The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • A25

2 9 2 0 1 9 a A25 Obituaries By Marvin Pave GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Although described as loosest guy we in his 1952 St. College year- book, popular senior class sec- retary Don Slaven sometimes had to lay down the law later on when he was a high school basketball coach. In 1962, his first team at Brookline High found that out after losing four of its first five games. got mad at us one day and kicked us out of recalled Rick Weitzman, who went on to star at Northeastern University and played one sea- son for the NBA champion Bos- ton Celtics. sort of ignit- ed us and we went on to win 11 games in a a Brookline to advance to the quarterfinals of the former Eastern Mass.

(Tech) Tourna- ment where the team fin- ished with a one-point loss to Brockton High. It also forged a bond between Mr. Slaven and his players, who met with him annually for lunch more than 40 years later, after he had moved to Mashpee. A past president of the Mas- sachusetts Basketball Coaches Association and an inductee to its Hall of Fame, Mr. Slaven died Sept.

2 in Brigham and Hospital from a brain hemorrhage. He was 89. Mr. Slaven began his coach- ing and teaching career in Corinna, Maine, and then won a state championship as a high school coach in Red Bank, N.J., before coming to Brookline. From 1975 to 1979, he coached for two seasons at both Need- ham High and Don Bosco Tech- nical High in Boston.

was very impressed with his said former Catho- lic Memorial School coaching legend Ron Perry Sr. played hard and they loved playing for him, and the key to being a great Mr. Slaven compiled a ca- reer coaching record of 409- 173. His teams qualified for 20 post-season tournaments, had 23 winning seasons, and won 10 league championships. be able to enjoy Febru- ary and Christmas vacation Mr.

Slaven told the Globe in 1979, after his final season, and noted that have more time to spend with his family. He continued to teach Eng- lish at Brookline High for 10 years, and later was sports di- rector and coach for the Cape Cod and Islands section of the Massachusetts Special Olym- pics. was the consummate coach who believed everyone should share the said fel- low association hall of famer Joe Amorosino. I coached at Quincy High, we had just joined the Suburban League, and when we played at Brookline, Don was welcoming and respectful and I thanked him for that. We became in- stant Amorosino said Mr.

Slaven was an inspiration for young coaches, and added that learned a lot just from coach- ing against No matter where his travels took him, Mr. Slaven faithfully attended anniversary reunions i 1 9 6 2 6 3 a a Brookline High and for his class at St. College in Colchester, where he was honored in 2017 as an Alum- nus of the Year. Donald Herbert Slaven was the son of John Slaven and the former Agnes LePage. John worked at United Shoe in Bev- erly and was a composer who also owned a music store and played banjo and piano.

Agnes was a registered nurse and nu- tritionist. Mr. Slaven, who loved to sing and recite poetry, pro- duced a CD of music from the 1940s and that was writ- ten by his father. broke open a locked piano seat and found the torn manu- Mr. Slaven told the Globe in 2012.

of the songs were patriotic and the rest were love songs to my Mr. Slaven grew up in Bev- erly, and at St. Prep in Danvers, he was a member of the glee club and played varsity sports. At St. Mr.

Slaven was managing editor of its yearbook, the Shield, and re- ceived a degree in English. His yearbook profile said Mr. Slaven forever getting things Mr. Slaven enjoyed meeting with college friends at the Hyannis Yacht Club and was a leader and organizer of the 60 th and 65 th reunions in Colchester for his graduating class. arranged cocktail par- ties for us at the college presi- home at those said Jack Whelan, a lifelong friend who was his St.

Mi- classmate and a star athlete. greatly admired his concern and consideration for Mr. Slaven, who served in the Army during the Korean War and played on a service baseball team with New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, met Clare Hanagan in the sum- mer of 1955. She was a secretary at a ho- tel in Swampscott, where Mr. Slaven was a bellhop.

They married in 1957. marriage was based on the three care, consider- ation, and said Clare, who coauthored Mystique of Journey of a book dedi- cated to their autistic son, Mi- chael. Mr. Slaven, who suffered from macular degeneration, hired a driver to take him to his treatment facility in Ber- wyn, last year so he could celebrate 60th birth- day with him. A service has been held for Mr.

Slaven, who in addition to his wife and son, leaves three daughters, Diane Bond of Scit- uate, Kathleen Vesely of Tyngs- borough, and Julie Simpson of Las Vegas; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Burial was at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. my father saw someone struggling to keep up in his class or a student who was try- ing to get into college, he would do everything in his power to help Diane said. Mr. Slaven also was induct- ed into the Brookline High Ath- letic Hall of Fame, and basket- ball officials presented him with the Oswald Tower Award for high ethical standards and devotion to teaching the sport.

