Seven Lean Years

About the Book

In the spring of 1968, I was putting the finishing touches on my dissertation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. On the very day that I planned to accept a position at a university in Ohio, I received a call from one Lu Garvin, who said he was the Provost of Macalester College which was located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Garvin was in Lansing, and asked if I would be interested in driving up from Ann Arbor for an interview on that day or the following day. I had never heard of Macalester College, but having grown up in South Dakota, I had always thought that the Twin Cities would be a wonderful place to live. Hence I decided to go for the interview. I called the university in Ohio, and they gave me another week to make my decision.

About the Author

Jeremiah Reedy, a native of South Dakota, earned an S.T.B. degree at the Gregorian University in Rome, an M.A. in Classics from the University of South Dakota, another M.A. and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan, where he specialized in classical philology and Indo-European linguistics. He taught Classics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1968 until he retired in 2004. He currently teaches Latin and Greek at the University of St. Thomas School of Divinity as an adjunct professor. For the past 25 years, most of his time and energy has been devoted to studying and writing about Greek philosophy. Besides essays on philosophy, his publications include translations and editions of both ancient Greek and medieval Latin works.. An activist in efforts to reform education, Dr. Reedy was the chair of the founding committee of the New Spirit School in St. Paul and the founder of the Seven Hills Classical Academy in Bloomington, Minnesota.