Necrology, 2012

Charles Luther Babcock

1924-2012

Not even his heroic combat experience as a Captain of infantry in the European Theater of Operations in World War II (for which he was awarded the Bronze Star with a Valor device) could dampen Charles Babcock's love of Italy and the sites of Roman literature and history.

Born on 26 May 1924 in Whittier, California, to Robert Louis and Margarette Estelle Fuller Babcock, Charles interrupted his undergraduate career at the University of California at Berkeley by enlisting. After being demobbed in 1947 after serving as an aide to Gen. Jon B. Coulter, this California native returned to Berkeley where he completed his received the A.B. in 1948 and the

M.A. one year later. He served as an assistant in classics at the University of Utah from 1949 to 1950, when he returned to Berkeley to receive the Ph.D. in 1953. From 1953 to 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Upon his return, he married Mary Ayer Taylor on 6 August 1955 before assuming a position as instructor in classics at Cornell, with a stint as acting instructor at Stanford in the summer of 1956. Leaving Cornell in 1957 he became assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, then associate professor in 1962. He developed his skills as an administrator first as assistant dean (1960-62), then as vice dean (1962-64) and acting dean (Spring 1964) of the College of Arts and Sciences (1960-62).

In 1966 he moved to Ohio State as professor of classics (1966-92) and chair of the department of classics (1966-68, 1980-88) before relinquishing his chairmanship to become the first dean of the College of Humanities (1968-70). Charles managed a number of executive and administrative positions with exceptional grace and goodwill, including stints as director of the APA (1968-72), chairman of the Latin Examination committee of the Advanced Placement Examination (1972-74), professor-in-charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (1974-75), and chair of its managing committee following the death of its founder Brooks Otis (1975-82), president of the Vergilian Society of America (1975-76), president of CAMWS (1977-78), and president of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (1986). By far the association that gave him the most pleasure involved his beloved American Academy at Rome, where he was professor-in-charge of the summer school (1966), trustee (1981-83), resident in classical studies (1986), and acting Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies (1988-89).

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1953-2012

AVA CHITWOOD was born Deborah Jean Tipton Chitwood in Charlottesville, Virginia, on December 17, 1953. Her father Edward was a widely respected surgeon and her mother Sarah was a pediatrician. Ava gradated from the University of Massachusetts in 1982 and received an M.A. in Classics from Johns Hopkins in 1983. While she pursued her doctorate, she taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, from 1989 to 1993, when she received her Ph.D. with a dissertation that explored the relationship of Diogenes Laertius's accounts of the deaths of philosophers Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Democritus with their philosophical works. She later expanded this work into her 2004 book. She taught for one year (1993-94) at Notre Dame and then at the University of Florida (1996-97) before moving to the Department of World Languages at the University of South Florida, where she rose from assistant professor (1997-2001) to associate professor (2001-2012). Apart from her study of the philosophers, her more general interest encompassed Greek civilization and classical mythology. In addition to a complement of language courses, she taught a variety of courses designed to appeal to non-Classics students, such as courses in medical terminology and film. Students commented on the enthusiasm, learning and skill she brought to the classroom. She was honored by USF after a decade of service and was named an honorary "coach" by the athletic department for her services in educating athletes. Following her death on November 1, 2012, in Tampa from a heart attack, students held a memorial service at which they lit candles and poured a libation in honor of her favorite goddess, Athena.

DISSERTATION: "Deaths of the Greek Philosophers" (Johns Hopkins, 1993).

PUBLICATIONS: "The Death of Empedocles," AJP 107 (1986) 175-91; "Heraclitus αἰνικτής: Heraclitus and the Riddle," SCO 43 (1993) 49-62; Death by Philosophy: The Biographical Tradition in the Life and Death of the Archaic Philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004) REVS: Phronesis 50,4 (2005) 337-340 Jaap Mansfeld; CR n.s. 56, 2 (2006) 286-287 Simon Trépanier.

