Forrest Campbell Mack died on May 24 at the University Commons Nursing Home in Worcester, Massachusetts; he was 64. Born on January 18, 1942, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned a degree in library science from Simmons College. A longtime resident of Waltham, Massachusetts, he worked at the Watertown Library until retirement in 2003. A member of the Organ Historical Society, Mack was also a hiker and a member of the Appalachian Club. A memorial service was held at Old South United Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, on May 30.
William Heartt Reese died on March 22 at St. Mary Home, West Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 95. Born in New York State, he was a graduate of Amherst College, earned a master of music degree from Columbia University, a doctorate from the University of Berlin, and a degree in conducting from the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Dr. Reese served as professor of music and director of musical ensembles at Haverford College in Pennsylvania from 1947–75. During that time he founded and conducted the Philadelphia Chamber Chorus, directed the Bethlehem Bach Choir in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was organist-choirmaster at the Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal) in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After retirement in 1976, he moved to Grandview-On-Hudson, New York, where he founded the Rockland Camerata. In 2001, he moved to West Hartford, where he substituted at local churches and was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church. Dr. Reese and Alfred Mann collaborated on an English translation of Kurt Thomas’s The Choral Conductor: The Technique of Choral Conducting in Theory and Practice, published in 1971 by Associated Music Publishers. He is survived by Dora (Fischer) Reese, his wife of 40 years, two sisters, several nieces and nephews, and grand-nieces and nephews. A memorial service took place at St. John’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, on April 1.
