Alan V. Vaskas ’67

Alan V. Vaskas ’67, of Stonington, Conn.; Mar. 12, after complications from a fall. He joined the New Hampshire National Guard and was deployed to Vietnam, where he was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor. He spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center adjacent to Tom Coakley ’68, whom he had not known prior. Their chance meeting and time spent in Vietnam and at Walter Reed became a feature story written by Robert Reichley in the January 1970 BAM, titled “Ward 35.” Vaskas later graduated from Fordham Law School and practiced law in Philadelphia and West Chester, Pa., where he was a former president of the Quaker City Farmers and helped to establish the Quaker City Farmers Scholarship Fund. In 2018, he and his wife moved to Stonington, and he remained an active member of several organizations. He is survived by wife Janet McClendon ’68, two sons, four grandchildren, brother Albin Vaskas ’64, and two sisters.