Rodney Selim Dayan ’55

Rodney Selim Dayan was born in May 1933 in Seattle, Wash., to J.C. Dayan.

At Princeton, Rodney majored in philosophy and wrote his senior thesis about Spinoza. He joined Tower Club and served as its treasurer. He won letters in both freshman and varsity crew and played IAA basketball and volleyball. A research assistant in the English department, Rodney also contributed to the Nassau Lit and served on the Bicker Committee. At Tower Club his roommates included P. Brown, B. Ramer, C. Stockdale, J. Bandstein, and J. Rubins.

Rodney became a partner at the highly respected legal firm of Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft in New York City. For many years he lived in Montclair, N.J., after which he and wife, Barbara, retired to San Diego.

Rodney died July 28, 2017, in San Diego, Calif.