Paul Curran

Paul Curran received degrees from both Bowling Green University and SUNY Brockport. When Professor Curran joined the faculty at SUNY Brockport in 1963, he was returning to his alma mater. Curran had been a standout baseball player his first two years at Brockport and a dean’s list student throughout his time at the College before his magna cum laude graduation in 1961. When he played baseball, he had the best ERA of any player on his baseball team, and he served as president of the Brockport Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education. He continued his graduate work at the University of Buffalo.

Paul began his teaching career at East High School in 1962. From 1963 to 1999, Mr. Curran served as an assistant professor in the English Department at SUNY Brockport. During the 1980s, Mr. Curran also served as coordinator of the writing and speech requirement, organizing faculty from 15 different departments. He was chair of the Department of English from 1993 to 1999. Upon his retirement in 1999, Mr. Curran received emeritus status.

Professor Curran established a scholarship, the Curran Family Scholarship, to recognize students who were seeking to be teachers and who were also bilingual or conversational in a language other than English.