Tom, Thanks for forwarding Connie's contact numbers to me. We shall miss
him greatly, as we already have done.
Thomas P Roche ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:54 pm
> Subject: Re: Kent Hieatt
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> > To save anyone time, here are the address and e-mail as given to
> > me
> > by Kent's daughters:
> >
> > Connie's address is: 335 Essex Meadows, Bokum Road, Essex
> > CT
> > 06426. tel: 860-767-9045; the e-mail is: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > I have forwarded to the daughters, Kathy and Alice, all of the
> > messages about Kent that have been posted. Anne.
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Carol Kaske wrote:
> >
> > > Connie's address is right there along with the email in the MLA
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > anne prescott wrote:
> > >> Yes, Connie is still living but I don't have an address, just
> > an e-
> > >> mail. Would it be OK to post it? I don't know the modern
> > niceties
> > >> or the decorum. A Yale "pantheon" e-mail, which seems fitting
> > for
> > >> a fine Medievalist. Anne.
> > >> On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Judith H. Anderson wrote:
> > >>> I, too, remember Kent's kindness to those younger--even
> > somewhat
> > >>> younger. I also remember him as a kind of fixture at K-zoo--
> > >>> always ready with a question, a disquisition (always long!),
> > and
> > >>> the friendly offer of lunch or dinner. I was sorry when he
> > >>> stopped attending and never knew that it probably had a
> > >>> connection with illness.
> > >>>
> > >>> Anne, is Connie, Kent's wife still living? I knew her as
> > well,
> > >>> since she was a medievalist. Do you possibly have an address?
> > >>>
> > >>> Judith Anderson
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, anne prescott wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Dear List--With a heavy heart I must report, at Bert
> > Hamilton's
> > >>>> request, that Kent Hieatt has just died of pneumonia, at
> > least
> > >>>> spared the last stages of his Alzheimer's disease. Many of us
> >
> > >>>> knew him, loved him, and had cause to be grateful to him
> > whether
> > >>>> as scholars or as friends or, of course, both. He was long a
> > >>>> regular at Kalamazoo and needless to say his work on Spenser,
> >
> > >>>> particularly (for me at least) on the Epithalamion and
> > >>>> numerology, was seminal. I once had a student who wrote on
> > her
> > >>>> exam that "Spenser believed in a new morology and he thought
> > >>>> that this morology would make his marriage last a long time."
> >
> > >>>> Before we became good friends I wrote Kent, who had been of
> > my
> > >>>> professors at Columbia, a letter quoting this wonderful
> > >>>> misconception and he wrote back saying that "according to
> > >>>> Desiderius E., without the *old* morology we would not get
> > >>>> married to begin with." Typical of his mischievous wit. A lot
> > of
> > >>>> us will miss him even as we are relieved that his suffering
> > is
> > >>>> over. Bert is not on the list or he would have written you
> > >>>> himself. Anne Prescott.
> >
> >
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