— Ward Briggs

Kathryn "Kay" Leona DePue Grand Ledge Age 93, passed away October 27, 2012 in the presence of her family in Leipsic, OH. She was born September 20, 1919 in Hudsonville, Michigan to the late Benjamin and Jeanette (Everse) Douma. Kay graduated from Hudsonville High School in 1937 and Hope College in 1941. In 1947 she came to Grand Ledge and began a long career there teaching English and Journalism initially but soon was able to teach a subject which for which she was truly passionate when she became a Latin teacher. Enrollment in Kay's Latin classes and the related Latin Club gained national notoriety as one of the largest, most enthusiastic groups in the country. Kay was very active in her sorority, Delta Kappa Gamma, as well as numerous groups that supported the Classics in education. Kay retired from Grand Ledge in 1981 but continued to substitute teach until she was over 80 years old. She continued to tutor Latin students in her home past her 90th birthday. Kay was a member of First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ where she remained active until moving to Leipsic, Ohio to be closer to her grandchildren. She met the love of her life and soul mate, Phillip H. DePue in the church choir and they married in 1952. He preceded her in death in 1987. She is survived by her sister, Adrianna (Russell) Rutgers of Holland, Michigan; two sons, Daniel B. DePue of Grand Ledge and Mark P (Jane) DePue of Leipsic, Ohio; grandchildren, Corinne M (Karl) Beining and Philip E. DePue, both of Leipsic, Ohio and numerous nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 11:00a.m. at First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Grand Ledge. Interment will follow at the Needmore Cemetery. Visitation Tuesday, 2-4 and 6-8p.m. at Holihan-Atkin Funeral Home, Grand Ledge. In Lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions may be made to Putnam County Hospice 139 Court Street Ottawa, OH 45875. Online condolences and memories at www.holihanatkin.com

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Elizabeth Frances Jones of Williamsburg, Virginia, passed away on October 22 after a brief, but difficult bout with pancreatic cancer. She was 79 years old. She was born on Staten Island, NY, as Elizabeth Frances Hunter. She graduated with honors from Albany State Teachers College in New York in 1954. She was then awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent a year studying and traveling in Italy. From 1956 to 1959 she was a graduate student in Classics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, attaining a PhD in spring of the latter year. At Chapel Hill she also met and married Julian Ward Jones, Jr., a native of Fredericksburg, Va., and a fellow student of the Classics. In 1961 she came with her husband to Williamsburg when he obtained a position as a professor at the College of William and Mary. A few years later she embarked on a long teaching career at Christopher Newport College (now Christopher Newport University), retiring in 2001. She is survived by two sons, Gordon Bradford Jones of Falls Church, Va, and Douglas Ward Jones of Williamsburg. Also by one daughter-in-law, Presie Supremo Jones, and two grandsons, Xavier Jones and Zachary Jones, all of Williamsburg. A funeral service will be conducted at the Nelsen Funeral Home, 3785 Strawberry Plains Road, Williamsburg, Va. 23188, on Sunday, October 27, at 3PM. Flowers may be sent to this address. Notes of condolence may be left for the family at www.nelsencares.com.

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A recent painful loss to our profession came with the death of John Rettig. He was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from the Honors A.B. Program at Xavier University in 1953 and was awarded the M.A. in Classics the following year. The next two years were given to military duties, which he fulfilled while stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. After separation from the army, he returned home and taught English and Latin for four years in the Cincinnati public school system, but then returned to formal studies at The Ohio State University, where he earned the Ph D. in 1963. His work on his dissertation, "The Latinity of Martin of Braga", under the direction of Professor Clarence Forbes, seems to have set the stage for his future primary research interest, the Church Fathers.

John began his college teaching career as an instructor in Greek and Latin at Catholic University of America. After three years he became assistant professor of classics at Duquesne University. In 1968 he had the opportunity to return to Xavier and his home town. He remained at Xavier until his retirement in 1996. He became an invaluable colleague as he took on a wide variety of courses in the Latin and Greek authors as well as courses in English, especially his Introduction to the Church Fathers. He also showed a willingness to share the burdens of administration, most obviously in his ten years as department chair and director of the Honors A. B. Program. In his dealings with students, parents, colleagues, and the general public, he remained an active and effective champion of the educational value of the liberal arts and sciences and especially of the classics.

