April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

OBITUARIES
Williams, where he belonged
to the sailing team and
Delta Psi. He also received a
bachelor’s degree from MIT
(1950). He was a stockbroker
at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg and
then Laidlaw, Adams & Peck
and Dominick & Dominick.
He was treasurer and tax
collector for the Borough of
Mantoloking. He belonged to
the Ephraim Williams Society.
Among his survivors are four
children, four grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
1951
EDWARD CHILDS of
Falmouth, Mass., July 3.
Childs served in the U.S.
Army (1945-46) before
entering Williams, where
he was a junior advisor and
baseball team manager and
belonged to the hockey and
football teams, Gargoyle
Society, Purple Key Society
and Delta Psi. For 38 years
he was a teacher, coach and
administrator at several New
England private schools,
including Cape Cod Academy,
Middlesex School and
Salisbury School. He received
a master’s in history from
Boston University (1957).
He was inducted into the
Middlesex School Hall of
Fame (2004). As a Williams
alumnus he was a regional
president and secretary.
Among his survivors are his
companion Betsy Ingraham,
four children, including
William Childs ’81, six
grandchildren and a greatgrandson.
THEODORE G.
CONGDON of Pasadena,
Calif., Jan. 5. Congdon was
senior VP and chairman of
the board of Boston Safe
Deposit & Trust Co., later
Mellon Bank. He began his
career as a securities analyst
at Dean Witter. At Williams
he belonged to Cap & Bells,
choir and Alpha Delta Phi.
He was a U.S. Army second
lieutenant (1951-53).
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He received an MBA from
Harvard (1956). He was
president of the L.A. Society
of Financial Analysts and
Friends of the Huntington
Library and chairman of the
American Art Council at the
L.A. County Museum of Art.
He was a board member of
the L.A. Master Chorale and,
with his wife Eleanor, helped
found the original Music
Center in L.A. As a Williams
alumnus he was an associate
class agent. Among his survivors
are his wife Eleanor, four
children, including Caroline
C. Dove ’78 and Theodore
G. Congdon Jr. ’81, and five
grandchildren.
JOHN F. RAYNOLDS
of Vero Beach, Fla., Nov.
11. A longtime resident of
Greenwich, Conn., Raynolds
was president and CEO of
Outward Bound USA, Ward
Howell international search
firm and the National Peace
Garden Foundation. Earlier
he was an executive at Mars
Inc., Butcher & Sherrard
and Heede Industries. At
Williams he was a junior advisor
and belonged to Chi Psi
and the football team. As an
undergraduate he was a New
England Golden Gloves boxer.
He served in the U.S. Navy
(Korean War), helped found
the Navy Seals and served
with the U.S. Intelligence
Agency. He was on the
boards of the International
Executive Service Corps, the
John F. Kennedy School of
Government Advisory Board
and the Shackleton Schools,
which he founded. He wrote
several books, including
Leadership the Outward
Bound Way: Becoming
a Better Leader in the
Workplace, in the Wilderness,
and in Your Community
(2007). He received honorary
degrees from Lynchburg
College (1991) and Green
Mountain College (1999)
and the Kurt Hahn Award
from Outward Bound (2007).
As a Williams alumnus he
was an associate class agent,
belonged to the Ephraim
Williams Society and received
a Bicentennial Medal (2009).
Among his survivors are his
wife Eileen, three children,
two stepchildren and six
grandchildren.
1952
RODNEY L. SKUTT of
Denver, Colo., Sept. 21.
Skutt was an account
executive at Previews Inc.
and The Western Corp. He
spent three years at Williams,
where he belonged to Phi
Delta Theta. He graduated
from the University of
Denver (1953). Among his
survivors are three children
and eight grandchildren.
KEVIN H. WHITE of
Boston, Mass., Jan. 27,
2012. White was an
assistant district attorney
for Suffolk County and then
Massachusetts secretary
of state before serving as
Boston mayor from 1968-
84. He was credited as
a civil rights leader and
with revitalizing Quincy
Market and redeveloping
the waterfront, among many
other initiatives. He later was
a communications professor
at Boston University. At
Williams he belonged to
the Williams Christian
Association, Outing Club
and Phi Delta Theta. He
received a law degree from
Boston College (1955). He
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