Daily News | Donald Rackin, retired Temple professor and award-winning author, has died at 89
He also lectured about Carroll and other English literature across the country, in England, Israel, and elsewhere around the world, and appeared on radio and TV programs.Lewis Carroll, A Celebration
Professor Rackin served on the board of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and its members said in a: “Don was a warm, gentle soul with a fierce intellect always lurking behind his marvelous sense of humor.” He volunteered with the Greater Philadelphia Coalition against Hunger and the Coming of Age seniors program, supported civil rights and women’s rights, and opposed nuclear proliferation and war. He told The Inquirer at a 2003 candlelight vigil to protest the war in Iraq: “We’re here because war is a terrible, foolish idea.”
He was good at carpentry, cooking, painting, and photography, and was the best jitterbug dancer in his high school class. He liked to fish and sail and spent idyllic summers on Prince Edward Island in Canada.
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