Classic Course, Classic Professor

Stephen L. Glass is a member of Pitzer’s founding faculty and an emeritus professor of classics who spent his career reminding generations of undergrads that the antique past is far more relevant to the present than we might assume. “I have always thought,” he once told an interviewer, “that if one has not read Homer’s Iliad, any claim that person might have to having experienced a liberal arts education is short by at least the length of that Iliad.” 

Today, he and his wife, Sandra, are known for their ongoing support for the humanities (including the annual Pitzer lecture series named in their honor). In this early photo by Arthur Dubinsky, Glass is seen discussing Greek mythology with his students and a special guest—near the door, caught between two students, is James Dickey, former U.S. poet laureate and the College’s first Commencement keynote speaker.