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Arthur Tillman Merritt, who for 40 years worked in Harvard's music department as professor and chair, died on Sunday in Bedford, Mass...
...Merritt's colleagues remembered him as passionate about music and teaching...
...Never having married, his sole thrust was music, and then it developed into Harvard music, and then specifically, the development of the department," said Elliot Forbes '40-'41 professor emeritus of music and a close friend of Merritt...
...Space Camp). Other local points of interest include the Brevard Community College Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory (planetarium shows, a rooftop telescope, space museum and hands-on exhibit hall), the Piper Aircraft factory (where those interested in aviation on a smaller scale can tour the assembly plant) and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (for living proof that nature and technology can coexist peacefully). Finally, you'll want to reserve time to go back over to the Kennedy Space Center. There's a lot that isn't covered on the Space Camp tour--the International Space Station, for example...
Remer says he's reformed now, having had one of those little epiphanies that sometimes come to people who are pulled over by the state police. He was stopped one night on the narrow and unlighted Merritt Parkway in Connecticut after a high-speed race with another car, and soon thereafter he enrolled in a seminar for aggressive drivers. "I was lucky to recognize my problem and try to fix it," he says...