May 16, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Written by Robert Gurval and David Blank )
Ann L.T. Bergren
The Department [at UCLA] sadly announces the passing of Professor Emerita Ann L.T. Bergren. Ann died suddenly at her home in Venice on May 10,…
April 19, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
We are saddened to report the passing of Dr. Vincent J. Rosivach, SCS Life Member and very active member of CANE.
"His legacy in the humanities and the College of Arts and Sciences will continue, and students are encouraged to…
April 2, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Provided by David A. Reingold )
On Sun., March 25th, 2018, the College of Liberal Arts lost our dear colleague Professor Antonia Syson. Her friends and colleagues in the School of Languages and Cultures will remember Antonia for…
March 29, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Provided by Ann Vasaly [FAAR 1983, RAAR 2010] )
Eleanor Winsor Leach (1937-2018)
On February 19th it was learned that Eleanor Winsor Leach, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Classics at Indiana University, had passed away…
February 20, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Originally posted on Facebook by the Vergilian Society by Jim O'Hara )
The Vergilian Society notes with sadness the passing of Professor…
February 5, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
It is with great regret that we report the passing of Walter Sherwin, former professor and leader at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus.
"Early in his career at UMBC, he established what would later become the…
January 23, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Submitted by Paula Debnar, Professor of Classics, Department of Classics and Italian, Mount Holyoke College )
M. Philippa (Forder) Goold, longtime professor of classics and department head at Mount Holyoke, died on March 29, 2017…
January 19, 2018
| Category: In Memoriam
(Written by Sarah E. Cox, and shared with the SCS by Ofelia N. Salgado-Buttrey )
Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr.
29 December 1929 – 9 January 2018
Renowned educator, numismatist and…
November 17, 2017
| Category: In Memoriam
Contributed by Professor Jamie Romm, Bard College:
William (Bill) Mullen, professor of classics at Bard College, died suddenly on Nov. 2, 2 days before he would have turned 71.
Bill earned his B.A. degree from Harvard and his Ph.D.…
September 22, 2017
| Category: In Memoriam
(From Philip Soergel, Chair of the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park )
We are very sorry to report that Professor Emeritus Kenneth ("Ken") Holum passed away on the morning of September 20th after a battle…