Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

ByTimothy Weiskel

I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford.  He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.  Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish…

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Banner Bio – Timothy Weiskel

ByTimothy Weiskel

TIMOTHY C. WEISKEL (Tim). Born April 25, 1946 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, son of Frank M. Weiskel and Harriet Kleckner Weiskel. Attended Newton High School, Newtonville, Massachusetts. Entered Yale Sept., 1964. Absent from Yale Sept., 1966 to Sept., 1967, Yale 5-Year B.A. Program, West Africa. Member of the Class of 1968 from Sept., 1964 to Sept.,…