In Memoriam

  • Dwight Dodge, January 19, 2006

    Published in The Baltimore Sun on January 25, 2006, by Jacques Kelly Dwight Alton Dodge Jr., 58, manager for fuel company Dwight Alton Dodge Jr., a retired fuel company manager and businessman who had been a student leader in his years at Parkville High School, died of a cerebral aneurysm Thursday at Cumberland Memorial Hospital. The former Pasadena resident was 58. Born in Baltimore and raised in Baynesville, he was a 1965 graduate of Parkville…

  • Stephen Mosko, December 6, 2005

    Published in Newmusicbox.org, on December 9, 2005 by Rand Steiger: It is with great sadness I write that Stephen “Lucky” Mosko passed away on December 5, 2005, at the age of 58. Lucky was a unique and innovative composer, a brilliant teacher, and an inspiring conductor. The performances he led at the remarkable CalArts festivals in the ’80s still echo in the minds of all of us who were fortunate enough to attend them. He…

  • Herbert Wright, August 24, 2005

    Published in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 30, 2005 Wright, Herbert J. (58), Passed away August 24, 2005. Herbert Wright was best known as producer and writer of the successful TV series, Star Trek, The Next Generation. He began life in Keokuk Iowa, and then went on to Yale University (where he established the film school) and graduated with honors in 1969. After arriving in Hollywood, he produced, wrote and directed over 50 TV…

  • John O’Leary, April 2, 2005

    Published in The Guardian on May 19, 2005, by David Sugarman: Working towards justice for Pinochet’s victims John O’Leary, who has died aged 58, made an exceptional contribution to United States-Chilean relations and to the struggle to bring General Pinochet to justice. As US ambassador to Chile from 1998 to 2001, he brought goodness and a powerful intellect to the office, and worked to redress the effects of Washington’s part in the consolidation of the…

  • Robert Wells, March 18, 2005

    WELLS, Robert Allen Robert Allen Wells, 57, of Kent, WA, formerly of Bloomfield, passed away suddenly at home in Kent, WA on Friday (March 18, 2005). He was born in Hartford on April 18, 1947, son of Arthur James Wells and Shirley Wolcott Wells of Bloomfield. Bob was a graduate of Loomis School, 1965, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1969. After college, Bob served three…

  • Valentine Nesbit, Deceased January 31, 2005 – Needs Content

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  • Anthony Covell, November 3, 2004

    Anthony Covell died of cancer on November 3, 2004. His wife of 35 years, Natalie, reports, “He was very well known as the founding director of Poole Centre for the Arts in Dorset, a large complex comprising concert hall, theater, cinema, art exhibition space, and studios. As well as hosting national and international orchestras and solo musicians, touring theater, opera, and dance, the Centre is the home of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Anthony left the Arts…

  • Robert Alexander, July 25, 2004

    Robert Cauthorn Alexander August 7, 1947 ~ July 25, 2004  Bob Alexander passed away at home in Larkspur, California on Sunday morning, July 25th, 2004 after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 56. The eldest son of Margaret S. and Donald C. Alexander, Bob was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, cum laude from Yale University, and magna cum laude from…

  • Andrew Wechsler, June 12, 2004

    Andrew Robert “Drew” Wechsler, 57, an economist who had been an adviser to the U.S. International Trade Commission, died June 12 at his home in Bethesda of cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. Since 1991, Mr. Wechsler was managing director of international practices with LECG, a legal and economic consulting firm in Washington. He was a specialist in analyzing international trade, criminal price fixing, mergers, intellectual property and the international “dumping” of goods below…

  • William Freeman, Deceased January 18, 2004 – Needs Content

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  • John Starr, Deceased December 16, 2003

    Steve Kovacs (’68) wrote: I met John Starr in August 1964. Alumni put us together since we were the only two guys from San Francisco public schools accepted to Yale. He was handsome, polite, open to people, with a twinkle in his eye. A conservative Irish-American Catholic and a radical Hungarian Jew, we became best of friends. We made a point of seeing each other wherever in the world we might be. Yale was a…

  • Jonathan Elkus, December 7, 2003

    ELKUS, JONATHAN H., Age 55; died on Dec. 7, 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. A graduate of St. Paul School, Yale University and Harvard Business School; He is survived by his twin sister Peggy of Pittsburgh and his brother Christopher of Ligonier, PA and NY and nephew James of Spain. Contributions may be made to WQED, 4802 5th Ave. Pgh., PA 15213 or the Pittsburgh Opera or Symphony. Please sign the guest book at post-gazette.com Published…

  • Carlton Petrie, Deceased October 10, 2003 – Needs Content

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  • Allen Richardson, August 1, 2003

    Published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on September 2, 2003 UH loses trusted physician Dr. Allen Richardson, a longtime physician for University of Hawaii sports teams and a leader in sports medicine in the state, died early yesterday morning at Queen’s Medical Center. Richardson, 56, had battled cancer for the last five years while maintaining his roles at UH and with Orthopedic Services of Hawaii, seeing patients as recently as two weeks ago. The exact cause of…

  • Frank Suttle, August 18, 2002

    Frank Allan Suttle, age 55, passed away peacefully at his home in Pasadena, CA, on August 18, 2002, with his loving family by his side. He will be remembered as a devoted father, a beloved husband, and an extraordinary human being by the many people whose lives he touched over the years. Full of humor, compassion and goodwill; a family man and an avid outdoorsman; Allan excelled at living life to its fullest and enriched…

  • George Effinger, April 26, 2002

    Published in the guardian on May 21, 2002 George Alec Effinger, who has died aged 55, was one of science fiction’s most humorous and eclectic writers. He burst into the field in the early 1970s, with a style that echoed the irreverence of the times. His first novel, What Entropy Means To Me (1972), drew as much on the knowing postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon as on the new wave sf of Thomas Disch or Philip…