Michael Armacost

"Late in my junior year at Pomona College (1966), I heard Professor Michael H. Armacost lecture on China and the U.S., and I intuitively experienced what I would now describe as a first-rate analytical mind. I switched my major to International Relations in the hope that I could learn to think more like he did. In the approximately 16 units I took from him, I earned exactly one A- on a term paper. My usual grade was a B, and I worked hard for every one of them. He recommended me for law...

A wonderful, compassionate, human being. He lived life to the fullest