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A service will be held to celebrate the life and career of the late James R. Vitelli, Francis A. March Professor of English, Emeritus, at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall. A member of the faculty for 36 years, he died Dec. 3 in Bath, Maine. He was 86.
Vitelli joined the Lafayette faculty as an instructor in English in 1950 and became assistant professor in 1955. He was promoted to associate professor in 1960 and to full professor in 1968. He was named March Professor in 1978 and held the professorship until his retirement in 1986. He and his wife, the late Alice “Tinker” Carter Vitelli, moved to Bowdoinham, Maine, in 1987.
A native of Trenton, N.J., Vitelli graduated from the College of Wooster and held master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He was head of Lafayette’s English department 1977-83.