CRIM, Donald Emerson

CRIM, RAYMOND, ROWE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 8/24/2007 at 13:39:29

"The Fairfield Ledger", Wednesday, August 22, 2007, Page 8

CRIM, Donald Emerson -- Donald Emerson CRIM, 79, of Fairfield, died Saturday, August 18, 2007, at home.

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sept. 2 at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Robert Koepcke officiating. The body will be cremated.

A reception in Fellowship Hall will follow the Sept. 2 service.

Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church music fund and sent to 200 S. Main St., Fairfield 52556.

Dr. CRIM was born April 19, 1928, in Chicago, the son of Grace and Willard CRIM. He married Patricia RAYMOND March 17, 1957.

Dr. CRIM was educated at Eastman School of Music, University of Chicago, Ohio State University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1957, and Cornell University, where he received his doctorate in cultural anthropology in 1973. He did field work among the Yir Yoront in Australia.

Dr. CRIM was instrumental in establishing the undergraduate curriculum in anthropology and founding the Anthropology Department at Colorado State University. He taught at CSU from 1963-1997. His areas of specialty were Native American studies, theory of anthropology, the Pacific area, ethnomusicology and linguistics. After retiring, he and his wife moved to Fairfield where in collaboration with his daughter, he established the instrumental music program at Maharishi School.

In 1967, he helped establish the Fort Collins, Colo., chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbership Quartet Singing in America and was their first conductor. He sang in church choirs for 62 years and played the trumpet, also in the Second Army Band at Fort Mead, Md., during the Korean War.

Survivors include his wife; one son, Curtis CRIM of Fairfield; one daughter, Dorothy ROWE and husband Tom of Fairfield; three grandchildren; and one brother, Hugh CRIM of Glastonbury, Conn.

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