Obituaries

In Remembrance: Rufus Hendon ’60PhD Died on September 5 2018

Rufus Hendon passed away on September 5, 2018. After receiving his B.A and PhD from the University of Chicago and Yale University, respectively Hendon became a professor of linguistics at Yale until retiring in 1988. During his retirement he continued his interest in Indonesian language, inspired by his fieldwork there a few decades prior.

The New Haven Register ran a full obituary on Hendon which can be found here.

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