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Children’s Aid Society and founding partner of Griswold, Heckel andKaiser, an industrial design firm in New York, died July 30 at the age of 91.He was a Whiffenpoof and president of the Yale Glee Club. He had a keeninterest in the environment and believed strongly in the importance ofsupporting scholarship assistance. He established two scholarships atF&ES, and had been instrumental in encouraging others to fundscholarships. He thoroughly enjoyed meeting and getting to know hisstudents. He attended Harvard Business School before joining his family’sfirm, W&J Sloane, in New York City. During World War II, he managed thefirm’s shipbuilding contract with the U.S. Navy in Wilmington, N.C.,fitting the interiors of Liberty Ships for the North Carolina ShipbuildingCompany. Following the war, he enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,where he studied and later taught industrial design before forming hisown design firm. His clients included General Motors and RCA, amongothers. He served on many boards of charitable organizations, includingThe Boys & Girls Clubs of America, where he was recently honored withits highest national award for his 65 years of service as a national trustee.He also served on the boards of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greenwich,Pomfret School and International College in Beirut, Lebanon. An avidgolfer, he was a member of numerous clubs and associations inConnecticut, Florida and Scotland. He was also a member of The NewYork Yacht Club and the Yale Club of New York. He was predeceased by hisfirst wife, Anna Lauder Griswold, and is survived by their six children, S.Shelby Schavoir of Savannah, Ga., Ursula LaMotte of Bedford, N.Y., JohnGriswold Jr.,Yale College Class of 1967, of Greenwich, Evan Griswold ’75 ofOld Lyme, Conn., Edward Griswold of Friday Harbor, Wash., and CharlesGriswold of Ojai, Calif., and 13 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.He is also survived by his wife, MaryElla (DeeDee)Griswold, and her four children.Peter Kaminsky ’89 died on September 14 at home in Branford,Conn., after a long illness. He was born in New Haven in 1945 andattended Colgate University before coming to Yale. He was the retailmanager for Pete’s Hearth & Home in Old Saybrook. He was a member ofthe Branford Yacht Club and the Branford Garden Club, as well as theBranford Environmental Commission. He was an avid gardener andoutdoorsman. A devoted F&ES alumnus, he was adopted by the Class of1980, and until 2003 managed the Class of 1980 Fund, providing annualawards for creative projects to students. He is survived by his wife, SandraKonopka Kaminsky; his stepsons, Jeffrey Rizzo and James Rizzo Jr., bothof Rhode Island; and his siblings, Barbara Ford and John Kaminsky ofBranford and Frank Kaminsky of Nantucket. Members and friends of theClass of 1980 are making contributions to the fund in his memory.Contact the F&ES Office of Alumni Affairs, 203-432-5108.Andrew Richard Kroon, a Latin American studies major at YaleCollege, member of Berkeley College and admitted student to the master’sdegree program, died in April at 24 from complications of a congenitalheart defect. He was a great friend to F&ES and a committed environmentalistinterested in sustainable forestry in the Amazon region. As a YaleCollege student, he helped create a sustainable food initiative; coauthoreda study on university energy use; spoke at the 2002 UnitedNations World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa; and was the copresidentof the Yale Student Environmental Coalition. He studied inSpain and Brazil and was fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Prior tocoming to Yale College, he graduated from Deerfield Academy. He issurvived by his parents, Mary Jane and Rick; his siblings, David, SarahKroon Chiles,Molly,Stephen and Michael; and his grandmother, Helen.The Andrew Kroon Environmental Fund at Yale has been established tohonor Andrew’s memory. The fund could be used to support a range ofcauses and projects that Andrew was interested in, such as planting treesacross the country and relandscaping of the south court of BerkeleyCollege with plants that are drought-tolerant and will not requireunnecessary chemical fertilizers.Arthur E. MacGregor ’36 died on August 26 at Havenwood NursingHome in Concord, N.H., at 93. He was born in Providence, R.I., andreceived his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College before coming toYale. He also completed graduate studies at Harvard University. He ownedthe Sunset Farm in Hanson, Mass., for 25 years. He also worked for theNew Hampshire Fish and Wildlife Services. He was a member of theDartmouth Outing Club, the Appalachian Club Hutman’s Association andTrout Unlimited. He loved hiking and camping, and was an avid troutfisherman. One daughter predeceased him in 1997. His surviving familyincludes his wife of 65 years, Beatrice; a son, Douglas, of Alaska; adaughter, Ellen, of London, Ontario; six grandchildren; and threegreat-grandchildren.Carl E. Ostrom ’41, Ph.D. ’44, was from the Philadelphia area. Hestarted a lifelong career in research with the U.S. Forest Service aftergraduation from Pennsylvania State University in 1933. His firstassignments were around Pennsylvania and in naval stores research inLake City, Fla. In 1950, he conducted research at the Southern ForestExperiment Station in Louisiana, and from 1965 to 1976 he was deputychief for research in the USFS national office. Prior to his retirement, hewas director of science programs for the Society of American Foresters.He retired to Prescott, Ariz., where he died on March 22 at 92. Laura, hiswife of 64 years, is among his survivors.John W. Parsons ’50, a forestry graduate of the University of theSouth, died on January 29, 2005, in Palmerton, Pa., at 78. His wife, Mary,survives him.Harold A. Paulsen ’51 was from Minneapolis and obtained a B.S. inforestry from Iowa State University, following his military service. He hada long career in range management research at the Rocky MountainForest & Range Experiment Station, where he became assistant directorin 1970. He remained in Fort Collins, Colo., after he retired in 1978.He died on or about April 28 at 83. At least one son in Vashon, Wash.,survives him.Kim (Casey) Pflueger ’78 was a 1976 graduate of the University ofCalifornia at Irvine. He was born in Ortonville, Minn., and died at the ageof 51 in Seattle on April 8, while riding his motor scooter. Following histime at Yale, he pursued a J.D. at the University of Washington School ofLaw. He was a senior partner with Floyd & Pflueger. A devoted husbandand father, he leaves Virginia, his wife of 25 years; his sons, Max andNathan; as well as his mother, sister, brother and two nieces. He will beremembered for his endless enthusiasm for the little joys of life—music,his garden, his wine cellar and riding his Vespa on a sunny day.Fall 200547