Grover Heyler ’49

Grover Heyler ’49, attorney and Daily Bruin editor in spring 1949, died Jan. 19 at age 94 in his Brentwood home.

His college days at UCLA were interrupted by service in the United States Navy, after which he returned to UCLA, joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and worked at the Bruin. One of his prized possessions was the collection of the editorials he'd written for the newspaper, given to him by his bride-to-be, Caroline Yarbrough, on graduation. The couple married shortly thereafter and moved to Berkeley so that he could attend the Boalt Hall School of Law (now Berkeley Law). While she worked to support them both, he became a Revising Editor of the California Law Review, was elected to the legal honorary Order of the Coif and worked part-time as a law clerk in the executive offices of Kaiser Industries in Oakland. He often said that the most important decision in his life — next to his marriage — was his joining the law firm of Latham & Watkins after his graduation.

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