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OBITUARIES
M. GORDON WOLMAN, 85 ROY TURNER SR., 81
Hopkins professor published pioneering studies on river change
Episcopal
priest pushed
study and led to his development
by Emma Brown of the “Wolman pebble count,” a
way to document the size and dis-
for civil rights
M. Gordon Wolman, 85, a geog- tribution of riverbed rocks.
raphy professor at Johns Hopkins It was at Harvard that Dr. Wol- The Rev. Roy Stanford Turner
University for more than 50 man met Leopold, who also was Sr., 81, an Episcopal priest for 55
years, whose research provided the son of a famous scientist, the years who manned first-aid sta-
fundamental insights into the na- biologist Aldo Leopold, who tions during the 1968 riots in
ture of rivers, died Feb. 24 at his wrote the classic conservation Washington, died Feb. 23 at Poto-
home in Baltimore of complica- book “A Sand County Almanac.” mac Valley Nursing Center in
tions from multiple myeloma. The two sons worked together as Rockville. He had Alzheimer’s
As a scientist at the U.S. Geo- hydrologists at the U.S. Geologi- disease.
logical Survey in the 1950s, he cal Survey, spending summers Rev. Turner, who had been ac-
and colleague Luna Leopold pub- studying and measuring the riv- tive in the civil rights movement
lished pioneering studies on how ers of the West until 1958, when since the early 1960s and
and why rivers change. With their Dr. Wolman accepted a faculty marched in demonstrations
emphasis on measuring rivers’ position at Hopkins. throughout the South with the
characteristics, including depths He was known as a tireless Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was
and velocities and the size of riv- teacher who led weekly field trips pastor at St. Luke’s Episcopal
er-bottom pebbles, they trans- to suburban creeks, employing a Church in Bethesda from 1966 to
formed geomorphology — the stream-side Socratic method 1979.
study of landforms’ evolution — while invariably wearing a bowtie He was a founding member of
from a descriptive to a quantita- and smoking a cigar. An early St. Luke’s House, which was es-
tive discipline, making it possible proponent of interdisciplinary tablished to provide housing for
to predict how natural and hu- education, he helped combine the patients released from state psy-
man-caused perturbations might departments of geography and chiatric hospitals.
affect river channels. Their 1964 sanitary and water resources to Born in Cheyenne, Wyo., he
textbook, “Fluvial Processes in create the department of geogra- graduated from the University of
Geomorphology,” co-written with phy and environmental engineer- Kentucky, where he was a wres-
John Miller, is considered a semi- ing, which he chaired for 20 years tling champion and a catcher on
nal work. until 1990. the baseball team.
Known as “Reds” for his shock The recipient of numerous He earned an additional bach-
of carrot-colored hair, Dr. Wol- awards and a member of many elor’s degree from the General
man studied whether a river is scientific groups, Dr. Wolman Theological Seminary of New
shaped more by rare, catastroph- was elected in 1988 to the Nation- York City and studied at Nasho-
ic floods or everyday currents, al Academy of Sciences. In 2006, tah House Seminary in Wiscon-
eventually concluding that inter- he was awarded, along with Leo- sin. He received a master’s degree
mediate flows — regular, once-a- pold, the prestigious Benjamin in counseling psychology at
year floods — do most of the work Franklin Medal in Earth and En- Frostburg State College in 1986.
in sculpting a channel. That mag- vironmental Science. He served Rev. Turner began his ministry
nitude-frequency theory, as well frequently on National Research as the Episcopal chaplain at Kan-
as later studies on the effects of Council panels and was a past sas State University and the Uni-
human activity on rivers and the president of the Geological Soci- versity of Kansas, and he served
downstream impacts of dams, ety of America. in parishes in Kansas, Indiana
made Dr. Wolman’s work a foun- In addition to his wife, survi- and Maryland.
dation for water-resource man- vors include four children, Elsa After his 13 years in Bethesda,
agement and river restoration Wolman Katana of Baltimore, he went to St. John’s Episcopal
and engineering. Abel G. Wolman of White Church in Frostburg, Md., until
“We still learn about the things Salmon, Wash., Abby W. McElroy 1986 and St. Luke’s Episcopal
that Reds discovered in the ’50s,” of Westport, Conn., and Freder- Church in Mechanicsburg, Pa.,
said David Montgomery, a Uni- icka “Ricka” Wolman of North until retiring in 1997.
