Background
Holmes, Henry Alfred was born on August 15, 1883 in Alfred, Maine, United States. Son of Wilbur Fisk and Mary Evalyn (Howe) Holmes.
Holmes, Henry Alfred was born on August 15, 1883 in Alfred, Maine, United States. Son of Wilbur Fisk and Mary Evalyn (Howe) Holmes.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1905, Master of Arts, 1910. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1923 (fellow Romance languages, 1913-1914, 1921-1922). Graduate student of University Buenos Aires, 1918, University of Mexico, 1924, Sorbonne, 1931-1932.
Modern language master Irving School, 1909-1911, Lawrenceville School, 1911-1913. Director North. American Academy, Montevideo, 1915-1917, Ward College, Buenos Aires, 1918-1920. Instructor French and Spanish, Columbia, 1921-1923, 1928.
Instructor Italian, Newark Institute Arts and Sciences, 1922-1923.
Member department Romance languages, New York University, 1914-1915, 1922-1925. Professor, director department languages, Texas State College for Women, 1925-1926.
Professor Romanic languages and literature, Pomona College, 1926-1929, head Spanish department, 1927. Assistant professor Romance languages and literature, College City of New York, 1928-1935, associate professor 1935-1944, professor 1944, emeritus since 1951.
Research specialist Committee Cultural Action of Organisation American States, 1952-1954.
Visiting professor National University of Chile, 1938. Annual lecturer Casa Hispanica, Columbia, 1942-1950. Professor methodology Spanish School, Middlebury College, 1943.
Visiting professor National U. Mexico, 1950, University of Puerto Rico, 1951, Mexico City College, 1952.
Lecturer Universities Mexico, Guatemala 1955. Lecturer auspices United States State Department Educational Exchange in 6 Latin American Republics and Japan, 1956, in Cambridge, London universities, other groups England, 1958.
Member Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, since 1956. Delaware, interpreter, International Religious and Social Science Congress, Montevideo, 1925.
Educational surveys in Europe for Mechanical Engineering Board Foreign Missions, 1929, ’32.
Trustee of Ward College, Argentina.
Member department Romance languages, New York University, 1914-1915, 1922-1925. Member Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, since 1956. Delaware, interpreter, International Religious and Social Science Congress, Montevideo, 1925.
Member International Institute of Arts and Letters, South.R., Sigma Delta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member Hispano-American Academy Arts & Sciences, Cadiz. Member Institute Cultural Argentino-Northeamericano Buenos Aires, also the Instituto Internazionale per lo studio e lo Sviluppo delle Relazioni Umane.
Club: Andiron.
Married Lula East. Thomas, October 12, 1915. Children: Wilbur Thomas, Olive (Mistress Melvin Blum), Leonor Elizabeth (Mistress J. Whitney Brown).