Dr. Robert West rites 11 a.m. Graveside services for Dr. Robert H. West, 81, a Nashville native and professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. today at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Athens, Ga. Dr. West died Thursday in St. Mary's Hospital, Athens. Local arrangements are by Roesch-Patton Dorris & Charlton, Broadway Chapel. He was professor of English at the University of Georgia from 1936-42 and from 1946-74. He headed the English department there from 1964-72 and served as assistant tennis coach. Dr. West was born in Nashville, a son of Dr. Olin and Susie Hunter West. He received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Vanderbilt University, where he lettered in track and football. During World War II, he was a captain in the old Army Air Corps Intelligence Service, based in Tinion in the South Pacific. Dr. West specialized in the literature of Milton and Shakespeare and published many scholarly articles and books, including Milton and the Angels and Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery. Dr. West was a former president of Modern Languages Association and the Milton Society of America, and a former trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. He was listed in Who's Who in America. He was a sportswriter for the Nashville Banner from 1931-33. Survivors include his wife Conn Harris West, Athens; a daughter, Susan West, Nashville and College Grove; and a brother, Olin West Jr., Nashville.
