John Erickson’49, an outstanding Beloit College athlete who went on to coach Division I men’s basketball and become general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team, died on March 18, 2020, in Tulsa, Okla., at age 92.
Professor Emeritus of History G. Douglas Nicoll died Dec. 11, 2019, in McMinnville, Ore., at age 89. After a nearly 40-year career on Beloit’s faculty, serving from 1958-1995, he retired as the George Russell Corlis Professor of History. His fields of study were Russian and Soviet history and the philosophy of history.