Roger Shugg ’27

DR. ROGER "Rodge" Shugg died Apr. 30, 1993, at a convalescent home in Alberquerque, N.Mex.

He came to us from Brookline H.S., won a Phi Beta Kappa in history, was president of Clio, and treasurer of the Cloister Inn Club.

After graduation, while serving as an advisor on historical publications to Alfred Knopf's New York publishing home, he earned an A.M. in '31 and a Ph.D. in '36 from Princeton in history. From 1938 to 1939, he studied as a postdoctoral fellow in the London School of Economics at Cambridge. From 1941 to 1945, he served as an associate professor of history at Indiana Univ., while doing research for the Military Intelligence Service of the War Dept.'s general staff.

After WWII, he wrote many historical publications and several books including GUADALCANAL AND WORLD WAR II: A CONCISE HISTORY.

Rodge served as publishing director of the Chicago Univ. Press from 1961 to 1967, and from 1963 to 1965 was president of the Assn. of American Univ. Presses. From 1968 to 1980, he was the director of the Univ. of New Mexico Press.

Rodge married Helen Chapasettle, also a writer, in 1956. She survived him, but died in New Mexico June 15, 1993.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to Rodge's surviving sister, Dorothy Shugg Angell (widow of Richard Angell '27); two nephews; and eight nieces, and mourns the loss of one of its most eminent scholars.

The Class of 1927