John Koehler ’63, ’68 PhD died of cancer December 14, 2001, at the age of 60. In a wide-ranging career, he served as deputy director of the CIA and founded the first company to offer two-way, high-speed Internet access via satellite. Although declining health had forced Mr. Koehler to resign in 2000 from Tachyon Inc., the data networking services company he launched in 1997, after the September 11th terrorist attacks he offered his services to the government as an advisor. With his experience in creating budgets for the government’s intelligence-gathering functions, he was asked to help develop the budget for the White House Office of Homeland Security. He filed what became his final report three days before his death.
Born in Olympia, Washington, Mr. Koehler earned a scholarship to Yale, graduated summa cum laude in 1963, and went on to earn a doctorate in economics. Recruited to work at the Rand Corporation, he specialized there in national and international security. According to the Los Angeles Times, Charles Wolf, the Rand senior economics adviser who hired Mr. Koehler, said that he still marvels at Koehler’s ability to elucidate an elaborate World Bank forecasting model of the Indonesian economy — by condensing 300 equations into eight.
Mr. Koehler left Rand in 1975 to become assistant director of the Congressional Budget Office, where he established the National Security and International Affairs division and directed studies of U.S. defense policy. He served as a CIA deputy director and director of the Intelligence Community Staff from 1978 to 1982, then joined Hughes Electronics, later becoming president and chief executive of Hughes Communications. He helped that company to launch DirecTV as a satellite broadcasting system, among other ventures. In the 1990s, he served as chief operating officer of the San Diego-based Titan Corp., maker of satellite equipment for commercial and government customers.
He is survived by his wife, Susan, a daughter, two sons, his mother, and a sister and brother.

Ian Livingstone ’57 MA died September 14, 2001, at the age of 67. He was a development economist who prepared the first socio-economic development plan for Cambodia, established an economics master’s degree program at Makerere University in Uganda, and performed numerous studies focusing on the improvement of human living standards.
Mr. Livingstone, born in Paris of Scottish parents, was educated in Glasgow before coming to Yale to earn a master’s degree. His academic career began in 1958 in the fledgling department of economics at Makerere University College in Uganda. He moved to Sheffield University in 1961 to lecture in economic statistics, returning four years later to Makerere to head the economics department, then to lead the economic research bureau at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 1974–75, as research professor in the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, he became interested in pastoral communities and led irrigation development work in the Commonwealth Secretariat Project in Tanzania; the three-volume report he generated remains a major reference work in that field.
In 1978 Mr. Livingstone moved to the University of East Anglia, where he remained through his retirement in 2000. During his time in the United Kingdom, his extensive public service included membership in the Overseas Development Administration’s economic and social committee on research (1977–92) and the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission (1995–2001).
Mr. Livingstone is survived by his wife, Grace, and four children.

SPRING 2003

Robert F. Bryan '39 PhD died on May 16, 2002, at the age of 89. He was an economist with Lionel D. Edie & Co. from 1939–48, except during 1941–42, when he was with the U.S. Office of Price Administration. In 1948 he joined J.H. Whitney & Co., becoming a partner in 1951. He also served as financial vice president, treasurer, and director of Whitney Communications Corp. and as a partner in Whitcom Investment Co. He was a member of the executive committee of the Yale Graduate School Council from 1969–73 and a trustee of Oberlin College from 1960–70.

Carl P. Ciosek, Sr. '54 GRD died October 10, 2002, in Williston, Vermont, at the age of 87. He served in the Air Force in Italy and Africa during World War II and taught economics at the University of Connecticut following the war. Based on his expertise in Russian and economics, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a pioneer in tracking developments in cybernetics and economic planning.

Albert Cizaukas '57 MA died April 3, 2002 in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 82. He served as an economics officer in the Foreign Service from the late 1940s until 1969, with postings in Asia and Europe. His final assignment was in Washington doing debt rescheduling for Indonesia. At the World Bank from 1969 to 1982, he often represented the bank at the Berne Union, the international trade association for the export and investment insurance business.

C. Mario Cortes '62 MA died May 11, 2002, in Washington, DC, at the age of 72. He taught economics in Chile before moving to the United States in the 1960s. He earned a PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and served as an economist for the World Bank from 1974 to 1979.

