BARBARA E. MACEACHERN

BARBARA E. MACEACHERN, the director of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan from 1981 to 2000, died Dec. 24, 2010, at age 71. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Rochester. She was a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Rochester, the University of Southern California, and the University of Wisconsin before coming to Wesleyan. Active in the community and in professional associations, she was a past president of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs and a former managing editor of the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs. Guided by her deep belief in the value of a liberal arts education, she gave students and instructors the freedom to explore both traditional and unconventional paths of study, influencing the academic lives of hundreds of graduate students and educators. In recent years she became devoted to environmental conservation and historic preservation causes. She is survived by her son, Alexander S.B. Horn; her daughter, Victoria Elaine MacEachern Horn; one grandson; a sister; her husband, Nelson Thomas Horn; and a large extended family.