1960s
Earl Franklin Greenwald ’61
Earl Franklin Greenwald ’61, a physician, teacher and medical director, was born on Aug. 30, 1940, in Cumberland, Md., the son of the former Phyllis Hymen and Eugene Greenwald. He graduated from the Newark (N.J.) Academy.
Greenwald came to College Hill knowing he wanted to pursue a career in medicine. He majored in biology, later graduating with honors, and was active in many extracurricular groups, including The Spectator, WHC radio and swimming. A member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, he entered the College with the Class of ’62 but finished his degree requirements a year early.
True to his original goal, Greenwald earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1965 and went on to complete a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology. He served with the U.S. Public Health Service Division of Indian Health in Talihina, Okla., for two years before his honorable discharge in 1968.
Dr. Greenwald then practiced OB/GYN oncology and held directorships at hospitals in Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. He also served a dozen stints at universities as a medical professor. In addition to volunteering on local, regional and national boards of directors of organizations devoted to providing care for child victims of abuse or neglect, he co-founded and served as medical director of the Children’s Resource Center in Harrisburg, Pa., an advocacy center that provides care for children suspected of having been abused. He continued his involvement with the center even after his retirement in 2004.
Greenwald’s joy of cooking and sailing, as well as his thirst for learning, dominated his life. For his 50th reunion yearbook, he numbered his interests as co-authoring a cookbook with his wife, participating in a philosophy discussion group and taking courses through DVDs, thereby continuing his education.
Reflecting on his years on the Hill, he noted in his 40th reunion yearbook that the College not only offered him the academic preparation necessary for success in medical school, but also “provided me the writing and public speaking skills to teach well and to write and publish many articles and chapters.” He remained a loyal participant in Hamilton’s fundraising campaigns throughout his life.
Earl F. Greenwald died on Nov. 20, 2016, at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, to whom he was married for 29 years; four sons; a daughter; and nine grandchildren. He was previously married to the former Maria Genevrino.
William Hatch Haines ’61
William Hatch Haines ’61, a teacher who championed community activism, was born on May 3, 1939, in Evanston, Ill., to the former Patricia Hatch and William Haines, an insurance executive. He grew up in Winnetka, Ill., and graduated from New Trier Township High School.
Haines’ Hamilton roots ran wide and deep, including his grandfather Charles Hatch and great-uncle Alfrederic Hatch, both Class of 1901, and more than a dozen cousins and other extended family members going back to Henry Wilford Harding, Class of 1873. Haines showed his own love of the buff and blue by managing the hockey varsity squad for two years and participating in cheerleading, The Spectator and the French and Sailing clubs. A member of Chi Psi, he majored in psychology.
After Hamilton, Haines worked in a Lloyd’s of London brokerage house and explored other posts in insurance in San Francisco and Paris before deciding that teaching was his calling. He earned his master’s degree in education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, in 1967. Lured by the snow-packed Vermont mountains, the avid skier turned his sights to the social studies classroom at Montpelier High School. In 1972, he married the former Leslie Bucklin, also a teacher at the school.
It wasn’t long before Haines became known for his mentorship both in and out of the classroom. A passionate activist, he organized student volunteer programs and environmental initiatives and for many years served as advisor to the forensics and debate teams.
For his 50th reunion yearbook, Haines summarized his Hamilton years as ones of gratitude for education and service. “While it took a few years to discover teaching as a career, Hamilton gets the credit. The range of courses and experiences on the Hill improved my skills and allowed me to see the value of education. The importance of community that Hamilton modeled has meant continued involvement in public and philanthropic activities here in Vermont.”
And Haines’ contributions were many. In the village of Worcester, he served on the select board for 12 years and on the school board. He was a town moderator and president of the volunteer fire department. After his retirement from teaching in 1999, he became the Vermont coordinator for the Center for Civic Education’s “We the People” program that helps middle school students develop an understanding of local government roles and responsibilities.
In his last years, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, baking almond biscotti, reading, discussing politics and education, and canoeing with friends. He loved the paraphernalia of canoe tripping and made his own equipment.
William H. Haines died on Jan. 12, 2017, at the age of 77. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children and eight grandchildren.
