William Fuller 

William Fuller, former Westminster Choir College president, died on April 19 in Slingerlands, N.Y. A member of Westminster’s Class of 1950, Dr. Fuller served as its president from 1987 until he retired in 1990. When he was a student at the Choir College, Fuller was a member of the Westminster Choir and performed throughout the United States and abroad under the leadership of the College’s founder, John Finley Williamson.

He earned a Master of Music Education at North Texas State University and a doctorate in education from Indiana University in 1961. Throughout his 39-year career Fuller held several executive positions in higher education in New York, Nebraska, and Connecticut. After retiring from Westminster, he and his wife Marjory moved to a log home in Becket, Mass. In retirement he served on the local high school board of education from 1992 to 2002. In 1998 he was elected chairman of the Board of Health for the town of Becket, a position he held until 2011. He and Marjory were active members of the Stockbridge United Church of Christ and the Stockbridge Festival Chorus.

He embraced his purpose driven life with optimism, hope, and determination to make a difference in every job and community he served. He was honored by the Westminster Choir College Alumni Association with an Alumni Merit Award, and he was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Princeton Rotary.

He is predeceased by his daughter, the Rev. Heidi Lynn Fuller; his parents, brother, and sister. He is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Marjory; his sons, Grant, Tom, and Dirck; and a son-in-law, Stuart J. Mitchell.

A memorial service will be held at the Stockbridge United Church of Christ at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 16 with reception following the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to The Rev. Heidi Lynn Fuller Ministry Support Fund, 8 Reginald Circle, Rochester, N.Y.; or the Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, N.J. 08540. Friends may leave a message of condolence for the family at www.NewcomerAlbany.com.

William T. Lifland

William Thomas Lifland, a leading New York antitrust lawyer and longtime Princeton resident, died peacefully on Thursday evening, May 3, at his home at Stonebridge at Montgomery, a retirement community in Skillman,, after a long illness. He was 83.

Born November 15, 1928 in Jersey City, he was the older son of Charles and Carol Francks Lifland. He attended public schools in Jersey City, graduating as valedictorian of his Lincoln High School class in 1945. He attended Yale College, where he majored in economics and was a champion fencer. After graduating magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1949, he went on to Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude in 1952.

From 1952 to 1954 he served in the Air Force General Counsel’s Office, attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant. In the fall of 1954 he became law clerk to John Marshall Harlan II, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. When Judge Harlan was confirmed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court the following March, Mr. Lifland accompanied him to Washington as his first clerk. After the clerkship ended, he joined the New York law firm now known as Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, where he practiced antitrust law until his retirement in 2002.

Mr. Lifland’s legal practice touched on all areas of antitrust law. He was antitrust counsel to a diverse array of companies and trade groups, including Sony, CPC International, the Newhouse newspaper chain, the National Coffee Association, the New York Jockey Club, and the Newspaper Association of America, among many others. He developed successful antitrust defenses to attempted hostile takeovers of supermarket retailer A&P and aerospace manufacturer Grumman. In an important test of the government’s merger guidelines, he won a ruling that the government’s attempt to block industrial clay manufacturer Engelhard’s acquisition of its principal rival did not adequately consider the economics of the markets for the companies’ products. His pioneering work for Citibank on antitrust issues in electronic banking led to an invitation to testify before the congressionally-created Electronic Funds Transfer Commission. After he secured a victory for another longtime client, British razor blade and sword maker Wilkinson Sword, the company presented him with a replica of George Washington’s inaugural dress sword, a fitting gift for a former college fencer.

A recognized dean of the New York antitrust bar, Mr. Lifland wrote the New York Law Journal’s monthly “Antitrust” column for over 33 years, from 1973 to 2007. He taught antitrust law as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School from 1981 to 2004, and served for 30 years as an instructor and antitrust program chair for the Practicing Law Institute. He authored State Antitrust Law (1984), one of the first comprehensive treatises on state competition laws, and co-authored Understanding the Antitrust Laws (1980), a well-known handbook for non-specialists. He served on the governing council of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and chaired the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section, which in 1997 awarded him its Distinguished Service Award. In 2007 the Section renamed its Distinguished Service Award the William T. Lifland Service Award in his honor.

He was a founding director and officer of Commodities Corporation in Princeton, which later became Stockton Holdings, Ltd.

He met his future wife, Nancy Moffat, in 1952 on a blind date while both were working in Washington, D.C., he for the Air Force and she for the State Department. They were married in Washington in 1954 and took up residence in New York City, only to return to Washington a few months later due to Justice Harlan’s change of court. They moved back to New York when Mr. Lifland started working at Cahill, then to France in 1958 for a two-year stint at Cahill’s Paris office. After returning to the United States in 1960, the couple settled permanently in Princeton, where they raised their four children.

At home Mr. Lifland enjoyed making furniture and tinkering with electronics in his basement workshop. He also built a darkroom for developing and printing his own photographs. He was an avid reader and loved going to the theatre, concerts, and opera. He enjoyed playing tennis, bicycling, and traveling with his wife.

He was an officer of India House in New York and a member of the Nassau Club in Princeton. A longtime member of Trinity Church, Princeton, he was a chair of the Outreach Committee and a member of the Ushers’ Guild.