John Charles Leary '45 BA, '59 MA died on August 8, 2002, at the age of 78 in Alexandria, Virginia. From 1950 to 1988 he was an economics officer in the Foreign Service and retired as chargé d'affaires at the US Embassy in Granada. He also was a US representative to the UN Industrial Development Organization. He served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II as a fighter pilot and a flight instructor, and his decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Harry B. Price '32 MA died on April 4, 2002, in Santa Fe at the age of 97. In 1937 he became executive director of the Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression, which persuaded Congress to prohibit the shipping of strategic materials to Japan. In 1944 he began serving as deputy director of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in China. Later he worked for the reconstruction of Europe and Africa under the Marshall Plan, in the Phillipine rural reconstruction movement, and as UN representative to Nepal from 1957–61. Beginning in 1970 he taught for 11 years at Maryville College in Tennessee, where he became chairman of the Department of Economics and Business. He was author of The Marshall Plan and Its Meaning (1955).

John Sumsion '53 MA died on February 21, 2003, in Rotherby, England, at the age of 74. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his service to the nation. He served as the first registrar of public lending right, the system in the UK that pays authors when their books are borrowed from public libraries. He was later director of the library and information statistics unit at Loughborough University.

Walt W. Rostow '36 BA, '40 PhD died on February 13, 2003, at the age of 86. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and received the Order of the British Empire. He joined the US State Department as assistant chief of the German-Austrian Economic Division, and later taught history, first at Oxford and Cambridge and then at MIT, establishing himself as a scholar of economic modernization. In the 1960s he advised Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, becoming the latter's special assistant for national security affairs. This post is now known as national security adviser. Long known as one of the architects of the Vietnam War, Mr. Rostow supported the war on economic grounds with the claim that it gave those Southeast Asian nations involved time to ward off the possible consequences of Communist takeover, and to develop economically and stabilize themselves. At the end of the Johnson Administration, Mr. Rostow resumed his academic career at the University of Texas. In the early 1990s, he became head of the Austin Project, an organization dedicated to expanding public and private programs providing prenatal care and aid to disadvantaged children.

SUMMER 2004

Seymour T. Pearlman ’48 MA died August 6, 2003, in Boca Raton, Florida. He was a stock broker for over 50 years, primarily with First Albany Corporation. He also taught at the University of Buffalo and Russell Sage College. Over the years he served as president of numerous organizations, including the Albany Jewish Community Council, the Albany Jewish Community Center, the Daughters of Sarah Jewish Nursing Center, Gideon Lodge, B’nai B’rith, and the Upstate New York Council of B’nai B’rith.

Howard S. Gordman ’34 BA, ’36 MA died March 1, 2004, in Atlanta at the age of 93. After receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan, he taught at the College of William and Mary; Xavier University; the University of Detroit; Southern Illinois University; LaGrange College, where he was head of the economics department; and Georgia State University, where he served for 18 years. He was president of the Southern Finance Association.

FALL 2005

Robert Allen Berry ’70 PhD died December 20, 2004, at the age of 66. He taught economics at the College of William and Mary until his retirement in 1995.

Basil Fuleihan ’85 MA IDE, Lebanon’s former Minister of Economy and Trade, died on April 18, 2005, in Paris as a result of injuries sustained in a terrorist bombing in Beirut on February 14. He was 42. Mr. Fuleihan was part of the convoy of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which was attacked as it was returning from a working session with the parliament. Mr. Hariri was killed immediately as a result of the bombing, and Mr. Fuleihan sustained burns over 95% of his body. The blast killed 19 others and wounded about 100. While he was hospitalized, a tent was set up on Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square for prayers for Fuleihan, who was a Protestant. Following his education at Yale, Mr. Fuleihan earned a PhD in economics from Columbia University. Elected member of parliament in 2000, he held several important positions, including project manager for the United Nations Development Program and Minister of the Economy between 2000 and 2003. He was also a professor in the department of economics at the American University in Beurut between 1993 and 2000.

Orson H. Hart, Jr. ’46 PhD died April 22, 2005, in Bethel, Conn., at the age of 92. He began his career at the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company and then went to Washington to work for the Office of Price Administration in the Raw Materials Division. He also worked for Lionel Edie & Company, the Life Insurance Association of America, and New York Life, where he was promoted to vice president and director of economic studies.

John A. Henning ’56 MA died December 24, 2004, at the age of 76. He served in the US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps from 1946-50 in Kobe, Japan. After earning his PhD in economics from Cornell, he began a career teaching at Syracuse University. He collaborated on pioneering research on the effects of air pollution on housing values and on the prediction of government expenditures. He frequently testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts.

