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Zachariah Allen Obituary
Born on April 7, 1938 in Providence, R.I., he passed away unexpectedly on December 22, 2017 at his son's home in Clinton Corners, NY. Zachariah leaves behind his three children, Alexis, Eliza and George; along with six grandchildren. A service will be held for Zach at St. John the Evangelist in Newport on Saturday, January 13th at 11:00AM. Zee, you will be very missed. Godspeed.
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Jay Bartol
December 21, 2024
I went to St. Paul´s School in Comcord, NH. We graduated in 1056. I sang in the choir under the direction of Dr Channing LeFevre. Dr LeFevre allowed Zach to play the school´s organ. I invited Zach to attend the dedication of a new organ at St Michael´s Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC ~ September 2012. The Rector Rev Gregory Jones hired a French organist from St Paul´s Cathedral in Paris for the dedication. Zack and I sat together for the 2 hour organ extravaganza on the $6M organ.
I attended Zach´s Hogh Mass in St John´s Church in Newport, RI. A very moving service. Thanks for the memories you good and wonderful friend!
Jay Bartol
December 22, 2022
Still miss Zach, a dear classmate from St Paul´s School in Concord NH. Attended with him at St Michael´s Church in Raleigh NC to hear the playing of their new $6M organ. I sang in the choir with Zack and was privileged to hear him play the St Paul´s School organ. I attended his High Mass memorial service in Newport RI. Still miss him every day.
George
December 21, 2021
Dad, I am grateful that I have such fun memories of you. You are in my thoughts daily and I talk to the girls about you nearly all the time.
Soon after your passing, my daughter Annabel reminded us that we could see grandpa anytime we wanted by looking at his Youtube channel. This was news to me and I assured her she was mistaken. She wasn't: https://youtu.be/hfRwRV4LLbs
Anyways, dad, you live on our hearts and I hope that someday I will see you at the Christmas table again. Until then, I love you.
Manuel
February 22, 2021
Hola, es un mensaje para George Allen, desearía que se pusiera en contacto conmigo
Jay Bartol
December 21, 2020
I have missed Zach every day since his passing. I was impressed with his playing the organ at St. Paul's School with the permission of Dr. Channing Lefebre, the Music Director.
I shared with him listening to the new organ being played for the first time at St Michael's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC. We previously were officers in the Navy and shared many views about Navigation. We both were enthusiastic and supportive of space launches from Cape Canaveral, FL. I would call him and share that there was a launch within 15 minutes. After the launch, we would compare notes.
I valued most his dedication and leadership as 1956 Form Representative at St Paul's School, Concord, NH. We graduated in the same class and were true friends.
Attended his Mass Funeral in Newport, RI. Still think of him and miss him every day.
Graeme Fairbairn
June 7, 2018
I have just learned this sad news about Zach. I worked with him for several years from about 1993 to 2002, developing power projects in Poland.
I enjoyed his company so much. He was a fount of wonderful stories and colourful anecdotes. It was always a pleasure to be with him.
I rarely travel to the US these days - I'm based in the UK - so haven't seen him for some years.
My condolences to the family.
God bless
Alexis Johnson 76
March 10, 2018
Zachariah was a thoughtful and patient man. He helped.
Memorial flight for Zee around Mt. St. Helens
Phil Allen
January 6, 2018
My remembrances of Zach.
Zach and I were born about 6 months apart, and first met one another I'm sure before we could talk to one another. One early memory of Zee was just after the end of the War (that War) at the Dunes Club in Narragansett when we were about 8 or 9. Zee introduced me to my first cheeseburger, and if I remember correctly the cheese was in the middle of the patty, not melted on the top. For years I've looked to find another without success.
We saw each other infrequently through childhood, dependent on the locations of our respective families, but came together during our years at St. Paul's. Zee entered in the Second Form, and I followed a year later in the Third. Zee by that time was an old hand and, as his usual self, was very enthusiastic and helpful in showing the newbie around the Lower School and the rest of the campus. As many remember, Zee played the Chapel organ when needed as a stand in, and it was a pleasure to see a classmate and cousin sitting on the organ bench making beautiful music. Although we were in the same class at Yale, it is a different and much larger universe and we gravitated in different directions and saw each other less frequently.
