Dr. Reginald A. Deering

Dear Lorene, I was very sorry to learn the sad news about your husband Reg. I hope it will become easier with time to truly enjoy all your memories of travel and adventure with him. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Reg was a 1954 classmate and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brother at the University of Maine. Always the brightest guy in the house, he also was posessed of a quiet good humor and sense of serious application to the fraternity goals and obligations. We missed him at our 50th reunion two years ago when the brothers had a grand reunion get together at which he was the subject of some wild escapade recollections, including his performance at Hell Week festivities each year.

Farewell...

Dear Lorene and Family,
We were greatly sadened to learn of Reg's death. He was a superior scientist as well as a good friend during our days at Yale when he was a predoctoral student under Dick. He spent time, between jobs in the early 1960's, with Dick at OaK Ridge doing key quantitative experiments on the wavelengths involved in the formation and splitting of thymine dimers in polthymidylic acid.
We miss him.
Dick and Neva

Dear Deering family,
I was very saddened by Reg's illness and death. He was truly a very kind, generous man, who treated others with great respect. When I was a tech. in the biophysics dep't, Reg was especially kind to me and very helpful. The world was truly a better place with Reg and we have lost a fine person. Please accept my deepest sympathy.
Sincerely,
Linda Ritchie Burns

Lorene and family, we share your loss, but we know that Reg would not have wanted to live on this earth any longer in his condition. It was my privilege to be Reg's Lab Technician for 16 years and colleague for 8+ more years. A few months ago, all of Reg's valuable Dictyostelium stocks and other research materials were sent to Columbia University for safe storage and distribution to researchers who request them. Just a few days ago I received such a request, and I referred that person to...

Dear Lorene & Eric,
I just wanted you to know my thoughts and prayers are with you both, as well as the rest of your family. I certainly remember Dr. Deering from Alterra and wish you all the best through this difficult time.
Gods Blessings,

Dear Lorene, You are in my thoughts and prayers. Your life together is one that others can only hope to aspire to. The memories will always be with you.
Sincerely, Angie

I first met Reg Deering in the Fall of 1955 when we roomed together with Charles Lane and Jim Till, all graduate students at Yale. I am impressed by his illustrious academic career as well as by his wide ranging archeological interests. My wife Barbara and I would like to extend our sympathies to the family.

I first met Reg when we both were graduate students in the Biophysics program at Yale, and we quickly became friends. I was one of three others who went with him in 1955 to collect fish (and anything else of interest) on a trip to Southern Mexico for the American Museum of Natural History. Reg and I stayed in touch over the subsequent years. He’ll be greatly missed. My wife Joyce and I would like to extend our sympathies to the family.