Gardner-Webb Professor Emeritus of English, Thirlen Osborne, Passes Away at 97

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Office of University Communications

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Description

”A quintessential gentleman professor” is how Dr. Joyce C. Brown describes her friend and colleague, Thirlen Osborne, who passed away Nov. 17 in Shelby, N.C., at the age of 97. He taught English at Gardner-Webb University from 1957 to 1987 and was awarded the status of professor emeritus of English after his retirement. Brown, GWU professor emerita of English, remembers being nervous the first time she met Osborne.

Publication Date

11-20-2018

Publisher

Gardner-Webb University

City

Boiling Springs

Keywords

Boiling Springs Baptist Church, Browning, Dr. Joyce Brown, Gardner-Webb University Department of English Language and Literature, Hardy, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Miss Pauline Peeples, Professor Emeritus of English, Tennyson, Thirlen Osborne, University of Kentucky, Victorian Literature, Winchester (KY)

Recommended Citation

Office of University Communications, "Gardner-Webb Professor Emeritus of English, Thirlen Osborne, Passes Away at 97" (2018). Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive. 326.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/326