THETFORD After a long day of slow-pitch softball at Thetford Academy, Joe Deffner presented the ceremonial championship bat to his longtime friend, Charlie Buttrey, although not without a painful admission.“This hurts,” Deffner said.Deffner and.
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Jan. 15, 2021 9:32 a.m.
Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on Jan. 11. He was 91.
Lionel Gossman, 2013
Photo by William Paulson, 1981 graduate alumnus
Gossman joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. His research and teaching focused on French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries; literature, literary criticism and history as social and cultural institutions; and the writing of history. He served as director of graduate studies from 1977-83 of what was then called the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and was department chair from 1991-96.