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Book SynopsisThis book is a biography of Richard Clarke Sommerville, an educator, amateur actor, and artist, whose life spanned the last quarter of the nineteenth century and six decades of the twentieth century. His dedication to the fine arts was not just a passing interest, but was central to his definition of the right way to live.
Trade Review...Pittas's biography is a valuable contribution to a better historical understanding of these possibly lost voices of our profession. -- James L. Green, College of Mount Saint Joseph, in HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY
In this sensitively drawn vignette of Richard Clarke Sommerville, Peggy Pittas reminds us that deserving biography need not be confined to military, political, religious and business leaders....Sommerville taught several generations of students the meaning of humanism. Professor Pittas' fine biography will enlarge the size of the student body well beyond the numbers of us who were fortunate enough to have studied with Sommerville in person. -- Stuart Bruchey, Allan Nevins Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
In this sensitively drawn vignette of Richard Clarke Sommerville, Peggy Pittas reminds us that deserving biography need not be confined to military, political, religious and business leaders....Sommerville taught several generations of students the meaning of humanism. Professor Pittas' fine biography will enlarge the size of the student body well beyond the numbers of us who were fortunate enough to have studied with Sommerville in person. -- Stuart Bruchey, Allan Nevins Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
...Pittas's biography is a valuable contribution to a better historical understanding of these possibly lost voices of our profession. -- James L. Green, College of Mount Saint Joseph, in HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY
