Rudolf Kirk ’22 *32

RUDOLF KIRK died of heart failure in San Marcos, Tex., Nov. 7, 1989, at age 91.

Rudolf prepared for Princeton at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. At Princeton he was active in Theater Intime. After graduating with honors, he went on for a master's in English at the Univ. of Iowa, before returning to Princeton as a Scribner fellow in 19Z7. He received both a master's and doctorate in English from Princeton, and taught at Rutgers for most of his career. He served as chairman of the English department there from 1960 to 1963. in 1963, he retired and moved to Texas as a visiting distinguished professor of English at Southwest Texas State Univ.

As a scholar, author, and editor, Rudolf focused on the works of American writer William Dean Howells and frequently collaborated with his wife, Clara, whom he married in 1930. He was the first editor of the JOURNAL OF RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, was co-founder of the English Inst. at Columbia Univ., and was a Fulbright scholar at the Univ. of Liege in Belgium. He was an active Episcopalian, serving on the vestry of St. John the Evangelist Church in New Brunswick, NJ. and as a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Marcos.

Rudolf married Clara Marburg in 1930; she died in 1976. He is survived by his daughter, Susanne, and son, Donald '59, and grandson, James P. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to Rudolf's family,

The Class of 1922