William M. Lee
Engineering professor
William M. Lee, associate professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Naval Academy, died Sunday of cancer at his home in Severna Park. He was 69.
He joined the academy faculty in 1963 and retired in 1992. In 1983, he was awarded a Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for his work there.
During his tenure, he also taught part time at the Johns Hopkins University and was a consultant to the Navy's David Taylor Research Center in Annapolis.
Earlier, he had been a design engineer for the Mesta Machine Co. in Pittsburgh, his hometown, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, where he had earned bachelor's and master's degrees. He also did graduate work at the Catholic University of America.
He served in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II.
He had been an adviser to the Pi Tau Sigma engineering honorary society at the academy and was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Annapolis Woodworking Guild and the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
He had been president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Ritchie Highway and Cypress Creek Road in Severna Park, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today .
His first wife, the former Mary Jane Mykicz, died in 1980.
He is survived by his wife, the former Maryanne Laffey Madden; two sons, Martin Edward Lee of Baltimore and William Vincent Lee of Annapolis; three daughters, Kathleen Lee Whitlock of Laurel, Nancy Lee Lanzi of Parkville and Nancy Madden of New Castle, Pa.; a brother, Dr. Robert E. Lee of Pittsburgh; and seven grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Hospice of the Chesapeake or to the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. John the Evangelist Church.
Samuel Wilson Jr.
Services are Friday
Services for Samuel H. Wilson Jr., founder and artistic director of the Arena Players theater group, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 E. University Parkway.