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An appeal on behalf of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki| Category: General AnnouncementsDear APA Friends: I have learned from close colleagues in my field of Hellenistic poetry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki of the dire situation of their resources: they have no funds whatever to buy books for their library.… |
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LOU BOLCHAZY, June 7, 1937—July 28, 2012| Category: In MemoriamPublished in The Chicago Tribune on July 29, 2012 Ladislaus J. "Lou"… |
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MARTIN OSTWALD, January 15, 1922–April 10, 2010| Category: In Memoriam(A longer version of the following memoir, by Helen North, Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita, Swarthmore College, was commissioned for a forthcoming volume of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. This version… |
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Gary Meltzer (1951-2011)| Category: In MemoriamI met Gary in 1987 when we were both starting our careers as Visiting Assistant Professors at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He died on December 31, 2011, after a brief battle with cancer. The facts of Gary’s life as a classicist are… |
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Dirk Held| Category: In MemoriamDirk 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. … |
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Sally Anne MacEwen| Category: In MemoriamSally Anne MacEwen, Professor and Chair of Classics at Agnes Scott College, died on March 15, 2012 after a long and astonishingly cheerful and determined fight against cancer. Born in Abington, PA in 1948, Sally earned her B.A… |
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In Memoriam: Louise Price Hoy| Category: In MemoriamLouise Price Hoy, former chair of Classical Studies at Marshall University and longtime CAMWS Vice-President for West Virginia, died July 4, 2010. She possessed enviable academic credentials: B. A. in Latin from Duke University where she was… |
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In Memoriam Valerie French| Category: In MemoriamValerie French, Associate Professor Emerita of History in American University, Washington, D.C., died suddenly in her home in Washington, Dec. 8, 2011, in her 71st year. She was born in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1941. She received her B… |
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Emmett L. Bennett Jr., Ancient Script Expert, Dies at 93| Category: In Memoriam"Emmett L. Bennett Jr., a classicist who played a vital role in deciphering Linear B, the Bronze Age Aegean script that defied solution for more than 50 years after it was unearthed on clay tablets in 1900, died on Dec. 15 in Madison, Wis. He… |