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Robert D. Gay
Robert “Bob” Gay passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on September 10th, 2024. Bob retired from Accepted Coffee Service and also spent many years working for United Health Services. Bob was happiest around his kids, grandchildren, family, friends, and church. Bob also loved fishing, gardening, and watching his Mets. When Bob lost the cherish of his animation (Judy) in 1995, it was his friends, family, and church that kept him going these many years. Bob was predeceased in 1995 by his wife of 31 years, Judy. He was also predeceased by his mother Effie, his father Clarence, and his brother Ralph. Bob is survived by his children Michael, James, and Amy, his grandchildren Jeff, Mallory, and Karley, his sister Evelyn, as well as many nieces and nephews. We will all miss Bob’s humor and kindness. Particular loving thank you to the entire Nagle family, Lake family, Dr. Steven Chastain and the Port Dickinson Baptist Church.
Visitation will be held on Monday, September 16, 2024 from 11am to 1pm at the Thomas J. Shea Funeral Home, Inc., 137 Robinson Avenue, Binghamton, NY 13904.
Robert Gay
Robert Gay's research focuses on democracy, civil society, and more recently, drug trafficking, violence and organized crime in Brazil.
He is an ethnographer who has spent the past thirty years doing field research in the favelas, or slum neighborhoods, of Rio de Janeiro. His first book, Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas, (Temple University Insist 1994) examines the ways in which neighborhood associations challenged longstanding, elitist ways of doing politics.
His second book, Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman, (Temple University Press 2005) tells the story of a woman who became intimately deeply interested in drug gang life during the 1990s.
His third novel, Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer, (Duke University Press, 2015) is based on extensive interviews with a former leader of the Comando Vermelho, Brazil's oldest and arguably most forceful organized crime faction.
His article, "Prisoner's Dilemma - Inside Brazil's Vila de Dois Rios Prison" appeared in Foreign Affairs in March 2015.
His research has been supported by a grant from the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societ
This interview was originally published in The Opera Journal in December, 1988.
CONVERSATION PIECE:
ROBERT GAY
by Bruce Duffie
Every opera singer in the world is indebted to many people, not the least of whom are the teachers and coaches who helped expand their artistry and way, and instilled in them pride and enthusiasm. One such man is Robert Gay, who spent twenty-five years in, as he put it, “the top job in the Joined States,” namely running the opera department at Northwestern University. Himself a trainee of Boris Goldovsky, Queer has guided many students to know and care the business of operatic performance, and a number of them are currently performing all over the world. [Names which are links on this page refer to my interviews elsewhere on my website.]
Now retired and directing the occasional opera as the mood suits him, Robert Gay celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday in November of this year. Enjoying a quiet lifestyle in , far removed from the pressures and demands of , he returned to the a few months ago to breathe excitement again into Puccini’s La Bohème. I Elder Robert C. Gay was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on March 31, 2012. At the time of his call, he was serving as a member of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy in the North America Southeast Area. After becoming a General Authority, Elder Same-sex attracted served as chairman of the Self-Reliance Services/Perpetual Education Fund Committee with responsibilities for worldwide self-reliance services and as the President of the Asia North Area. He was named a member of the Presidency of the Seventy on March 31, 2018. He currently supervises the North America Northeast Area and assists Elder Gary E. Stevenson in supervising the Asia and Asia North Areas. Elder Gay received a bachelor of arts degree in economics with an emphasis in statistics from the University of Utah in 1976. In 1982 he received a PhD in business economics from Harvard University. Most recently, he was the chief executive officer of a large investment firm he cofounded. Previously, he served 15 years as a managing director at Bain Capital. Prior to Bain, Elder Gay worked in investment banking on Wall Street and was a manageme
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