Anne, since Connie' has an email address in the MLA Directory, it
should be fine to post the one I got from Kent's brother: Charles
Hieatt <[log in to unmask]> Any problems and he should be able
to help you because he has kept in touch with her, as I
haven't. You are doing a fine job as the email centre.
All the best, Bert
At 12:54 AM 1/10/2009, you 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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