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William Calvin Baskin, Jr., of North Branford died peacefully at home on Feb. 14. Mr. Baskin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 12, 1931, the son of the late William C. Baskin and Elizabeth Morrison Baskin. He was a scholarship student at Holderness School, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, from which he was graduated in 1949, and at Yale College, from which he received a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1953. While at Yale, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; served as chief aide to the master of Timothy Dwight College, his residential college; and represented Timothy Dwight on the Senior Prom Committee of the Class of 1953.

From 1953 to 1955, he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army, where his occupational specialty and postings were as a radar repairman assigned to the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. He was married on July 16, 1955, to Nancy Edith Brahm, who taught home economics at Berlin High School in Berlin from 1953 to 1955 and at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge from 1955 to 1958.

Mr. Baskin matriculated at the Yale Law School, from which he received a bachelor of laws degree in 1958. In his law school senior year, he was the managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation from law school, he joined the law firm of Wiggin & Dana, in New Haven. He became a partner in that firm in 1965, and practiced law there until his retirement in 2003, specializing in the areas of corporate, public utilities, and securities law. From 1993 to 2007, he held appointments as a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, assisting Professor Jan G. Deutsch in the offering of courses in these areas of the law.

Mr. Baskin represented The United Illuminating Company, of New Haven, on the Legal Committee of the Edison Electric Institute, of Washington, D.C., for many years. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Public Utility Law Section for many years, and served as its chairman from 1984 to 1986. From 1960 to 1982, he resided in Guilford, where he served as a member of the Republican Town Committee, secretary of the Housing for the Elderly Commission, chairman of the Planning & Zoning Commission, and chairman of the Police Commission. He was also a volunteer at the New Haven chapter of Recording for the Blind, Inc., and served as a member of its board of directors, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Country School in Madison.

His wife Nancy died in 1979, and he married Judith Williams Brahm Allison on Aug. 21, 1982, when he moved to Branford. In Branford, he served as secretary of the Pine Orchard Association Zoning Board of Appeals and was an active parishioner of Trinity Episcopal Church, where he sang in the choir and chaired the Finance Ministry. On Aug. 13, 2018, he and Judith moved to Evergreen Woods, a health care and retirement community in North Branford. His memberships included the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the Yale Club of New York, The Graduate Club and The Quinnipiack Club in New Haven, and the Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club in Branford. His favorite diversions were alpine skiing, offshore sailing, and choral music.

He is survived by his beloved wife Judith; his sister, Louisa M. “Bonnie” Lundeberg, of Littleton, Colorado; a son, William C. Baskin III, of Colchester; a daughter, Cornelia B. Beaulieu, of Middlebury; a daughter, Phoebe B. Burbine, of East Haven; a son, Peter F. Allison; a son, Timothy B. Allison, of Falls Church, Virginia; and nine grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26, at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in Branford. Masks are required for people who attend in person. The memorial service will be livestreamed. To access the livestream, go to the home page of the Trinity Episcopal Church website at www.trinitybranford.org and click the church image that appears under “Livestreamed Services and Events.” Interment will be in the Columbarium of Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the convenience of the family. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made to the Choir Fund at Trinity Episcopal Church, Branford, Connecticut, or the Scholarship Fund at Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Arrangements are in the care of the Guilford Funeral Home.