JOHN SEELYE ’53

JOHN SEELYE, a retired professor of English and American literature, died Apr. 20, 2015. He was 84. A member of Alpha Chi Rho, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in creative writing. He also received a master’s and PhD degrees from the Claremont Graduate School. During the Korean War he served in the U.S. Navy. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dartmouth College, and the University of Florida in Gainesville. He also enjoyed restoring historical homes and buildings, and his most recent project was the Veterans’ Memorial Hall in Eastport, Maine, a museum dedicated to American veterans. Two wives predeceased him. His wife, Alice Hunt Seelye, survives, as do his stepdaughter, his brother, and several nieces and nephews.