| Wellesley High School Class of 1964 |
Jon Perry, 43, of Provincetown died of AIDS on September 8, 1989. He was a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and earned a doctorate in comparative literature. From 1976-1985 he was a teacher of expository writing at Harvard and Radcliffe. Jon had been a supervisor of the Suffolk County Conservation District, a director of the South End Garden Project and an assistant in the libraries of the Arnold Arboretum and Gray Herbarium. He was also a research associate of the arboretum. Before becoming ill, he had begun drafting natural resource plans for the 16 Massachusetts conservation districts.
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Charles Forster died sometime during this era. We have no details.
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Dr. G. Richard “Rick” Warfield III, 42, died in 1988. He was a medical doctor and lived in Lynnfield, MA.
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Bruce Dick, 41, of San Francisco died in 1987 after a battle with melanoma, a type of cancer. He received his BA from Colgate, moved to California, changed his name to Bruce Dixon and made his living as a computer programmer.
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Warren M. Sheridan III, 40, of Natick. He was married to WHS 64 classmate Elaine Brown Sheridan. They have two sons. He was a self-employed orthodontic technician and an active member in the Fisk Memorial Methodist Church in Natick and a member of the Board of Directors of the Natick Swim Club.
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Carol Ann Mills, 39, of Natick died after a long battle with cancer in 1986. She worked for the New England Telephone Company and was active in the Wellesley Baptist Church singing in the choir and teaching Sunday School.
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Linda Vallendar Whalley, 40, of Brockton died in 1986 after a 5 year battle with multiple sclerosis. She graduated from Garland Jr. College and bred and handled championship cats. She won many awards and was a member of the American Cat Club. She is survived by her husband.
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Andrea (Bernstein) Settler, 43, died in 1989. A poem by Andrea’s mother, Lillian Bernstein poem reads: “you are my favorite earthling – dancing to the Brandenberg Concerto, barefoot on the back lawn, performing leaps balances jetes – moments suspended in space – she is a coiled spring, sleeping in a bird’s nest, built high on the branch…of an indestructible tree – your portrait grows from clay – I touch a cherished form…rising from my womb…newly born.”
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| A ceramic sculpture entitled “Andrea” by Lillian Bernstein, Andrea’s mother. |
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Salvatore William “Bill” Simone, Jr., 38, died suddenly in Houston, TX in 1985. He was a Vietnam War vet in the US Army, and a psychiatric technician for the Deer Park Hospital in TX.
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Richard H. Bachman, 38, of San Francisco died in December 1984 of AIDS.
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Jonathan R. Grandine, 33, of Boston died April 18, 1980 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University. He was an English literature instructor at Harvard and author of “ Shape in the Prelude: The Conflict of Private and Public Speech” Published: January, 1968.
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Carole Ann Sawicki, 26, died after a length illness on October 27, 1972.
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Barbara Martin Ritzman, 24, died in 1970.
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Jeffrey Williams, 21, died Sept. 24, 1968 after a relapse of chronic kidney disease. He had received a kidney transplant from his sister. Jeff attended Huntington Prep and Suffolk University. He was employed by his father’s company, Bliss Morrill trucking.
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| 1961 Phillipian |
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Cpl. Dana Frost USMC, 21, died in hostile action in the vicinity of Phu Bai near Hue on April 19, 1966. He had left Wellesley High at the age of 17 to enlist in the Marine Corps. He had spent summers working at the Star Island Conference Center, Isles of Schoales, NH. In 1989 a street, Frost Circle, in Wellesley was named for Dana Frost, who was the first Wellesley Viet Nam casualty. The street is located in the Woodhaven development at the end of Beechwood Rd off Weston Rd.
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Ernest A. Indrisano, 20, died November 24, 1965. He was a student at Cambridge School of Business. His hobbies were sailing and motor boating on Lake Cochituate and Cape Cod.
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John Capron, 16, died unexpectedly the evening of March 16, 1962 after being hit by a railroad train in Wellesley.
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Philip Killion
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| Stephen Peabody |
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Benjamin Dean, 40, died in 1986
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