https://www.theday.com/local-news/20190218/oakes-ames-conn-president-emeritus-dies

Oakes Ames, president emeritus of Connecticut College and the college's president from 1974 to 1988, died Feb. 12 of Parkinson's disease at his home in Stowe, Vt., according to a death notice in The New York Times. He was 87.

Conn posted news of his death on its website Friday.