Barry R. Bainton ’63

Barry R. Bainton ’63, of Barrington, R.I., Mar. 11. After graduating from Brown he joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in Peru for two years. Upon return to the U.S., he enrolled at the University of Arizona and earned a PhD in anthropology. He also earned a master’s degree in international business from Thunderbird Global Business School of ASU. He lived in Arizona for 20 years and worked with the Tohono O’odham (formerly Papago) and Pima Native American tribes, providing legal services, grant writing, and research. He also continued to work with USAID, including a project in Yemen, through which he learned Arabic. He moved back to Rhode Island in the 1990s and joined the First Baptist Church of Providence, where he met his wife, Jeanne Kolb, who survives him. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a brother and sister-in-law, a niece, three nephews, a stepdaughter, two stepsons, and step-grandchildren.