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JAMO BLAKE Obituary

BLAKE--Jamo, 85, died September 23, 2012. Harvard AB '49; NYU PhD '80. A gifted and imaginative teacher, Jamo taught Latin, French and Spanish at Washington Irving and Stuyvesant high schools in NYC. Co-founder of the Empire City Motor Cycle Club, NYC's first gay motor cycle club. Memorial Service: St. George Chapel, NYC, 10 am, Saturday, November 17.

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Published by New York Times on Nov. 7, 2012.

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Marie Carosella Churilla Churilla

August 26, 2025

Jamo Blake was my Latin teacher at Washington Irving High School in 1962-1963. He lived in my neighborhood . We always met up at some store or restaurant. He always rode his motorcycle to school. I was looking at my year book and I decided to look him up. So sorry to have to say hello via guest book. Rest in Peace!!

Yvan Busom Sosa

August 12, 2020

Jamo Blake was my teacher in Harvard Summer School in 1981. A wonderful person and a very interesting character. He has been very influential in my life. My deepest memories.

Gloria Johnson

November 17, 2012

Mr. Blake was my home room and Latin teacher at Washington Irving High School in 1963 and 1964. He was a wonderful teacher and funny gentle man.
Very strange - I was just thinking of him - for the first time in 50 years.
A real loss.

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