Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:14am
William Eldridge Odom, three-star general, former leader of the National Security Agency and Yale faculty member — a man who challenged preconceptions and defied expectations — died suddenly on Friday, May 30. He was 75. “We all remember the last time we saw him,” said political-science professor David Cameron, Odom’s colleague at Yale. “He was, as always...
George K. Hunter, the Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English at Yale, former chair of Yale’s interdisciplinary graduate program in Renaissance Studies and an eminent Shakespeare scholar, died in his sleep April 10 after a prolonged illness. Hunter, who produced renowned scholarship on Shakespearean and other Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, began his career in...
Herman D.J. Spiegel GRD ’55, a beloved teacher and engineer who served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture when it first became a professional school of its own, died Sunday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma, said Spiegel’s son William, whose father was 83. Although he trained as an architect at first...
NEW YORK, N.Y. — After the newspaper encomiums and magazine tributes, after former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger knighted him “a noble and valiant man, truly touched by the grace of God,” there was still one eulogy left for William F. Buckley Jr. ’50. It was the simple eulogy of a son whose father belonged to the world. “We talked about this day, he and...
On Thursday night, Trumbull College buttery worker George Harris ’11 remembered a shift he worked with Andrew Liotta ’10 last semester. Several students ordered hamburgers, he said, but neither of them — nor a third worker, apparently — knew how to cook them. Before long, the buttery was filled with smoke and the fire alarm sounded. But the three of them kept...
Andrew Louis Liotta ’10, an avid photographer, social activist and active member of the Trumbull College community, died at his San Francisco home last Friday, March 14. He was 21. The cause of Liotta’s death is unknown. His mother, Rita Liotta, said he had “no apparent health problems.” Doctors said Liotta died peacefully in his sleep and, according to his...
William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, whose penchant for the pen beginning in his earliest years at Yale popularized the conservative movement and transformed a generation of American politics, died Wednesday at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 82. The cause was not immediately known, but Buckley, a former News chairman, had been ill and suffered from emphysema and...
In his farewell editorial in the Yale Daily News, William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, chairman from 1949 to 1950, took his final bow — but not without a final salvo. “For one year this column has been classified, variously, as reactionary, archaic, malicious and fascist,” he wrote on Jan. 20, 1950. “Suffice it to say that we enjoyed it all and that we hope for a...
William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, a former chairman of the News and the father of the American conservative movement, died this morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 82. The cause was not immediately known, but Buckley had been ill with emphysema, The Associated Press reported. From his days as an eloquent orator in debates at the Yale Political Union as an...
H. Bradford Westerfield ’47, professor of political science and the Damon Wells Professor Emeritus of International Studies, died Jan. 19 in Watch Hill, RI. He was 79. During his roughly 40 years at Yale, Westerfield taught numerous future foreign-policy heavyweights, including President George W. Bush ’68, Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA director Porter Goss...
One November afternoon in 1934, 11 members of Yale’s football team played all 60 minutes of the Bulldogs’ victory over rival Princeton, on both offense and defense — a feat that has not been duplicated in college football since. “Yale defeated Princeton today by a score of 7-0,” began an article in the next day’s edition of The New York Times. “In that...
William McGuire GRD ’54, an influential Yale social psychologist who spent decades researching topics from self-identity to persuasion, died in his New Haven home on Dec. 21, 2007. He was 82. Those who knew McGuire — he retired in 1999 after more than 30 years on the Yale faculty — described him as refreshing, quirky, passionate, brilliant and independent: a...
