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Robert Lancaster Hoskins

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:37:53 -0400

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Robert Lancaster Hoskins (CC ’60) was born on August 3, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Cincinnati Country Day School. A member of Calhoun College, he majored in political science and was assistant manager to the varsity basketball team. Though upon graduation he aspired to a career in public relations, he followed a decidedly different career path. After a brief stint at the Hartford Insurance Company, he taught at the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York, before earning an M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati in 1968.

Hoskins later moved to New York, where he met nightlife impresario Erv Raible. Together, Hoskins and Raible bought and managed the Duplex Cabaret and Piano Bar in the West Village. The pair brought many big names to Duplex, including Woody Allen and Joan Rivers; renowned comedian and talk show host Dick Cavett (YC ’58) made his first New York appearances there. Together, Hoskins and Raible assumed ownership of several such venues including Don’t Tell Mama and Brandy’s, and became a powerful force behind the ongoing revitalization of New York’s cabaret scene.

Robert Hoskins died on December 23, 1984 at age 46.

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David E Springer

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:30:30 -0400

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David E. Springer (BA ’74 JD ‘77) was born in Evanston, IL on January 20, 1952. Sprigner graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa before attending Yale Law School, where he studied complex corporate litigation.

Springer’s legal career began in the business litigation department at the Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis. In 1986 he joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he represented major corporations including WorldCom and Kmart and eventually became a partner.

Openly out since high school, Springer was an outspoken advocate for gay rights and liberation. Throughout his career, he represented a variety of clients on a pro-bono basis through his involvement with Lambda Legal. In 1996, while working with Lambda,Springer represented Jamie Nabozny, a Wisconsin man who sued his high school district for its negligence during anti-gay harassment. Jon W. Davidson, Lambda’s legal director, celebrated the case’s landmark victory, saying it, “…sent a message to school districts around the country.” Springer also served as a mentor for young lawyers, advising in the fields of legal writing and trail advocacy. Springer established his credibility on such matters through publishing a number of articles on legal ethics throughout his life.

In addition to serving on the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and the boards of directors of GLAAD and The Hubbard Street Dance Company, Springer was a member of the City Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, and the Trial Bar of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Springer lived HIV+ for several years. His partner of 17 years, Bill Strausberger, is a Ph.D, a Research Associate at the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Biology. Aside from a one-year break in the 1990s, Springer continued to practice law well beyond the years of his diagnosis.

He died of cancer on June 19, 2007. He was 55 years old.

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Jorge Enrique Garcia Rodriguez

Michael Linares — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:21:27 -0400

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Jorge Enrique Garcia Rodriguez ’70 was born in Havana, Cuba on August 22, 1948. In 1961, his parents moved to Maine, where they practiced general medicine. Jorge graduated from Milo High School in 1966 before majoring in Art History at Yale, where he was a member of Saybrook College. While at Yale, Jorge participated in Gymnastics, the Yale Political Union, the Yale College Council, the Saybrook Dramat, and the Cheerleading team;

His artistic works as an undergraduate were consistently sexual or relating to a life of pleasure, with his cartoonist-like paintings including such titles as “Amorous Octopi” and “A Harlot’s Series.” Although provocative in nature, Jorge’s work earned him the Art Department’s Best Senior Painting Prize upon graduation. Following commencement, he moved to Manhattan alongside fellow classmates Robert Endo, Douglass Smith and Richard Arnold.

In 1975, Jorge abandoned art and pursued a career in publishing. Following a brief stint in architectural publication, Jorge began work at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich publishers, where he specialized in the production of foreign language materials, specifically Spanish textbooks. A member of the Islanders Club, Jorge and his partner Danny Goggin, a writer of Broadway musicals, annually rented a home at the Pines in Fire Island.

He died in the spring of 1989 of AIDS related complications.

He was 41 years old.

Douglass Dean Smith

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:12:10 -0400

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Douglass Dean Smith ’70 was born on May 11, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1966, he graduated from the Latin School of Chicago before obtaining his BA in English from Yale in 1970. A member of Saybrook College, Smith was active in the Yale Glee Club, the Yale College Council Key Society, the Yale Episcopal Society Student Committee, and the Elizabethan Club. He also served on the Committee of Religious Concern and was a student deacon at Battel Chapel. Smith was selected as a member of Manuscript, a senior secret society.

