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. The procession led its way up to St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church — less than two miles away from the fatal accident that claimed Aponte’s life Tuesday night...
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. “The human body is like a machine,” Bennett’s son William remembered his pragmatic father saying many years ago. “Parts wear out.” Bennett was born January 30, 1930 in...
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. He was 59. The exact cause of death is not yet known...
Stacey Rose Leondis ’08 had survived two bouts with osteosarcoma before her oncologist diagnosed her in 2006 with leukemia, caused by her chemotherapy treatment. But the cancer did not deter her from what she did best: helping others. Leondis co-chaired Yale’s Relay for Life event the next year, and despite taking a yearlong leave of absence after her junior year...
Robert Dunne, a computer-science lecturer popular among students for his course on computers and the law, was found dead Saturday in a vacation cottage he was renting in Rhode Island. He was 59. The cause of death is not yet known, according to the state medical examiner, although police say they believe Dunne died of head injuries sustained in an apparent fall down a...
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...
