Howard Sayre Weaver papers

Howard S. Weaver: advisor to University Publications, Yale University Press, 1959-1960; assistant director, 1960-1964; acting Secretary of Yale University, 1963-1964; associate secretary and advisor to the president of Yale University, 1964-1968; Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, 1967-1974; director, Media Design Studio, 1974-.

Howard Sayre Weaver, Director of the Media Design Studio and former Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, died April 23, 1982 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut. He was fifty-seven.

A native of Fredonia, N.Y., Weaver entered Yale with the Class of 1945W but left college to serve as an Air Corps pilot in the Far East. He returned to Yale at the end of the war and received his B.A. degree in 1948. After working for a few years, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and was assigned to Thailand. He later became European Director of the Free Europe Press in Munich, Germany, before returning to Yale in 1959 as Assistant Director of the Yale University Press. He subsequently served as Associate Secretary of the University and Director of External Relations before becoming Acting Dean of the School of Art and Architecture. He became Dean in 1968 and served until 1974.

Weaver organized the Media Design Studio, dedicated to the teaching and production of films. He was also Director of the Poynter Fellowship Program.

His interest in flying, developed as a B-25 pilot in China and Burma during World War II, continued throughout his life. He was a leader in the Yale Aviation Club, an extracurricular program for students.

He is survived by his wife, Deborah Drummond Weaver; two sons, Howard, Jr., of Guilford, and George of Maine; three daughters, Sayre Andre of North Dakota, Stephanie Weaver of Guilford, and Deborah Weaver of Boston; a sister, Ruth Pinkerton of Florida; and a brother, George B. Weaver of Fredonia, N.Y.

(Taken from Yale Alumni Magazine and Journal, 1982 May).