Upon his initial move to the city, Smith worked as a city planner. In later years, he worked as a financial officer at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, although he was expected to leave when it was revealed he had AIDS. Following his diagnosis-driven-departure, Smith became active in the New York City Chapter of the People With AIDS Coalition, often attending social events at the local community center. In the final years of his life, he lived in the same Manhattan apartment building as his mother.

He died on June of 1988 from AIDS related complications. He was 39 years old.

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Timothy Lenahan

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:13:17 -0400

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Timothy Egan Lenahan was born in Bryn Mawr, PA on July 1, 1958. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale (B.A. 1980, M.Arch. 1984). Lenahan’s studies focused largely on the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape.

Following graduation, Lenahan moved to Greenwich Village, where he lived and worked as an architect. During his career, he designed projects including the Kol Israel Synagogue in Brooklyn and the Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul’s School. Lenahan worked with Robert A.M. Stern from 1984 to 1989.

He died on September 7, 1992 at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan at age 34. Two years after his death, the Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Fund was established to support the teaching of landscape and architectural design.

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Enno Poersch

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:32:51 -0400

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Enno Poersch ’72 was born Nov 22, 1944 in Portland, OR. Following his graduation from Yale, Poersch pursued careers in set and graphic design for stage and film. He was one of a small group of homosexual men in Manhattan who formed the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in the winter of 1981, a collective aimed at exploring the origins of AIDS while providing support services for individuals affected by the virus. A key fundraiser for the organization, Poersch served as GMHC’s director for three years. He died on May 6, 1990.

He was 45 years old.

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Bruce Binderow

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:30:03 -0400

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Bruce D Binderow SY ’85 was born on April 26, 1963 in Douglaston, New York. He was a biology major who attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed one year of medical school before becoming sick.

He died of AIDS on August 2, 1990 at age 27.

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Gerald Olanoff

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:45:15 -0400

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Gerald (Jerry) Bruce Olanoff was born on December 11, 1952, he was raised on Long Island and later in Queens before attending Yale, where he graduated in 1974. He moved to Manhattan where he met his partner Ron Csuha, an artist. Olanoff then pursued a master’s degree in architecture at Columbia University, receiving it in 1977. During those three years, Olanoff became active in in National Gay Task Force.

Olanoff spent several years working at the firm of Phillip Johnson and John Burgee, but was not satisfied with his progress as an architect there. He moved to Davis, Brody & Associates in 1979; Here, Olanoff was much more comfortable and became project architect for the design of new conservatories and the renovation of the old conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden which were completed in 1988. He was also a project architect for the renovation of the old Bird House at the Bronx Zoo but had to leave this when he was no longer able to work because of AIDS.

Olanoff was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, and started getting major health problems in 1991. Davis Brody was very supporting of gay architects and luckily Olanoff was able to continue working longer than most because of this support. Even after his diagnosis, Olanoff was made an associate of the firm.

On April 3, 1994, Olanoff was featured in a New York Times article on the effect of AIDS of architecture firms: AIDS and the Practice of Architecture, written by his friend David W. Dunlap.

While working for Davis Brody, he was also able to work on the design of homes for private clients in New York, Massachusetts, and in the Pines on Fire Island. Five of these houses were built in a modern style using traditional materials of wood and stone to achieve large double height spaces to serve as living rooms. The plans for the design of these houses are archived at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.

In 1983, Jerry became a founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, and headed the architecture committee to deal with design problems in the building acquired by the Center, the former Food and Maritime High School on 13th Street in Greenwich Village, NYC. The committee was responsible for the building’s first renovation, which began in 1995.

Olanoff was an outspoken activist who disliked having had to hide his identity so much so that his life seemed to truly embodied the ACT UP slogan “Silence is Death.” He was highly indignant at the ways gays were treated during his life, chiefly among these treatments being the way a family of one partner could legally confiscate assets of his or her gay union. Though he was an activist, he was not a member of ACT UP, but greatly appreciated their work. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he and his partner Ron marched regularly with Act Up in the annual Gay Parade.

