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Frederick Martin Rowe, ’69, died a week shy of his ninety-seventh birthday on January 11, 2022. Born in Mannheim, his family immigrated to the United States in 1936 and settled in the Bronx. Fred was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944 at the age of nineteen, where his first assignment was a tank destroyer unit in Fort Hood, Texas. Upon learning that he spoke German, French and Yiddish, he was asked to join the Military Training Center at Fort Ritchie where he became a Captain in Military Intelligence. He was sent to the Ardennes, where he gathered front line intelligence during the Battle of the Bulge. After Germany surrendered in 1945, he met his future wife, Franziska Elizabet Rupp. She was an accomplished
athlete who had competed
in the 1942 Axis Games
in the uneven parallel bars
and placed second in the
100-meter dash. In 1944
she was drafted to teach
German Luftwaffe pilots
how to fly gliders. Fred and
Frances returned to the
United States and married in 1947. Fred attended City College of New York on the G.I. Bill, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to Yale Law School, where he became Executive Editor of the Yale Law Review and graduated first in his class. Fred clerked for Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark and during his career in D.C. he argued and won five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1980’s he went on sabbatical, teaching at Yale, Harvard and the London School of Economics. In 1990 Fred and Frances moved to Santa Fe, where he worked as a community activist. He helped organize the Greater Callecita Neighborhood Association, the Neighborhood Network, the No-SLAPP Alliance, and the Neighborhood Law Center. In 1996, at the age of seventy-one, he became the oldest person to have passed the New Mexico Bar Exam. Fred loved blues and jazz records and a daily 6:00 am swim. Fred was preceded in death by Frances, and survived by his two children, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Robert N. Sayler, ’95, died on September 7, 2022 at the age of eighty-two, survived by Marty, who he met at age fourteen and to whom he was married sixty years. Bob was a Kansas High School debate champi- on before venturing west to Stanford, where he con- tinued his debating career and was President of the Student Body. He attended Harvard Law School, and in 1965 he joined a prominent D.C. law firm. As a thirty-one-year-old associate, Bob argued pro bono be- fore the U.S. Supreme Court, advocating for the rights of individuals facing termination of disability benefit payments. Bob chaired the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, served as a member of the ABA’s select committee that evaluates federal judicial nominees, and served as President of the Board of the Legal Aid Society in Washington. In 2002, Bob and Marty moved to Charlottesville, VA where Bob was a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, teaching rhetoric and trial advocacy. Bob reveled in his role helping budding lawyers strengthen their speaking skills, and he co-authored three editions of the book “Tongue-Tied America: Reviving the Art of Verbal Per- suasion.” Bob spent summers for over fifty years in Boothbay Harbor, ME, where
he intrepidly sought to be crowned Mouse Island’s In- tergalactic Grand Champion of tennis, croquet, shuffle- board, and other important sports. In addition to Marty, Bob is survived by his two children and four grandsons.
Charles F. Scott, ’98, passed away suddenly surround- ed by family on August 30, 2022, survived by his wife of fifty-three years, Catherine Anne Scott (née Ray- ment), three children and eight grandchildren. He was seventy-four. Charles attended the University of Toron- to, graduating with an Honours BA in Political Science and Economics in 1969, and an LLB in 1972. Charles and Cathy were big supporters of the arts with sub- scriptions to various arts events over the years. Charles was a long-time Director of the Confederation Centre
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