Gary H. Toops In Memoriam

Abstract

Gary H. Toops passed away this fall, on 14 October 2013. He was born on 30 March 1954 in Fort Eustis, Virginia. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal and earned his PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University in 1985. From 1989 he taught at Wichita State University, where he was Professor of Russian and Linguistics. He was the backbone of Wichita State University's Russian program, teaching courses in Russian language, literature, and linguistics, as well as German, French, and general and Romance linguistics.