Henry Greenwood Bugbee ’36

Hank died Dec. 18, 1999. After preparing at the Hotchkiss School, he graduated from Princeton with high honors in philosophy. He rowed on the university's varsity heavyweight crew and single sculls. After earning his doctorate at UC Berkeley, he taught philosophy and the humanities at the U. of Nevada, Stanford, Harvard, and Chatham College. Hank served in the Navy as capt. of a minesweeper in the Pacific theater during WWII.

He was emeritus professor of philosophy at the U. of Montana, and the chair of the department from 1967-72. His book, The Inward Morning, helped redirect many great philosophical minds here and abroad. Revered as a teacher, he profoundly affected his students and colleagues. Harvard professor Willard Van Orman Quine called Hank "the ultimate exemplar of the examined life."

Hank loved the wilderness and fly-fishing, a passion he pursued in streams, rivers, and lakes in the East as well as the West. For all who fished with him, Hank was a mentor of the art of appreciating the Earth, its waters, and what they bear.

He is survived by his wife, Sally Moore, five children, two stepchildren, and seven grandchildren.