Brewster Denny

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Brewster Denny
Born
Died
Citizenship United States
Education Ph.D., Tufts University (1959)
M.A., Harvard University (1948)
B.A., University of Washington (1945)
Occupation Professor
Relatives Arthur A. Denny (great-great grandfather)

Brewster Castberg Denny (1924 - June 22, 2013) was an American academic from Seattle, Washington, known for his long association with the University of Washington.

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Early life and education

The great-great-grandson of Seattle founder Arthur A. Denny, Brewster Denny graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1942 and the University of Washington in 1945, before joining the U.S. Navy. In the Navy, he was posted to Pearl Harbor, serving as an intelligence analyst in a unit preparing for the land invasion of Japan. [1]

Denny left naval service at the end of the war and went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from Tufts University. [2] [3]

Career

From 1952 to 1960, Denny was an intelligence analyst in the United States Department of Defense, and, in 1960 worked as a national security adviser on the presidential transition team of John F. Kennedy. He then served a year as a staff member with the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery and, in 1962, became the first director of the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, a post he held until 1980. In 1992 Denny was named dean emeritus, but continued teaching courses in American foreign policy. [2] [3] [1]

Varsity Bell

From 1961 until his death in 2013, Brewster Denny was responsible for the annual ringing of the Varsity Bell, a 400-pound (180 kg), 1861 bell installed at Denny Hall on the University of Washington campus, which is rung once per year, on Homecoming, to ceremonially summon the university's alumni to campus. [4] [5]

Personal life

Denny married Patrica Virginia Sollitt in 1950 and, with her, had a daughter. [1] [2]

Denny served as a trustee of the Century Foundation, a member of the board of directors of the Seattle Historical Society, and as a vice-president of the Seattle Opera Association. [6]

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References

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