John Hope Morey was born in New York City May 30, 1922. From the time of his graduation from high school in 1940 until September 1947, he was employed in New York City by the Westinghouse Electric International Company. In 1947 he entered the College of Wooster and was graduated in 1951 with the A. B. degree. He spent the year 1952-53 as assistant director of admissions at the College of Wooster. In September 1953 he was named a Fellow by The Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri, and entered Cornell University Graduate School where he received the A. M. degree in 1955. Since 1957 he has held the rank of Instructor at Ohio Wesleyan University. In June 1949 he married Arlene Joyce Thompson of Rochester, New York. Their first son, John, was born in February 1951, and their second son, Mark, was born in June 1955.
Editorâs addendum: John Hope Morey and his wife had a third son, James, who also completed his Ph.D. at Cornell and is currently a Professor in the Department of English at Emory University, specializing in linguistics and philology.
After leaving Ohio Wesleyan University, John Hope Morey taught English literature at Hamilton College before being named President of Frostburg State University in Maryland, where he served from 1965-1969. He then became the President of Muhlen-berg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, serving from 1969 until his retirement in 1984. He died on February 21, 2002.