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READ, William Merritt

  • READ, William Merritt

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Date of Birth
June 24, 1901
Born City
Dupont
Born State/Country
IN
Parents
Parley Garfield, a home renovator, & Ella Josephine Smith R.
Date of Death
April 20, 1984
Death City
Seattle
Death State/Country
WA
Married
Arietta Otis, 19 Dec. 1924; Betty Jorgensen DeLacy, 30 Apr. 1948.
EDUCATION

B.A. DePauw U, 1923; M.A. U. Michigan, 1924; Ph.D., 1927.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instr. class. Western Reserve, 1926-7; instr. to prof, class. U. Washington, 1927-72; dir. U. Washington Press, 1943-63; pres. CAPN, 1928; Ford Found, grant, 1966-70.


DISSERTATION

"A Collation of Codex Evangelium 538" (Michigan, 1927).


PUBLICATIONS

Michigan Manuscript 18 of the Gospels (Seattle, 1942); A Guide to Hans H. Oerberg, Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata vol. 1 (Copenhagen, 1965), vol. 2 (Copenhagen, 1965); A Manual for Teachers of Hans H. Oerberg, Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata 2 vols. (Copenhagen, 1966); "Aims and Objectives of the Latin Program," Foreign Language Annals (May 1975).


NOTES

William Merritt Read was well known in the Pacific Northwest for the promotion of Latin teaching and study in the secondary schools. From 1966 to 1970 he was recipient of a Ford Foundation Language Grant to assist him in the promotion of Latin teaching in the secondary schools. Read was the author of pedagogical articles in several professional journals, but is most closely associated with the promulgation in this country of the "Nature Method" of teaching Latin.


SOURCES

Author Turned Printer (Brooklyn, NY, 1944); WhWh 1978-9: 2669.


AUTHOR
Daniel P. Harmon
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