Posted on 10/14/2013 11:47:38 AM PDT by Welchie25
It certainly makes for a good story: a scrappy kid from Baltimore flunks out of an English class at what is now Loyola University Maryland only to become an international bestselling author.
The problem is that the oft-told tale concerning Tom Clancy is just as fictitious as Jack Ryan.
“It was an urban legend that just wouldn’t die,” said Carol Abromaitis, the English professor accused of giving Clancy an F in her class.
For decades, Abromaitis urged English majors to let others know the truth. Her efforts bore little fruit.
“One major said to me, ‘Of course not. It makes us look smart,’” Abromaitis remembered with a laugh.
Clancy, who died Oct. 1 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore following a brief illness, was, in fact, a friend of Abromaitis and her husband, Mike. The master of the techno-thriller sometimes played war board games with Mike Abromaitis. The couple also served as the godparents of Clancy’s eldest child.
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Denying that he flunked English actually violates a whole slew of Federal student privacy laws.
Since she has been doing that for years, and Mr. Clancy himself was a good friend of hers, I assume he gave her permission to do so.
Unless he authorized the records to be released at some point in his life (or upon his death).
Loyola Blakefield was my alma mater, class of ‘75.
I took AP English under Joe Brune and wound up with three college credits for it.
Not after he is dead.
Calvert Hall ‘79
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