Best BC profs

[apbc12]

Drew Yanno, screenwriting. The guy is a professional screenwriter and in his class you talk about movies, and at the end of the semester watch Witness while reading the screenplay. Then you can take an advanced screenwriting class with him and your final project is the first act of a screenplay. Nice guy, great class.

All right, we almost certainly know each other (no, TRE, not in that way), given that Yanno's Advanced class was about 12 people. I also took all of Mike Civille's classes. He's a great guy and the only prof I kept in touch with after graduation.

[RyanBC]

Robert Faulkner and Dayton Haskin. Also Chris Bruell.

[EagleNYC]

Donald Hafner was a demanding SOB but his International Politics class was mesmerizing. Far and away my best experience at BC.

Agreed w/Ty on -A Brienes, who would also come out of the closet at least once every two weeks.

[Bryn Mawr Eagle]

Thomas O'Connor was great for Age of Jackson and the American Civil War. He would reenact conversations between the main historical figures. He was always just funny enough to keep the material interesting.

My freshman history course was taught by two different professors, one in each semester. One was named Heinemann, and I can't recall the name of the other, but he was great. Every lecture included a slide show, and he brought down the house when he informed us that French King Louis XIV (or was it the XVI) was a "raging homosexual."

[BCLou]

Raymond McNally was a great history professor. He had a booming voice and his lectures were always interesting. Along with Radu Florescu he later became well-known as an expert on Dracula and vampirism. I'm sorry he's no longer with us. He would've confirmed Tranq as one of the Undead and rid us of his evil presence.

[BC '00]

Twomey: Employment Law
Richard Powers: Miscellaneous undergrad law classes
Father Imbelli: Exploring Catholicism

Wasn't a big fan of O'Neill's Politics of Northern Ireland class--Probably because I knew more about the subject than him and I didn't like his political stance. However, he did have some great guests.

Twomey was the man. He decided that we were related because my last name was the same as his wife's grandmother's maiden name or something, and from then on treated me like royalty. I took every class of his I could. His classes were actually pretty fun, too.

[BigPete]

Thomas O'Connor was great for Age of Jackson and the American Civil War. He would reenact conversations between the main historical figures. He was always just funny enough to keep the material interesting.

My freshman history course was taught by two different professors, one in each semester. One was named Heinemann, and I can't recall the name of the other, but he was great. Every lecture included a slide show, and he brought down the house when he informed us that French King Louis XIV (or was it the XVI) was a "raging homosexual."

Heinneman's 3d Reich class where he would put all kinds of crazy Nazi movies on the BC Film 2 channel for you to watch was tremendous. His stories of being in the Nazi youth were also amazing. Great class.

Got to also give a shout out to the professor whose name I've forgotten who taught Studio TV Production -- he was a director of live sports for ESPN and as mellow as the day was long. That is until I brought two very badly inebriated individuals to my final project to serve as talent on a talk show called 'Sunday Mornings' that we had loosely conceived 5 minutes or so before tape rolled, and insisted we re-shoot the entire thing. He never sent me back my tape final exam but I would kill for that 20 minute video of these jackassses fighting dry mouth and talking at length about partying.

[micheagle]

Heineman said he was in the Hitler youth?!? I thought he was from Iowa or something?

Thomas O'Connor was great for Age of Jackson and the American Civil War. He would reenact conversations between the main historical figures. He was always just funny enough to keep the material interesting.

My freshman history course was taught by two different professors, one in each semester. One was named Heinemann, and I can't recall the name of the other, but he was great. Every lecture included a slide show, and he brought down the house when he informed us that French King Louis XIV (or was it the XVI) was a "raging homosexual."

Heinneman's 3d Reich class where he would put all kinds of crazy Nazi movies on the BC Film 2 channel for you to watch was tremendous. His stories of being in the Nazi youth were also amazing. Great class.

Got to also give a shout out to the professor whose name I've forgotten who taught Studio TV Production -- he was a director of live sports for ESPN and as mellow as the day was long. That is until I brought two very badly inebriated individuals to my final project to serve as talent on a talk show called 'Sunday Mornings' that we had loosely conceived 5 minutes or so before tape rolled, and insisted we re-shoot the entire thing. He never sent me back my tape final exam but I would kill for that 20 minute video of these jackassses fighting dry mouth and talking at length about partying.

