Stuart Dubois Cowan ’39

Pioneer amateur radio operator, marketing executive, publisher, and writer, Stu died Nov. 15, 1999, at Concord Hospital, near his home in Henniker, N.H., where he and his wife, Grace, have lived since 1984. During WWII he served as communications officer aboard the destroyer USS Barton, seeing action in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, including the invasion of Normandy. His business career began in advertising, went on to commercial marketing for Raytheon Corp. until he became pres. of United Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. In 1969 he turned to publishing and writing. He was half-owner of Radio Publications, Inc., coauthoring seven books on communications. He wrote two books on health/medical subjects, one with Dr. Ted Beattie, Toward the Conquest of Cancer, which Stu dedicated to his first wife, Pauline Benedict, who died of lung cancer in 1974. While writing and publishing, he also managed the Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y., a family business founded in 1902. An amateur radio operator for 68 years, he was a lifetime member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, the US Naval Institute and the Society of Wireless Pioneers.

Stu is survived by his wife, Grace, his sons, Stuart '65 and Robert, his brother, David '41, his stepchildren, Candace and Jan Lombardi, and seven grandchildren. With them we celebrate the life of our gifted and generous old friend.

The Class of 1939