Olanoff died on October 22, 1995 from AIDS related complications. He was 42 years old.

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John Tardino Jr

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:33:34 -0400

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John Anton Tardino, Jr., was born in Merrick, New York, in 1946; He was the youngest of three children. At Yale, he majored in history with an independent concentration in American Studies and sang in the Yale Glee Club, Spizzwinks(?), the Silliman Chorus, the Dwight Hall Tutorial, and the Whiffenpoofs. He was also a member of Book and Snake, a secret society.   Through his many activities at Yale, John moved around the country and the world. In 1966, the Spizzwinks(?) went to Venezuela and toured universities and hotels with the help of the U.S. government and Creole Oil. In 1967, he auditioned and was selected to act in a mobile theater program funded by Urban Corps, a federal program to give students summer jobs in New York City. When the Urban Corps director decided his idea was infeasible, Yale students took it over and ran the Mini-Mobile Theater themselves. John helped rally resources from municipal agencies and then built sets onto the project’s sixteen-foot flatbed truck. He became a manager, setting up stages and driving actors to the performances. John was selected in 1968 by the Yale-in-China Association to teach for two years at New Asia College in Hong Kong graduated from the University of Buffalo Medical School in 1974. He entered family medicine, then a new type of medical specialty, and worked at New York City’s Family Care Center.   He was a member of the American Fern Society.

John Tardino died in the early-to-mid 1980s in New York City.

Scot Haller

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:12:14 -0400

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Scot Kevin Haller was born September 29, 1954 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati before coming to Yale, where he wrote for the Yale Daily News, acted in productions of the Yale College Dramat, and majored in English. After graduating magna cum laude he pursued a career in journalism, working as an editor at the Saturday Review before moving to California, where he became a senior editor of People and chief of the magazine’s Los Angeles bureau. During his time at People, he authored over twenty cover articles based on interviews with many celebrities including Bette Davis, Sally Field, and Rock Hudson. He was also a contributor to Esquire, New York, Horizon, the Dial and TV Guide magazines. He died on June 24, 1990.

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Dan Friedman

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:10:12 -0400

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Dan Friedman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945. From the Midwest, Friedman went to college at Carnegie Mellon, where he received his BFA in Graphic Design. Following his undergraduate career, Friedman journeyed to Basel, where he studied orthodox modernist graphic design at the Schule für Gestaltung. He returned to the United States in 1969, marking the beginning of his career as a graphic design instructor for major corporations and institutions. From 1970-1973, Friedman taught Graphic Design at Yale, in addition to holding teaching posts at the State University College at Purchase, N.Y., and at Cooper Union. He also held positions at Anspach Grossman Portugal, where he was a senior designer from 1975-1977. While working for Pentagram (during the years of 1979 to 1984), he designed posters, letterheads and logos for clients including Citibank and Williwear. In 1982, he designed a book for his dear friend Keith Haring and worked for the Neotu Gallery. In 1994, he published “Radical Modernism,” a lavishly illustrated text which meditated on the constraints of post-modernity. He died on July 7, 1995 at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. He was 49 years old.

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Terence Beirn

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:42:32 -0400

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Terence Beirn was born in New York City in 1952. Before attending Yale, Beirn graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. After earning his Bachelor’s in 1974, Beirn pursued a career in broadcast journalism, becoming a correspondent for KGO in San Francisco until 1984.

That same year, he was diagnosed with AIDS.

Following his diagnosis, Beirn began working with Senator Ted Kennedy on AIDS policy. In 1986, Beirn committed himself entirely to the organization of major AIDS legislation by joining the staff of the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. During his time there, Beirn garnered support for the first comprehensive piece of AIDS legislation, the 1988 HIV Organ Policy Equity Act. The HOPE Act, which was renewed by President Obama in 2013, is a law that modified rules regarding organ donation between HIV-positive individuals. Two years later, Beirn was instrumental in the passage of the Ryan White Care Act, for which he advocated directly with President Bush.

