![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Excellent obit by my nephew Bobby
Mar. 10th, 2011 04:32 pmMy nephew Bobby posted this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago:
My grandfather just died. One of the smartest, most passionate, strong, stubborn, and well-thought-out people I know in all aspects of life. He was also one of the nicest, sweetest, best mannered, most patient people I have ever known. Born June 15, 1919, he worked as a translator for Italian prisoners of war during WW2. After the war, he went to U Chicago both for college and grad school, getting his PhD in Political Science. He taught political science at the University of Connecticut from 1949 to 1988. He was knighted by the Italian government in 1971, and he was given a Career Achievement Award in the field of Italian Politics and Society by the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society in 2003. He died early this morning on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the age of 91. Goodbye, Sir Doctor Norman Kogan. I love you very much.
--Bobby Kogan
A couple of very minor errors: Dad actually got his undergraduate degree before volunteering to be drafted for WWII, and he supervised the Italian POWs [who might not have been POWs anymore; in 1943 Italy had a brief revolution and officially changed sides in the war,* and some of the Italians captured earlier in the war, including those my dad subsequently supervised, then volunteered to work for the allies].
The obit I wrote is here. I plagiarized Bobby a little.
*But the Germans quickly secured most of the country and reinstalled Mussolini, though now he was only a puppet leader.
My grandfather just died. One of the smartest, most passionate, strong, stubborn, and well-thought-out people I know in all aspects of life. He was also one of the nicest, sweetest, best mannered, most patient people I have ever known. Born June 15, 1919, he worked as a translator for Italian prisoners of war during WW2. After the war, he went to U Chicago both for college and grad school, getting his PhD in Political Science. He taught political science at the University of Connecticut from 1949 to 1988. He was knighted by the Italian government in 1971, and he was given a Career Achievement Award in the field of Italian Politics and Society by the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society in 2003. He died early this morning on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the age of 91. Goodbye, Sir Doctor Norman Kogan. I love you very much.
--Bobby Kogan
A couple of very minor errors: Dad actually got his undergraduate degree before volunteering to be drafted for WWII, and he supervised the Italian POWs [who might not have been POWs anymore; in 1943 Italy had a brief revolution and officially changed sides in the war,* and some of the Italians captured earlier in the war, including those my dad subsequently supervised, then volunteered to work for the allies].
The obit I wrote is here. I plagiarized Bobby a little.
*But the Germans quickly secured most of the country and reinstalled Mussolini, though now he was only a puppet leader.
