Quinn ends 49-year Eastern teaching career

Eastern Washington University's current longest teaching career - just shy of a half century - ends this week when geography department professor, Dr. Bob Quinn finishes spring quarter.

Quinn was honored June 5 in a special party at the packed Cheney Rodeo Grounds Events center. Family, friends and colleagues came from far and wide to celebrate a special career that, by his own admittance, is not entirely finished.

Quinn, 73, said he would regret not teaching anymore, but offered a caveat that he would withdraw gradually from the profession he's embraced for so long, after he arrived in Cheney...

 

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