University of Michigan Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Sammy McLean Ph.D.
Sammy McLean, Ph.D Born on September 29, 1929 in El Dorado, Kansas, passed away in Seattle at age 88 on August 6, 2018. Sammy graduated from University of Oklahoma and earned a Ph.D. in Germanic Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He taught at Dartmouth College in the early 1960s and was a professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington from 1967 to 1990. Sammy also had a lifelong interest in music. He played the trumpet in jazz bands when...