versity of Washington geomor- Haven, Conn.; and two grand- Rev. Turner retired to the
phologist and MacArthur award sons. Washington area and was interim
recipient.“We’re still standing on For all his work on water, Dr. minister to several parishes and
his shoulders.” Wolman was a self-proclaimed also worked at Washington’s Na-
Dr. Wolman applied his exper- “cow nut” who dreamed of be- tional Cathedral.
tise to local problems beginning coming a dairy farmer after his He also served on the board of
in the 1960s, when his report on mother sent him at age 12 to the Appalachian People’s Service
how runoff from construction spend summer on a Connecticut Organization and was past vice
projects was choking Maryland’s
CHRIS HARTLOVE
farm. He returned many sum- president of the Mental Health
streams with sediment helped Dr. Gordon Wolman led the geography and environmental engineering department at Johns Hopkins. mers thereafter and reportedly Association of Montgomery
lead to new state regulations. He fell so in love with cattle that he County.
later headed the Oyster Round- plies before approving new devel- father’s influence helped stim- degree in 1949. kept a photo of a Guernsey cow in His first wife, Kitty King Tur-
table, a coalition of environmen- opment. ulate my interest in the sciences As a student, he and a friend his wallet. Even then, he showed ner, died in 1984.
talists, watermen and scientists Markley Gordon Wolman was and engineering,” Dr. Wolman took a trip to Alaska, stopping at signs of a future in geomorpholo- Survivors include his wife of 26
that designed a plan to reverse born Aug. 16, 1924, in Baltimore, told the Johns Hopkins Gazette in Montana’s Glacier National Park gy. years, Elizabeth Turner of Beth-
the Chesapeake Bay’s catastroph- the only child of another well- 1995. “We began a conversation on the way. A store clerk invited “I think the 4-H Club should do esda; three children, Ellen Turner
ic oyster decline during the known Johns Hopkins professor, in those fields when I was 4 that them to a popcorn-popping party, more in soil erosion,” he wrote to of Mount Hermon, Mass., Roy
1990s. Abel Wolman, a sanitary engineer continued until Pop died.” where Dr. Wolman met Elaine the sponsor of the Connecticut Turner Jr. of Clarksville and Alli-
After a 2002 drought left Mary- who pioneered the chlorination He went to Haverford College Mielke, whom he married in 1951. club after returning to Baltimore son Turner of Chevy Chase; two
land’s reservoirs depleted, Dr. of drinking water. The two would in Pennsylvania before being He continued his studies at one fall. The sponsor demurred. stepdaughters, Debbie Rider of
Wolman headed a state water- work alongside each other as pro- drafted into the Navy during Harvard, earning a doctorate in “Erosion control,” Dr. Wolman Kernersville, N.C., and Mary Beth
advisory committee and champi- fessors for more than 30 years un- World War II. After the war, he re- geology in 1953. His dissertation later said, “wasn’t easy to do Rutherford of Greensboro, N.C.;
oned measures to require that til Abel Wolman died in 1989. turned to Baltimore and graduat- on Brandywine Creek in Pennsyl- when you were 13.” and nine grandchildren.
communities plan for water sup- “There’s no question that my ed from Hopkins with a geology vania became a well-known case browne@washpost.com — Patricia Sullivan
David G. Allen
Middletown, Conn., and received thons in the former Soviet Union, the Army Navy Country Club and staff director and general counsel confidential assistant to the
ENGINEER
a doctorate in anthropology from the Boston Marathon and the Ma- the University Club of Washing- for the U.S. Senate Committee on agency commissioner.
the University of Chicago in 1970. rine Corps Marathon throughout ton. Agriculture and Forestry, died She graduated from a paralegal
David Garth Allen, 67, an elec- He did field work in Nigeria in the 1980s and 1990s. Her husband of 61 years, James Feb. 21 of pneumonia at Mont- program at George Washington
trical engineer, died of congestive the 1960s, which resulted in a He also belonged to the Vin- Franklin Garver, died in 2004. gomery General Hospital in Ol- University and received many
heart failure Feb. 17 at his home book, “The City is Our Farm,” a tage Chevrolet Car Club of Amer- Survivors include two daugh- ney. awards for her work. She retired
in Inverness, Fla. He had lived in study of seven Yoruba families. ica. ters, Barbara Krabill and Mary He had previously worked as a in 1983.
