Remembering Floyd L. Moreland

It is with a heavy heart that DAGRS reports the death (May 17, 2025) of Floyd L. Moreland, Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the City University of New York (CUNY) and a devoted friend, supporter, and alumnus of  this department. Professor Moreland’s impact is represented by his authorship, with Rita Fleischer, of a renowned Latin textbook (“Moreland and Fleischer”) and by his visionary work, over fifty years ago, creating the Berkeley Summer Intensive Greek and Latin Workshops (starting with the 1967 Latin Workshop, which he launched while still a graduate student), as well as its sister program on the other side of the country, the Latin/Greek Institute at CUNY. These immersive and famously demanding programs, which are still thriving today, provide students who might otherwise have no opportunity to learn the languages with an exceptionally strong foundation in Greek and Latin. Professor Moreland was one of the original winners of the American Philological Association’s Outstanding Teachers Award, a suitable recognition of his wide-ranging and durable pedagogical contributions. One of the projects to which he devoted himself in retirement was the restoration of the carousel (now the Floyd L. Moreland Carousel) in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, a project that reached completion last July.  We hope to launch a fund in Professor Moreland's honor in the near future, to help students of limited means defray the cost of participating in the Workshops.