Kermit Roosevelt wrote a book about his experience during the coup in 1979.

Aage Sorensen

A Professor of Sociology and former chair of the sociology department, Aage B. Sorensen died on April 18 from complications from a fall on the ice near his home in Feb. 2000. He was 59.

A faculty member since 1984, Sorensen taught the popular core course Social Analysis 38, "Social Stratification," as well as Sociology 109, "Schooling and Society," and a first year graduate student seminar on sociological theory. He was a leading expert on labor markets, social stratification and education.

Students remember Sorensen as a warm and engaging mentor who was always willing to give generously of his time and energy. Just before his death, Sorensen received an "Excellence in Mentoring Award" from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Professor of Sociology Christopher Winship, the current chair of the sociology department, credits Sorensen with "turning the department around and helping it become the top department it is today."

James St. Clair

A 1947 graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS) who was former President Richard M. Nixon's lawyer during the Watergate controversy, James St. Clair died March 10. He was 80.

St. Clair argued in 1974 in front of the Supreme Court for Nixon's right to withhold tapes of his Oval Office conversations under the doctrine of executive privilege. The Court unanimously disagreed in St. Clair's argument in the decision in United States v. Nixon.

St. Clair also took on many other controversial cases in his decades of practice as a trial lawyer. He represented the Boston School Commission in a suit by black parents over racial segregation and defended the chaplain of Yale when he was accused on helping students evade the draft during the Vietnam War.

After graduating HLS, St. Clair continued to have an association with the school, teaching students on the techniques of trial practice.

Emily Vermeule