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In Remembrance: Donald Quarles Jr. ’43, ’48MA Died on June 7 2014

Donald Aubrey Quarles Jr. passed away peacefully on June 7, 2014, in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was 92. Don served in the US Navy before returning to Yale to complete his master's degree in mathematics, later completing his PhD at New York University. After graduating, he worked at IBM tracking the first satellite, Russia's Sputnik, in 1957. He also codeveloped the Beckmen-Quarles Theorem in geometry.

A full obituary was published in the Cape Codder on June 21, 2014.

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