Douglas L. Turner ’54

Douglas L. Turner ’54, of Springfield, Va., formerly of Buffalo, N.Y.; Nov. 4, after a long illness. He was a rower in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. In 1957 he joined Buffalo’s Courier Express, advancing as Albany bureau chief, financial editor, city editor, executive editor, and Washington bureau chief. After the Courier closed in 1982, he joined the Buffalo News and was bureau chief from 1982 to 2007. At Brown he participated in varsity crew, sang with the Jabberwocks, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. For most of his life he was a deacon, elder and trustee of First Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, but converted to Catholicism in 1988 and immersed himself in Catholic literature. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press Managing Editors Assoc. He was also a governor of the National Press Club and a member of the Gridiron Club, an elite journalism society. He is survived by a daughter, two sons, and 10 grandchildren.