Lee Roloff
Lee Roloff at 88
Lee Roloff (1927-2015) died at his home in Seattle, Washington at 5:05 PM on October 5, 2015. He is survived by two sons and several grandchildren. Born in San Diego, California,he was a child of the sun and blessed with a sanguine and optimistic disposition. He taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texasbefore taking up a full professorship at Northeastern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was the recipient of many awards for excellence in teaching. As a professor in the Performing Arts at Northwestern, he was the mentor of many students who went on to distinguished careers in the world of theater.
Lee was one of the first graduates of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1978) and a founding member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (CSJA), which was accepted as an IAAP Member Group in 1980. He was a training and supervising analyst at the CSJA until his move to Seattle in the late '90's, where he assumed a similar role in the Jungian groups located in the Pacific Northwest.
In his later years, Lee declared his retirement frequently, but students and analysands always managed to persuade him to remain active as an analyst and teacher, and he invariably acceded gracefully and with a not so hidden sense of pleasure to their requests until his sudden and unexpected final departure just months after his 88th birthday.
We, his friends and colleagues in North America and in his beloved South Africa, deeply grieve his passing, but we will keep him present to us in our loving memories of his vivid personality, his wit and elegance, and his generous service to the Jungian community.
With gratitude,
Murray Stein