> -----Original Message-----
> From: Newman, Marie
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:32 PM
> To: EVERYONE; Students; 'tmiddleton@pace.edu'; 'klampkin@pace.edu';
> 'wmurdock@pace.edu'
> Subject: Community Announcement--Memorial Service for Professor
> Nicholas Triffin
>
> The Pace University community is saddened by the death on April 8, 2000,
> of Nicholas Triffin, professor of law at the School of Law. Beloved
> teacher, colleague, and friend, Nick fought valiantly and with great
> dignity against the debilitating effects of Lou Gehrig's disease. He
> continued teaching until his final days, paying tribute with his courage
> to the preciousness of every moment. The entire University community is
> invited to join with family and friends in celebrating Nick's wonderful
> life, and the many ways that he enriched ours, on TUESDAY, MAY 16, at 6:30
> p.m. at the Law School in the Moot Court Room of the Gerber Glass Law
> Center on the White Plains campus at 78 North Broadway.
>
> Nick was the director of the law library for 14 years prior to his
> retirement in 1998 when he began teaching international law and advanced
> legal research full-time. During his tenure as director, he oversaw the
> consolidation of the library's bibliographic assets and built a superb
> collection to support the study, scholarly, and research needs of students
> and faculty, and of the many alumni and other members of the bar who
> frequent the library. Students in his legal writing and advanced legal
> research courses benefited from his encyclopedic knowledge. Erudite and
> highly respected by his professional colleagues, he found time to pursue
> his own scholarly interests as editor of the series Law Books in Print and
> a number of other publications.
>
> An unremitting lover of the printed page and an avid collector of rare
> books, Nick was nevertheless keenly attuned to the importance of emerging
> technologies in the field of information science and retrieval. Through
> his efforts and foresight, the Pace Law Library has solidified its
> position as one of the leading university law libraries in terms of access
> to and quality of technological resources. He was instrumental in the
> development of Pace's Internet database on the United Nations Convention
> on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, a highly acclaimed
> resource in the field of international commercial law. His expertise in
> this field prompted an invitation by the University of Beijing in 1997 to
> lecture to their students and faculty.
>
> Nick began his professional career as a law librarian in 1978 at the
> University of Connecticut. He was subsequently named Law Library Director
> and Professor of Law at Hamline University Law School in St. Paul, and
> later at Pace.
>
> He was born in 1942 to the noted Belgian economist, Robert Triffin, and
> his wife, Lois Brandt Triffin. He attended Yale University and the
> Università di Roma, receiving his B.A. from Yale in 1965. He received an
> LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1968 and a Master's Degree in Library
> Science from Rutgers in 1978. He practiced law in New York after
> graduating from law school and subsequently worked as an administrator at
> Columbia University, briefly at the Ford Foundation, again as an
> administrator at Johnson State College in Vermont, and returned to
> practice law in New Haven between 1973 and 1976.
>
> He is survived by his wife, Madeleine Wilken, and by his son, Rob Triffin,
> a student at Berkeley College, Yale University. His daughter, Amyk, a
> gifted artist, died in 1992. He is also survived by his mother, Lois
> Triffin, of Belgium; his brothers, Kerry Triffin of New Haven and Eric
> Triffin of Bethany; and by his first wife and the mother of his children,
> Mary Bertolet of Reading, Pennsylvania.
>
> He was for many years an active member of the Wilton Monthly Meeting of
> the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the community which was his
> spiritual home and which he deeply loved.
>
> He would want to be remembered principally as a person devoted to the
> Quaker Testimonies of Peace, Simplicity, and Equality. Donations in his
> memory may be sent to the Muscular Dystrophy Association to fund ALS
> research or the Alternatives to Violence Project, Inc., in Syracuse, New
> York.
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