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Memorials Robert Judell '41, Textile Industry Leader and HM Supporter Horace Mann School mourns the death of Robert Judell '41 on March 18, 2016 in Palm Beach, Fla. A 1945 graduate of Yale University Judell served as a naval officer during WWII and made multiple voyages across the Atlantic on destroyer escort ships. He eventually became the third generation president of James Thompson and Company basic textile weavers and finishers, where he took great pride in developing new products that used his fabrics. An avid golfer, he belonged to Quaker Ridge Golf Club for over 70 years and was president from 1981-83. He was secretary of his class at Yale and active in the 100 Years Association. He adored Sun Valley, where he and his wife Eileen summered for over 30 years. Bob Judell is remembered for his quick wit, intellectual curiosity, warmth, and charm. He loved orchids, fine food, socializing and world travel. He is survived by his wife Eileen Weiler, daughters Debra Mamorsky (Jeffrey), Tera Judell, Andrea Markowitz (Alan), step-children Pamela Grayson (Douglas), Andrew Weiler (Cecilia) and eight grandchildren. William J. "Mickey" Corcoran '42, Former HM Coach and Football Legend www.nydailynews.com William J. "Mickey" Corcoran '42 passed away on Nov. 29, 2015 of a brain tumor. Corcoran grew up in Englewood, N.J. and played basketball and football at St. Cecilia High School when legendary coach Vince Lombardi coached both sports. Lombardi gave Corcoran his nickname, originally calling him "Mickey Mouse" because of the alum's small stature. Corcoran joined the HM Class of 1942 in the Sixth Form, and was on the Varsity football, basketball and baseball teams. After HM, he entered the Navy during World War II as an athletic instructor at the Naval Air Base in Sea Island, Ga., where John Wooden was the coach. Corcoran succeeded Wooden as the Base coach, and then went to Springfield College in Massachusetts, graduating with an education degree in 1948. He returned to HM as a physical education teacher in 1949 and coached JV basketball, Varsity soccer and golf, and assisted with JV football and baseball through spring 1956. Moving on to River Dell High School as the varsity basketball coach Corcoran met Bill Parcells, then a student on the team, and became a great inspiration to the future N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer. Corcoran left River Dell in 1967 to become the athletic director and basketball coach at Northern Highlands High School in Allendale, N.J. Remaining there for the next 18 years he became a prominent figure in N.J. athletics, and continued to be a mentor to Parcells. Corcoran is survived by his wife, Dolores McGrath Corcoran, a daughter, JoAnne Kehoe; three sons, Michael, Billy and Mark, 13 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Another daughter, Patricia, died in the early 2000s. Claire Rosenstein '42, Television Pioneer Horace Mann School notes the death of Claire Rosenstein '42 on January 23, 2015. Rosenstein worked with composer Aaron Copland, and became a TV writer in television's early days, for Steve Allen's original "Tonight Show" and NBC's "Project XX" among others. She later worked as an archivist for New York City, and is survived by loving nieces and nephews. James Salter '42, Novelist and Short Story Writer Known as a "Writer's Writer" With sadness Horace Mann School reports the death of James Salter on June 19, 2015. Born James Horowitz, after HM he went to West Point and joined the Army Air Corps (later the Air Force) and trained as an Air Force pilot. Along the way he earned a masters' degree at Georgetown University in 1950, but continued his Air Force service in the Korean War as a MiG hunting unit pilot who flew 100 missions between February 12 and August 6, 1952. He began writing while in the Air Force, which he left in 1957 to write fulltime after the 1956 publication, to critical acclaim, of his first novel The Hunters, which was made into a movie. Published under the pseudonym Salter to stave off criticism from the military which his writing often referenced, the author then legally changed his name. James Salter went on to write the novels The Arm of Flesh (1961), the acclaimed A Sport and a Pastime (1967), Light Years (1975), and Solo Faces (1979). Salter's screenplays included 1969's "Downhill Racer" and "The Appointment" and, in 1981, "Three" and "Threshold" (1981). His short story collections included Dusk and Other Stories (1988) for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night (2005). Salter's Still Such (1988) is a collection of poetry. He twice published memoirs: Burning the Days (1997) and Gods of Tin (2004). Salter's essays and travel writing appear in There and Then (2005) and Life is Meals 2006, written with his wife Kay Eldridge. Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps and the short stories My Lord You and Palm Court were published in 2006. Salter's Collected Stories came out in 2013, the same year the author wowed critics with the publication, at age 88, of the beautiful All That Is. Salter and his first wife Ann, who divorced in 1975, were the parents of four children. Salter is survived by his wife journalist and playwright Kay Eldridge, and by children Nina, Claude, James and Theo, and was predeceased by son Allan. Photo by David Levenson /Getty former President of Boca Rio Golf Club, and a member of the Old Oaks Country Club, in Purchase, N.Y. He is survived by his wife Dani, sons Jon Sonnenblick '66 and Robert (Pam) Sonnenblick '76, and daughter Micki (Steven) Sonnenblick Hirsch, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and sisters Jean Saklad and Muriel Perry, and brother Arthur (Sybil) Sonnenblick. Roger Mayer '43, Advocate for Film Preservation The HM community was saddened by the death of Roger Mayer '43 on March 24, 2015. A renowned champion for film preservation Mayer graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School. After nine years in the legal department of Columbia Pictures he joined MGM as assistant general manager of its Culver City studios in 1961. An MGM executive showing Mayer around the lot led him into concrete vaults with 130-degree F temperatures where film footage was stored and rotting, and told Mayer to keep the vaults and their content secure. 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