This coming school year I will be teaching Latin I, II, III, and IV at Amherst Central High. I will also be teaching Latin to 6th and 7th graders at Christ the King School in Amherst. It will be my 27th year at Amherst and my 2nd year at Christ the King. My memories of the Classics Dept. at SUNY Buffalo are many. My 1st year of Graduate School (75-76) , the Classics Dept. was housed in the Spaulding Quad in the Ellicott complex. In the summer of 1976, several grad students, including myself, helped with the packing of books from the Goetz library and professors’ offices, as we moved the Dept. to the 7th floor of the newly built Clemens Hall.
Most of the professors who taught me are retired, but Tom Barry is still there and I have good memories of his Survey of GK. Lit. course in the Fall of 1975. I also read Sophocles with Tom in the Fall of 1979. I have so many good memories of courses I took at Buffalo and the people who taught them that this letter would become overly long if I tried to mention them all. A quick recap would include Dr. Westerink’s Survey of Greek and Latin Philosophy; Dr. Peradotto’s Hesiod Seminar; Reading Demosthenes with Dr. Kustas and Aeschylus with Professor Garton; Roman Historiography with Dr. Sherk; and the Archaeology of Ancient Israel with the late Sam Paley.
