Boydston, Susan Hathaway, Ph.D. born 12/17/47 in Boston, Massachusetts to the late Mary Lee Bird Hathaway and William Dodd Hathaway. Mother of Elizabeth Britton Larkin of Sarasota, Florida, LT Edward "Ned" Hathaway Boydston, USN, and Alexander "Alec" Dodd Boydston, Leiden, The Netherlands. Grandmother of Kai Benjamin Larkin. Sister of Fred W. Hathaway (Lee Broadfoot) of Washington DC and aunt of William and Benjamin Hathaway. Formerly married to Richard Boydston. Attended public schools in Auburn, Maine and graduate of George C. Marshall High School, Falls Church, Virginia. B.A. in psychology (1969) Tufts University, MAT in Elementary Education, (1972) Simmons College, M.A. in Creative Writing (1994) and Ph.D. in English Literature (2004), University of Cincinnati. Member of Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, PsyArt Foundation, Modern Language Association, Cincinnati Tennis Club. Recipient of several writing awards and honors. Teacher in the Cincinnati Public Schools and English instructor at the University of Cincinnati and numerous other English and reading teaching work over the years. Author of The Growth of a Self: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Beowolf (2004). Susan was a dear friend to many and had a wide array of connections she valued deeply. She was always the life of the party. Some of her happiest times were spent with her family in Maine and enjoying her grandson Kai. Susan had a lifelong passion for learning, teaching, and writing. She was committed to growing as a person and had a gift for persistence in spite of obstacles. Above all, Susan was a loving and tender mother who took great joy in raising her children and delighting in their company as adults. Her physical presence will be missed greatly but her loving spirit will live on in all who knew her. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx? (As published in The Boston Globe, 7/15/2014.)