John R. Crowley ’37

World traveler, student of the esoteric, and retired professor, Jack Crowley died July 17, 1998, of lung cancer. He left his wife of 50 years, Grace, and children Elizabeth, Rose, John, and Thomas.

At Princeton, "a fun place to be," Jack majored in classics, was on the tennis and gym teams, and belonged to Theater Intime and Dial Lodge. After teaching and coaching in prep schools, Jack drove an ambulance for the American Field Service in India and Italy.

Jack worked toward a PhD in the philosophy of religion at Columbia. He entered Brockpost College in 1963 as an associate professor of English and spent 20 years there teaching English, the Bible, and mythology. He opposed the Vietnam War as violating the U.N. Charter, founded the Brockport chapter of the United University Professions, started a magazine, Dialogue and Vision -- Journal of Principles and Ideas, founded the Rochester Chapter of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, and wrote for its Journal of Religion and Psychical Research.

In retirement he continued to be active on the executive board of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the academic wing of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship Intl., to "write, write, write," and to speak on spiritual and metaphysical subjects, completing a book just before his death on the reality of these subjects and of his conviction of our continuing life in spirit.

The Class of 1937