Alumni and friends of St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla., celebrated the career of the longest-serving faculty member of the university, J. Richard Raleigh.
Raleigh ’62, ’64 is a graduate of Detroit Mercy and has taught English and humanities at the private Catholic school since 1966 when it was called Biscayne College. During those 50 years he was named Professor of the Year nine times. At the December event, Raleigh was awarded the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service by the university’s president, Rev. Msgr. Franklyn Casale.
“He has this attachment with his students and they trust him,” one of his former students told a reporter for the Miami Herald. Raleigh has no plans to retire.
Read more about this remarkable career here.
P.S.: Thanks to Raleigh’s friend John P. Hussey ’63, ’65 for letting us know about this story.