Robert Johnston ’65 PhD died September 23, 2004, in California at the age of 72. He worked for 25 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, retiring in 1992.

Dallas L. Jones ’56 MA died June 14, 2004, in Cape Cod at the age of 89. A Navy veteran, he served on the battleship Nevada during the D-Day landings in Normandy. After the war he earned a master’s degree from Georgetown and joined the Foreign Service. He served in Oslo, Paris, Madrid, and Geneva before returning to Paris for six more years and becoming chairman of the economic development and review committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He later served on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff in Washington and was instrumental in launching the Group of Eight summits that meet annually.

Douglas Nadeau ’63 MA died April 23, 2004, in Boston at the age of 63. He earned a law degree from Harvard in 1966 and worked for Hale and Dorr in Boston and then for Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC. In the early 1970s, he became a founding partner at Finnegan, Stanzler and Nadeau in Boston. He also organized several state representative campaigns.

Park Seong-yawng ’65 PhD died in May 2005 in San Francisco at the age of 74. He was chairman of the Kumho-Asiana Group and a prominent patron of the arts in Korea. He led several arts institutions, including the Seoul Arts Center and the Tongyeong International Music Foundation, and he established the Kumho String Quartet. In 2004 he was the first Korean to receive the Montblanc Arts Patronage Award.

Lois Ernstoff Stekler ’68 PhD died November 24, 2004, in Bethesda, MD.

Hildreth T. Winton ’32 MA died August 30, 2004, in New Haven at the age of 96. He began his career as assistant secretary for the American Institute of Accountants. With his wife he founded and operated the Oronoque Orchards in Stratford for the next 30 years. He was a veteran of World War II.

FALL 2006

Joel B. Dirlam ’36 BA, ’47 PhD died at the age of 90 in Kingston, Rhode Island, on December 1, 2005. During World War II, he spent two years in the army in France and Germany. Upon his return, he became professor of economics at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Cornell, Connecticut College for Women, the University of Connecticut, Michigan State University, and the University of Rhode Island. He was a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France, and an authority on the economics of Yugoslavia. He served as a consultant for the Brookings Institute and the New England fishing industry, published several books on economics, and spent a year in Jordan as economic advisor to the king on the development of the Jordanian economy.

Stephen P. Dresch ’70 PhD died on August 6, 2006, in Hancock, Michigan, at the age of 63. He taught successively at Yale, Rutgers, and Southern Connecticut State College. After establishing the Institute for Demographic and Economic Studies in New Haven, he served as economic advisor to several presidents. He was dean and professor in the School of Business and Engineering Administration at Michigan Technological University.

Frank M. Kibler Sr. ’39 Grd died in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 8, 2005, at the age of 87. He had been president of FeatherCraft, an aluminum boat manufacturer.

Robert W. Kilpatrick ’58 MA, ’65 PhD died on October 13, 2005, in Washington, DC. From 1962 until 1971, he taught economics at Cornell University, after which he became a fiscal economist in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he received the Distinguished Service Award in 1994.

Charles P. Larrowe ’52 PhD died at the age of 90 in East Lansing, Michigan, on July 7, 2006. During the early years of World War II, he served as an ambulance driver in North Africa, and enlisted as a flamethrower once the United States entered the war, eventually receiving a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for valor. After leaving Yale, he taught at the University of Washington, the University of Utah, and Michigan State University. A member of the ACLU and the NAACP, he championed civil rights and the rights of workers to organize for over sixty years.

Henry W. Moore ’52 MA died September 11, 2006, in Sandwich, New Hampshire, at the age of 88. He was a signal officer during World War II, and eventually served as flight and squadron commander of the active Air Force Reserve until 1969. Early on, he worked for Fanny Mae Mortgage and the Republican National Committee, writing speeches for President Eisenhower and other Republicans. He later taught at the University of Maryland and worked for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before being appointed economic advisor to the U.S. Congress.

Oliver L. Robinson ’53 MA died on January 13, 2006 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, aged 77. Upon his retirement from banking in 1982, he sailed the inner coasts for three years on a converted trailer.

