Howard D. Medwed ’63

Howard died Dec. 23, 2019, of heart failure. He chaired the tax law department at Burns & Levinson in Boston for more than half a century.

He and his beloved wife, Mameve, whom he met in nursery school when she was 3 and he was 4 and a half, lived their adult years in Cambridge, where Howard fought for neighborhood causes and served on multiple civic boards. “He was a force of nature,” said Mameve. “He cared about the underdog and was infinitely curious. He was quirky, eccentric, an endearing slob, always selfless, always optimistic, looking ahead.” They loved summers at a beach house in their native Maine, where they enjoyed walking the shore and steaming lobsters.

Valedictorian at Governor Dummer Academy, Howard studied at the Woodrow Wilson School, was ad director of WPRB, managed the track team, and ate at Court. He roomed with R. Axelrod and W. Moran. Howard proceeded onward to Harvard Law School; “I continue to cherish my education at Princeton and the intellectual stimulation of my time there,” he wrote for our 50th-reunion yearbook.

Howard was colossally proud and adoring of his family: wife Mameve, a novelist; sons Daniel and Jonathan; daughters-in-law Sharissa Jones and Marnie Davidoff; and grandchildren Mili, Clementine, Mirabelle, and Gabriel.