activist, Joan Putnam (née Fitzgerald; in 1963, Springfield Television purchased Dayton, Ohio station WONE-TV, and changed the callsign to WKEF, derived from Kathryn's maiden name of Kathryn Elizabeth Flynn). Kitty Putnam died on January 5, 2014, at the age of 97. He served as the sole trustee of Lowell Observatory from 1987 to 2013. During his tenure, the Observatory built the Steele Visitor Center, added the Friends of Lowell membership program, constructed the Lowell Discovery Telescope, and began construction on the Putnam Collection Center. Putnam died on December 20, 2014, aged 90. Notes References 1924 births 2014 deaths American mountain climbers Harvard University alumni Recipients of the Silver Star Historians of mountaineering American chief executives in the media industry