- Date Of Death: December 30, 2016
- State: New Mexico
Day Lee
(December 6, 1922 – December 30, 2016)
Day Lee was born on December 6, 1922 at #2 Gramercy Park, New York City, NY, son of Ronald Currie Lee and Louise Day Putnam. He attended the Buckley School in Manhattan until he and his family moved to Hook Rd. in Bedford, NY, where he attended Rippowam Cisqua School. Later he studied at Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY and graduated from Lawrenceville School, in Lawrenceville, NJ in 1941. Day’s education at Harvard was interrupted by his service in the Naval Air Corps, and in 1947, he graduated with an A.B. in History and English Literature. In 1956, he completed a master’s in education at the University of Pennsylvania.
On September 9, 1950, in Shaker Heights, Day married Nancy Arabel Mills, daughter of Wilbur Thoburn Mills Jr. and Margaret Welch of Cleveland, Ohio. They had two children, Pamela Arabel Lee and David Currie Lee. From 1949-1950, Day and Nancy worked for the ECA (Marshall Plan) in Paris, where they developed a lifelong passion for all things French.
Day began his teaching career tutoring for the Searing Tutoring School in Bedford, NY. From 1956-1961, he taught history and was the assistant headmaster at the Gunnery School in Washington, CT. From 1961-1986, he taught history at Deerfield Academy, Old Deerfield, MA. During his sabbatical (1981-1983), both he and Nancy taught at the American School in Lugano, Switzerland.
Throughout his life, Day’s four passions were: the Adirondacks, the theater, painting and music. He was also an avid hiker, and in his forties, he attended the Telluride Mountaineering School in Telluride, CO. Throughout his retirement, Day traveled widely with Nancy and was still playing tennis when he was ninety!
Day was first introduced to Keene Valley, NY and the High Peaks when he was a teenager.
