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LANCASTER, PA., NEW ERA -- THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1965 PAGE 3

CARL HARTZELL, 74, DIES; Former F&M Professor

Carl Hartzell, seventy-four, professor of French at Franklin and Marshall College for 27 years before his retirement 1956, died at 12:05 p.m. Wednesday in Muncy Valley Hospital, Muncy, after an illness of two months.

Hartzel1, who had resided Muncy since his retirement, had been a patient at the hospital for 10 days prior to his death. Death was attributed to a brain tumor.

Born In Petersburg, Huntington County, Oct. 25, 1890, he was the son of the late Charles and Mary Tomlinson Hartzell. The younger Hartzell resided most of his life in Harrisburg and Lancaster.

DICKINSON GRAD

He graduated from high of school in Harrisburg and received a bachelor of philology degree from Dickinson College in 1913. He studied at the Universite de Grenoble, France, and received a masters degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. He was awarded a doctorate in French and comparative philology from the university sometime thereafter.

Prior to coming to F&M in 1929, Hartzell taught modern languages at a number of eastern prep schools and Universities, including the Pennington School, St. Albans, the University of Maine, and Penn State University.

He joined the F&M faculty as an instructor and thereafter served as assistant professor associate professor, and from 1949 until his retirement, as full professor.

PRIZE RECOGNITION

In recognition of his service the college established the Carl E. Hartzell Prize in French, awarded annually to the outstanding student of French at the school.

He was a member of the Modern Language Assn.; the American Assn. of Teachers of French; the Pennsylvania German Society, the Pennsylvania Forestry Assn. and Community Forest Council, the Muncy Historical Society, Beta Theta Pi, and the American Assn. of University Professors, having served for a time as president of the local AAUP chapter.

Hartzell is survived by a sister Miss Helen Hartzell, Muncy; and three brothers, Ralph and Paul, also of Muncy, and, Max, of Lewisburg