IAN WOO CUMINGS

Ian Woo Cumings, 21, died in an auto accident on June 27, 2010. Ian was born and raised in Chicago, attending the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, and then Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, MI. At the time of his death he was a junior at the University of Chicago, a dean's list student majoring in Germanics, and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was the third generation at the University, his grandfather and grandmother having met there and graduated in the 1930s. His father, Bruce Cumings, is a professor of History at the University. Ian loved sports and especially the Chicago White Sox. He played Little League baseball and in his senior year in high school was a member of the Michigan state championship tennis team. He loved to manage football, baseball and basketball teams in the fantasy leagues. He had many friends, who admired his quiet, kind, and very funny temperament. He leaves his father; his brother, Benjamin (17); and his mother, Meredith Woo, who is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Ian will be buried in Chicago, and a memorial service will be held at the University in the fall. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer contributions to the Ian Cumings Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Chicago, Harper Memorial Library, E587, 1116 E. 59th St., Chicago 60637.