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Widener 417, the study of Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, is a veritable beehive of activity. Not only is the small office crowded with file cabinets and books, but it is used by a secretary and a research assistant as well as the professor...
...whose energy belies his age, Morison has kept busy since his retirement in 1955 after some forty years of teaching. In the past few years Morison has been working on a huge project for the United States Navy: a History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. He has just completed Volume 13 of this imposing assignment...
...this same vein, Morison has just finished a biography of John Paul Jones. Entitled John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography, the publisher's proofs sit on the professor's desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
Other University scholars included Karl Sax, professor of Botany; Judith N. Shklar, instructor in Government; Herbert J. Spiro '50, assistant professor of Government; Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament studies; and Lily R. Taylor, visiting professor of Classics...
...third spell in the Atlantic--following up anti-sub action--and then an inspection tour of the French and Italian beach-heads occupied Morison in the winter of '44-'45, and then back to the Pacific. He arrived too late for Iwo Jima but on time to take in the action at Okinawa, on the battleship USS Tennessee. While he was on that ship, a kamikaze pilot provided him with his closest brush with death, narrowly missing him, Admiral Deyo, and Captain Heffernan on the suicidal plunge. After visiting the Phillipines, Morison planned to participate in the long-awaited Kyushu...