University of Virginia Library

Classics Prof. To Lecture
On Industrial 'Trash Heap'

By CHIP WOODWARD

Anna Shaw Benjamin,
professor of classics at
Douglass College of Rutgers
University, will speak at 8
tonight in the South Meeting
Room of Newcomb Hall. Her
topic will be "Industrial
Athens–A View From The
Trash Heap."

The Department of Classics
is sponsoring the speech with
no admission charge.

Mrs. Benjamin received her
doctorate from the University
of Pennsylvania. Before joining
the Rutgers faculty in 1964,
she taught at Juniata College
and the University of Missouri,
where she also served as
chairman of the department of
classics from 1960 to 1964.
From 1965-66 she was acting
chairman for the department
of classics at Douglass College.

In 1948 she was awarded
the Thomas Day Seymour
fellowship of the American
School of Classical Studies in
Greece. She won a Fulbright
Fellowship in 1949, and she
also won fellowships from the
Institute for Advanced Study
and the American Numismatic
Society.

The American Philosophical
Society for Research in
Mytilene, Greece, and the
Research Council of Rutgers
have sponsored her research
work.

She has contributed
numerous articles to
professional journals, and has
authored "Augustine on Free
Will", "Xenophon's
Memorabilia and Socratic
Apology" and "Xenophon".

She is presently working on
exercises for the Friden
Company teaching machines.
This company has accepted
one term's work in Latin 1.
She is also working on the
publication of notes by Bude
on the first edition of Homer.

Mrs. Benjamin will also
speak at Radford College,
Randolph-Macon Woman's
College, Washington and Lee
University, Sweet Briar College
and Roanoke College.