The Town Crier

Outstanding figures in the world own letters, including poets Leonie Adams and Samuel French Morse and writer John Gerber, will offer English courses in Trinity College's Summer Session as visiting faculty members.

Trinity's summer courses are in session from June 27 to July 29 and from August 1 to September 2.

Leonie Adams is professor of English at Columbia University, and a widely-acclaimed poet. Her 1954 volume, "Poems: A Selection" made her a co-winner of the Bollingen prize in poetry, and she has as well won the $5,000 Fellowship Award from the Academy of American Poets "for distinguished poetic achievement." At Trinity she will teach "The Writing of Poetry."

Samuel French Morse, formerly a Trinity faculty member, is now associate professor of English at Mt. Holyoke College. He has become well known for poetry appearing in "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New Yorker", "Harper's Bazaar" and "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse."

Dr. Morse, who will teach a survey literature course at Trinity, is literary executor to the Wallace Stevens estate. As such he edited and wrote an introduction to "Opus Posthumous", poetry not contained in Stevens' "Collected Poems". Recently he received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for completion of a critical biography of Mr. Stevens.

Last year Dr. Morse won two prizes for poetry, one from the Poetry Society of America for his sonnet sequence, "The City Spring", the second from the Virginia Quarterly Review.

John C. Gerber, professor of English at the State University of Iowa, will conduct a seminar on "Mark Twain and American Humor" and teach a survey literature course while at Trinity.

A prolific writer, he has published over 25 articles on a variety of subjects, and authored or edited a number of books. He is the general editor of Scott-Foresman Key Editions which publishes many leading literary works. Dr. Gerber holds the Ph. D. degree from the University of Chicago, where he taught for eight years before joining the faculty at Iowa. He is a past president of the Humanities Society, on the editorial board of the Philological Quarterly, and formerly an editorial board member of College English.

Others who will join Trinity's summer faculty to offer courses in English are Dr. Henry Allan Gleason, Jr., professor of linguistics at the Hartford Seminary Foundation; and Dr. Harlan Nelson, instructor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Gleason is internationally recognized as a leader in linguistics, and is considered one of the top-flight scientists in structural linguistics. At Trinity he will teach "Linguistics and the English Language."

Dr. Nelson, who holds the Ph. D. degree from the University of Minnesota, specializes in the field of English literature. He will offer courses in Freshman English and British Fiction since 1800. He joined the UConn faculty in 1959.