Hugh Leroy Latham ’40

Hugh, our self-described "quiet rolling stone" died July 10, 2004, in Still River, Mass., the location of his beloved Saint Benedict Priory.

He prepared at Solebury School and Lavilla in Lausanne. Hugh's relative, Peyton Randolph Harrison, was in the Class of 1851.

Hugh majored in modern languages, and was a member of the ski club and Cloister Inn. He was a student at Yale Divinity School from 1940-42. Thereafter, he had a succession of employers: Time, Inc.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Telephone;

J. Walter Thompson, South America; the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs; the William J. Kerby Foundation; and the Smithsonian Institution. Hugh also worked for the federal government as an information consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, for the American Friends Service Committee, American Hospital in Paris, the American School in Paris, the Catholic Association for International Peace, First Franco-American Cultural Exchange, and the International Council of Museums.

He was the author of a French translation of Mother Goose. Since 1970 he spent most of his time in various monasteries in the United States and abroad — contemplating, writing, and serving as an oblate. He remained active skiing and sailing. Hugh is survived by dear friends and family: Mary Bullard Rousseau, Myrna Latham, nephews, nieces, grand- and great-grand nephews, and nieces. To them, his classmates extend their sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940