David F. Dorsey Jr. *67

David Dorsey, an academician for most of his life who became an attorney after retiring, died April 8, 2017, of complications of dementia. He was 82.

Dorsey graduated from Haverford with a degree in Latin in 1956 and earned a master’s degree in Greek from Michigan in 1957. He earned a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton in 1967. He began his academic career as an instructor of classics in 1960 at Howard University and ended as dean of graduate studies at Clark Atlanta University in 1999. After a short retirement, Dorsey studied law at Georgia State University.

While a law student, he interned at the Georgia Chapter of the ACLU, the Georgia Justice Project, and the Southern Center for Human Rights. Local zoning matters were at the core of his law career.

Before the law, Dorsey had been a Fulbright professor at the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and was a United Negro College Fund distinguished scholar, among other honors. He earned a master of science in library science degree from Clark Atlanta to catalog his own large book collection. He was also a member of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

Dorsey is survived by a sister, a brother, three nephews, and a niece.

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