The Reverend Dr. William Beaven Abernethy, 70, of Beverly, beloved husband of the Rev. Ann Cornell (Greenawalt) Abernethy, pastor of Protestant Ministries at Brooksby Village, died peacefully after living with Parkinson's disease for 27 years. Born in Missouri, he was the son of the late Bradford Sherman and Mary Jean (Beaven) Abernethy. He was raised [...]

My name is Jack Kennedy and I succeeded Bob as the director of the group for my class of '67 and Joe and I were in the group from the time we were sophomores through the time we were seniors. Joe had a nice quiet sense of humor, he was entirely dependable, and he was [...]

JOHN HENRY BELKNAP ’50, of Durham, N.H., died July 5, 2003. Retired from a long career in market research, he worked for National Geographic and Fortune magazines in New York City before founding his own firm, Belknap Data Solutions. He served in the army during the Korean War. He was an avid sailor and shell collector, a gourmet cook, [...]

Dave Edgar ’49 (’52) (1925–2001) David directed the group in 1947–48 and arranged a novelty song called “Get Out and Get Under,” which has survived for over 50 years, as “Johnny O’Connor.” The song is on the first Krok recording, “Songs of the Krokodiloes,” along with David’s other wonderful arrangements, “Chinatown, My Chinatown,” “Where or [...]

Louis was the most glorious and enthusiast, and he was sort of a little guy, and in later life he looked like the perfect sort of bank president from Sandusky, Ohio. He was full of humor and goodwill, adored singing, and was about as good company as one could find. He was at the 50th [...]

Paul Douglas ’80 (1959–1995) Paul Harding Douglas died of AIDS-related complications in New York City in 1995. At the time, he was Executive Director of the AIDS clinical trials unit at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. A grandson of Paul H. Douglas, former U. S. Senator from Illinois, Paul was prodigiously talented. Poet, author, singer, [...]

My father Bob Daley (Kroks of 1947) definitely had some favorite topics of conversation, chief among them anything to do with language and linguistics, his courtship of my mother and their early years together, the Boston Red Sox, and perhaps most of all the years he spent at Harvard as a resident of Lowell House, [...]

I want to talk about Ted Bullard, who was originally in the class of '46, but graduated in '50. Ted had a very interesting attitude and outlook. Ted was a diabetic. When he graduated from high school in 1942 the war was on and the easiest thing in the world for Ted to have done [...]