Gary R. Saxonhouse ’64 BA, ’71 PhD died on November 30, 2006, at the age of 63 in Seattle, where he was being treated for leukemia. He had taught at the University of Michigan since 1970, with scholarly research focused on the Japanese economy, international trade, economic history and economic development. He held a number of prestigious fellowships (Guggenheim, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Bellagio Center, National Endowment for the Humanities) and advisory roles (U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and the World Bank), and also served as a staff member on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He returned to Yale in recent years to participate in alumni conferences in Economics (April 1999) and East Asian Studies (November 2003).

Sheldon Schaffer ’47 MA died on April 13, 2006, at the age of 83 in Birmingham, Alabama. He served with the 709th Tank Battalion during World War II. He was head of the economics department of the Southern Research Institute for more than two decades, writing numerous reports on the economic and political future of Birmingham. He was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union for 53 years and founded Or Hadash (New Light), the first humanistic Jewish Congregation in Birmingham.

Michael H. Styles ’61 Grd died on April 5, 2006, in Fairfax Station, Virginia, at the age of 79. In 1949, he joined the State Department and subsequently served five years at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. In 1960, he became director of the State Department’s Office of Aviation, where he worked to remove barriers to the overseas operation of U.S. airline companies. He received the Meritorious Honor Award and Superior Honor Award from the State Department and retired in 1979, forming a consulting company to represent the interests of international aviation. He also founded the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University. He wrote a biography of his adventurous ancestor, titled Captain Hogan: Sailor, Merchant, Diplomat on Six Continents (2003).

WINTER 2008

John Buttrick ’50 PhD died on July 16, 2007, in a car accident on Gabriola Island, British Columbia. He was 88. He was a professor of economics at York University, Toronto for nearly two decades. Not wanting to retire at the age of 65, Buttrick and six others successfully took legal action to fight York’s mandatory retirement policy, and he remained on the York faculty until 1989. While in Toronto he worked as a consultant for the Ontario Economic Council, focusing on social issues including inner city educational inequities and the out-migration of skilled workers. He had previously been a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and at Northwestern: his move to Canada in 1970 was sparked by frustration with U.S. foreign policy. Buttrick also served as a visiting professor at universities around the globe, and he continued this practice well into his retirement. In 1989, he and his wife moved to Jamaica where he became an advisor to the government and a teacher at the technical university. According to York University’s Y-File, "He was a fearless and long-time fighter for peace, a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and actively helped a large number of refugees from the Vietnam draft and more recently deserters from the U.S. military service in Iraq." The Buttricks had only recently settled in Gabriola, a retirement community for intellectuals and artists.

Edward Gramlich ’65 PhD died on September 5, 2007, in Washington, DC of leukemia at the age of 68. A former governor of the Federal Reserve, he had issued an early warning about the need for more oversight of home loans. At the time of his death he was a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. He was named to the Federal Reserve by President Clinton in 1997 and served until 2006. In his role as chairman of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, he lobbied unsuccessfully for legislation to protect consumers from predatory lending practices. He proposed solutions for the mortgage crisis in his book, Subprime Mortgages: America’s Latest Boom and Bust, which was published in June. He also headed the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, formed by Congress after the September 11 terrorist attacks. In a controversial move he twice voted with other board members to reject loan packages for United Airlines, convinced that United could restructure without federal help. During his career he held posts in the academic world as well as in government. He served as deputy and acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as professor of economics, head of the university’s public institute, and interim provost. He maintained a lifelong interest in baseball, directing an economic study commission on Major League Baseball in 1992.

Norman H. Leonard ’47 PhD died on September 5, 2007, in Delaware, Ohio, at the age of 89. He was a professor emeritus of economics at Ohio Wesleyan University and the sixth faculty member to win the university’s Welch Meritorius Teaching Award, established in 1963. He was also widely known as an expert witness in court trials involving damage amounts sought by accident victims and their families. In 1942, after serving four years as an Army officer, he became a junior economist with the Office of Price Administration. He was the co-author of a book on forensic economics and several textbooks. A past president of the American Society of Econometric Appraisers, he also served on numerous boards, including the board of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Charles Montrie ’62 PhD died on June 9, 2007, in his home in Potomac, MD. He was 83. He worked for the State Department for most of his career, and was one of the first staff members of what would become the U.S. Agency for International Development. As an economist for USAID he served in the Near East and South Asia. After retiring in 1980, he became a certified financial planner and a real estate agent. During WWII he was as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, stationed aboard the destroyer USS Newcomb in the South Pacific, and was awarded a purple heart. He enjoyed gardening, woodworking, and traveling.