![]() ![]() He'd probably say he taught me about good music, which he did Liza recently told me that Peter took "a kind of big brother pride in the fact that he turned you on to David Bowie" - and X, and the Blasters, and on and on.īut actually the most important thing he taught me about, accidentally maybe, was women. Peter and baby Bella photo by Liza Walsh.įriday is the first anniversary of Peter's death, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I learned from him, which I know he'd think was important too. Ignorance! I'm pleased to report that he found the snake and it exited the plane with us, stowed safely out of sight in Peter's pocket. He wanted the attendant to help and I wanted her to live in absolute ![]() Than came the urgent, whispered (thank heavens!) message. It was your first plane ride-you were four months old -and everyone was behaving nicely during the flight from WNY back to Swarthmore, where we There are a number of good Peter stories: "the time Peter tried to make elderberry wine and it blew up and tie-dyed everything," "time he fell asleep under a sun lamp," "time he couldn't figure out how to turn the lights & sirens on the police car off again," "time he & Mark tried to start the pot plantation in the third-floor bathroom."Īn excellent new (to me) Peter anecdote from my mom: 'the time Peter told me, in the middle of a commercial air flight, "Mom, there's an emergency: I've lost my snake!"' In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Caring for Creatures, or the Fluvanna SPCA. She thanks the Gynecological Cancer staff at the University of Virginia. Ann leaves friends in Western New York, Charlottesville, VA, and Provence, France. She maintained a home in Provence in Southern France for forty years and she and her husband taught a program abroad on the Culture of Provence. Her many academic publications include the books, "Essays on Chaucer's Saints" and "A Middle English Anthology," which has been in print since 1969.Īnn wrote Op-Ed columns, personal essays, and articles on food and numerous other subjects for publications such as the Smithsonian, the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and New York Times. She was a mentor and advisor to hundreds of students whose lives and careers she enriched with her generosity and scholarship. She went on to teach at the English Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo, specializing in Chaucer and Medieval Life and Literature and in Children's Literature, for thirty-seven years. She received her Doctorate with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. While raising three children on her own, she was among the first women to graduate from Clemson University and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship. She is also survived by three of her four children: Constantine (Dean) Rasmussen (Ipswich, MA), Mark Haskell (Washington, DC) and Gretl Rasmussen (Brooklyn, NY), by two loving daughters-in-law, and by six grandchildren.Īnn was born in Washington, DC, in 1929 and grew up in Arlington, VA. Survived by her husband, Richard Koepsell, her mother, Elizabeth Sullivan, and her three siblings, Paul (Blake) Sullivan (Fredericksburg, VA), Margaretta Smith (Ashburn, VA), and Glen Sullivan (Fredericksburg, VA). Haskell, 81, died peacefully in her sleep at home on 10/22/10. Here's the obit for our mother her husband, Dick, included the photo, which I had forgotten about.Īnn S. Photo courtesy the estate of Ann Haskell. ![]()
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