FRANCOIS MESSUD

MESSUD--Francois-Michel, died July 19, age 79, in Greenwich, CT. Born in Toulon, France, he grew up in Beirut, Salonica, and Algiers, and came to America on a Fulbright Scholarship at Amherst College in 1952. He received his MA from the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1961), and MBA from CEI, Geneva (1963). He worked for many years for Pechiney Corporation, and at his retirement was President of Pechiney World Trade. A lifelong scholar, passionate traveler, fierce lover of life and of his family, a man of abiding humor and greatest integrity, who faced illness in recent years with unflinching courage and optimism, he will be dearly missed. He is survived by his adored wife of 53 years, Margaret; by his sister Denise (of Toulon); his daughters Elizabeth (of Paris) and Claire (of Cambridge, Mass); by his sons-in-law Vassili Efimov and James Wood; and by his four beloved grandchildren.