About the Authors
Frederic M. Wheelock
Frederic M. Wheelock (1902-1987) received the A.B.,
A.M, and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. His long and distinguished
teaching career included appointments at Haverford College, Harvard
University, the College of the City of New York, Brooklyn College, Cazenovia
Junior College (where he served as Dean), the Darrow School for Boys (New
Lebanon, NY), the University of Toledo (from which he retired as full
Professor in 1968), and a visiting professorship at Florida Presbyterian
(now Eckerd) College.
He published a number of articles and reviews in the
fields of textual criticism, palaeography, and the study of Latin; in
addition to Wheelock’s Latin (previously titled Latin: An Introductory
Course Based on Ancient Authors), his books include Latin Literature: A Book
of Readings and Quintilian as Educator (trans. H. E. Butler; introd. and
notes by Prof. Wheelock). Professor Wheelock was a member of the American
Classical League, the American Philological Association, and the Classical
Association of the Atlantic States.
BIOGRAPHY (reprinted courtesy of Professor Ward Briggs and The
Classical Outlook) [PDF File]
Richard A. LaFleur
Richard A. LaFleur received
the B.A. and M.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia and the Ph.D. in
Classical Studies from Duke. He has taught since 1972 at the University of
Georgia, where he served for 21 years as head of one of the largest Classics
programs in North America and has held since 1998 the chair of Franklin
Professor of Classics.
He has numerous publications in Latin language,
literature, and pedagogy, including the books
The Teaching of Latin in
American Schools: A Profession in Crisis,
Latin Poetry for the Beginning
Student,
Love and Transformation: An Ovid Reader,
Latin for the 21st
Century: From Concept to Classroom,
Wheelock's
Latin (revised 5th and 6th eds.),
Wheelock's Latin Reader (revised 2nd ed.), (with Paul Comeau)
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin (revised 3rd ed.), and (with Alexander G.
McKay)
A Song of War: Readings from Vergil's Aeneid.
Professor LaFleur also served as Editor of The
Classical Outlook (1979–2003) and is a past President of the
American Classical League
(1984–1986). He has been recipient of more than one million dollars in
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other funding
agencies, and of numerous state, regional, and national awards for teaching
and professional service, including, in 1984, the
American Philological Association's
award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics.
Curriculum Vitae
Articles about Richard LaFleur that are online:
Classics head appointed to Franklin Professorship
Distance Education Courses
Latin for the 21st Century
Southworks Festival
Paul T. Comeau
Paul T. Comeau studied Latin, Classical Greek, and
French for more than four years at Joliette Seminary in Quebec. Part of a
long military career, from which he retired in 1975, was spent teaching
French and serving as the advisor for the Humanities and Social Sciences at
the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from
Assumption College, an M.A. in French Language and Literature and a Ph.D. in
Romance Languages and Literatures, both from Princeton University.
From 1975 to 1989, as Professor of French and Head of
the Department of Foreign Languages at New Mexico State University, he
established a two-year Latin program and taught that language for nine
years, along with courses in French language, literature, and culture. A
number of his articles have appeared in French literary journals, and his
publications include a book of literary history, Diehards and Innovators,
the French Romantic Struggle: 1800-1830 (1988).
He has received research grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Canadian Embassy. Now retired as
Professor Emeritus of French, he is past President of the New Mexico Chapter
of the American Association of Teachers of French and a Life Member of the
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