In honor of the June 23rd birthday of Alan Turing, the “father of modern computer science,” this week we feature a portrait of Thomas L. Collins (1921-2011), East Hampton’s own code-breaking computer specialist.
Simon Perchik of Springs, “one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary American poetry,” died of Covid-19 on June 14. He was 98.
Jessie Hall of East Hampton, who had been a second-grade teacher at Douglas Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, N.Y., for 30 years, died of complications of Parkinson’s disease last Thursday.
John Vincenzo, a bank executive and former president of the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton, died of cancer on April 12 at home in East Hampton. He was 61.
