1961

Unknown

• Bellairs is the recipient of the Wilson Special Grant (for the 1960-61 school year [1]) and La Verne Noyes Fellowship as a student at the University of Chicago [2].

Spring

• Bellairs is in enrolled in classes at the University of Chicago for Spring quarter [2].
• Bellairs meets Dale and Marilyn Fitschen. Dale lived on 56th Street, about 1-1/2 blocks from the Illinois Central and South Shore train tracks [3].

May

• Bellairs leaves International House, where he'd lived since September 1959.

June

• Bellairs resides in an apartment on Woodlawn near 53rd street with Dale Fitschen, John Moriarty, and Lewis McFarlane for a semester. Bellairs only lived there for the summer [3].

Autumn

• Bellairs is in enrolled in classes at the University of Chicago for Autumn quarter [2].

Winter

• Bellairs is in enrolled in classes at the University of Chicago for Winter quarter [2].

c. December-January

• Bellairs Leaves for England [4].

Reference

• [1] "Academic Record Form for Indiana University Center Faculty" (Jul. 23, 1960).
• [2] Correspondence with University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center.
• [3] Correspondence with Marilyn Fitschen.
• [4] Undated letter to Fitschens, sent from England (c. Dec. 1960-Jan. 1961).