Randall Edward Brune ’52

Randy died from heart failure on Feb. 2, 2001, in Syracuse, N.Y., two months after bypass surgery. Family, close friends, and colleagues gathered in his home for a time of remembrance and thanksgiving.

Entering Princeton as an NROTC student, Randy transferred to Columbia after he married Chloe Stewart in 1951. Inspired by Gilbert Dunklin to explore the Romantic poets, he completed both BA and MA degrees in English at Columbia. Military service followed at Ft. Devens, Mass., where he was an instructor. He taught at Keuka College and Syracuse U. while completing his PhD dissertation there. He was professor and director of the freshman English program at Syracuse until he retired in 1995.

Randy's passion was the conservation of woodlands: He was involved in trail-building for the Adirondack Mountain Club and the North Country Trail Assn. He and a colleague designed and built 100 miles of the Finger Lakes Trail, for which they received the Wallace Wood Award in 1993. Later, he also took up painting.

Randy is survived by a daughter, Margot Dengel, two sons, Tracy and Gordon, two sisters, and five grandchildren. We offer them our deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1952