When Dan slipped away May 11, 2011, surrounded by his family, the class lost one of its most colorful, gregarious, and beloved members. Dan was profoundly unlike anyone else. He brought a unique perspective that enlightened, confounded, and tickled everyone he encountered.
Dan commenced his gloriously improbable life in Missouri. At St. Louis University High School, he excelled in both academics and sports, quarterbacking the Jr. Billikens football team to a spectacular 11–1 season and state championship.
He majored in East Asian studies at Princeton and was fluent in Mandarin. He spent a year abroad teaching English in Taiwan. After college, Dan drifted with attitude across the globe. He lived in Japan, was a photographer in Seattle, a railroad worker in Kansas City, and a bank clerk in Manhattan. He then implausibly initiated a financial career, structuring international transactions, abstruse derivatives that still defy explanation, and starting a hedge fund.
We miss Dan with all our hearts and will remember him with fondness, love, and bewilderment. He was a true and kind friend, generous, quick to laugh, brilliant, and childlike in his fascination for the world.
To his wife, Debra; children Daniel and Helen; sister Jane; and brothers Tom and David, the class extends deepest sympathy.