Books by Loren Dudley Reid

"Professor on the Loose" is mainly about teaching, viewed not as routine, or as poorly paid, or as followed by those who don't know better, but as challenging & rewarding; full days mixed with good humor & companionship that help offset reversals. Reid comments on good teachers & their magic; on students & their blossoming; on committees, including one that tried to censor the student humor magazine; on interviews & salaries & promotions. Reid's stage is the Great Depression: the World War II era when students & teachers left the campus, to flock back later. It includes teaching military people in England & Germany, at a time when the Air Force kept planes ready to bomb Communists, & the Army patrolled the Iron Curtain. "Professor on the Loose" narrates wartime rationing: food, gas, cigarettes, & booze. Crossing the Atlantic in a flying truck. World travel (teachers learn from other peoples). The British Library's pre-card catalog. Louise, a French nurse; Thomas Carlyle; Sir Thomas Beecham; Asia's swarms of children. Teaching in territorial Hawaii, & realizing what America really meant. In short, teaching & learning inside & outside the classroom. Under the rules. And on the loose.

A course in speech making and interpersonal communication includes chapters on job interviews, persuasion, and gaining confidence.