Professor HarrissPHOTO BY SOREN ANDERSSON/AP WIDE WORLD

Laureate Lee PHOTO BY SOREN ANDERSSON/AP WIDE WORLD

At the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm in December, C. Lowell Harriss '34 received from King Carl XVI Gustaf the prize in economics awarded his longtime friend and Columbia University colleague William Vickrey, who died days after winning the prize. Vickrey's widow asked Harriss to stand in. Laureate David M. Lee '52 taught his regular 8 a.m. undergraduate class at Cornell University after learning he would share the 1996 prize in physics, but spent the period describing his discovery of superfluid helium-3.

Centenarian Carret PIONEER MUTUAL FUNDS

Back in Boston, mutual-fund pioneer Philip Carret '17, B '18, who turned 100 on November 29, celebrated with a party at the Ritz, where well-wishers included Neil and Angelica Rudenstine. Carret is now director emeritus for Pioneer Group, which said he would continue to work at the firm, but cut back from five days a week to two or three.