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ABBOT AND PHILLIPS1931Mary Bliss CrutcherMcLean, Va.; Nov. 6, 20101934Elizabeth Barnes CallenderEssex, Conn.; May 23, 20141935Virginia Hollands PreuMarco Island, Fla.; July 15, 2012Lawrence P. RalstonPortland, Maine; Dec. 20, 20101936Forbes MannJupiter, Fla.; Nov. 30, 2014Peter SterickerDevon, England; Dec. 15, 2014Lois Holmes StokesLexington, Mass.; Sept. 3, 20121937Everett FisherGreenwich, Conn.; Jan. 5, 2015Seth HeywoodHooksett, N.H.; Sept. 22, 2012Constance D. KnoxSaint Petersburg, Fla.; March 24, 2010Harry G. ThompsonManchester, Mass.; May 8, 20091938John W. LeggettNapa, Calif.; Jan. 25, 2015Novelist, editor, and teacher John Leggett spentnearly two decades directing the University of IowaWriters’ Workshop—and was still writing until hisdeath at age 97.Born in 1917, Leggett had a difficult, lonely childhood.The death of his mother in the 1918 flu epidemicand an absentee father made for little parentaldirection and an aimless youth (the basis for hisbest-selling novel, Wilder Stone, published in 1960).A circuitous path led to Andover, where hefound a mentor and an education that was transformative.Leggett had been expelled from the ManliusSchool and admitted to Bard College, which duringthe Great Depression did not require a high schooldiploma. After a lackluster year, a friend suggestedhe go back to high school and learn how to study.Andover accepted him in 1936 as a postgraduate.He did not do well, but English teacher EmoryBasford saw his potential and persuaded schooladministrators to give him a second chance. In hissecond PG year, Leggett finally gained the disciplinefor studying and most especially for writing,which became his life’s work.After graduating from Yale in 1942 (where hewrote for the Yale Daily News and where his 1969novel Who Took the Gold Away was set), Leggettwas a U.S. Navy lieutenant in the Pacific. WhenWorld War II ended, he married Mary Lee Fahnestock,and they raised three sons together while heworked as an editor in Boston (Houghton Mifflin)and New York (Harper & Row).In 1969, he joined the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,where he attracted a star-studded faculty andlaunched many successful writers. He also wrotehis own acclaimed Ross & Tom: Two American Tragedies,the story of Ross Lockridge, author of RaintreeCounty, and Thomas Heggen, author of the WWIInovel and play Mr. Roberts.Besides novels and biographies, Leggett latercoauthored a widely distributed high school textbookseries, The Elements of Literature. He is survivedby his wife, Edwina Benington Leggett; sonsTimothy, John, and Anthony ’72; and three grandchildren,Annalee ’09, Mary-Claire (“Mimi”) ’13,and Antonia ’15.—The Leggett FamilyArlene Teichert PoirierTewksbury, Mass.; Dec. 9, 20141939John W. Castles IIIManchester, Vt.; Dec. 8, 20141940Jerome Preston Jr.Cambridge, Mass.; Sept. 24, 20141941Arthur C. UptonSanta Fe, N.M.; Feb. 14, 2015Arthur C. Upton, MD, a renowned pathologistand expert in radiation biology in oncology, diedat age 92.Former director of the National Cancer Institute(NCI), Upton was also former president ofthe AACR (American Association for CancerResearch) and a member of its board of directors;in 2013 he was elected an inaugural fellow of theAARC Academy. He was an emeritus professor ofenvironmental medicine and clinical professor ofenvironmental and community medicine at theRobert Wood Johnson Medical School.Appointed NCI director by President JimmyCarter in 1977, Upton sought to create closercooperation between the NCI and governmentalentities devoted to environmental regulation. Anexpert in environmental carcinogenesis, he supportedantismoking proposals and was a frequentantagonist of the tobacco industry.Appointed director of the Institute of EnvironmentalMedicine at New York University in 1980,he was instrumental in establishing the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) and other suchorganizations. He worked closely with the NCI todefine preventive oncology and make it part of theNCI’s National Cancer Program.He received both BA (Phi Beta Kappa) andMD degrees from the University of Michigan,where he was an intern and resident in pathology.His numerous honors and awards included PhillipsAcademy’s Claude Moore Fuess Award in1980; he represented the sixth generation of hisfamily to attend Andover. Upton published nearly400 articles and textbook chapters and held manypositions throughout his career, including chief ofthe pathology-physiology section at the Oak RidgeNational Laboratory, professor and chair of theDepartment of Pathology at the State University ofNew York at Stony Brook, and dean of its School ofBasic Health Sciences.Upton is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; threechildren, Rebecca, Melissa, and Bradley ’70;nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren;and brothers Herbert H. Upton Jr. ’45 andJohn H. Upton ’51.1942Lindsay D. HannaCarmel, Calif.; Feb. 4, 2015Donald F. HerbstSummit, N.J.; Jan. 22, 2015Charles W. KnappManchester, Vt.; Jan. 20, 2015Frank A. Thomas Jr.Charleston, W.Va.; July 8, 20141943Philip S. KempOmaha, Neb.; Feb. 8, 2015Gael MahonyBoston, Mass.; Nov. 4, 2014Not only did Gael Mahony reach the heights ofaccomplishment as a trial attorney, he also earnedthe admiration and respect of his colleagues. “Hewas everything we as lawyers should attempt to be:good, clever, honorable, and decent,” said a fellowattorney. Mr. Mahony, a former partner at Hill &Barlow and later a partner at Holland & Knight,passed away at his Beacon Hill home following astroke. He was 88.Among his many legal triumphs were convincinga federal appeals court to reverse a $130 millionverdict in a class-action suit against Volvo inthe 1990s; convicting four men, in a high-profilecorruption case, of stealing hundreds of thousandsof dollars during the construction of theBoston Common Garage; and reversing mediamogul Mortimer Zuckerman’s claims that shareholdersof The Atlantic defrauded him when hebought the magazine.During World War II, Mr. Mahony left YaleUniversity to join the Air Force; he later completedhis undergraduate degree and graduatedfrom Harvard Law School in 1952. Mr. Mahonywas appointed special assistant attorney generalin Massachusetts in 1963 and, as a protégé of formerU.S. senator Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), wasAndover | Spring 2015129