Noyes Capehart Long, Class of 1952

Noyes Capehart Long, Class of 1952, is this month's alumni profile. Following his graduation from DuPont High School in 1952, Noyes attended The University of the South (Sewanee) for two years before transferring to Auburn University where he majored in art, attaining his baccalaureate degree in1958. He spent the next three years in New York City, pursuing his goal of becoming a painter while working as a guard and night watchman at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
     In January of 1961 he returned to Auburn as a temporary instructor. Realizing the need for a master’s degree in order to continue teaching at the university level, he spent the years 1962-63 in the graduate program at the University of Missouri, majoring in printmaking. He remained at the university as an instructor until 1967, at which time he took a teaching position at the University of Mississippi. Two years later, he left Oxford in order to accept a position with Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Noyes remained at Appalachian until his retirement in 1997, filling stints as department chairman and acting dean along the way.

     Noyes Capehart (he paints and writes under this name) has been exhibiting pictures at state, regional, and national levels since 1958. His works have been shown in galleries and museums throughout the country, including The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), The Smithsonian Museum (Washington, DC), The Brooklyn Museum, The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), and The North Carolina State Museum (Raleigh). At some point during the coming spring, Noyes will release The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart, a 160-page book covering fifty years of his art. (A section of the book does address his boyhood years in Old Hickory.) In addition to his visual commitments, Noyes has written two novels and numerous short stories during the past forty years. DuPont alumni are invited to visit his website at www.capehart.org. The Private Diary may be ordered by simply downloading an order form from the website.
     Noyes is married to Suzanne Connor Long. In their combined family they have six children, five grandchildren, and another grandchild on the way. His plate is indeed full and life is good.