Reinhard H. Loosch ’52

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Reinie left us in the summer of ’51, but by then had joined Terrace Club, the Lutheran Students Association, Whig-Clio, and the German Club and worked in the Student Center snack bar. He finished law school at the University of Bonn and went on to a remarkable career in the German federal government.

Classmates will find it worthwhile to read Reinie’s statement of his work and personal life in The Book of Our History, one of the most articulate of any in that source.

He married the former Edith Rueckl of Salzburg and they had three children, Evelyn, Gerhard, and Christiane. He died March 8, 2011. To Edith and their children, we extend our sympathies.

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