Obituaries

Charles Jewell BakerCIA Officer

Charles Jewell Baker, 81, a retired CIA operations officer who also was a bass vocalist with a number of Washington choirs, died of cancer July 29 at his home in McLean.

Mr. Baker worked for the CIA for 24 years, with tours in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Morocco. He retired in 1973 while at CIA headquarters as branch chief of the North Africa desk.

Long interested in chamber choir music, he sang in the Choir of Men and Boys of the Washington National Cathedral for 32 years until 1993.

He also was a member of the choir at St. Alban's Episcopal Church for the past 12 years and of the Choral Arts Society of Washington for the past 34 years, both under director Norman Scribner.

A native Washingtonian, Mr. Baker graduated from Roosevelt High School and George Washington University, where he also received a master's in business administration in 1966.

He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II as a court reporter in the Judge Advocate General's criminal court in Italy.

He was a member of the American Philatelic Society, Society of Philatelic Americans and Delta Phi Epsilon.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Nancy Giglio Baker of McLean; four children, Reid S. Baker of New York, David J. Baker of Annandale, Alexandra L. Shirley of Great Falls and Margaret C. Reilly of Valencia, Calif.; a sister, Margaret Kemp of Elkton, Md.; and seven grandchildren.

William E. McAuliffeStockbroker

William E. McAuliffe, 81, a longtime Washington stockbroker, died July 20 of prostate cancer at George Washington University Hospital. He lived in the District.

Mr. McAuliffe first came to Washington in 1949 and worked for several years as a singer, entertaining at hotels and embassy parties. In the 1950s, he became a licensed stockbroker and worked over the years at Merrill Lynch and Rushmore Financial Group, among other firms.

During the 1980s, he was vice president of Moseley, Hallgarten, Estabrook & Weeden Inc. in Washington. Most recently, he was affiliated with Koonce Securities Inc. of Bethesda. He continued to work as a stockbroker until his death.

Mr. McAuliffe was born in Boston and worked in his teens as a singer with the Larry Green Orchestra in New England. He also managed a furniture company in Massachusetts.

During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a radio operator and gunner in Europe. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for climbing, without a parachute, into the open bomb bay of a bomber flying at 15,000 feet over Italy to release a bomb by hand.

On another mission, he suffered severe leg injuries when his crew was shot down and forced to parachute into the Mediterranean Sea. His decorations included the Purple Heart and five awards of the Air Medal.

Mr. McAuliffe graduated in 1948 from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in political science. He was a letterman on the varsity baseball team, belonged to a variety of social and political clubs and was president of the senior class.

He enjoyed golf and was a member of the Kenwood Country Club. He attended Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ in Washington.

He was also a skilled bridge player who competed in tournaments worldwide, sometimes as the partner of renowned bridge expert Charles Goren.

His first marriage, to Eleanor Hanks, ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Violet R. Whiting McAuliffe of Washington; a stepdaughter; Patricia Damron of Phoenix; and three grandchildren.