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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