Ian Travis MacMillan

Ian and Susan and I were friends at Oneonta and all went to the University of Iowa. Sometimes we lived upstairs - downstairs from one another and sometimes we shared the same digs and our resources, very often meager resources.

Professor MacMillan was an exceptional teacher. I was fortunate to be able to take his fiction writing course in 1998 at the University of Hawaii. He had a knack for finding what was good in novice writers' works without overemphasizing the negative, probably fully knowing many more drafts would be forthcoming. His writing was very compelling and entertaining; I recall one of his short stories about those interminable haunting termites. God bless Ian MacMillan.