Bernice L. Fox

 

Bernice Lee Fox was born in Ashland, Kentucky, on February 19, 1911, the only child of E. Munsey and Myrtle Lee (Rice) Fox.  After graduation from high school, she attended Kentucky Wesleyan College, where she earned the B. A. degree, magna cum laude.  Her M.A. degree was earned at the University of Kentucky, where she was a teaching graduate assistant in the Department of English.  She has almost completed her work toward the Ph. D. in English at Ohio State University, where she was also a teaching assistant when she became involved in WW II.  She was the first civilian women in the Midwest to be made a weather observer.  She continued in this job until the end of the war.

In 1947 she came to Monmouth College as an assistant professor of English.  Five years later she moved into the Department of Classical languages, where she taught until her retirement in 1981, and served as the chairman of the department for eleven years after the retirement of Dr. Harold Ralston.   She also served a term as the president of the Illinois Classical Conference, and until her death was on the national board of trustees for Eta Sigma Phi, the national honorary society for college students Latin or Greek.  She established the Gamma Omicron chapter of this organization on the Monmouth College Campus in 1957.

She was a popular speaker and writer, especially among Classicists.  She had numerous articles published in such periodicals as the Classical Outlook and the Classical Journal.  She also had wrote and had previously printed several books, including Word Elements in American English, Rambling in the World of Words, Classical Myths, and Paraphrases from the Latin Poets (with Dr. Garrett Thiessen as co-author of the paraphrases).   In addition, she translated into Latin Van Dyke’s Story of The Other Wise Man and E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.  All of these books were used throughout the United States in high schools and colleges.

She donated her body to science, and requested that no memorial services be held and no fund be established in her honor. 

 

Box 1:

  • Fox Lecture 1985 – 1986
  • Fox Lecture 1986 – 1987
  • Fox Lecture 1988
  • FoxLecture 1988 – 1989
  • Fox Lecture 1989
  • Fox Lecture 1990
  • Fox Lecture 1991 – 1992
  • Fox Lecture 1992 – 1993
  • Fox Lecture 1993 – 1994
  • Fox Lecture 1994 – 1995
  • Fox Lecture 1995 – 1996
  • Fox Lecture 1997
  • Fox Lecture 1998
  • Fox Lecture 1999
  • Fox Lecture 2000
  • Fox Writing Contest
  • Class Evaluations
  • Sex Fabulae Breves – Evaluation
  • Sex Fabulae Breves – Purchase Forms
  • Sex Fabulae Breves - Correspondence
  • Sex Fabulae Breves – Title Page
  • Sex Fabulae Breves - Copyright
  • Sex Fabulae Breves - Artwork
  • Short Stories and Writings
  • Correspondence
  • Biographical
  • Clippings and Reviews
  • Foreign Languages
  • Faculty Conference 1993
  • Quizzes and Lecture Notes
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 1
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 2
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 3
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 4
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 5
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 6
  • Charlotte’s Web Latin Translation Folder 7
  • Title Page/Typesetting Information
  • Class Record Books 1947 – 1980
  • Pictures of Bernice L. Fox

 

Box 2:

  • Monmouth College award for Doctor of Humane Letters to Bernice Fox
  • Eta Sigma Phi Plaque for Editor of Nunitus – 1973 – 1974
  • Sketch of the front of Wallace Hall
  • Letter in frame congratualing Bernice Fox on 4-4-1975
  • Green photo album “Christmas Decorations”
  • Dark green photo album containing Flowers inside and outside Bernice’s house
  • Blue photo album containing Bernice’s first apartment and house
  • Award for Outstanding Education in 1975
  • Wooden name plaque
  • Misc. pictures of Bernice’s cats and dogs
  • Misc. pictures of Bernice and friends
  • Green picture alblum of animals
  • Six picture frames of Bernice at different ages
  • Gray and brown picture album of people
  • Metal award for the years 1932 – 1982

 

Box 3:

  • Willa Carther and Classical Myth – Mary Ryder
  • Classical Mythology – Mark P.O. Morford & Robert J. Lenardon
  • Nationial Poetry Anthology 1961 and 1960
  • English Word Making – Richard Lederer
  • Classical Gods and Heros in the Nationial Gallory of Art – Thomas Sienkewicz
  • Stage Properties in Plautine Comedy I, II, and III – Richard Ketterer
  • The Perils of Dido: Sorcery and Melodrama in Virgil’s Aenid IV and Purcell’s Dido and Aenis – Richard Ketterer
  • Comparative Drama, Volume 24, Sp 90, #1 – Richard Ketterer
  • Foxfestschrift – Bernice Fox
  • Academic Vocabulary, Word Clusters from Latin, German, and Greek – Horace G. Danner & Roger Noel
  • The Nature of Martial’s Epigrams – Andrew Adams
  • Misc. pictures

Box 4:

            Books by Joseph Eberle

  • Dicta Timonis
  • Die Austagzt
  • Hier irrt Goethe
  • Testamentum
  • Zeitgenosse Goethe
  • Sal niger & Schwarzes Salz
  • Psalterium profanum
  • Echo Perennis & Nie Verstummendes Echo
  • Maecenas
  • Die Toga Der Burgertudend
  • Ars Bene Dicendi Brevis Hvivs More Diei & Uber Die Kunst Nach Tagesmode Zu Schreiben
  • Epigrammata Pontresinensia & Pontrediner Epigramme
  • Lavdes
  • Cave Canem Vorsicht Beisst! Epigramme
  • Lob Des Lateins
  • Die Gedichte des Archipoeta
  • Viva Camena
  • Amores
  • Letters – 1970
  • Letters – 1971
  • Letters – 1972
  • Letters – 1979
  • Letters – 1981
  • Misc.