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THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1986 51 BillS AEIBES Henry H. Callard, 83; educator, was a Wheelock College president ; , BALTIMORE - A memorial service for Henry H. Callard. a for-1 mer president of Wheelock College in Boston, will be held next Thursday in the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church-here. Mr. Callard, also a resident of Nahant, Mass., died Sunday in a : nursing home here after a brief ill , ness. He was 83. An educator for 40 years, he was headmaster of the Gilman School in Baltimore, a private elementary school, from 1943 to -1963. He then became a field director of overseas elementary school programs, Washington, D.C. In 1965, he moved to Nahant and served as president of Wheelock College until 1966. He established and directed the .office of teacher preparation at Princeton University before retiring in 1972. He remained active in teaching as a part-time dean of academic affairs at Princeton for several years. , Mr. Callard lived in Baltimore Olga Williams, 82 Roxbury resident 50 years NEWPORT. R.I. - Olga M. (Wal-rond) Williams, 82, a homemaker and former Roxbury resident, died unexpectedly Tuesday at the John Clarke Retirement Center in ' Middletown. R.I. Mrs. Williams was born in Barbados and lived in Roxbury for 'over 50 years before moving to Newport two years ago to live with rher son. Rev. Robert L. Williams, ; pastor of the Community Baptist ! Church here. ; She was a member of the West Indian Aid Association, the Household of Ruth, and the Willing ; Workers of the People's Baptist Church of Boston. Besides Rev. Williams, she 'leaves another son. Arthur L. Wil-liams of Waldorf. Md.: a daughter. ; Lucille Bradshaw of Orlando, Fla.; ia sister, Virginia Smith of Boston; ,eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. ' She was the wife of the late IJames A. Williams, who died in 11960. A funeral service will be held tomorrow in the Community Baptist Church. Burial will be at Blue Hill Cemetery. Braintree. Anthony Kulas, 76 Retired MBTA bus driver ATKINSON. N.H. - Anthony F. Kulas of Atkinson, a retired Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus driver, died Wednesday in Lawrence General Hospital In Lawrence. Mass.. after a brief illness. He was 76. - Formerly of Dorchester, Mass., he served as an usher in St. Peter's Church in Dorchester for many years before he retired to Atkinson in 1978. He was born in New Britain, Conn., and attended Boston schools. - He leaves his wife, Nellie C. (Zdonik); and a son, Richard Kulas of Atkinson, with whom he lived. A funeral Mass will be said to-'morrow at 1 1 a.m. in the Holy Angels Church in Plaistow, N.H. Burial will be In Pine Grove Cemetery in Salem, N.H. DEATHS THOMPSON Of Newton, February 18. Peter H . Jr. Husband of Alice (Kreps) Thompson. Father of Nancy Jubltz of Pprt-landTtiregon, Katharine Otte o Houston, TX Peter H III of Boston, Robert W. of Portland Oregon David R. of Chestnut Hill. Also survived by S grandchildren. Funeral service at the Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St.. NEWTON on Monday, February 24 at 1:30 pm. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to New England Deaconess Hospital, 110 Ff"nf'J... Boston. Arrangements by J.S. Waterman and Sons, Wellesley. TIRRELL Of Plymouth, formerly of Wal-pole, February 20, 1986. Ethel Virginia Tlr-retl. Sister of Robert B. Souden of Chester, NH, Barbara F. Nelson of St. Petersburg, FL and A. Louise Souden of Ouincy. She Is also survived by nieces and nephews. Military funeral from the Mortimer N. Peck Funeral Home. 516 Washington St., BRAINTREE on Monday at 11 a m. Relatives and friends Invited, visiting hours Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Peck Funeral Home. Late Bacteriologist for VA Hospitals at Bedford, West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Member of Ouincy Chapter 86 Order Of Eastern Star, Daughters of the American Revolution In Plymouth, the DAV, and active member of Christ Church, Plymouth. Late WW II U.S. Navy WAVES Veteran. Memorial donations may be sent to the American Cancer Society. 247 Commonwealth Ave., Boston or to the charity of your choice. WETMORE In Everett, February 20, Josephine O.. beloved daughter of the late Walter and Elizabeth (MacDonald). Devoted sis-tar of Hazel Brown, Sarah Corey, Anna Morris, beloved aunt of Dorothy Chambers, Ruth Mallo, Ann Vlente. Hazel Smith, Harold Corey and Richard Morris. Funeral Services at the John F. Ward & Son Funeral Home, 772 Broadway, EVERETT, Saturday, February 22 at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends invited. Visiting hours Friday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. YEBBA Of West Peabody. Feb. 18. Irene E. (Strokosz). Beloved wife of Salvatore Yebba, devoted mother of Melissa and Me-llnda. daughter of Teofll and Longlna (Zawadka) Strokosz of Revere. Sister of Mrs. Stanley (Ursula) Gabryelskl of Methu-en and Mrs. Lester (Margaret) Karniez of Chelsea. Funeral from the Dello Russo Funeral Home, 306 Main St.. MEDFORD, Sat. at 9:30 a.m.. followed by a Funeral Mass celebrated in St. Adelaide's Church, West Pea-body at 11 a.m. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend. Visiting hours Thura. 7-9. Frl 2-4 & 7-9. IN MEMORIAM 'i 1964 EDWARD A. Mp 1986 ovlng memory of mJVonderf irful Dad. for many years, but continued to summer in Nahant through last year. A Johns Hopkins University graduate, he held honorary degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He was a Johns Hopkins trustee for 10 years. He also helped to restore the Peabody Library in Baltimore. He leaves his wife, Clarissa (Jacobus) of Baltimore and Nahant; three sons, Dr. George M. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Timothy C. of Glennwood and David J. of Baltimore; a daughter. Elizabeth C. Olson of Chevy Chase; and 19 grandchildren. The memorial service for Mr. Callard will be held Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. in Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church here. Robert Piecewicz Was insurance officer; at 48 BEVERLY - Robert E. Piecewicz, 48, an insurance company executive, died yesterday morning in Beverly Hospital following a long illness. Mr. Piecewicz was management Information systems manager and assistant vice president for American Mutual Insurance Co. of Wakefield. Born in Peabody, Mr. Piecewicz had attended Salem public schools and graduated from St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers in 1954. He received a bachelor's degree In marketing from Boston College in 1958 and a master's degree in management science from Boston University. He was a visiting faculty member at Northeastern University's University College and Boston University's Metropolitan College. He was a coach in the Little League baseball and YMCA Kiwanis basketball programs in Beverly, where he had lived since 1967. He also was a member of the city of Beverly Computer Commission and the Beverly Cove Improvement Association. Mr. Piecewicz was a former lieutenant in the Navy Supply Officers Corps stationed in Newport. RI. He leaves his wife, Patricia A. (Sylvanowicz); a daughter. Kathleen of Beverly; a son. Kevin of Beverly; a brother, Richard W. of Tewksbury: his stepmother, Mrs. Genevieve M. (Kawczynska) of Salem; and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Mary Star of the Sea Church here. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery in Salem. Vila B. Webber, 95 Was active in civic affairs WELLESLEY - Vila B. Webber, who was active in civic and philanthropic affairs, died in her Wellesley Hills home here Wednesday after a brief illness. She was 95. Mrs. Webber was a summer resident of Southport, Maine, and was active in the Southport Summer Residents Association. She was also a member of the Lucy Jackson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Braeburn Country Club of Newton. Born in St. Louis, Mrs. Webber had lived in the Boston area since the turn of the century. She was the wife of the late F. Roscoe Webber 3d, one of the principals of the Webber Timberlands, one of the largest family-owned timber operations in Maine. Mr. Webber died In 1976. She leaves a son, Bradbury Webber of Wayland, and a granddaughter. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the J.S. Waterman and Sons Funeral Home In Wellesley. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Wellesley. Nelson Cavaquinho Brazilian composer, singer Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO - Nelson Cavaquinho. a composer and singer of Brazilian popular and folk music, died Tuesday of a respiratory ailment. He was 74. Born Nelson Antonio da Silva, he recorded under the name Nelson Cavaquinho. A cavaquinho, in Portuguese. Brazil's language, is a ukulele-like guitar. Mr. Cavaquinho wrote dozens of chorinhos, a Brazilian urban jazz-folk type of music, as well as ballads and sambas. Funeraljfirrangements were incomplete. Robert B. Ladd, 75; chairman of the Scituate Planning Board SCITUATE - Robert B. Ladd, 75, chairman of the Scituate Planning Board and a retired naval architect, died unexpectedly yesterday in Alberton, Australia, during the final week of a rail tour of that country. He was a model railroad enthusiast and had corresponded with a pen pal In Australia for over 30 years. He had been traveling since mid-January, visiting California and Hawaii as well as Australia. Mr. Ladd was chairman of the Scituate planning board for the last five years, and had been a board member for over 12 years. He was instrumental in building the town's new harbormaster's