The Harvard community witnessed an unusual number of passings this summer:

Not Like 'Ordinary Mortals'

Don K. Price Jr., who served almost two decades as dean of the Kennedy School of Government, died of Alzheiemer's disease on July 9. He was 85.

Price was dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration from 1958 until 1977. He was also Weather-head professor of public management from 1958 until 1980, and was known for his work in the study of government organization and management. More recently, he specialized in studying the relationship of science and technology to public policy.

Former Harvard president Derek C. Bok said that Price "was almost the most perfect gentleman I ever dealt with at Harvard."

"[He was] someone with such enormous integrity and decency that it was overwhelming," Bok said. "He was just a superior sort of person, not given to any of the pettiness or distempers that afflict most of us ordinary mortals."

As dean of the Kennedy School, Price was instrumental in developing the school's curriculum. He worked to link the government and administrative program of the school to the School of Engineering, where students could be exposed to learning approaches such as systems analysis.

Architect of Marshall Plan

Milton Katz '27, Harvard's Stimson professor of law, emeritus and former director of the Marshall Plan, died on August 9 of cardiac arrest. He was 87.

Katz was a noted scholar and teacher of international law. But he is per-haps best known for overseeing the rebuilding of Europe following World War II as head of the Marshall Plan.

"Milton Katz was a man of tremendous vision, intellect and accomplishment," Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said in a statement. "He played a major role in the reconstruction of Europe after World War II as ambassador to the Marshall Plan and he was one of the prime shapers of international legal studies at Harvard Law School."

Katz was appointed lecture on law in 1939, and rose to professor of law in 1940. He was named Byrne professor of administrative law in 1946. In 1954, he became Stimson professor of law, a post he held until 1978.

Following his retirement from Harvard, Katz was named a distinguished professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he taught until January, 1995.

'The Soul of Courtesy'

John P. Coolidge '35, Boardman professor of fine arts, emeritus and former director of the Fogg Art Museum, died on July 31. He was 81.