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wrote. “Early on, she acquired

ways of dealing with her life, of life

in general. And as she grew older

it became evident that she feared

almost nothing — perhaps only

horses and something she could-

n’t quite name, a strange presence

of danger, not quite or not really

part of the world.”

Reviewing “Miss Jane” in The

Washington Post, Aditi Sriram

said it “plays on the tongue like an

oyster — first salty, then cold —

before slipping away to be con-

sumed and digested.”

Wilton Brad Watson was born

on July 24, 1955, in Meridian, Miss.

His father, Robert Earl Watson,

ran a shoe store and owned a bar;

his mother, Bonnie (Clay) Watson,

was an office worker.

Mr. Watson did not have writing

ambitions as a youth. His poor

handwriting generated mockery

from a teacher, and he did not

know how to type.

“Dim child — dreamy but dim,”

he once said of himself.

While in high school, he acted in

plays at a local theater, which led

him to try for a Hollywood career.

He headed west with a woman he

had married between his junior

and senior years and their baby,

Jason. But instead of finding act-

ing jobs during a writers’ strike,

he collected garbage.

Back home, he enrolled at Me-

ridian Junior College (now Merid-

ian Community College), where

he wrote his first short story.

He studied fiction writing at

Mississippi State University (he

and his wife had split up by then)

and wrote a pile of short stories

that he himself said were bad. In

the spring before he graduated in

1978, he attended a symposium at

the University of Alabama,

Tuscaloosa, where he hoped to

meet the darkly comic writer

Barry Hannah, who was teaching

there. Mr. Watson was headed to

the school that fall to start work on

a master’s in creative writing.

The two met and spent the day

bar hopping. At one point Mr. Han-

nah said, “as if to himself, ‘You

wouldn’t believe how beautiful my

wife is naked,’ ” Mr. Watson re-

called in “A Short Ride: Remem-

bering Barry Hannah,” a book of

essays published in 2012, two

years after Mr. Hannah’s death at

67.

“That was uttered not so much

as a statement of wonder,” Mr.

Watson wrote, “but in the way of

words that might lead to physical

combat.”

When Mr. Watson replied to

him, “I wouldn’t know,” Mr. Han-

nah “looked at me, steady. ‘You’d

better not.’ He didn’t smile. He

seemed to mean it.”

That baffling encounter did not

deter Mr. Hannah from counseling

Mr. Watson on his work or becom-

ing his friend. And those odd

words from Mr. Hannah about his

wife? It was a line, lifted with

some changes, from one of his

short stories.

After completing his master’s

degree, Mr. Watson gave up fic-

tion for a while, unhappy with the

Brad Watson, whose short
stories and novels — including
one book inspired by a great-
aunt’s anatomical anomaly —
came to life largely on the South-
ern Gulf Coast of his birth, died on
July 8 at his home in Laramie,
Wyo. He was 64.
His wife, Nell Hanley, said the
cause was cardiac failure.
Mr. Watson’s two novels and
two short-story collections did not
make him a major literary star.
But his fiction was often praised
for its surreal, bizarre, funny, wild
and tender stories about charac-
ters who inevitably must tran-
scend difficult moments in their
lives. His first novel, “The Heaven
of Mercury” (2002), was a Na-
tional Book Award finalist.
“Brad Watson, white, male and
already wise beyond his years
when the near-perfect story col-
lection ‘Last Days of the Dog-
Men’ was published in 1996,” Amy
Grace Loyd wrote in The New
York Times in 2016, “has long ex-
plored how the peculiarities of our
physical selves can be a benedic-
tion and a curse (in turns or all at
once), how insistently they ex-
press nature’s beauty and brutal-
ity.”
For “Miss Jane” (2016), his sec-
ond novel, Mr. Watson reimagined
a family mystery: His great-aunt
Mary Ellis Clay, known as Jane,
was born in the late 19th century
with a rare birth defect that appar-
ently had a profound effect on her
sexual organs and left her inconti-
nent. Relatives had few stories to
tell him, and there were no extant
medical records to describe her
condition. A surviving photo of
her showed an attractive teenager
who, Mr. Watson’s mother said,
was popular and enjoyed dances.
“Had she known love, or some
version of it?” Mr. Watson asked
in an interview on the website of
his publisher, W.W. Norton.