A continuing project over much of his career was his work on the translation of the St. Augustine's 124 sermons commenting on the Gospel of St. John. This work came to fruition between 1988 and 1995 with In Joannis evangelium tractatus, published in five volumes with introduction and explanatory notes in the Fathers of the Church series. The fifth and final volume added ten sermons on St. John's first epistle to the last thirteen tractates. His broad knowledge of Augustine's thought, his deep understanding of his Latin, and the ability to represent clearly the sometimes difficult passages in the text made these volumes a most welcome contribution to the study of this influential Church Father.

Although John was indeed highly respected because of his research activity, his students will tell you that they first think of him as an excellent teacher. He had the most welcome ability to be kind, thoughtful, and entertaining in the classroom, while at the same time imparting a clear understanding of the subtleties of the Latin and Greek languages, thereby providing a deeper insight into the words of the great classical authors. The students worked hard in his classes, but the majority enjoyed doing so. We all hope that our brighter students, when we guide them through the writings of the Greeks and Romans, will develop a great love and appreciation for the ancient masters. Those who enjoyed the guidance of John Rettig were fortunate indeed.

The John W. Rettig Lecture, which brings internationally known scholars to Xavier's campus each fall, is held in honor of John Rettig's contribution to classics and to Xavier.

Robert J. Murray

1945-2012

Jesse Rufus FEARS was born in Atlanta on Mach 7, 1945 to Emory Binford and Hazel Elizabeth Davis Fears. He graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in Classics and history in 1966, the year he married Charlene Louise Bauer. He received an M.A. from Harvard in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1971. His dissertation, "Princeps a Diis Electus: A Study of the Monarchical Theory of Divine Election in the Roman Empire before the Official Adoption of Christianity" (published by the American Academy at Rome in 1977) made plain his notion that ideology rather than wealth, power, or birthright was a causative force in Roman history. He joined the Department of Classical Languages at Tulane as an assistant professor in 1971, but the next year moved to the history department of Indiana University, where he rose from assistant professor (1972-75) to associate professor (1975-80) to professor (1980-86). His numerous publications on Greek and Roman history in leading American and European publications helped secure him both a Guggenheim (1976) and a Humboldt fellowship. In this period he also wrote three monograph-length articles for ANRW. In 1986 he moved to Boston University as chairman of the department of Classical Studies and was soon appointed associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1987-89) and director of the Boston University Humanities Foundation (1988-90). While he continued to write on classical subjects, he also edited a selection of the writings of the English Catholic historian and politician Lord Acton (1834-1902), who thought that the form of government most capable of insuring individual freedom was not a strong central government, but a confederation of individual states. Acton thus sympathized with the South in the Civil War, believing with Plato that centralized government was the prelude to tyranny. Fears's interest in liberty gradually overtook his interest in original research in ancient history. In 1990 he moved to his final academic home, the University of Oklahoma as professor of classics (1990-2004), dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1990-92), and in 1992 was awarded the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, which he held until his death. He took leave from his deanship to become director of the Division of Research at the NEH for one year (1992-93).