Harvey Miller Bricker ’62
Harvey Miller Bricker ’62, an anthropologist and college professor who specialized in French Paleolithic archaeology and the ancient Maya, was born on June 29, 1940, in Johnstown, Pa., the son of the former Florence Miller and the Rev. George Bricker. He received his early education in Waynesboro and Lancaster, Pa., graduating from J.P. McCaskey High School.
On College Hill, Bricker participated in student government, the Spelunking Club and Pentagon. He was honored with induction into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from the College summa cum laude with a major in Russian history. Bricker also was awarded the Arnold Prize and the Dale Prize scholarships. The 1962 Hamiltonian mused, “When Harvey came to Hamilton as a freshman, he consciously sought only one honor — a gold key, which bauble he’d wear to bed given half a chance. Since that time, however, he has unintentionally accrued about all the keys and honors that Hamilton bestows.”
After graduation, Bricker went to Harvard University, where he enrolled in the graduate program in anthropology with a focus on archaeology. He earned his master’s degree in 1963, devoting his research to the manufacture of stone tools by the earliest humans in southern France, and a Ph.D. in 1973.
In 1964, Bricker married a fellow graduate student in anthropology, the former Victoria Evelyne Reifler. The couple’s teaching careers at Tulane University began in 1969. He was associated for many years with the excavation and analysis of the Abri Pataud site at Les Eyzies, in the Périgord region of southwestern France, and he directed the excavations of Les Tambourets, a late Neanderthal site in the French foothills of the Pyrénées.
In 1981, Bricker’s interests shifted to the astronomy of the ancient Maya and their hieroglyphic books. In collaboration with his wife, he wrote Astronomy in the Maya Codices in 2011, which received the Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy, among other awards. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985 “for contributions to paleoarchaeology in France and to the archaeoastronomy of the Maya.” In 1987, he was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the government of France for his research.
After retiring from Tulane at the end of 2005, Harvey and Victoria began dividing time between homes in New Orleans and Gainesville, Fla., where they held appointments as courtesy professors in the department of anthropology at the University of Florida and as research professors at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Harvey M. Bricker died on Jan. 18, 2017, in Gainesville after a brief illness. He was 76. He is survived by his wife and a sister.
David Haspel Shepard ’62
David Haspel Shepard ’62, a film preservationist who uncovered and restored hundreds of works by noted masters, was born on Oct. 22, 1940, in Manhattan, a son of the former Marjorie Haspel and Bertram Shepard, a Grand Union grocery store chain executive.
As a young boy growing up in Tenafly, N.J., Shepard began buying old films with money he earned from his paper route. His passion for movies was sparked after his uncle, a photographer in the Signal Corps, returned from France after World War II with a projector and a boxful of films.
While on College Hill, Shepard founded and directed the classic film group Kinokunst-Gesellschaft and was active with the Literary Society and WHC. His love of movies was noted in the 1962 Hamiltonian: “Starting in his freshman year with a Sunday afternoon showing of The Birth of a Nation (a portentous title), Shepard built up during the surrounding years a film empire on the Hill which must rank him as Hamilton’s most successful undergraduate mogul.”
A member of the Emerson Literary Society, Shepard left Hamilton with his A.B. in philosophy and religion before earning a master’s degree in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He was teaching theatre and film at The Pennsylvania State University in 1968 when the American Film Institute hired him to seek out historically significant films from studios and collectors with the goal of having them donated to the institute for preservation and archiving. “In an early coup, he persuaded Paramount Pictures to turn over 200 silent features it had in storage,” reported The New York Times in an obituary.
A few years later, Shepard joined Blackhawk Films, which reproduced old films for the collectors’ market, before creating his own business, Film Preservation Associates, in 1989. By trial and error, he perfected techniques now used widely in preservation laboratories. He restored or made available many silent classics, including 12 Charlie Chaplin shorts, F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece Sunrise (1927), Soviet silent films and Buster Keaton’s independent films of the 1920s. One stunning effort was the restoration of the French filmmaker Abel Gance’s La Roue (1922).
“Through his efforts, Hollywood’s best-known silent films have survived to be viewed by modern audiences,” noted an obituary in the Hollywood Reporter. “In 1992, Shepard transferred to NTSC video a 16mm color negative of D.W. Griffith’s silent film Birth of a Nation made from a tinted nitrate print. That classic film was later released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD.”
