Joan Dawe
Joan Budny Jenkins Dawe passed away on July 25, 2015 of natural causes at age 83. She died peacefully in her home in Hinchley Wood, Surrey, England.
Joan, formerly of Princeton, was born September 5, 1931. Her parents were Edward and Joan Budny.
In 1949, Joan graduated from Miss Fine’s School in Princeton, and in 1951 she graduated from Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
She was known for her social and organizational skills. Joan loved bridge and singing. She was in the glee club at Miss Fine’s and Harcum. She sang in various church choirs in London until just recently. She was very active in the Princess Alice Hospice charity, which later paid her back with excellent palliative care during her last days.
After college, Joan moved to New York City, where she was executive secretary for the architect I.M. Pei.
In 1960 she married Anthony Jenkins, who was a director of R. K. Harrison and Co. Ltd. and an underwriting member of Lloyds, London. After a Princeton wedding at the Present Day Club, the couple took the Ile de France to London, where she lived ever since.
In the 1970’s, Joan was very active as the president of the American Women’s Club in London.
Mr. Jenkins passed away in the early 1990’s and Joan later remarried Roger Dawe, comptroller of Bovis, the international construction company. Later he was Lord Mayor of Westminster. The couple then lived in Sotogrande, Spain as well as London. Mr. Dawe passed away in April 2011.
Joan had no children and is survived by her brother Roger of Stuart, Fla.; nephew Trevor Budny of Philadelphia; niece Joslin Parris of Barbados; and great-nephew Carl Muller of Richmond, Va. Joan was pre-deceased by her brother Carl, niece Karen Muller, and great-nephew Ryan Muller.
On her English side, she is survived by nephew, Col. Barry W. Jenkins and niece Victoria Jenkins Blunt; and nephews Barnaby and Lucas Dawe.
Funeral services were held at the Church of the Holy Name in Esher August 10 and a “Celebration of Life” ceremony will be held at the Royal Automobile Club in Epsom on September 16.
Joan’s ashes will be brought from England and interred with a small ceremony at the family plot at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Princeton on October 6, 2015 at 11:15 a.m.
Online condolences may be sent to budny@comcast.net. In lieu of flowers, please visit Joan’s grave sometime in the future. The plot is in the far northeast quadrant of the cemetery close to the intersection of Spruce Street and Moran Avenue.
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Joy C. Levy
Joy C. Levy died peacefully in her home in Princeton on May 20, 2015. Born in Galveston Texas on August 23, 1924, she attended Wellesley College, where she majored in mathematics, then did graduate work in fine arts at Harvard, where she studied the origins of mathematical perspective in northern medieval art. She taught art history at Bryn Mawr College, then mathematics to middle school children, focusing especially on children with learning differences. Joy taught for many years at Princeton Day School and at the Educational Therapy Clinic in Princeton.
Beginning in 1967, with the arrival of a Komondor puppy from Hungary (Ch. Szentivani Ingo (“Duna”)), Joy became a tireless scholar and breeder of the Komondor, a rare and ancient livestock guard dog from Hungary. She co-founded the Middle Atlantic States Komondor Club with her husband, sociologist Marion J. Levy Jr. (1918-2002). She edited, published, and was chief writer for the M.A.S.K.C. News from 1974-2005. Joy was noted repeatedly for her contributions to canine journalism. In 1977, Joy published The Komondor in the United States, 1937-1976, the first history of the breed in English. Beyond breed-specific issues, Joy addressed health problems of all kinds, from hip dysplasia to bloat and torsion, from skin infections to the parvovirus. In gratitude for arranging the delivery of parvovirus vaccine to Hungary during an epidemic, Joy received the Hungarian Kennel Club Gold Medal Master Breeders award for “saving the breed in Hungary.” She also dedicated herself to learning Hungarian in order to be able to correspond with experts in their native language. Joy translated many crucial Hungarian works into English (c.f. Irene Evers, Our National Treasure, the Hungarian Komondor; and Zoltan Kenez The Komondor Defined and a Description of the Shepherd Dog, 1992). She also translated works from the French (Anna and Laurent Rasz-Caroff, An Incredible Dog: the Komondor and Other Hungarian Shepherd Dogs [with Charlotte Bell], 1991). In 2006, Joy published Komondor: a Comprehensive Owner’s Guide, which covers history, breed characteristics (including detailed descriptions of the corded coat and its care), breed standard, and all aspects of breeding and health care from birth to old age. It is regarded as the definitive publication of this distinctive breed.
