ALAN F. FLYNN JR. ’54

ALAN F. FLYNN JR., a teacher and headmaster, died Aug. 30, 2017. He was 85. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he received a master’s degree from Trinity College. He also studied at the University of Hawaii’s East-West Center and the International Christian University in Tokyo. In 1954 he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and retired as a First Lieutenant. He later taught at the Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan, where he met his wife and where his children were born. Returning to the United States, he taught Japanese history and was head of Kingswood-Oxford Middle School in West Hartford, Conn. He then became headmaster of the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, R.I., where the Alan F. Flynn Academic Center was built and dedicated in his honor. From 1992 to 1998 he was the headmaster of St. Michael’s School Country Day School in Newport, R.I. In addition to traveling, he was active in Rotary and was a charter member of a special group that was dedicated to bringing clean water, health, and literacy to Cambodia. He is survived by his wife, Emiko Tanaka Flynn; two children, including Sarah A. Flynn ’90; and five grandchildren.