Professor Roy J. Gardner passed away unexpectedly on Monday, January 10, 2011 at his residence in Bloomington.  He was 63 years old.  He leaves his wife of 42 years, Carla Gardner (Reardon), son James C. Gardner and his partner Alice Moffatt of Seattle, and daughter Sara A. Gardner and her partner Betsy Williamson of Bloomington, and numerous friends, colleagues, and students. 

Roy Gardner was born on May 21, 1947 in Peoria, Illinois to Harold and Ann Gardner (Firtik), both deceased.  He was valedictorian of his high school class of 1965 at Limestone High, Peoria as well as the state Latin champion.  He graduated summa cum laude from Bradley University in 1968.  He served as an artillery officer in the US Army-Vietnam and won the Bronze Star for his service to his country. Roy earned his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1975.  He recently retired from Indiana University where he had been since 1983.  He held the titles of Chancellor’s Professor of Economics (since 1996) and Henry H. H. Remak Professor of West European Studies (since 2004).  Roy specialized in the theory of games and economic behavior.  He was a member of a large multidisciplinary NSF grant, “Mathematics across the Curriculum,” (Indiana University), as well as a large German Science Foundation grant (University of Mannheim), and two large TransAtlantic Cooperation grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (University of Bonn and Humboldt University Berlin).  He also served as the Academic Director of the MA program in Economics at the Ukranian National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” since 2002.  He applied game theory to such topics as class struggle, spoils systems, draft resistance, alliance formation, monetary union, and corruption. Roy was dynamic and full of life and will be deeply missed by each person who knew him. 

A celebration of Roy’s life will be held at the Frangipani Room, at the Indiana Memorial Union on January 29, 2011 at 2 p.m. Arrangements are through Allen Funeral Home 4155 South Old Highway 37 and online memories may be sent to the family at www.allenfuneralhome.org.

West European Studies has a memorial page for Roy Gardner at:
http://www.iub.edu/~west/spotlight-gardner.shtml#memories  

Gerhard Glomm
Chair, Department of Economics
Indiana University