“What, then, happened to that?

And everyone said Aunt Jane was

a ‘cheerful ‘ person. Was that true,

or a front to cover a long-ago, un-

avoidable sadness?”

It would take Mr. Watson 13

years — time aplenty for medical

research and many false starts —

to complete “Miss Jane,” which

follows Jane Chisolm from her

birth on a large Mississippi farm

in 1915 through a life of relative

isolation, although she does have

an almost erotic connection to na-

ture and a lasting friendship with

the doctor who delivered her.

“You would not think someone

so afflicted would or could be

cheerful, not prone to melancholy

or the miseries,” Mr. Watson

quality of his stories. He worked

as a reporter and editor at The

Montgomery Advertiser, moved

on to an advertising agency and

then returned to the Tuscaloosa

campus to teach.

His “Last Days of the Dog-

Men,” a book of short stories, was

published in 1996 and won the Sue

Kaufman Prize for first fiction

from the American Academy of

Arts and Letters. Like all his

books, it was published by Norton

and edited by Alane Mason.

In a tribute on the website Liter-

ary Hub, Ms. Mason noted some

of the quirkiest moments in Mr.

Watson’s work, including a de-

scription of a dog watching a

streetlight change; the “most no-

ble account of an old man on the

toilet”; a marital argument that a

man shoots himself in the foot to

end; and a necrophiliac scene in

“The Heaven of Mercury.”

“Heaven” chronicles 80 years in

the life of Finus Bates, a newspa-

per editor, broadcaster and obitu-

ary writer, and of the small Missis-

sippi town of Mercury.

“The language is racy and collo-

quial, delivered in a Southern tele-

graphese in which sentences tend

to lose their subjects and verbs,

rolling and swinging like the Mis-

sissippi accent,” Mary Flanagan

wrote in a review in The Inde-

pendent. “Shamelessly gorgeous

prose becomes suddenly hymn-

like, and there are modernist pas-

sages of fractured beauty.”

Mr. Watson taught at several

schools, including Harvard and,

most recently, the University of

Wyoming, Laramie, where he was

director of the creative writing

program.

His second collection of stories,

“Aliens in the Prime of Their

Lives” (2010) — some of which he

wrote while struggling with “Miss

Jane” — was a finalist for the

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

In addition to his wife, whom he

married in 2011, and his son Jason,

Mr. Watson is survived by another

son, Owen; his brother, Craig, and

a granddaughter, Maggie, who

suggested to her “Pappy” that he

give the title character of “Miss

Jane” a peacock.

And he did.

Brad Watson in an undated photo. He wrote two novels and two collections of short stories.

NELL HANLEY

Brad Watson, 64, Acclaimed Author

Who Relied on Southern Roots, Dies

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Creating characters

who inevitably must

transcend difficult

moments in their lives.

Phyllis Somerville, whose
scores of stage, television and film
roles included a cranky bigot in
the 2018 Broadway adaptation of
“To Kill a Mockingbird” and a
cranky neighbor of the main char-
acter in the Showtime series “The
Big C,” died on July 16 at her home
in Manhattan. She was 76.
Paul Hilepo, her manager, an-
nounced the death. No cause was
specified.
Ms. Somerville, though rarely
the lead, thrived in secondary
roles and ensemble work. She be-
gan turning up on New York
stages in the 1970s, making her
Broadway debut in “Over Here!,”
a musical about life on the home
front during World War II. She
was rarely idle over the next 45
years.
Ms. Somerville made her film
debut in 1981 in a small role in “Ar-
thur,” the Dudley Moore-Liza Min-
nelli vehicle, and beginning in the
early 1990s she turned up regu-
larly on television, appearing in
episodes of “NYPD Blue,” “The
Sopranos,” “Kidnapped” and
other series.

