Bernard S. Heringman ’44

BERNIE CAME to Princeton from the Park School, where he was active in basketball, student government, and publications. He left in 1942 to get his degree from Johns Hopkins, and worked in advertising for several years. He earned a master's in English literature at Columbia in 1947, studied French literature under a Fulbright Scholarship at the Sorbonne, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1955.

He taught English at the Univ. of Montana for six years and then at Earlham College, from 1957 to 1960, in Richmond, Ind., where he met his wife, Christiane Buchmet. They were married June 4, 1961.

After two years reaching at Rockford College and four at Baldwin Wallace, Bernie taught English at Moorhead College in Minnesota for 20 years, retiring in 1986. As a Pastime, he occasionally published poems and reviews. He died, after two strokes, on June 5, 1988. He is survived by two sons and a daughter.

The Class of 1944