WILLIAM MILNE HOLTON

died on January 17, 2000 in Washington D.C. Milne entered Dartmouth from the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta (Bones Gate). He received a law degree from Harvard and a Masters and Ph.D. from Yale and in 1961 joined the English faculty at the University of Maryland. He retired from the university in 1999. Milne was widely known for his books of translation of Serbian, Macedonian and Eastern European poetry. He was the author of "Cylinder of Vision," a study of Stephen Crane. After his retirement, he had been appointed as a Fulbright professor to a university at Olomouc in the Czech Republic. At the University of Maryland, he served on doctoral, master’s and undergraduate dissertation and thesis committees in the departments of English, Music, American Studies and comparative literature.

He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Wallace Holton.