Following his return from Washington he devoted himself more and more to his classroom teaching and the promulgation of his ideas on liberty in recordings of his classroom lectures and his lectures before largely conservative audiences. He believed that "The first lesson of history is that we do not learn from it," but nevertheless conducted his classes on the assumptions that the lessons of history always come down to the choice citizens make between the efficiency and security of tyranny and the responsibility of the individual in a system based on freedom. His signature course was a two-semester sequence, "Freedom in Greece" and "Freedom in Rome," which regularly closed at 300 students each and had long waiting lists. His 2007 student Billy Adams recalled Fears acting out battles in class: "He would carry around a broomstick and it would become a spear, pointer, or javelin." His intention was a kind of moral instruction by which students could shape their lives according to the examples of great leaders from Pericles to his beloved Churchill. Students warmed to his view that "Today we have a tendency to believe that science and technology put us beyond the lessons of history. But we as a society still need to think historically." Fears believed himself an agent of outreach. He recorded a course of eighteen lectures entitled "The Story of Freedom" and took an active role in the University of Oklahoma's Life Long Learning Institute, bringing "Freedom and Morality: The Great Books Tradition" to seniors and alumni both in Norman and in Oklahoma City. He recorded 21 lectures for "The Teaching Company," later called "The Great Courses" and led tours for alumni on the theme "In the Footsteps of…" visiting Philadelphia, Monticello, and Civil War battlefields as well as sites abroad. David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, wrote that Fears was "one of the most gifted teachers in American higher education." Fears won teaching awards at every institution he served. At Oklahoma he was three times named Professor of the Year and won the medal for Excellence in College and University Teaching from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence in Teaching. In both his teaching and his later writing Rufus Fears eruditely explored conceptions of liberty throughout history.

He died in Norman on 6 October 2012.

— Ward Briggs

Was born June 1, 1933 and died September 18th, 2012.

MOTIU RENATA "NONNA" Age 87, September 15, 2012. Beloved wife of the late Enea. Dear mother of Margherita (Anthony) Marino, Marina (Kim) Amin, and Rossana (George) DeGrood. Loving grandmother of Dominic (Tatiana), Nina (Paul), Amalia (Bobby), Mike (Tasha), Alessandra (Meg), and Juliana. Best friend of Tillie Surdu. She was a devoted teacher and will be missed by her many beloved students. Visitation Monday 2-8 p.m. at the John N. Santeiu & Son Funeral Home, 1139 Inkster (between Ford Rd. and Cherry Hill). In state Tuesday 9:30 a.m. until the 10 a.m. Mass at St. John the Baptist Romanian Catholic Church, 20521 Woodward Ave. (South of 8 Mile). Memorial donations may be made to Arbor Hospice. www.santeiufuneralhome.com

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Elizabeth Hastings Ferguson, a resident of Bishop Gadsden, died Thursday, September 13, 2012. Elizabeth was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada September 22, 1919. She was the daughter of the late Frederick William Ferguson and Hilda Maud Hastings Ferguson. Although Elizabeth was born in Canada, she was brought to the United States as an infant and was raised primarily in Michigan. She was always an outstanding student with a special aptitude for languages. She graduated at the head of her high school class in Detroit in 1937 and then went to Wellesley College on a scholarship. At Wellesley she graduated in 1941 second in her class and embarked on the life of a Latin teacher. After teaching for one year at Baldwin School in Philadelphia's Main Line, she returned to Michigan. She joined Grosse Pointe Country Day School in 1942. A few years later Country Day, which had only girls, joined it's fellow Detroit University School, which had only boys. The united schools with boys and girls was called Grosse Pointe University School which finally in the 1980's absorbed the Liggett School. It is now University-Liggett. For 43 years, through all those changes, Elizabeth taught Latin and the French and a little Spanish. Only rarely did she have a student who wished to learn Greek. Elizabeth became well known as a teacher and a fixture in Grosse Pointe to which she and her mother moved in 1955. Elizabeth was always a student, earning an MA in classics and then an MA in English at the University of Michigan. When the American Academy in Rome reopened in 1947 after the Second World War, Elizabeth went to it for the summer. In 1954 she spent a summer at the American School in Athens. At another time she studied French at Dijon and she spent several summers at different colleges in the U.S. and Europe.

She loved walking and did some walking tours in England. She loved Sidmouth in England where she stayed many times. Elizabeth (or Betsy) was not like everyone else. Her fellow residents at Bishop Gadsden remember seeing her walking (with perfect posture) in hat and gloves. As she was retiring at the end of her long career at her school, she spoke to the headmaster about a replacement. Elizabeth said that it is always helpful for a teacher to be a bit of a character, but it is essential for a Latin teacher to be one and she was.