Beirn was a fierce AIDS activist; he was responsible for compiling quarterly directories of AIDS treatment for doctors and patients, fund-raising for AmFAR and other research organizations, and pushing legislation to fund clinical trials of experimental treatments and drugs.

Beirn died at the age of 39 in 1991 from AIDS-related brain cancer.

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Julian Bingham Abbott

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:36:02 -0400

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Julian Bingham Abbott ’49 was born on February 15, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio; He attended boarding school at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where he was on the wrestling team and worked on the school newspaper. After high school, Abbott joined the US Army and fought in World War II. When the war ended, he enrolled in Yale College. Following graduation, Abbott returned to Cleveland, Ohio to begin his career as an interior designer at the venerated firm Rorimer-Brooks, which specialized in oak-wood Jacobean furniture and outfitted homes of the well-to-do in Cleveland’s burgeoning suburbs.

Seven years later, after the company was acquired, he moved to New York City. Abbott spent 15 years designing spaces for Theodore Hofstatter & Co., an upscale firm on Fifth Avenue, before moving out to the East End of Long Island to set up his own company with his partner in business and life, W. Scott Jackson. While living in East Hampton, Abbott was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

He died in 1990. He was 64 years old.

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Leonard Raver

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:44:36 -0400

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Leonard Raver was born in Wenatchee, WA in 1927. A talented organist for the New York Philharmonic, Leonard was a vocal advocate for contemporary music, particularly that incorporating the organ. He created dozens of influential works in a range of modern styles, many of which mixed the organ with electronic sounds and percussion instruments (a style he dubbed “Organizm concerts”).

Leonard’s love of the organ began when he was a young child attending church in Tacoma, WA. By the age of 6, he had decided that he wanted to learn the organ, but he started his musical career learning the piano at the insistence of his music teacher. It was not until ten years later, at the age of 16, that he was allowed to switch to the organ. Within six months, though, Leonard had a job playing the organ at Epworth Lesourd Methodist Church, an early indication of his later musical success.

A Fulbright scholar and graduate of the University of Puget Sound, Leonard spent much of his life traveling around the world commissioning and performing important new pieces for the organ, including David Diamond’s Symphony for Organ, Vincent Persichetti’s “Auden Variations,” and Ned Rorem’s “Quaker Reader” and "Organbook.” By the mid-1970s, his talent was recognized by the New York Philharmonic, with whom Leonard started to perform. He eventually joined their roster in 1977.

Committed to sharing his talent and contemporary style with upcoming musicians, Leonard was also a teacher, lecturing at Yale, Julliard, Penn State, and the University of Hartford during the 1970s and 1980s. Indeed, shortly before he died, Leonard established the Leonard Raver Scholarship Fund at the University of Puget Sound in honor of the strong early education he received there as an undergraduate in the music department.

Leonard died of AIDS-related complications while at home in New York on January 29th, 1992, at the age of 62.

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Bret Lansdale

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:42:36 -0400

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Brett Leslie Lansdale was born on July 5, 1962 in Kileen, Texas. After graduating as valedictorian of his high school, he began attending Yale, where he was a member of the Jonathan Edwards Class of 1984. Lansdale majored in English and served as the pitch for the Whiffenpoofs ’85 graduation, he became the administrative director of Waterloo Counseling Center, a safe space for gay men and women in Austin, Texas. Shortly after, he moved to San Francisco, where he entered Hastings College of Law’s Class of 1990.

While at Hastings, Lansdale served on the staff of the Constitutional Law Quarterly and led civil procedure discussion groups. In 1988 he was diagnosed with AIDS, after which he lost total vision in one eye. Even still, he remained committed to AIDS activism, specifically rallying around issues of medical malpractice; before obtaining medicaid, Bret had spent more than $25,000 on medications alone.

He lost his battle with AIDS on October 21, 1990. He was 28 years old.

