WELDON J. SMITH, a finance attorney, died Aug. 5, 2014. He was 74. A member of Chi Psi, he received his law degree from the Washington and Lee University Law School and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He was self-employed. His wife, Nancy Bryan Rhodes Smith, predeceased him. Survivors include two children, his sister, and his brother-in-law.
ROGER W. CYRUS, M.D., a family practice physician for 35 years, died Dec. 17, 2014. He was 75. After receiving his medical degree from the State University of New York College of Medicine Downstate, he finished an internship and then entered the U.S. Air Force as a commissioned medical officer. After his discharge he completed a fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital and then established a family practice in Westbrook, Conn. He was certified by the American Board of Pathology and the American Board of Family Practice. Among his many interests were music and opera, books, art, and travel. He is survived by his wife, Ann Elaine Pothin Cyrus; her four children and their families; and two cousins.
OSCAR E. LANFORD III, a mathematical physicist, died Nov. 16, 2013. He was 74. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi, he received his degree with high honors and with high distinction in physics. He received master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as an honorary degree from Wesleyan in 1990. He had been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, then at the IHES in France, and since 1987 at the ETH in Zurich, where he retired in 2005. He continued teaching at the Courant Institute until 2012. Several of his papers have influenced the direction that mathematical physics has taken. Among those who survive are his wife, Regina Krigman Lanford; his daughter; his brother, Henry C.S. Lanford ’65; and his niece, Brook Wilensky-Lanford ’99.
G. BRADLEY RAINER, 66, a lawyer and teacher at Temple University School of Law, died Mar. 5, 2014. He received his law degree from Temple University. In 1976 he opened his own law firm until he joined Hecker, McGinnis, Rainer & Brown in Philadelphia, where he was a partner and then managing partner. He later was a partner in Rubin Quinn Moss Heaney & Patterson, and then in Eckell Sparks before joining Reger Rizzo & Darnall. His specialty was estate and trust work, although he also practiced business law in the six years he was with Reger Rizzo. At Temple, he taught courses in transactional practice, or the legal questions facing business entities, and in continuing legal education, and he was considered an expert in matters of legal ethics. He was a founding member and a president of the board of A Better Chance, which fosters educational opportunities for young people of color in Lower Merion, and he also helped to lead other agencies that work with at-risk children and victims of sexual abuse. Among those who survive are his wife, Joan Klamkin Rainer, two children, his mother, two brothers, and three sisters.
JOHN F. HOLLENBACH, a builder and architect in Vermont’s Champlain Valley, died Apr. 4, 2014, at age 68. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and received a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University. He moved to Vermont as a landscape architect in 1973, and then started work as a builder in 1974. From the 1970s through the 1990s, he used his building and design skills on both residential and commercial projects, working on hundreds of buildings in the Champlain Valley. In 2000, he and his wife moved to Bangladesh where he renovated and expanded the American International School. In 2006, they moved to Cairo, where he headed the design and construction of a new campus for Cairo American College, a K-12 school. During 2011and 2012 he worked for the International School of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, overseeing the development of a new campus. His wife, Beth Phillips, survives, as do two children, his sister, and three nieces.
GEORGE L. SMITH JR., M.D., a cardiologist, co-owner of the restaurant John Ash and Co., and one of the founders of Viking River Cruises, died Apr. 15, 2014. He was 71. A member of the Commons Club, he received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Army medical corps in Vietnam before completing his training with a cardiology fellowship in San Francisco. He settled in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 1975, when heart patients had to travel to San Francisco for surgery, and he worked to make heart surgery available in Santa Rosa. A founding member of Cardiology Associates in Santa Rosa and of Northern California Medical Associates, he retired from full-time clinical work two years ago but remained involved in medical administration, teaching residents and system reorganization at Sutter Hospital. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and chair of the political action committee, as well as a member of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution. He was a founder of the Sonoma Country Day School. Dr. Nancy Doyle, from whom he was divorced but with whom he remained close, survives, as do his two children, two sisters, and a brother.
DEREK L. TATTERSALL, 72, a retired advisory programmer for the IBM Corporation, died Jan. 17, 2014. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and received a master’s degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He worked for IBM for 30 years. Among those who survive are his wife, Aimee Butcher Tattersall, two children, his brother, and many nieces and nephews.
C. LEIGH TRAVIS, an artist, musician, advocate, writer, and legal assistant, died Nov. 28, 2013. He was 74. A member of Psi Upsilon, he received his master’s degree from Wesleyan in 1963. He was the son of Clayton V. Travis of the class of 1928. After earning a PhD at the University of Michigan in English literature he taught there and at Eastern Michigan University and numerous community colleges. He spent the latter half of his life helping families resolve custody issues. An early advocate for Father’s Rights, he helped to change the local and national court system to recognize both parents as viable caregivers. In addition to the two academic texts he prepared as part of his graduate work that provided detailed psychoanalytic interpretations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, he wrote a novel, Gauntlet, as well as a collection of short stories. As a pianist and musician he led different jazz groups and also led the Ann Arbor Federation of Musicians for years. His artwork included illustrations and contributions to periodicals, as well as freelance work for different organizations. Survivors include his son, (Quentin) Brent Travis ’92; eight grandchildren; his daughter-in-law, Lori Beth Hendin Travis ’92; and two sisters.
RUDOLF KALIN, 73, professor and head of the department of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, died Aug. 16, 2011. He received his degree with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi. After receiving his master’s and PhD degrees at Harvard University in the field of social psychology, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, but then was recruited by his former Wesleyan professor W.R. Thompson to join him at Queens’s College, where they expanded the course offerings in social psychology. His interests focused on tolerance, discrimination, and prejudice. He later served as head of the department for many years. Survivors include his wife, Jane McKinnis Kalin, three sons, and four grandchildren.
DAVID B. SULLIVAN, 66, a retired judge on the New Hampshire Superior Court, died Aug. 18, 2013. The son of Charles B. Sullivan of the class of 1943, and the brother of the late Luther G. Sullivan of the class of 1973, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He received his law degree from Boston University Law School. He began his law career at what is now the McLane Law Firm in Manchester and joined his father and brother at Cheever and Sullivan in Wilton, N.H., in 1978. Appointed to the New Hampshire Superior Court in 1991, he retired in 2007, but continued to serve as an active retired judge. He was involved in community service. Among those who survive are his wife, Elizabeth Bloomberg Sullivan; three children, including Danforth B. Sullivan ’06; his daughter-in-law, Gina M. Tassone ’05; three grandchildren; his mother; and two brothers.
