Memorial benches dedicated to English faculty
Two benches were dedicated by the Department of English in memory of deceased faculty members Don Millus and Peter Lecouras, who died last year.Millus, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., earned a Ph.D. from Yale and came to CCU to teach, write and fish. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on the Protestant reformers and Bible translator William Tyndale, Millus published a number of books about growing up in Brooklyn and fishing throughout the Southeast. His book of poetry, “Wading South,” is still in print.
Lecouras, born in Stamford, Conn., earned a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina and began teaching full time in the Department of English at USC-Coastal Carolina College in 1985. During his 24 years at CCU, Lecouras was published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals on William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Robert Lowell. His first book of fiction, “Requiem for a Good Soldier and Other Stories,” was published in September 2009.
The English Faculty Memorial Bench Dedication was held on May 4 in the lobby of the Thomas W. and Robin W. College of Humanities and Fine Arts.