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James Terrell

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:38:32 -0400

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James Terrell (M.Arch ’68) was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1944. He graduated from Central High School in Evansville, IN in 1961 before pursuing a BA in architecture from Depauw University. Following his graduation from the Yale School of Architecture in 1968, Terrell became a nationally respected architect, serving as the store design manager for major retailers including Macy’s, Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue.

A member of the American Institute of Architects and the Institute of Store Planners, Terrell’s innovative department store designs won him the Store of the Year Award four times. Terrell was a founding partner of Hambrecht Terrell International in 1980, eventually serving as the firm’s president. He also chaired the fund-raising committee of the Design Industry Foundation for AIDS, using his connections in the fashion industry to creatively raise money for AIDS research, education and patient care.

Terrell died of AIDS on August 19, 1989 at New York Hospital.

He was 45 years old.

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Richardumans

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:35:05 -0400

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Richard Stanton Umans ’69 was born on September 13, 1947 in Cambridge, MA and attended Newton High School in Newtonville, MA; At Yale, he was a member of Timothy Dwight College and majored in art history; He was a member of the varsity swim team and the Aurelian Honor Society.

He died on February 11, 1985. He was 38 years old.

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Michael Barnett

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:32:28 -0400

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Michael Alvin Barnett was born on November 28, 1945 in New York, NY. He attended the Lawrenceville School before entering Yale in 1963, where he was a member of Jonathan Edwards College, sang in the Glee Club, and majored in marine biology.

After graduating in 1967, he went on to receive his doctorate from the Scripps Oceanographic Institute and later lived in Washington, DC, where he worked as an ecologist for Henningson, Durham, and Richardson, an architectural, engineering, and consulting firm.

He died on December 21, 1988 at the age of 43.

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David Brudnoy

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:25:44 -0400

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David Brudnoy ’62 was born on June 5, 1940 in Minneapolis, MN. A member of Timothy Dwight College, Brudnoy majored in Japanese Studies at Yale and graduated a Ranking Scholar on the Dean’s List. As an undergraduate, Brudnoy established himself as an outspoken politico, participating in the George Orwell Forum, the Criterion Board & the Yale College Democrats. He received his master’s degree in Far Eastern studies from Harvard and a second master’s degree and a doctorate in history from Brandeis University before establishing himself as an iconoclastic radio host based in Boston, MA.

Brudnoy began his career in broadcast commentary and journalism in 1971, when he worked for Boston’s WGBH-TV. From 1981 to 1986, Brudnoy was a contributor to WRKO, before moving to WBZ, where he would stay for the rest of his career. Brudnoy would go on to become the the top-rated talk radio host in New England, appearing in his WBZ regularly scheduled weekday evening slot until his retirement and death. During his career as a radio host, Brudnoy also had articles and movie reviews published in The New York Times, The New Republic and The Saturday Evening Post.

In addition to his career on the airwaves, Brudnoy taught classes at Boston University, Northeastern University, Merrimack College, University of Rhode Island, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

In 1994, Mr. Brudnoy revealed publicly during his radio show that he was gay and had AIDS, a public proclamation that followed a near death encounter with viral pneumonia.

In 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from Emerson College and published his memoir, “Life Is Not a Rehearsal.” He became a brother of Phi Alpha Tau, a communicative arts fraternity, in the spring of 2001. That same year, he established a fund for AIDS research. In September 2003, he was told he had Merkel cell carcinoma; he died after it metastasized in his lungs and kidneys on December 9, 2004.

He was 64 years old.

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Derek Anson Jones

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:13:37 -0400

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Derek Anson Jones was born on February 24, 1961 in Washington, DC. He attended the Sidwell Friends School, where he first met future playwright Margaret Edson. Jones would later go on to direct Edson’s play Wit, which The Long Wharf Theater produced in 1997.

A graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Jones won several awards throughout his career as a director. In 1996, he received the NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship. In 1997, the Connecticut Critics Circle awarded him Best Director for his work on Wit. In 1999, Jones was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and won the Lucille Lortel Award.

Jones worked extensively in regional theater, directing at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and at New York Stage and Film in Poughkeepsie.

His career and life were cut short on January 18, 2000, when Anson died of AIDS. He was 38 years old.

