The Daily Register from Red Bank, New Jersey • 11

SUNDAY. MAY 5, 1985 The Register 11A: Professor-poet Reiter receives McMurray appointment WEST LONG BRANCH Dr. Thomas Reiter, a 17-year member of the Monmouth College English faculty and author of three critically acclaimed collections of narrative poetry, has been appointed first incumbent of the Wayne D. McMurray Chair in the Humanities at the college. His appointment for a threeyear term, made on recommendation of a committee, was announced by Monmouth's president Dr.

Samuel H. Magill. The McMurray Chair, which is the college's first endowed professorship, has been established with $500,000 from a $1 million grant made to Monmouth in 1984 by the McMurray-Bennett Foundation, Inc. In making the award, the foundation named for the late Wayne D. McMurray, a former editor of the Asbury Park Press who was a longtime trustee of Monmouth College, and his late wife, Helen Bennett McMurray specified that a portion of the grant, largest gift in the history of the college, be used for the humanities professorship.

At 45, Reiter is receiving growing national recognition for his poetry. R.H.W. Dillard of Hollins College, in a review, wrote, "Reiter's poems are carpentered and crafted, planned and polished until they gleam like lasting amulets of true bone, of clean fact. Thomas Reiter is a poet of genuine significance and Three of Reiter's collections deal with his early years on the Mississippi River the river, the roads, the people. His book, "River Route," 1977, published by Cedar Creek Press, Stillwater, was Ste Steinbach ch Save CORELLI women's wedge casual 25.99 orig.

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It was followed by' "'The Zalenka Poems," published by Juniper Press, La Cross, 1981, and "'Starting from Bloodroot," Chowder Press, Wollaston, 1982. The last book was one of four selected for publication from among 400 submissions in a national competition. The books were reviewed widely and favorable throughout the country. Of "River Route," George Garrett, University of Michigan said, "It is the rare and distinguished thing an important collection one of the best young poets Reviewing "Starting from Bloodroot," Frank Allen of Poet Lore said, "Reiter is someone I would like to call up (along with Holden Caulfield) Brookdale slates schedule of tours MIDDLETOWN Arnold Gelfman, director of Academic Support Services at Brookdale Community College, has announced a new program of college tours to begin immediately. Conducted by a Brookdale Admissions Specialist, tours will leave the Brookdale Administration Building (park in Area 3) every Friday at 10 a.m.

No reservation is required. The admissions specialists will show tour participants around the campus, including any areas requested because of participants' interests. Commentary will include the adaptation of college buildings from the original farm structures of thoroughbred breeding days. Groups wishing to tour the campus at other times will be accommodated by -appointment. Contact 1 the Brookdale Office of Admissions to arrange for these tours.

to see what his next poem will be." The poet's fourth published work, "Rain a collaboration with art department colleague Prof. Vincent DiMattio, was issued in 1984 by Tamarack Press, Syracuse, N.Y. Reiter's work in progress is a book-length sequence of dramatic and narrative poems on early 19th century Iowa history and folkways. His work is being supported this year by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, his second award from the council. Reiter's poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and virtually all the poetry journals and magazines.

He and English department colleague Dr. Prescott Evarts, also a published poet, are co-editors of the New Jersey Poetry Journal published at Monmouth College. A frequent lecturer, Reiter often is invited to conduct poetry workshops and to review new collections. With a reduced teaching load as occupant of the chair, Reiter will be able to devote more time to his own already prolific creative output and continue to give the readings to college groups for which he is in great demand. At Monmouth, where he holds the -1.

rank of professor, he is director of the Creative Writing Program. Reiter this year won a. $14,000 grant from the Humanities Granting Agency of the State Department of Higher Education to develop pilot sections of computer-assisted English composition. Reiter is graduate. of Loras College in earned a master's degree from University of Virginia, and a Ph.D.

from the University of Massachusets. He lives in Neptune with his wife Jo Nell and two children. Mr. McMurray had a longtime'; interest in Monmouth College. A member of the Board of Trustes from 1956 to 1967, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1969.

He died in 1974. Mrs. McMurray was a school teacher for 37 years. She died in 1982. A special committee of the Murray which administers the McMurray bequest, was involved in the selec-5 tion process.

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