OBITUARIES, May 16, 2003

Frank E. Taplin Jr., Margery Cuyler Lewis, Charles W. Raleigh, Caroline S. Johnson, Carlette M. Winslow, Libera R. Tamasi, Roger H. Maren.

Frank E. Taplin Jr.
Arts patron, Institute trustee
   
Frank Elijah Taplin Jr., a longtime resident of Princeton, died Sunday. He was 87.
   A skilled administrator, fund-raiser and a patron of the arts, Mr. Taplin was an assistant to the president at Princeton University, a trustee at the Institute For Advanced Study and president of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Association in New York.
   Born in Cleveland, he graduated from Princeton University Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1937 and subsequently went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He left Oxford in 1939 with a master’s degree in jurisprudence and then earned a law degree in 1941 from Yale Law School.
   From law school, he volunteered for the Navy and served in naval intelligence during World War II, rising from ensign to lieutenant commander.
   After four years in the Pacific, he returned to Cleveland to practice law from 1946 to 1950 with Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis.
   He served as president of the Cleveland Orchestra (1955-1957), where he was also a trustee (1946-1957), and as president of the Cleveland Institute of Music (1952-56).
   In 1957, he moved to Princeton, where he served as assistant to Princeton University President Robert Goheen until 1959. The university’s Taplin auditorium is named after him.
   At Princeton University’s Princeton Environmental Institute, he served as chairman of the Advisory Committee and created a distinguished lecture series. He served on the board of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for 20 years and as an emeritus trustee.
   Mr. Taplin served as a trustee of the Princeton Area United Community Fund, chairman and past president of the Princeton YMCA Executive Club, trustee of The Medical Center at Princeton and of Princeton Day School.
   He served from 1977-1984 as president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc., where he had been a director since 1961.
   He was a trustee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and held a number of other key posts at Lincoln Center.
   He was a trustee of Marlboro School of Music and Festival, where he was chairman from 1964 to 1970. He was chairman of the U.S. Committee for United World Colleges and a trustee and past chairman of the board of Sarah Lawrence College (1969-1977).
   He was a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1971, and was appointed trustee emeritus in 1988. In 1997, he took a leadership role in the Institute’s efforts to preserve 589 acres of woods and fields.
   He was fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and vice chairman of the Council of Fellows (1987-90). He was a member of the American Bar Association and a director of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.
   Among his awards, he received an honorary doctor of law degree from Rider College in 1988.
   He was a member of the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton and was a member of the Nassau Club.
   A director of North American Coal Corp. in Cleveland, he was the former chairman of the board of Scurry-Rainbow Oil Ltd., a Canadian exploration and production company, and a former director of the White Motor Co. and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Co.
   Son of the late Frank E. and Edith Smith Taplin, he is survived by his wife of 50 years, Margaret Eaton Taplin; daughters and son from his first marriage to Ngaio Thornton Taplin Lowry, Caroline Ruschell of Lexington, Ky., Jennifer Jerome of West Dummerston, Vt., and David Taplin of South Strafford, Vt.; daughters from his wife’s first marriage, Jennifer Dickerman of Charlotte, Vt., Martha Kelly of Brattleboro, Vt., and Susan Sichel of Marlboro, Vt.; his brother, Thomas Taplin of Denver, Colo.; sister Clara Rankin of Cleveland, Ohio; 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
   A memorial service will be held 4 p.m. June 8 at Princeton University Chapel.
   Memorial contributions may be made in his name in support of the environment, music, education or human rights.
Margery Cuyler Lewis
Active in church, ministry
   
HIGHTSTOWN — Margery Merrill Cuyler Lewis, a longtime resident of Princeton, died Tuesday of heart failure and cancer at Meadow Lakes retirement community. She was 90.
   Born in Buffalo, N.Y., she spent most of her childhood in Stockbridge, Mass. She met her first husband, Lewis B. Cuyler, who died in 1988, at the age of 19 and they married the following year. They lived for a short time in New York City and then moved to Princeton, where the Cuyler family had lived for three generations. She moved to Meadow Lakes in 1992.
   Mrs. Lewis chose not to attend college. Instead she was an avid reader of both classic and modern works. Under the guidance of a tutor, she became a scholar of Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet. She also studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary and at the School of Theology at the University of the South, where she completed its education for ministry program in 1992. She spent the summer of 1989 studying theology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
   She was a near lifelong parishioner of Trinity Church in Princeton. She served on its vestry, participated in many community outreach activities and taught Bible classes and Sunday school. She also established the parish’s Intercessors Group and headed the Choir Mothers. In 1982, she became the editor of a project to publish a history of Trinity Church and wrote several of its chapters.
   She was active on behalf of retarded citizens through her membership in the National Association for Retarded Citizens, and for her ministries to people in need under the auspices of Trinity Church. This work included a ministry to older people in the health center at Meadow Lakes, where she lived with her second husband, John B. Lewis, whom she married in 1992 and who died in 1995.
   Earlier in her life, she belonged to the Pretty Brook Tennis Club, Springdale Golf Club, the Stockbridge Golf Club in Massachusetts and the Mahkeenac Boating Club, also in Stockbridge.
   In later life, the Princeton University classes of 1922 and 1924 designated her as an associate by virtue of her two marriages to Princeton graduates. She was a member of the Nassau Club and the Princeton Historical Society.
   Daughter of the late Rev. George Grenville Merrill and Pauline Dresser Merrill, mother of the late David L. Cuyler, she is survived by sons and daughter-in-law Lewis C. and Harriet B. Cuyler of Pittsfield, Mass., and G. Grenville Cuyler of New York City; daughters and son-in-law Juliana S.C. McIntyre and Margery S. and John N. H. Perkins, all of Princeton; brother the Rev. George G. Merrill of Baltimore; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
   The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St., with the Rev. Leslie C. Smith, rector, officiating.
   Burial will be in the family cemetery at Trinity Church.
   A reception will follow at the Center for Theological Inquiry, 80 Stockton St., Princeton.
   Calling hours will be 5 to 8 p.m. today at the residence of her daughter, Juliana McIntyre, 34 Edgehill St., Princeton.
   In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Margery Cuyler Lewis Memorial Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation, 188 Tamarack Circle, Skillman, NJ 08558.
   Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Charles W. Raleigh
Chemical engineer at FMC
   
