The modernist architect Charles Gwathmey ARC ’62, who oversaw the restoration of the Art & Architecture Building and the construction of the Loria Center for the History of Art, died Aug. 3 at the age of 71. His fellow architect and longtime friend Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, reflected on Gwathmey’s work, his life and his legacy...
NEW YORK — Charles Gwathmey ARC '62, the modernist architect who tenderly restored the Art & Architecture Building as the capstone of his career, died Monday in Manhattan. He was 71.
Alison Des Forges GRD ’72, one of the world’s leading experts on the human rights violations in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was among the passengers killed in the commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, N.Y., late Thursday. She was 66 and lived in Buffalo.
Warren Kimbro, who spent decades giving back to the community he so famously stirred after killing a fellow Black Panther and prompting the headline-grabbing New Haven Black Panther trials, died late Tuesday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was 74 and lived in Hamden.
Eminent Chinese language scholar and professor emeritus at University of Hawaii John DeFrancis ’33 died Jan. 2 in Hawaii. He was 97.
Coosje van Bruggen, a senior lecturer at the School of Art from 1996 to 1997, renowned for the colorful large-scale sculptures she created with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg ’50, died on Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. The critic, art historian and artist was 66 and battling metastatic breast cancer.
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Frederic Richards died over the weekend of natural causes. He was 83 years old.
Prominent Renaissance scholar and former Yale adjunct history professor Vincent Ilardi, who donated a seminal collection of microfilm to Sterling Memorial Library in 1991, died Jan. 6 in Holyoke, Mass. He was 83.
Hundreds of New Haven residents, in both uniform and plain clothes, lined George Street on Saturday morning to offer words of tribute and mourning in honor of the late Sgt. Dario “Scott” Aponte.
William R. Bennett Jr., former Yale professor, master of Silliman College and groundbreaking physicist, died June 29 of esophageal cancer at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was 78.
Robert Dunne, the fiction writer who loved sailing, Christmas and E. B. White — and the Yale lecturer who successfully merged law and computer science in the classroom, enticing hundreds of students to study piracy and cyberspace — was found dead this month in a vacation cottage he was renting in Rhode Island.
Friends and family knew her for her ability to fight for those around her quietly. “Aiding people and supporting people — that is really one of the defining things of Stacey’s character,” her father, Joseph Leondis, said.
