President Scanlon Leaves Missouri
The retiring president is Irish, Catholic and spiritual.
And so it’s providential design that he gives credit to, and for which he expresses eternal gratitude for, for him being in western Missouri.
I find it hard not to like any man who might describe himself as a man of Shakepeare. “Shakespeare helps us understand human motivation, how humans interact in a way that is very helpful when you work with people”
Dr. Jim Scanlon is the retiring president of Missouri Western State University and I was reading over the weekend in the St Joe News of his last Western-related public appearance.
Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Scanlon lost his father at a young age. His grandmother on his mother’s side, who immigrated from Ireland, moved into the home soon after the death of his father, who also was of Irish stock.
“There is a very poetic strain in the Irish — a strong interest in literature and poetry,” he said of his path in education that led to a doctorate in English literature.
In a house full of Irish women (and a younger brother), Dr. Scanlon learned one truth: “It was never a question in my mind after that experience that women and men are equals,” he said. “They were strong, capable women.”
Dr Scanlon leaves Western to return to the east coast where he has a beach home in North Carolina.
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