[Chicken Patties]

Heinemans big revelation on the last class was that the family he stayed with in Germany one summer finally copped to knowing that the Nazis were killing their Jewish neighbors after he spent the summer badgering them about it whilst they denied knowing anything. He made it sound much better.

[SJeagle09]

Gergana Nenkov - International Marketing. Extremely attractive, great accent (Bulgarian), very easy

I really liked Tresch too even if those Russian TA's tore me a new ass hole with my grade

[PhillyandBCEagles]

Seth Jacobs is amazing- the history of the Vietnam War class he taught was life changing. His LBJ and Nixon imitations were epic, fairly presented both sides to all topics and on the last day of class he received, no joke, a 5 minute standing ovation.

Tim Crawford is the man.

Agree on both counts.

[Zahmhall77]

I never met the man but I respect peter kreeft immensly, and have read his stuff
Do any of you guys know Jim Gipps or Jack Spang in Comp Sci? Top notch guys

[BCEagle74]

I never met the man but I respect peter kreeft immensly, and have read his stuff
Do any of you guys know Jim Gipps or Jack Spang in Comp Sci? Top notch guys

Peter Kreft was my second class in September 1970, after Professor Harrington told me in my first 5 minutes at BC that I was a total loser for not owning apartment buildings in Boston and taking the depreciation and he showed us his yacht and how he-resold his fully depreciated buildings and started again and I would never get rich off a W-2.

We were there because our Catholic parents sent us "losers" and everything is owned by insurnace companies since your parents are old mics, guineas and Catholics who never die and pay the premiums.

Today, Harrington and his insurance class would be front page news and it would be a insensitivity training cours or not, but it was true.

That was the only, best and last thing I learned at BC. It was College in 2 Minutes. Done, over get your diploma on the way out the door.

Kreft was a fucking asshole.

First day, a loose dog runs in to Fulton's slanted back seminar/classroom and Kreft says, how do we know this is not God and how do we know we exist?

Some football player rolled his eyes and "If I come over and knock your lights out you will know you exist!"

Then it experiments like was peel back an onion, stare at your hand for 30 minutes..

Shit, the more I keep staring at my hand the more it was telling me back then to strangle my dick and take a nap!

Yup 3 hours into my BC Career at Fulton and it was over in a flash.

Harrington and Kreft.

Ruined 4 great years of no studying.

[Baltimore Eagle]

Prof. Kerry Cronin for Perspectives was great as was Tom Kaplan-Maxfield for Creative Non-Fiction.

I also remember O'Neil having incredible guests, John Hume and David Trimble amongst them, for his Northern Ireland class.

[Zahmhall77]

as i said never met the man but i think his theology is spot on

74 I hope you cc-ed the worst BC profs thread on your reply!

[eaglecaddy]

Twomey: Employment Law
Richard Powers: Miscellaneous undergrad law classes
Father Imbelli: Exploring Catholicism

Wasn't a big fan of O'Neill's Politics of Northern Ireland class--Probably because I knew more about the subject than him and I didn't like his political stance. However, he did have some great guests.

Twomey was the man. He decided that we were related because my last name was the same as his wife's grandmother's maiden name or something, and from then on treated me like royalty. I took every class of his I could. His classes were actually pretty fun, too.

Twomey is a great teacher and a good BC Guy. He had an unwritten rule that for his labor law class the best a junior could get was a B+ and the worst a senior could get was a B+. On the first day of class he would encourage juniors to wait until senior year for the class. I also liked Fr. Himes, his belief in modernity class was the

[bignick33]

Tom O'Connor

O'Connor passed away over the weekend.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05 ... News_links

[Bryn Mawr Eagle]

Tom O'Connor

O'Connor passed away over the weekend.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05 ... News_links

Wow - that hit me like a punch in the gut. He was great.

[bignick33]

Tom O'Connor

O'Connor passed away over the weekend.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05 ... News_links

Wow - that hit me like a punch in the gut. He was great.