In a eulogy, Eric Rosen, a a 1 9 6 2 6 3 Brookline team and a prime mover with Weitzman for the annual luncheons with Mr. Slaven, called him man of faith, prayer, and At one of those get-togeth- ers at a Kingston restaurant eight years ago, Mr. Slaven ex- pressed his gratitude. were a special team then and a special group he said, I love them Marvin Pave can be reached at marvin.pave@rcn.com. Don Slaven, 89, Mass.

hall of fame high school basketball coach JERRY COLLEGE Mr. Slaven accepted the Alumnus of the Year Award from St. College in 2017. By Knvul Sheikh NEW YORK TIMES Joachim Messing, a pioneer of DNA sequencing whose tech- niques enabled scientists to study the building blocks of vi- ruses, improve the yield of crop plants, and understand the de- velopment of cancer in hu- mans, died Sept. 13 at his home in Somerset, N.J.

He was 73. His death was confirmed by his son, Simon, who said an au- topsy report was inconclusive about the cause. At his death, Mr. Messing was the director of the Waksman Institute of Mi- crobiology at Rutgers Universi- ty in New Jersey. Mr.

Messing, whose family and friends referred to him sim- ply as Jo, became known in the scientific community for devel- oping what is known as shot- gun sequencing of DNA. That method involves break- ing up long strands of DNA into hundreds of small fragments to determine the order of the four chemical building blocks of the molecule. These building blocks known as DNA and represented by the let- ters and tell scien- tists about the genetic informa- tion stored in each fragment. Because shotgun sequencing bypasses several steps used in older methods of sequencing, like the one Frederick Sanger introduced in 1977 for map- ping DNA one base at a time, Mr. technique was able to decode genetic informa- tion much faster than before.

It also enabled researchers to start tackling larger and more complex genomes. Mr. Messing spearheaded several big sequencing initia- tives, projects that contributed to the understanding of the ge- netics of corn, rice, sorghum, and other crops. His findings helped scientists engineer vari- eties of corn with higher levels of amino acids lysine and meth- ionine, essential building blocks of proteins that people can get only from their diet. Other studies led to the devel- opment of crops that were more pest-resistant or were resilient in droughtlike conditions.

However, Mr. Messing did not patent his work. approach to the devel- opment of his DNA sequencing tools was to spread them freely and said Robert Good- man, executive dean of agricul- ture and natural resources at Rutgers. was an incredibly generous Joachim Wilhelm Messing was born Sept. 10, 1946, in Duisburg, Germany, to Hein- rich and Martha (Pfeifer) Mess- ing.

His father was a mason and had expected Jo to take over the family business when he grew up. His mother was more sup- portive of his decision to pursue science. He decided to study phar- macy as an undergraduate at the Heinrich Heine University of because the cur- riculum, to his great satisfac- tion, covered a broad range of subjects particularly how plants produce chemicals used in treating disease. He paid for his education by working by day as an apprentice at a Duis- burg pharmacy and by night helping out at the opera compa- ny across the street, a job that allowed him to indulge his in- terest in the arts. After earning a degree in 1968, he went on to get a in pharmacy from the Free University of Ber- lin in 1971.

But, always inter- ested in biochemistry, he pur- sued a doctorate in that field at the Ludwig Maximilian Univer- sity of Munich. There he turned his attention to studying DNA on the advice of Nobel laureate Feodor Lynen, who had been recognized for his research on cholesterol and fatty acid me- tabolism. In addition to his son, Mr. Messing leaves his wife, Rita (Stremmer) Messing; a sister, Angelika; and three grandchil- dren. Among his professional honors, Mr.

Messing was in- ducted into the Academy of Sci- ences Leopoldina national academy of sciences) in 2007 and the National Acad- emy of Sciences in the United States in 2015. He was also awarded the Wolf Prize in Agri- culture, given by the Wolf Foun- dation in Israel, in 2013. By Sam Roberts NEW YORK TIMES Ira A. Lipman, who founded one of the first major private se- curity companies and, long be- fore gave prescient advice on safeguarding airport pas- sengers from terrorists, died Sept. 16 in Manhattan.

He was 78. The cause was complica- tions of lymphoma, his son Gustave Lipman said. As president and chairman of Guardsmark, Mr. Lipman commanded a security force that at its peak numbered more than 19,000 people and gener- ated $500 million in revenue annually. On an even broader scale, a decade or more before terror- ists weaponized three commer- cial jets on Sept.

11, 2001, he pressed the federal government to do more to protect people at airports. In congressional testimony and opinion articles, he was among the first security experts to urge that metal detectors be installed at every airport to screen passengers; that carry- on luggage be scrutinized fully; and that frequent flyers be giv- en special identification cards to speed them through security checkpoints so that guards could focus on more potentially problematic travelers. Many of those recommenda- tions by him and others were adopted by the federal Trans- portation Security Administra- tion, including for thorough baggage checks and for govern- ment-issued passes given to qualifying travelers to expedite entry today known as Global Entry cards. Guardsmark was estab- lished in 1963 initially to help hospitals and factories protect themselves from theft and oth- er losses. It grew into one of the largest privately held security companies.

