Marc Friedlaender ’26

MARC FRIEDLAENDER, retired professor of English and a coeditor of the Adams Papers, died Nov. 26, 1992, at North Hills, Needham, Mass., following a prolonged illness. Marc was at Harvard Law School for two years following our graduation, before entering the academic field. He earned an M.A. in English at Harvard and then a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Chicago. He taught at Tulane and then was a professor at the Women's College of the Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro for 20 years. Later he taught at Vassar.

In 1959, Marc helped found the Athenaeum Publishers of New York, of which he was an officer and an editor until 1965, when he moved to Boston to become coeditor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. He edited and coedited 12 volumes of the Adams Papers and was recognized as an authority on the Adams family.

In 1933, Marc married Clara May Beer, who cheered Marc on in his academic career. After Marc's retirement, they moved to North Hills, a retirement community. There, according to Clara May, Marc read assiduously and "kept his enthusiasm for politics, the arts, the Dow Jones, the Boston Celtics, and the Red Sox."

Our sympathy goes out to Clara May; their two sons, Stephen and Jonathan; and their five grandchildren.

The Class of 1926