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An Interview With Simon Loxley

1965

February

  • 4 - The first of four subsequent night performances of Bellairs playing the role of "Alfred 'Boss' Mangan" in Shaw's "Heartbreak House".
  • Bellairs attends 10th Annual conference for English majors attending Minnesota private colleges.  The conference was held at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth with students from 13 private colleges.  The subject was William Butler Yeats.

April

  • 5 - Irish writer Seán Ó Faoláin visits the College of Saint Teresa [1].
    • On the afternoon of his first day (Monday), he visited Norbert Geier's British Literature class ("An Anecdotal Approach to Shaw, Yeats, and Synge") and Sister M. Bernetta's classes on English composition.
  • 6 - Irish writer Seán Ó Faoláin visits the College of Saint Teresa [1].
    • On the morning of his second day he visited William Goodreau's class in poetics.
    • He later spoke at two convocations in college auditorium:
      • 11:15 a.m.: "The Essential Pleasures of Fiction"
      • 4:15 p.m.: "An Irishman Looks at the World"

June

  • Bellairs leaves his teaching position at the College of Saint Teresa [2]. Most likely returns to Chicago and possibly resides at 100 Bellevue Avenue.
  • "Saint Fidgeta: Her Life and Amazing Times" is published in the June-July issue of the Critic.
  • Bellairs becomes godfather of newborn Romy Fitschen [3].

September

  • Contracts arrive for the production of The Grand Central Schism and Other Parodies for Catholics [3].

October

  • Enrolled at the University of Chicago [2].

Fall

  • "Variations on a Vase" published in the Southern Review (Adelaide, Australia).

Winter

Unknown

  • Frank Bellairs (John's father) steps down as owner of the Elk Cigar Store [4].
    • This could have been a typo, as other accounts cite 1956.

Reference

  • [1] "Irish Writer Coming For Teresan Lectures". Winona Daily News, Apr. 2, 1965.
  • [2] University of Chicago Career Counseling and Placement booklet (Jul. 14, 1966).
  • [3]  Correspondence with Marilyn Fitschen.
  • [4] Correspondence with Ann LaPietra.

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