Nevertheless, my year of living in Manhattan and teaching at
City College/CUNY in 1975-1976 is the most memorable year of my life - thus far.
I worked with the four fine people I have highlighted in the somewhat
digressive present essay: Mina P. Shaughnessy, Theodore L. Gross, Edward Quinn,
and Sarah D'Eloia -- but I also had other fine colleagues at City College.
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)