Nathan Grier Parke III ’34

GRIER PARKE, the founder in 1951 of Parke Mathematical Laboratories in Carlisle, Mass., and a former professor of computer science and theoretical physics at Roger Williams College in Bristol, R.I., died Mar. 4, 1990, after a brief illness. He was the son of Nathan Grier Parke II '07, who died in 1961.

Grier was a man of many talents. In the mid-1960s, in honor of his parents, he built a two-manual, 39-rank pipe organ for an Episcopal mission in Bedford, Mass. "Until age and a stiff index finger" slowed him down, he played oboe in local symphony groups (his wife played horn). He was the author of GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF MATHEMATICS (McGraw-Hill) in 1947 and a second edition (Dover Press) in 1958. Other interests included camping, printing, photography, and electronics.

Surviving, besides his widow, Ann Ryder Parke, are three sons, Nathan Grier IV '63, Jonathan L., and Robert W.; a brother; a sister; and two granddaughters. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.