Constantine Nicholas Revelos ’60

Constantine Nicholas Revelos ’60 died on November 3, 2007, in Middletown, Ohio.

Born in Middletown on March 1, 1938, he prepared for college at Middletown High School and became a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity at Bowdoin. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Duke University in 1965 and an LL.M. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971. He was appointed assistant professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1965, and, in 1968, was named the seventh dean of the law school. He was instrumental in bringing about the merger of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law with Northern Kentucky University in 1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 2006, he was a professor of law at the Detroit Law College at Michigan State University. He was the director of the 1997 summer law program in Romania and was director of the King Scholars Honors Program. He was the author of many publications and reviews on the law, including a three-volume work on Michigan corporation law, Michigan Practice, Business Organizations – Corporations. He had been an arbitrator on the New York Stock Exchange and was a guest lecturer for American Bar Association programs in Romania, Canada, and Lithuania. He was a fellow of the Ohio Bar Association, and a member of the American Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Commercial Law League of America. He was president of the board of trustees of Saints Helen and Constantine Greek Orthodox Church in Middletown and a member of the board of trustees of the Annunciation Cathedral in Detroit, Mich. In Bowdoin affairs, he was a capital campaign area chairman and an admissions aide. He is survived by his mother, Frosine Revelos of Middletown; three brothers, George N. Revelos, Mike Revelos, and Chris Revelos, all of Middletown; a sister, Lula Poulias of Loveland, Ohio; three nephews; five nieces; two great-nephews; and two great-nieces.