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In memoriam--Harry W. Brock died March 28 at the age of seventy-nine. He was a retired engineer for Mount Holyoke, having worked here from 1970 until his retirement in 1991. "Harry had a dramatic impact on this campus," says Wayne Gass, dean of administration. "There was not a construction project for twenty years that Harry wasn't involved with." Brock oversaw the construction of numerous buildings and renovation projects including Blanchard, Ciruti, Skinner, Mary Woolley, Willits-Hallowell, the equestrian center, and Newhall Center. Before coming to MHC, Brock worked at Cornell University and ran his own construction business in the Ithaca, NY, area. He was known to coworkers for the breadth of his construction knowledge, for bringing in projects on time and within budget, and as a generous and sensitive man beneath his gruff exterior.

>>> Ellen P. Reese

In memoriam--Ellen P. Reese died April 2 at the age of seventy. Reese spent her entire professional career at Mount Holyoke, earning bachelor's and master's degrees here, and finished her fifty years on campus as Norma Cutts Dafoe Professor of Psychology. She retired in 1996, the same year the Reese Psychology and Education Building was named in honor of her and her late husband Thomas W. Reese. Among many professional honors, she received the American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology and was named one of the one hundred most important female psychologists in history by the American Psychological Association. A campus memorial service will be held on May 3.