Guardsmark, with corporate headquarters in Memphis, Ten- nessee, and executive offices in New York, was providing neighborhood patrols, home protection, bodyguards and other services by the time it was sold to Universal Protection Service in 2015. Mr. Lipman was vice chairman of the com- bined company for a year until it merged with AlliedBarton in 2016. He used his bully pulpit as a corporate executive, philan- thropist, and member of doz- ens of civic boards to lobby for drug testing, background checks, and other job require- ments for prospective guards. are security officers in this nation who are convict- ed murderers and Mr.

Lipman told a congressional subcommittee in 1993, prey on those hired to protect, who cannot keep the barbarians outside the gates be- cause they are the Warning that gun-toting guards provoke violent Mr. Lipman virtually disarmed his own uniformed force. Mr. Lipman was a promi- nent champion of human rights, having been deeply dis- turbed as a child by accounts of the Holocaust he heard and read about while growing up in a Jewish family in Little Rock, Ark. He was chairman of the National Conference of Chris- tians and Jews from 1988 to 1992 and, at his death, chair- man emeritus of the National Council on Crime and Delin- quency.

Ira Ackerman Lipman was born Nov. 15, 1940, to Mark and Belle (Ackerman) Lipman, who had moved to Little Rock from Philadelphia five years earlier. His grandparents lived on the Lower East Side of Man- hattan, qualifying him, he said, as New Yorker at He began as a private inves- tigator when he was 8. On assignment for his fa- investigative firm, he would go into a store, buy something and, with the cash register drawer still ajar, ask to purchase another item. His father would later check the register tape to see if the clerk had recorded the second sale or pocketed the cash.

Mr. Lipman entered Ohio Wesleyan University but left af- ter two years, in 1960, to work full time for his agency after the family had moved to Memphis. He founded a Young Republican Club there. He named Guardsmark after his father. business was he told The Washington Post in 2002.

was more interested in preven- tion and In 1970, he married Barbara Kelly. She survives him, along with their sons, Gustave, who was senior vice president of Guardsmark, Joshua and M. Benjamin; five grandchildren; and his sister, Carol Lipman Friedman. Lipman was the author of several books, including to Be (first published in 1975), which gave advice on thwarting muggings, car theft and other threats. Ira Lipman, security man who spoke out for air safety By Michael Cooper NEW YORK TIMES Myron Bloom, one of the most distinguished French horn players of his generation and a force in molding the sound of the Cleveland Orches- tra during its golden age under the demanding conductor George Szell, died Thursday in Bloomington, Ind.

He was 93. His death was confirmed by his wife, Susan Moses Bloom. Mr. Bloom was horn royalty. As principal horn in Cleveland for more than two decades, he appeared on many of the celebrated re- cordings and was the soloist in its classic account of the Horn Concerto No.

1 by Richard Strauss. He later became princi- pal horn of the Orchestre de Paris under conductor Daniel Barenboim and an influential teacher. The Boston Globe called him the most varied, re- sourceful and artistic horn play- er before the public after the Cleveland 1964 performance of Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. He did not start out wanting to play the horn, though. He initially wanted to be a cellist but World War II changed his plans.

Mr. Bloom was born April 18, 1926, in Cleveland, to Ben- jamin Bloom, a lawyer, and Em- ma (Elliott) Bloom, a home- maker. He said the idea of be- coming a musician had taken root when his parents made him attend a concert by cellist Emanuel Feuermann. walked into that concert not knowing anything about music and not giving a damn about he told Sarah Willis, a horn player with the Berlin Philharmonic, in 2012 when she spoke with him for one of her online in- terviews. I walked out of that concert at the age of 12 and I knew what I wanted to do with my He started learning the cel- lo.

But then came the war, and he entered the military. His parents told him to learn the horn so he could join a mili- tary band to avoid being sent to the front. He did, and he spent the war playing in a Navy band in Illinois. His wife said he would later joke that the French horn saved his After the war he attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., but he left after two years when he won an au- dition as the principal horn in the New Orleans Symphony, which he joined in 1949. He moved on to the Cleveland Or- chestra in 1954 and was ap- pointed principal there soon af- terward when the Chicago Symphony tried to poach him.

In his history of the ensem- ble, Cleveland Orchestra critic Donald Rosenberg wrote that Mr. Bloom was hornist of unusual daring, pro- ducing a large sound and em- ploying a pulsating vibrato to bring expressive intensity to lyr- ical Szell was known for being demanding, to the point of be- ing despotic. But even though Szell could sometimes be tough on him, Mr. Bloom in the 2012 interview called him big- gest hero of my adding, got the reputation of being difficult not because he was a tyrannical, impossible person, but for one reason only: The music came Mr. Bloom was also a regular at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, where he played from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Myron Bloom, celebrated French horn player, at 93 JoachimMessing, charted DNA of viruses and plants NICK UNIVERSITY VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES Mr. Messing was the director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University..