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...guess I lead about five lives," McGann says, with a smile of white teeth under his black mustache. As a member of the finance committee in Bellingham (his home town), an officer in the Naval Reserve, a tutor, an instructor, and a father, he rarely finds time for vacation--save for the antics of his kids. "Oh boy, it's fierce at night," he muses, "but marvelous to see them grow up. I remember my six-year-old turned to me at dinner one night and said, 'Daddy, when I'm forty years old, you'll be dead'. It took...
Marrying a Radcliffe girl in 1943, McGann left for Peru, where he became a Naval Observer and later in Buenos Aires, an Assistant Naval Attache. His fascination for Latin America did not develop at the University, however, where he majored in modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, McGann worked on the background of Argentine U.S. relations from an Argentine cultural point of view. In 1949, he made his most recent trip to Argentina on a travelling fellowship, after which he participated in a broadcast which appeared in Argentine papers and brought public denunciation from Peron...
This incident is the closest that McGann has been to active political and diplomatic involvement with Person. He feels that foreign service work is too hectic for a family life, and he is content to work from the scholarly angle. On his window sill are several boxes filled with notes for a book he plans to write...
Working with Professor Clarence H. Haring, the only other Harvard teacher in the field, McGann hopes to introduce a General Education course on Latin America. "I am sure there is a lot of latent interest in the area," he points out, "it just needs a little stirring up." JONATHAN O. SWAN