tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767995778186136839.post571150969880459039..comments2020-07-19T02:13:36.535-07:00Comments on CAMWS Necrologies <br> <i>Abierunt ad maiores</i>: Briggs Leon Twyman (2005)Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197260980851708636noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767995778186136839.post-80245493256345230152010-08-26T11:22:31.030-07:002010-08-26T11:22:31.030-07:00It is five years after Dr. Twyman's death, but...It is five years after Dr. Twyman's death, but I just learned about it today. I was still a Captain in the Marine Corps, running the Marine Reserve Center, adjacent to Tech, when I became a graduate student in the history department and a student of the good professor. He was a good mentor; a savage critic of your work, and yet fully appreciative of the effort you put into the paper. I have warm memories of sitting with a few other students in the professor's den at it home, sipping wine while discussing Roman history. I also remember the several timed that I enrolled in classes of his that I had already taken, to ensure that he had sufficient students for his class to make. I was his first student to earn a graduate degree (MA) under him. The last time I saw Dr. Twyman - the only time after my graduation in 1976 - was in 1997, in his office at the university.<br />He was a fine man, an excellent mentor, and a friend. Farewell.<br /><br />Charles P. Minor, III<br />Hopewell, VirginiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com