In 1999 Elizabeth, a lifelong and active Episcopalian, moved to Bishop Gadsden in Charleston where her brother Noel and his wife Faith had already moved. Betsy loved Bishop Gadsden, although she usually went to England or Europe each summer for a few weeks. She made her last trip abroad in 2007. During 2009 she slipped into Alzheimer's and she had the best of care for the last three years. Elizabeth is survived by her brother, Noel of Bishop Gadsden; nephew, Thomas (and his wife Abby) of New York and her two great nephews, David of Philadelphia and Ian of Boston.

1937-2012

Lou Bolchazy combined the gifts of foresight, business acumen, and a deep determination to broaden the appeal and of classics to the general public and to publish modern teaching texts and materials for the classrooms of the twenty-first century.

His industry, devotion to the literature of classical antiquity and of modern Slovakia earned him awards and admiration both in his native and his adoptive countries.

Lou's father, Eugene Bölcházy, was born in the United States but returned with his parents to Michalovec, Slovakia, at age 10, where he worked as a carpenter and farmer. His wife Maria gave birth to Ladislaus Joseph Bolchazy on June 7, 1937. Evacuated during bombing raids on their home town, young Lou and his family survived World War II, but when the Communist regime took over in 1948, Eugene emigrated back to America, where he earned enough money to bring his family over in May 1949. They settled in a Slavic enclave of Yonkers, New York, where Eugene worked as a custodian and Maria as a seamstress. Lou was educated in Catholic schools and intended to be a priest, enrolling at the Divine Word College and Seminary in Conesus, New York. He abandoned that idea, received an A.A. in Classics in 1960 and subsequently received a B.A. in philosophy from St. Joseph's College and Seminary in Yonkers in 1963. He already had begun teaching at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers in 1962 and he remained until 1965, when he met and married Marie Carducci, a marriage that lasted nearly 47 years. He enrolled in the graduate program at NYU and took a job as instructor at Siena College in Londonville, New York, for the academic year 1966-67. He received an M.A. from NYU in 1967 and took a position as assistant professor of classics at La Salette College and Seminary in Altamont, New York from 1971 to 1975. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany with a dissertation entitled "Livy's Interest in the Humanizing Role of the Law of Hospitality, subsequently published as Hospitality in Early Rome: Livy's Concept of Its Humanizing Force (Chicago: Ares, 1977). In early papers delivered at conferences, Lou showed his ability to adapt new technological resources to classicists' research needs by compiling electronically-generated concordances of More's Utopia and Ausonius. After a series of one-year jobs, as visiting assistant professor at Millersville State College in Pennsylvania (1975-76), and at Loyola University in Chicago (1976-77), and co-direction of NEH Summer Institutes Sophocles & Thucydides at Cornell (1976) and on ancient history at Michigan (1977), a permanent position still eluded him, and he decided to devote his considerable business skills to establishing a publishing house that would serve the profession. His successful 14-part radio series, "Myth is Truth," on WLUC at Loyola and WRRG at Triton College in 1978 were evidence that he could answer the popular interest in classics. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers began in 1978 and by 2012 had published over 450 titles, 98 per cent of them dealing with classical antiquity and filling significant gaps in larger press offerings by producing reprints of significant works of scholarship, class-sized texts appropriate for the new millennium, and recordings of Greek and Latin featuring the latest rules of pronunciation. He founded The Ancient World in 1978, a journal still going strong at is death. In 1988 he revived The Classical Bulletin. Bolchazy-Carducci was the only firm effectively reaching out to over 3000 homeschooling teachers with Waldo Sweet's Artes Latinae series. His early interest in technology made this the most technologically advanced publishing house in the classics field, marketing an iPhone app for Latin quotations, vocabulary cards for the Wheelock series on iPod, summer webinars for Latin teachers. His exhibit tables at APA, CAMWS, CANE and other meetings were always a site of free buttons with Latin mottoes, interesting new publications for every need, and a welcome as warm as if everyone were members of an extended family, which in Lou's eyes, we were.

