Howard R. Lamar (1923-2023) spoke on four Civil War heroes buried in Grove Street Cemetery. A long-time History Department faculty member and administrator at Yale University, Lamar also served as university president in the early 1990s, and was a member of the cemetery’s Standing Committee of Proprietors.
Robert Leeney (1916-2008) was the commentator on Lamar’s paper. He was the editor of the New Haven Register.