Boston Globe, Friday, 10
Jan., 2003
Vaughan, William 87 of Cambridge, MA. died January
7, 2003. He worked as a mechanical engineer
specializing
in the design of optical instruments for American
Optical
Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Baird-Atomic Co., and Itek
Corp.
From 1970 until his retirement in 1981, he taught
Geometrical and Physical Optics at the New England
College
of Optometry, Boston. During World War II he served
with
the Armed Forces, teaching pilots to fly using
the Link
Trainer. He spent summers on Monhegan Island, ME.
He
leaves his wife Frances Downing Vaughan of Cambridge;
two sons, William Vaughan of Chebeague Island,
ME and
Frank Apthorp Vaughan of Woburn, MA; a daughter,
Ellen
Vaughan, of North Yarmouth, ME; a stepson, Peter
Waer
of Waltham, MA., a stepdaughter Pamela Kenny of
Nantucket,
a grandson, granddaughter, two stepgranddaughters,
and
three great-grandchildren. Services will be held
at Christ
Church, Zero Garden St. in Cambridge, on Saturday,
January 11 at 11 AM. Donations in Williams memory
may
be made to The William Vaughan AB 37 & Frances
Downing
Vaughan AB 44 Dean's Discretionary Fund at Harvard
College, Cambridge, MA. or Monhegan Memorial Library
or
the Monhegan Art Museum, Monhegan Island, ME.
Any questions, suggestions,corrections,
and/or additional
information, contact me, Linda CONAWAY Welden at:
Linda_Welden@vaughan-vaughn.org
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