In Memoriam

Boardman “Boardy” Lloyd

Obituary

Boston Globe

May 29, 2024

Boardman “Boardy” Lloyd, age 82, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2024.

He was a loving, kind husband, father, grandfather, and friend and always had a twinkle in his eye. Boardy was a trusted, thoughtful and respected lawyer, working at Casey, Lane & Mittendorf in New York City, then as a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston, MA, and later as a partner at Harris and Lloyd in Cambridge, MA, until his retirement.

Born on January 8, 1942 in Concord, NH, Boardy attended The Millville School and graduated from St. Paul's School in 1960, having spent his eighth-grade year at Le Rosey, in Switzerland. He graduated from Yale University in 1964 and received a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967.

He was a gifted athlete who enjoyed sailing, skiing, ice hockey, and crew and could pick up any sport, including curling.

Boardy is survived by his wife, Lyn Conforti Lloyd; his two daughters, from his previous marriage to Barbara Lloyd, Pamela Boardman Lloyd (Renny Gleeson) and Emily Lloyd Shaw (Simon Shaw); grandchildren, Jasper Gleeson, Rufus Gleeson, Sophie Shaw and Willow Shaw; his brother, Francis Vernon Lloyd, III (Lida Thompson Lloyd); sister; Mary Emlen Lowell Lloyd Zaragoza (Joseph Zaragoza); stepchildren, Andralyn Farro (William Ominsky) and Jay Farro (fiance Dalia Ashurina); and step-grandchildren, Matthew Farro and Dylan Ominsky. He was predeceased by his brother, Malcolm Lloyd; and daughter, Amy Lloyd.

A Memorial Service will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, MA, on July 18, at 11:00am. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.

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Essay, 25th Reunion Book

by Boardman Lloyd

May 1989

Our daughter Pamela is in the Class of 1990 and, from what she tells us, I think she likes Yale very much, but it has taken some getting used to. And I think that Yale today is something that I like but for me too (and perhaps for others in our class) has taken some getting used to. In the fall of 1960 (less than a year having passed since the end of the era of the “fifties”), Yale was all male and a fairly homogeneous institution. I felt comfortable when I arrived, being well prepared for my classwork and knowing a number of us, including my two roommates, before I moved into Wright Hall. I did not feel too different from most of my new classmates, and seem to recall that the most common differences were based on geography and whether you had gone to public or private school and not so much on race or religion (were there unwritten minority student quotas back in the fall of 1959 when our applications were being processed?)

Certainly views of society as to women, minorities and other values have changed significantly since we graduated, and I think for the better. Yale has changed as well. Today, the classes are coed, fraternities are nearly extinct, and Pammy’s freshman roommate was Chinese and someone she had never met before. In addition to the mix of minority and racial backgrounds, the variety of political, religious and – let us not ignore – sexual preferences of undergraduates today is remarkable if not, to some, shocking.

So Yale is not now the comfortable place today that we once knew. But then, neither is the world, and I think Yale is doing its best to prepare its undergraduates for what lies ahead.