the right to teach. He had a long and distinguished teaching career, despite constant harassment and "blacklisting". He taught at Yale University, at Franconia College in Franconia, New Hampshire, and at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada. Personal life and death In 1938, Wheeler married Mary Lukes Vause, a fellow graduate of Reed College, a new mother, and the widow of his best friend, Clare Vause. Donald Niven Wheeler died age 89 on November 8, 2002, in Seattle, Washington. Legacy Wheeler's papers are in the archives of the University of Washington, and his library will be donated to the George A. Meyers Collection at Frostburg State University in Maryland. See also George Shaw Wheeler Wheeler (surname) Duncan Chaplin Lee References External sources Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999), pgs. 106, 225, 251-56, 257, 259, 261, 264, 286. The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has the full text of former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev's notebooks containing new evidence on Wheeler's cooperation with the Soviet Union. Frostburg: George A. Meyers Collection People's Word obit 54 Wn.2d 259, MARGARET JEAN SCHUDDAKOPF, Appellant, v. TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 10, Respondent 1913 births 2002 deaths Espionage in the United States People from Benton County, Washington Reed College alumni Members of the Communist Party USA American spies for the Soviet Union American people in the Venona papers People of the Office of Strategic Services International Brigades personnel