Father David Sherrer, C.S.C.
Professor of English

He strolled quietly onto campus in 1963 as an instructor in literature, and he will stroll quietly off campus this spring as a retiring professor of literature, but between those wanders was a wonderful career that included deaning and vice presidenting on The Bluff and seven years as president of Kings College in Pennsylvania. Renowned for his Shakespeare classes and his daily campus perambulations (for many years with his dog Blue, now late and lamented), Dave Sherrer taught pretty much every aspect of the writing craft you can imagine, and Chaucer, Keats, Synge, Vonnegut, Orwell, O’Faolain, much else.

“Of all the hours in my day the most rewarding are those in class, and it is my conclusion after forty years that it is never a bad day in class as long as I learn something, which I do every class, so there you are,” says Sherrer.

Of this fine teacher we celebrate, as John Falstaff says, his relish of the saltness of time, and we wish him a reverend care of his health, and commend his judgement and understanding, and thank the Lord for this stern smiling superb companion along the educational road.