I didn't know him personally, but I have read a number of his books. He was a terrific historian.

[hinghameagle]

Margaret Schacken, by far. I am not sure how embarrassed I am telling this story, but it is the truth, word for word. no one believes it when I tell it, and it may devalue the BC degree to a point but here goes. I signed up for her Greek Mythology class with some teammates first semester junior year. Rumor was that it was light lifting, in spite of the fact that is is listed as a level 500 class at BC. Anyways, it was a small class, 35 or so, and the five of us were very infrequebt attendess. I kid you not, I walked in ten minutes late one day, she stops class and thanks me for coming, knowing that I had a busy schedule and all. I was mortirfied. She was serious. The nicest woman alive, she really is. about one month into the semester she pulls us aside and says I know you all have difficulty getting to class, so how would you like to do an independent study. We have no idea what an independent study is, but it sounds good, so we say "absolutely" she tells us she is writing a book and needs some help with it. now we panic. None of us can tell her the first thing about Greek Mythology or whatever is going on in her class. She tells us that we dont have to come to her class, but she needs some footnote help with her book. We are thinking we may have just screwed ourselves, or we are getting a soft landing. She hands the five of us a book and says please make a bibliography out of this book and type it on a note card and bring it to me at the end of the smester. We all froze waiting for our next instruction. We kept waiting.... and waiting...And that was it. She thanked us repeatedly and sent us on our way. We felt like we had hit the lottery. So the night beofre the semester ends, we spend 45 seconds on the type writer typing up something that looks like this: " Greek Mythology, by Joe Smith: Harper Press, New York, New York, 1992." We bring the cards to her and she just overwhelms us with praise. she tells us she couldnt do the book without her and on and on. We are doing everything we can to hold it together. We all get "A's" She asks if we can do the same for her in her Latin Patrology classs the next semester. We eagerly agree, next semester same routine, same grades. The year ends. She actually teaches 4 classses. So before the first semester of our senior year starts we go see her and we arrange the the same set up for another one of her classes. Same work, same result. We had leaked out word to some of our friends on this, so by the time I registered for her last semester class, it was closed. I was too lazy to even go see her, but all my roommates were in her class. the semester comes and goes and the day before grades are due in during senior week, she calls my room and gets my roommate and says the following" Tom, I am submiting your grades and didnt notice one name on there. It happened to be my name. She said why didnt he register" My roomamte says he wasnt sure why. She asks if I helped out with the assignment, and he said yes that I absolutely did. She says thank you and tells him that she is going to make sure I get registered and receive my grade. this is the day before grades are due. the semester is already over. She registered me then and gave me an A. Beyonf belief, but all of it is true. Just a wonderful woman.

[Bryn Mawr Eagle]

Margaret Schacken, by far. I am not sure how embarrassed I am telling this story, but it is the truth, word for word. no one believes it when I tell it, and it may devalue the BC degree to a point but here goes. I signed up for her Greek Mythology class with some teammates first semester junior year. Rumor was that it was light lifting, in spite of the fact that is is listed as a level 500 class at BC. Anyways, it was a small class, 35 or so, and the five of us were very infrequebt attendess. I kid you not, I walked in ten minutes late one day, she stops class and thanks me for coming, knowing that I had a busy schedule and all. I was mortirfied. She was serious. The nicest woman alive, she really is. about one month into the semester she pulls us aside and says I know you all have difficulty getting to class, so how would you like to do an independent study. We have no idea what an independent study is, but it sounds good, so we say "absolutely" she tells us she is writing a book and needs some help with it. now we panic. None of us can tell her the first thing about Greek Mythology or whatever is going on in her class. She tells us that we dont have to come to her class, but she needs some footnote help with her book. We are thinking we may have just screwed ourselves, or we are getting a soft landing. She hands the five of us a book and says please make a bibliography out of this book and type it on a note card and bring it to me at the end of the smester. We all froze waiting for our next instruction. We kept waiting.... and waiting...And that was it. She thanked us repeatedly and sent us on our way. We felt like we had hit the lottery. So the night beofre the semester ends, we spend 45 seconds on the type writer typing up something that looks like this: " Greek Mythology, by Joe Smith: Harper Press, New York, New York, 1992." We bring the cards to her and she just overwhelms us with praise. she tells us she couldnt do the book without her and on and on. We are doing everything we can to hold it together. We all get "A's" She asks if we can do the same for her in her Latin Patrology classs the next semester. We eagerly agree, next semester same routine, same grades. The year ends. She actually teaches 4 classses. So before the first semester of our senior year starts we go see her and we arrange the the same set up for another one of her classes. Same work, same result. We had leaked out word to some of our friends on this, so by the time I registered for her last semester class, it was closed. I was too lazy to even go see her, but all my roommates were in her class. the semester comes and goes and the day before grades are due in during senior week, she calls my room and gets my roommate and says the following" Tom, I am submiting your grades and didnt notice one name on there. It happened to be my name. She said why didnt he register" My roomamte says he wasnt sure why. She asks if I helped out with the assignment, and he said yes that I absolutely did. She says thank you and tells him that she is going to make sure I get registered and receive my grade. this is the day before grades are due. the semester is already over. She registered me then and gave me an A. Beyonf belief, but all of it is true. Just a wonderful woman.

That's a funny story. Upsetting in a way too, but funny.

[bignick33]

Margaret Schacken, by far. I am not sure how embarrassed I am telling this story, but it is the truth, word for word. no one believes it when I tell it, and it may devalue the BC degree to a point but here goes. I signed up for her Greek Mythology class with some teammates first semester junior year. Rumor was that it was light lifting, in spite of the fact that is is listed as a level 500 class at BC. Anyways, it was a small class, 35 or so, and the five of us were very infrequebt attendess. I kid you not, I walked in ten minutes late one day, she stops class and thanks me for coming, knowing that I had a busy schedule and all. I was mortirfied. She was serious. The nicest woman alive, she really is. about one month into the semester she pulls us aside and says I know you all have difficulty getting to class, so how would you like to do an independent study. We have no idea what an independent study is, but it sounds good, so we say "absolutely" she tells us she is writing a book and needs some help with it. now we panic. None of us can tell her the first thing about Greek Mythology or whatever is going on in her class. She tells us that we dont have to come to her class, but she needs some footnote help with her book. We are thinking we may have just screwed ourselves, or we are getting a soft landing. She hands the five of us a book and says please make a bibliography out of this book and type it on a note card and bring it to me at the end of the smester. We all froze waiting for our next instruction. We kept waiting.... and waiting...And that was it. She thanked us repeatedly and sent us on our way. We felt like we had hit the lottery. So the night beofre the semester ends, we spend 45 seconds on the type writer typing up something that looks like this: " Greek Mythology, by Joe Smith: Harper Press, New York, New York, 1992." We bring the cards to her and she just overwhelms us with praise. she tells us she couldnt do the book without her and on and on. We are doing everything we can to hold it together. We all get "A's" She asks if we can do the same for her in her Latin Patrology classs the next semester. We eagerly agree, next semester same routine, same grades. The year ends. She actually teaches 4 classses. So before the first semester of our senior year starts we go see her and we arrange the the same set up for another one of her classes. Same work, same result. We had leaked out word to some of our friends on this, so by the time I registered for her last semester class, it was closed. I was too lazy to even go see her, but all my roommates were in her class. the semester comes and goes and the day before grades are due in during senior week, she calls my room and gets my roommate and says the following" Tom, I am submiting your grades and didnt notice one name on there. It happened to be my name. She said why didnt he register" My roomamte says he wasnt sure why. She asks if I helped out with the assignment, and he said yes that I absolutely did. She says thank you and tells him that she is going to make sure I get registered and receive my grade. this is the day before grades are due. the semester is already over. She registered me then and gave me an A. Beyonf belief, but all of it is true. Just a wonderful woman.

That's a funny story. Upsetting in a way too, but funny.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was bothered by the lack of paragraphs.

