Wayne Hall ’59

Wayne died July 3, 2013. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease since 2003.

Born in Cleveland, Wayne prepared for Princeton at Cincinnati Country Day School, where he played soccer, captained the tennis team, and edited the newspaper. He majored in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, with an international affairs specialty, and was vice president of the Press Club. He had a great fondness for Court Club, where he took his meals.

After graduating magna cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Wayne received a master’s degree in Russian studies at Harvard. He then entered the field of journalism with The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, and entered the field of matrimony with Marsha Ashforth, whom he married in 1964.

Two years later Wayne moved to Washington, D.C., as a Russian analyst with the Library of Congress. In 1970 he moved to USIA, where he rose to chief editor of its Problems of Communism publication, a magazine of particular import to U.S. personnel behind the Iron Curtain. He retired from the State Department in 2002.

Fluent in Russian, Wayne also spoke Mandarin. An avid bridge player, he held the rank of Bronze Life Master.

He is survived by his wife, Marsha, and his son, Daniel, to whom the class sends sympathy.