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Robert Endo

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 03:55:49 -0400

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Robert Endo ’70 was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1948. In 1966, he graduated from Dayton Heights High, where he was Senior Class President. After he received his degree in Art History, Endo participated in the Sotheby’s Expert Art Appraisal Program, through which he studied in London.

Upon his return, Endo lived in Manhattan while working at Gimpel and Weizenhoffer Gallery. Endo was an admirer the Old Masters of painting, Chinese porcelain and furniture design; throughout his career, he devoted himself to twentieth century painting and sculpture.

Although he and his partner Duane Wilder had an apartment in the Village, they spent a great deal of their time abroad, traveling the globe together for extended periods of time. An excellent chef, Endo strictly studied the Japanese Tea Ceremony, in addition to being skilled in French and international cuisine.

Endo died in Paris in 1994 after living with AIDS for ten years. He was 46 years old.

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Jose T Moscoso

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:11:03 -0400

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Jose Teodoro Moscoso (J.D. ’65) was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on November 10, 1940. The son of an esteemed businessman and ambassador, Moscoso graduated from Harvard in 1960 before receiving his JD from Yale Law School in 1965. Specializing in international commercial transactions, Moscoso worked for the law offices of Baker & McKenzie in Manhattan from 1984 to 1991.

Like his father Teodoro, Moscoso wrote extensively about Puerto Rican economy. While practicing law, Moscoso was also a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School. During his time in New York City, he sat on the board of directors of El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem and Boricua College.

He died of AIDS related complications at his family’s home in San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 12, 1994. He was 53 years old.

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Christopher Kales

Antonio Sanchez — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:34:21 -0400

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Dr. Christopher Kales was born on April 26, 1956 in Chicago, IL. He grew up in Rockton he studied ice skating as a teenager, going on to become a gold-medalist in the United States Figure Skating Association. Kales’ last competition before college in 1976 ranked him eighth among senior men. While getting his Bachelor’s Degree at Yale, Kales taught ice-skating part time in New Haven. Following his graduation, he studied at the David Howard School in Manhattan, before enrolling at Rush Medical College in Chicago. In 1981, Kales took a two year break from his medical studies to perform with the Theater Ballet of Canada. In 1984, he obtained his MD from Rush and began practicing medicine as a general physician in New York City. He died on January 23, 1992 at NYU Medical Center from AIDS related complications.

He was 36 years old.

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John R Connolly

Antonio Sanchez — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:25:59 -0400

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John R. Connolly was born in Bronxville, NY in 1939. Growing up between Yonkers and Kent, Connecticut, Connolly eventually pursued an undergraduate degree at Illinois Wesleyan University. After graduation, Connolly–a conscientious objector– fulfilled his military services as a volunteer for the World Health Organization, where he worked on contraceptive programs in China; Before serving as the associate director of development at the Yale School of Medicine in 1983, he was a senior development officer and director of corporate relations at NYU, where he started his career as a professional fund-raiser for charitable causes and educational institutions. He served as associate director of the Rockefeller University from 1983-1986 and development director of the Skin Cancer Foundation from 1987-1989 1989, he assumed the same role at God’s Love We Deliver, an AIDS service organization, where he doubled their fund-raising efforts to $1.5 million annually. A consultant to the Melanoma Vaccine Project at NYU Medical Center at the time of his death, Connolly died of AIDS related complications on December 11, 1992;
He was 53.
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Lawrence Jacobs

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:21:32 -0400

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Lawrence Ronald Jacobs was born in Detroit, MI in 1942. After receiving his BA in Architecture from the University of Michigan, he received his M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture in 1976. A founding partner of Jacobs-Nicholaides Architects PC, Jacobs’ designs included the St. John’s University Law School, the Bank of Tokyo Trust Company in the Waldorf-Astoria, and the graduate center at the City University of New York. In 1977, his work on the Leito residence in Bedford, NY earned him an Architecture Record House Award. That same year, Jacobs began his own architectural firm in Manhattan. His illustrious career was cut short on March 21, 1991, when Jacobs died of AIDS at NYU Hospital.

He was 39 years old.

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