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In Remembrance: Thomas R. Whitaker ’53PhD Died on December 24 2020

Thomas Russell Whitaker died on December 24, 2020, in Middletown, Connecticut. He was 95. A respected educator and writer, he taught at several colleges before returning to Yale in 1975 as professor of English. He continued at Yale until retirement, teaching English and theater studies and chairing the English department for six years. 

A complete obituary appeared in the New Haven Register on January 12, 2021. 

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