Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: A passionate and engaging teacher, Huston [Diehl]

received teaching awards at all three universities where she taught, including the University of Iowa's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1989. In 1984, she directed an NEH summer seminar for high school teachers on Milton's Paradise Lost, a poem that she especially loved to teach. While at The University of Iowa, she supervised sixteen doctoral dissertations and eleven undergraduate honors theses. She took great pride in her students' accomplishments and professional careers.

from Iowa City Press Citizen: Huston Diehl, 61

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