Author: Wayne Willis

Tom technically is affiliated with the Class of ’70, but he was in our class, in TD, until the spring semester of our senior year. He missed our graduation because while on spring break in Bermuda, he broke his leg when he crashed his motor bike into a stone wall. According to his son, Johnnie, Tom passed away peacefully at Johnnie’s home owing to complications of a constellation of cancers called BPDCN. Johnnie reported that…

Not much is known about Greg.  He lived in a single in Ezra Stiles and had an irascible nature.  He graduated but never participated in any alumni events and had no internet presence.  We only recently learned about his death, which occurred in 2014. San Diego Union Tribune SAN DIEGO – A 66-year-old San Diego man who died when his car veered into a parked pickup Friday, was identified, the Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday….

Bruce was born May 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Skokie, Illinois and attended Niles West High School where he became a state champion gymnast.

He studied economics as an undergraduate and for his PhD (Yale, 1972). For his graduate research he studied how human behaviors can cause departures from the principles of rational economics, a topic that was not well received at the time, but which (as Bruce would wryly note) led to a Nobel Prize for some later researchers.