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Photo
courtesy of Raymonde Bulger
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Enid Standring,one of our most stalwart charter members, died November
22, 2005.
She was raised in Bolton, ancashireand was a member of the WRENS during
World War II. Fluent in German, as well as French, she worked as a translator
at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946. After her Ph.D.in Comparative Literature,
N.Y.U., she taught French at Montclair State College, (now, University),
1960-1983.
Retired,she returned to Montclair State to pursue a bachelor's and a master's
degree in music. The clarinetwas her instrument, and during those years she
played in the Bloomfield Band of N.J. and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
as well as giving two recitals on the Montclair campus
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Enid is rembered fondly by her colleagues and friends Madeleine Sergent and Murray Present who recall her active, long-standing membershipin the Cosmopolitain
Club, a Montclair group devoted to community life and people of other cultures
,integrating them into the town, helping with housing and social adjustment.
Madame Sergent speaks of Enid's passion for justice and her activisim in liberal
causes. Mr. Present, her friend, professor, in the Music department lauds her gift
for loyal friendship, gemerosity and dependability, as well as her "fabulous"
dinner parties where she entertained her many friends.
Every summer she visited her sister and her niecein the north of England,
eventuallyto retire, near them, in Grange-over-Sands (!) , in Cambria, where
she was happy and took pleasure phoning all her friends in Montclair and
elsewhere. She died in the retirement home.
We Sandistes know of her passion for George. It was manifest in all the conferences she attended. So did her friends and colleagues. Theyalso remark on her great loyaltyto the Monclair French department and her students.
"Delicate, reservee, pleine de vie et de curiosite intellectuelle, joyful,
generous, entertaining. On pouvait compter sur elle." Madeleine Sergent's
eloquence is a fine tribute to our departed friend.
Marie M.Collins, Rutgers-Newark, November 2007
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