Rockwell Gray Jr. ’60

Rockwell Gray Jr. ’60, of St. Louis, Mo.; Apr. 12. He was a professor of philosophy and taught at Washington University and Webster University in St. Louis, as well as secondary schools in the U.S. and abroad. He lived and traveled extensively in Spain and Chile. He wrote the biography of Ortega y Gasset, The Imperative of Modernity, as well as A Century of Enterprise: St. Louis, 1894–1994, and translated a collection of Chilean folk tales by Yolando Pino Saavedra. He had a great sense of humor and could break into song, remembering obscure lyrics and melodies. A reader of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, he enjoyed being read to by his wife during the last months of his life. He is survived by his wife, Madelyn; three children, including Elizabeth Gray ’99, ’04 MAT; and four grandchildren.