KEVIN F. MCCARTHY, 70, a RAND Corp. social scientist who worked on projects ranging from immigration to the arts, died Mar. 17, 2015. After receiving master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he was an instructor there and a consultant with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He joined RAND in 1976 and retired in 2007 but continued to contribute to RAND research in an adjunct capacity until 2013. He began his career working on housing policies, an area where he developed tools to help predict family mobility and its impact on housing. He later directed the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and headed an initiative at RAND that studied the role of the arts in the American economy and society. He also authored a series of studies examining the impact of immigration on California’s economy and studied options for rebuilding housing in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina. In addition, he conducted analyses of demographic and economic trends in Mexico and the Caribbean Basin, the Middle East, and Russia. Known as one of RAND’s most versatile researchers in terms of the range of public policy issues he tackled, according to its president, his work “helped cities, states, judiciaries and museums address some of their most difficult issues.” He is survived by his wife, Susan Edwards McCarthy.

JOHN R. VINTON, M.D., a physician and retired medical administrator, died July 8, 2015. He was 73. After receiving his degree with honors and with distinction in letters, he served first in the U.S. Army and then in the Peace Corps in Chile, where he learned Spanish and taught pottery techniques. He then returned to the U.S. and received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1977 he moved to Damariscotta, Maine, where he and his wife practiced internal medicine. In 1985 they moved to Salt Lake City, where he worked as a medical administrator. An able outdoorsman, he trekked, skied, and rowed, in addition to traveling widely. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Dr. Mary Ann Chase, two sons, three granddaughters, three sisters, and a large extended group of family and friends.

HAL H. WYSS, 75, professor emeritus of English at Albion College, died July 28, 2015, of pulmonary fibrosis. A member of Eclectic, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in English. He also received a master’s degree and a PhD from Ohio State University. In 1970 he accepted a position at Albion College, where he taught until his retirement in 2005. He specialized in American literature, with a particular love for Hemingway, Frost, Twain, Faulkner, and Melville. He also worked as an administrator, serving at times as the assistant, interim, or acting dean of the faculty. He served on all major faculty committees and was an early member and chair of the college’s pre-medical program. Named Albion College Advisor of the Year, he was also a recipient of the Student Senate’s Teacher of the Year Award. After retirement, he enjoyed teaching and taking classes through Albion’s Lifelong Learning program. He was also an accomplished fisherman and birder, as well as a gardener. His wife, Melissa Blair Wyss, survives, as do a daughter, two grandsons, his brother, and several nieces and nephews. One daughter predeceased him.

GEORGE D. BRYANT, 77, a local architectural historian, architectural consultant, and public servant in Provincetown, Mass., died Mar. 25, 2015. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and received a master’s degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among the first group of Peace Corps recruits, he was stationed in Peru where he oversaw construction of a housing project. Later, he worked for a large architectural firm and also bought and renovated buildings in Cambridge, Mass., before returning to Provincetown, his hometown. He was a trustee of Seamen’s Bank for many years. Survivors include two sons, one of whom is the son of his second wife, Dr. Rosemary Elliott, a grandson, a brother, and several cousins.

RICHARD E. STEPHENS, who had been a business manager for a realty company, died Aug. 14, 2015. He was 82. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he had worked in retailing and advertising, and served in the U.S. Army in Korea for three years. Survivors include his brother, a niece and nephew, and his very close friend, Ron Carty.

SOMERVILLE PARKER, whose entire career was in private secondary education, died July 13, 2015. He was 82. A member of Eclectic, he received his degree with honors. He received a master’s degree in teaching mathematics from the University of Virginia and taught at Christchurch School of Virginia, St. Albans School, and the Blue Ridge School, before spending the rest of his career at the Landon School of Maryland, as a teacher, coach, head of the upper school and assistant headmaster. His wife of 56 years, Joan Hovendon Parker, survives, as do three children, eight grandchildren, and his brother.

