Anthony J. Petrarca ’60

Anthony J. Petrarca ’60, of Vandergrift, Pa.; Nov. 11. While playing Brown football he was drafted in the sixth round of the American Football League to play professional football for the then–Boston (now New England) Patriots but declined and became an English professor. He taught at Washington Township High School before embarking on a career as a college professor as well as working in depth on the equal rights movement at the college level. His early career included teaching at Edinboro Univ., Alliance College, and Gannon University before moving on to the English departments at the University of Pittsburgh and Community College of Allegheny County, from which he retired in 2013. He was an avid sports fan and was inducted into the Alle-Kiski Hall of Fame in 2012. He is survived by his wife, Judith; three children; and eight grandchildren.