David Andrew Law was born February 2, 1925 in Blackfoot, Idaho. His parents were Hugh Wing Law and Doris Petria Toner Law. David married Mildred Darlene Colovich on November 28, 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Author: Dr. David A. Law, From Samaria to Samarkand: The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1992). He and his wife, Darlene Law, had three children, Georgia, Douglas, and Sylvia. After graduating from BY High in 1943, David served as a radar man on an aircraft carrier in WWII. He returned and earned a BA degree and an MA degree from BYU in political science and the Russian language. He then worked in Washington, D.C in government for a few years, then taught Russian at East High Schoool in Salt Lake City while earning his PHD from the University of Utah. After graduating with the PHD in School Administration, he was hired to teach the Russian language and Russian Civilization at the University of Missouri-Rolla. After he retired, he and his wife served a mission in Moscow, Russia. David died March 23, 1999 in Rolla Missouri.
Ron Christensen
My sister took Russian from Mr. Law the year before I was a sophomore and it was her recommendation that I take the class. It was 1963 and the cold war something we all lived with so it seemed like it might be a good idea to know Russian . . . just in case! Big mistake. Somehow I managed to pass the class without actually learning a thing! "Porusky Yazik makes me sick" is about all I got from a year of Russian. Sorry Mr. Law. You were a great teacher, I was just a bad student. And thanks, Pat Holland for making it all bearable.