Archive Record
Metadata
Object ID number |
2015.33 |
Title |
Second Oral History Interview of John Carter Williams |
Date |
2015 Sep 01 |
Scope & Content |
Second oral history interview with John Carter Williams, recorded by Anthony Macro on September 1, 2015. In this interview Williams talks about his studies at Trinity College and Yale, as well as his career teaching at Goucher College and Trinity College, as well as his understanding of Christianity and its practice within the Episcopal Church and philosophical discussion and interpretation. |
Orgnaizational or Biographical History |
John Carter Williams was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 12 July, 1927, the son of Burnham Carrington Williams and Helen Jane Williams (née Carter), and raised in a Victorian farmhouse, 285 Long Hill Street, in the town of East Hartford. He attended local schools in East Hartford, until his second year of high school, when he transferred to Wethersfield HS. Upon graduation in 1945, he took a scholarship to Trinity College, where he majored in Classics, with the distinction of being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior Year. After graduation in 1949, and taking a year off, he entered Yale on a full fellowship to pursue his study of Classics, where he earned his MA and PhD. He taught Classics at Goucher College, MD, from 1954 to 1968, and thereafter at Trinity College, Hartford, his alma mater, where he was elected Hobart Professor of Classical Language & Literature. After retirement in 1992, he taught at Miss Porter's School, Farmington, for eleven years. During the course of his career, he served as president of local, statewide, and national classical organizations. Beyond the Academy, he was organist and choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church in East Hartford for 34 years, and served on many diocesan and national committees and commissions of the Episcopal Church, including grading the national Canonical Examination for postulants seeking ordination, and chairing the Diocesan commission on ordination and ministry, and offered classes and lectures on Biblical and theological topics to various Episcopal parishes. His wife of 52 years, Josephine Ann Williams (née Thomson) died in 2008. In 2015, he moved from the family house at 270 Long Hill Street to The Village at Buckland Court, in South Windsor, where he continues his practice of teaching to great acclaim. |
Creator |
Williams, John Carter |
Other Creators |
Macro, Anthony |
Collection |
Oral History Collection |
Interviewer |
Macro, Anthony |
Interview date |
2015-09-01 |
People |
Elmore, Mary Janette Geen, Elizabeth Knox, Bernard Koegel, Warren Leakley, Bill Macro, Anthony O'Grady, Jerry Shelley, Percy Bysshe Street, Jack Williams, Burnham Carrington Williams, Helen Jane Carter Williams, John Williams, Josephine Ann Thompson |
Search Terms |
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