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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