CHARLES E. ROGERS 1914-2002

I first met Charlie Rogers when he and his wife Doris signed on for my first Bibliophiles' Tour, in 1984. Our group met up in Edinburgh and then journeyed together to London, via Durham, York, and Oxford, visiting libraries, book collectors, and a few dealers. He and Doris had retired to Guilford in 1975, after an active life spent mainly abroad. Charlie was graduated with the Class of 1937 from Yale College, and after a year as a bank clerk he studied international relations at the Yale Graduate School, and then was employed by the Board of Economic Warfare in Washington. He was then, 1943-45, on active duty as a captain in the Marines. Later he had various functions in the Bureau of European Affairs, served as first secretary of the Embassy in Rome from 1955 to 1958 and in Milan as consul general for the next two years. He then entered private business as a developer of an Italian ski resort until he returned to the States to settle in Guilford, and to take an M.A. in history at Yale. Charlie was on the board of the Long Wharf Theater, and he and Doris were often present at social functions and alumni events in New Haven. He died in Branford on