Pianist, paleontologist, Egyptologist, and lecturer. Bruce Hungerford originally was named Leonard Sinclair Hungerford. He recounted the source of his name "Bruce" in an undated manuscript as follows: "When it came to naming me my parents were torn between 'Bruce' and 'Leonard.' I think they really wanted Bruce, but I was such a puny specimen that they hardly felt I fitted the name of the Warrior King of Scotland. Then a day or two before I was to be christened, my grandfather journeyed down to see me. He was a Scotsman to the backbone and after taking one look at me said sadly, 'This is no "Bruce,"' and so the die was cast, at any rate for my first 35 years." He began his study of music in Australia, his native country, and studied piano with Ignaz Friedman in Sydney during 1944. His playing impressed the conductor Eugene Ormandy who suggested he move to the United States to advance his career. He studied with Ernest Hutcheson at the Juilliard School of Music in New York during 1945 and then with Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia in 1947. Bruce also received coaching and advice from Myra Hess who suggested he study with Carl Friedberg. He was awarded the first annual Carl Friedberg Alumni Association Scholarship in late 1950 that gave him tuition for twenty-five lessons with Friedberg. On the advice of Samaroff, he moved to Germany in 1958 intending to establish himself on the concert scene in Europe. He changed his name formally to Bruce Hungerford just before his first concert tour there. Bruce also was a professional associate of Friedelind Wagner, granddaughter of the composer. He toured Europe in 1958 and was pianist-in-residence of the Bayreuth Festival master classes in Germany from 1959 to 1967. He recorded all the piano works of Wagner at the request of the Wagner family in 1960. The recordings were produced on the DDR label Eterna. Bruce was approached during 1967 by Maynard and Seymour Solomon, the founders and directors of the Vanguard Recording Society, to record the complete piano works of Beethoven. Bruce moved to the United States, undertook a reduced concert schedule, and accepted a teaching appointment at the Mannes College of Music. The projected recording project was incomplete at the time of his death. He had produced nine all-Beethoven records, including the 32 sonatas, as well as one record each of works by Brahms, Chopin, and Schubert, all on the Vanguard label. Bruce's interest in Egyptology and his skill as a photographer led to his making six research trips to Egypt, the first during 1961 as a still photographer on the NBC "River Nile Expedition." Bruce wrote and recorded a seventeen-part audio-visual lecture series during 1971, "The Heritage of Ancient Egypt," that traced Egyptian art from 3100 B.C. through 1805 B.C. He accompanied the series with some 1200 color transparencies that he had taken during his travels. Museums and universities throughout the Unites States purchased the series for their own use. Burce's last New York recital before his death was a Beethoven program at Alice Tully Hall in March 1974. Bruce was driving back from a lecture on Egypt that he had given at Rockefeller University when a drunk driver crashed into the car in the Pelham Bay Park area of Bronx, New York, killing Bruce, his mother Anna Maria Sinclair Hungerford, his niece Katrine "Kate" Mary Clouston Azriel, and Kate's husband Solomon Azriel. It wiped out the family except for Bruce's sister Pauline "Paulina" Sinclair Hungerford Clouston, the mother of Katrine "Kate" Mary Clouston Azriel. A small "ceremony of consecration" and final goodbye gathering was held in Bruce's sister Paulina's backyard at Horse Fence Hill, South Britain, Connecticut on Sunday, May 15, 1977 in which Bruce, Anna Marie, and Kate's ashes were scattered between two rocks near her garden that can be seen in the photograph posted here. A relatively small group of friends and acquaintances came for this event. Pictures and the map given to attendees are some of the items found in the Leonard (Bruce) Hungerford (IR299) collection labelled "Ceremony of Consecration." A memorial gathering for Bruce also was held on Sunday May 22, 1977 at 3:00 P.M. in Caspary Auditorium, Rockefeller University. One of his students, Tom Stanback, gave a eulogy.