Delightfully memorable, witty, and grand gentleman, Russell Melvin Tyler, died on February 9, 2022. He was born in the hometown of his mother, Stoneham, Massachusetts on January 9, 1937, the son of Gladys Marian (McCall) Tyler and Wilfred Melvin Tyler.
Hanson, whose U.S. State Department postings included East Germany, France, Norway, the Soviet Union, Sweden and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, serves as diplomat in residence at the Alworth Institute for International Affairs at UMD.