Miltiades L. Zaphiropoulos, M.D.: In Memoriam

With sadness and regret, we mourn the death (at age 101) of Miltiades L. Zaphiropoulos, M.D., a 1951 graduate of the William Alanson White Institute's psychoanalytic training program. He joined Contemporary Psychoanalysis as an associate editor in 1969, and was member of the Editorial Board from 1995 until his death.

Zaph to some, Milt to others, he was a training and supervising analyst for many years, during which he worked with many of our candidates and graduates. He remained actively and deeply involved in Institute matters, including this journal, well into his 100th year.

Gracious and gallant, his wit and erudition contributed markedly to the sparkle that was part of his aura. He always seemed to be enjoying himself and his life, and he helped many in our community to live theirs more fully.

Through his association with the White Institute over nearly seven decades, he served on every single major administrative committee (including tenure as director of clinical services and director of training), offering his wisdom and boundless energy to countless other committees with devotion and compassion, generosity of spirit, and judicious temperament.

He delighted us consistently with his endurance and verve; growing up in Alexandria and educated at the Sorbonne, he mystified us with his

inimitable use of language and imagery. A polyglot, he spoke French, Greek, Arabic, and English fluently. His thinking reflected his ability to draw on language that was altogether evocative and memorable, with unique melodies and cadences that led one colleague to quip about his idiosyncratic use of language, he thinks in jazz.

Milt both stunned and amazed us with his ability to recall both historical details and minutiae in his unofficial role as our institutional memory, often reminding us, as history repeated itself, that the controversy du jour had its roots in similar or