Remembering Chapin Donors
Earlier in this space, we paid our respects to J. Brooks Hoffman, M.D., Class of 1940, an important donor of Americana to the Chapin Library. The latest number of Williams People reminds us also to remember three other recently deceased alumni who had been good friends of the Chapin Library and their alma mater:
Ralph R. Renzi, Class of 1943, who passed away October 10, 2015, worked with Prof. Frederick Rudolph, Class of 1942, to create an archive of filmmaker and author John Sayles ’72, to which Mr. Sayles himself later added.
Henry N. Flynt, Jr., Class of 1944, who died July 11, 2015, made numerous donations to the Chapin Library of literary and historical materials, some of which had been collected by his mother, beginning in 1979 with manuscripts of John Masefield.
John C. Walsh, Class of 1954, who passed away June 2, 2015, established the Chapin Library’s Winston Churchill Collection in 1992 and provided funds for additions over the next several years.
We will be forever grateful to these friends for their support of the continuing educational mission of the Chapin Library and Williams College. – WGH