Dr. Daniel da Cruz, Miami '00, of 1603 West Kiowa Avenue, died in Colorado Springs, December 28, 1966. He had been a resident of Colorado Springs since 1946.Dr. da Cruz was born in Vilar Cadaval, Portugal on March the first, 1880.
He was educated in Portugal, Spain and the United States. He received his doctarate from The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
In 1906 he was sent by the Portuguese government on a mission of study to the district of Gaza in Mozambique. His work there was the study of the native ethnography which resulted in the publication of his first volume of a work published in Oporto in 1910. He was also author of numerous Portuguese and Spanish textbooks published in America.
He was professor of Romance Languages at the University of Kansas, 1917-1918. At Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, he was professor of Romance Languages from 1918 to 1946. He taught summer school at Johns Hopkins and The Colorado College.
He was a member of Sigma Delta Phi, Spanish honor scociety, Phi Sigma, science honor society, The Botanical Society of America, The Astronomical Society of America, and The Esperanto Association of North America. Locally he was a member of The Aiken Ornithological Society, The Mineralogical Society, and the Mountain Club.
In his immediate family, he is survived by his wife Louise, two sons, Francis, Arlington, Virginia, and Daniel Jr., Beirut Lebanon, one brother, and two sisters.