WEST WINDSOR — Charles W. Raleigh died Monday at The Medical Center at Princeton. He was 78.
   Born in Boston, he was a longtime area resident.
   He was a chemical engineer at FMC Corp. in Plainsboro and Philadelphia for 34 years, retiring in 1988.
   An Army veteran of World War II, he served in the 45th Infantry Division in Africa, Italy and France, earning four campaign stars.
   He was past president of West Windsor Lions Club.
   He was a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston.
   Son of the late Joseph and Muriel Raleigh, he is survived by his wife, Frances Raleigh of West Windsor; son and daughter-in-law Stephen and Nora Raleigh of Ewing; daughter and son-in-law Betty and Nelson Ring of Gaithersburg, Md.; and granddaughter Rhea Bowen, great-grandson Brian Bowen and great-granddaughter Reagan Brown, all of Gaithersburg, Md.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the West Windsor Lions Club, P.O. Box 295, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 or the Leukemia Society of America, New Jersey Chapter, 419 North Black Horse Pike, Mt. Ephraim, NJ 08509.
   Arrangements are by A.S. Cole Funeral Home, Cranbury.
Caroline S. Johnson
Retired school teacher
   
HIGHTSTOWN — Caroline Shirk Johnson died Tuesday at Meadow Lakes retirement community. She was 88.
   She was a Princeton resident 62 years.
   A teacher for 22 years, she taught in the West Windsor public school system and later at Ewing High School.
   She was a member of the Nassau Club and of the Present Day Club.
   Mrs. Johnson received her college education at Bucknell University and Rutgers University.
   She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Prof. Walter C. Johnson; sons W. Curtis Jr. of Corvallis, Ore., William S. of Collegedale, Tenn., and David E. of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; sisters Hazel Coup and Mary Doebler, both of Mifflinburg, Pa.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
   The funeral was private.
   In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Meadow Lakes Forum Scholarship Fund, 300 Etra Road, Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, NJ 08520.
   Arrangements were by Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton.
Carlette M. Winslow
Musician, public relations director
   
MONROE — Carlette M. Winslow died April 18 at Rossmoor retirement community. She was 83.
   Born in Milwaukee and raised in Montclair, she was a Maplewood and Princeton resident before moving to Rossmoor 15 years ago.
   A lifelong musician, she was also a journalist and worked in public relations.
   She studied voice, piano and organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, graduating in 1940.
   She worked as a church music director in New Jersey, including the Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church in East Orange, from 1960 to 1970.
   She was second violin at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for 18 years and performed many solo recitals.
   She and her former husband, Dr. John Winslow, bought New Jersey Life magazine in 1966 and she was editor, publisher and columnist for the magazine until 1975.
   She was public relations director for Paper Mill Playhouse from 1971 to 1975, and served as director of public relations at Westminster Choir College from 1975 to 1985.
   She is survived by daughters Pamela Culviner and Carol Windsor; son John Winslow; and two grandchildren.
   A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at the Meeting House at Rossmoor.
   Memorial donations may be made to the Westminster Choir College, Carlette M. Winslow Scholarship, 101 Walnut Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08540 or New Jersey Symphony, 2 Central Ave., Newark, NJ 07102.
Libera R. Tamasi
Sons live in Princeton
   
PETTORANELLO, Italy — Libera Ruberto Tamasi died Wednesday in Pettoranello. She was 89.
   Wife of the late Mario Tamasi, she is survived by sons and daughters-in-law Teodoro and Christine Tamasi of Princeton and Sebastiano and Mary Ann Tamasi of Princeton; daughters and sons-in-law Maria and Sandy Procaccini of Lawrence, and Vincenza and Camillo Paolino of Pettoranello, with whom she resided; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
   A memorial mass will be celebrated 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau St., Princeton.
Roger H. Maren
Celebration of life planned
   
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — A celebration of the life of Roger H. Maren, who died Nov. 29, will be held at the home of his wife, Priscilla Maren, 2 p.m. May 31 at 47 Stony Brook Road, Hopewell Township.
   A writer, musician and professional cabinetmaker, he was active in opposing the Vietnam War as editor of the newsletter of the Princeton Fellowship of Reconciliation.
   The gathering is open to all. For directions, call 466-2039.