Shepard, who also taught at the USC Cinema School, joined the American Film Institute in 1968 as an early staff member and co-authored or edited about a dozen books. A supporter of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, Calif., he donated thousands of film prints after the institution began exhibiting silent films with live musical accompaniment every Saturday night in 2005.
“One important thing to note about David: He was not a hoarder. He shared his collection generously, and his guiding beacon was always the films themselves — doing whatever he could do just to get the films seen,” said Kino Lorber, who had collaborated with Shepard on a host of film releases.
In his 50th Hamilton reunion yearbook, Shepard noted how he and Jon Hildreth ’64 put on an annual film festival for the Shasta County Arts Council. Shepard also served on the board of several other film festivals and an animal rescue group. He was active with the Commission on Aging, delivered meals on wheels and later in life became a cycling fanatic, riding at least 10 miles a day.
“David was one of the world’s crucial figures in the preservation of a very wide range of films of major importance: many of the DVDs/Blu-rays I use in my classes were produced by David,” noted Scott MacDonald, professor of cinema studies at Hamilton. “He is known anywhere classic cinema is studied and programmed. David visited F.I.L.M. years ago, bringing a beautiful 16mm print of The Sterile Cuckoo to donate to the Hamilton library. Cinema Studies is possible because of visionaries like David.”
David H. Shepard, who enjoyed the rural life in a hand-hewn log house on a small island in the southern Cascade Mountains of northern California, died on Jan. 31, 2017. He was 76. Shepard is survived by a son and a brother. A marriage to the former Kimberly Fetter, who also worked at Blackhawk, had ended in divorce.
John Martin Floegel ’64
John Martin Floegel ’64, a McDonald’s Corp. entrepreneur and pioneer of the Ronald McDonald Houses, was born on May 25, 1942, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the former Lillian McElraevy and Werner Floegel. After growing up in Rockville Center and Garden City, N.Y., where he attended Garden City High School, the young Floegel was recruited to play minor league baseball but followed his father’s advice and chose instead to attend Hamilton.
At the College, Floegel was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, College Choir and the Debate Club. He majored in English. After graduation he settled in Atlanta and became a furniture buyer. He then switched careers and became an owner/operator of McDonald’s restaurants. During his many years with the fast-food enterprise, Floegel ran as many as 10 sites in the New -Jersey/New York area, according to a published obituary. He served on local, regional and national boards and committees, and was elected to three terms as president of the Metropolitan Owner/Operator Association.
Floegel was one of the operator representatives who coordinated the original Ronald McDonald House in Manhattan in 1980 and thereafter became dedicated to raising awareness for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. After selling his restaurants, he became a consultant to the McDonald’s account for the McCann-Erickson Agency in New York. There, he developed partnerships and sponsorships with major athletic teams such as the N.Y. Mets and Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets and entertainment venues the likes of Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and Six Flags Great Adventure theme park. Through these relationships, he raised both awareness and funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities, local McDonald houses, and black and Hispanic scholarship funds. For his service, he was honored by the Ronald McDonald House of Long Branch, N.J., in 2008.
In addition, Floegel loved watching and playing sports, particularly golf and tennis, and was a member of a number of sports and community organizations. He was a longtime coach of his kids’ Little League teams.
John M. Floegel died on April 29, 2017. He was 74 years old. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, the former Carol Jean Corrao, two sons, two daughters, nine grandchildren and his former wife, Carol Moller Huber.
Arnis Lamberts ’64
Arnis Lamberts ’64, a technical writer for NASA, was born on April 7, 1943, in Riga, Latvia, the son of the former Eleonora Palen and Visvaldis Lamberts. He attended schools in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was a graduate of Arlington High School.
Lamberts withdrew from Hamilton shortly before his graduation and, after some delays, reentered in 1966 to complete his degree with a major in history. He also graduated from Officer Candidate School in Aberdeen, Md. He served in the U.S. Army and later worked as a technical writer for NASA.
Arnis Lamberts died on Dec. 9, 2016, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y. He was 73. He made his home with his sister in the town of Lagrange, N.Y. She survives him.
David William Gould ’65
David William Gould ’65, an educator, was born in Lockport, N.Y., on Jan. 5, 1944, the son of the former Jean Coventry, a registered nurse, and Robert Gould ’37, an accountant. He attended DeSales High School in Lockport for two years and graduated from Royalton-Hartland High School in Middleport, N.Y.
