David Brezina, January 17, 1999

From his Banner Bio: DAVID WAYNE BREZINA (Dave). Born May 14, 1947 in Hinsdale, Illinois, son of Edward J. Brezina and Winifred Ruchty Brezina. Attended Hinsdale Township High School, Hinsdale, Illinois. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. American History major; Dean’s List, 1966-67 (spring term). Resident: Trumbull (Basketball, 1965-69). Class Gift Fund Committee, 1968-69; Alpha Phi Omega,…

Robert Danly, April 27, 1997

Robert Danly, April 27, 1997

ANN ARBOR—Award-winning writer and translator Robert Lyons Danly, University of Michigan professor of Japanese language and culture, died of a brain tumor April 27. He was 50. Danly, who had taught Japanese literature at the U-M since 1980, achieved immediate fame among translators and scholars when his doctoral dissertation—a biography of writer Higuchi Ichiyo that…