Lauriat Jr. LANE

LANE, LAURIAT JR. Lauriat Lane Jr., February 12, 1925 - March 21, 2005. BA, MA. PhD, Harvard. FRSC. Professor Emeritus, English Department, University of New Brunswick. For many years one of the editors of English Studies in Canada, sang with many different choruses, including the Bel Canto, the Arts Centre Singers, and the Fredericton Choral Society, a strong supporter of nature conservation organizations, human rights and civil liberties, peace-making. Devoted in particular to the studies of Thoreau, Melville, Dickens, MacLeish, and to the Anglo-Saxon poetry, a thoughtful editor, a supportive feminist. Much loving and much loved, he is mourned by many friends. Survived by three cousins and their wives: George and Betsy Lane and Jock and Claudia Lane of Westminster, Massachusetts, and Jim and Jacquie Pierce of St. Catharine's, ON, and by daughter, Hannah Marguerite Lane of Fredericton, son, Lauriat Lane III of Halifax, and wife, Millicent Travis (Penny) Lane, Fredericton. A memorial service will be arranged later. Those who wish to make memorial tributes are urged to consider the University or Public Libraries, or the SPCA. Arrangements have been entrusted to McAdam's Select Community Funeral Home. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day than dawn. The sun is but a morning star." Thoreau www.mcadamsfh.com [Daily Gleaner]