VERNE H. BOVIE ’47

VERNE H. BOVIE, a retired professor of English and American literature at Nasson College, died Mar. 31, 2012. He was 88. A B-26 pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces who was shot down and imprisoned during World War II, he returned to college and received his degree from Wesleyan in 1947. He received a master’s from Colgate University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A literature professor at Nasson, he also was a flight instructor for many years. His wife, Everlyn Huer Bovie survives, as do four children and eight grandchildren.