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Richard ‘Duke’ Llewellyn, L.A. Athletic Club official who founded Wooden Award, dies at 93

By Claire Noland
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Richard ‘Duke’ Llewellyn, longtime athletic director of the L.A. Athletic Club who in 1977 persuaded former UCLA coach John Wooden to put his name on an annual award for college basketball’s best player, has died. He was 93.

Llewellyn, a Glendale resident, died Friday morning of congestive heart failure, said his companion Nancy Tew.

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Born in Bermuda in 1917, Llewellyn grew up in Los Angeles and was an all-around athlete at Loyola High School and USC.

A full obituary will follow at www.latimes.com/obits.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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