Her character, Marlene, was

featured in all four seasons of

“The Big C,” the acclaimed comic

drama that starred Laura Linney

as a cancer patient. Mary McNa-

mara, a television critic at The Los

Angeles Times, said that Ms. Som-

erville “inevitably steals every

scene she’s in.”

She also had a recurring role on

the WGN America series “Out-

siders,” which ran for two seasons

beginning in 2016.

In one of her last roles, in the

2019 film “Poms,” Ms. Somerville

was among a group of women in a

retirement village who start a

cheerleading club. She may have

been able to tap some long-ago

firsthand experience for that role.

In an interview with The Waterloo

Courier of Iowa in 2007, she men-

tioned that she had spent her high

school years in Cresco, Iowa.

“Great wrestling town,” she

said. “I know that because I was a

cheerleader.”

Phyllis Jeanne Somerville was

born on Dec. 12, 1943, in Iowa City.

Her father, Paul, was a Methodist

minister, and her mother, Lefa

Mary Pash Somerville, was a li-

brarian.

Ms. Somerville graduated from

the University of Northern Iowa

in 1966. Having been involved in

theater since high school, she

eventually made her way to Man-

hattan and settled in the East Vil-

lage.

She became a favorite of the di-

rector Tom Moore, who, after cast-

ing her in “Over Here!,” also gave

her a role in “Once in a Lifetime,”

the 1978 Broadway revival of a

Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman

comedy, starring John Lithgow.

In 1983 Mr. Moore made her the

standby for Kathy Bates in the

Broadway production of “’night,

Mother,” Marsha Norman’s Pulitz-

er Prize-winning drama. The next

year, he cast her in Ms. Norma’s

follow-up, “Traveler in the Dark,”

at the American Repertory The-

ater in Cambridge, Mass., in a cast

that also included Hume Cronyn

and Sam Waterston.

Her only other Broadway credit

was in “Mockingbird,” in which

she played Mrs. Dubose, a viru-

lent racist. She was better known

Off Broadway and in regional the-

aters.

Ms. Somerville had a rare star

turn in 1987 in an unusual produc-

tion at the Wadsworth Atheneum

in Hartford, Conn., playing the art-

ist Georgia O’Keeffe in a one-

woman show by Constance Cong-

don, created in conjunction with

an art exhibition there.

Ms. Somerville worked several

times with Playwrights Horizons

in Manhattan, including in 2001,

when she played the owner of the

title establishment in “The Spit-

fire Grill,” a musical based on the

film of the same title.

Her movie work included the

Todd Field film “Little Children”

(2006), in which she played the

protective mother of a pedophile.

“As a preacher’s kid from Iowa,”

she told The Courier, “I find it a

film that has a lot to say about

atonement and forgiveness.”

Ms. Somerville’s marriage to

David Darlow ended in divorce.

No immediate family members

survive.

Phyllis Somerville, 76, Who Shone in Secondary Roles

Phyllis Somerville, right, with Laura Linney during the Show-

time comic drama “The Big C.” She thrived in ensemble work.

JORDIN ALTHAUS/SHOWTIME

Ms. Somerville at the Walter

Reade Theater in New York in

2013 promoting “Stoker.”

EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

By NEIL GENZLINGER

Turning up regularly

on television and

stealing every scene.

