Charles Donald Peet Jr. ’48 *56

Don Peet died Feb. 12, 1998, after a two-year battle with cancer. His entire professorial career was with the English department of Indiana U. He taught courses on Chaucer and Shakespeare and took delight in "tormenting graduate students with my seminar on 17th-century poetry." He was especially proud to see the names of so many of his students on the Phi Beta Kappa lists.

Don was classified 4F for WWII but reclassified 1A some years later and drafted in 1954 just as he completed his PhD thesis at Princeton on the poetry of Michael Drayton. He claimed his skill in typing and alphabetizing testified to the quality of his education. "With an honorable discharge and a good conduct medal to go with my Princeton PhD, I was offered employment by Indiana U. in 1956." Don enjoyed P.G. Wodehouse, detective fiction, chess, and classical music.

Don, a lifelong bachelor, was born in St. Louis and went to the Normandy [Mo.] H.S. He is survived by his sister, Ruth, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1948