Lloyd G. Reynolds papers

Lloyd George Reynolds was born in 1910 in Alberta, Canada. He received his BA from the University of Alberta in 1931, an MA from McGill University in 1933, and a PhD from Harvard University in 1936. He was an instructor at Harvard from 1936 to 1939, a professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1939 to 1945, and a professor in the Yale University economics department from 1945 to 1980, serving as chair of the department from 1951 to 1959. Reynolds was chief economist of the War Manpower Commission from 1942 to 1943, and a member of the Appeals Committee for the National Labor Relations Board from 1943 to 1945. He served as founding director of the Yale Economic Growth Center from 1961 to 1967. Reynolds authored a textbook, Labor Economics and Labor Relations, first published in 1949. He married Mary Fitzmaurice Trackett, an authority on James Joyce, in 1937. Reynolds died at his home in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2005, at age 94.

Mary Fitzmaurice Trackett was born in Milwaukee on January 11, 1913. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. She taught political science at several colleges, as well as a seminar on Irish literature at Yale University, and authored Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination . She married Lloyd George Reynolds in 1937. Mary T. Reynolds died in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2000.