We were involved in the Bread & Roses School for Socialist Education for two to three years.” Grad school was only $1500 for a semester. Then we moved to Austin which was paradise if you didn't have money. Hugh taught in a Black high school for one year. “We were VISTA volunteers in the Houston area and in community organizing. “We were both involved in civil rights and anti-war (Vietnam) movements,” his wife, Sue, told us last week. After seeing the almost daily student demonstrations there against the Vietnam War and capitalist excesses, he became active in Fordham’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, and supported progressive policies for the rest of his life. He went to Paris for his junior year of college. Grady graduated from Benedictine Military School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University. Grady won Arcadia’s Ellington Beavers Faculty Award for intellectual inquiry in 19, was professor of the year for 2001-02 and was awarded a 2004 summer research stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.īorn in Savannah, GA., where he volunteered for the NAACP as a teenager - a courageous thing to do at that time in the deep South - Dr. So would dozens of other Shakespeareans.”ĭr. “He was great at heart,” wrote Gayle Greene, a Shakespeare scholar at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Myself and many other volunteers were lucky to meet with them a few years ago at a VISTA reunion.” “Hugh and Sue Grady were also outstanding VISTA volunteers in Houston in 1969 and '70. “Hugh was a giant in his field,” wrote Garland Deen McInnis on the West Laurel Hill Funeral Home website. Grady died Sunday, May 8, of acute myeloid leukemia at University of Pennsylvania hospital. A preeminent Shakespearean scholar at Arcadia University with a global reputation in academia, a prolific author and editor (curriculum vitae of almost 5,500 words) and former political activist and community organizer, Dr. Grady Jr., a Wyndmoor resident for 19 years (and Germantown for 18 years before that), I could not help but think about Dr. Even students with no interest whatsoever in Shakespeare - accounting majors, chemistry and sociology majors - fought to get into his classes and were crushed when they were rejected because the classes filled up so quickly. He acted out all the roles, including the female characters, with different accents and unbridled passion.
Harold Stenger was a legendary teacher of Shakespeare plays.
When I was an undergraduate student at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, English professor, Dr.
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