Dr. Stanford Leonard Luce, Jr. (1923-2007). Stan Luce provided the inspiration for the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation. He was a volunteer supervisor for the Habitat for Humanity in Oxford, Ohio. He was also a lifetime member of the NAACP.
His first wife was Frances Dudley Alleman-Luce (m.1947), his second wife Dr. Louise Fiber Luce (m.1972). His children are Stanford Crocker Luce (b.1949), Marian Eliza Luce Larkin (b.1951), Richard Livingston Luce (1953-2001), and Jim Luce (b.1959).
There has been a fund established through the Greater Oxford Community Foundation named the Stanford Luce Habitat for Humanity Fund in honor of his years of dedication to this organization building homes with people who were unhoused.
Wikipedia states: “…An American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books, especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco, which he was the first to translate into English. Luce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr. He received a Ph.D. in French studies from Yale University. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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