Laurence J. Kipp, 102, died November 10. He served in the US Air Force 1942–1946 and was discharged as a staff sergeant. He served as executive director of the American Book Center for War Devastated Libraries in Washington, D.C., and held posts in the Harvard College Library. In 1954 he moved to the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School and was named librarian there in 1964. After his first retirement, Kipp served for a year and a half as acting librarian of Harvard College, and later as acting chief librarian at Brown University and Emory University.