I must apologize to Peter from Perth, he DID NOT claim that Virgil Thompson was the first. I plead a hasty and furtive reading at work as my extenuating circumstance. Still, the discussion is an interesting one; and yes, the name Homer, when pinned on an American, is just as hayseed as Virgil.
Greg Farnum Jim O'Hara wrote: > ..... and its American use as a > >first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a > >television character in "McHale's Navy". Are there any others, I wonder? > > > >Best wishes > >Peter JVD BRYANT > >Perth > >Western Australia > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Nine major-league baseball players, eight born 1894-1917, and one in the > 20's, have been named Virgil: > >From http://www.totalbaseball.com/ > Virgil Abernathy > Virgil Barnes > Virgil Cheeves > Virgil Davis > Virgil Garriott > Virgil Garvin > Virgil Jester > Thomas Virgil "Red" Stallcup > Virgil Trucks > > Jim O'Hara James J. O'Hara > Professor of Classical Studies & Chair Classical Studies Dept. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesleyan University > 860/685-2066 (fax: 2089) Middletown CT 06459-0146 > Home Page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/jim.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
