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Frederic Hyde, Almanac Editor

Dr. Frederic Hyde, former editor of Almanac, former journalism associate in the English department, and former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, died on February 25, at the age of 93.

Dr. Hyde received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, and his masters and Ph.D. in English literature from Penn. Dr. Hyde was a news reporter for the New London Day (Connecticut) and the Philadelphia Inquirer where he spent 23 years as a feature writer, columnist, and book editor until 1956. In 1959 he joined the faculty in Penn’s English department earning his M.A. and Ph.D. while teaching. He was appointed editor of Almanac in October 1959, a position he held until May 1965 when he was hired by the newly opened Bucks County Community College in 1965.

While at Bucks County Community College,  Dr. Hyde established a student newspaper, taught journalism and chaired the faculty affairs committee. After he retired, he taught English and poetry at the Center for Learning in Retirement at Delaware Valley College.

He is survived by daughters, Frederica Hokey, Judith Richardson and Jennifer Hodgson; his son, Christopher; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Paul Korshin, English Professor and British Literature Scholar

P. Korshin

Dr. Paul J. Korshin, a professor of English since 1966, died March 2 at HUP, at the age of 65. 

Dr. Korshin was an internationally known scholar of Eighteenth Century British literature, author or editor of many books, including Typologies in England, 1650-1820, published in 1982, and dozens of articles and reviews. He was a founder of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and was instrumental in the creation of the English Short-Title Catalog, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of works printed before 1800. The ESTC was one of the first major online resources for scholarly research, making possible an entire generation of scholarship on the history of the book. Dr. Korshin also founded The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, and edited all 15 of its volumes to date, more than 8,000 pages; he was proofreading pages for volume 16 in his hospital room.  

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-88, and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar-in Residence at Bellagio in 1988. 

A generous philanthropist, Dr. Korshin supported many scholarly initiatives financially as well as intellectually, concentrating his philanthropic activity on learned societies and institutions of higher learning, according to his wife,  Dr. Joan Pataky-Kosove.  At Penn,  he served as a member of several University Council committees, including Admissions and Financial Aid, Bookstore, and Community Relations.

Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Korshin graduated from City College and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard. Coming directly to Penn as an assistant professor, he rose through the ranks, becoming an associate professor in 1971 and a full professor in 1980. He served as the director of the department’s Penn-in-London program at Kings College in 1993-94.

“A witty and flamboyant lecturer, Dr. Korshin taught the English department’s most popular class, on ‘Madness and Literature,’ packing the campus’s largest lecture halls with students eager to hear both his learned commentary and his entertaining asides on current cultural and political events,” said Dr. John Richetti, professor of English. “Always dressed immaculately in custom-tailored Savile Row suits and bow ties, he stood out sharply from the relaxed sartorial norms on campus. He was known as well for his Cordon-Bleu culinary skills and memorable dinner parties. He once arrived at a brown-bag lunch in the English department offices with a wicker picnic basket containing duck á l’orange and a half bottle of claret,” Dr. Richetti added. “Paul did everything with great style and flair,” said Dr. James English, chair of the department and a longtime colleague. “He was an extraordinary, inimitable presence, both a valued member of the Penn community and a kind of institution unto himself.” 

Dr. Korshin is survived by his wife, Dr. Joan Pataky-Kosove, CW ’63,  GSAS ’76. He is also survived by his two step-children,  Andrew A. Kosove and Alexis A. Moran, and his brothers, Dr. Jonathan Korshin and Dr. Oliver M. Korshin. A memorial service at Penn is planned for later in the spring.

To Report A Death

Almanac appreciates being informed of the deaths of current and former faculty and staff members, students, and other members of the University community.

However, notices of alumni deaths should be directed to the Alumni Records Office at Room 545, Franklin Building, (215) 898-8136  or e-mail record@ben.dev.upenn.edu.

 

 



 
  Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 24, March 15, 2005

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