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If you attended Hicksville High between the late 1960s and 1980, you knew of the English Department's Neil O'Doherty (1933-1980).
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He was outspoken, gregarious, at times verbally pugnacious, and so persistent about teaching philosophy that he finally got to launch an official Introduction to Philosophy class in the 1970s. For readers who never knew him, this last fact may be misleading, so I shall balance it by disclosing that Neil was equally well known for befriending student athletes, and - at least in his earlier years in town - aggressively playing pick-up basketball with them in the summer heat.
