W. Stanley Brown *61

Stanley Brown, a member of the Bell Laboratories Research Department, died Jan. 16, 2013, at age 77.

He graduated from Yale in 1956, and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1961. He joined Bell Labs, where he pioneered in the emerging fields of computer service and information systems. Until his retirement in 1996, he also contributed to Bell Labs’ international planning program and its global information sharing community.

Very active in the Chatham, N.J., area, he was president of the Stanley Congregational Church, the Chatham Youth Hockey Club, and the Chatham Historical Society. He was a trustee of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and chair of the board of trustees of the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison.

A visitor to more than 70 nations, Brown shared his passion for international travel with his grandchildren, taking each one on a different foreign trip.

Brown is survived by his wife, Leanna; two sons; and four grandchildren.

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