James Doolittle ’39 *48

Jim died May 24, 1998, at the Veterans' Hospital in Scarborough, Maine. Even as an undergraduate majoring in modern languages, Jim had decided on a career as a teacher and scholar. So he continued at Princeton, earning his MA in 1942. After four years with the Army Air Force, he returned as a graduate student instructor, earning his PhD in 1948.

After Princeton he taught at Ohio State U., where he became a full professor. He later was chairman of the department of romance languages and literature at the U. of Cincinnati and finally full professor of comparative literature at the U. of Rochester. He retired in 1978 and moved to Maine. This enabled him to cruise on his Friendship sloop with his wife of more than 50 years, Pauline Snow, a native of Maine. Together they raced several regattas. All his life Jim loved to sing in church choirs, from the University Chapel to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brunswick. With Pauline, their four daughters, two sons, and 16 grandchildren, we join in celebration of the welllived life of this dedicated man.

The Class of 1939