She is survived by 3 children: Dore J. Levy of Providence, R.I.; Noah R. Levy of Whitehouse Station, N.J.; Amos M. Levy of New York City; and 7 grandchildren. A gathering at her home will take place on October 10, 2015. Please contact one of the children for information. Contributions in her memory should be sent to the Middle Atlantic State Komondor Club Rescue Fund, care of M.A.S.K.C., Inc., 10 Lafayette Avenue, Voorhees, N.J. 08043.
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Mary Brown Hamingson
Mary Brown Hamingson, known to all as Sandy, died on August 6, 2015. Born Mary Elsie Dunn in Terre Haute, Ind. on January 6, 1923, she was the only child of Della and William Dunn. In 1946, she married Donald G. Brown, who died in 1985. They had three daughters, Beverly Louise Brown of London, England; the late Elizabeth Brown Pryor; and Peggy A. Brown of Philadelphia. In 1989 she married Donald F. Hamingson who died in 1998. A graduate of Purdue University, Sandy was an architectural historian, specializing in New Jersey. She was co-author of Gateways to Architecture in Union County, New Jersey and a co-founder of Preservation New Jersey. She lectured throughout the state at various universities, the Newark Museum, and the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School. She was one of New Jersey’s representatives to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and served on the board of advisors as regional vice-president. She was also an active docent and member of the board of trustees at Drumthwacket, the governor’s residence. Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home of Princeton, N.J.
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Terry David Vaughn
Terry David Vaughn, 68, of Princeton, died last Thursday, August 6, 2015 of a stroke suffered three days previously. He died at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. Born in Denver, Colo. on January 9, 1947, he is survived by his children, Alexander and Elizabeth, and his sister, Genevieve.
A graduate of Colorado State University, Terry earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Michigan, and an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a powerful force in scholarly publishing, an unfailingly thoughtful, cheerful, and generous friend, and a caring father and brother.
Terry began his publishing career in 1971 as a sales representative for the then-college department at Oxford University Press (OUP). He served as Eastern Regional Sales Manager and as Acting National Sales Manager at OUP until 1984, when he left for Boston, and had a one-year stint as an international treasury consultant at Digital Equipment in Acton, Mass.
Terry returned to publishing in the grand manner in 1985 when he joined The MIT Press, first as economics editor and later as executive editor for economics, finance, and business. During his 15 years at MIT, he built an economics and finance list that was considered the gold standard for its time and remains one of the truly outstanding lists in all of scholarly publishing. Terry’s list of authors at MIT Press included numerous Nobel Prize-winners as well as many other distinguished economists, and Terry was the epitome of the trans-Atlantic editor. Intellectually, his MIT list was marked by an extraordinary combination of eminent European as well as North American authors, reflecting the exciting interplay of international ideas that marked the field during those years. The MIT Press economics list under Terry’s direction achieved worldwide distinction.
Following his MIT years, in 2000 Terry moved to Princeton, where he joined Princeton University Press and served as PUP’s editor-in-chief until July of 2003. While at Princeton he helped oversee the integration of the Press’s U.S. and European editorial operations. Then, later that year, Terry returned to Oxford University Press, his original publishing home, and concluded his career there as Oxford’s economics editor. He retired from OUP in 2013.
Terry’s sudden passing is a terrible loss for all of us, family and colleagues. Those who knew Terry professionally — his authors as well as his fellow publishers — will remember him as a model economics editor, intensely interested in the content and direction of the field, possessed of the highest standards and superb taste, and fiercely competitive. But most of all everyone in his life will remember him as a friend: warm, considerate, and big of heart. Last but certainly not least was his whimsical sense of humor, appreciated by all who knew him.
Funeral services will begin on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 4:30 p.m., starting with the Rosary at Mather Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, N.J. 08542, followed at 5 to 7 p.m. with a viewing at the same location.
A Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at St Paul’s Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, N.J. 08542, followed immediately by a reception at Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton (one block from St. Paul’s Church).
He will be buried in Plymouth, Mass., next to his late wife, Anne Patenaude.
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Grant Wiggins
Grant Palmer Wiggins, born Grant Palmer Gittinger, died suddenly on May 26, 2015 in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was 64 and had recently moved from Hopewell Township where he had lived for 13 years. He and his family previously resided in Pennington.
Grant Wiggins became a professional provocateur in the field of education following an uneven academic performance in prep school, at St. John’s College, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His unwillingness to toe the line in high school, college, and graduate school may have given his adult professional perspective a freshness and believability that stoked the fire of his admirers. He seemed to identify with those students who didn’t, or couldn’t, rise to meet certain challenges. He understood that often there was more learning and cognitive stimulation to be found in band practice and soccer games than in the rote performance standards of conventional coursework. His voice seemed to resonate among many students and their teachers. While it didn’t strike a happy chord with all listeners, by many accounts at his public memorial gathering at Harlem Village Academies in New York on August 1, 2015, he listened and responded to every person who cared to comment on his views.
He was born on August 16, 1950 in New York City to William and Dorothy Katz Gittinger. Raised in Queens until the age of nine when his father died in a commercial aviation accident, he was then adopted by his stepfather, Guy Wiggins. With his mother and stepfather, Grant then lived in Washington, D.C., Mexico City, and Switzerland as his new father’s postings with the State Department required.
Following college at St. John’s in Annapolis, Maryland, Grant returned to his alma mater Loomis Chaffee, by then a coed independent school, in Windsor, Connecticut. For nearly 10 years he taught courses in philosophy and religion and coached baseball, soccer, and cross country.
His work as a provocateur may have taken root at Loomis Chaffee. It fully flowered during his years with the Coalition of Essential Schools at Brown University and then in consulting work and writing he did in partnership with Holly Houston, Jay McTighe, and many gifted teachers who were drawn to his message about curriculum design undertaken with the explicit expectations for student learning foremost in the designer’s mind. His workshops were in demand by educators across the country and internationally.
Grant wrote and co-authored several books, including Educative Assessment, Assessing Student Performance, Understanding by Design, Schooling by Design, and more than a dozen texts published by Pearson Publishing.
Grant leaves four children: Alexis Shaak Wiggins (Juan Diego Estrada) of Spain and Saudi Arabia; Justin William Houston Wiggins of New York; Ian Richmond Houston Wiggins of New York and New Jersey; and Priscilla Sarah Houston Wiggins of New Jersey, New York, and California. Two grandsons, Elios and Amadeo. His mother and father, Dorothy and Guy Wiggins, of New York. Brothers Guy (Rose) and Noel (Shoshana) of New York, and nieces Anya and Leah, and nephew Jack.
Grant’s widow, Denise Wilbur, survives him. His previous marriages ended in divorce. He was loved by his family and admired by the many teachers who experimented with and enhanced his thinking through their application of ‘backwards design’ in their classrooms.
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James Brown
James Brown age 80 of Princeton passed away on August 6, 2015 at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. He was born on March 15, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was educated at BOK Vocation High School in Philadelphia and then started his career working for Princeton University, Cytogen, and Pharmacopia until his retirement.
James joined Refuge Church of Christ in Philadelphia where he was a member of the Usher Board and Ministry of Music, playing the trombone and singing. He attended Mount Pisgah AME in Princeton and then became a member of Morning Star of Princeton serving as a Deacon.
Son of the late George and Estelle Brown, husband of the late Jennie Brown, father of the late Diane Brown, and Melvin Miller.
James leaves to cherish him two sisters Margaret Brown and Mildred Rogers and one brother-in-law Hilliard Rodgers; one daughter Harriet Brown; three sons James Brown Jr., William M. Brown Sr. (Sonya) and Charles E. Brown; 20 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives; and friends.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 14, 2015 at Mt. Pisgah A.M.E Church, 170 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, N.J. Calling hours will be from 9 a.m. until the time of service at the church. Interment will take place at Princeton Cemetery. Arrangements are by the Hughes Funeral Home of Trenton, N.J.