. Navy veteran and attended graduate school at Yale University. He appeared in several Broadway productions and was one of New York’s foremost vocal coaches. From 1974 to 1981 he taught at Choate Rosemary Hall. With his companion, the late Arthur Partington, he started the Connecticut Academy of Dance and Theatre before retiring to Southwest Florida, where he continued to teach. Among those who survive are his brother and several nieces and nephews.

MARK BARLOW, dean at Wesleyan from 1957 to 1965 and former Trustee of the University, who was vice president for student affairs at Cornell University and later the headmaster of St. Mark’s School, died June 23, 2012, at age 87. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he received his degree from Wesleyan. A member of Eclectic, he received a master’s degree from Colgate University and a doctorate of education from Cornell University. In 1957, he became Dean of Students at Wesleyan and later Dean of the University. See Faculty and Administration.

MALCOLM A. BAGSHAW, M.D., one of the world’s foremost experts in radiation therapy, and chair of the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine for two decades, died Sept. 18, 2011. He was 86. A member of Eclectic, he served in the U.S. Navy and received his degree with honors. After receiving his medical degree from Yale University, he trained at the University of Michigan and then joined the faculty at Stanford, eventually becoming professor emeritus when he retired. He developed radiotherapy techniques for localized prostate cancer that have become the standard of care, and he expanded the uses of the linear accelerator in treating cancers. In 1996 he received the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Research Foundation for his role in improving treatment for prostate cancer, and in the same year received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan. Predeceased by his wife, Muriel Hanley Bagshaw, M.D., he is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, and a sister.