RE Log Spring 2019

64 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2019 “Woe to anyone who didn’t pay attention; and pity the boy who showed up in class without an assignment, or with a sloppy essay. I still have one of my own (written, I admit, while watching a World Series game) covered in red ink and with satanic faces and tongues scrawled in the margins.” — Jon Maksik ’61 “Mr. Bowden was anything but pedestrian, a word he frequently liked to use when commenting on our English papers. His sharp intellect, humor and flair for the dramatic were legendary, but mostly I remember him for his humanity and compassion.” — Tania Dominguez ’87 “What an uplifting, positive spirit... How many other people do we know who were so universally loved?” — Roger Soman ’76 “A legendary figure and fantastic teacher. He believed in me more than I believed in myself.” — Eugene Williams ’87 “Talk about larger than life! ... Timeless, and will remain so.” — Bruce Kaplan ’73 “Tennessee Williams had a twin brother heading up the English department at Ransom. Dan was the quintessential southern gentleman — courtly, cultured and witty. I studied under him only a year but I’ve never forgotten his class. A great educator and marvelous human.” — Tom Snow ’65 “Where else would one find 15-year-old boys quoting Shakespeare in their spare hours or making sure to use all 27 words of that week’s vocabulary words in their daily conversations, and do so in all seriousness? These were the classes that we learned much about the merits of hard work; where few, if any of us, escaped the Bowden fires for a job ill done; where a love of literature was instilled in us.”  — Jon Engle ’66 “A Titan has departed.”  — Charles Sands ’61