Rockville for 30 years. He returned to Africa in 1976 for His marriages to Deanna Garvey, both of McLean, and two lawyer for the U.S. Department of Mrs. Stepanek lived for many
Mr. Allen was a native of Grove two years with the U.S. Agency Caron, Sally Barnhart and Mary granddaughters. Agriculture and the office of the years in Forestville, where she
City, Pa., and a graduate of Grove for International Development. Evans ended in divorce. — Patricia Sullivan Senate legislative counsel. was a member of Mount Calvary
City College. He began working at He retired from the World Survivors include his wife of 26 Harker Thomas Stanton was a Catholic Church. She was a vol-
Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Cum- Bank in 2003 and continued to years, Susan Katz Clark, of Alex-
Hilda W. Mintzes
native of Chicago and a 1935 unteer poll worker and had lived
berland, Md., and then moved his travel. He also enjoyed music, andria; three sons from his first
PSYCHOLOGIST
graduate of the University of Chi- in recent years in Laurel.
family to Rockville in 1969. He theater, reading and collecting marriage, Michael John Clark of cago. He received a law degree Her husband of 39 years, Ber-
worked for several firms, includ- African art. Ashburn, David Lyle Clark of Hilda Weissman Mintzes, 89, a there in 1937 and worked at pri- nard P. Stepanek, died in 1986.
ing Computer Sciences, Contel His marriage to Theresa Lopez Brunswick, Maine, and Thomas psychoanalytic psychologist who vate firms in Chicago before mov- Survivors include a daughter,
and Abacus Technology. His proj- ended in divorce. Curtis Clark, Lisbon Falls, Maine; helped found the Affiliated Com- ing to the Washington area in Karen Porterfield of Boca Raton,
ects included work for the Li- Survivors include three chil- a daughter from his fourth mar- munity Counselors of Rockville, 1943. Fla.
brary of Congress, the Defense dren, David Aronson of Washing- riage, Kathryn Louise Clark of died of pneumonia Feb. 20 at Mr. Stanton volunteered as a — Matt Schudel
Department, Metro and the U.S. ton, Jennifer Ewing of Sudbury, Berkeley, Calif.; a brother; a sis- Washington Hospital Center. She driver for Meals on Wheels and a
Passport Agency. His last position Mass., and Joshua Aronson of ter; and five granddaughters. lived in Chevy Chase. tutor with the Literacy Council of
Bede Sullivan
was as director of logistics for Wellesley, Mass.; two brothers, — Patricia Sullivan Dr. Mintzes worked at the Montgomery County. He was a
LIBRARY CATALOGUER
Saks Fifth Avenue. He retired in Joel Aronson of Kensington and Community Psychiatric Clinic in founding member of Glenwood
1999 and moved to Florida. Carl Aronson of Cambridge,
Laina M. Garver
Bethesda during the 1960s and Recreation Club, a swimming Bede Sullivan, 76, who worked
He was an avid watch collector. Mass.; and eight grandchildren.
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
was a longtime member of the Po- pool in Silver Spring, and a presi- for 30 years at the Library of Con-
His marriage to Loel Hough Al- — Patricia Sullivan tomac Psychoanalytic Society. dent of the Father’s Club at Gon- gress, first in the division for the
len ended in divorce. Laina Miriam Garver, 89, a She was born in New York and zaga College High School in the blind and later as a cataloguer of
Survivors include two sons,
Roger Clark
substitute teacher in the Alexan- graduated from Hunter College District. foreign-language materials, died
Brian Allen of Sewickley, Pa., and
DATA ADMINISTRATOR
dria school system, died Feb. 2 of in 1939. She did graduate work at He was a member of St. John Feb. 22 of multiple organ failure
Christopher Allen of Rockville, acute respira- the University of Chicago and re- the Evangelist Catholic Church in at the University of Maryland
and three grandchildren. Roger Clark, 72, a data admin- tory failure at ceived her doctorate in clinical Silver Spring for more than 30 Medical Center in Baltimore.
— Patricia Sullivan istrator for the U.S. Postal Serv- Virginia Hos- psychology from Catholic Univer- years until 1989, when he moved Mr. Sullivan
ice, died Feb. 25 at his home in Al- pital Center. sity in 1971. to the Leisure World retirement specialized in
Dan R. Aronson
exandria of prostate cancer. She was an For the past 20 years, she was a community. He then became a Romance lan-
ANTHROPOLOGIST
Mr. Clark started working for Arlington participant in the Osher Lifelong member of Our Lady of Grace guages and
the post office in 1960 and was County resi- Learning Institute at American Catholic Church in Silver Spring. took classes in
Dan R. Aronson, 69, an anthro- based in California, Arizona and dent. University, telling a Washington His wife of 64 years, the former others, such
pologist who worked for the Oregon before moving to North- Mrs. Garver Post reporter in 2005 that “people Helen V. Ryan, died in 2006. as Swahili and
World Bank, died of brain cancer ern Virginia in 1978. He worked taught for in with expansive intellectual inter- Survivors include three chil- Indonesian,
Feb. 26 at a hospice in Wayland, at Postal Service headquarters Laina Garver the schools ests like to learn new things at dren, Thomas Stanton of Colum- in order to
Mass. He was a Washington resi- until he retired in 1992. during the any age.” In addition to taking bia, Michael Stanton of the Dis- write descrip-
dent. He continued working as a mid-1970s to mid-1980s. courses, she taught and served on trict and Sally MacKenzie of Bede Sullivan tions of books
Dr. Aronson worked much of data administrator for CSC, SAIC, She was also active in her Osher’s curriculum committee. Rockville; 10 grandchildren; and for the li-
his life at McGill University in SRA and other government tech- church, Fairlington Presbyterian, Her first husband, Jack Weiss- 10 great-grandchildren. brary’s catalogue. He had previ-
Montreal, where he became a nology contractors until his where she was the second-long- man, died in 1973. Her second — Emma Brown ously worked for the public li-
specialist in developmental an- death. est-standing member, and in the husband, Joseph Mintzes, died in brary systems in New York and
thropology, which tries to add a Mr. Clark was born in Mendo- Arlington chapter of PEO Inter- 1998.
Alice Stepanek
the District.
deeper understanding of social ta, Ill., and served in the Air Force national, in which she held all the Survivors include three chil-
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Bede Carroll Sullivan was a na-
structure and cultural values into in the late 1950s. He had a second chapter offices since joining in dren from her first marriage, tive of Chicago and a 1956 gradu-
efforts to improve the well-being tour as a nuclear weapons spe- 1950. Anne Clary of Chicago, Matthew Alice Stepanek, 86, who spent ate of Columbia University. He
and income-earning potential of cialist in the early 1960s. He grad- Born in Weirton, W.Va., she Weissman of Bethesda and Barr many years as an administrative served in the Marine Corps in the
the poor, particularly in Africa. uated from the University of Ari- grew up in Warren, Ohio, and Weissman of Takoma Park; two assistant and paralegal with the 1950s.
He joined the World Bank in zona in 1973 and received a mas- spoke Finnish as her first lan- stepdaughters, Barbara Mintzes old U.S. Tariff Commission, died Mr. Sullivan was a member of
1993 and focused on strength- ter’s degree in engineering guage. She graduated from Ohio of Vancouver, B.C. and Judith Feb. 5 of sepsis at Laurel Regional Holy Trinity Catholic Church in
ening and enforcing its involun- management from George Wash- State University with a major in Mintzes of Vashon Island, Wash.; Hospital. Georgetown.
tary resettlement policies. He be- ington University in 2000. music, then taught homebound and five grandchildren. Mrs. Stepanek, who was born Survivors include his wife of 48
came the lead social scientist in He was a member of West- students and junior high school — Patricia Sullivan Alice Sgarlatti in Iron Mountain, years, the former Carol Miller of
the bank’s social development de- minster Presbyterian Church in English in Ohio. Mich., came to Washington in the Urbana; three children, Nora Me-
partment before retiring in 2003. Alexandria and the Sierra Club. She moved to Arlington in 1946
Harker T. Stanton
early 1940s. jia of Bethesda, Emily Dennis of
Dan Roger Aronson was born He was ranked nationally as an after marrying, and she became a
SENATE COMMITTEE LAWYER
She worked for about 30 years Kensington and Peter Sullivan of
in Brookline, Mass., and grew up ultrarunner of 100-mile endur- full-time homemaker and volun- with the Tariff Commission (now the District; a sister; and four
in Watertown, Mass. He graduat- ance runs and completed numer- teer, joining the Green Manor Harker T. Stanton, 95, a lawyer the U.S. International Trade Com- grandchildren.
ed from Wesleyan University in ous 50-mile runs. He ran mara- Garden Club, the Ohio Society, who served from 1951 to 1974 as mission), including serving as a — Emma Brown
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