dswise (09/13/82)
According to his widow, it is Professor Curry's wish that memorial contributions be sent to Curry College on Blue Hill Avenue in Milton, MA, which is outside Boston. This small school was founded by his parents. His father's speciality was clinical speech at a time when work in speech was dominated by elocutionists. A practical man, he was interested in natural expression rather than style. Employees of AT&T on this network should note that his father was the second person to "phone" Alexander Graham Bell. It also seems that Haskell Curry disappointed his father by choosing so abstract and unpractical a field of research. Strange how his father's opinion about the foundations of mathematics is denied by (and via) the destiny of the corporation founded by his eminently practical Scottish colleague.