- Adam Yarmolinsky
Professor Adam Yarmolinsky (November 17, 1922 - January 5, 2000), son of
Babette Deutsch andAvrahm Yarmolinsky , was an American academic, educator and author, as well as a political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.Besides serving in the
White House , he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide toSecretary of Defense Robert McNamara atthe Pentagon , where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in theVietnam war .Yarmolinsky attended the Fieldston School in Riverdale and then was graduated from
Harvard College where he was editorial director of the "Harvard Crimson ". He enlisted in the Army Air Corps duringWorld War II and rose to the rank of sergeant.After the war, he received a law degree from
Yale University . He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, and later as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stanley E. Reed.Following his service in the U.S. government Yarmolinsky became Regent's Professor of Public Policy at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore , where he served as Provost. He was also a founding member of the Institute of Medicine of theU.S. National Academy of Sciences .Marriage
On February 3, 1990 he married Dr. Sarah Ames Ellis, a clinical psychologist, in an Episcopalian ceremony in
Manhattan . It was his third marriage.Death
He died, aged 77, at Georgetown University Hospital, of leukemia. He was survived by his wife; his first wife, Harriet Yarmolinsky; and four children. Harriet Yarmolinsky died in January 2008 at age 81. [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=24&id=17908]
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* [http://www.harpers.org/subjects/AdamYarmolinsky Harper's Magazine]
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