building, and was honorary chairman and clerk of the works during construction. He also served on the Appeals Board of the town's Waterways Commission, and was named Scituate Man of the Year by the Scituate Chamber of Commerce In 1984. An avid sailor, he was the former commodore and perennial treasurer of the Satuit Boat Club here. Born in Maryland, Mr. Ladd was a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he received a bachelor's degree in naval architecture and a master's degree in marine engineering. He worked for Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyard as a naval architect. After the firm left Quincy, he worked for the Coast Guard as a marine engineer, retiring in 1980. He leaves a daughter, Catherine L. Bishop of Barrington, 111.; two sons, Richard B. of Dunkirk, Md., and Stephen F. Ladd of Costa Mesa, Calif.; two brothers, Roderick M. and Donald B. Ladd, both of Scituate; a sister, Barbara Smith of Hawaii and Montana; and seven grandchildren. Ernest Shalek, 73 Was Honeywell machinist BROCKTON - Ernest Shalek, a retired machinist, died Wednesday in Goddard Memorial Hospital in Stoughton after a long illness. He was 73. Born in Chelsea, Mr. Shalek had lived in Brockton for three years, and previously had lived in Nashua. N.H.. and Billerica. Mr. Shalek had worked for Western Electric in New York, Sikorsky in Connecticut and Or-mands Machine Shop in New York City, and was chief machinist for Machinery Builders Inc. of the Bronx, N.Y., until 1967. In 1968, he began working for Honeywell in Lexington, as a machinist on aerospace projects. He retired in 1977. Mr. Shalek gave trumpet lessons throughout the Greater Boston area and was a member of the Massasolt Senior Citizens Orchestra, performing throughout southeastern Massachusetts. He was an inventor and held a patent for an improved trumpet spit valve. He also was an honorary member of the Harbormasters Department of the city of guincy. Mr. Shalek leaves his wife, Theresa (Goldstein); a daughter, Lois B. Graber; three sons, Martin H.. David B. and Jules E. Shalek; nine grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today in the Schlossberg-Goldman-Solomon Chapel, Canton. Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park. Frederick Dodge, 62 Tool and die maker 29 years LYNN - A funeral service was held Wednesday in the Central Congregational Church here for Frederick H. Dodge, 62, of Lynn, a retired tool and die designer. Mr. Dodge had died Sunday in the Atlanticare Medical Center here after a brief illness. For 29 years, he was a designer in the tool and die shop at the General Electric Co. Riverworks Plant in Lynn and several companies in Everett before he retired in 1982. Born in Skowhegan, Maine, he had lived in Lynn for the past 15 years. Prior to that he had lived for 13 years in South Portland, Maine, where he was a leader for the Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the Golden Fleece Lodge, A.F. and A.M.. of Lynn for 25 years and a member of the Portland Council Royal and Select Masters. ' He leaves his wife, Elaine J. (Marden) of Lynn; three sons. David of Gorham. Maine, Douglas of Burlington and Dana of Portland. Maine; and 1 1 grandchildren. Buriawas in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in West Peabody. i He was the husband of the late Harriet (Fowler), who died two years ago. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Wesley Swezey, 70 Was insurance executive WAKEFIELD - A funeral service will be held today in the First Parish Congregational Church here for Wesley C. Swezey, 70, a retired vice president of a Boston insurance brokerage firm, who died Wednesday morning in Melrose-Wakefield Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Swezey was born in Brooklyn. N.Y., and had lived in Wakefield for more than 35 years. He was a retired vice president of Marsh-McLellan International of Boston. During World War II, Mr. Swezey enlisted in the Army and was stationed in Europe, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. An active member of the First Parish Congregational Church in Wakefield, Mr. Swezey served as a deacon and on the church's finance and personnel committees. He also was a director of the Civic Center and- Clearing House of Boston, a group of retired insurance executives who act as consultants to the the Insurance industry. He was a member of the Columbian Lodge, A.F & A.M., of Boston and the Aleppo Temple Shrine of Wilmington, and was a corporator, founder and president of Charmingfare Golf Links of Can-dla. N.H. He leaves his wife, Elaine M. (Skerritt); a son, Leonard T. of San Diego, Calif.; a brother, Elbert A. Swezey of Long Island in New York; and a sister, Ruth O'Brien of Merrick, N.Y. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery here. James Parker, 95 Retired basketball referee WAKEFIELD - James M. Parker, a retired basketball referee and steward at Wonderland Race Track, died yesterday In the Greenview Manor here after a short illness. He was 95. Mr. Parker was born in Everett and was a 25-year resident of Melrose before moving to Greenview Manor three years ago. He was a graduate of Gettysburg College and received a law degree and master's degree in education from Suffolk University. He refereed his first basketball game in 1916 and officiated for college, high school and professional teams until retiring In 1946. He helped referee the first game of basketball played in Boston Garden - a 1928 matchup between the Boston Whirlwinds and the Philadelphia Renaissance. He also refereed the first New England scholastic basketball tournament at Tufts, the first Tech Tournament and helped organize the first Catholic Schoolboy Tournament. Mr. Parker also was host of the first radio sports show in the Boston area, a basketball question and answer program on WBET, with Ted Atkinson of the Boston Transcript. While attending a national high school tournament in Chicago, he noticed that the referees there wore black and white striped shirts. He brought some back to New England, where they caught on with local referees. He leaves two nephews, Kenneth J. Benoit of Belmont and Bernard Benoit of Everett. A graveside service will be held for Mr. Parker today at 2 p.m. in Glenview Cemetery in Everett. Adolfo Celi; at 61 Italian actor, theater director Associated Press SIENA. Italy - Adolfo Celi. the Italian actor and theatrical director, died here Wednesday, two days after suffering a heart attack, doctors reported. He was 64. Mr. Celi. a Sicilian who began acting on the Italian screen in the 1940s and performed for 15 years in Brazil, was often cast as a villain in films. He played Emilio Largo, the rival of Agent 007 James Bond, in the 1965 film based on Ian Fleming's novel "Thunderball." He had more than three dozen roles to his credit, including that of Giovanni de Medicl in the film biography of Michaelangelo, "The Agony and the Ecstasy. Funeral arrangments were not immediately avanaDie. David V. Rosenthal, 70; founded a South Boston steel company H COCONUT GROVE. Fla. - A funeral service will be held in Temple Shalom. West Newton, today at 1 1 a.m. for David V. Rosenthal, 70, retired chairman of a South Boston steel company and an international business consultant. Mr. Rosenthal died Wednesday in the South Miami Hospital in Miami. He was a resident of Coconut Grove and Boston. He was born in Boston, attended local schools and graduated from Boston University. He was the founder and chairman of the board of U.N. Alloy Steel Corp. of South Boston, now known as U.N.A. Corp., an importer of specialty steels into the United States. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the late 1960s Mr. Rosenthal received a commendation from the Austrian government for acting as the Austrian steel industry's exclusive US representative and aiding that country's economic development after World War II. After retiring from U.N. Alloy in 1971, Mr. Rosenthal worked as a manufacturing and industrial consultant. He helped establish manufacturing and International licensing operations for Landlubber Jeans, based in Hong Kong, blue jean manufacturing plants In Nicaragua, and, at the request of Izod, Custom Tailored S.A., a manufacturer of sport slacks and shorts in Santiago, Dominican Republic, which is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the industry. Mr. Rosenthal was active in numerous philanthropic and community organizations, and was one of a group of community leaders who helped raise funds to establish the Lubavitch Yeshiva, now known as New England Hebrew Academy. Edward J. Callahan Was letter carrier; at 77 QUINCY - Edward J. Callahan Sr., 77, a retired letter carrier and truck driver, died yesterday of cancer in Quincy City Hospital. Mr. Callahan was born in Boston and lived there for 68 years before moving to the Houghs Neck section of Quincy nine years ago. As a letter carrier he worked for 35 years in the General Post Office in Boston's Post Office Square. During that time, he also drove a delivery truck for the Globe Newspaper Co. He retired 13 years ago. He was a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 34; a former officer of the Boston Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association; a former member of St. Clement's Eucha-ristic Adoration Society; and a former sergeant with the Massachusetts State Guard from 1942 to 1945. He also was a member of the Circus Fans Association, Father Ed Sullivan Tent Number 118, and the National Circus Historical Society. He leaves his wife, Mary M. (Regan); five sons, Edward Jr. of Quincy, John J. of Falmouth, George J. of Wells, Maine, Gerard F. of Long