KATHARINE LAWRENCE AUCHINCLOSS

AUCHINCLOSS, Katharine Lawrence (Laurie) Died on Memorial Day, May 26, 2014, in Westwood, Massachusetts, at the age of 90, after a life devoted to education. She died peacefully in her sleep after a period of declining health. Born Katharine Lawrence Bundy in Boston she was the daughter of Katharine L. and Harvey H. Bundy. Her siblings included McGeorge and William Bundy. She attended St. Timothys school and then Radcliffe College for a year, leaving after the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 she married Hugh Auchincloss, a New York surgeon. Laurie Auchincloss graduated summa cum laude from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1961 with her four children present and received a Masters Degree from the Graduate School in 1967. Over the next four decades she served on a number of boards including as Vice President of the New Jersey State Board of Education and as the second woman member of Columbia Universitys Board of Trustees. She was also a trustee at Barnard College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Milton Academy and she served on the National Committee for Citizens in Education. She was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Historical Society in the 1990s, helping to revitalize that organization and moving it to new quarters in the heart of downtown Newark. For the past 20 years she lived at Fox Hill Village in Westwood where her husband died in 1998 after 56 years of marriage. There she also served two terms on the Board of Directors. She is survived by her four children, Katharine A. Corbin of Phoenix, Margaret A. Strachan of London, Hugh Auchincloss Jr., MD of Washington, DC, and Elizabeth L. Auchincloss MD of New Rochelle; her eleven grandchildren; and her twelve great-grandchildren. Interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery will be private and a reception is planned at Fox Hill Village on June 5. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to WBUR, the public radio station in Boston.