Obituaries

We are saddened to hear of Remington's passing. 

Allan Gotlieb, a long-time public servant who was Canada’s ambassador to the United States, has died aged 92. 

A long-time public servant and companion of the Order of Canada, Gotlieb became deputy minister of the department of communications in 1968 and was later named deputy minister of manpower and immigration. He became the ambassador to the United States in 1981. 

Clark earned a BA (on full scholarship) from Yale University and went on to study philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1957. Clark started his career at the University of Illinois as a lecturer, joining the Anthropology department in 1963. He advanced to full professorship in 1972 until his retirement in 1995. Clark's main focus was anthropology in Southeast Asian culture. After retirement, he continued his studies and wrote extensively. He was proud to be a part of the Spurlock Museum in Urbana, where he served as a trustee, president and curator. 

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After graduating from Louisiana State University with a BA degree, Elmus served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

When discharged, he enrolled as a graduate student in economics at LSU obtaining his MA degree in 1948. From LSU he went to Queens College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he studied with Sir John Hicks, Nobel Laureate in economics and received the BPhil degree in economics in 1951. When he returned to the U.S., he completed work for the PhD of economics at Duke University. 

Wicker joined the Economics department at Indiana University in 1955. His entire academic life was spent at Indiana University. In the mid 70’s he served a stent as Chairman of the Economics Department.

In 2012 the Department of Economics and the College of Arts and Sciences announced the Elmus R. Wicker Professorship in Economics established through the endowed gift from a former student, E. Scott Thatcher of Kokomo.

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Dr. Frey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a US Army Veteran serving in the Korean War. He graduated from Oxford University and was a Rhodes Scholar. He continued his education at Princeton University, where he received his doctorate. He spent 15 years as a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Frey was hired by Penn in 1974 as a professor in political science. He was also the director of Penn’s Anspach Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs. Dr. Frey was chairman of the Graduate Group in International Relations, and he served as one of the principals in evaluating the proposal for a contract between Penn and the Arab Development Institute in Tripoli (Almanac September 19, 1978). He also served on the University Council Committee on Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics. Dr. Frey retired in 1998, earning emeritus status at that time. 

Avery Goldstein, the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations and a colleague of Dr. Frey, noted tha “In all settings, Fred was a voice of reason—asking tough questions, identifying consensus when it could be found, but not abandoning his own views when he believed they were well founded.”

Professor Antony de Bono FRCS, was a widely admired cardiac and thoracic surgeon and teacher. He studied Physiology at Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, in 1956. 

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Dennis Ronald Bouwer was awarded a bursary to study towards a BSc degree at Rhodes University. Whilst at Rhodes he represented Eastern Province at rugby. He was then awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to further his studies at Oxford University. 

After he completed his studies at Oxford University, he was awarded the Rockefeller Bursary to Harvard University in the USA, where he graduated with an MBA and entered the business world. He later became President of the Los Angeles Financial Chartered Analysts.

David Michael Heilbron was a native of San Francisco and a graduate of Lowell High School, UC Berkeley (in English), Oxford University (in law, as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School. He received all his degrees with first class honors. David made his legal career in the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, of which he became the managing partner in 1985. He appeared often in the US Court of Appeals and once in the Supreme Court of the US, and shared his expertise in appellate procedures in courses he gave at UC's Boalt Hall School of Law.

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The adventure began in 1958, when awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to New College where he studied History. He then taught English in Switzerland and France, worked as a journalist with the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and joined a travel company which took him all over the world before being appointed Paris Director of the South Africa Foundation, the voice of South African Business abroad. It was there that he met and married Marianne, who became his inseparable lifelong companion. His connection with South Africa meant frequent visits there and elsewhere in Africa. He also had substantial assignments in Brazil and Japan. After retirement, Desmond became a guest lecturer at the annual Summer School at the University of Cape Town where, for years, he entertained an informed and enthusiastic following. He was also invited to join several cruise lines to give lectures on destinations around the world and other subjects. His success as a lecturer relied not only on the depth of his knowledge and the variety of his subjects, which covered history, the arts and people, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Louis XIV, but at least as much on his personal charm and self effacing humour.