I had not heard much from Zee directly over the many intervening years after graduation when he was in New York and Poland and I had moved west. We resumed more frequent contact after Zee returned to Rhode Island in 2002, and we saw each other at the 50th SPS reunion in 2006, which Zee did a magnificent job of coordinating. During Reunion, Zee mentioned his firm Pan-Eurasian Enterprises was publishing a newsletter that followed LNG projects in the U.S. At that time I was working with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and coincidently, involved with evaluating potential air quality impacts from upwards of four proposed LNG facilities in Oregon. About a year later we began to talk specifically about LNG export facilities in Oregon, and I was able to provide links to information he might find useful for his newsletter. It was an interesting connection of a shared interest across many miles and years.
I next saw Zee at the 60th Reunion in June, 2016, which again he organized in a masterful way, including a joyous afternoon on a well-stocked boat on Lake Sunapee, and a visit to the sculptor Saint Gaudens' summer home and final studio, now a museum, in Cornish, New Hampshire. Wonderful days, and Zee in true form. Immediately after Reunion I met up with Zee in Rhode Island and we drove to Jamestown to see his nephew Phil who gave us a great tour of the lower Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor aboard his boat Pimpernel. A beautiful, windy day, and a memorable time with Zee and Phil.
We've had many exchanges by email and phone since, the most recent of which was a week before his passing. Recent memorable calls have been about flying. Both of our dads were pilots in the Navy, and both Zee and I have pilot licenses. (I would add that all three children of Grandad and Nana Allen, Philip Allen Jr. (my father), William Slater Allen (Zee's father), and Anne Crawford Allen (Holst) (Anne D.'s mother), all had pilot licenses.) Last summer Zee described a few of his experiences. He said that at one point after Harvard Business School, he was offered a position with a firm in Bellingham, Washington, and on the way passed the Bellingham airport. Out of curiosity he stopped and, talking to no one in particular, expressed an interest in planes and flying. He was overheard by a flight instructor who said why not now? Off they went on an introductory flight, and Zee was hooked. Zee eventually got his license, and flew around western Washington and the Puget Sound, with Friday Harbor on San Juan Island as one of his favorite destinations. We talked about the challenges of flying in the Seattle-Portland area with the complex of controlled airspace, which contrasts with the openness of flying VFR (Visual Flight Rules) in rural areas in the Cascades and the Olympic Peninsula.
Zee related an experience flying into Boeing Field just south of Seattle. It's a field with a long history, now used for general aviation and corporate aircraft. At one time, Boeing built and tested aircraft there, including the B-17 before the War. Now, Boeing Field is well imbedded within Seattle-Tacoma Airport (SEATAC) controlled airspace, and contact with the Seattle Tower is required before entering, and landing. Zee said he thought he was talking with SEATAC Approach Control, announcing his position and intent, when the tower at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (NAS), on the approach to Boeing Field but about 50 miles to the north, came on the horn to ask his intensions. Seemed Zee had entered Whidbey NAS space and they thought he was landing, perhaps wanting to rejoin the Navy and become and anti-submarine Prowler pilot. I loved that story, myself having wandered into controlled airspace while looking at mountains or clouds. It also touched on the fact that both our dads had been Navy pilots, and maybe a latent interest to join up with antecedents. I heard Zee went on to fly other planes in other places that perhaps others can recount.
So, in honor of Zee, on a rare clear winter day, the last day of 2017, I flew around Mount St. Helens in Washington. It was a beautiful day, the air was smooth, and you could see forever. Zee, this picture is for you.
Zee was a wonderful, inquisitive, involved, caring person, and he will be missed very much by those who knew him. Happy Landings, Zee, and hold a tie down for your cousin.
Olga Korol
January 5, 2018
Dear George,
I still cannot believe that your father is not here anymore. We have so many great memories with him, particularly from Poland. Zach loved Poland, spending a lot of years there.
This is a very sad moment for me and my two sons. Zach was a wonderful person and, the most on this planet, he loved you, George, your sisters and of course, his grandchildren.
Many of us will not be able to delete his phone number from our phones for some time, I am sure of it because, we would want him to be here, with us.
January 3, 2018
I knew Zach from the age of 8. We were classmates at Moses Brown and Yale.Over the years we shared many experiences together.
I will miss his enthusiasm, keen intellect, and friendly attitude.
I extend my greatest sympathy to members of his family.
Norman Baker
Brent Scudder
January 3, 2018
In his sophomore year at Saint Paul's School, Zach made a wonderful pun in English class. He said that when we get old, we get hard of hairing. The English teacher threw chalk, erasers and even a small book at him.
Carolyn Zuttel
January 2, 2018
With thanksgiving to the Lord for the life and presence of Zachariah Allen.
