Obituaries

Ernest H. Lambert, janitor supervisor

Ernest H. Lambert, 68, of Northampton, a retired supervisor of janitors in the Physical Plant, died March 25 in Cooley Dickin-son Hospital.

He served the University for nearly 10 and a half years before retiring in 1999. He previously had worked as a printer for 30 years.

He was a graduate of Greenfield Technical High School.

He was a communicant of St. John Cantius Church in North-ampton.

He was member of the Pine Grove Golf Club for more than 30 years.

He leaves his wife, Patricia Lambert; three sons, Michael C. of Whately, a Housing operations assistant, Christopher P. of Belchertown, and Paul A. of Georgia, Vt.; a brother, Edward P. of Morrisville, Vt.; and other family.

Memorial contributions may be made to Western Massachusetts Kidney Center, 2000 Main St., Springfield 01103 or St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 300, Memphis, TN 38148.

Albert M. Reh, retired professor

Albert M. Reh, 80, of Neu-Isenburg, Germany, a professor emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literature, died March 8.

He served the University for 19 years before retiring in 1987. Prior to working at the University, he taught at Wayne State and Prince-ton Universities and at Smith College. He was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut.

He also taught in National Endowment for the Humanities' summer institutes at Princeton and ran summer programs in Germany for the University, Wayne State and the Goethe Institut.

A specialist in the writings of Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and in language pedagogy, he held a doctoral degree from the University of Munich and was the author of seven books, as well as many articles and reviews.

He served as vice president of the Lessing Society in 1979-80.

He directed the Master of Arts in Teaching and student-teachers programs for a number of years, and for more than a decade, he supervised student teachers of German in public high schools around Western Massachusetts.

In 1977, one of his students endowed the "Albert Reh Scholarship" in his honor at Princeton.

A veteran of the German Army during World War II, where he served on the Eastern front, he spent 1944-48 as a Soviet prisoner of war, working in a mine.
He leaves his wife, Astrid J. Vonhausen-Reh; a daughter, Susan G.; and a son, Hans-Georg L.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature for the Ellert-Brauner Scholarship Fund.