Necrology 2006-2007

Submitted by Ward W. Briggs, CAMWS Historian

Apollo's unseen arrows seemed to have spared female members of the Association this year, but, alas, his darts did not miss some of our most eminent scholars, cherished members and beloved characters, and one former president. This year we mourn the loss and celebrate the careers of seven cherished members of CAMWS:

Bernard Goldman (1922-2006) served his alma mater, Wayne State University, from which he graduated in 1947, for over forty years, teaching a wide variety of courses in Art History. His lifelong specialty was the subject of his last major publication, The Discovery of Dura-Europas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979). He used his extensive knowledge of the art of Central and Western Asia for publications aimed both at scholars (The Sacred Portal: A Primary Symbol in Ancient Judaic Art [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966]) and for students (The Ancient Arts of Western and Central Asia [Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991] and Reading and Writing in the Arts: A Handbook [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972]). He also served as a director of the Wayne State University Press for a decade. He died 22 March 2006, at the age of 83.

Eugene Numa Lane (1936-2007) was salutatorian of his Princeton class (1958). He received an M.A. from Yale in 1960 and his Ph.D. two years later. After a year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, he taught at the University of Virginia (1962-6), then the University of Missouri, Columbia where he rose from associate to full professor, serving a term as chair and another as graduate director. In teaching and scholarship Greek was his preferred language and he taught it at all levels in classes ranging from small seminars to auditorium-sized mythology classes. He returned to the Athens to teach at the American School in the summer of 1992 and after retiring in 2000 he served on the School's Managing Committee. His scholarship enlarged our understanding of Greek cults in Rome by means of his superb editing of the four-volume Corpus monumentorum religionis dei Menis (Leiden: Brill, 1971-8) and two of the three volumes of Corpus cultus Iovis Sabazii (Leiden: Brill, 1983-9), permanent testimony to the breadth and precision of his scholarship. His sourcebook, Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. (edited with Ramsay MacMullen) (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), is invaluable on its subject. His piety, demonstrated by his editing Cybele, Attis, and related cults : essays in memory of M. J. Vermaseren (Leiden: Brill, 1996), inspired similar impulses in his students, resulting in his own Festschrift edited by Cathy Callaway (Stoa Consortium, 2002). He died of complications of Parkinson's Disease on New Year's Day 2007.

Robert Joseph Rowland, Jr. (1938-2007) was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University, New Orleans. A graduate of LaSalle College (1959), he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1961, 1964), while working as an instructor at his alma mater (1959-65). He remained in the Philadelphia area as instructor and assistant professor at Villanova (1961-7) before he began a well-travelled and distinguished career as an expert on Sardinian history and archaeology. He moved to the University of Missouri, where he was associate professor of classics (1967-72), associate professor of history (1972-4) and professor (1974-84). To this period belong not only numerous studies of Sardinia and Ritrovamenti Romani in Sardegna (1981), but also the beginning of his long and meritorious service both to CAMWS as president of the Southern Section (1982-4) and the APA as president of the Friends of Ancient History, but especially to the Vergilian Society of America as Executive Secretary (1980-91), which led to the founding of the journal Augustan Age and his editing of Vergil and the American Experience (1987). In 1984 he moved to the University of Maryland as professor and chair of the Classics Department (1984-91). There he burnished his reputation with Studies in Sardinian Archaeology (edited with Miriam S. Balmuth) in two volumes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984-6) and served as President of CAAS (1989-90). In 1991 he moved yet again, this time to Loyola University in New Orleans as Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His last major publication was The Periphery in the Center : Sardinia in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Oxford: Archeopress, 2001). He died on 14 March 2007.

