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After graduating from high school, John Deethardt served in the U.S. Army in Europe (WWII). He attended Indiana University (A.B.) and Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D.). After eight years of secondary-school teaching, he held positions at Northwestern University (T.A.), the University of Southern Colorado, and Texas Tech University, retiring as Emeritus Professor, Texas Tech University.
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I came across your website and was impressed with your many accomplishments recorded there: the librettos for operas, your research on communication and freedom of speech, and your years of excellent teaching. I wanted to drop you a note to tell you how much I have appreciated the good education you gave when I was a student at Valparaiso, Indiana High School and you were a teacher there. I took your first and second year German classes. When I started college at Stanford (CA) University, what I learned in your classes enabled me to pass out of the first year of German and get directily into the second year college German class. We read Goethe’s Faust and a novel called “Kleiner Mann , was nun?” Then I went on to take several more German courses where we read works of Nietsche, Kant, Karl Jaspers, and other German philosophers. I spent 6 months at the Stanford-in-Germany overseas campus near Stuttgart and stayed in Germany 6 months after finishing to live and work in Munich. The final stage of my German language development came about 20 years after that when I spent a year long sabbatical leave in Innsbruck, Austria. I loved it there! We took a little excursion one Sunday and went to the Zillertal, which was one valley over from the Inntal. It brought back memories of your description of Meyerhof and of the songs from the Zillertal that you taught us in the German class. I still remember all the words to the songs and sing them once in a while. Your enthusiasm for that area was very influential in my wanting to go there. My German was quite fluent after that year and although it is a bit ungeübt right now, it comes back relatively quickly when I visit a German-speaking country and start conversing. Thank you so much for giving me such a good start in German and inspiring my interest in the language. Also, thank you for exposing me to “Androcles and the Lion” by George Bernard Shaw, which was very influential in converting me to atheism, with which I have been quite content all my life.
Gertrude!! Hi!! Grand to hear from you through this means. What a wonderful message out of the blue. Thank you so much for your kind remarks. Ich bin auch ungeübt deutsch zu sprechen. WOW! How great!
I have put the text of G. B. Shaw’s “Preface to Androcles and the Lion” on the Blogroll to the right, as a PAGE.