Constance "Connie" (Gosselin) Schick, 69, of Carlisle, vivacious, witty, engaging, devoted mother of three, passed peacefully from memorable life into loving memory at home in the company of her family on Wednesday, January 14th after a long illness. Born in Bellingham, MA on April 12, 1945, daughter of the late Léo A. and Thérèse M. (Godbout) Gosselin, Connie was the fourth of six children and was raised in the Franco-American community of Bellingham and nearby Woonsocket, RI. Fluent in French from childhood, Connie maintained a lifelong personal and professional interest in matters French, Franco-American and Francophonique. A 1962 graduate of L'Academie Marie Joseph in Biddeford, ME, Connie attended Annhurst College in South Woodstock, CT and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson fellowship in 1966, one of several grants, awards and honors she would receive during her academic career. She received her Master's degree in French from Columbia University in New York, NY in 1968 and her Ph.D. in French from The Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA in 1973. Her academic career included positions at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY; Stonehill College in North Easton, MA; Memphis State University in Memphis TN; and most recently, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where she served as Chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 1998-2001 prior to her retirement in 2007. Specializing in 19th century French literature, her authorships included the book Seductive Resistance: The Poetry of Théophile Gautier, as well as numerous articles, conference papers and related presentations on francophone literature and culture. She was an elected member of the Administrative Council of the French Institute at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. She is recalled by many of her former students as an inspiration and an exacting scholar, capable of broadly synthesizing literature with the visual and musical arts in her many courses and presentations. Among her many talents and interests, Connie was a lifelong devotee of music. She was a standout member of her college glee club, where she and her husband met, and sang soprano in many choirs and chorale groups throughout her life, including a fondly remembered decade of membership in the Masterworks Chorale. In her youth, she excelled at the piano, a talent she rediscovered in her 7 happy years of retirement. She spent her time in these final years doing the things she enjoyed the most: tending her gardens, hiking the trails of Carlisle, skiing the White Mountains, sunning at the beach, decorating her house, and preparing holiday feasts. Her family will remember her - swinging peacefully on her backyard swing, gazing out the window with her morning coffee, sipping scotch at afternoon Party Time, laughing until she cried, and in myriad other ways - with profound admiration, gratitude and love; in a word, she was "phenomenal". Connie leaves her husband of 45 years, Dr. Edgar C. Schick, Jr.; sons, Stefan G. Schick and his wife Aielleen Fajardo of Brooklyn, NY and Matthew G. Schick and his partner Lauren McCune of Portland, OR; daughter, Adriana G. Schick of Somerville, MA; and grandchildren, Theo and Eloise Fajardo Schick of Brooklyn, NY. She was predeceased several years by her brother Maurice Gosselin of Leominster, MA and is survived by her brothers, Raymond L. Gosselin and his wife Joan of Malone NY and Roland J. Gosselin and his wife Virginia, of Buxton, ME; sisters, Lucille T. Sweeney of Woonsocket, RI and Madeleine G. Wright and her husband Robert of Alton Bay, NH; her sister-in-law, Margaret Mary Schick of Midlothian, VA; as well as a plethora of nieces and nephews. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Irene Roman Catholic Church, 181 East Street, Carlisle on Tuesday, January 20th at 10 am. Burial will follow in Green Cemetery, Carlisle. The family will receive visitors on Monday, January 19th from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm at the Dee Funeral Home, 27 Bedford Street, Concord, MA. Instead of flowers, the family requests that offerings in her memory be in the form of donations to either Partners In Health or Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville