Raymond H. Reno

Raymond Reno Obituary

RENO, RAYMOND H.

On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, of Alexandria, VA. Loving father of Mary R. Lawlor of Putney Vermont, Margaret M. Reno, Madison WI, Anne M. Reno, Arlington, VA, Tamar Reno, Riviera Beach, FL, Rachel Reno, Rixeyville, VA, and the late Catherine M. Reno; brother of James Reno, Kerrville, TX. Also survived by four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Friends may call on Monday, August 14, 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at MONEY AND KING FUNERAL HOME, 171 W. Maple Ave, Vienna, VA. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Rd, Oakton, VA.

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Published by The Washington Post on Aug. 12, 2006.

Memories and Condolences
for Raymond Reno

10 Entries

Bob

June 4, 2021

Thought of Ray this week when getting to visit the supposed “Othello Castle” in Cyprus. Not Hamlet, but still a reminder of a great professor and director!

Phil Cardinale

August 25, 2006

Ray was my college English teacher nearly 40 years ago. He was creative, innovative, passionate, wonderfully well informed and caring. His enthusiasm for reading and thinking and doing was transmitted to his students and made real impact on our lives. I remember him and I am grateful.

Joe Pettit

August 24, 2006

My memories of Ray Reno go back over forty years to when we first worked together in the Summer School Office. While I admired his creative writing for the Summer School Newsletter, I was even more impressed by a lecture he gave on Shakespeare. He appeared to have complete command of the subject and his delivery was truly impressive. While I did not have an opportunity to take a regular course from him as a college student, I thoroughly enjoyed a short non-credit course he offered this past spring on values in Shakespeare. At that time I was also fortunate to be able to visit with him as we commuted back and forth together between his apartment house and campus. I will miss him.

rachel reno

August 21, 2006

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their sympathy to me and to my family. Several of you have asked if our dad had any particular charities to which he contributed.

There are two that come immediately to my mind:

Covenant House--Project Hope(helps homeless kids).

PO Box 731

Times Square Station

NY, NY 10108-0900

and

Plan International

155 Plan Way

Warrick R.I. 02886

Rocco P. Porreco

August 17, 2006

I took Professor Reno's Poetry Drama class during my first semester at Georgetown in 1981. His dynamic presence and wonderful ability to teach amde this the most enjoayble and stimulating class. He was amazing when he used his booming voice to command the room and acting techniques to catch the class off guard and make us think in new ways. I continued to know him as a friend and always enjoyed his humor. He was a great teacher and a great man. I miss him.

Susan Cardinale

August 17, 2006

Ray Reno was my English professor at Georgetown University in 1968. It was a difficult subject for me and he made me love the readings through his enthusiasm and insightful explanations. He was a short man but he had the most amazing voice that he could project far away. He did outdoor summer theater at Georgetown and energetically jumped around the stage in a toga, which got my mother more than once to comment about his acting ability and nice legs. He could rattle off quotations from the classic writers in the most dramatic ways and he used his acting talent to make the material come alive. I became totally immersed in John Donne' poetry due to Reno's influence and I got my mother reading it too. He was the only professor who ever gave me an A in high school or college an English class, and it was the only English class I ever enjoyed. Ray Reno was a pioneer in creating the "Free University" in the Georgetown area of Washington DC in the late sixties where classes were open to the community with no tuition charged. Ray Reno was a great teacher and a great person.

Gerald Sullivan

August 17, 2006

I recall when Ray Reno did the Summer School Newsletter. All very practical information. Then he added the "Bug Column" to entertain and to get us to think. We all benefited.

Gerald Sullivan

Catherine Sutton

August 16, 2006

First he was "the esteemed Professor, Dr. Reno" to me, the fabulously popular English Professor at Georgetown, back in the 1968 --- years....and in these later years, simply and affectionately he became "Ray". What a wonderful man, a treasure who always had a kind word, was willing to share his wisdom and insight, and had a ready array of humorous stories and comments. It was my privilege to have known him, my good fortune to have spent time with him (as he's my father's dear friend). It was easy to become so fond of Ray, he was a great man, and I smile to think of him.

Rocco Porreco

August 12, 2006

Ray was a great teacher, poet, actor and the best friend anyone could have. He was also the most learned person I ever met in forty years of University teaching.

Dianne Raulson

August 12, 2006

His spirit and love of life lives on in everyone's life he touched.

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