TITLE:   Janet E. Dunleavy, Obituary, Dec 10, 2000

SUBMITTERS:  Exeter Newsletter, http://www.seacoastonline.com
             Exeter, NH (issue Dec 15, 2000 )

FORMATTED:   by CParziale, 2000

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Janet E. Dunleavy 

EXETER - Janet Egleson Dunleavy, 71, of RiverWoods, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 
2000, at her home from complications associated with Parkinson's disease. 

She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and earned a bachelor of arts degree at Hunter
College, Manhattan, in 1951 and was awarded a doctorate in English 
literature in 1966 by New York University. She did post-doctoral study at the
Dublin Institute for advanced studies in 1978 and 1981. 

She was elected to Hunter's Hall of Fame in 1978. In 1986 she was named 
senior Fulbright Lecturer at Tel Aviv University in Israel where she taught 
courses in James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Irish folklore. She was a Fellow of 
the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, in 1984 and 1989. 

Mrs. Dunleavy began her teaching career at Hunter College. In 1969 she was 
appointed assistant professor of English and master of Ruth Benedict College
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She joined the faculty 
of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1970 where she rose to the rank 
of full professor and coordinator of Irish studies. 

She began writing for the Little Golden Books Series in the early 1950s. She 
authored several children's books, such as "Daddies," which was also 
published in France, Spain and Latin America, and "Happy Days." In 1961 she 
and her then husband James D. Egleson, co-authored "Parents Without 
Partners," and in 1977 she wrote and compiled "The O'Conor Papers" with 
Gareth W. Dunleavy. 

She and Mr. Dunleavy were awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983-84 to write
the biography of Douglas Hyde which was published in 1991. 

Mrs. Dunleavy was the editor of the Newsletter of the American Committee for
Irish Studies from 1971 until 1978. By her retirement in 1993 she had 
written and presented more than 50 essays, monographs and lectures in 
addition to her printed books. 

She is survived by her husband and colleague of 30 years, Dr. Gareth W. 
Dunleavy of Exeter; three children, Karen Galat of Newburyport, Mass., 
Gweneth Dunleavy of Louisville, Ken., and Stephen Dunleavy of Stateline, 
Nev.; six grandchildren; and three sisters, Evelyn Mills of Claremore, Okla.,
Patricia Frank (Sister Francis Marie) of Newark, N.J., and Barbara Benefield
of Red Bluff, Calif. 

Memorial services will be held Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001, at 3 p.m. at 
RiverWoods at Exeter, 7 RiverWoods Drive, Exeter. 

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Parkinson's Disease
Foundation, 640-650 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032-9982. 

Arrangements are by the Brewitt Funeral Home, Exeter. 


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