Maurice Browning Cramer ’31 *37

MAURICE DIED Feb. 26, 1990, at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He prepared for college at the William Penn Charter School, and at Princeton he majored in English, a subject he later taught with distinction at several universities. A member of Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, he returned to receive his doctorate in 1937. He taught at Mount Holyoke and the Univ. of Tampa, and was appointed professor and chairman of English at the Univ. of Chicago, where he received an award for excellence in teaching. He served as a Fulbright professor for two years in Athens, Greece, and then moved to Pennsylvania State Univ., where he taught until his retirement in 1972. His former graduate students prepared a festschrift in his honor under the title AEOLEAN HARPS.

Maurice will be remembered by classmates for his many gifts. He was a published scholar, well-known and respected. He was a talented teacher, novelist. and poet. He and his wife, Alice, were a literary team; she is a poet. One of her verses, "Carol for the Animals," is a delightful addition to the joys of Christmas.

Maurice's father was a member of the Class of 1895 and he had a brother in the Class of '29. Maurice is survived by Alice; two sons, Owen Carver Cramer and Maurice Browning Cramer Jr.; and four grandchildren; to all of whom the Class extends its deepest sympathy.