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| | Donald LoCicero
I’m sure I speak for all
of the class of ’53 when I say that it is hard to believe that almost
fifty years have passed since we bid adieu to
Franklin K Lane and walked off into the sunset. Who would have
thought back then that one day we would have Medicare cards in our
wallets, and pill dispensers on our
kitchen tables? I guess we can’t really complain too much, though, when
we think that at our age Mozart was already dead for more than thirty years. I've
read some of your biographical
sketches, and now I will add mine so that a thousand years from now some
anthropologist can write a treatise on the primitive people who once lived
in an exotic place called Brooklyn. |
June - 1953
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Having left Brooklyn
College after a less than successful academic year, I spent five years as
a hearing aid technician, married Cecelia, eventually returned to college
and graduated in 1961. Four years later, the
torments of graduate school over, I went off with my PhD to teach German
and Russian at Oneonta State University in Upstate New York. One year
later, I moved to Cedar Crest , a small women’s college in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, where I taught
for thirty six years. Cedar Crest offered me many advantages: along with
my language courses, I was able to develop such diverse courses as The
Outsider (a study of the Holocaust and other genocides in human
history); The Superhero in World Literature (a course which delved
into the archetypal hero, using our home grown comic book, radio,
television and film superheroes to point out their similarities to those
in the epic masterpieces from various countries and eras); The Female
Her; The 1960s: the Second American Revolution
and various courses in Creative Writing.
I also created and directed the Cedar Crest Honors program, chaired
the International Language Department, and
periodically conducted seminars as a guest professor at Lehigh
University, Muhlenberg and Moravian Colleges.
In addition to my teaching, my late brother, Vince (who was an
earlier Lane graduate and my mentor) had a textbook published.
In 2000,
I underwent a thyroidectomy after having been diagnosed with thyroid
cancer, and while free of any traces of disease since then,
I decided to retire last year (2002), in order to devote my time
exclusively to writing. I
have had five novels published in the United States and three in China. My
China connection is too long a story to include in this short biography,
so I will let your imaginations have free reign to come up with possible
scenarios. Since no story is complete without a commercial interlude, I
would like to point out that my works are listed on the Amazon , Barnes
and Noble, and Booksamillion websites. Lanites will particularly recognize
the chapters on high school which appear in the novel, A Guy from
Brooklyn.
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