Frank Gerrity looks pretty good

Frank (no one, no one!, ever thought to call him Frank) taught the Western Civ course at St. Joseph's 45 -- can it really be 45?! -- years ago.

I just watched a few Western Civ lectures by one Francis F.X. Noble on a Teaching Company DVD. The subject of the lectures: The Renaissance. (We're going to Italy in a few months, you may have heard.) Well, Professor Francis F.X. Noble's lectures reminded me of a lot of the things that Frank Gerrity said, and -- if memory serves -- said more clearly and concisely.

The Teaching Company's stuff always sounds like it will be wonderful, but I haven't found anything particularly good yet. I'll try one more, but if this is a dud, I'm quits.

Addendum: My clearest memory of Frank Gerrity: It's the first really gorgeous day of spring, 1963. Some kind of elections, student council, I guess, are going on, with music and speeches and pretty girls parading around. And 30 of us were stuck in a Western Civ class listening to Frank drone on and on and on about Napoleon. Well, actually, we were stuck in Western Civ class not listening to Frank drone on and on and on about Napoleon. I think everyone tuned out after about 5 minutes. And he knew it. But he kept on for the next 40 minutes giving the lecture he had prepared. And at the end of class he just said, "Next time we'll have a quiz on the material we covered today." We were all doomed. And that's when I realized that it would be really cool to teach college.