The English Professor: Raphael Dorman O’Leary
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This memoir narrates how the professor, born in 1866, was raised on a Kansas farm in the post-bellum era. Like his father before him, he was committed to a life of learning and teaching. His colleagues knew him for his unpretentious exterior, honesty, and integrity, and his flashing anger at cheapness, vulgarity, pretense, and, above all, charlatanism. When Professor OLeary died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects passed through two generations to his grandson, Dennis S. OLeary, who, with his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. The trove of material served as the core resource for the compilation of The English Professor. It provides insights into the histories of Kansas and the University of Kansas and of Harvard University, as well as perspectives on higher education, including the teaching of English rhetoric, language, literature, journalism, and oratory in the United States.
Margaret R. O’Leary
Margaret R. O’Leary served for many years as an attending emergency physician in several academic and community hospitals and as a professional writer. She lives in Fairway, Kansas. Dennis S. O’Leary served as a medical executive at the George Washington University Medical Center (1971–1986) and as president of the Joint Commission(1986–2007). He lives in Fairway, Kansas.
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