Henry “Pete” Harris, age 79 of Needham passed away on May 3, 2009 after a life long struggle with COPD, in his home in his sleep. He was employed by the US Postal service for thirty years and retired in 1992. Mr. Harris was born and raised in Winchester, MA and was a graduate of…
Charles Henry Rowan, of Boulder Colorado, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009. Originaly from Fitchburh MA, he was 83. He is survived by his son, Mark Rowan, his daughter, Lori Hansen, both residing in Colorado, and three sisters. Chuck spent time in the White Mountains in the late 40s and then again in the early…
William S. Ashbrook Jr. ‘El Wacko’, 87, died March 31, 2009 at his retirement community in Denver. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, January 28,1922 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University with degrees in English literature. He worked at Pinkham in 1939, Lonesome in 1940, Carter in 1941, and Zealand in…
M. Brooke Halsey died November 17, 2009 in Vermont at the age of 26. He worked at Madison hut in 2003. Halsey started college at Princeton in fall of 2000 and studied for a semester at the Center for Northern Studies in Vermont. He transferred to Harvard in the fall of 2004, finishing college in…
Dr. Herbert “Hub” Sise died peacefully on April 18, 2008 in the company of his children and his beloved care-giver. Born in Medford Mass in 1912, his mother was Eleanor Stanwood Sise and his father, Dr. Lincoln Fleetford Sise, was the Anesthesiologist for Dr. Frank Lahey, founder of the Lahey Clinic. Hub schooled at Phillips…
Malcolm McLane, 83, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at his home at Kendal retirement community in Hanover, NH. Born Oct. 3, 1924, in Manchester, McLane served on the Concord City Council for 20 years and as mayor of Concord NH from 1970 to 1976. He ran for governor in 1972 as an independent in the…
Arthur “Art” Harris died January 6, 2008 in Vermont. He worked at Pinkham in the late ’30s and early ’40s and was a life member of the AMC.
Bob Trumbull (Greenleaf ’44, Lakes ’45) died in New Haven on September 21, 2007. Bob was a Harvard graduate (’52), salesman for Taylor Instrument Co. and, at his retirement, business manager in Yale’s department of Comparative Medicine. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and a son, John.
Frederick H. Greene died May 8, 2007.
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (June 7, 1910 – January 10, 2007) was an explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer extraordinaire. He was the director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939-1980, and was its Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment) from 1985 until his death. He was an Honorary Member of the OHA and owned the…