Retiring Educator

A reception and dinner in honor of Prof. James M. O'Neill '07 upon his retirement as chairman of the Department of Speech at Brooklyn College, were given on April 29 and attended by 125 colleagues and friends. Carl D. England, Professor of Speech at Dartmouth, was the guest speaker.

Professor O'Neill's career as an educator, author and lecturer have won him national renown; a recent issue of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, of which he was the founding editor, was devoted to commemorating his achievements. He has maintained an active interest in the relation between religion and civil liberties, formerly serving as chairman of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1949 hook Religion and Education Under the Constitution was published and more recently Catholicism and American Freedom (reviewed in this issue). He is also the author of numerous articles and textbooks on speech.

From 1909 until 1913 Professor O'Neill taught at Dartmouth, as Instructor and Assistant Professor, following graduate work at the University of Chicago. He was Professor of Speech at the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan, and in 1935 went to Brooklyn College. He was the first president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech. The father of four sons and a daughter, he and his wife Edith make their home in Lakeville, Conn.

JAMES M. O'NEILL '07