ALDEN—Vernon R.,

the president of Ohio Univer-

sity in the 1960s and later an

influential businessexecu-

tive, who in his wide-ranging

career adviseda United

States president and promot-

ed cultural exchange with Ja-

pan, died on June 22 in Bos-

ton. He was 97. Mr. Alden was

an executive who moved a

river, a mentor who dazzled

students and colleagues, a ra-

conteur who relished a practi-

cal joke and a networker who

collected friends like lucky

pennies. With a frank charm

and a talent for hard-nosed

management, Mr. Alden

doubledtheenrollmentof

OhioUniversityduringhis

tenure, from 1962 to 1969,

while assisting President Lyn-

don B. Johnson in redevelop-

ing the state's poor south-

eastern region. He was chair-

man of the Boston Company

inthesubsequentdecade,

overseeing the creation of

thepioneeringconsultancy

Boston Consulting Group. At

the same time, he worked to

build national ties with Japan,

his wartime enemy that had

become his lifelong love. In-

augurated at age 38, Mr. Al-

denwasOhioUniversity's

youngest president in almost

acentury. He shaped the

school in major ways, creat-

ing an honors college and es-

tablishing new doctoral pro-

grams. In his last year in of-

fice, the university surprised

him by naming a library in his

honor. His reach extended

beyond the campus. In 1964,

Sargent Shriver, the architect

of President Johnson's War

on Poverty, asked Mr. Alden

to join the task force planning

the Job Corps program. That

year, in a speech at Ohio Uni-

versity, PresidentJohnson

first announced his vision for

a “Great Society.” In turn, Mr.

Alden became an important

ally of the White House in

Ohio, helping persuade

Governor James A. Rhodes

to support national legislation

Depression. Hegraduated

fromBrownandHarvard

Business School. In 1951, he

married Marion Parson, and

they remained together until

her death of lymphoma in

1999. Mr. Alden is survived by
      four children, Robert, Anne,
      James and David, and eight
      grandchildren.

BERLIN—Brigid,

born in New York City on

September 6, 1939, died at

NYU Langone Hospital on

July 17 of cardiac arrest. The

daughter of Richard E. Berlin

(longtime President and CEO

of the Hearst Corporation)

and socialite Muriel “Honey”

Johnson Berlin, she blazed a

singular path that led to her

becoming a central figure of

the New York art scene of the

1960's and 70's. She met Andy

Warhol in 1964, starred in his

groundbreaking film Chelsea

Girls, and continued to have a

close friendship and working

relationship with him until his

untimely death in 1987. Using

Polaroid cameras and audio

cassette tape recorders, she

obsessively documented the

worldimmediatelyaround

her which, at the time, was

comprised of virtually every

major personalityin the

worlds of art, fashion, and

music. Her life and obses-

sions would become the basis

of the 2000 film documentary,

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Ber-

lin Story. A lifelong Republi-

can, current events aficiona-

da, and avid lover of pug

dogs, her bigger-than-life per-

sonality scorned political cor-

rectnessand insteaddis-

playedhergenuineviews

throughout all the mediums

in which she worked, includ-

ing needlepoint, paint, perfor-

mance art, and in the nume-

rous Andy Warhol films in

which she appeared. She re-

frained from labeling herself

anartist:“Youdon'tcall

yourself an artist,” she would

say, “if somebody else wants

to - that's their trip.” Then let

it be said, she was. She spent

the last years of her life in the

apartment she loved to de-

corate, and in the company

of those who loved her, espe-

cially her best friend and in-

separable companion of

twenty years, Robert Vaczy.

She is survived by the last re-

maining of her three siblings,

her younger brother, Richard

E. Berlin Jr. of Key West Flor-

ida and his children, Ellie,

Dana and Carina. A memor-

ial service will be forthcom-

ing.

BIBLOWITZ—

Bernice “Bunny.”

Kind. Generous. Caring. Lov-

ing. With unabashed enthu-

siasm and zest for life, Bunny

foundhergreatestjoyin

family and friends. She em-

braced all with open arms,

mountains of food and good

cheer.Alwaysstylish,her

fashionflairwasmatched

only by the size of her heart.

Bunny was devoted to her

wonderful husband Jess, her

children Ellen (Richard), Ken

(Michele), Julie (Stuart) and

Lewis(Jen);grandchildren

Eli (Lilia), Will, Ruby, Mac,

Sam, Jonah, Nate, Jack and

great-grandchildLeviJess.

