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Edwin Curmie Price Jr. , an Ohio University alumnus and the University s first Black faculty member, passed away on April 23. The history and status of Black Americans at Ohio University, published in 1974, notes the hiring of O.U. s first black faculty member, E. Curmie Price, in the English Department in 1963. Price earned a Master of Arts degree in literature from OHIO in 1964. He taught first-year writing courses then labeled ENG 100. “He may have taught the works of Shakespeare and Milton, yet his gift was to understand Baldwin and Ellison. The birth of our friendship was in Athens the same day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, alumnus ....