Gerald (Jerry) Ellison Frug

My first memory of Jerry was in an English class in the tenth grade at Berkeley High School. The assignment was to make a presentation to the class about a selected subject. Most students chose simple subjects and presented clumsily with fear and embarrassment. Jerry spoke with confidence and eloquence, and by the end of his presentation we were all convinced that the Electoral College just had to be abolished.

I last saw Jerry a couple of years ago on a visit to Boston. He proudly gave me a tour of Harvard Law School. It was a sweet afternoon. Jerry frequently and enthusiastically attended Berkeley High School class reunions. I am grateful to have known him for more than 70 years. My sincere condolences to his family.

My first memory of Professor Frug is from a Contracts class at Harvard Law School in 1984. He initially scared the heck out of me because he was so quick, intelligent, and witty, all at once. Yet he was also so inviting and insistent and engaging that you could not resist the temptation to go a round or two with him. I never expected to love contracts, but he made it impossible not to, and I ended up writing my third year paper with him on the Uniform Commercial Code-another thing I never expected to do, but that Professor Frug made somehow possible.