Lou retained dual citizenship in Slovakia, which he called his "mother" and America, which he called his "wife." Among the numerous Slovakian works he had translated for the first time into English was the memoirs of Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec (b. 1924), who was imprisoned by Communists. In August 31, 2007 Slovak President HE Ivan Gasparovic presented Lou with the Slovak National Award (Rad Ludovita Stura) at Bratislava Castle for his lifelong efforts on behalf of the Slovak Republic.

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1930-2012

A. Trevor Hodge was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 30, 1930, the son of Alfred, a mechanic who had been an ambulance driver in World War I, and Agnes Hodge. He graduated from the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in 1947 and received a B.A. from Cambridge in 1951, a Diploma in Classical Archaeology (1952), after which he spent a year at the British School of Archaeology in Athens, and two years at the British School at Rome. He received an M.A. in 1955 and Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1956, after which, this devotee of railroads worked for three months as the most educated operator of a signal box in Britain. He then decamped for North America where he held instructorships in classics at Stanford (1957-8), asst prof. Cornell (1958-9), University of Pennsylvania (1959-60). Carleton College in Ottawa was establishing a permanent campus and growing its one-person classics department in 1960. He married Colette Fabre, a French nurse visiting Ottawa, in 1965. He rose to associate professor (1963-6) then professor (1966-97), and on his retirement Distinguished Research Professor (1997-2012) of classics at Carleton College, Ottawa. Chaired department 1967-72) His most popular course at Carleton was Ancient Science and Technology. His early research focused on the most perishable of building materials, wood, particularly as used in Greek buildings. He then became an authority on Roman aqueducts and the Greek colonization of Southern France. His Cambridge thesis dealt with the vanished wood of Greek roofs, which resulted in his 1954 work on the carpentry of the roof of the Athenian treasury at Delphi and he ultimately led toThe Woodwork of Greek Roofs (Cambridge, 1960). In bow tie and with a thick Ulster accent, he was an animated and stimulating teacher. Engineers obliged to take a humanities course invariably took his and were challenged to construct ancient machines. His students over the years filled the storage rooms at Carleton with catapults, triremes, and two-headed axes, their metal extracted from ore as the ancients did. His most famous classroom and public lecture debunked by demonstration Herodotus's story (6.115) of the shield signal at Marathon. He spent a portion of his retirement lecturing on cruise ships in the Caribbean and Mediterranean and described his "current ambition to combine his talents as railwayman, detective, and archaeologist by straightening out Agatha Christie on what really did happen in the Murder on the Orient Express." He also wrote a murder mystery set on the London-Mancester railway train, The Late Ulsterman (2008), which he published on his website. He regularly appeared on the CBC Court of Ideas radio series, with one famous episode putting Nero on trial for genocide and bad violin playing. and he contributed over 120 letters and contributions to the Ottawa Citizen. He died in Ottawa on February 16, 2012 at the age of 81.

Publications:

"A Roof at Delphi," ABSA 49(1954) 202-214; The Woodwork of Greek Roofs(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1960); "The Auxerre Goddess," EMC 31 (1987) 187-97; "Aqueducts," in Roman Public Buildings, ed. I.M. Barton (Exeter: U. Exeter, 1989) 127-149; Future Currents in Aqueduct Studies (ed.) (Leeds: Cairns, 1991); Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply (London: Duckworth, 1992); "In Vitruvium Pompeianum: Urban Water Distribution Reappraised," AJA 100,2 (1996) 261-76; Ancient Greek France (London: Duckworth, 1998); Frontinus' Legacy: Essays on Frontinus' De aquis urbis Romae, ed. with Deane R. Blackman with contributions from from Klaus Grewe et al. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001); "Reflections on the Shield at Marathon," ABSA 96(2001) 237-59.

