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Notes for Peter Mattews SPACKMAN
Peter Spackman died of a heart attack in New York, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1995. His funeral was in the Eliot United Church of Christ in Newton, Mass.
Peter was a man of gentle humor, whimsy, and uncommon creativity. An English major and member of Elm Club at Princeton, he earned a master's in 1953 from the Columbia Univ. School of Journalism. After a stint with This Week Magazine in NYC, Peter was, in Princeton, an editor of University. From 1963-68, he was editor of the Columbia University Forum. During the 1970s, Peter worked at MIT, chiefly as executive director of the Council for the Arts. For the past 10 years, Peter was a partner both in Burgard Associates, an art consulting firm, and Cuisine Chez Vous, which he cofounded with his wife, June.
In April 1994, Peter and June were at the rear of the line to view the King Tut exhibit in Cairo; at the head of the line were Jim and Susan Baker. Peter intoned, "Three cheers for the Class of '52," and, as if by magic, he and June moved to the front. We shall miss his charm and exuberant wit.
Peter is survived by June; two daughters, Jennifer and Phoebe; three sons, Samuel, Thomas, and John; a stepson, Christopher Noll '77, and two stepdaughters, Sarah Noll '77 and Lynne Rhyan. We extend to them our deepest sympathy.
The Class of 1952
PAW January 24th, 1996
New York Times, The (NY) - March 23, 1995
Deceased Name: Peter Spackman, 64, Editor of Journals On Culture and Arts
Peter Matthews Spackman, who edited The Columbia University Forum and the quarterly arts publication Cultural Affairs during the 1960's, died on Thursday. He was 64 and lived in Newton, Mass.
The cause of death was a heart attack, said his wife, June.
He was the editor of The Forum, a journal of commentary and criticism, from 1963 to 1968. Among the writers whose work he published were Amitai Etzioni, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Margaret Mead, Donald Keene, Jean Piaget and Howard Zinn.
After leaving The Forum, Mr. Spackman founded and edited Cultural Affairs for three years. The magazine folded when the Ford Foundation discontinued its financing.
In 1973, he became executive director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Council for the Arts, organizing and encouraging cultural activities and directing fund-raising for programs in music, theater and the visual arts as well as a new cultural center, the Wiesner Building.
In 1983, Mr. Spackman became a partner in the arts consulting firm Burgard Associates, which created educational programs for elementary and high schools.
Born in Manhattan, he was the son of W. M. Spackman, the novelist and classicist who died in 1990. The younger Mr. Spackman graduated from Princeton University in 1952 and from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1953.
His first marriage, to Nancy G. Ellsworth, ended in divorce in 1968. Besides his wife, June, he is survived by three sons, John G., of New Haven, Thomas M., of Boston and Samuel S., of Manhattan; two daughters, Jennifer M., of Moab, Utah, and Phoebe P., of Boston; two stepdaughters from his wife's earlier marriage, Lynne Rhyan of Milwaukee and Sarah Noll of Kansas City, Mo.; a stepson, Christopher Noll of Berkeley, Calif.; two grandchildren, and eight step-grandchildren.
The obituary also omitted a surviving sister. She is Harriet Newell of Santa Fe, N.M., and Carmel, Calif.
Copyright 1995, The New York Times Company
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