C. Haskell Hinnant ’59

 Born in Cleveland, Haskell spent his early boyhood near Newport Beach, Calif., returning to the Cleveland area at the end of World War II. He wrestled and debated at Shaker Heights High School, then went on to Princeton, joining Campus Club, rooming with clubmate Bob Butler, chairing the Student Loan Library, serving on the Student Christian Association executive council, and participating in the Debate Council. An English major, Haskell wrote with prophetic understatement in the Nassau Herald that he would “consider teaching as a career.”

It didn’t take Haskell long to fulfill his prophecy, enrolling in fall 1959 as an M.A. and Ph.D. candidate at Columbia (in the role of “starving” graduate student, one of his odd jobs was working in an ice cream factory with appropriate fringe benefits).

Completing his graduate studies, Haskell took a position as assistant English professor at the University of Michigan, where he met Susan Wolfenden from Hanover, N.H. After marrying in 1968, they moved to Columbia, Mo., in 1972, when Haskell signed on as an associate professor at the University of Missouri, followed by a full professorship, culminating with the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair. During his career Haskell published or edited eight books and numerous articles.

A life well lived; Haskell died Aug. 9, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Susan; his daughters, Katherine and Amanda; and four grandchildren, to whom the class sends condolences.