Daniel R. Wilkes ’52

Danny prepared at Andover. At Princeton, he majored in SPIA and joined Prospect. His extracurricular activities were widespread and varied. They included Hillel, the Student Christian Association, Harvard-Yale-Princeton Colloquium, the committee for NSA, the World Student Service Fund general committee, the Speakers Bureau, and WPRU. He roomed with Davis Roach, Bob Field, and John Thompson. 

Danny earned a law degree at Harvard Law School in 1955, and in 1960 earned a master’s of law degree at New York University in international and civil law. He taught law at more than 10 universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Greece, and Korea on subjects ranging from international law and affairs, to international criminal law, to coastal and river-basin development. He published 20 papers and six monographs on topics such as post-conviction rights of indigents and jurisdiction over coastal zones. 

After retirement he settled in Cambridge, England, and entered upon a further round of attachment and action in a varied range of community organizations.  

Danny died Dec. 4, 2016. He is survived by his two sons, George and Andy. To them we send our sympathies at the loss of their father, our ever-busy classmate.