End Note Farrell Farewell In more than a half-century of teaching at a college, you become known by many people for many things. Friendly, gracious, eloquent, and impish are some of the adjectives heard to describe William Farrell, a Saint Anselm sociology professor who announced his retirement this year. He is the longest serving faculty member in the college’s history. Although he earned his academic degrees at Boston College, he is an honorary alumnus (honorary doctorate 2007) and 100 percent Anselmian. Farrell was hired in 1957 after completing Navy service, and he went on to fill many roles at Saint Anselm, including assistant director of the humanities program, faculty senate president, department chair, and (most notably for some) announcer for home basketball games. He also was one of the founders in the early 1960s of a noontime basketball league, a tradition that lives on. Outside of his campus life, the professor was politically active (a convention delegate for Sen. Eugene McCarthy in 1968) and served on the board of directors of Serenity Place, a chemical detoxification and education center in Manchester. His retirement from the college was marked with a dinner reception in his honor.
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