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I'm sorry they didn't mention by name your largest, your inestimable contribution to Spenser scholarship, The Kindly Flame, still being read by my students. Also I can't believe you earned your PhD in a single year, from 1957-1958! Is this a misprint? At 08:25 AM 4/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Bert, How very kind to do that. Thank you. tpr > >"A.C. Hamilton" wrote: >>In the Princeton Weekly Bulletin of March 24. 2003, the following notice >>appeared about Tom Roche on being transferred to emeritus professor. The >>information will be known to Renaissance scholars but it is appropriate >>that it be made available to this website. >> >>Roche joined the Princeton faculty in 1960. A specialist in Renaissance >>poetry and 16th-century poet Edmund. Spenser, he has taught courses on >>topics ranging from Shakespeare to Spenser and the epic romance. He is >>the author or editor of many articles and numerous books, including an >>annotated edition of Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene." >> >>Roche founded the Spenser Society and has served as president as well as >>in other leadership positions in this international organization devoted >>to promoting and recognizing the reading and study of the works of >>Spenser. He is co-editor of Spenser Studies, a Renaissance poetry >>journal. He also has conducted research on the 14th-century Italian poet >>Petrarch and on the iconography of the Muses throughout history. In 1991, >>he received the University's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement >>in the Humanities. >>The former director of undergraduate studies for the English department >>and clerk of the faculty, Roche has served as the University's macebearer >>in academic processions since 1993. He also has participated in the >>productions of various campus drama groups. A Yale University graduate, >>he earned an M.A. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1958 from Princeton. He also >>holds an honorary M.A. degree from Oxford University.