[BCDF22]

Heineman and Quigley were my two favorite

[hansen]

Margaret Schacken, by far. I am not sure how embarrassed I am telling this story, but it is the truth, word for word. no one believes it when I tell it, and it may devalue the BC degree to a point but here goes. I signed up for her Greek Mythology class with some teammates first semester junior year. Rumor was that it was light lifting, in spite of the fact that is is listed as a level 500 class at BC. Anyways, it was a small class, 35 or so, and the five of us were very infrequebt attendess. I kid you not, I walked in ten minutes late one day, she stops class and thanks me for coming, knowing that I had a busy schedule and all. I was mortirfied. She was serious. The nicest woman alive, she really is. about one month into the semester she pulls us aside and says I know you all have difficulty getting to class, so how would you like to do an independent study. We have no idea what an independent study is, but it sounds good, so we say "absolutely" she tells us she is writing a book and needs some help with it. now we panic. None of us can tell her the first thing about Greek Mythology or whatever is going on in her class. She tells us that we dont have to come to her class, but she needs some footnote help with her book. We are thinking we may have just screwed ourselves, or we are getting a soft landing. She hands the five of us a book and says please make a bibliography out of this book and type it on a note card and bring it to me at the end of the smester. We all froze waiting for our next instruction. We kept waiting.... and waiting...And that was it. She thanked us repeatedly and sent us on our way. We felt like we had hit the lottery. So the night beofre the semester ends, we spend 45 seconds on the type writer typing up something that looks like this: " Greek Mythology, by Joe Smith: Harper Press, New York, New York, 1992." We bring the cards to her and she just overwhelms us with praise. she tells us she couldnt do the book without her and on and on. We are doing everything we can to hold it together. We all get "A's" She asks if we can do the same for her in her Latin Patrology classs the next semester. We eagerly agree, next semester same routine, same grades. The year ends. She actually teaches 4 classses. So before the first semester of our senior year starts we go see her and we arrange the the same set up for another one of her classes. Same work, same result. We had leaked out word to some of our friends on this, so by the time I registered for her last semester class, it was closed. I was too lazy to even go see her, but all my roommates were in her class. the semester comes and goes and the day before grades are due in during senior week, she calls my room and gets my roommate and says the following" Tom, I am submiting your grades and didnt notice one name on there. It happened to be my name. She said why didnt he register" My roomamte says he wasnt sure why. She asks if I helped out with the assignment, and he said yes that I absolutely did. She says thank you and tells him that she is going to make sure I get registered and receive my grade. this is the day before grades are due. the semester is already over. She registered me then and gave me an A. Beyonf belief, but all of it is true. Just a wonderful woman.

so the five of you had to simply create a bibliography entry for one book each? for an A? UNREAL

[bcnyceagle]

Aragon (R.I.P.), Herbeck, Holderness and Himes. No other finance guys here?

[commavegarage]

best teachers: jacobs (history) schloesser (history) gollop (econ, now dept chair) baum (econ hard but genius) farrell (english, jesuit - guy was the fucking man) derber (sociology, he and i had great debates as a conservative econ major)

easiest teachers: monahan (real estate) lugira (theology/ black studies) sannella (marketing)

tresch also blows. and i did well in his class.

[BCFAN94]

. Beyonf belief, but all of it is true. Just a wonderful woman.

Jeez, I think she is still an active professor. Talk about your shoving someone in front of the bus jobs.....

[claver2010]

best teachers: jacobs (history) schloesser (history) gollop (econ, now dept chair) baum (econ hard but genius) farrell (english, jesuit - guy was the fucking man) derber (sociology, he and i had great debates as a conservative econ major)

easiest teachers: monahan (real estate) lugira (theology/ black studies) sannella (marketing)

tresch also blows. and i did well in his class.

I can CONFIRM both of those two.

Farrell was great, Schloesser was brilliant -difficult but excellent

Edit some other ones:
For Math Keane was very good (Pats season ticket holder so we had some fun), CK was great he'd always make fun of his -_- accent

[DavidGordonsFoot]

I'll throw out some others:

McGrann (music history), Lee (music theory), Chiles (bio), Muller (comp sci)

[BC96]

Thomas O'Connor (Civil War) the best lecturer I had

James Gips (Computers in Managment) great professor and most practical class I took at BC

Harry Gottschalk (Housing: A Guide for the Perplexed) easiest class