— Ward Briggs

1948-2012

Sally Anne MacEwen was born on January 5, 1948, in Abington, PA to Quakers Jack & Isabelle McVaugh. She devoted her life to Society of Friends ideals of pacifism, community service, racial justice, gender equality, and education. She was educated in Quaker secondary schools in Riverton, NJ, where she became known as a powerful lacrosse player, a reputation that followed her (and which she enhanced) at Mount Holyoke, from which she graduated in 1970. She enrolled in graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania where her skills at lacrosse were somehow morphed into fearsome reputation as a fireballing softball pitcher. A stint as visiting lecturer in Greek and Latin at the University of Utah (1979-82) yielded both her first college-level teaching experience and the man who would become her life partner, Aaron Ruscetta. She completed her dissertation, "Theme and Structure in Three Plays of Euripides" in 1981 and the next year removed to Agnes Scott, where she would spend the rest of her academic career, as assistant professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures (1982-88), associate professor (1988-2010) and professor (2010-12), where she chaired the department (1988-91, 1993-94, 1997-2003, 2004-11) and served on the Women's Studies faculty (1999-2012). She loyally attended CAMWS meetings and served as chair of the Resolutions Committee (1989-92) and the Program Committee (1991-94). She edited Cloelia from 2004 to 2010. Her chief academic interest was in the cultural values of ancient Greece, particularly notions of heroism as reflected in Athenian tragedy. Her coursework went hand-in-hand with her research and reflected her own commitment to integrity and social justice. Students ranked her among the best teachers at Agnes Scott consistently throughout her career and colleagues admired her leadership of the Classics Department. Her commitment to education and Quakerism led her to help found the Friends School in Atlanta in 1990 in time for her daughter Elaine Isabell to receive its benefits. Her commitment to social justice was recognized by the Agnes Scott Human Relations Award, and the Liberty Bell Award of the Decatur-DeKalb Bar Association. Her noble, courageous, and generous soul departed after a long bout with cancer on March 15, 2012 inAtlanta, four days after marrying her beloved Aaron in a Friends ceremony conducted by their 25-year-old daughter.

PUBLICATIONS: "Homer as the Door to Critical Theory," in Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Modern Language Association Publications (Spring 1987) 101-7; Iphigenia at Aulis, ed. with T. Tarkow (Bryn Mawr, 1988); "Oikos, Polis and the Question of Clytemnestra," Views of Clytemnestra, Ancient and Modern (ed.) (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) 16-34 [REVS: CR XLI 1991 495-496 Flintoff | CW LXXXV 1991-1992 126 Gutzwiller; Phoenix XLVI 1992 90-91 Nielsen; RPL 16 1993 269-272 R. Cecire]; "Greek Tragedy and the American Western," CB 73,2 (Spring 1997) 101-10; "Using Diversity to Teach Classics," CW 96,4 (Summer 2003) 416-20;Superheroes and Greek Tragedy: Comparing Cultural Icons (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).

SOURCES: DAS 10th ed. 3:169.

— Ward Briggs

Ross S. Kilpatrick

1934-2012

Ross Stuart KILPATRICK was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 3 October 1934, the youngest of three children of John Stuart, a streetcar driver who never owned an automobile, and Ellen May Kilpatrick. His mother taught herself to play the piano and her son Ross did the same, along with the ukulele, French horn, and recorder. After completing his secondary education at Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1957. While Ross was directing a production of Finian's Rainbow, an undergraduate named Suzanne Mitchell auditioned for a part. She was not cast, but in 1960, she and Ross were wed, a marriage that would last for 51 years. Ross largely paid for his college education by serving as in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (1955-61) as a sub-Lieutenant. His first academic job was teaching Latin, English, Greek, and Instrumental Music at East York Collegiate Institute in Toronto. He returned to his alma mater, where he received an M.A. in 1964. He received another M.A. from Yale in 1965, and the Ph.D. in 1967, writing his dissertation, "Musis amicus unice secures: A Study of Consolation in the Odes of Horace." Horace occupied a He taught at Yale as instructor (1967-8) and assistant professor (1968-70) for three years and returned to Canada in 1970 to teach at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he remained until his retirement in 2000. He chaired the Classics department for ten years and for many years was a faithful secretary to the Classical Association of Canada, a member of the Canadian Philhellenic Society, the Società Dante Alighieri and was past president of the Humanities Association of Canada. His chief love was Latin poets and his favorite Latin poet was Horace, but he also had an expert's knowledge of the visual arts and was adept at finding hidden symbols both in poetry and visual arts. In his 60s, Ross wrote about the London-based Japanese artist Yoshio Markino in Italia: The Travels of a Samurai Artist (Queen's University, 1999) and in 2010 found that in the "Mona Lisa," Leonardo was alluding to Horace, Ode 1.22 and two sonnets by Petrarch. After 42 years he retired from Queens in 2000, teaching for no salary each year afterwards until a week before his death on February 24, 2012

