Clifford K. Thompson Jr. ’60

Cliff died Nov. 21, 2014, in La Jolla, Calif. He had been afflicted in recent years with Parkinson’s disease, which restricted his range of activities and prevented him from attending our 50th reunion.

Cliff majored in history, ate at Cannon Club, played interclub sports, and was an NROTC midshipman. After Princeton, he served three years in the Navy, then moved on to law school at the University of California, Berkeley during the turbulent years of the free-speech movement. Cliff joined the office of the California attorney general, where he spent his working career and eventually rose to become deputy attorney general. Career highlights included arguing before the Supreme Court (and winning his first case) and prosecuting Angela Davis (he lost, but wrote that “the important thing is being able to say you were there”).

Cliff married his college sweetheart, Ingeborg Hermanus, in 1961. She and their daughter, Kimberly, survive him. The class extends sympathy to them both.