If he was still alive? 125. He got one of his several degrees from the U of I. After witnessing the execution he gave a fiery sermon on the evils of capital punishment. He eventually left the priesthood and taught journalism at Kansas. He was considered the foremost authority on the English language...
John B. Bremner (December 28, 1920 – July 30, 1987) was an Australian-American journalist and a distinguished professor at the
University of Kansas. A former priest, Bremner worked as an editor for Catholic publications and taught at the
University of San Diego and the
University of Iowa before beginning a 16-year stint at the University of Kansas.
Biography
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Bremner was born in Brisbane. He studied at St. Columba's College in Springwood, Australia, at the University for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome, and
All Hallows College in Dublin. Before he earned a graduate degree from the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Bremner was an ordained Catholic priest.
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Before entering academia, Bremner worked as an editor at the
Florida Catholic and as a columnist at
The Tidings, a newspaper published by the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
[1] Early in his academic career, he taught at the University of San Diego and the University of Iowa.
In 1965, he completed a doctorate at Iowa.
[2] Beginning in 1969, Bremner was a journalism professor at the
University of Kansas.
[3] Named the Oscar S. Stauffer Distinguished Professor of Journalism in 1977, he taught at Kansas until his December 1985 retirement.
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Standing 6'5" and carrying a reputation for a no-nonsense approach, Bremner was described by one of his colleagues as "a delightful terror to students."
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