While at Hamilton, Gould’s love of sports led him to participate on the lacrosse, baseball and cross country teams in addition to serving as a manager for the basketball squad. He was also a member of the Root-Jessup Council, the International Relations Club and Psi Upsilon.
Following graduation, the history major spent a brief stint working in international banking and earning an M.A. in international relations from American University. It was later that he discovered his true vocational passion — teaching — and subsequently taught history and philosophy at Durham Academy for 31 years, retiring in 2012.
For a class reunion yearbook, Gould reminisced about what the Hamilton years meant to him: “Above all, Hamilton created life-long friends with whom I have lived for many years and who have substantially enriched my life. The College also taught me the value of good writing and speaking and the need to set high standards for oneself. There is a certain deep-seated independence of self, necessary for taking the less-traveled road — I suppose the seeds of that sort of independence were nurtured by the maverick nature of some of my teachers and friends at the College.”
For Gould, that road less traveled included roaming the world for 12 years with two Psi U mates, working variously on freighters, teaching and freelance writing. His extensive travels during those years and after ranged from the bush country of northern Canada, to France, Scotland, China and Australia, where he met his wife, Lyn.
In 1989, the Hamilton Alumni Review published an account of Gould’s semester of teaching in China during the student-led protest movement titled “The Seeds of Discontent: Students and Teachers in China.” A published obituary noted that among his varied interests of any and all sports, pranks, storytelling and scavenger hunts, teaching remained his first love.
David W. Gould died on July 18, 2016, at age 72. Surviving are his wife of 41 years and two daughters.
Editor’s Note: The memorial biography of David Gould that appeared in the last edition of the Hamilton Alumni Review contained an error, so we are publishing it again along with our apologies. As disappointed as we are when a mistake occurs, our staff was heartened by the number of Dave’s classmates who contacted us not only to alert us of the error, but also to share a fond reflection about their friend. Hamilton connections run deep.
William Joseph McElligott ’67
William Joseph McElligott ’67, an attorney, was born on Oct. 10, 1945, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the former Dorothy Obici and Joseph McElligott. He graduated from Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J.
A member of the Emerson Literary Society at Hamilton, McElligott went on to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School in Boston. He enjoyed a successful law practice with his son, William McElligott, and steadfastly fought for justice for the underserved, according to a published obituary.
McElligott was a lifelong traveler, outdoor enthusiast and sports fan, most notably for Boston teams. He also wrote several novels and poems. His zest for life and smile will be cherished in the lives of his wife and his children, the obituary also noted.
William J. McElligott died on Jan. 29, 2017, at his New Hampshire retreat. He was 71 years old. He is survived by his wife, Annette, three sons, two daughters and three grand-children.
Thomas Leslie James Darling ’69
Thomas Leslie James Darling ’69, a pharmaceutical biochemist, was born on Dec. 10, 1946, in Binghamton, N.Y., to the former Margaret Petrzala and Lawrence Darling, a vice president with the Marine Midland Trust Co. He graduated from Binghamton North High School.
Although Darling entered Hamilton with the Class of ’69, he received his A.B. in 1970 after withdrawing for a time due to health reasons. He majored in chemistry and was a member of The Spectator and the Emerson Literary Society while on College Hill.
Darling earned an M.Ph. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1976 from Yale University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of neurobiology at the Stanford University Medical Center and some time thereafter served as a biochemist in the pharmaceutical industry.
Waxing nostalgic about his time on College Hill, Darling reminisced for his 40th reunion yearbook: “Even after Yale, Stanford, Brussels and Paris, I love the beauty of the Hamilton campus. I wish that I could have continued the conversations with classmates forever.” He enjoyed being active as an alumnus, his published obituary noted.
According to the reunion yearbook, he spent a number of years managing projects in the United States and Europe, and while at Searle-Monsanto in Chicago helped establish the anti-cancer claim on the Celebrex drug label. Having lived and worked many years in Lincoln, Neb., he was also founder, president and CEO of his own company, Edunn Biotechnology, Inc., in St. Louis.
Darling was passionate for all things that involved coffee, spun wonderfully fantastical bedtime stories for his children and was a voracious reader, the obituary noted.
Thomas L.J. Darling died on May 23, 2017. He was 70 years old. He is survived by his friend and former wife, Joan Schwartz Darling, whom he had married in 1972; one daughter; one son; and two grandchildren.
