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Julie Candler Hayes, professor of French and dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, gave the presidential plenary lecture on April 5 during the annual meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

Hayes was elected vice president of ASECS in 2011 and served as the organization’s president in 2012-13. The topic of her lecture, which stems from an ongoing book project on 17th and 18th-century women writers, was “Philosophical About Marriage: Women Writers and the Moralist Tradition.”

Pauline P. Collins, 92, of Amherst, retired librarian of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, died April 4 at the Hospice at the Fisher Home in North Amherst.

Born on April 4 in Sylva, N.C., she graduated from Cullowhee High School in 1938. She developed an early interest in Spanish and Spanish-American literature at Western Carolina University and Duke University, which led to a master’s degree at Duke and a doctorate in romance languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Academic Instructional Media Services, a division of Help Services in the Office of Information Technologies, is taking appointments for its summer clean and check of departmentally-owned equipment.

Types of equipment to be serviced include, but are not limited to, data projectors, slide projectors DVD players, VCRs and sound systems.

Actual maintenance will take place over the summer, by appointment, at the departmental spaces or offices.  AIMS offers this service free of charge but departments may have to buy replacement parts, lamps, etc.