Bunny was blessed. And be-

cause of her, so are we. The

family wishes any memorial

contributionsbemadeto

World Central Kitchen.

BROSTERMAN—Stanley.

Sadly,Stanpassed away

peacefully at home in Lake

Worth, FL on July 20. Res-

ident of Great Neck, NY, 88

years old. Husband of Bever-

ly (married nearly 65 years),

father of Randi Brosterman

Hutchens (Bob Hutchens)

and Julie Brosterman -

Schector(MarcSchector),

grandfather of Jonathan and

Jennifer Hutchens. Stan was

beloved by many, had the gift

of gab and was legendary in

his industry. Devoted to fami-

ly, Stan loved life. Stan will be

missed by all who knew and

loved him.

BUHANNIC—Philippe.

Philippe Buhannic passed

away peacefully in Manhat-

tan on July 21, 2020, one day

shyofhis64thbirthday.

Philippeexuded positivity,

enthusiasm, and courage all

along his life. An avid adven-

turer, he dove the waters of

Tahiti, skied the slopes in Ver-

bier and swam the warm wa-

ters of Brazil. Philippe was a

true globetrotter, always rea-

dy to jump into an airplane

for work or to see his loved

ones. He had a passion for

history, music, art, and creati-

vity. He always impressed

those around him with his en-

cyclopedic knowledge. At all

times, Philippe demonstrated

generosity and a kind-

hearted good humor to all the

people he met. He demon-

strated immense courage

when he faced his illness,

never giving up in front of ad-

versity. He never accepted

the established or the con-

ventional and kept with him

thepioneering spirit that

punctuatedhisentirelife.

While battling ALS, he conti-

nued to show his typical New

Yorker strength and deter-

mination walking extensively

everydaythroughoutthe

CentralParkhelovedso

dearly. He relished at meet-

ing friends for an occasional

cocktail at his favorite restau-

rants. He was a loving part-

ner to Catherine Haimo for 20

years and beloved by her

daughters Karine and Nata-

lie. He is survived by his four

children Lorraine, Pierre,

HadrienandBeatrice.We

love you and miss you. Osez

au-deladel'inscrit!Please

consider making a donation

to the The ALS Association

https://donate.als.org/give/

287064/#!/donation/checkout

BUSEL—Joel.

Of Boca Raton, FL. June 5,

1935 - July 23, 2020. Beloved

husband of Sandy (nee Pos-

ner), devoted father of Eileen

and Gary Busel and Joanne

andScottHandler,loving

grandfather of Jessica and

Corey Brand, Daniel and Ana-

bel Mahl, Matthew and An-

drew Busel, and proud great-

grandfather of Arlo and Jetti

Brand. Joel lived life to the

fullest and washappiest

spending time with his family

and many friends. We will

miss him forever.

BUSEL—Joel.

We mourn the loss of our

forever friend, Joel. He was

larger than life and will al-

ways be remembered that

way. Our deepest sympathy

to Sandy, Joanne, Gary and

the entire family.

Ellie and Martin Lifton

Julie and Steven Lifton

Marilyn Rush

Arnold Sollar

BUSEL—Joel.

I lost my closest and oldest

friend yesterday. We met 67

years ago at the University of

Pennsylvania.Hewasmy

fraternitybrotherandbe-

came my brother. We raised

our families together in Fresh

Meadows, Queens,Oyster

Bay and Oyster Bay Cove.

Our homes were next to each

other in Boca Raton, Florida.

We belonged to the same

clubs, played golf and trav-

eled the world together.

Shared joy and sorrow. He

lovedhiswifeSandy,his

childrenGaryandEileen,

Joanne and Scott, his grand-

children and his great-

grandchildren. We will miss

his daily phone calls. R.I.P.

dear Joel. We have you in our

hearts.

Much love, Vicki & Kurt,

Jodi & Jeffrey,

David & Richard

BUSEL—Joel.

