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In 1997, Ralph Upson Stone ’80 had completed research on his doctoral dissertation, “Women Leaders in Kenya,” when he was brutally murdered by a still unknown assailant in his home in Washington, DC, at the age of 38. Determined that his years of labor would not be lost, his mother, Anne Upson Stone, put the finishing touches on Ralph’s research and concluded the writing of his dissertation. In 1998, at age 68, she successfully defended it before his professors at George Washington University. That summer, Ralph’s Ed.D. degree was posthumously awarded, with his mother and father, Frederick L. Stone, Jr. ’51, on hand to receive it. In June, 2001, the Centre for Development and Population Activities, of which Ralph was the highly respected and admired director of training, published the fruits of his and his mother’s labors as a book: Women Leaders in Kenya: A Legacy for the Future. Proceeds from its sale will go to the Ralph U. Stone Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships for leaders around the world to attend seminars at CEDPA, a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Washington and aimed at empowering women at all levels of society.