Tribute Reading for Bennett Lamond
At 4 pm on Tuesday, September 20, the Department of English and the Rose O’Neill Literary House held a tribute reading for Professor Bennett Lamond, to celebrate and pay tribute to his life and legacy.
“Comforter, where, where is your comforting?” asks Gerard Manley Hopkins in a poem that begins with the speaker “pitched past pitch of grief.” Perhaps no one at Washington College loved the poetry of Hopkins more than Bennett Lamond, Professor of English Emeritus, who passed away on August 15.
09/21/2016

Director of the C.V. Starr Center, Adam Goodheart, speaks about Bennett

Dr. Courtney Rydel reads a stanza from Chaucer in Middle English

Just a few of the many posters hung around the Lit House that commemorate previous Bennett Lamond events.


Olivia Serio reads "To Rosamund," the poem that Bennett read during the April 2016 event, "Whan that Aprille Day"

Dr. Diane Cousineau speaks about Bennett

After introducing the event, Interim Director Dr. James Hall and English Department Head Dr. Kathryn Moncrief show a video of Bennett discussing the origins of May Day.

Dr. Moncrief reads a Hopkins poem

Dr. Striner reads a poem

Maria Hynson reminisces about Bennett

Dr. James Hall reads a Hopkins poem

Devin Taylor reads

Dr. Tom Cousineau reads