Joel was one of a kind. Bigger

than life. There was nobody

like him! Our heartfelt sym-

pathy from the Donald Gross

family.

Love, Linda and Howie

BUSEL—Joel.

We mourn the loss of our

longtime friend, Joel Busel,

and extend our condolences

to his widow Sandy and their

entire family.Weshared

many good times together

and will sorely miss him.

Carolyn & Charles Robins

CALVESI—Maurizio.

(1927-2020). It is with deep

sadness that Magazzino Ita-

lian Art honors the life and

work of Maurizio Calvesi, one

of the most influential art his-

torians of our time. A prolific

author, devoted scholar, and

visionaryleader, Calvesi's

passion for the arts and cul-

tural heritage brought forth

pervasive ideas that continue

to inform our collective un-

derstanding of art history. He

took a broad view of creative

practice and had deep know-

ledge ofartisticmethods

from the fifteenth century to

the present day. He was the

first to consider the historical

continuity in artistic produc-

tion, tracing an arc from the

Renaissance to the avant-

garde. His perspective has in-

delibly shaped our work at

Magazzino. We honor Calve-

si's monumental legacy and

life. Our thoughts are with his

wife Augusta Monferini and

his family.

Nancy Olnick and Giorgio

Spanu, Co-founders

Vittorio Calabrese, Director

The Team, Magazzino

Italian Art Foundation

CLARKE—Anne.

AnneDoolingClarkedied

peacefully on July 14, 2020.

She was born April 9, 1936 in

Boston to Pauline and James

Dooling, was a resident of

Danville, KY for more than

sixty years, and is survived

by three of her four sons: Phi-

lip J. Clarke 3rd and wife Wi-

nifred, Morehead City, NC;

John Dillon Clarke and wife

Jan, Huntsville, AL; and Da-

vid Rogers Clarke and wife

Anna, Fairfax, VA. She was

predeceased by her son

Geoffrey Newton Clarke,

brother Paul R. Dooling, and

former husband, P. Joseph

Clarke Jr. She was a graduate

of the Convent of the Sacred

Heart 91st Street, Manhattan-

ville College, and the Univer-

sity of Kentucky College of

Law. Anne was a devoted

mother,caringsister,and

supporter of the arts and li-

brary. She enjoyed visiting

her grandchildren and was an

avid fan of the UK and Notre

Damesportsteams.With

time on her hands after rais-

ing her four sons, Anne went

tolawschoolandsubse-

quently was in private prac-

tice in Danville for several

years and then worked as an

attorneyfortheKentucky

Cabinet for Health and Fami-

ly Services until her retire-

ment. Anne had a sharp wit

and was a strong believer in

“good government” and en-

suring equality of opportunity

for all. She is survived also by

her sisters Elizabeth C. Dool-

ing, MD of Boston, Margot D.

Houghton of New York, and

Katharine R. Dooling of

Kaneohe, HI; her cherished

grandchildren: Aaron,

Joseph, Elizabeth, Owen, Lu-

cy, Annie, Tommy, Rachel,

and Dillon; and three great-

grandchildren, several

nieces, nephews, grand-

niecesandnephews,and

many cousins. A memorial

service will be held in Dan-

ville, KY when circumstances

permit. Contributions in her

memory may be made to the

Saints Peter & Paul Catholic

Church, Danville, KY or the

charity of your choice. An on-

line guestbook is available at

http://www.stithcares.com.

CLARK—Sandra Long.

