A social-services activist in New York City and the director of Safe Space, a non-profit child welfare agency, died Jan. 11, 2013. She was 47. A board member of the Human Services Council and of the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies in New York City, she graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining Safe Space, she served as vice president for strategy, policy, and advocacy at the Community Service Society. Among those who survive are her husband, George Locker, two children from her first marriage to Bill Shapiro ’87, a stepdaughter, her father and stepmother, her mother and stepfather, and her sister.

ELLEN S. Miller, a writer and a teacher of creative writing, died Dec. 23, 2008. She was 41. An honors graduate of Wesleyan, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned an MFA from the New York University’s creative writing program, where she also received a fellowship for fiction. She was also awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony, among others. Her first novel, Like Being Killed, was published in 1998; her second, Stop Drop, Roll, is unfinished, although an excerpt appeared in the anthology, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge (2003). She is survived by her partner, Christopher Rowell, her stepfather, Scott Hyde, her two brothers, and her god–daughter.

DAVID N. MARCHETTI, a social services worker, died Sept. 28, 2007, at age 45. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he worked at the Oak Hill School and at MARC: Community Resources. Survivors include his father; his sister, Sandra DiPietro ’95; and a niece and nephew.

CHARLES A. MORSS III, M.D., a physician, died Jan. 21, 2008. He was 50. Survivors include his parents, two brothers, and a sister.

ROBERT LESCHER ’52, an editor and literary agent who founded Lescher & Lescher Ltd, died Nov. 28, 2012, at age 83. He was a member of Sigma Chi and began his career with Henry Holt & Company, where he became editor-in-chief before he was 25. At Holt, he worked with a wide array of distinguished 20th-century authors.

He began his own agency in 1965 and was known for his aesthetic insight and painstaking attentiveness to writers. Robert Frost, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alice B. Toklas, Calvin Trillin, Frances FitzGerald, Benjamin Spock, Paula Fox, Madeleine L’Engle, Andrew Wyeth, and Georgia O’Keeffe were among his clients. In working with Alice B. Toklas on her memoir, he developed an interest in food and wine that led to his representing such writers as Robert M. Parker, Marcella Hazan, and M.F.K. Fisher. Survivors include his wife, Susan Corridan, three daughters, a granddaughter, and two sisters.

ROBERT S. LONGWORTH SR., 80, a retired industrial engineer, died Feb. 25, 2008. A member of Sigma Chi, he was a manager of product control at the Stanley Works in New Britain. Survivors include his wife, Joan Robinson Longworth, three sons, four grandchildren, and two step-granddaughters.

RICHARD LANGERMAN, who was a partner in the Boston law firm of Goulston & Storrs, died July 1, 2003 at age 67. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and received a law degree from the University of Chicago. A member of his law firm for more than 40 years, he was also active in civic and charitable endeavors. Among those who survive are two children, a sister, five grandchildren, and Tina Browne.

IRVING W. LINDENBLAD, an astronomer who retired from the U.S. Naval Observatory and who also served as a clergyman, more recently in pastoral care, died Nov. 11, 2011, at age 82. A member of the John Wesley Club, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He received a master’s degree in religion from George Washington University and a master’s degree in divinity from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. During his 32-year career at the Naval Observatory he managed the observation program for sunspots. His first wife, Ann Terry Lindenblad, died, as did his second wife, Jo Nichols Waters. Survivors include two sons, two stepsons, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren

WILLIAM A. LEONE, a partner in his family’s three-generation law firm in East Hartford, Conn., died Feb. 25, 2012, at age 68.  He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and received his law degree from the University of Connecticut. After his admission to the Connecticut Bar he joined and later became a partner in Leone, Throwe, Teller and Nagle, which was founded by his father, and where he practiced law with his brother and law partner, Frank Leone ’71, and with his daughter. He was active in community projects, particularly in the Rotary Club. Survivors include his wife, Beverly Sogaro Leone, his mother, three daughters, five grandchildren, two brothers, including Frank Leone ’71, and a large extended family.

ROBERT G. LUCKIE JR. ’55, the former president of E.B. Meyrowitz, died Jan. 19, 2013. He was 81. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he received his degree with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received an MBA from Harvard University before beginning his career. He was president of Brentano’s before joining E.B. Meyrowitz, the opticians in New York City. The University has no information about survivors.