Comments on: The Passing of a Giant http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/19/the-passing-of-a-giant/ With Help From Some Friends Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frank McLaughlin http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/19/the-passing-of-a-giant/#comment-1851 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:45:45 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-1851 John Brandl taught mathematical economics at Boston College for a few years in the early sixties when he was finishing up his graduate work at Harvard.   I remember him as a wonderful and enthusiastic colleague. He contributed importantly to the effort BC was making to develop a modern economics program. As I remember, John left the Boston area and BC to go on active military duty and was assigned to work in the Defense Department under Alain Enthoven. I picked up bits and pieces of John’s and Shelly’s careers from afar, and some years ago I learned in casual conversation with my oldest daughter Maureen’s husband, Art Hauptman, that he knew John. it was Art who forwarded this blog attachment to me.

Only my colleague Harold Petersen (also from Minnesota ) and I are still here from John’s time at BC, but I forwarded the blog attachment to my departmental colleagues as part of an ongoing effort I make to let them know about BC before they arrived.

My wife Clare and I remember fondly an evening we spent at dinner with John and Shelly and their other guest Jaroslav Vanek at their apartment tn Cambridge. Please extend our condolences to Shelly and to all of John’sfamily. We will remember him in our prayers.

Thanks for writing about John.

Frank Mclaughlin

]]> By: John http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/19/the-passing-of-a-giant/#comment-1755 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:51:01 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-1755 John Brandl will live on in my son, Jack, his grandson, who will be a better man for knowing his grandfather, and my daughter Clara, his granddaughter. Thank you for that tribute to my father in law who raised such a wonderful daughter, my wife and the mother of our children.

]]> By: Jay P. Greene http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/19/the-passing-of-a-giant/#comment-1752 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:07:28 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-1752 This is a moving tribute, Pat. We will miss John Brandl dearly.

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