Henry L. Terrie Jr. *55

Henry L. Terrie Jr., emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth College, died Nov. 1, 2006, in Charleston, S.C. He was 85.

A graduate of Andover and Yale, he earned a doctorate in English at Princeton. In World War II, he was a Navy lieutenant on a sub-chaser in the Mediterranean.

After Princeton, he taught English at Dartmouth, where he rose to department chair and dean of humanities. He was regarded as an authority on Henry James. In retirement, he continued to teach informally and mentor former students.

Terrie was very interested in golf-course architecture, and as a member of Yeamans Hall Club in Charleston, S.C., he was actively involved in its restoration and updating. He researched and wrote a history of the club. An avid golfer, he played the great courses in the British Isles and the Eastern Seaboard.

Cal Winton *55, who was a fellow Princeton graduate student and a three-year colleague on the Dartmouth faculty, described Terrie “with his polished Yale manners as a congenial colleague and a friend.”

Terrie’s wife, Jeanne, whom he married in 1948, died in 2001. He is survived by two sons and two grandsons.