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William Winsor
In Memory of
William Tillinghast
Winsor
1930 - 2014
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A Gentleman and a Scholar

I met Bill at the very beginning of my career. He was a good colleague with whom to discuss syllabi, texts, and student issues; and because we were working at a university with a dysfunctional administration, he also quickly became my champion in a contract tangle. As the faculty moved to a collective-bargaining structure, he was an eloquent advocate for the American Association of University Professors and that organization's professional principles—so eloquent that I too became a fervent supporter of AAUP, of which I had previously been more or less a pro forma member. Over nearly twenty years in the trenches of U.B., side by side, I got to know Bill as a warm, charming, positive, caring individual as well as a sound and dedicated literature scholar and a principled teacher. I also met his beautiful wife Martha and some of their children, a graceful and gracious family. When our careers at UB came to an abrupt and difficult end, Bill was steadfast in the strike we were forced into and in our efforts to find a professionally responsible solution to the ultimately intransigent administrative mess. And then both Bill and I found contingent employment at Central Connecticut State University, in a welcoming English department that came to realize the great value of having William T. Winsor teaching their classes, returning him, albeit without tenure, to full-time teaching as long as his health permitted. The hallways have been lonely without him for the last few years, but that doesn't mean he has been absent from my awareness of him.

Bill has also been an enthusiastic supporter of my creative work, traveling down to Newtown to see the shows I directed at Town Players, even once bringing a son with him. I was glad to see the Winsor beauty and charm are continuing in his offspring.

I am missing Bill everywhere I go. Ours was not a personally close friendship, but a wonderful alliance and, I believe, a mutual admiration society, and thus a relationship of great value. He was always reliable, always conscientious, and always willing to be happy. Thank you, Professor Winsor, for all you have meant to many, many people, including me.

Posted by Ruth Anne Baumgartner
Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 3:00 pm
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