Nancy Packer, professor emerita of humanities, dies at 99

Nancy Packer, professor emerita of humanities, dies at 99

Nancy Packer, Melvin and Bill Lane professor emerita of humanities and former English professor at Stanford, died on April 2 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Packer was 99 years old, one month short of her 100th birthday. Packer’s journey at Stanford began in 1957, when she moved to California after her husband, Herbert Packer, joined the law school faculty. Packer was awarded a fellowship to study at Stanford under American novelist, writer,…

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