Zenji Harold Normann Hoegberg ’59

NORMANN DIED Dec. 28, 1990. Matriculating at Princeton in 1951, he served with the Army in the U.S. and France from 1952 to 1954, returning to join our class in 1955, He graduated with honors from the Special Program in the Humanities in English.

After graduation Normann attended the Univ. of Wisconsin as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, receiving his M.S, in English literature in 1964. He earned an M.S.A. in creative writing from the Univ. of Iowa in 1967. During this time he taught English at Loyola and Morgan State Colleges and Wayne State College.

Normann founded the Zen Buddhist Center, Washington, D.C., in 1968, and served as a director until 1982. He was ordained a Zen Buddhist lay priest in 1977.

Normann worked with his hands doing small renovation and restoration work, which he called "today's kind of right livelihood." At the time of his death he was enrolled in the M.S.W. program at Catholic Univ., looking forward to a second career in social work.

Normann is survived by his widow, Shirley, whom he married in 1977, and three children by a previous marriage: his daughter Leslie and his sons Marc and Geoffrey. The Class shares their sorrow and loss.

7he Class of 1959