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In Memoriam

Lewis C. Clapp, ALB '86, a pioneer in the computer industry, consultant, and author, died on Tuesday, December 29, 1998 at the age of 61.

Born in Boston, Mr. Clapp received a bachelor's degree in physics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped guide dozens of institutions and companies into the computer age. Most recently, he was principal consulting partner at International Computer Research in Newton. While at the firm, he conducted studies for the Office of Naval Research and was an early proponent of optical computing. He also co-founded Tymeshare Inc., the first independent national computer time-sharing service, and helped establish the international communications system known as Tymenet.

A teacher of computer science at the University of Chile in Santiago, he served as acting director of the school's Computer and Servomechanism Laboratory. However, Mr. Clapp's expertise also had far-reaching effects in other fields: he served as a consultant and developer of medical data systems for more than a dozen hemophilia centers in New England; he was a medical data consultant to the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at the Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute; he developed the first federally funded, state-managed computer education project in Massachusetts; and he helped establish a computer time-sharing curriculum at the US Naval Academy.

Mr. Clapp was founder and publisher of the Toy Review magazine, a contributing science writer for International Science and Technology, and co-editor of a special Sunday supplement on computer information technology in the New York Times.

John V. Hinshaw, CAS '90, of Stonington, Connecticut, died in January 1999 at the age of 71.

Ann Hoefle, CSS '88, of Middlebury, Vermont, died on January 18, 1998.

Herbert L. Kelloway, AA '79, AB '84, of Reading, died on January 4, 1999 at the age of 54. He was a Chelsea firefighter who was cited for bravery for rescuing a fellow firefighter in a 1991 five-alarm tenement fire. A member of Firefighters Union Local #937, he began a tutoring program with Chelsea firefighters and local schools. He was a member of the Naval Reserve during the Vietnam era.

Reginald Weems, AA '97, of Medford, died in September 1997.

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