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Mr. Goode was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y. to Adrian F. Goode and Helen M. Goode. He attended Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., where he learned to fly and graduated from there in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He graduated from Boston University Law School in 1973 and was an attorney with the Boston firm of Harrison and McGuire before moving to Nantucket and practicing real estate law. Besides loving to fly his 1954 Taylor Craft plane, he enjoyed studying languages, the opera, traveling, reading, sharing meals with family and friends and geneology. Known as a reliable friend, a loving son, an admirable brother and a gentleman and a scholar, Mr. Goode will be greatly missed by those he leaves behind.
Calling hours will be held at the Lewis Funeral Home from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. A funeral mass will be held at St. Mary's Church at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 18 with burial to follow at St. Mary's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, Mr. Goode's family requests that donations in his memory be made to the Marla Lamb Fund through Nantucket Cottage Hospital or Hospice of Nantucket. ANDREW SILVESTRE BARADA Andrew Silvestre Barada III of New Canaan, Conn. and Nantucket died unexpectedly at his home on April 6, 2007. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 26, 1929, Mr. Barada was the only child of the late Lucy Hunt and Andrew Silvestre Barada, Jr. His formative years were spent in Houston, Texas. Following graduation from Texas A&M University in 1949 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, Mr. Barada received his commission in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant and served as a pilot in the Korean War with the Kyushu Gypsy Squadron, flying medical air evacuations. Upon his discharge, Mr. Barada returned to Kansas City as a chemical engineer and relocated to New York City with McKesson & Robbins, Inc. in 1963. After his retirement from McKesson & Robbins in 1976, Mr. Barada formed Unique Aerial Views specializing in commercial and estate property aerial photography. In later years, Mr. Barada was an active volunteer pilot for Angel Flight Northeast, a non-profit organization providing air transportation to children and adults requiring life-saving medical care. Mr. Barada is survived by his beloved wife of 52 years, Rita White Barada and their eight children, Mary Catherine and Stephen Pond of Norwalk, Conn; John and Sandra Barada of New Canaan, Conn; Andrew and Joan Barada of Portola Valley, Cal; James and Melissa Barada of Delmar, NY; Peter and Anne Barada of Marblehead, Mass.; Lucy and Dana Cronan of Hamilton, Mass.; Anne and Sean Daly of Barrington, R.I.; and Thomas Barada of Nantucket. He is also survived by sixteen grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on April 11, 2007 at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 21 Cherry Street, New Canaan, Conn. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to Angel Flight Northeast, 492 Sutton Street, North Andover, Mass. 01845 or the Sisters of Notre Dame, 30 Jeffries Neck Road, Ipswich, Mass. 01938. ALFRED (AL) DUPONT CHANDLER, JR. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Business School historian who founded the field of business history, died on Wednesday, May 9, at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 88. In his long and legendary career, he chronicled and analyzed big businesses around the globe in a prolific and extraordinarily influential corpus of books and articles. At the time of his death, he was the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. In the 1950s, Chandler helped Alfred P Sloan, the creator of the modern General Motors when it was an industrial colossus, write his famous autobiography, "My Years with General Motors." He investigated the dynamic factors that made the American economy and its businesses succeed so triumphantly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The key factors, as Chandler saw them, were the rise of the railroad, concentrated urban markets, mass production techniques, electrification, the internal combustion engine, and research and development. He concluded that successful industrial corporations intelligently harnessed and exploited these forces and made the transition from entrepreneurial enterprises to multidivisional, vertically integrated companies. In essence, the creation and development of modern managerial capitalism was the driver of American business success. "What counts are people - their skills, knowledge and experience," he said. Chandler's landmark books and articles influenced generations of scholars in many countries and numerous disciplines, including history, economics, sociology, and management science. While his central ideas about industrial change emerged and evolved in each work, he always examined the same basic set of questions: How were things done at a certain time, how were they done later, and what happened to cause the change. Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr., was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, near Wilmington, on September 15, 1918. (Although he was not a blood relation of the DuPonts who had founded the wellknown chemical company, his middle name reflected longstanding connections with this prominent family. Beyond Major Ramsay's important role in the company, Chandler's paternal great-grandmother was raised by the DuPonts after her parents died of yellow fever when she was a child.) In addition to his teaching, course development, and research, Chandler was also editor of Harvard Studies in Business History and on the editorial boards of major historical journals. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference. He was on the council of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which honored him in 2003 with its highest award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Summers were spent at the family home on Nantucket, where he brought his work but took time out for surf casting for bluefish and a run (and later in his life, a walk) on the beach. And no matter how cold it got each winter, he enjoyed duck hunting in Rowley, Mass., near the home of his son Alfred III. Indeed, he was fond of saying that although history was his vocation, hunting was his avocation. In addition to his wife and son Alfred, Chandler is survived by two daughters, Alpine "Dougie" Chandler Bird of Annapolis, MD, and Mary "Mimi" Chandler Watt of Dinas Powys, Wales; a younger son, Howard, of Maharishi Vedic City, IA; two sisters, Nina Murray of Bedford, Mass., and Nantucket, and Sophie Consagra of New York City; five grandchildren and two step-grandchildren; and one great grandchild. Burial will be private. A memorial service will be held at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on Sept. 28, 2007. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in Chandler's memory to: TheAlfred D. Chandler Fund, c/o Kerry Cietanno, Teele Hall, Harvard BusinessSchool, Boston, MA 02163; The Memorial Church,Harvard University, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Mass. 02138; TheMassachusetts Audubon Society, c/o Betsy Watson, 208 South Great Rd., Lincoln,Mass. 01773. I |
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