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Charlie Hill ’46

Charlie Hill ’46 was made an Officier in the French Order of the Academic Palms at a ceremony conducted by the Cultural Attachée of the French Embassy in New York. The order was established by Napoleon as a means of recognizing accomplishments in teaching and research, and in promoting the study of French. In 1979, he had been named a Chevalier of the order. He earned his MA and PhD at Yale and taught there, as well as at the University of Rhode Island, at Skidmore College, and from 1962 until his retirement in 1992, at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he was also department chair for 11 years. He served many years on the boards of the American Association of Teachers of French and the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique. He is the author of a book on Jean-Paul Sartre, several articles on various aspects of French and Francophone literature, and many reviews and encyclopedia articles.
Charlie Hill ’46 was made an Officier in the French Order of the Academic Palms at a ceremony conducted by the Cultural Attachée of the French Embassy in New York. The order was established by Napoleon as a means of recognizing accomplishments in teaching and research, and in promoting the study of French. In 1979, he had been named a Chevalier of the order. He earned his MA and PhD at Yale and taught there, as well as at the University of Rhode Island, at Skidmore College, and from 1962 until his retirement in 1992, at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he was also department chair for 11 years. He served many years on the boards of the American Association of Teachers of French and the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique. He is the author of a book on Jean-Paul Sartre, several articles on various aspects of French and Francophone literature, and many reviews and encyclopedia articles.