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Ovatio: Robert F. Boughner
Cui donamus lepidam novam ovationem, simplicem munditiis? Sodalis noster, tibi: namque tu solebas nostros esse aliquid putare conatus, iam tum cum ausus es administrare societatem nostram–semper aequam rebus in arduis servans mentem–annos quinque doctos et laboriosos.
Civitas in media regione nostra te genuit, prope campum piratarum; domus diabolorum caeruleorum te aluit. Arma virum te fecerunt, arma patriae nostrae, in aestuosis locis, obsitis virgultis densis. Postquam diligenter lucubravisti, deditus operibus Patris Ecclesiae Latinae Carthaginensis, apud Universitatem quoque caeruleis avibus insignem, inclutam veritate quae vos, et nos, liberabit, adeptus es gradum Doctoris Philosophiae..
Deinde diversae varie viae te reportaverunt. Civitas libera te scuto bonae voluntatis coronavit. Civitas Imperii mox effecit ut excelsior ascenderes. Civitas veteris dominatus sic semper tibi (numquam tyrannis) profuit. Rem publicam nostram servavisti fovendis studiis humanioribus; fines Atticas meliores reddidisti curandis artibus liberalibus.
Nunc colis causam non solum studiorum humaniorum sed etiam artium liberalium, scientiarum studiosos locupletans. Multis discipulis carmina Catulli Horatiique commendavisti; cum multis collegis beneficia huius sodalitatis consociavisti. Plaudamus igitur Robert F. Boughner.
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park
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Ovatio: Robert F. Boughner
To whom do we give a new, charming, speech of praise, plain in its refinements? To you, our colleague: for you were in the habit of thinking that our efforts were of some significance, in the past when you dared to serve as CAAS executive director–always keeping a balanced mind in difficult circumstances–for five years, full of learning and toil.
Born in western Pennsylvania, you attended Duke University as an undergraduate. You saw military duty in the jungles of Vietnam, where you were awarded two Bronze Stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Air Medal. After completing a dissertation on satirical themes in Tertullian, you received your PhD from the Johns Hopkins University.
At that point your journey took you on varied and different paths. You have taught at the University of Maryland, College Park; at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York; and at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia. You served at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as the dean of the American College of Greece in Athens.
Now you chair the Department of Humanities at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Through your book, you have introduced many students to the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace; you have shared the benefits of this organization with many colleagues. Let us thus applaud Robert F. Boughner.
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park
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