Lansdon Hebbard Bowen ’26

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Lansdon died July 7, 2001, in Knoxville, Tenn. He prepared at the Columbus Academy and Andover, and after graduating from Princeton attended Harvard.

It would have been a great privilege to be in one of his classes. He was a professor of French at the U. of Ill., Ripon College, and Thiel College in Greenville, Pa. Landsdon was a longtime resident of Williamsburg but was born in Columbus, Ohio. He will be missed.

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