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Longtime classics professor diesPrinceton NJ -- Samuel Atkins, Professor Emeritus of Classics on the Andrew Fleming West Foundation, died March 20 at the age of 91 in California. Atkins was an expert in Vedic philology and Indo-European linguistics. He served as chair of the classics department from 1961 to 1972. His areas of interest included Hellenistic literature, Greek language and literary criticism of Greek and Latin texts; he also taught Sanskrit in the East Asian studies department. Atkins received his bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1931, and went on to earn a Ph.D. degree from the University in oriental studies in 1935. After spending two years as an assistant professor at Baylor University, Atkins returned to Princeton as an instructor in 1937. His teaching career was interrupted twice by duty with the Navy in World War II and the Korean War. He was appointed Professor of Classics on the Andrew Fleming West Foundation in 1962. Atkins published "Pusan in the Rig-Veda" in 1941. He also was a regular contributor of reviews and articles to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Language, Classical Weekly and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. In 1959, Atkins spent a year in Thailand as a Fulbright Research Scholar studying the application of the principles of modern linguistics to the teaching of English as a second language. He was active in the American Philological Association, heading the organization's Committee on Educational Training and Trends. Atkins transferred to emeritus status in 1978 and subsequently moved to Pomona, Calif. Survivors include his wife, Jeannette; and three children, Samuel Atkins Jr., Bowman Atkins and Pamela Ibrahim. |
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