Mr. Lifland is survived by his wife of 57 years, Nancy; his brother, John Lifland and wife Jean of Sea Girt, N.J.; his daughter, Carol Lifland and husband Daniel Giesberg of Los Angeles, Calif.; his sons, Charles Lifland and wife Alison of Pasadena, Calif., Kerin Lifland of Grass Valley, Calif., and David Lifland and wife Catherine Radmer of Wayland, Mass.; 11 grandchildren, three nieces and their families, and many cousins.

Interment will be held privately for the family. A memorial service will be held in the fall. In lieu of flowers the family invites your contributions to The Hospice Memorial Fund, Princeton Healthcare System Foundation, 253 Witherspoon Street, Suite 1, Princeton, N.J. 08540.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home, One Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, N.J. 08540. For further information and to leave your own comments and condolences, please visit the website: www.TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

Judith V. McCaughan

Judith Vose McCaughan died peacefully in her home on May 1st.

Born in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1928, to Charles Henry Vose and Rena Eloise Moses Vose, she spent her girlhood in Collingswood, N.J. In 1941, Judy, her sister Cynthia, and her parents moved to Princeton, where her father worked as an engineer for RCA.

Judy graduated from Princeton High School in 1945, and attended Trenton State Teachers College, now known as the College of New Jersey. In 1948, she married Wesley Adams McCaughan.

She began her career in real estate in the late 1960’s, and was the first employee of the former firm Peyton Callaway. Until her retirement at the age of 82 last year, she was a broker at the firm of N.T. Callaway.

Judy was a gardener and an avid reader. She enjoyed assembling puzzles, knitting, and spending time with her family in two places that were very special to her — Rindge, N.H. and Long Beach Island, N.J.

Her greatest joy was spending time with the family she leaves behind: her husband, Wesley; and her three daughters, Wendy Jolley and her husband, Michael, of Princeton, Carey Hoover, and her husband, Stuart, of Lawrenceville, and Marny McCaughan of Riverside, Ill. She was the beloved grandmother of six granddaughters and one grandson.

Burial at Princeton Cemetery was private. A service of joy and remembrance will be held on Monday, May 14 at 2 p.m. at the Princeton University Chapel.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Princeton Hospice, 208 Bunn Drive, Princeton, N.J. 08540.

Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

Diana Fenton

Diana Fenton, of Princeton, died at the University Medical Center in the early hours of the morning on May 1st. She had suffered from many illnesses over the years, but always managed to rally — “She had an incredible will to live,” said her daughter Alison. This time, the sheer magnitude of her ailments was too much, and she succumbed to a heart attack.

Born Diana Charlotte Lee, she was the only child of the late Frederick William Parkin Lee and Marjorie Mullins Lee. She grew up in Morristown, attended local schools, and graduated from the Kent Place School in Summit.

Her family was a large Anglo-Canadian family that came to this country in the late 1800’s. Several of her ancestors were American Tories who left the United States after the Revolution and settled in Canada. She was extremely proud of her family’s Loyalist roots, becoming a Daughter of the British Empire in middle age.

Diana was a lady in the truest sense of the word — while a woman of impeccable taste and manners, she believed that gentility came from treating all with kindness and charity. Those who knew her well — and her friends were numbered in the hundreds — could attest to her generosity and kindly spirit. Throughout her life she gave fully of herself to others — taking meals to sick friends, volunteering at hospitals, sponsoring children overseas, organizing VNA rummage sales, and serving on boards of directors. “She was an amazing woman,” said her daughter Stephanie, “While virtually sightless herself, she was volunteering with Recording for the Blind in her last years.”

She was a religious woman, and deeply involved in the Episcopal Church. Diana taught Sunday school, sang in the choir, and sat on the Vestry of St. Bernard’s Church in Bernardsville, the town where she raised her family. Later in life, as a widow, she moved to the Princeton area, and immediately became an active member of Trinity Church. Come rain or shine, she could be found volunteering at the parish offices, helping with Altar Guild duties, and taking communion, as a lay minister, to shut-ins.

Diana had a keen appreciation for all things creative. As a teenager, she was a model for local department stores and sang in a radio choir in Manhattan. She and her late husband George sang in local musical groups and made frequent trips to Lincoln Center to attend the opera. One of her proudest moments in life was singing a duet with Marilyn Horne at a reception for the artist in New York City. Diana also loved to cook and garden, and took pride in presenting a splendid gourmet meal with a table set with beautiful flowers from her own garden.

Of all her loves, her family was the greatest. She was married twice: to Donald Rutter, an inventor and engineer, and to George Fenton, Jr., a noted New Jersey architect. Both of her husbands predeceased her. She is survived by five children and step-children: Stephanie Greene of Skillman, Bruce Rutter of Duxbury, Mass., Alison Rutter of Tewksbury, N.J., Archibald Fenton of Hershey, Pa., and Charles Fenton of Summit, N.J.; three grandsons and step-grandsons: Michael Mayhew of Ottawa, Ontario, Wesley Rutter of San Francisco, Calif., and Liam Rutter of Boston, Mass.

A funeral service will be held for Diana at Trinity Church in Princeton at 10 a.m. on May 14. A reception at the Nassau Club will follow immediately after the service. A private family burial will be held in Bernardsville.

Diana loved flowers, so friends are encouraged to bring a few of their own to help make arrangements, or whole bouquets from their gardens if they can. For those who would like to make a donation in her name, her family suggests the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.