HOYT CHAPIN, the retired owner and president of the Pottery Barn Inc., died July 16, 2015, at age 82. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and also attended the Columbia University School of Business. After beginning his retail career at Bloomingdale’s and then moving to Dansk International Designs, he spent the majority of his work life since 1966 as owner and president of the Pottery Barn Inc., until he retired. His forward thinking, creative and entrepreneurial approach championed “good contemporary design at a great price,” according to his family. After he retired, he remained involved in several business adventures, including the creation of two developments, Browns Hill and the Georges Mills Boat Club, in Sunapee, N.H., and consulted to Mesa International in Warner, N.H. He was an active member of the New London community, as a director of the Little Sunapee Protective Association, New London Hospital, and the Kearsarge Council on Aging, among others. Among those who survive are his wife of 60 years, Marybelle Carruth Chapin; three children, including Deborah Chapin ’81; three grandchildren; a niece and nephew; and several cousins, including Edward W. Hoyt ’69, who officiated at the memorial celebration of his life.

HAROLD S. WHITE, who retired as Senior Jewish Chaplain at Georgetown University, the first rabbi to hold a full-time campus ministry position at a Catholic university, died Aug. 31, 2015, of complications due to a stroke. He was 83. A member of the John Wesley Club, he received his degree with honors. He received his rabbinical ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and served as a U.S. Navy chaplain at Parris Island, S.C., and with the 7^th Fleet in the Pacific. A respected scholar of Jewish mysticism, he was a tireless promoter of interfaith dialogue and was one of the first rabbis to officiate at interfaith and same sex marriages. At Georgetown, he was instrumental in creating a milieu for Jewish-Christian theological dialogue and seeking common ground between Jewish and Jesuit theology. In 2003 he helped establish Georgetown’s Program for Jewish Civilization to expand the understanding of Jewish history to include cultural, religious, political, philosophical, literary, and scientific accomplishments. During his years in Washington, he was also B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation director at American University; scholar-in-residence at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va., and at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pa.; associate rabbi of Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C.; and rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in Easton, Md. Prior to that, he was the rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., and of the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation in Dublin, Ireland. Active in the Civil Rights Movement and a frequent visitor to African American churches, he also worked to build interreligious dialogue with Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs. He retired this year as the spiritual adviser to the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C. At the time of his death he was teaching in Georgetown’s theology department and was an active board member for Moment Magazine, the country’s leading independent Jewish magazine, which established The Rabbi Harold S. White Fellowship in 2010 to train young journalists in his honor. He was the cousin of the late Myron E. White of the class of 1941. Survivors include his son, Ross McQuilkin, six nieces and nephews, and a large extended family.

JONATHAN LOVEJOY, 82, an attorney and Norwalk, Conn., coastline steward, died Apr. 5, 2014. A member of Sigma Nu, he received his degree with honors. He was the son of Frederick F. Lovejoy Jr., of the class of 1923, the brother of Frederick A. Lovejoy of the class of 1950, the brother-in-law of Roger S. Hanford of the class of 1950, and the nephew of Louis R. Arnold of the class of 1924 and of Harry M. Arnold of the class of 1928. After receiving his law degree from Yale University, he was a partner at the firm of Lovejoy, Cuneo and Curtis, which later became Lovejoy and Rimer. He also served on the New Canaan, Conn., zoning board of appeals and as Judge of Probate in the town of Westbrook. His interests and contributions revolved around the water, boating, and music. A Coast Guard Reservist, he was chairman of the Norwalk Harbor Management Commission and an active member of the Norwalk Seaport Association. He received the David S. Dunavan Norwalk Harbor Stewardship Award for his years of dedicated work on behalf of Norwalk and its coastline, and also volunteered repairing boars at Mystic Seaport. Predeceased by his wife, Jeanne Dugdale Lovejoy, he is survived by three daughters and two granddaughters.

HARRISON CLARK JR., who retired as a programming manager for the Dennison Manufacturing Co., died June 4, 2015. He was 85 and received his degree from Babson College, after which he was employed as an auditor and accountant. Despite a congenital hearing loss, he was able to read lips and manage in the mainstream, thanks to being educated at the Wright Oral School and the Clarke School for Hearing and Speech, before entering the Kingswood School in West Hartford in the seventh grade. He had a 23-year career at Dennison, which merged with the National Blank Book Company. Survivors include his wife, Sarah Ackerman Clark, five children, 16 grandchildren, and his sister.