Dear colleagues,

I am saddened to tell you that I have just been told by Brian Ferguson at the University of Guelph that Rod Hay passed away suddenly.  He was 60.  Many of you will know him from his spirited comments on this listserve.  Others will appreciate that he was the energetic creator of the McMaster Archive for the History of Economic Thought, an electronic HET database of texts housed at McMaster University long before the existence of other such resources.  Rod taught at several universities in Ontario, including the University of Guelph last semester.

I remember him as a ball player on the "Imperfect Competitors" who reminded the hot-headed economics graduate students at the University of Toronto that the games were not so important, after all.  He was a good hitter with a good arm.  

He will be missed.

Sandra Peart