Pierre and Alix Deguise taught French at Connecticut College 1958-1981. Mr. Deguise interrupted his academic career to join the French army in 1938. Following France's defeat, he joined the French resistance. Alix Deguise escaped with her family to the United States in 1940 and three years later enrolled at Smith College. She soon withdrew and went to England to join the Free French forces. She was attached to the British army as a civilian affairs officer and followed troops landing at Normandy, providing relief in Northern France and later at Bergen-Belsen, where many of her relatives had perished. She met and married Pierre at the University of Lausanne in 1948 where she received her doctorate.