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David Royce '56

By Crimson News Staff

David Royce - By Courtesy of Casey Lall

David Royce '56 - David Royce poses for a photograph halfway up the Lampoon Castle. By Courtesy of Casey Lall

Ibis Empire State Building - David Royce '56, right, shows off the Thresky Ibis atop the Empire State Building. By Courtesy of Casey Lall

CLAIMING THE IBIS - David Royce ’56 stands atop the Lampoon Castle ready to claim the organization’s treasured ibis. By Courtesy of Casey Lall

Crimson Presidents - From left to right, caricatures of Jeff A. Zucker '86, Gay W. Seidman '78, Jim Cramer '77, and Donald E. Graham '66, all former presidents of the Crimson drawn by David Royce. Royce died on April 4. He was 82. By Courtesy of David Royce

David Royce ’56—a sharp-penned cartoonist, controversial political activist, and the “alleged purloiner of the [Harvard Lampoon’s] Thresky Ibis”—died April 4 in Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn. after a two-year bout with lymphoma. He was 82.

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David Royce '56

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