Doug died suddenly May 7, 2015, in New York City. He was 72.
He was born in Denver and spent several years living with his family in Wyoming and Utah. They eventually settled in Wheat Ridge, Colo., where Doug was a student leader and baseball player at Wheat Ridge High School. At Princeton, he majored in Slavic languages and literature, was a leader of the Rocky Mountain Empire Club, manager of the baseball team, and a member of Campus Club.
Doug went on to earn his master’s degree in Slavic languages at the University of California-Berkeley in 1967, studying Russian and Serbo-Croation literature. In 1968 he married Anita Rhodes, a graduate of Cornell. For Doug and Anita, those years at Berkeley during the height of the free-speech movement were truly memorable.
He taught Russian literature for several years at Reed College in Portland, Ore., then moved to New York City in the mid-1970s while Anita pursued her doctorate in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. Doug then began a long association with the Robert Louis Stevenson School in New York as a teacher, chief financial officer, and headmaster. Their daughter, Natasha, is a psychiatrist in New York City and the mother of their three grandchildren.
To Anita and Natasha and her family, the Class of 1964 extends sincere condolences.