BOONE, ALLAN ERNEST Peacefully, at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, on March 6, 2003, Allan Ernest Boone, of Windsor Court and formerly of 506 Aberdeen Street, aged 90 years. He was predeceased in 1997 by his wife of 56 years, Faye Miriam (Flewelling) Boone. Born in Aroostook Junction, N.B., he was the son of Dow Stirling Boone and Mary Agnes (Drummond) Boone. He graduated from U.N.B. in 1934 and obtained a Teacher's License (Grammar School Class) in 1935. He served as Laboratory Instructor in the U.N.B. Physics Department for one year, following which he entered Graduate School at the University of Western Ontario, from which he received his Masters Degree in Physics in 1938. He was then employed for one year at the Ontario Research Foundation in Toronto. His studies for a doctorate at the University of Toronto were interrupted when a request from Dr. Bryan Priestman brought him back to the Physics Department of U.N.B. He served in this Department for 38 years, 25 of them as Head of the Department. During the war years he also lectured in the U.N.B. Radio School, a program for radar technicians, first for members of the Royal Canadian Air Force and, later, for members of the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1980 he was designated Professor Emeritus (of Physics). For several years he served on the Science Curriculum Committee of the Provincial Department of Education. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Physicists and a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. Mr. Boone was dedicated to his family and was an active adherent of Wilmot United Church. He is survived by three daughters, Anita Jones (Ted) of Fredericton, Beverley Colpitts (Charles) of Ottawa, and Marilyn Noble (Bruce) of Fredericton, and by five grandchildren, Adam Jones, Jeffrey and Laura Colpitts, and Edward and Robert Noble. Also surviving is one sister, Clara Gomes of Hawaii. He was predeceased by his four brothers, Arthur, Douglas, Ellis (as an infant), and George, and by two sisters, Daisy Carr and Violet Birchfield. The family will receive visitors at McAdam's Select Community Funeral Home on Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral service will be held on Sunday, March 9, at 3:00 p.m. at the J. A. McAdam Memorial Chapel, with Rev. Peter Short officiating. A reception will follow at McAdam's Funeral Home. Interment will take place in the Fredericton Rural Cemetery Extension at a later date. For those who wish, memorial tributes may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Alzheimer Society, or a charity of the donor's choice. www.mcadamsfh.com