Jaikumar was also widely published and served as an advisor to two congressional committees. Mountain climbing was one of his favorite pursuits. As a guide in the Himalayas during his college years, Jaikumar climbed a 23,000-foot peak in 1966. Last year, he became the first person to reach the top of a remote peak in Greenland, naming it "Minarjnik" after his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and his two sons, Arjun and Nikhil.

Eleanor Doermann Larrabee '43

Eleanor Doermann Larrabee '43, an architect and designer of university libraries, died Sept. 27, in New York City. She was 74.

In a time when women were only beginning to enter the field of architecture, Larrabee made large inroads into a profession dominated by men.

In 1955 Larrabee joined a New York architecture firm run by Charles H. Warner Jr. She was named an associate at WBTL Architects in Manhattan in 1963.

Larrabee served for about 10 years as a trustee of Barnard College.

Louis Loss

Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus Louis Loss, widely considered "the intellectual father of securities law in the United States," died Dec. 13 of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

"His central contribution was a treatise on securities regulation," said Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev F. Vagts '49, one of Loss' colleagues.

The treatise spans 11 volumes and has been cited 50 times by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Harvard Law School (HLS) press statement.

In addition to numerous books on securities law, Loss wrote a work describing his career, titled Anecdotes of a Security Lawyer.

Loss taught at HLS beginning in 1952, becoming a professor emeritus in 1984. He also served as an honorary associate of Quincy House.

Marjorie S. Lucker

An assistant dean and registrar during 14 years of service at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Marjorie S. Lucker died Aug. 1 of complications from lung cancer. She was 66.

At a memorial service, more than 250 colleagues, family and friends turned out to pay tribute. Many said Lucker was someone people turned to with their problems, questions and concerns, always dispensing wise and ethical advice.