— Ward Briggs

John Miles FOLEY was a prolific scholar and perhaps the leading expert of his generation on the oral transmission of ancient culture. William H. Byler Professor of Humanities (1985-2012) and Curators' Chair of Classical Studies and English (1997-2012) at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He received his A.B. from Colgate University where he majored in physics, mathematics, and chemistry. He switched to English literature for his M.A. (1971) and to English and Comparative Literature for his Ph.D. (1974), both from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition (1985-2012) and the Center for eResearch (206-12), he chaired the Classics Department (1996-2000). His first teaching position was as assistant professor of English at Emory (1974-9). At the University of Missouri he was associate professor (1979-83) and professor (1983-2012) of English, professor of Classical Studies (1991-2012), adjunct professor of Anthropology (1992-2012), and professor of Germanic and Slavic languages (2003-12). He did visiting stints at the University of Belgrade (1980) and Harvard (1976-7, 1980-1) He was a fellow of the Nordic Institute for Advanced Studies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1994), and the American Folklore Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1980-1), a senior fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1995-6) a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the International Folklore Fellows (Helsinki) learned societies, and a special advisor to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2009). He directed NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1994) and for School Teachers (1996).

Homer's Original Art won Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award (2000) and, for The Wedding of Mustajbey's Son Bećirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgorić, won the Biennial Award (2004-2005) for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition from the Modern Language Association.

He wrote over 160 articles and numerous reviews.

Books:

Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, 1985; repr. 1986, 1989); The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988; repr. 1992; Chinese version trans. Chao Gejin (Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2000); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990; repr. 1993); Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Oral Traditional Epic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991); The Singer of Tales in Performance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995); Homer's Traditional Art (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999); How to Read an Oral Poem (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002)

1941-2012

Dr. Philip Owen Spann died January 26 in Gainesville, Florida, from complications after a stroke. He was born August 13, 1941, the son of Northwestern University German teacher Meno Spann and high school English teacher Marjorie Williams Spann. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 from Northwestern University and a master's and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and 1976. He received the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1977 and studied at the American Academy in Rome. Philip was a passionate professor of classics and languages. He taught Latin, Greek and Roman Civilization at the University of Florida, the University of Utah, the University of Arkansas and Santa Fe College. He was the author of "Quintus Sertorius and the Legacy of Sulla" and many academic articles and book reviews. He was teacher of the year, selected by the Student Council of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UF, 1989-1990. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in Spain both in 1981 and 1992. Philip loved languages and spoke German, Spanish and French. He is survived by daughter Jessica Spann Gaither and two cherished granddaughters, Jade and Jordan, of Dripping Springs, Texas. He married and divorced twice - to Johnanna DeSalvo-Spann and Jeanne Thatcher Escue. Step-children include Stephanie Weinsier, Tim Thatcher and Lisa Kresl. His family will celebrate his life at a later date at a ceremony befitting an intellectual adventurer who loved literature, travel, tennis, sailing and running with the bulls in Pamplona.

Published in Gainesville Sun from January 29 to January 30, 2012

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