Beach, Calif., and Paul C. of Quincy: a daughter, Mary M. of Long Beach, Calif; fifteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be said at 9 a.m. Monday in Blessed Sacrament Church, Houghs Neck, Quincy. Burial will be in Mount Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury. Skier killed by avalanche in Utah identified as Wenham 16-year-old By Greg Witcher Globe Staff A skier who was swept off the slopes of a Utah ski resort as his father looked on in horror Wednesday was identified yesterday as 16-year-old Paul Michael Moscovitch of Wenham. The avalanche, which measured about 300 feet across and 20 feet deep, sheared without warning from an overhang on Razor-back Edge Mountain in Alta, Utah, at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, Cpl. Lane Larkin of Salt Lake County sheriffs office said yesterday. It overtook Moscovitch and barely missed other skiers on the Sugarloaf ski run before stopping at the base of Little Cottonwood Canyon. "There wasn't anything anyone could do," Larkin said. The youth's father, Edward Moscovitch, was not harmed. Edward Moscovitch was head of the fiscal affairs office during the administration of former Gov. Frar- cis W. Sargent and In the first He was also a long-time member of Temple Shalom in West Newton. He leaves his wife, Helen (Trb-derman) Rosenthal; two sons, Robert L. of Miami Beach, and Donald J. Rosenthal of Philadelphia; a sister, Sarah Gordon of New York City and five grandchildren. :': Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park, Sharon. Donald Matick, 60 Owned roofing firm , ;. AMESBURY - A funeral Mass was said yesterday in Sacred Heart Church for Donald S. Matick of Amesbury, a self-employed roofing contractor for 34 years, who died Tuesday in his home here after a long illness. He was 60. Mr. Matick owned the Donald S. Matick Co. of Newburyport, a roofing business that in the 1960s was a major contractor and roof supplier for the Mobil Oil Co. He built roofs for new service stations on the North Shore and in southern New Hampshire. He retired last year. Born In Amesbury, he was graduated from Amesbury High School in 1943. He then attended Union College in New York. Princeton University. Harvard Business School and Tufts University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1950. He played se-miprofesstonal football for several years before starting his roofing business. A World War II Navy veteran, he was a member of the Amesbury Rotary Club and the National Roofing Association, and was a past president of the Newburyport Young Men's Christian Association. He leaves his wife. Irene (LeB-lanc); two daughters. Christine Larson of Amesbury and Michelle Little of Newburyport; three sisters. Evelyn Buonotempo and Hazel Guidi. both of Florida, and Florence Talas of Taiwan; and two grandchildren. Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Amesbury. Olga Dinati, at 62 Saleswoman for Jordan Marsh LYNN - Olga M. (Coukos) Dinati, 62, a saleswoman for the Jordan Marsh Company, died Wednesday after being stricken while attending a meeting of the Jordan Marsh President's Council in Boston. Mrs. Dinati was born in Lynn and was a graduate of Lynn English High School, class of 1941 , She worked in the sales department of the Jordan Marsh Company's North Shore Shopping Center Mall in Peabody. She was a member of the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Lynn and the St. George Parent Teachers Association. She leaves her husband, Theodore A. Dinati, two daughters, Rosemary D. Graves of Seekonk and Susan J. Searles of Peabody; four brothers, John of Watertown, George of New Hampshire, James of Indiana and Fred Coukos of New Jersey; three sisters, Tina Vellis of Lynn, Mrs. Irene Schla-denhauffen of Westfield and Helen Nelson of New York; and two grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be said tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Lynn. term of Gov. Dukakis. 1. 1 He currently is an economist at Charles River Associates in Bos- ton and a contributor to the op-ed page of The Boston Globe. Two and a half hours after a search began, rescue workers found young Moscovitch at the base of a pine tree about 40 feet away from where his father told them he saw the boy vanish. The youth was flown by helicopter to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City about 15 miles away, where he was pronounced dead at 8:44 p.m. Wednesday from cardi-' ac arrest and hypothermia, a hospital spokesman said. A former class valedictorian, Moscovitch had a 4.0 average at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Hamilton, where he was a sophomore and a member of the varsity wrestling team. Besides his father, he leaves' his mother, Frances, and a younger brother, Thomas. Funeral ar-. rangements were incompfcte yes; terday. Cookie and family