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persuaded him to go to law school and they practiced together in Albany. In 1952, Jim met Jeanne Vail on a blind date. They married in 1955 and raised five chil- dren during their sixty-five-year marriage before Jeanne passed in 2021. Jeanne and Jim enjoyed skiing, vacations on Lake George and Cape Cod, outings at the Saratoga Racetrack, golf and celebration. Jim loved his morning papers, a good book, a debate, baseball, Judy Garland and Willie Mays. Jim is survived by his five children, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Richard David De Luce, ’85, passed away peacefully on January 22, 2023; he was ninety-four. Richard’s parents divorced when he was a little boy. He was raised by his mother, but she tragically died in 1940 when Richard was eleven years old. His sister Roberta – ten years older – became his legal guardian. His brother Dan – seventeen years older – was a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the Associated Press during World War II. Richard attended UCLA and Stanford University Law School. After his first year at Stanford, Richard was called up for military service and served with the 392nd Quartermas- ter Graves Registration Company in Sangju and Taejon, Korea. He returned to Stanford, where he made the Law Review and met an undergrad, Joanne Strang, to whom he would be married for fifty-four years. Joanne passed in 2009. Richard began to write a memoir for his family in 2005. He managed to finish it and send copies to them in December 2022 only weeks before he passed away. Rich- ard was predeceased by a daughter and survived by two sons, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. James Lincoln Dillon, ’92, died on October 4, 2020 at the age of eighty-one. Jim obtained his law degree from the University of San Francisco Law School. He was an avid golfer and became a member of the Olympic Club and The Country Club of Louisiana. He was a passion- ate 49er fan and enjoyed spending time with his friends at epic tailgate parties. After the passing of his first wife, Anne Hickok, he met and married Marianna Keller Dil- lon. They spent their retirement years traveling around the world with family and friends, enjoying wine, cruis- ing, and cultural activities. They moved to Louisiana to be near Marianna’s family. Jim is survived by Marianna, his four children and seven grandchildren. Giles A. Gaca, ’91, was eighty-six at his passing on January 22, 2023. Giles excelled in sports as well as ac- ademics at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) where he lettered as a running back for its football team between 1954-1958. He then entered Duquesne University Law School where he was on Law Review and graduated in 1963, the same year that he married Susan Lacey. They have three children, nine grandchildren and a great-grandson. Giles tried hundreds of complex cases (including medical malpractice) before juries throughout Pennsylvania from his twenties through his seventies. John Patrick Gallagher, ‘84, passed on February 23, 2023 at the age of ninety-four. The son of Irish immi- grants, John was the first high school graduate in his fam- ily. He had a fine singing voice and was an accomplished musician – he put himself through college and law school with various jobs and by playing stand-up bass and sing- ing in jazz bands. John attended Kent State University and earned a BA in Spanish in 1950, followed by a Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University School of Law in 1953. During college, he met Mina Vazquez, a native of Cuba, and they began their seventy-plus-year marriage in 1951. They moved to Elyria, where he prac- ticed for over fifty years. John was an accomplished tennis player, an avid bicycle rider, a skier, a photographer and a poker player, activities he continued into his nineties. John is survived by Mina, four children and three grand- children. Charles Brendan Gibbons, ’04, died on February 1, 2023 at the age of seventy-seven. As a college junior, Charlie interned at the Wall Street Journal and had a front-page-by-line; in his senior year, Charlie met Pa- tricia Kilduff, with whom he would have celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary this June. Char- lie authored over twenty books on Pennsylvania and Federal Rules Evidence, Civil Procedure and Discovery Practice. While Charlie loved the law, his family was his life – four children and eight grandchildren, who called him “Mr. Charlie.” John Anderson Gilliam, ’84, was eighty-seven at his passing on March 4, 2023. John attended Baylor Uni- versity, where his classmates referred to him as “the Judge” because of his grades and ability to recite in class. He graduated with Honors and pitched for the Bay- lor Bears. Following the footsteps of his father and grandfather, John became a lawyer after attending the SUMMER 2023 JOURNAL 96