Harry Carraci Rutledge (1932-2006) was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. All of his higher education occurred at Ohio State, where he received a B.Sc.Ed. (1954), M.A. (1957), and Ph.D. (1960). His first job was as assistant professor of classics at the University of Georgia, where he rose to associate professor (1960-9) and head of the Romance Languages Department (1962-9). Here he began to publish in his chosen field of interest, the classical tradition in the twentieth century with “T.S. Eliot and Virgil�? in Vergilius (1966). He moved to Knoxville in 1969 as Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee (1969-96), where he chaired the department for more than two decades (1968-91). Many of us remember with special fondness the papers first introduced in sessions at CAMWS meetings that were collected in The Guernica Bull : Studies in the Classical Tradition in the Twentieth Century (1989). Papers like “Classical Imagery in Henry James's Golden Bowl�? (1977) and “Dido in Modern Literature�? (1981) are among his best. Harry is perhaps best remembered for his great service to classical organizations. He was president of three of the largest: the Vergilian Society of America (1977-9), the American Classical League (1990-4) and our own CAMWS (1979-80). He was also president of the Southern Comparative Literature Association (1978-9) and secretary to the advisory council of the American Academy in Rome (1971-5). A rare grace and a generous soul in a loving friend to the world of classics, Harry died on 15 April 2006.

Henry Lloyd Stow graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930 and was a Ryerson Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1932-3), where he met and fell in love with a fellow student, Hester Harrington. After completing his Ph.D. at Chicago in 1936, he married Harrington and took a position with the University of Oklahoma. Fifteen years later, while chair of the Oklahoma department Stow accepted the chairmanship of the department at Vanderbilt in 1952. He returned to the American School three times as a teacher. He remained chair at Vanderbilt until 1976, when he retired. He was so distinguished as a teacher that he won Vanderbilt's Sarratt Cup for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and continued teaching after retirement by leading alumni trips to Greece and the Mediterranean. He died 26 August 2006 at the age of 97.

Theodore J. Tracy, S.J. (1916-2006) was born in Chicago where he lived throughout his active career. His life was dominated by his devotion to the Society of Jesus and his interest in the ancient world. He was educated at Loyola Academy and joined the Society in 1939, the year after graduating from Loyola University of Chicago. In 1942 he earned an M.A. in classics and philosophy from Loyola and began his teaching career at his alma mater, Loyola Academy (1943-7). He turned then to theology and was ordained in 1950 and received an S.T.L. from Bellarmine School of Theology (1951). He turned back to classics and enrolled at Princeton, where he received an M.A. (1954) and, at the age of 46, a Ph.D. (1962), writing a dissertation on the physiological theory and the theory of the mean in Plato and Aristotle under Whitney Oates. In the meantime, he served one year as an instructor at Xavier University in Cincinnati (1955-6) before returning to Loyola in Chicago where he became associate professor (1956-70) and chair of the department (1960-7). In 1970 he became associate professor at the new University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (1970-81), serving one year as chair (1974-5) while serving on the Board of Trustees of Loyola for more than a decade. In this period he served as first vice-president of CAMWS (1977-8). His publications were few, but not slight was his reputation as a nearly ideal colleague and teacher. A student of yoga, he maintained the notion of a mind-spirit balance that matched the balance of the love of antiquity and devotion to his faith. He died on 2 October 2006.

Stuart L. Wheeler, a lifelong Virginian, received his undergraduate education at the College of William and Mary, his master's from Vanderbilt. He attended Johns Hopkins University for two years of graduate study. Following two years of high-school teaching in York County, Virginia, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Richmond in 1967 and ultimately chaired the Department of Classical Studies and was a president of the Virginia Classical Association. Wheeler was noted among students for his Bill Cosby sweaters, the fervency of his political views, his dry humor, rollicking trips with students to Greece, and in class a particular stress on correct Latin pronunciation. In the words of a colleague, Wheeler believed that “environments need to be nurtured to foster culture.�? Wheeler expressed this in many ways, from his furnishing a comfortable and attractive classics library to serving on Richmond's Commission of Architectural Review (1972-82) to rescuing (as program director) the university's Urban Practice and Policy Program to running his own antiques shop, Distinctive Consignments, Ltd. In the 1970s, he saved the mummy of Ti Ameny Net from destruction and stored it in the trunk of his car for a year until it could go on permanent display in university's Ancient World Gallery. He died 25 August 2006 at the age of 68 of lung cancer.