John Gould Rouse Jr. '34

Jack Rouse, who moved to Annapolis, Md., in 1947, where he practiced law for many years, died Feb. 5, 1998. He was 85. "The best thing I ever did," he wrote in our 50th-year book, "was to move from Baltimore to Annapolis ...in a small firm, Rouse, Underwood & Miller, in a small town. I have enjoyed tremendously what I am doing -- witness the fact that I have not retired [that was in 1984] and am still going strong in the land of pleasant living."

Jack came from a large Princeton family. Besides his father, John G. Rouse Sr. '05, he had several uncles and cousins who were Princetonians. Like his four-year college roommate, Bow Davis, who died in 1987, Jack was a native of Baltimore who prepared for college at Gilman.

In 1939 he married Barbara Cooper, and the couple had two sons, John G. III and Michael, and a daughter, Elizabeth. They survive, as do four grandchildren. Jack once wrote he had no special interests "except my wife, three children, and four grandchildren -- and that's a tall order." To them all we offer our sincere sympathies.

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James Stewart Russell '34

Jim Russell, West Coast representative of Random House book publishers until his retirement in 1976, died Dec. 11, 1997, after a seven-year bout with Alzheimer's.

Although he left Princeton ("with regret," as he wrote) in 1932, he held the class in high esteem. As he wrote from California prior to our 50th reunion, "I won't be with you guys next June ('34 seems a long way off, both in time and geography), but certainly want to add this faint cry that it's a swell gang. Best to all!"

Jim joined Random House shortly after Bennett Cerf and some associates started it and before WWII, when he served in Europe with the XIII Corps Artillery. He had "had tries at department store selling, the CCC, Billy Rose's Aquacade, United Fruit (unloading bananas), Wall Street," without notable success. When Random House "took a chance on me...I soon fell in love with the firm....Book publishing was a ball."

Jim was married in 1943 to Leonore "Le" Upham (California '39), "the just-right girl from a fine old California family," who survives. Also surviving are two sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren. To them we offer sincere sympathies.

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Robert H. McCarter '38

We knew Bob McCarter's quality early on. In 1958 he was the second winner of our Class Distinguished Service Award for having, among other things, "made possible the development of a modern program for the teaching of Harvard Medical School students, the training of resi
dents, and the teaching of graduate students in ancillary professions."

Bob majored in biology and earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. His specialty was neurology, but, inspired by Freud, he studied psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Harvard Medical School. He was on the Harvard faculty for 48 years and became director of the Mental Health Center's Southard Clinic.

The father of six, he was fascinated by parental interaction with the growing child and in 1963 sought further training in child psychoanalysis. He then became director of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nursery Unit of the Judge Baker Guidance Center and senior psychiatric supervisor at Baker and at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Despite the hierarchical nature of his titles, his objective as a doctor was simple. His wife, Margarte Douglas McCarter, describes it as "an effort to determine who and what is the normal child."

Bob never lost touch with the natural world. He was a lifelong birder and herpetologist, a walker in the woods, and a supporter of efforts to preserve the environment.

He retired in 1993, and died at home, following a stroke, Aug. 16, 1997.

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Richard Charles Jackson Kitto '40

Jenkintown, Pa., resident and attorney Dick Kitto died Dec. 5, 1997, at the Roslyn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center from complications following a stroke. He practiced until illness sidelined him a month before his death. Dick specialized in corporate law and general practice. Among his clients were Stephen-Jackson Co., Pen Argyl, and the Standard Pressed Steel Co. (as legal specialist in industrial relations).

After Lawrenceville, Dick entered Princeton to graduate with history honors. He was tennis manager, active in Whig-Clio, and a Gateway Club member. Senior year he roomed with Dick Franklin.

Dick received his law degree from the U. of Penn. in 1943 and then joined the Army as a CIC special agent in the European theater. Community-minded, he was borough solicitor for Pen Argyl, Pa., and volunteered time to the Boy Scouts, Goodwill, the local high school advisory board, and the Methodist Church and Sunday School. In our class books Dick wrote, "Princeton means as much or more to me now than it did when I was an undergraduate." He attended all home football games and many other sports events. He leaves his wife, Ruth, and sons, Richard '69 and William '73. In our 50th Year Book Dick noted, "I am glad there are four grandsons out there to carry on the name, and I hope they go to Princeton."

We will miss Dick's cheery presence in the P-rade with his classmates. He seldom missed the event.