WILLIAM A. MAILLET, MALS ’71

WILLIAM A. MAILLET, a teacher at Choate Rosemary Hall for 20 years, died Oct. 21, 2012, at age 84. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and in the Korean War, and he received his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College. A teacher at the Kent School and at Williston Academy, he joined the faculty at Choate in 1961, where he taught English, coached, and built chess sets in his spare time. He received an MALS from Wesleyan University in 1971 and did further study at the University of South Florida. He was the author of a book about Anthony Burgess, A Window in the Womb of Time. During his retirement he also hosted a classical radio program. He leaves no immediate family.