NOT IN MEMORIAM, BUT IN AFFIRMATION — JOHN F. LULVES, JR. (1941-2005)

"He has long been at the heart of the ISI mission, and his loss breaks our hearts."
— T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., ISI President, on the passing of John Lulves

John at ISI's F. M. Kirby Campus, 2002.

John Lulves was a key ISI officer for more than forty years. He served as ISI's Executive Vice President beginning in 1970, with responsibility for overall budgeting and financial management. He also played a special role in the Institute's Richard M. Weaver Fellowship program and was Publisher of Modern Age. Beyond his formal duties, however, John embodied ISI's core values of lifelong liberal learning. Ever a "bookman," he is remembered for peppering young program officers with questions about what they were reading and for sharing his own love of everything from difficult philosophical classics to the entertaining products of popular culture.

John in ISI's Bryn Mawr office, 1991.

John's association with ISI began in the early 1960s after reading Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative and, more importantly, Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind. Their ideas awakened his interest in politics, and he began attending ISI summer schools and lectures. In the spring of 1965, he became ISI's Midwestern Director, and the following year, at age twenty-five, he became ISI's National Director. President Vic Milione was impressed with John's voracious reading. (As an aside, it should be noted that John was ISI's grammar maven: woe to him who confused he and him, that and which, who and whom!). John served the Institute with his keen intelligence, wisdom, and truly extraordinary loyalty. Keeper of ISI's institutional memory, watchdog of its integrity, builder of relationships, it would be hard to argue that anyone else has been more central or more integral to the life of ISI over the years than John Lulves.

John with ISI conference participant at Villanova, 1988.

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the John F. Lulves, Jr. Fellowship Endowment. (Please note your intentions in the comments field of the donation checkout page.)

Read the eulogy from John's daughter, Cathy Hancock.

Those who knew John are invited to leave a message for the family.

Read the resolution the ISI Board recently passed concerning the immeasurable contributions made to the Institute by John Lulves.

Requiescat In Pace

Fellow ISI staffmember Robert Schadler with John in the Bryn Mawr office, 1973.	John when he first joined ISI in 1965.