Wìth prayers for his family as they mourn his absence.
Tim Pascoe
January 1, 2018
Zach Allen: a fun and generous spirit
As an Australian, I arrived at HBS in the fall of 1965 knowing no one and with little understanding of American life or mores. Everyone was friendly but Zach stood out for two particular acts of generosity. On a Sunday during the hot Indian Summer, he offered to take me to see the fall colours and visit his old school. We spent a glorious day driving up to St Paul's and enjoying the aurora of autumn colours. It was a welcome escape and particularly for someone, who couldn't afford a car. The second kindness came a little later when Zach took me to a party hosted by his roommate's girlfriend. I had not touched alcohol since arriving at HBS and it took only a drink (or two or was it three?) for me to be on the way to inebriation. In this happy, hazy state, I saw a young woman (a student from Simmons College) with long auburn hair sitting on the upper-floor stair rail hugging a small green inflatable dinosaur (the current motorist giveaway from one of the gas companies). Happily, this wondrous sight provided several easy conversation openers. Mine was unimaginative: what do we have here? Anyhow, Eva and I became friends and notwithstanding her becoming engaged to someone else before the end of the next academic year, I ended up winning the prize and marrying my wife of 50 years standing. So, far away in Australia, I remain in debt to Zach still today. May he rest in peace. He was great fun and very warm-hearted.
Dr Timothy Pascoe AM
56 Osborne Road
Burradoo NSW 2576
AUSTRALIA
Jerzy Mankowski
January 1, 2018
Dear George,
I am sorry not to be able to attend the funeral service. Your father was a wonderfull friend and made my return to Poland so much easier thanks to his sense of humour and his deep knowledge of the energy sector to which he introduced me. You Lost a wonderfull father who was so proud of you. Please do not hesitate to visit Brodnica so we can refresh his memory. Please accept our deepest sympathy from my wife Mary my son Gaika and myself .
Leslie Palti-Guzman
January 1, 2018
Dear George and family,
All my thoughts go to you. I wish you resilience in this time of hardship. May you find consolation during this period of holidays around family and friends.
I will miss Zach a lot, as a mentor and a friend. He taught me so much over those past 10 years. I started my career as a young LNG reporter at Energy Intelligence in NY and I knew very little about natural gas and LNG back then. I was a young French professional with a fresh diploma, still with a thick accent and with hard deadlines from my editors. But I got very lucky to find Zach early on. Zach and I were exchanging frequently over the phone, sometimes several times a day. He showed a lot of patience and great teaching skills. I learnt so much from our regular conversations about the details of a very complex market with many different actors and layers of understanding. He was as confident talking about technical elements of the market as well as explaining the political angles. I built my expertise talking to people and learning from their insights. Zach had by far the most differentiated take on the market which was often the best analytical view I would hear. I am very proud I went to the 'Zach's LNG school'. He was a very generous person with his time and with his knowledge. I moved on to becoming an analyst myself and although our exchanges were becoming less frequent (but still once a month at minimum), I always knew I could count on him for professional advice, hard questions on LNG or a friendly conversation with anecdotes and colors from his many experiences. I am sad I will no longer find he NATS newsletter in my mailbox, they were of great value, they were a daily reading and a guide on how to interpret the market. I am glad I took notes from each of our conversations as I am sure I will keep learning from them again and again just by reading them again. I know he is a key reason behind my achievements in the LNG sector and I will keep remembering him.
I would be happy to write something on linkedin as a tribute to him or to inform the LNG community if you think that could be useful.
Best regards,
Ed Joyner
January 1, 2018
George,
I am so very sorry to hear of your loss, thanks for letting me know. My mother had one sister who never married and my Father was an only child. As such, your Dad was like an uncle I never had. The few short years that we attended Christ Church Raleigh together are ones I will always cherish. Zach and I shared many a conversation regarding the architecture of Saint Paul's School Chapel. He was always there for me when I needed to ask him for advice. I wish I could say something to ease your pain but I can't. What I can tell you is that a small part of him will live on in me.
With my deepest sympathy
Shaun Rein
January 1, 2018
Dear George,
I am very sorry for your loss. After we met from the SPS online community, your father would email me every 1-2 years about the energy sector and ask how China was changing/ influencing it. He always brought a smile out of me with his energy and general charisma.
In fact he just emailed me 2 weeks ago or so to tell me he was buying my recently released book and would pepper me with questions afterward. I was preparing for the line of questioning!
