In Memoriam
Dirk Held
Dirk tom Dieck Held, the Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor of Classics at Connecticut College in New London CT, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 21, 2012. He took his A.B. and Ph.D in Classics at Brown University.
Joining the faculty of Connecticut College in 1971, he held the Chair of the Classics Department for thirty-two years. Professor Held presented and/or published over one hundred learned papers on a wide variety of topics. He was widely known and respected for the quality of his scholarship and his dedication to the field.
Norma Wynick Goldman (1922-2011)
October 11, 2011 was a remarkably beautiful afternoon to celebrate a remarkably beautiful soul at the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Mabel Louise Lang (1917-2010)
Mabel Louise Lang, emeritus professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College, died peacefully on July 21, 2010, at the age of 92. She had spent more than seventy years at Bryn Mawr, where she was worshipped by generations of students and admired by scholars around the world.
Dr Simon Price (1954-2011)
From the website of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford:
Ernst Badian, 85, Noted Scholar on Ancient Rome
The Boston Globe published a nice remembrance of Ernst Badian today. Read it online here …