Stevan Dedijer ’34

Steve, who founded the research policy institute at Sweden's Lund University, thus beginning his pioneering work in business intelligence, on which he published more than 250 papers, died June 14, 2004, in Dubrovnik. Croatia, where he lived his final years. It was over Dubrovnik that he celebrated his 89th birthday with, in his words, "a parachute glide."

During World War II, Steve enlisted in the Army's 101st Airborne Division and, as bodyguard to the division commander, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, took part in the abortive September 1944 Arnhem airborne attack. In February 1945 he received special dispensation from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to return to Yugoslavia, the country of his birth,

where he went to work for Gen. Tito's new government.

In 1952 Steve was appointed director of Yugoslavia's Nuclear Institute. In 1962 he joined the sociology department at Lund, and a decade later began the research policy institute. "Intelligence today," he wrote in 1975, "is about using the collective knowledge of the organization to reach an advantageous position in industry."

Steve is survived by his wife, Carin Hallberg Dedijer.

The Class of 1934