Your father was truly one of the greats.
My thoughts are with you at this time. Just know your father brought smiles to me all the way out in Shanghai!
With regards, Shaun Rein SPS 96
Michael Noorduyn
January 1, 2018
Dear George,
It was very sad news you sent me ! Earlier this month we received a Christmas card from Zach who was over the years very loyal in sending us his Season Greetings. I had sent him a card with a letter enclosed reminding him of the good years we worked together in the years when we were both involved in the Coal Industry Advisory Board of he Inernational Energy Agency based in Paris.
I represented Shell International and we attended meetings in Paris, London, and New York. Zach was the Senior Secretary associated with the US coal industry.and between the two of us plus a few other committed members, we became the core group, orchestrating the meetings of the Board members representing the various member countries in the OECD. The objective was to ease the process of developing coal as an alternative energy source for power generaton, a pressing policy objective after the second energy crisis of 1979 when oil prices multiplied and world oil supply was uncertain. How times have changed !
My involvement came to an end in 1987 when I was posted by Shell to head our oil & gas operations in Qatar, but when I returned to London in 1992 we met a number of times and we had Zach to stay with us in our house in Chiddingfold, Surrey and our holiday house on the Norh Sea coast in Holland. We shared thoughts about the energy world scene as it evolved and in the days that Zach was based in Warsaw, we briefly contemplated buying a refinery in Poland with a consortium of partners. Nothing came of it, but our friendship remained and I shall miss our periodic phone calls and sharing his perceptions of world energy events. Above all, I shall miss his warm feelings and generous hospitality when I was in New York.
I can well imagine that the loss of Zach as a father and grandfather will cause a gap in your lives and I offer you three children and the six grandchildren my heartfelt condolences and hope that the very good memories will help you to come to terms wth the loss. I remember a man who was courteous, civilized, well-read, with a wide grasp of geo-political developments
God bless !
David Cross
January 1, 2018
Dear George
Z was sertainly full uv it, for surely there has never been a more bouncey 79 year old, ever!
On his last visit at The Sakonnet Point Club, Haffenreffer, Cross, Baker, Durfee and Lisle attending, he just seemed so full of it and better shape, I wondered to myself how we had all survived so well.
It seemed we would live forever.
I am truly sorry that is not so.
Dave Cockcroft
January 1, 2018
Dear George,
I was very sad to hear the news of Zach's passing.
I knew him only when I was very young, but still have such fond memories of our times together.
Zach taught me how to ride a bike, how to fish, and bought me a small collection of Swiss army knives (as my mother kept confiscating each new one he gave me!).
I remember some particularly funny times as he would pretend to follow the strict diet he'd agreed on with my mother and then we'd always sneak off to find some dessert afterwards.
He was such a fun, kind and warm man.
My thoughts are with you and your family.
Jay Bartol
January 1, 2018
1. Zach loved St Paul's school and especially its Episcopal/Anglican church music. I also loved the music, sang in the choir, and turned music pages for Dr. Channing Lefebvre's Sunday evening organ recitals. Zach developed a friendship with Dr. Lefebvre and was allowed to play SPS's organ.
2. Zach came to St Michael's church in Raleigh, NC to attend the first public playing in 1977 of their new $2,000,000+ Nichols and Simson organ. Zach and I attended the flawless playing of the organ by the former music director of St. Paul's Cathedral, London England. Zach and I were impressed with the organ's design, installation and playing.
3. Zach, former navy officer shared many details regarding the navy's changing role of ship Navigator. Zach and I always supported the Navigator's accomplishment of a day's work in navigation, taking star shots with sextant in the evening and at noon and plotting the ship's location and DRing to present location. We were appauled at recent navy ship groundings due to lack of standard navigation operational procedures. We commiserated concerning a recent article in The Naval Proceedings publication that described the need to reestablish training of Surface Line Officers concerning the rudiments of navigating professionally. The recent 2017 collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain with commercial ships in June and August were avoidable by better navigational training and operational use.
4. Zach was always interested in technologies concerning space technology. We often conversed minutes before a SpaceX launch occurred and were impressed by the new enhanced efficiencies and improved satellite launch reliabilities. We were truly impressed by SpaceX's controlled return to earth of Stage I boosters and refurbishment getting ready to relaunch.
5. Zach's leadership of SPS '56 alumni was key to making our 55th and 60th class reunions WONDERFUL! He will be sorely missed.
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