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In Memoriam
Thomas H. Lenagh, 93, who had worked at the Foundation from 1960 to 1978, died in December. He began as an investment analyst and became treasurer in 1964 and was the chief investment officer and portfolio manager of the Foundation’s endowment. During his last year at Ford he was a financial advisor in the office of the vice president.
Mr. Lenagh, a graduate of Williams College and the Columbia University School of Law, was a chartered financial analyst and past president of the Financial Analysts Federation and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He was also a retired captain in the United States Navy Reserve.
After leaving Ford he served on many financial boards and held several positions, including chief executive officer and chairman of Greiner Engineering, consultant to the CML Group and financial vice president of the Aspen Institute.
Word was received of the death of Reuben Frodin in July 2010 in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was 98. Mr. Frodin first worked at the Foundation as a program specialist in Nigeria from 1962 until 1964. Three years later he was re-hired as a program advisor for education and research and, a year later, transferred to the Asia and Pacific program. He also worked in the Latin America and Caribbean office before moving to the Asia program in 1971, where he remained until he retired in 1978.
Mr. Frodin received a doctorate and a law degree from the University of Chicago and worked at the university with Robert Hutchins from 1941 to 1951. Over the years he wrote and edited a great many papers and several books, primarily on education and West Africa. While at the Foundation he wrote many papers on education and the social sciences in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He had also been dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Rhona Rapoport, who had been a consultant to the Foundation for more than twenty years on work and family issues, died in London last November at the age of 84. She and her husband, Robert, had done pioneering research on how dual-career couples managed to combine work with family, friendship, leisure and community activities. In the 1990s she was the leader of a Foundation initiative on issues of equity, leading to altered thinking on how paid work and family work got done by men and women so as to avoid work-life conflicts. An obituary in The Guardian declared that the Rapoports “lived their ideals, agreeing early on in their marriage that neither would take on full-time work so that they could maintain the quality of personal life they wanted for themselves and their children.”
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