Peter Dobkin Hall (1946-2015) spoke on the Thomas Phillips and Son Company, the most prominent stone carving firm in New Haven in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Hall held appointments at Wesleyan University (1974-1982), Yale University (1973-1999), and Harvard University (2000-2015).
James A. Slater (1920-2008) was the commentator on Hall’s paper. Slater, an authority on colonial gravestones, taught at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, for several decades where he was head of the zoology and entomology departments.