Cyrus D. Hogue, Jr., ’70, died September 1, 2017; he
was ninety-six. Cy attended the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill where he ran cross country and was
the manager of the football team. He finished Chapel
Hill in 1942 and started law school there. He entered
the U.S. Army Air Corp in January of 1943, trained in
navigation, and served in Italy, Africa and France. He
was discharged as a First Lieutenant in 1946 and re-entered
Chapel Hill Law School where he was an editor
of the Law Review and graduated in 1947. In 1949, Cy
married Mary Ann Homes Dixon, who survived him
along with three children, seven grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren. Cy volunteered with the American
Red Cross and, as Chairman of the Wilmington Chapter,
directed disaster relief during hurricanes Hazel, Connie
and Dianne. A lover of the outdoors, Cy fished and
hunted duck and quail; he was an avid and intense golfer
(though a friend remarked “I don’t know why he plays
this game, he does not seem to enjoy it.”)
B. Clyde Hutchinson, III, ‘02, Amateur philatelist and
professional train enthusiast, died at age eighty-one on
April 12, 2022. Born on the family farm in Yuma, CO,
Clyde graduated from the University of Colorado in
1962 and went on to UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, earning
his JD in 1965. Clyde was a history buff and family vacations
often included historical sites. Clyde was survived
by his wife of sixty-one years, Joan, his two children, and
three grandchildren.
Walter Jones, Jr., ’96, former Upstate Illinois Chair,
passed away on October 21, 2021 at the age of seventy
five. The son of a Chicago Police Sergeant, Walter
started his career as a federal prosecutor in the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois
where he rose to become the highest-ranking minority
lawyer in the history of the office at that time as Chief
of the Criminal Division and Special Litigation Counsel
in charge of all litigation, both civil and criminal. Subsequently,
he founded a firm which became one of the
largest minority-owned and managed firms in the Midwest.
Walter enjoyed a good game of golf with friends, a
smooth cigar, and his trademark Jack Daniel’s. He was a
lifelong student of history (especially the Civil War and
WW II), loved old time radio, the Chicago Cubs, classic
black-and-white movies, and writing with antique fountain
pens (affectionately called his “quills”).
William R. Jones, ’81, died on Monday, May 11, 2020
at age ninety-two. Bill attended the University of Wyoming
College of Law, graduating in 1951. He married
Jeannie Wilson Jones a few days later, on June 9, 1951,
and took and passed the bar exam the day he returned
from his honeymoon. Bill was President of the Wyoming
State Bar in 1982 and was appointed to the University
of Wyoming Board of Trustees in 1966. After
his term, he was elected to the University of Wyoming
Foundation Board of Directors and served twenty years,
including as its President. Bill was a single engine pilot
and flew from Canada to Cabo San Lucas to fish.
Frederic S. Kendall, ’78, was
ninety-one when he passed
on February 17, 2015. Fred
joined the U.S. Army Air
Force in March 1943, serving
in the southwest Pacific,
New Guinea, and southern
Philippines. He was an Enigma
Cryptologist, helping to
break the Japanese code. He was honorably discharged
as a Staff Sergeant on February 8, 1946 and went on to
Cornell University and Syracuse University Law School.
Fred was preceded in death by a son and grandson; he
was survived by his wife of sixty-five years, Mimi, three
children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
John L. Kirkland, ’77, died December 9, 2018 at the
age of ninety-two, survived by his wife of sixty-eight
years, Harriet, four children, eight grandchildren and
one great-grandchild. Born and raised in Elgin, Illinois,
John served in the U.S. Navy, and graduated from Lake
Forest College and Chicago-Kent College of Law. John
practiced in Chicago, serving two terms on the Board of
Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association, as a past
president of the Trial Lawyers Club of Chicago, and on
the Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals.
William E. Kunze, ’76, of Columbine County, Colorado,
passed at the age of ninety-six on November 06, 2020.
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