Age 76, passed away in her

sleep from complications of

Alzheimer's at her home in

Washington, DC on July 14,

2020. Sandy was born on Sep-
      tember 24, 1943 in Tulsa, Ok-
      lahoma toVallanceMc-
      Laughlin and Faith Flickinger
      Long. Following her gradua-
      tion from Grinnell College in
      1965, where she majored in
      French, she joined the Peace
      Corps and served in Sierra
      Leone, teaching French to se-
      condary school children. She
      then studied briefly at the
      Sorbonnebeforeattending
      the University of Wisconsin,
      where she received a Mast-
      er's degree in French in 1969.
      While teaching at The Scar-
      borough School, in Briarcliff
      Manor, New York, she met
      herfuturehusband,Peter

Brendon Clark, on a blind

dateattheRussianTea

Room in the city. She moved

to Washington, DC in 1971 and

they were married the follow-

ing year. Thereafter, Sandy

became the Educational Di-

rector for the American As-

sociation of School Execu-

tives in Arlington, Virginia,

and later was the Director of

Education for the National

AssociationofCountiesin

Washington until her retire-

ment in 2008. Sandy enjoyed

her many friendships, read-

ing, cooking and travel, re-

turning to her beloved

France almost every year

until she developed Alzhei-

mer's. She is survived by her

husband, her brother Michael

Long(Kathy)ofDurango,

Colorado, her nephews, An-

drew of Houston, Texas and

Matthew of Denver, Colora-

do, and her niece, Becky of

Shenzen, China. No memorial

events are currently sched-

uled.

COLBERT—Linda.

76, died March 24, 2020 in New

York City, predeceased by

her husband, Lester Lum Col-

bert, Jr., who died October 11,

2019. We will always remem-
      ber our friendship, our shared
      love of gardening, cats, Dick-
      ens and Downton on Master-
      piece.Wewillremember
      Pine Plains weekends cook-
      ing together and talking for
      hours.Wewillremember
      how you and Lester loved to
      travel and sent us postcards
      from all over the world. You
      loved books, history, art, de-
      sign, and green peas. Your
      Britishisms live on with us.
      Blimey Lin, we miss you ...
      J&S

CRUCES—Leonarda

Bella Sablay,

born November 6, 1936, died

July 11, 2020. Wife of Edgar-

do, mother to Madona (Gre-

gory Mariano), Jovi and

Robert, grandmother of

Cameron and Collin. Dr. Sab-

lay was born in the Philip-

pines and graduated from the

University of the Philippines.

She worked as an anatomical

andclinicalpathologistat

MontefioreMedicalCenter

for over 47 years and was an

Assistant Professor of Patho-

logy at Albert EinsteinCol-

lege of Medicine. Always-

interested and ever -

industrious,she gardened,

traveled, and enjoyed time

with family, friends and her

cats in retirement; deeply dis-

ciplined and devoted, her le-

gacy will always be tending

to and regarding life with hu-

mility and humanity.

aimed at revitalizing the Ap-

palachian region. The federal

funds went toward projects

like the Appalachian Highw-

ay network and the construc-

tion of a new university air-

port. In 1969, with help from

the Army Corps of Engineers,

Ohio University moved the

Hocking River, ending the an-

nual floods that would inun-

date residencehalls and

classrooms. As chairman of

the Boston Company and its

subsidiary bank, the Boston

Safe Deposit and Trust Com-

pany, Mr. Alden recruited a

friend, Bruce D. Henderson,

to found the Boston Consult-

ing Group as a one-man oper-

ation that advised clients of

the bank. It split off and flou-

rished. Mr. Alden was in his

freshman year at Brown Uni-

versity when the Japanese

attacked Pearl Harbor, and

soon he was serving on a

minesweeperintheNorth

Pacific. But the war's most

significant effect on him

came from the year he spent

inintensiveJapaneselan-

guage training in a Navy pro-

gram.He became deeply in-

volved in Japanese relations

through several groups in-

cluding the Japan Society of

Boston, of which he was pres-

ident or chairman for over 40

years.TravelingtoJapan

multiple times a year, Mr. Al-

den became friendly with the

Imperial Family and led a

tradedelegationthere.In

1985, he received the Order of

the Rising Sun, the highest Ja-

panese honor given to

foreigners. Vernon Roger Al-

den, the son of a Protestant

minister, was born on April 7,

1923, in Chicago and grew up

in Moline, IL, during the Great

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