Richard McDermott died on September 2, and a memorial service was held for him on Sunday September 30 at the University Club in St. Paul. He had been retired for many years from the University of Minnesota, where he worked as a professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. I wish to write here about a big part of his life that developed most fully after his retirement in 1991. Most readers didn't know Dick McDermott, I realize, but I suspect that a few literature lovers may be glad to know of him—especially fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in St. Paul in 1896. My hope would be that this essay might seem a small memorial, too.
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