I missed the news that my former Duke colleague, George Christie, recently died. From the obituary:
George Custis Christie, longtime Duke Law Professor, died on November 4, 2025, at the age of 91, at his home in Durham, North Carolina.
George was born on March 3, 1934 in New York City, New York, the second child and only son of Custis Christie and Sophia Velimahitis Christie. Both of George’s parents had immigrated, separately, from Greece, where Custis had been a lawyer active in the Greek government of Eleftherios Venizelos. George was also extremely close to his “Uncle John” Ravazulos, a relative of his mother, who often took care of George.
George’s life was a marvel of extraordinary stamina and intellectual gifts, illustrated by the incident in 1940, when after becoming separated from his father in a New York Department store, 6-year-old George walked the 9 miles from the store to his family’s apartment in Washington Heights, following the bus route. George’s family was waiting for the ransom note from his supposed kidnappers.
Read the whole story of George’s very interesting life here.
RIP George