John Bishop Dies, Lectured 15 Years On Asian Studies

John Lyman Bishop '37, lecturer on East Asian Studies, died last Sunday of cancer. He was sixty.

Bishop served as tutorial chairman for undergraduate programs in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and as editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.

"Bishop was very personally involved with a great many undergraduates," Glen W. Baxter, lecturer on East Asian Studies and a long time friend of Bishop, said yesterday. "The students were crazy about him because he really put himself out for them."

During World War II, he served in China as executive officer of the U.S. Naval Supplementary Radio Station in Chengking.

After the was Bishop returned to Harvard and received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Far Eastern Languages. He was appointed lecturer on East Asian Studies in 1958.

Services for Bishop will be held tomorrow at St. Paul's Church, Nantucket.

A Harvard memorial meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at 2 Divinity Avenue.