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IN MEMORIAM
Since our last Issue, we have learned of the passing of fifty Fellows. Our Honorary Fellow Sandra Day O’Connor died on December 1, 2023. And we also remember our departed friend Alison Scott, Past President David Scott’s wife of nearly sixty years.

Our departed Fellows ranged in age from forty-seven to a month shy of one
hundred. Yes, it’s not a typo – forty-seven. Prime of life. But then, all of our departed Fellows left us too soon. We will miss them. Twenty-two of these departed Fellows were veterans, six of them having served in World War II. Five were judges. Several were college-level athletes. And one of them, what an athlete! – he was a four-year starting quarterback for a Division 1 program, starting forty- three games, throwing 3,000-plus yards and rushing for 2,000-plus yards.

We can only honor those we know have passed, when we know. We do not charge retired Fellows dues, so we don’t think much about not hearing from them. So if you learn of the passing of a Fellow, please be sure that the National Office Staff is informed.
These pieces are necessarily brief. We don’t have space to list all surviving family mem-
bers, so we name only spouses; we count, but do not name children or grandchildren. And some of these pieces are way too brief – not because of editorial discretion but because we sim- ply could not find the facts. Yet every one of our departed Fellows left scores of family and friends who will miss and remember them. Through those memories, these Fellows live on.
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