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Post by SICguy84 on Mar 15, 2021 11:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by coqui900 on Mar 15, 2021 18:35:48 GMT -5
He was one of my favorite professors. I had him a few times as an undergrad and really learned a lot. My writing improved a ton due to his classes. I later worked on campus for a few years after while getting my grad degree. Brother Emery and I would grab lunch together every so often.
He was a great guy with a terrific and really oddball sense of humor. He also had what I thought at the time were really modern tastes in what he read and taught. We read "White Noise" by Don DeLillo, which came out in 1985, for his class called "American Dreams and American Nightmares." He also was really knowledgeable about Beat Poetry. He was truly his own person.
One of my favorite memories: I was down in the quad with my roommate one Friday night and saw a big congregation of people in Olney Hall. It was some Honors Program shindig with current students and alumni. This, of course, meant there was also a bar, which was unmanned because they were making some kind of presentation.
John (who was an English major and loved Br. Emery) and I maneuvered our way around and were about to steal a few bottles. Brother Emery caught us in the act. But then he recognized us and pantomimed "I'm looking the other way" while laughing and we walked out with a couple of bottles of vodka and gin for the weekend.
Great guy and a true character, despite not caring too much about sports at all.
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